Interview with Sheila

[thebarguest]

For the benefit of non-UK readers, the Telegraph is
a very traditional, right-wing British newspaper.
I guess the irony is because Peely represented a 
liberal, left-of-centre lifestyle more suited to the
Guardian paper.
I thought it was a huge mistake for JP to do "Home
Truths" for so long. It was / is boring, Telegraph-esque
and mainly aimed at middle-aged women ! Tom Robinson
was doing it today - the lure of money gets everyone
eventually, perhaps. Maybe HT could be better if it was
edited better to cut the waffle and self-indulgence ....






--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, John Bravin <john.bravin@p...> wrote:
>
> There is quite a long interview with Sheila in today's Daily 
Telegraph 
> (ooh the irony....). 
> 
> It's clearly a trailer for the launch of Margrave of the Marshes, 
which 
> will be serialised from tomorrow in the Sunday Telegraph (ooh even 
more 
> irony...)
> 
> Some very touching bits:
> 
> In the last years of his life, Sheila says, John was "happier and 
more 
> contented" than she had ever seen him. Her only concern was over 
his 
> health. A year before his death, his Radio 1 programme was shifted, 
yet 
> again, to a later time - 11pm-1am. "He was very tired, and I was 
worried 
> about him. I said: 'I can't believe you're not going to complain.' 
But 
> he said he'd be fine. He was just relieved he was still on the 
radio."
> 
> You can read it on line at
> 
>  
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;jsessionid=TYB2MK1D4SMH5QFI
QMFSM5WAVCBQ0JVC?xml=/arts/2005/10/08/bopeel_int08.xml
>