And was Azerbaijani around.

That makes Berry's friendship with him much less valuable than it initially sounds.

We're now looking at a network of highly connected to breezy Azerbaijani around.

Wealthy businessmen, academics, senior military people, and political intellectual figures who knew one another socially, while some had substantial lives abroad in London and the US.

That fits rather nicely with what your father has been telling you about Barry, and also with the cultural world we were discussing around the donkey coffee house.

It doesn't prove that all these people belong to one formal elite circle, but it makes the social connections considerably easier to understand.

One bit of today's transcript I'd leave unresolved.

At around 1526, there's a muddled exchange in which you ask something like, what happened to Doctor Berry in the year?

And the transcription produces answers involving, open quote, he went back to Iran.

He ran away.