68: John Lennon's sister Julia Baird

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Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Music Commentary

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Julia Baird discusses Strawberry Field, family and friends, with Chris Shaw

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0:00.0	One, two, three, four.
0:04.0	One, two, three, four.
0:06.0	Ah! Hello and welcome to I am the Eggpot with me Chris Shaw.
0:34.3	The Eggports take a jaunty stroll through Peppeland, discussing the Beatles and solo Beatle albums
0:39.0	with a popery of delicious guests.
0:41.7	In this episode, I can't believe it, it's Julia Baird.
0:45.6	Hello.
0:46.5	Hello.
0:47.9	Finally.
0:50.6	Technology's great.
0:51.7	We've been seeing a lot of you recently.
0:55.2	Yes.
0:55.5	A lovely video, but tell me about strawberry filled.
0:59.3	Well, strawberry field.
1:02.0	I think any Beatle fan knows. If you say strawberry field, they immediately, they don't think of strawberries, do they?
1:08.1	They think of Salvation Army, orphanage that John played in and wrote the song about them.
1:15.4	That's what they know of Strawberry Field.
1:17.9	You might not even know it's Salvation Army, but they know that it was a children's home.
1:23.6	And Children's Home, it was.
1:24.8	We all called it the orphanage, Sally Army or orphanage when we were young.
1:29.9	But in actual fact, many of the children did have a living parent.
1:34.1	It's just that without the welfare state and before the war, sometimes and large families, sometimes they just could not cope.
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