Tony Benn and Denis Healey talk about losing their wives (January 19th 2011)
Labour veterans Tony Benn and Lord Healey have given a moving personal insight into how they have each dealt with becoming widowers.
Speaking to Paddy O'Connell on BBC Radio 2 they gave frank and moving accounts of their loss, discussing a subject that is often ignored.
Both men had very close relationships with their wives, seeing them as equals despite both men being prominent public figures.
Tony Benn's wife, Caroline, died 10 years ago from cancer.
His initial feeling was one of relief that she had escaped the suffering caused by the illness, but this was soon replaced by a sense of loss.
Lord Healey was married to his wife Edna for over 60 years and says he still has not recovered from her death last year.
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An amazingly personal interview with two Labour giants of yesterday. I have every respect for both of them for speaking with such dignity on such a difficult matter.
A beautiful piece
Thank you so much for this. I too find it very moving.
Profoundly moving!
Fantastic snippet of interview. Thank you for posting.
Lovely commentary but very sad too. Bless them all.
That's tremendous - in many ways reassuring
Both are dead now, they are both at peace, RIP TONY BENN AND DENIS HEALEY
@jonathanbuss7538
4 жыл бұрын
They are not at peace if they didnt know Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. Only in knowing him can we be prepared for the judgment seat of God which we face immediatley after death
@narcher91
3 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Buss That’s dogshit. Your childish beliefs are worth no more than the shit on the bottom of a shoe, you maniacs are hateful, heartless people.
Two giants of the Labour movement in their own way.
This is great, but it appears to be a small segment of a larger interview. Does anybody have the full interview?
I have no idea if this is true but I really would like to think that in their senior years Healey and Benn grew to really love and respect each other, the great statesmen they were
@matthewotooleis
3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately I don’t think this was the case. There is an interview with Healy on KZread after Benn’s death- he wasn’t too complimentary. Benn spoke about Healy in one of his diaries, he complimented Healy as a great campaigner even though he didn’t agree with him politically.
@insertclevername4123
2 жыл бұрын
@@matthewotooleis Perhaps, but there's another one just before Healy died where he was asked about his relationship with Benn. While he was still critical of Benn's actions during the late 70s and early 80s (and says that they disliked one another intensely during the period), he says that they got along well in their later years.
@RobertBurke-tq9zu
24 күн бұрын
Not true, they disagreed politically, but were close in their later years.
@ModernLonelyTV Well put
Photograph shows Benn Edna Healey, Joan Lestor and Denis Healey
I see that we have a total troll in Jameson; best not to feed him.
Political Giants of their time. It's a shame that there are no Giants in the House of Commons these days - Just arses like Rees Mogg and Johnson.