Speaking of which, some kind soul has put BBC Sport’s documentary Murray Walker: Life In The Fast Lane on YouTube in full!
"Yes, solitude’s very important to me. I may have had that naturally, maybe I got it after my early catastrophes and my father not coming back and being scared of being a mother’s boy cause I was always with my mother and wanting to be alone even when I was with her. But I did get used to my own company and it’s the key to my existence. This place where we’re filming now is my office. I come here to work because nobody can get at me. And I can do the thing, the secret thing that all writers do, the thing that’s never spoken about, I do nothing. Because a writer must be able to get up in the morning on a writing day and do nothing. Wait. Wait for it to happen. If it doesn’t happen until five o’clock, it might happen tomorrow. But you have to have a place to go where you can do nothing and not be interrupted by someone saying, well he’s doing nothing, maybe he should carry this heavy object upstairs or dig this garden. You’ve got to be able to get away. And luckily I enjoy it very much, but I have this other side where I like to be in the limelight too. I like to go on stage in front of a thousand people and entertain them. And maybe that’s a form of solitude, I’m told that it is."
Sigmund Freud Speaks: The Only Known Recording Of His Voice
On December 7, 1938, a BBC radio crew visited Sigmund Freud at his new home at Hampstead, North London. Freud had moved to England only a few months earlier to escape the Nazi annexation of Austria. He was 81 years old and suffering from incurable jaw cancer. Every word was an agony to speak. Less then a year later, when the pain became unbearable, Freud asked his doctor to administer a lethal dose of morphine.
I started my professional activity as a neurologist trying to bring relief to my neurotic patients. Under the influence of an older friend and by my own efforts, I discovered some important new facts about the unconscious in psychic life, the role of instinctual urges, and so on. Out of these findings grew a new science, psychoanalysis, a part of psychology, and a new method of treatment of the neuroses. I had to pay heavily for this bit of good luck. People did not believe in my facts and thought my theories unsavory. Resistance was strong and unrelenting. In the end I succeeded in acquiring pupils and building up an International Psychoanalytic Association. But the struggle is not yet over. –Sigmund Freud.
My heart!
Joan from the Midlands teaches Keith Floyd how to make groaty dick
The best TV chef of all time.
Not so long ago I realised that the number one influence on my taste in accessories/style/glamour is Cat from Graeme Base’s The Eleventh Hour. Nearly all my favourite earrings are either gold or feature blue/green gems and I’m obsessed with blue tiles and indoor plants. THANKS GRAEME <3
NB that’s not my hand
Jesse Jackson - and the children of Sesame Street - recite I Am Somebody (1971)
<3
I feel like having had access to Sesame Street and Degrassi Junior High on tele when we were little was a good grounding in how to be a bang-up human being later in life.
When your bump is so big you gotta slump down in that low-rider to make sure it doesn’t get flattened.
THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE PHOTOS OF ONE OF MY FAVOURITE PEOPLE. I feel like John Waters would treasure this and put it on his mantelpiece. I may do the same.
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