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Desert Island Discs
Presented by Roy Plomley
Clairvoyant and television personality who reads clients' futures without apparatus, specializing in personal and financial advice.
Eight records
I think a lot of people are misled to think that I am as happy as I appear to be. And this particular piece conveys, eh, a, a certain sadness.
The keepsakes
The luxury
Not recorded.
In conversation
Presenter asks
What are the usual problems that people bring to you?
How... Finan... Wanted to change their work? Of course, sometimes love affairs, you know.
Presenter asks
Do you have more women clients than men?
No, I would say I did have an equal amount. Now I have more men than women.
Presenter asks
If you receive an impression that something very unfortunate is going to happen to a client, do you warn him of this?
I will tell them everything that is bad except death. Because you don't tell a person they're gonna die, you push them into their coffin [too] fast that way, you know? The reason I tell them everything else that's bad is because nothing happens to you in life that is so bad... that a compensation will not eventually follow. And you could have ten years bad luck when the eleventh year is a wonderful year. So I say to them, you know, this is going to happen to you, but please do not worry, because that is going to follow. Now they are so busy getting to the good that they will accept...
The recording
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Speaker 2
This download is the only extract the BBC has of this edition of Desert Island Discs. The presenter was Roy Plumley.
Presenter
Now, Maurice, I decide to consult you. I have some decision to make or some anxiety concerning my future. So I come to your consulting room, your studio.
Maurice Woodruff
Plans out of it.
Presenter
And I sit across a table from you, as we are now. Is there any apparatus? Are there any cards, a crystal ball, astrological tables?
Maurice Woodruff
No, nothing at all now.
Maurice Woodruff
I have always said the eyes are the mirrors of the self.
Maurice Woodruff
I would do all the talking. I would not even ask you a single question that meant a yes or a no, which you could say was a leading question.
Maurice Woodruff
I hope by the end of thirty minutes I would then say to you now if you wish to ask me questions you may, but I hope by that time to have answered all the problems you've got.
Speaker 2
Yes. What are the usual problems that people bring to you?
Maurice Woodruff
How
Maurice Woodruff
Finan
Maurice Woodruff
Wanted to change their work?
Maurice Woodruff
Of course, sometimes love affairs, you know.
Presenter
Do you have more women clients than men?
Maurice Woodruff
No, I would say I did have an equal amount. Now I have more men than women.
Presenter
Do you?
Presenter
You go to the United States a lot for consultation.
Maurice Woodruff
Phillips
Maurice Woodruff
I go to the United States, I do a television show there as well, I've got an eighteen month waiting list of clients in the United States.
Maurice Woodruff
But I also go to Gibraltar and Tangier.
Maurice Woodruff
Mostly I work in Gibraltar and I relax in Danja.
Presenter
Yeah
Presenter
If you receive an impression that something very unfortunate is going to happen to a client, do you warn him of this?
Maurice Woodruff
I will tell them everything that is bad except death.
Maurice Woodruff
Because you don't tell a person they're gonna die, you push them into their coffin f too fast that way, you know?
Maurice Woodruff
The reason I tell them everything else that's bad is because nothing happens to you in life that is so bad.
Maurice Woodruff
that a compensation will not eventually follow.
Maurice Woodruff
And you could have ten years bad luck when the eleventh year is a wonderful year.
Maurice Woodruff
So I say to them, you know, this is going to happen to you, but please do not worry, because that is going to follow.
Maurice Woodruff
Now they are so busy getting to the good that they will accept
“I have always said the eyes are the mirrors of the self.”
“I would do all the talking. I would not even ask you a single question that meant a yes or a no, which you could say was a leading question.”
“I hope by the end of thirty minutes I would then say to you now if you wish to ask me questions you may, but I hope by that time to have answered all the problems you've got.”