David Aaronovitch at the Hay Festival with Muriel Spark, Christopher Hitchens and Nigella Lawson. Discussing The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, and PG Wodehouse. Enjoy.
the capitalists you mean? that would be what you mean by "regressives" i assume, it couldn't be anything else surely. because if the balance sheet had its way this level of conversation wouldn't even be on the fucking radio let alone the tv.
I thought Dame Muriel Spark came across as very ungenerous in this. Hitchens was extremely restrained considering that a Catholic author introduced the Book of Job as her choice of novel, only for her to shit all over Hitch's choice of Jeeves and Wooster.
I'm sure the algorithm brought most people here for Christopher Hitchens and Nigella Lawson, but if any of you feel like taking this opportunity to investigate the unique and inimitable work of Muriel Spark, I promise you will not regret it. Her books are short, fierce, unpretentious, shockingly funny and razor sharp, much like the woman herself.
@Ya auld da: totally agree! My favourite is The Abbess of Crewe, which I think requires a knowledge of Nixon et al's Watergate scandal to fully appreciate.
@liamryan your content is amazing ! Thank you very much for your resent content keep them coming! Also please do you have any Alan Clark stuff? - Alan Clark was on an Alan Titchmarsh show and another show with Jeremy Clarkson, both in the late 90’s - anything Alan Clark I’m intrigued - many thanks !
Liam it goes without saying that if you could find anyone who knows of the biblical “hitch university challenge tape” from the 60s, we’d all be forever in your debt.
A quarter of a century on, three of the people on that stage come across as rather muddled with strangely misguided notions about genetics and heritage and culture and identity.
Hitchens is at the height of his powers here. Articulate. Penetrating and objective. I have sickened of his later rubbish videos relating to atheism and that God is dead.
