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than we did in a more primitive day,
without the wireless and the television.
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l appear on the television, you know.
:55:10
They pay me
to make use of my melodious voice.
:55:14
l sing rude old Welsh ballads.
:55:18
l recite a few things of my own...
:55:21
and then l give them Elizabethan drama.
:55:23
And all in exchange for one whiskey...
:55:26
served to me in the first aid room.
:55:30
l could, if you like...
:55:32
give you a private performance.
:55:35
Please, just go away.
:55:38
lm told that my voice...
:55:42
is extremely seductive.
:55:45
lt seems to unleash
whole hurricanes of passion...
:55:48
in the breasts of the females
who watch me on the BBC.
:55:54
Perhaps you should sample the wine...
:55:58
before sending the bottle back to the cellar.
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Anyone else in the family?
:56:05
No, except for Bunny.
:56:08
Of course. What about your parents?
:56:12
Our father was killed in the war.
:56:14
Went right up to V-E Day without a scratch,
and then got hit by a tank.
:56:18
One of ours.
:56:21
My mother, she was kind of peculiar.
:56:25
Any special way?
:56:27
She was a great believer in the hereafter.
:56:29
Do you believe in life on another planet?
:56:32
Seems quite unbelievable enough
to me on this one, l think.
:56:35
Anyhow, Mother used to spend
most of her time in church...
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the Church of Christ the Spiritualist,
having long talks with my father.
:56:42
lts funny, he never had much to say to her
while he was alive.
:56:46
But once he was dead,
apparently he never shut up.
:56:50
Anyway, l sort of got into the habit
of taking care of Ann.
:56:54
She was my responsibility.
:56:55
A bit of a burden, wasnt it, on a schoolboy?
:56:57
-l didnt think of it that way.
-Your mother?