Terry Pratchett speech on Youtube

[dizbang]

Terry Pratchett spoke at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. in 2007.
I have uploaded the first half of his speech to YouTube.
Here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMrZ156t ... e=youtu.be
Part 2 will be uploaded shortly, :dance:

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Welcome to the forum, dizbang thanks for the link, pop along to the the Broken Drum's Introduce yourself thread and say hello. :handgestures-thumbupright:

 

[Tonyblack]

Thanks for the link, dizbang! And welcome to the site.

 

[dizbang]

After posting the link to the speech I went to Wikipedia and read his biography.
It states he did not publicly announce his condition until October 29, 2007 but his speech
in D.C. occured on September 29, 2007. I am quite certain there were sufficient people
in the tent to qualify for a public announcement.

 

[Tonyblack]

Well he didn't name the condition at that stage. I'm not sure he knew what it was then.

 

[dizbang]

You are correct. I watched my own video and realize he didn't mention it by name on stage. However, at the book signing table after the speech he told me it was "probably something stupid like Alsheimer's". So at that point he wasn't absolutely sure.

 

[MrsWizzard]

Listening to this man speak is never short of both enlightening and hilarious

 

[SpideyGirl]

Listening to this man speak is never short of both enlightening and hilarious