Will Self
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664 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
Will Self’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She wasn't bad, but her chef d'oeuvre is her diary, which I inherited on her death, which was anything up to 50 spiral-bound, narrow, faint, student-no books completely covered.
Yeah.
I mean, I didn't read them through, and I still haven't.
Oh, Giles, my mother was overpowering.
I mean, I hadn't got free from my relationship with my mother probably until I went into hospital.
You mean recently went into hospital?
Oh, yeah.
It's taken me decades to deal with her.
And my brothers haven't dealt with her at all.
No, I was her Benjamin.
She adored me and she was funny, brilliant.
She taught me to read before I went to school.
She taught me to read when I was three.
I mean, I could read and write at three.
I mean...
My dad would despairingly say, because mum thought I was a prodigy, but dad would say, John Stuart Mill could read and write by the age of three, but in Latin and Greek as well.
That's good.
No, she was adorable as a mother.
She was endlessly inventive, funny.
She was incredibly imaginative.
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