| A Brief Anger of History; Archive on 4 | |
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| Mobson | Mar 9 2015, 09:01 AM Post #1 |
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Well worth a listen this or as the continuity announcer says 'it's quite a ride!'.... In 58 minutes, American satirist Joe Queenan follows up his Brief Histories of Irony and Blame with A Brief History of Anger - spats, tantrums and explosions from the archive. Good anger, bad anger, creative anger, and the occasional childish moment caught on microphone. With contributions from Christopher Hitchens, Conrad Black, Russell Crowe , Joan Rivers, Joan Bakewell, and Johnny Cash. Plus new interviews with John Sergeant, Natalie Haynes and Matthew Parris, and a running commentary of anger from the presenter himself. "My kids make me angry. My job makes me angry. The producer makes me angry. Then there's my wife, other people's wives, other drivers, airports, and worst of all my football team ... And then there are interviewers. Interviewers always make me angry." The said interviewers are Jeremy Paxman who is fab trying to, and succeeding, in getting under the rhinoceros skin of Conrad Black, post-jailtime...Mark Lawson conducting an interview in the Dorchester Hotel with Russell Crowe (post-telephone incident) about his dodgy 'orish' accent playing Robin Hood in Ridley Scott's epic...Christopher Hitchens get rankled over criticism for choosing Trotsky as his Great Life by Matthew Parris, "you're a bleeding Tory" says Christopher ...Parris ponders "why you were a Trotskyite" ... Well I've got to be somewhere at one ...says Christopher who promptly departs! Without anger, says Joe, we'd be in a right old mess, it's pretty vital for the healthy functioning of both the individual and society, crucial for creativity and social change. That's good to know Joe! |
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