John Julius Norwich - Mother reacts to news of my shooting (77/136)
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John Julius Norwich (1929-2018) was an English popular historian, travel writer and television personality. He is the author of histories of Norman Sicily, the Republic of Venice, the Byzantine Empire and 'The Popes: A History'. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: And then I remember, my mother I knew to be in Athens, staying, as I assumed, at the Grande Bretagne Hotel, where she always stayed when she was there, and I thought, she's going to read about me in the papers, and she's going to panic and think I'm dead, so I've got to get through to her and reassure her. It wasn't very easy in 1958 doing long-distance calls between Beirut and Athens, but I managed it. And she... the telephone switchboard in the Grande Bretagne Hotel is in the main foyer, the hotel's main lobby, and I got through to the switchboard assistant and said, 'Could I speak to Lady Diana Cooper?' And the assistant said, 'Oh, she's just over here, I can see her from here. I'll get her.' So the line was appalling, and I screamed out, 'Look, I've been shot, but I'm all right.' 'What? You've been shot?' 'Yes, yes, but I'm all right.' 'He's been shot! Mademoiselle, aidez moi, mon fils a été fusilier!' And eventually I think I got the message through, that I was okay, but it was quite a funny moment. Anyway, that was the worst that happened during what was delicately known as 'the events', les événements, of 1958. And then, from one moment to the next, everything sort of quietened down again, literally within 24 hours. It was quite odd how quickly peace was resumed.
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