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

    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