#RichardBurton100 🏴 The Chef has arrived with my Birthday Cake.
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
#RichardBurton100 🏴 The Chef has arrived with my Birthday Cake.
10 Nov 1971 I am 46 years old today. I am sometimes surprised that I got so far. I always had the feeling that I would die in my thirties and in my twenties was firmly convinced that I would die at the age of 33. #RichardBurton100 🏴
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
10 Nov 1971 I am 46 years old today. I am sometimes surprised that I got so far. I always had the feeling that I would die in my thirties and in my twenties was firmly convinced that I would die at the age of 33. #RichardBurton100 🏴
10 Nov 1968 I am now 43. It's nine in the morning. The sky is grey but it has a look of turning into sunshine later on. Yesterday was wholly delightful. #RichardBurton100 🏴
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
10 Nov 1968 I am now 43. It's nine in the morning. The sky is grey but it has a look of turning into sunshine later on. Yesterday was wholly delightful. #RichardBurton100 🏴
11 Nov 40 I was 15 years old yesterday. Had 2/- #RichardBurton100 🏴
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
11 Nov 40 I was 15 years old yesterday. Had 2/- #RichardBurton100 🏴
9 Nov 75 Feel better but curiously muted. Leave tonight for London. Started but for once will not finish a massive book by John O'Hara. How that man wrote and wrote and wrote and he might easily have stopped with Samarra and no one would have noticed.
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
9 Nov 75 Feel better but curiously muted. Leave tonight for London. Started but for once will not finish a massive book by John O'Hara. How that man wrote and wrote and wrote and he might easily have stopped with Samarra and no one would have noticed.
8 Nov 75 Big pull out from booze. Talked to Liza on phone. Very sweet. Doctors all over me taking blood tests, intravenous feeding etc. I look terrible and feel diabolical...Really must now never drink again except possibly a glass of wine with dinner.
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
8 Nov 75 Big pull out from booze. Talked to Liza on phone. Very sweet. Doctors all over me taking blood tests, intravenous feeding etc. I look terrible and feel diabolical...Really must now never drink again except possibly a glass of wine with dinner.
7 Nov 75 Started antabuse. Absolute torture. Read books all day long and tried to sleep fitfully.
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
7 Nov 75 Started antabuse. Absolute torture. Read books all day long and tried to sleep fitfully.
6 Nov 75 Booze.
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
6 Nov 75 Booze.
5 Nov 75 Booze.
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
5 Nov 75 Booze.
2 Nov 1975 E practically sloshed all day on and off mostly because we got into bitter arguements about wording of invitation cards re my birthday party. At one point after I had been pecuilarly destructive she went off in tears to 'Shen Buddhist's' room.
November 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
2 Nov 1975 E practically sloshed all day on and off mostly because we got into bitter arguements about wording of invitation cards re my birthday party. At one point after I had been pecuilarly destructive she went off in tears to 'Shen Buddhist's' room.
31 Oct 75 Felt inexplicably terrible last night. Slept badly. Actors' dreams.
October 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
31 Oct 75 Felt inexplicably terrible last night. Slept badly. Actors' dreams.
26 Oct 75 Chobe. Stayed at home. All went out on boat. Sans me. Just as well. All got sloshed except me naturally....Looking forward to Europe. First time since we arrived. Miss books - I mean mine - and children.
October 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
26 Oct 75 Chobe. Stayed at home. All went out on boat. Sans me. Just as well. All got sloshed except me naturally....Looking forward to Europe. First time since we arrived. Miss books - I mean mine - and children.
25 October 75 Read and read as usual.
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
25 October 75 Read and read as usual.
Anyone in the Oxford area, chance to see Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on the big screen - November 9 at 2pm uppcinema.com/show/whos-af...
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? – Richard Burton at 100 - The Ultimate Picture Palace
Elizabeth Taylor delivers a tour-de-force as a caustic wife whose drunken dinner party becomes psychological warfare. Mike Nichols’ searing adaptation of Edward Albee’s play lays bare love and cruelty...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Anyone in the Oxford area, chance to see Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on the big screen - November 9 at 2pm uppcinema.com/show/whos-af...
12 Oct 75 Went on picnic. Cucumber sandwiches on the marriage grounds. Cold wine, beer, champagne and cold chicken for the other. Coca-Cola and water for me. E still worrying me. So much so that I wonder if she thinks me a bit weird at times. She started talking oddly too now and again.
October 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
12 Oct 75 Went on picnic. Cucumber sandwiches on the marriage grounds. Cold wine, beer, champagne and cold chicken for the other. Coca-Cola and water for me. E still worrying me. So much so that I wonder if she thinks me a bit weird at times. She started talking oddly too now and again.
www.welshnationaltheatre.com/playing-burton Tickets have just gone on sale at The Old Vic. Celebrate Rich's 100 with Matthew Rhys.
Playing Burton — Welsh National Theatre
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October 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
www.welshnationaltheatre.com/playing-burton Tickets have just gone on sale at The Old Vic. Celebrate Rich's 100 with Matthew Rhys.
10 Oct 75 Got shamefully sloshed and despite all my idiocies - nasty too - we are as happy as children. We catch our breaths every so often and say with a kind of smiling wonder and delight. 'Hey!' Do you realize we are actually married?
October 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
10 Oct 75 Got shamefully sloshed and despite all my idiocies - nasty too - we are as happy as children. We catch our breaths every so often and say with a kind of smiling wonder and delight. 'Hey!' Do you realize we are actually married?
9 Oct 75 Stayed in bed all day yesterday. Read and slept. E fed me in bed lunch, though had dinner in living room. Looks like marriage is on. I wonder why I am still doubtful. It doesn't seem right but I don't know why. Perhaps I'm afraid of legal responsibility.
October 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
9 Oct 75 Stayed in bed all day yesterday. Read and slept. E fed me in bed lunch, though had dinner in living room. Looks like marriage is on. I wonder why I am still doubtful. It doesn't seem right but I don't know why. Perhaps I'm afraid of legal responsibility.
30 Sep 75 About 5-15 baboons surrounded our suite. We thought it normal but discovered that it was a phenomenon never seen before. It would of course occur when E was here. Hereforth to be known as Elizabeth's baboons. Strange Richard Barrett (3 Degrees man) pestered us all evening. Quite scary.
September 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
30 Sep 75 About 5-15 baboons surrounded our suite. We thought it normal but discovered that it was a phenomenon never seen before. It would of course occur when E was here. Hereforth to be known as Elizabeth's baboons. Strange Richard Barrett (3 Degrees man) pestered us all evening. Quite scary.
29 Sep 75 Johannesburg - Chobe Jet (Lear) to Chobe. 1 hour 45 minutes. Landed on grass strip. Very bumpy. Saw elephants, baboons, buffaloes? Other people had terrible journey. Married Elizabeth Zulu fashion.
September 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
29 Sep 75 Johannesburg - Chobe Jet (Lear) to Chobe. 1 hour 45 minutes. Landed on grass strip. Very bumpy. Saw elephants, baboons, buffaloes? Other people had terrible journey. Married Elizabeth Zulu fashion.
27 Sep 75 Tennis. Ugh!... Ringo out of his skull. Very unhappy man.
September 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
27 Sep 75 Tennis. Ugh!... Ringo out of his skull. Very unhappy man.