Adrian Lester
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494 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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And this was all off the curriculum.
This is just her reading books at home for interest.
And she took them and she spoke about the plants and the animals and the development of the skeletal structure and so on and so forth.
And I just remember thinking, yeah, that's her.
These things fill my chest up to bursting.
And a moment of sadness?
A moment of sadness, watching my mum's reaction when my grandmother was being buried.
At that moment, I was young, but I remember being too small to help.
But at that moment, my mom didn't want the soil put on the coffin.
I remember her saying, if you do that, she won't be able to get out.
If you can't stop, stop.
If you do that, she won't be able to breathe.
And she tried to get at her and stop it happening, and she had to be held back.
No, but I didn't.
But I think, you know, these things enter your DNA and you understand what that means.
It's not a case of...
It's the gap that's left, the shape of a person that's left in your world after they've gone, and the shape of Ophelia and what that meant to Hamlet.
It's just this empty shape, and it's a hole.
What was it Paul Simon said?
Like a window in your heart.
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