Richard Burton on booze, Dylan Thomas and Welshness +66 +CHARM @QRKS.cc

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ladies and gentlemen Richard Burton

you’re welcome um let’s talk about that

background of yours because it does

interest me I mean that the path you

view becomes been quite extraordinary as

I said an introduction you think that

some novelist had written in if a

novelist did write in indeed you could

accuse him with over exaggeration

because all right the background humble

comparatively so um what what in fact

did it give you though that background

Richard you think I think a tremendous

sense of strength I suppose because I

presumably if you survive such a

background you must have come from an

extraordinary race of people I’m

enormously proud of course of being

Welsh did you ever when you are when you

start embarked on a career as an actor

did you ever meet any problems in that

perhaps some of your mates might have

thought that they’ve been mixed in with

a Robin or so you know what I mean that

knock right now well they’re the self

well you well that the something Panzi

ish in in acting as compared to to to to

mining well yeah sure I’m getting that

don’t you yes I do yes I’m compromising

the last thing you can say about me is

that I’m a fancy and I’m not a but

let’s nice good let’s go back to it I do

apologize the ordinance of course for

being so intensely nervous because you

know I don’t do this kind of thing very

often and mr. Bartels and course has

done quite a lot and so me have they’re

not like the law let’s let’s get back to

to to to whales in the business of

acting um this extraordinary voice of

yours would you say that in fact it’s

it’s a kind of Welsh voice is there such

a thing oh yes it’s the deep dark answer

from the values to everybody I can’t

help

I can’t help the voice it’s a fart of me

and I didn’t cultivate or anything it

was given to me and I’m very lucky to

possess it I suppose

can we go back to 2007 you mentioned

earlier on doing time for breakfast what

is the chemical that it was a very

tragic man wasn’t he

I suppose so you saw his own death you

found it which is not entirely tragic

he certainly wrote of course most

magical things and he’s alive yes what

about one gets a sense of waste though

surely when you when you think I mean –

surely he left behind him stuff that

will live forever but he might have left

more behind him no I don’t think so I

think he’s much the same as well Mike

like you say sense of waste I wouldn’t

quarrel with that

but I think he probably burned himself

out he have fulfilled the notion a lot

of people have about the Welsh the

Celtic Sea generally about the sub death

wish that they have the creative people

do first of all except that they have

this this kind of headlong rush toward

toward the edge yes I think that we

rather love precipices we go towards

them and withdraw non again temporally

sometimes we go over the edge did you

ever feel that way yourself have you

ever felt yourself going toward the

precipice and finish back short of it

well yes I have yes I think we all do we

Kelsey and would you can tell me how in

what circumstance well there was a

second or two I think perhaps about a

year ago when I didn’t fancy much

staying alive really do you come to play

the suicide oh no

I wouldn’t kill myself in the only sense

of what I wouldn’t take pills or drugs

or anything really in that sense but I

did suddenly wake up one morning and

found how splendid lead witch and

extraordinaire world was and that I

couldn’t bear its richness and its

beauty and in order to obviate the idea

of the richness and extraordinary beauty

of the world I thought it’s best leave

it

you

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