Josh van Cuylenburg
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3,043 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard yesterday
Josh van Cuylenburg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He couldn't leave the house.
He had sort of extreme homesickness.
Fevers, cold, bad eyesight.
He was an extraordinary hypochondriac that thought that any of these above ailments could kill him at any moment.
He was sort of this...
Incredibly, yeah, fragile neurotic person.
And his brother, on the other hand, Robert, was one of the most well-known, famous and loved people in France.
He was a cutting-edge surgeon who was writing books about new surgeries.
I think...
Uh, in, I'm pretty sure a prostatectomy, which is like a removal of the prostate in France is still.
I think you'd call it the prostate.
Well, I think in France they call it a prostatectomy as a joke because his, his brother black pioneered the surgery.
Yeah, I think.
I'll have to double check that.
Yeah, he was like a war hero and indestructible.
There's a story about him being run over by a five-tonne coal wagon and just walking away.
When he was operating in Verdun in the First World War, a bomb went off and he was hit by shrapnel, took on the shrapnel himself and single-handedly moved his patient to a safe distance and kept on operating.
He was this kind of indestructible, charming person.
I never did anything like that, just for people who don't know.
The question that is asked in this book in the chapter in the book is called How to Suffer Successfully.
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