John Wilson

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This Cultural Life · Kristin Scott Thomas · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

And the accident rate was really, really high.

And he succumbed to one of those.

And yeah, he just he died.

And my mother was pregnant.

And I had two little sisters and another person on the way.

And do you have no memories of being told?

Oh, I have lots of memories of being told.

Yeah, they lurk.

They lurk forever.

I mean, that sort of event will inform who you become.

I think nowadays, thanks to the sort of awakening of the idea of mental health not being something hideously embarrassing and sort of...

I think trauma has become slightly over-claimed, but I think there's enormous progress being made.

This was a long time ago.

It was 60 years ago.

So it was the time when people thought that children could take knocks and just get over them.

And we do.

I mean, here I am, you know.

But it was unnecessarily difficult, I think.

But it's trauma and grief in response not only to the loss of your father, but also the fact that your mother remarried, had more children, and then her new husband, your stepfather, was killed in, I mean, from what I understand, almost identical circumstances, also flying with the Royal Navy, the police air arm.

Absolutely.

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