Some pieces to bang your head on. Yeah. We have a GrAnd Piano if youd like to entertain us. A GrAnd Piano . Yes. I can open it, but i couldnt play it. John laughs Michael Palin, welcome to This cultural life. Thank you. You were born in sheffield in 1943. What are your earliest memories of childhood, Home Life . Um, i think it was shopping in the Ration Book era. Um, And i can remember going with my mother to get. I think we were given free Orange Juice at that time. Really, This must have been. I must have been three or four. And watching it being filled up And hAnded over. Your father was an engineer in the sheffield steel industry. Yeah. What Sort Of man was he . What was he like . He was. He was quite a difficult man in a way. He was a little Bit Sort of. Could be quite cantankerous. And i think a lot of This went down to the fact he had a stammer all his life. He was a man with a good sense of humour, but probably unable to telljokes because of the stammer. So i think there was a
Borrowing from the George Osborne and David Cameron playbook. You say that things are so terrible that we will have to make really difficult decisions. Dont blame me, blame the last lot. We are trying to fix the mess. They have evidence to suggest that argument isnt completely fabricated. However, icannot emphasise enough that Making Decisions is difficult. And the government will have to choose to do certain things. And when it makes those decisions, it will face the consequences of its actions. And in that sense, yes, you can blame the last administration. Yes, you can say that there is not as much money as we hoped or thought or could have been available if the economy had been available if the economy had been managed in a different way. But you still have to take responsibility for the decisions that you are taking. So in that sense, there is no doubt this government is going to feel a lot of pressure over the next few weeks, particularly leading up to the budget at the end of oct
I just i cant even, i cant even begin to wrap my head around this. Tell me i was there this weekend. We had the most wonderful, wonderful weekend with our granddaughter scarlet. It was wonderful. And how from one second to the next second, a dramatic change in life. Its unbelievable. Tell me about your wife. Judy was a philanthropist. She raised money for the childrens hospital, new york westchester medical college, childrens hospital. Then the Ehrlanger Hospital in tennessee. She was a wife, she was a mother, and she was a grandmother. And she was unbelievable. She was full of life. She looked half her age. She was so fit, so thin, and she really kept she was the glue that kept our family together. Josh, how did you find out . Youre living in orlando. Youre a doctor. Youre a Trauma Surgeon yourself. Tell me what happened. Ive seen a lot of trauma, ive seen a lot of bad stuff. I got a call from my sister and my dad and couldnt believe what i heard. I immediately drove down here to meet
I just i cant even, i cant even begin to wrap my head around this. Tell me i was there this weekend. We had the most wonderful, wonderful weekend with our granddaughter scarlet. It was wonderful. And how from one second to the next second, a dramatic change in life. Its unbelievable. Tell me about your wife. Judy was a philanthropist. She raised money for the childrens hospital, new york westchester medical college, childrens hospital. Then the Ehrlanger Hospital in tennessee. She was a wife, she was a mother, and she was a grandmother. And she was unbelievable. She was full of life. She looked half her age. She was so fit, so thin, and she really kept she was the glue that kept our family together. Josh, how did you find out . Youre living in orlando. Youre a doctor. Youre a Trauma Surgeon yourself. Tell me what happened. Ive seen a lot of trauma, ive seen a lot of bad stuff. I got a call from my sister and my dad and couldnt believe what i heard. I immediately drove down here to meet
I just i cant even, i cant even begin to wrap my head around this. Tell me i was there this weekend. We had the most wonderful, wonderful weekend with our granddaughter scarlet. It was wonderful. And how from one second to the next second, a dramatic change in life. Its unbelievable. Tell me about your wife. Judy was a philanthropist. She raised money for the childrens hospital, new york westchester medical college, childrens hospital. Then the Ehrlanger Hospital in tennessee. She was a wife, she was a mother, and she was a grandmother. And she was unbelievable. She was full of life. She looked half her age. She was so fit, so thin, and she really kept she was the glue that kept our family together. Josh, how did you find out . Youre living in orlando. Youre a doctor. Youre a Trauma Surgeon yourself. Tell me what happened. Ive seen a lot of trauma, ive seen a lot of bad stuff. I got a call from my sister and my dad and couldnt believe what i heard. I immediately drove down here to meet