Your Eccentricity is Divine. Recorded on 20th November, 2024, this Rogue Cast is on the priceless value of the individual’s eccentricity. When I was growing up in the town of Huddersfield, eccentricity was relatively commonplace. Those individuals who demonstrated it most were labelled ‘characters’ but there are many other epithets that could be used: The Great British Eccentric has always been acknowledged as a law unto himself. In 1859, John Stuart Mill published his essay, On Liberty in which he wrote, The etymology of the term is straightforward – Eccentric from Greek ekkentros, from ek ‘out of’ + kentron ‘centre’ […]
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