Maybe royals like making radio because it means that you can’t see their faces.
Prince Charles has made interview appearances discussing music and the arts on Classic FM and Radio 3, and earlier this year gave an interview about gardening and nature to Simon Armitage for his Radio 4 series, The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed.
His radio excursion, a 38-minute audio ramble and conversation called Time to Walk, is an Apple initiative, available internationally on the digital radio station Apple Music 1 and on demand via Apple’s Fitness+ subscription.
Time to Walk is a series, in its second season, in which celebrities lead listeners on a walk around somewhere they know, discussing the health benefits of walking among reflections from their own lives, as well as picking a few of their favourite songs.
“It feels like I’ve been on a walk with a best mate, or my wife,” he said at the end, which is perhaps a slightly surprising thing for someone to say after they’ve been talking about themselves for the best part of 40 minutes.
But, anyway, the walk went through the Sandringham estate towards his Norfolk home, Anmer Hall, a route that William remembered taking on childhood Christmases with his grandfather, Prince Philip.
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“Sod it,” he remembers thinking, “I can’t be the doofus who’s going to ruin it for everyone.” His conclusion from the event was that “making a fool of yourself is OK.” However, William didn’t come across as quite so free and easy as his brother was in his own American media appearance on James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke this year.
He was audibly close to tears when recalling that particular way of experiencing the British countryside: flying high above it while responding to emergencies, and taking the difficult emotions of the job home with him.