Colm Tóibín
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1,118 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Colm Tóibín’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And if I was walking along a corridor and he was walking on the other way, he would just stare at me.
I found that very exciting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think I had, I think someone said it was unusual that my eyes were a completely different color to either of my parents.
My mother's eyes were sort of gray and my father's were blue, but mine were completely different.
You know, I did really feel, it was a joke at the beginning, that I was on my way to Buckingham Palace and I just got dropped in a Scorthy by accident and I would just have to put up with it.
And I would, you know, it was sort of grandeur.
I liked things that were nice.
And I was ashamed of our car, which was a Morris Minor.
I wanted us to get a bigger car.
And my mother would just say, well, there you are again.
it was such a mistake.
That's so funny.
You know, um, years later, I told her that that was in Freud.
Um, and she said, it was that good or bad.
And I said, it's always bad.
It's always neurosis.
It's always wrong.
If your parents say that to you and you grew up thinking that, that you, um, really were destined for elsewhere.
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