David Bianculli
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 18 Sep
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Monty Roberts, the internationally acclaimed horseman who used trust instead of intimidation to train horses, died last week he was ninety one.
He defied the conventional method of breaking horses, something he watched his father do, and created his own gentler approach, known as join up.
He based it on the nonverbal language horses used to communicate with each other.
It was a language he observed as a teenager, watching wild mustangs in the Sierra Nevada.
Roberts was born in Salinas, California in nineteen thirty five.
He grew up around horses, could ride confidently at three, and by the time he was eight said he spent ten hour days working with horses, competing on weekends.
He became a champion rider and was a stunt rider in about a hundred movies, including as a young boy, the Elizabeth Taylor film National Velvet.
He's trained thousands of horses, including wild horses, race horses, and problem horses.
Roberts became internationally known after Queen Elizabeth II brought him to work with her horses in nineteen eighty nine.
She supported his controversial general approach to horse training and urged him to write his memoir The Man Who Listens to Horses, which became a bestseller in nineteen ninety six.
Their thirty year friendship was the subject of the twenty twenty three Andrea Nevins documentary The Cowboy and the Queen.
From his California ranch, Monnie Roberts introduced his techniques to horse owners, trainers, and students from around the world.
He also traveled widely giving demonstrations.
Terry Gross spoke to Monnie Roberts in nineteen ninety seven shortly after his memoir was published.
Roberts first learned about horses from his father, who ran a riding school at the massive Salinas Rodeo.
But Robert's father used pain and punishment to break horses.
Monty Roberts speaking with Terry Gross in nineteen ninety seven.
After a break, we'll continue their conversation.
Also, Martin Johnson reviews Jason Moran plays Duke Ellington.
And Justin Chang reviews the new film biography of Anthony Bourdain.
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