Le Carré repeatedly emphasises a lack of grandeur in both their backgrounds: Gail's parents were cash-strapped actors (though her father left her a flat in Primrose Hill), while Perry, "the state-educated son of secondary school teachers", owes his posh first name to "a rabble-rousing Methodist prelate of the nineteenth century named Arthur Peregrine of Huddersfield".
One distinction: the CHWs from studies in South Asia had significantly more training than the LUNESP TBAs, both in terms of their background education and in the intervention training specifically.
I am more hopeful than Lyn that the next generation of young theatre directors will be both diverse in their backgrounds and in their way of working, and I believe that one supports the other.
Despite the differences in their backgrounds, they both liked nouveau Latino cuisine and had eclectic musical tastes, including classical and Irish traditional music.
Their background, in both cases, seems to me to be appropriate.
Their initial circlings are a mixture of deliberate deception and natural innocence - fed in both cases by the neediness of their backgrounds.
In fact their educational backgrounds (both went to Oxford too) are even closer than this suggests: Mr Blair's housemaster at Fettes, Eric Anderson, went on to be Mr Cameron's headmaster at Eton.An adolescence spent at an expensive school with archaic rules and an absurd dress code was until recently thought to be a handicap for a politician.
Both families, while differing in their class backgrounds, are staunchly Roman Catholic and committed to public service under the umbrella of the Democratic Party.
As the Atlantic Wire noted, however, it became apparent that the two hosts were in the same place: they were standing in front of the same building, and the same cars drove by in the backgrounds of both their shots.
Among other accomplishments his group first detected the horizon scale fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background from both their South Pole and balloon borne systems twenty years ago and their latest results, along with an international teams of ESA and NASA researchers, are from the Planck cosmology mission which have mapped in exquisite detail the structures of the early universe.
