Graham Norton

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611 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Jul

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So I ended up in San Francisco, and I had no money, but there was this room in a hippie commune, and you could pay by the night.

It was honestly the best thing for me, because I was, I think, 19, 20, and these hippies were just great.

They really opened

my eyes to a lot of things.

I think when you're young, you think there's no time.

You think everything's going to happen now.

And I remember there was one of the hippies, she was 40, and she was training to be a nurse.

Of course, in my head, 19, I was thinking, God, how tragic.

Why would you bother learning how to do something when you're 40?

I must have said that to her in some way.

And she was like, yeah, if I do qualify, I'll be doing this job for 25 years, which is longer than you've been alive.

So it was a good thing to learn at that age that actually you have more time than you think.

You've got time to go down cul-de-sacs, you've got time to fail, you've got time to start again, time to come up with a new dream.

You know, I loved waking up, age 52, a debut novelist.

When I was at drama school back in the 80s, we all saw success as only one thing.

You know, it was our name in lights.

A few years ago, we had a reunion.

I thought it was so interesting how, for all of those people, what success looked like.

had changed so much.

For some, it was running a business.

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