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Ian McMillan

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2010-11-07

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2010-11-07

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1. “I think so because the part of Barnsley where I live is so interesting, you know, for years there were just a few farmers and people eating turnips, and then there was a moment when somebody discovered coal, and then it all transformed and people came from all over Britain to live in Barnsley and it would have been a boom town, and it would have been a vibrant, vibrant place, and then in the eighties, you know, after the minor strike, it all began to go, it began to fade away, and we've had sixty thousand mining jobs replaced by six thousand call centre jobs, and the place could have lied down and died, but it didn't, so you can see all the changes that are happening all over the world in the twentieth and twenty first centuries, in microcosm.”

   2010-11-07 · Desert Island Discs · Ian McMillan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “It is really occasionally, I think, perhaps I should have lived somewhere else, but I love the idea that I've lived in the same place all my life people know me, people couldn't care less, you know, when I've been on the television, I was stood in the paper shop and there'll be a bit of a silence then somebody will say We saw you we saw you yapping I tell you what a fantastic phrase and it's just nice to stay in a place that is changing gradually and you can do the universal in the local I always think so just occasionally when I'm walking down that street again to the paper shop I think maybe I should have lived in Timbuktu or Bexley Heath, but then eventually think no I'm all right here.”

   2010-11-07 · Desert Island Discs · Ian McMillan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source