Three years later in the U.S., Miller appeared on “The Dick Cavett Show” and addressed the subject of stuttering not only in a manner one would expect from a doctor, but also in a colorful way. He spoke about his youth when his parents had to give him extra money for train fare home from school because sometimes he could not pronounce his destination and had to go further down the line and work his way back home using stops he could pronounce. Cavett asked Miller many questions pertaining to stuttering. Miller addressed the difficulty that stuttering can present in a life by saying, “There are people whose lives are really distorted and paralyzed by it and I’ve been very lucky in that I’ve been able to get around it.”
The long conversation on the show, which is available on YouTube, saw Miller give much insight into both stuttering and how a person who stutters can work around it. He made the interesting statement, “The one thing which I have never actually bothered to read up in great detail is the neurology or neuropsychology of stammering. It may be that I am too frightened to think about it in too much detail…or that I am so bored by the business of stammering that I actually can’t be bothered to read up about it.”
Jonathan Miller distinguished himself both as a medical doctor and an actor. The stuttering community is fortunate that over his career he lent himself to talk about stammering, putting a human face on the speech problem in an era when few famous people spoke openly about their stuttering.
The Body in Question was a groundbreaking British medical documentary series of 13 shows made for the BBC, the first to ever televise an autopsy in 1979.
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