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‘Lockdown has made my stammer worse’
When your speech is something you need to warm up on a daily basis, being stuck at home with minimal human contact becomes a problem
16 March 2021 • 1:40pm
William Laven has used lockdown to practise on his stammer with an exercise routine that includes reading passages of text out loud
Even before
I Can’t Say My Name, the BBC One documentary, was broadcast this week, stammering was attracting some recognition. This was, in part, due to the election of Joe Biden to the role of President of the United States: the 78-year-old has been open about the stammer he’s had since boyhood and which manifested in a number of debates.
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In the end, Meghan and Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey made Princess Diana’s 1995 encounter with Martin Bashir look like a tight-lipped model of restraint. Diana herself was referenced several times (one might say there were “three of them” in this interview). At times, Meghan “Marie Antoinette-ed” herself (“Just the two of us in our own backyard, and the Archbishop of Canterbury”). Not that any of this mattered when the talk turned to suicidal thoughts and racism (“Concerns and conversations about how dark his skin may be”). This, one realised, was as serious as it gets.