2022-03-10
40 分钟Hello and welcome to the Outlook podcast, your one stop shop for personal and life changing stories on the BBC World Service.
I'm Mubin Azar.
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Friends and Romans, countrymen.
This episode, the British singer songwriter Frank Turner.
He had an underground punk career before moving into folk music and playing as a warm up act at the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony.
It's coming near.
Kamy Kamy, Frank's family and specifically his fragile relationship with his father that we're talking to him about today.
Because for many decades Frank's dad was struggling with a secret and secrets eat away at people.
The burden can come out in unexpected, sometimes destructive ways from the outside.
Growing up in the 80s in the south of England, the family looked picture perfect.
Classically English, financially stable, privileged, a distinct sense of maintaining a stiff upper lip.
My dad and my mum were, it's fair to say, small C, conservative.
And they were quite sort of traditional in their view of the world.
You know, I was going to go to a certain kind of school and I was probably going to get a certain kind of job and we were going to be friends with a certain kind of people and we were going to have a certain social interests and that kind of thing.
And it was all straight and narrow might be the word.
But like, I mean, not in a way that felt necessarily oppressive when I was kid because I wasn't really aware of any alternatives to this.
They certainly sort of presented a very traditional front.
You know, my dad had a job in London, my mum was a stay at home mum initially and then became a primary school teacher.