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
Come on come on, come on, what are you staring for . Come on robinson apparently tired, punched with a fairly well and rocked jake lamotta right to his heels. Come on, ray. A director and actor find a story at the right time and the right place. And out comes this amazing combination of cinematic virility and absolute fear. Its like watching an animal. I think raging bull is a great title and the film fulfills the promise. The reality of the boxing and the great slow motion, all the Black And White gore. The violence of the flashbulbs going off. When he designed the movie, marty purposefully, he didnt put a clutch on the film. Theres no clutch. Hey, ray, never went down, man. You never got me down, ray. Raging bull is a boxing movie for people who dont like boxing because its really not about that. Its about this man, jake lamotta, who was based on a real person, whos really at war with himself. Come on. Harder. Harder. I didnt really understand boxing, but the character was interestin
robinson, apparently tired, punched fairly well and rocked jake right to his heels. come on, ray. a director and actor finds a story at the right time and the right place. and out comes this amazing combination of cinematic virility and absolute fear. it s like watching an animal. i think raging bull is a great title. and the film fulfills the promise. the reality of the boxing and the great slow motion, all of the black-and-white gore, the violence of the flash bulbs going off. when he designed the movie, marty, he purposefully didn t put a clutch on the film. there s no clutch. hey, ray, you never went down, ray. you never got me down, ray. raging bull is a boxing movie for people who don t like boxing movies, but it s really not about that. it s about this man, jake, based on a real person, who s really at war with himself. come on. harder. harder. i didn t really understand boxing, but the character was interesting. he was just so contr
now on bbc news, felicity baker, who has a stammer, reveals what it is like to live with the condition. among those she talks to is michael palin, whose father stammered but never spoke about it. 0k. i ve worked for bbc news for ten years as a producer, always behind the scenes, finding guests, setting up stories. i wondered if you had someone that might be available for an interview? but recently, during a chance conversation with the presenter sophie raworth, i revealed my secret. i have a stammer. hello. i m calling from the bbc. i ve spent my whole life trying to hide it. now, i m discovering that i m not alone, and i m not the only one who struggles to say my name. and i know you can say your name. will you say it? i can. ijust have to breathe. crowdjeers. there s the rugby player who says his violence on the pitch was driven by his stammer. the self loathing. i hated myself. i hated myself because i wasn t like other people. # pray, i guarantee you heard this song # you
now on bbc news, felicity baker, who has a stammer, reveals what it is like to live with the condition. among those she talks to is michael palin, whose father stammered but never spoke about it. 0k. i ve worked for bbc news for ten years as a producer, always behind the scenes, finding guests, setting up stories. i wondered if you had someone that might be available for an interview? presenter sophie raworth, i revealed my secret. i have a stammer. hello. i m calling from the bbc. i ve spent my whole life trying to hide it. now, i m discovering that i m not alone, and i m not the only one who struggles to say my name. and i know you can say your name. will you say it? ican. ijust have to breathe. crowdjeers. there s the rugby player who says his violence on the pitch was driven by his stammer. the self loathing. i hated myself. i hated myself because i wasn t like other people. # pray, i guarantee you heard this song # you gon rememberthe name.# ..the young man who was bull