142: Chris Deacy interviewed by Marion Stuart

<div>Marion Stuart turns the tables on me for this week’s Nostalgia Interview. I talk about my earliest memories which involve having my hair washed as a baby and listening to Pinky and Perky at nursery (obsessively) and how my children don’t have the same musical tastes as me.<br> <br> </div> <div>I talk about what I was interested in outside of music, and my obsession with TV or radio schedules. This helped me at university in terms of having a copious record of all my lecture notes and being organized with essay writing. Looking back I wonder if I would be labelled today as having OCD.<br> <br> </div> <div>We talk about what experiences have moulded me the most, as well as my relationship with my parents and the notion of protectiveness.<br> <br> </div> <div>Marion asks me why movies are such a significant part of my life and how I came to film relatively late on, and we talk about what it is like to see a film many years after the first viewing - and the way in which my diary gives me a record of that film.<br> <br> </div> <div>She asks about my theology and about my interest in Near Death Experiences and their relationships to the movies I watch, and to how indebted I was to the likes of Paul Badham and Chris Arthur at university. She asks about my religious background. I talk about the limited religion I received from my Church school and how in later years I channelled religious interests through academic study. I explain why I didn’t go to chapel at university.<br> <br> </div> <div>We move on to talk about relationships and whether I am in a better place now than I was in the past, and how we can get caught up in relationships that are not genuine (leading to a discussion about gaslighting). I talk about a particularly debilitating relationship experience and how this became a creative writing project for me. I turned my personal life into an analogous project to my PhD, trying to get to the bottom of the mystery.<br> <br> </div> <div>Marion asks me how I have moved on and whether I will make the sa