Richard Fitzpatrick
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677 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 14 May
Richard Fitzpatrick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're both Irish.
I don't know if it was intentional but definitely handy.
There was a rumour that there was a third Scottish lady as well in the mix.
It was very sad.
Dan Treston, who was actually a notable, he worked in RTE in his lifetime, won several awards.
He met him, he was reunited with him in the 1950s, not having seen him, he left the family home around 1920s, the early 1920s, hadn't seen him in 30 odd years and he was hoping for a big reconciliation and all Don Patricio wanted to talk about was how Manchester United were doing.
Tristan was living in Manchester or grew up in Manchester.
That was his son.
That was his son, yeah.
So HH, similarly, a poor father, only four of his seven kids went to his funeral.
I interviewed his stepson, who's an amazing figure.
He's in his 90s now, he's a famous film director and
He was a pioneer of new journalism in the 60s, like a decade before John Didion and Hunter S. Thompson.
He ghost wrote HH's memoirs in 1962 and he worked for two years as a scout.
for HH, and he talked at length about how poorly HH had treated his stepsister, Rokia, and it was really a really disgusting aspect of HH's personality.
He was in love with his mother, but
the kids who didn't treat them well, and obviously his wives, you know, he left a trail of destruction there.
However, I interviewed his widow, who's still alive, Fiora Gandolfi, she's a famous journalist in Italy, and she is still to this day devoted to him, you know, she spent almost 30 years with him, and she spoke at length about his infidelities,
But still, you know, he was the love of her life.
So that interview, more than any, gave me pause to think about him.
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