Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 01/03/20261 March 72 St David's Day and they're all going to school in Wales bearing daffodils and leeks and there will be singing in the Assembly Hall and competitions and a great many will get drunk tonight except me of course. 13616
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 22/11/202522 Nov 75 Went to Pontrhydyfen. Lunched Bara Lawr. Half of Pontrhydyfen must have visited the house. Saw house where I was born. They've tarted it up. E still very ill....Must write a book. Means another visit to Wales. Autobiog should make some money. Good Yarn! 0215
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 21/11/202521 Nov 75 Sober. Good weather. Over Black Mountains. Wild Wales. Stopped for sust in Red Lion fifteenth century pub. Black Mountains beautiful. Sheep cows wild ponies...Pontrhydyfen tomorrow. 091
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 20/11/202520 Nov 75 Sober and well. Weather good! No rain! Talbot very dramatic at night with huge furnaces going. Overall feeling of grime however despite clarity of air...Wild horses. Faggots and peas lunch. Fish and chips dinner. 093
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 19/11/202519 Nov 75 Drove to Neath Castle Hotel. Terrible. Moved to 'Executive' Hotel, Aberavon. Pretty bad too but had a bath to go with it. Tonight a suite...Weather wild and Welsh. Had beer and felt very ill. 1102
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 18/11/202518 Nov 75 Oxford all day. Lunched at Bear, Woodstock....Terrible weather. Very wet cold. Froze all day. Visited Taylor-Burton. Bought £17,500 piece of land for Buckminster Fuller Building. Everything very shabby. Clothes cars etc. Students unattractive. Beer warm. Depressing. 02510
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 11/11/202511 Nov 75 Heaps of presents. Can't be bothered opening them. Lots of lovely books including five copies of one. E as nervous as I am. 0141
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 10/11/2025#RichardBurton100 🏴 The Chef has arrived with my Birthday Cake. 1144
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 10/11/202510 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 🏴 0122
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 10/11/202510 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 🏴 0183
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 10/11/202511 Nov 40 I was 15 years old yesterday. Had 2/- #RichardBurton100 🏴 050
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 09/11/20259 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. 193
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 08/11/20258 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. 0112
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 07/11/20257 Nov 75 Started antabuse. Absolute torture. Read books all day long and tried to sleep fitfully. 041
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 02/11/20252 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. 071
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 31/10/202531 Oct 75 Felt inexplicably terrible last night. Slept badly. Actors' dreams. 051
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 26/10/202526 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. 040
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Anyone 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...uppcinema.comWho's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? – Richard Burton at 100 - The Ultimate Picture PalaceElizabeth 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... 061
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 12/10/202512 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. 170
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 10/10/2025www.welshnationaltheatre.com/playing-burton Tickets have just gone on sale at The Old Vic. Celebrate Rich's 100 with Matthew Rhys.welshnationaltheatre.comPlaying Burton — Welsh National Theatre 020
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 10/10/202510 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? 0236
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 09/10/20259 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. 0161
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 30/09/202530 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. 0122
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 29/09/202529 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. 061
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 27/09/202527 Sep 75 Tennis. Ugh!... Ringo out of his skull. Very unhappy man. 082
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 26/09/202526 Sep 75 Johannesburg. Went to 'club' downstairs with creepy Peter Lawford. Terrible food danced with unknown girl. Press took pics. Also said I was drunk. Cheek. Went to tennis. Pres and wife. Usual agonizing boredom stiff with protocol. 0274
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 21/09/2025www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...bbc.co.ukRichard Burton season announced by BBC to mark centenaryNew documentary Richard Burton - Wild Genius and feature film Mr Burton to broadcast on the BBC this November, 100 years since the Welsh actor and global superstar's birth 2289
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 16/09/20259 July 1970 Hammersmith Is Out could go at the end of the year and E wants a bloke who is very hot at the moment called Robert Redford. She says he's very good. 0237
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Richard Burton 10 November 1925 - 5 August 1984 0224
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 03/08/20253 August 1975 Glorious day. ETB phoned. What will it be like seeing her again. I'm a little scared. 0152
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 01/08/20251 August 1975 National Holiday. Went shopping Geneva. Bought new typewriter. 061
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Sunday 13 July 1975 ETB returned Leningrad. She sounds a harassed mess. Wonder if I can put up with all that again. Also she is beginning to sound like her mother at times. Frightening prospect. 162
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 01/07/20251 July 1975 Tuesday. Biked and read am perfectly content when not boozing. 291
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 18/06/202518 June 1975 Wednesday. Boozed mildly. Weather dreadful. 072
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 10/06/2025June 10 1975 Lunched at La Reserve. Took MG to be overhauled. Read, but still no writing. All this stuff bursting to come out but no response from the body - writing I mean. 071
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 09/06/20259 June 1975 Write letter to ETB but can't bring myself to send it. 030
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Thursday 29 May 1975 Wrote E. Read and read. 060
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Weds 28 May 75 Lunch and chat with one Goldman - potential producer of Dustman. Dread it. Turned out to be nice but callow. Too much so for a producer perhaps. We shall see. Saw Leeds beaten by Huns. 030
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Tuesday 27 May 1975 Home from three day check-up in clinic. OK everywhere except for slightly enlarged liver. No wonder. 1150
Richard Burton @burtondiaries.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Saturday 24 May 1975 Went into clinic late afternoon. 091
