The fourth Doctor talks about the friend who played companion Harry Sullivan at the Time Quest convention, Barking Abbey School, London, 2009
"...oh yeah, yeah --
Well, he really was an absolute Darling --
and, uh, he shouldn't have died, but he did;
I do remember you know that sometimes at
rehearsal he had a 10 kind of oh virent
diabetes that suddenly if he didn't eat
things or whatever it was he'd suddenly
get terribly irrational and um and then
someone give him a biscuit or a bite of
a marsbar and suddenly he seemed better
uh and then I think he was living alone
at the time and I always thought that
you know to go home with that kind of
illness feeling a bit down or whatever
it was was a terrible terrible waste
because he was a kind man you know Not
only was he gifted but he was kind and
that's a that's a wonderful combination
to be gifted and kind and um and he
adored his children and his wife M and
but they weren't together at that time
and and he came home one night know
maybe had a couple of Dr Bass and the
next thing is he he was in a coma and of
course a terrible he wasn't discovered
at time but I only have War memories of
him and presumably all a peaceful way to
die one Longs for a peaceful death you
know uh when I was a boy in early in the
last Millennium I us we used to say this
prayer you know for for a peaceful de
little children yeah little children
were praying for a peaceful day it's
incredible --
isn't it absolutely
incredible because you know I going as
an actor some noce already I was I was
What's called the
Thor I think it's called something else
chur but it's a a little machine that
burns
incets big piece of charcoal like that
and high quality insect smoke everywhere
and of course I didn't realize I was
snipping it like a lunatic I mean I was
abely sorting this bloody incense I was
hallucinating early on you know we used
to used to carry on like that the whole
time uh with this this idea of choking
incense and smell of uh of very very
rich cand it was absolutely marvelous
absolutely marvelous and that got me
into my love of funerals because I'm
talking about the days you know before
penilla but people used to die real
quick you know you have a nail in your
shoe on a Friday go to a dance on a
Saturday to see on a
Sunday me young conerts by Monday you
die on a Tuesday and you are buried
following
Thursday amazing Charlie was here
dancing with me doing that and he de so
I us funeral because you know flu and uh
scarlet fever and measles and things
like that I used to go sometimes three
or four a
day I mean one dose of FL would knock
out all the other wom in the
street and there was I swinging like
that
is bomed out of my
brains and then an amazing thing
happened I quick you got
lives he said uh one day I it was so
cold and it was about my fourth funeral
with no food you know because they also
the Catholic church was very interested
in children
starving so everyone else could have a
meal but not the children you swinging
because they were feeding on Bloody
incense anyway it was so cold I remember
shivering unly and all covering snot and
tears with the pain and when it was
ended you used to sometimes get a thy
bit you don't know what it was a small
coin uh but this day because of my S I
guess a fellow touched my hand very
unusual and slipped a half crown
was called half a dollar I couldn't
believe it you know I never actually
held a half dollar I've discovered it
afterwards and then I realized he
thought he was giving me a half dollar
because he thought I was weeping in
sympathy for his old mother who just
died flu at the age of
111 and I was corrupted TR so fra I was
corrupted instantly and after that the
next funeral day after day after day
there I was you know sobbing like a
professional while while the other
little boys were getting big I was
getting two Shilling pieces Inc that's
where I learned to
so and got going maybe that was the
beginning of my life on actor really and
was fing an emotional yes I can't that
question
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