Tama Matheson
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770 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Tama Matheson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And apparently I was deeply susceptible to music and very, very frail and fragile.
She said, you couldn't accept criticism of any kind.
And I thought if I gave you criticism, you would shatter.
And she called me her child of glass.
And I would sometimes rush to her with music in my head saying, Fanny, Fanny, the music is in my head.
I can't get rid of it.
Help me, help me get it out of my head.
And she didn't know how to calm me down.
And because of this music, I would drum my fingers relentlessly on the furniture and the walls.
And she said there was one occasion in which I drummed them so hard on a window pane that I actually put my hand through the glass.
And she said, as she bandaged me up, she thought to herself, here is my child of glass, cut by his own substance.
I was, I think, six.
And in the intervening years, I've learned that we are all cut by our own substance.
That is what it means to be human.
Yes.
You were born in that lovely town that you told us.
Yes.
And then you go… We went to Moscow first.
It didn't work out with my father's job in Moscow.
We moved to St.
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