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“Straight up and down psychopath as far as I’m concerned.”
Bestselling espionage novelist Charles Cumming says it took the West “too long to catch up to the fact that Putin is a maniac.” He also gives us a run-down on why Israel's pager attack was practically out of a spy novel, and an insight into his writing process. #TimesRadio spoke to him at the Cheltenham Literary Festival 2024.
01.00: Run-down on Cheltenham festival 2024.
05.42: Inside into Cumming's writing process
08.15: Why Charles Cumming didn't join the intelligence services
12:00: Hezbollah, Israel and the pager attack
14: 10: Moles in the House of Commons?
15:30: "Putin is a maniac", "straight up psychopath"
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