Ellen Barry
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459 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Aug
Ellen Barry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm not sure you could put that genie back in the bottle.
Well, Ellen,
There was this story that my dad always told about how he fell in love with my mother.
Both of them were living in Europe.
It was 1956.
My dad was a student, and he had become so passionate about the student uprising in Hungary that he decided to spend his Christmas break assisting the revolution.
So he and a friend made plans to travel down to the border of Hungary and Austria.
My mom, who was at that point an acquaintance, tagged along.
But when they got there, she stayed behind and they crossed the border into Hungary.
It wasn't long before they encountered a row of Soviet tanks, at which point they decided their work here was done and retreated.
Instead, they decided to leave the Hungarians to their own devices and spend the rest of their winter break skiing.
Now, my dad had never been on skis, and this is sort of characteristic that the way he approached it was essentially to get on a ski lift to the top of an alp, where I guess he imagined that he was going to learn how to ski by skiing down it.
And...
almost immediately dislocated his shoulder.
And someone called a medic.
And in preparation for resetting the shoulder, the medic handed my mother a rag soaked in chloroform and told her to hold it over his mouth, which she did.
And the way my dad always told this story, he would say, and I woke up married.
That was a story that my dad would tell even after his brain injury and dementia had really scrambled many of his memories.
Thank you.
We had been in India for four years.
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