00:00The experience would start a long time before we actually got to the shed.
00:03We had this black book in the kitchen that my wrongdoings would be recorded in it.
00:09And when my dad came home from work, and he was sometimes away for days,
00:14he would read them and he would say,
00:17Peter John, it's time to go to the shed, which was synonymous for a beating.
00:22How painful was it?
00:28Extremely painful.
00:30He had a selection of canes and he had at least one tennis shoe.
00:37I remember there was tape around the middle of it to help him.
00:41And he didn't hold back.
00:45Beatings were six or 12 or 18.
00:49I remember one stands out.
00:52It was 36.
00:53And I remember it because it was six times six.
00:56It was six subjects in school.
00:59I got a bad report for each of them.
01:02And your mum handed out bandages and adult nappies.
01:07What are your memories of her role?
01:11She and my father would sometimes put cream on me if it had been a beating
01:21that wounded me to need cream, which was not uncommon.
01:27She was very kind to me whenever I got home after a beating.
01:31Do you think she was controlled by him?
01:34Do you think she was scared of him?
01:37My mum was at the epicentre of this magnetic field of my father's control.
01:44She was his, the closest victim to him for all her adult life, really.
01:53What words or word would you use as his son to describe him?
02:00Grand narcissist.
02:05Barbaric.
02:09Even monstrous.
02:11And my father.
02:15Flip.
02:22Flip.
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