Name: As I remember
Brand: BBC Radio Enterprises
SKU: RE6
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 4.00 (2 reviews)

Baroness Asquith, As I remember
Category:	BBC - RE* (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - RE* albums.)
Label and catalogue number:	BBC Radio Enterprises - RE 6
Format:	Vinyl album
Country:	UK
Released:	1967
Genre:	Informational View all other tracks listed as Informational.
Run-off codes:	RE 6 BBC
Item deleted?	Yes
Distributed / printed by	BBC Radio Enterprises
Page views:	1297 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 249, rank in albums is 21.
My rating:	*****
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Side & track	Track and Artist	Length
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A1	As I remember - Baroness Asquith in conversation with Kenneth Harris [Baroness Asquith / Kenneth Harris]	26.55
Total length of media 26:55.

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Cover condition			Blue and white BBC cover
Record condition			Near mint
BBC records label code			A
Number have			1
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Not someone I know, but this is full of interesting aspects of her life.
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'As I remember' - Lady Asquith in conversation with Kenneth Harris, was broadcast on BBC Television on 30 April 1967 to celebrate her eightieth birthday, and subsequently repeated in the Home Service. The programme was highly praised and Lady Asquith deluged with letters of congratulation. Viewers and listeners were captivated by a combination of historical reminiscence and illuminating and amusing anecdote. Lady Asquith, still perhaps better known as Lady Violet Bonham Carter, was born in a political context. Her father, H. H. Asquith, was an active politician, later to become Prime Minister. Her mother died when she was four and a half and her father had her bed moved into his room. She used to wake early and demand to be told what had happened in the House the night before. Indeed, she says, 'House' always meant House of Commons to her, never a human habitation. She remembers being taken by her father to have lunch with Gladstone when she was six years old and her disillusion with one aspect of this legendary figure. When she was seven her father married again. His second wife was Margot Tennant, famed for her conversational frankness. She said of her husband, 'His modesty amounts to deformity.' When H. H. Asquith became Prime Minister in 1908 the family moved to 10 Downing Street, still in those days a family house as well as an office of state. At the age of nineteen Lady Violet met Winston Churchill - the meeting which she here describes so vividly. They became life-long friends although the friendship was interrupted when Churchill joined the Coalition Government of 1918 to be resumed in the 1930s when they were united in recognition of the monsterous threat of the rise of Hitler in Germany. This conversation covers seventy-five years and the recollections of the past are no less vivid and exciting than the analysis of our own time. As Kenneth Harris said in an introduction to the programme in Radio Times: 'Words, thoughts, attitudes and moods she is, in fact a great artist in the field of talk, with the gifts not only of the analyst and reporter, but of the orator as well. Indeed, in conversation, she affects me as a great actress might, playing the role of a great woman in a chronicle of the past. Except that Lady Violet's is itself the authentic voice of history and she plays nobody but her inimitable self.' This record was re-released as REB 6.
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