Fifty-one years ago...August 1969; British Council, London

Fifty-one years ago, in August 1969, I started working for The British Council, at 11 Portland Place (opposite the BBC). I was amused to find the old programmes below. N.B., I didn't write the promotional blurb! These were voluntary evening stints at the Overseas Students Centre, not part of the job description at the English Language Teaching Institute (ELTI). I worked at Portland Place for one year, then went for further TV production training at C.E.T.O,  Nuffield Lodge, Regent's Park.

(above, the old bookplate logo)

RIBA photo of Students Centre:

https://www.architecture.com/image-library/RIBApix/image-information/poster/british-council-students-centre-and-flats-later-ambika-house-911-portland-place-marylebone-london/posterid/RIBA104974.html

11 Portland Place, photos (architecture.com):

At C.E.T.O.
(below)

C.E.T.O., Nuffield Lodge, Regent's Park, 1970

After that, I followed the example of Arthur Rimbaud

and disappeared into distant parts,

first of all to Ethiopia...

Rimbaud's House (?), Harar:

From Cadences, Cyprus

Looking for Rimbaud in Har(r)ar:

"Je reviendrai, avec des membres de fer, la peau sombre, l'œil furieux "

Une Saison en enfer

French Mission:

Filming in Addis:

Lake Langano, Ethiopia

...then to Kenya