5th Podcast - Broken Oaths

<p>In this podcast I get to interview a dear friend from my childhood in the colourful 70s. Norman is now a doctor, pathologist and a writer whose new book is about to be released. We reminisce about the past and he explains the story behind his grotesquely dark and potentially disturbing literature offering.</p> <p>In Jessica's gems she uses her curiosity about the English language to pull out some of the language from the interview and asks questions in order that I give some insights into terms like: To be trumped, to be freaked out, to be privileged and many more.</p> <p><a href= "http://www.englishonair.com">www.englishonair.com</a></p> <p>Transcription of Interview:</p> <p>Just give us a little intro into where, you know, where the passion started. So for example, if we spoke about, if we spoke about history, I mean, where, where did the passion, where did that sort of come from? When I was a young boy, I, I used to be very interested in castles and things. And I remember my dad taking me to Dover castle for the first time. And that was, you know, really fascinating. And it began to make me feel this kind of connection with the past and wanting to know more about these, these artifacts and these buildings, particularly. And then I suppose from there, it kind of evolved into other areas of history that I learned at school. And I, I was always very, you know, very absorbed by history and it said, it's a strange one history because you know, it can really turn some people off. Speaker 1 (00:55): And I remember some people in my class being, you know, pretty much, well, you know, why are we learning this? This is complete waste of time and I don't need to know this, but for me it was about, um, a connection with the past. And I think having that understanding of the past, especially in terms of the chronology of the past, which I think is seriously lacking in schools these days, these days you tend to pick up a subject like,I don't know the Spanish Armada, Royal queen queen Victoria, but it's not really in any