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Bavarian-born MP Gisela Stuart now represents the people of Edgbaston in the Commons.

Labour MP Gisela Stuart was born in Bavaria but now represents the people of Edgbaston in the House of Commons.

Five short autobiographies in two languages. 1. The Labour MP Gisela Stuart was born in Bavaria but now represents the people of Edgbaston in the House of Commons. Neville Chamberlain was once the MP for the same constituency and sometimes Gisela Stuart imagines talking to him of the changes that have occurred in Britain and across Europe since the Second World War. She also recalls her rural upbringing in southern Germany, the economic miracle that turned farmers like her father into BMW factory workers, and acquiring an accent that allowed her to share a joke with the last Pope. 
Producer: Tim Dee.

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