Tama Matheson
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770 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Yes, that's right.
And there I became, if you can believe it, a minor civil servant.
If you can imagine the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, an inconsequential clerk in the Ministry of Justice.
Well, I have to say, it was agonizing.
I have no inkling, not the faintest inkling, of what I did at the Ministry of Justice.
It tells you something about the civil service, doesn't it?
I had the rank of titular counsellor, though what that might mean passeth all understanding.
But that's bureaucracy, an inventory of titles with no jobs attached.
But all I really remember was the boredom.
Mindless, gormless, endless boredom.
It was interminable.
I don't know how people do it every day.
Petersburg.
I did eventually go and live with my father again.
By this time, alas, my mother had died.
She died when I was 15.
Well, I was at the School of Jurisprudence and I heard that she died of cholera.
A cholera epidemic swept through St.
Petersburg.
Yes.
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