I like your blog and think you did fine on radio. The employer guy came across as a bit of a control freak. Clearly he is not the type of person who might understand that someone might really care enough to want to learn Urdu! Glad I don't work for him...or maybe I do and he does not know I like blogs. Hee hee. I see someone else has just got fired about his blog. (See http://www.woolamaloo.org.uk/ if interested.) He worked as a bookseller. Firing him seems to me to be a huge over-reaction. Best of blogging to you, Tom!