Gillian (poet) - Guest
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161 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Gillian (poet) - Guest’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I never say to myself I've given up smoking.
I could go back to it any minute.
Between 15 and 30, probably.
No, I think coffee.
I mean, I drank a lot of coffee anyway, and chocolate.
I mean, I realised I'm addicted to addiction.
I needed advice, so I turned it into chocolate, and there's a smoker in my head.
You seriously think that's an addiction?
Yes, I just need something that's a sort of wicked addiction.
That's right, yeah.
There are so many, but I think the day after he had the operation in the hospital here to seal up the leaking blood vessel.
Yeah.
And so his life was saved by the team, and I remember going...
to see him the day after and I came up and found intensive care and walked in and I encountered this rather sort of large round armchair it was like a throne and you looked like an old emperor laughter
And then there was a terrible complication with the man in the bed next to you got COVID and the whole world had to be evacuated after all this had happened before.
And you knew which medicine you needed and you fought your way up to the...
top of the hierarchy of doctors i mean when i saw you stomping up and down the corridor of the ward um in your hospital pajamas when you were not going to give in your all your energy had come back and i was hugely grateful because i thought that's really i mean i know they did a magnificent job but i thought no it's your spirit you just weren't going to die
You were very willing and you gave out the pencil.
You were giving out the pencil.
Fantastic.
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