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4 Extra Debut. While five-year old William fishes in the castle moat, his older brother's seizures are diagnosed as severe epilepsy. Memoir read by Dan Stevens.

Dan Stevens reads William Fiennes' memoir of his magical childhood in a moated castle in which he grew up with his severely epileptic older brother.

The five-year-old William is preoccupied with fishing for pike in the castle's moat. Richard's seizures become increasingly worse, and a severe form of epilepsy is diagnosed.

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