I had so much fun reading this book.

Wonderful. Thank you.

Watching in 2024

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Kitabı yeni bitirdim . Tarzını çok sevdim. Çok renkli bir kedinin gözünden çok renkli bir hikaye izini takip etmek harikaydı. İnsanda halen dolaşıyormuşuz hissini bırakıyor. Bu söyleşi için de çok teşekkürler. 🌸🍒

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(43:25) 20 books in a week at Oxford University? From cover to cover? Surely not? That's 2.8 books per day! Is there anyone here that can read three novels in a day? I could possibly read one medium sized novel in a day if that was all I did.

Been a fan since reading " My idea of fun"

"Evincing evidence?"

'your goalie works in greggs' greatest chant ever : Celtic v Berwick R !

That was quite a little Sebald riff at the end

I’m 39 and just now discovering the meaning of “sensual immersion in landscape” and so only just realizing retrospectively what I’ve missed out on - what was being lost - as I giddily and unquestioningly rode the amusement park spectacle of media and techno-advancement over my lifetime.

This is such a fascinating interview , thank you so much .

Despite his occasionally irritating verbiage Will's comments on contemporary fiction are spot on. Especially the fact that the only fiction that seems popular in the modern era is often popular because of political reasons that are often exterior to the work itself. I have hope that people will still be drawn to older forms of media, and perhaps more so than now, as everything internet based becomes more and more hyper-regulated and homogeneous in its own way. Distinctly human and less mediated art will become a slightly rarer thing, and hopefully more valuable in some quarters.

after finishing the wolf hall trilogy, i too embarked on a glut of everything i could find on cromwell. he is certainly a fascinating character and this is only added to by the fact that he IS an enigma. my train of thought leads me to think that he was a man who realised that 'we need to pick our battles', but that ultimately he was a good man. as to his 'out box', i think that when he was 'taken', those who took him also took his papers, and destroyed them. great broadcast, highly enjoyable. thankyou.

I love Will but honestly where the hell is he??? Hasn't appeared on telly in years. Didn't even know he had a new book out. He was the sole reason I would occasionally watch Question Time.

Unfortunately a lot of historical fiction can be entertaining but also seems to become fact for some people

Thank you for uploading this roaringly fine jabberthon! "Re-writing on screen is like painting on water". Will Self is a rare treasure.

These two men give you a bit of the best of the British!

Will Self uses too many words. Why read him?

Michael foot

If that head teacher who took away the music from the state school didn't learn their lesson about the importance of music in school, I really do hope that they are not allowed another head-ship.

Unfortunately, Hilary Mantel's novels are being accepted as historical fact.

Does he cover people like Enoch Powell, Norman Tebbit and John Smith in his book?

Great book. I enjoyed reading it. Thank you

All their behaviour to other people, friends, staff and organisations was so disgusting and we seem to have this now with another member of the royal family and his wife. They seem to get away with it as well. This cannot be covered up, they should be shown up for the selfish entitled, arrogant people they are. After all, we are all members of the human race and they have no right to place themselves above anyone else. As you say they deserve each other (both couples) but we don't need them and their vile behaviour.

India is the biggest democracy, not the US.

A trip to the corrupt Rome of the period would turn an honest man Protestant.

I wish the interviewer had asked him why, since he thinks Amazon is ruining the book world, he chose to sell his own four books on Amazon in the Kindle format.

Great interview and exceptional book!

By jove

Really interesting, seen the crown, excellent!!!!! However, nothing wrong with woke a lot wrong with Monarchy; still

Andrew Lownie’s book is excellent, as is the documentary he did on the same subject. Wallis Simpson has been derided for decades as the woman who stole a King, but personally I think they should have made the woman a Dame and thanked her for her services to Britain when she married Edward, who was quite possibly the most selfish, self-centred and stupid King we ever (albeit briefly) had. The fact is that Edward had never wanted the throne, but he did like being the centre of attention and he could only achieve that as King. In the past there was a lot of speculation about him being a Nazi sympathiser and I think people thought his sympathy stemmed from naïveté. Now we know it went much further than that and Edward was a Nazi supporter. Edward was probably naive, but only in the sense that he probably convinced himself Hitler was genuinely interested in him and that Hitler would put him back on the throne with Wallis as his Queen. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that Hitler was unlikely to do any such thing, or if he did it would be on his terms. Wallis Simpson, in marrying that pathetic, spineless little man, did the country a favour.

Very interesting.

as always, immensely enjoyable

If your book does make it to television, I sincerely hope Hugh Grant doesn’t play you. He couldn’t play a bookseller in the other film he was in..Mr Cardboard.

Maybe he had adhd or David was on the autism spectrum?

"Rishi Sunak take note"!

This is interesting.

Do you think Edward was the only ignoratnt, bigoted and stupid? They seem to all have serious issues where NONE should be king. Hereditary monarchy is a crap shoot. One monarch in 500 might be good at it. ALL of them have been drummed into the head that "God pick them and their entire family of this position - therefore, they are as gods on earth, set apart, and in a hiarchy where everyone is below them. This nonsense has to end! Primarily for the part that Charles is getting back at all the school mates who called him names by spearheading "the not so good readjustment for the world". This is his priggish, spoiled, stuck up way of getting back at the world and setting himself apart as better than us all. He can commit any crime, no matter how heinous, and the authorities can't lay a finger on him because he is the King. Can you imagine how all these things twist and feed the mind of a narcissist?

Nor enough attention from his parents! Grow up! Be a man! People all around the world, fron the dawn of time, have had cold parents and NO MONEY! Totally impoverished. They worked theri way up to a place in life and affected humanity's strugg;e for the better. Oh, poor me! am the first born and have to be King and live in palaces with pricesless works of art, and the the largest privite jewelry collection in the world! Boo hoo!

There are many reasons why a portrait painting could end up altered, time and alterations in appearance that the artist may not have been satisfied with! And Diarmaid MacCulloch wasn't presenting like with like, one print v one painting is not a comparison per se, you might ask also, why Cromwell kept his portrait to himself?

It warms the cockles of my politically incorrect heart to hear an interviewer use the word "retarded" in the clinical sense.

How dare they block you, Very interesting story. 😘 brown block

Tim tTate love your voice nis nice and soothing you should have an ASMR channel just talking

16:20 ?

I appreciate how he writes. I find it difficult to put the book down and even strain my eyes to read before sleep. I would like to hear a collab with Dumas

An interesting interview. For some inexplicable reason I missed the publication of this book. Having read several others by Alwyn - all outstanding - I just have to buy this one! (Amazon here I come.) Thank you, gentlemen. Peace out!

Shaun comes across as a delightfully self-effacing person in this interview. If he exaggerates anything in the books I suspect it may the grumpy side of his character. One of these days I want to make a pilgrimage to Wigtown. Not the easiest place in the world to get to, and probably all the better for it.

Thank you for a nice interview, which I only recently came across. Fluency of the author is indicative of the depth of his research. I have not read any of the book referred in the interview and hence the comments are likely to be based on partial view of the topic. I have two questions: First, notwithstanding the mentioned legal position (Geneva Convention since 1920), is or can reparation ever be a valid goal? Are we trying to set right the injustice encompassed in the events of 18th and 19th century using the ethics and morality of 20th and 21st century, I wonder? After all, plunder in India apart, what will be due compensation for millions of people who were enslaved; who should be made to pay, and to whom? What could be the fair compensation for Incas or Red Indians or other aborigines that, within decades came to live as marginal people in their own countries? Or, to take a more recent example, can the manufacturers and inventors of the likes of fertilizers, pesticides (DDT, a common pesticide used in 1950s and 1960s, was known to be present in muscle tissue of several generations of animals that had eaten grass sprayed with the chemical), plastics, jet engines and car manufacturers be made to pay for the damage done to the common global resource of climate? After all, all the companies manufacturing all these products also made huge profits at one time or the other, which was very similar to exploitation, if not plunder, since their products jeopardized well-being of public at large. Would we not be better off spending our energies on protecting the future by preventing such failures rather than redressing the past? Second, I am surprised that though development of technology played a major role in Industrial Revolution in England, which formed the basis for gaining and consolidating political power. There is no mention of it in the interview.