Stephen Fry
Bryony Gordon's Mad World
The Telegraph
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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CAUTION ADVISED - STRONG LANGUAGE & ADULT THEMES.
President of Mind and all-round national treasure Stephen Fry speaks to the Telegraph’s Bryony Gordon in the first episode of the brand new series of Mad World, where she interviews guests about their mental health experiences. Recorded at The Arts Club, Dover Street, London, in association with the mental health charity Mind, Stephen speaks very candidly about his own mental health, how he manages it in the limelight and world of social media, as well as the stabilising influence of his family.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Series 2 of Mad World. Now, the first series had a Prince, a Chef, a pop star, a mental health nurse, and over half a |
| 0:20.1 | million downloads on iTunes. |
| 0:21.9 | And one podcast in particular, yes the Prince Harry one, |
| 0:25.1 | had over 4 million listens. |
| 0:27.6 | Our second series has a similarly varied cast of characters and our first guest requires no introduction. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello everyone. My name is Bryny Gordon. You're not here to see me. Here is Stephen |
| 0:48.8 | Fry. I'm sort of starstruck, awestruck, awestruck, writer, actor, polymath. |
| 0:55.0 | Don't forget to mention my modesty. |
| 0:58.0 | This is a recording for my Mad World podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | Don't worry. You can laugh as naturally as you want we've |
| 1:06.0 | had some fascinating guests on before like Prince Harry but I like to mention |
| 1:10.5 | that as quickly as possible but you're sort of my hero for many reasons. |
| 1:15.2 | But we always start the podcast by asking the question, |
| 1:21.1 | the seemingly simple question, how are you? but we ask it a million times a day and we |
| 1:26.0 | sort of go fine fine but how are you really? Well given license to answer how I am |
| 1:30.7 | really I'm actually pretty good I was a bit low last week and I |
| 1:33.8 | wasn't quite sure why but then you know let's be honest everyone's low at this time |
| 1:37.8 | of year in fact I believe today is the day most people don't go to work it's the |
| 1:41.8 | lowest that the people who are not blessed with bipolar disorder find that they are on a downward |
| 1:48.3 | cycle after Christmas and the bills are coming in and everything's grotesque and gray and miserable and there's |
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