John Wilson
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2,755 appearances
21 recordings
7 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Sep
John Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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information it's repressed emotion repressed emotion perhaps but also things that children aren't supposed to know about and funnily enough i've always been cast as older people even when i was a very young woman they wanted me you know i was 23 and they wanted me to play 35 you know or grown-ups so i obviously had something within me that said knows too much or something i
And after playing dozens of roles on stage and screen over the last 40 years or so, you've just made your debut as a writer-director in a film called My Mother's Wedding.
Yes.
And it's about three sisters whose mother is about to marry for the third time, having lost two previous husbands, both in air accidents.
What made you want to fictionalise such a personal story?
What do you think?
Catharsis?
No, not really catharsis, because that happened earlier when I did Electra.
That was totally cathartic.
No, what made me want to do it was that I realised that one of my brothers, in fact, both my brothers have absolutely no idea about who their father was, no image in their heads.
So I thought that I would make some little short films about what I remembered about Daddy and my stepfather, Simon.
I got talking to somebody about this and they said, well, why don't you turn it into a fiction?
I said, no, well, I don't want to tell the story of my life.
You know, that's not it.
No, but what you do is you take that and you use it as a sort of seed for telling another story.
And that's what I did.
Your fathers were not the perfect men you imagine, right?
that you've fantasized about all these years.
Yes, they were brave young men who gave their lives for their country, but they were still just young men doing all the things that young men do.
Didn't stop me from loving them.
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