Gore Vidal: In the Psychiatrists Chair - BBC Radio (October 2000)
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- First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2000.
Fastidious, unforgiving, disdainful, aphoristic, bellicose and wickedly compelling. Legendary American writer and critic Gore Vidal discusses his extraordinary life and career with Professor Anthony Clare. From October 2000.
Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with prominent people from different walks of life.
Born in Dublin, author Anthony Clare held a doctorate in medicine, a master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. After becoming a regular on BBC Radio 4's Stop the Week in the 1980s, he became Britain's best-known psychiatrist and earned his own vehicle, In the Psychiatrist's Chair. Starting in 1982, this series ran until 2001 and also transferred to TV. Series highlights include conversations with Bob Monkhouse, Cecil Parkinson and Gerry Adams.
I had a crush on Gore Vidal when I was a young child in the late sixties, early seventies. He reminded me of my father. My Father was a tad bit older than Gore. I also watched the old complainer William F Buckley Jr. (Firing Line) but he just too scary. But if you notice. Gore has this beautiful sing songy, voice. Mother Gore sounds like a narcissist. Of course, so happy that fueled Gore's ego and pride. I wouldn't change a thing about the man. So sad he's gone. The whole "greatest generation" is now almost gone. My fathers generation.
"I am extremely belligerent... and that is - perhaps - my worst characteristic." He is so honest. Seemingly no fear in being honest and saying what he believes: a great model.
"We live in an empire with two right wings." Gore Vidal.
Since Vidal's death, there as been no one to take his place. We need another Gore Vidal in this country, now.
A brilliant man speaks, brilliantly, about his brilliance. Brilliant!
Gore Vidal, come back! The world misses you! The world needs you!
Holy crap, that was the single best Vidal upload of all TH-cam-time.
My favourite Anthony Clare interview was with Geoffrey Boycott. When he asked him "in the history of cricket, who has been a better batsman than you?" Sir Geoffrey responded: "nobody comes to mind..."
I love it when psychiatrists admit their own distrust for psychiatry--that's a shrink I'd go to! miss u Gore!
Gore was in top form here, Extremely stimulating! the De Gaulle's anectdote alone near the end would have made it worthwhile a listen.
La Rochefoucauld said, "One loves, the other is loved."? Then his quote found its way into "Of Human Bondage."
America's GREATEST historian!! Hands down!!
HAHAAAA! That joke at the end! What a miraculous and exceptional human being. A class class act!
"Because you didn't have to dress for dinner." LOL!!! God bless him.
What a wonderful interview, perhaps the best one of GV I've ever heard.
"What is happiness?" My God I love this man!!! "Southern women know."" Yes we do.....
“All of the great boors have been analyzed ... “
"Freud was a great novelist. . ." - Nice.
What a phenomenal program! A million
Thanks! Take GV's born intelligence/education, add his losses of so many friends in WWII's Battle of the Bulge, and you have a person with less than zero time for BS of any kind. That's why he's so bracing---