Peter O'Brien
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And like everybody else, I've kind of almost stopped watching, you know, kind of regular television.
But did you grow up with that?
I told you I was weird.
Well, my father thought that TV... I'm 190 anyway, so, you know, I almost existed in a time when there weren't televisions.
But my father thought televisions were kind of common and they were bad for the brain.
And anyway...
So my friend next door, Michael Dunne, who had a TV.
And then we eventually got one on.
Fridays or Saturdays, and I don't know whether it was RTE or if we had... We might have had BBC or UTV.
There was a thing called Continental Cabaret.
And again, me, you know, longing to be in Weimar, Germany.
I mean, I...
So there would be people like Jacques Brel and the Kessler twins and all these people singing, you know, tragic songs in German and in French.
And I loved it.
I used to watch that.
And I used to watch, there was a woman who used to teach children how to draw.
She called Blahim on RTE.
And I remember I loved the Reardons.