It's presented as an instalment of Radio 4 warhorse Desert Island Discs, with the voice of Kirsty Young (carefully assembled via smart audio editing) subjecting Morpurgo to an intrusive, emotional and increasingly drink-fuelled interrogation.
By the post-war 1940's, she was spending a good deal of time ill in bed, while he increasingly drank.
In one ode, versifying over a night of revelry in a Baghdad tavern, he called for increasingly strong drink, ending the session with a liquor that was "as hot between the ribs as a firebrand".
His father was first a miner, then a chicken farmer; when that didn't work out, the family fled to Great Yarmouth, where his father fared little better, and turned increasingly to drink.
But alcohol drowns that kind of thinking; it insidiously makes you more likely to grab the keys with each increasingly impairing drink.
What Drew calls a "dancing wine," pet-nat is more effervescent than the hard-core bubbly-ness of Champagne, and seems to be, increasingly, the drink of choice for Millennials.
Not to mention eager to offer the same visitor a series of increasingly stiff drinks.
The specialist finisher, increasingly professional drinks waiter and excellent player of spin has admirably taken himself to the IPL and PSL to broaden his game.
And when I read the recent survey from Plymouth University saying that 18-23-year-olds 18-23-year-olds 18-23-year-olds 18-23-year-olds clubs because otherwincreasinglye too scared to go out, I feel for them.
Yet outside public view, he was increasingly unbalanced by drink, drugs, megalomania and paranoia.
Younghee visits Hamburg then returns to Korea, but as she meets with friends and has her fair share to drink, increasingly startling confessions emerge.
