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Richard Madeley

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2009-03-08

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2009-03-08

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1. “Yes, and I think that's what's led to what I would, of course, say is the canard, that I make sort of huge numbers of gaffes. I think it's the internet has actually brought that particular one to the fore, and there are pages of gaffes that I've never made. I mean, things, look, things like Richard II artist. It's a self portrait. Who's it of? You know, Richard to author. This is your autobiography. Who wrote it? You know, I mean, stuff like that. But I don't mind, because the key thing is not to take yourself seriously. If you take yourself seriously, then you're going to ride for a fall, because it's the invisible clause in the contract that you sign when you become a broadcaster. They will rip it out of you, and you have to be prepared for that.”

   2009-03-08 · Desert Island Discs · Richard Madeley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “I came to realise that keeping as quiet as both he and his father had done hadn't been particularly good for either man, and as I moved through my twenties I sort of unconsciously, I think, resolved to be the opposite, to say what I thought, to wear my heart on both sleeves, as it were, and communicate with my family, and as my career developed, I guess, with the wider public. And you know what? Despite having it ripped out of me for doing that on so many occasions, I have no regrets about that at all. I mean, I'm fifty two now, and I feel quite blessed that I've ended up a happy man.”

   2009-03-08 · Desert Island Discs · Richard Madeley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “I wonder if that is the reason that I am particular am so sort of remorselessly embarrassingly sometimes, Frank. I don't know. I think it might be actually more a reaction to the men in my past. My grandfather, for example, very typically of his generation, spoke very little about his emotions and his feelings and the bad things that had happened to him. And similarly, I didn't really understand until after my father had died and he died very young when he was forty nine and I was twenty one, that there were a great many things about him psychologically, emotionally, that he kept buttoned up.”

   2009-03-08 · Desert Island Discs · Richard Madeley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source