Will Self

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664 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 29 May

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · Will Self · 29 May 2026 podcast

I was rather disappointed not to be gay.

I thought, I saw women were essentially unattainable.

Yes, no, all the teachers were men.

And, of course, they'd all been in the war.

We were terrified of their trauma.

Mr Dean had been held prisoner by the Japanese.

We were terrified for him.

We were worried for them, all the teachers.

I can't say I was sexually very precocious at all.

It was just like everybody else.

I was desperate to fool with girls' bits, getting girls to come back with me, rolling around with them.

But what I didn't realise, and it sounds odd to say it now, and people don't often talk about themselves with this degree of honesty, was that I was quite attractive.

So I couldn't understand.

I didn't feel attractive.

Nobody does.

And I was spotty.

But by the time I got to Oxford, I didn't really have any problems in that direction.

And probably it wasn't a help.

What about love, though?

I always thought I was falling in love.

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