Richard Bacon

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772 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day · Richard Bacon - ‘I Was Betrayed By My Best Friend’ · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

Now I think he should get a guide dog.

This has been a long process.

He's got 2% vision in one eye and nothing in the other eye.

So if you imagine...

It's a very interesting thing, retinitis pigmentosa.

It's what took away Chris McCausland's sight, you know, the comedian.

But it's like looking, basically, if you imagine looking through a straw from one eye, that's how my dad sees the world.

And a brilliant man and a kind man.

My mum is fascinating, charismatic, an addict.

Her dad was awful.

She had a really complicated childhood where she just wanted stability.

And I think the reason, talk about success, I think the reason I now look at my mum as being a success is her life growing up in a pub in a mining community called Blidworth in Nottinghamshire.

was chaotic because Jack, her dad, was just not a good person at all.

And really a horrible person, which is a funny thing to say about your own granddad, but it's just true.

And I think what she desired was to have a family and stability.

And so when I look at my mum and I think, okay, you had three kids, we're all close, they're still married.

That is a great measure of success, I think, if you're her from that background.

And my dad is a criminal defense lawyer.

He was involved, I mean, he had a small hand in Ian Huntley's defense.

I mean, it doesn't mean he thinks Ian Huntley, but it's part of the process of the law.

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