Will Self
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664 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
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She'd make play dens, parties.
She was brilliant with kids.
All of it.
I mean, we cooked together.
Everything I wrote, I would show to her or drew.
She encouraged me all the time.
She was physically warm.
We cuddled until I was about 10 or 11, until my testosterone got out of hand.
I mean, I was absolutely enfolded by her.
She also was incredibly depressed, you know, almost to the point of psychosis.
She was on Valium a lot when I was a kid, and she had a filthy temper.
Like a cataclysm, which I unfortunately inherited.
Because if you have that bomb going off in your life, particularly if it's the person who is also your world.
I mean, my father was totally absent.
He was totally absent.
I ran away from home all the time.
I was a bolter.
Peter Self, he was in my childhood, he was professor of public administration at London School of Economics.
And he was one of Harold Wilson's activators.
So he was the post-war generation of public servants and policymakers who drove modernization.
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