Rod liddle oliver james biography
Where was eric liddell born
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What kind of legacy do you have from your upbringing?
A pretty strong legacy. Father from a family of train drivers.
Respectable, northern working-class, absolutely rock solid.
Rod liddle oliver james biography
I was known as Joe Liddle’s grandson and then Ned Liddle’s son and at the age of five I used to sit on Darlington Station all day by myself with a packed lunch – can you imagine that now? – and sometimes the drivers would let me ride on their trains.
Mother from slightly less respectable Bermondsey working class.
For the first eight years of my life I lived in south-east London, in Abbey Wood and Bexleyheath, and then we moved up to Middlesbrough. That’s why my accent veers between north and south – it’s bizarre.
By then my dad had got a job as a civil servant in the Inland Revenue; but he was down-the-line Labour.
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His entire family was – they were very traditional. All of them were stewards in the Methodist church. My mother’s side were less obviously Labour (and indeed on one occasi