Tama Matheson
speaker
770 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Petersburg an orchestrion, which is a sort of automated orchestra in a great big cabinet, like a sort of sideboard.
And it played music.
It played snatches of Donizetti and Rossini and Bellini and, most wonderful of all, Mozart.
Yes.
No, she was just rather detached.
We never got beaten, but she was just rather detached.
My father was completely invested in his family and his children.
And he adored the role of husband, and he always assumed I would grow into it one day, and he would say, you will find the right woman one day, Pyotr.
I fear he wasn't enormously perceptive.
But my mother was always a little more detached, and she left the rearing of her children to various nannies.
My favourite, I had two twin brothers.
They seemed to me angels.
I can imagine, looking at those children, why we imagined angels in the first place.
Why the artists think of putti and cherubs, because these were my angels.
I don't know if I was ever aware of it as such.
It just seemed to be my nature.
My nurse was very aware of it.
I met her some 40 years later.
She reminded me.
of how I was as a child.
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