John Wilson

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2,755 appearances 21 recordings 7 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5d ago

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

He was in the Royal Navy and he was flying.

And at the time, flying was a very, very dangerous job.

I think it still is.

But I think then they had one particular aircraft called a Sea Vixen, which was really a huge thing.

And they used to do these training exercises.

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.

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