Tama Matheson

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770 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · More Rosebud - Tchaikovsky · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

This is a softness I myself have inherited.

And he loved my mother deeply and frequently, it seems, with the six of us children.

And my mother was a little harder by nature, but I adored her with an almost morbid passion.

I could not see how harsh she was in those days.

I worshipped her far too fiercely.

There seemed to be nothing that she could do that didn't fill me with joy.

And when I was away from her, I was almost desperate.

When she left me at my first school, which was a school of jurisprudence, not a school of music,

I couldn't bear the thought of her leaving.

And as she left me in the school, I was 10 years old, I clung to her skirts and I had to be forcibly removed from her.

I was screaming, don't leave, Mama, don't leave.

And she said, go, go, play with the other boys.

And as her carriage drove away from the school, I clung to the backboard and was dragged across the schoolyard until I couldn't hold on anymore.

That's how much I couldn't stand to be away from my mother.

Yes, I have.

And I think it's because she played music and sang.

And I was musical.

I felt it from the first.

And as such, I suppose that I felt that our souls walked together on the plane of music.

My father was not musical in the same way, although it was he who brought music home to me, quite literally, because he brought home one day from St.

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