The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Public Image, The Driver's Seat, Loitering With Intent, and The Only Problem... my top 5 Muriel Spark novels.

@foregonebooks

9 ай бұрын

I just reviewed a few of them on by book thing: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lmaDpah7l7HRodY.html

@douglasmilton2805

9 ай бұрын

I’d add Not To Disturb to that excellent list.

@foregonebooks

9 ай бұрын

@@douglasmilton2805 I'll get to it!

@foregonebooks

9 ай бұрын

I borrowed that one from the NYPL this afternoon. @@douglasmilton2805

@JosephDoody1

4 ай бұрын

I really like Memento Mori, and The Comforters

I am so envious of Hitchen's eloquence.

Thanks for uploading another Hitchens! I live for this stuff!

Some new Hitch? Fab!

Can you imagine this kind of entertaining and smart conversation happening on TV today? I can't. The regressives have seen to that.

@kevinsykes6645

2 ай бұрын

We are being dumbed and numded down Show your family Teach your childers

@Angela-kc5ui

Ай бұрын

Agree.

Brilliant. More juice for my Hitch Addiction.

That's an inspired final line: "We start with Schlink and we end by gassing Jeeves?!"

Hitchens on that first book 🤣... he's on point. He's not there to sell books like the others lol. He's a true critic!

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 enjoy hearing these brilliant minds talk!

Nigela lawson, A plack then and still is now, Where as Christopher Hitchings pure Gold as usual 🤔🤣😂👍

I didn't think it was possible to fancy Nigella any more than I already do.

@tcrown3333

Жыл бұрын

I thought this was a serious discussion! Ooooooh, Nigela!!!!😍🥰

@RobBCactive

Жыл бұрын

Her marrying Charles Saatchi is a massive turn off though

@gazriley624

Жыл бұрын

she was gorgeous in the 90s

@deirdre108

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@baliksupper6043

11 ай бұрын

Hairy women rule!!

Thanks for the video find,...😇🌈

This is just wonderful. Thank you so much 😊

Hitch AND Nigella ? I need a stiff drink...

Here for hitch

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.

@MichaelKingsfordGray

Жыл бұрын

What? You can't even recall your own bloody name!

@ghytredstillghytred7617

Жыл бұрын

@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 is the man ! Cheers for this sir

Thank you! Jeeves was canceled, Job survived!

Can you try to get some of the Roger Scruton Question Time episodes? Thanks.

@MattSingh1

Жыл бұрын

*Scruton was a disgusting bigot and odious right-winger, Hitchens demolished him in their 3 Vs. 3 debate on religion.*

Can you upload BBC Question Time 4th October 1990?

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.

@AnkurBorwankar

Жыл бұрын

That, and either a transcript or the video of his advocatus diaboli appearance in the Vatican against mother teresa. Eternally grateful for these.

@timburdsey

Жыл бұрын

@@AnkurBorwankar That really is the Hitch (un)holy grail! I’d love to see that.

@11Kralle

Жыл бұрын

Considering how many tapes of the 1960s were deleted by the BBC...

Liam, you are the internet King. Great stuff.

One of my favourite brains and one of my favourite birds whats not to like...

2:07 Nigella, if you are reading this, you were and are a hot bit of totty.

David Aaronovitch (guy with the spectacles) has been a comrade with Hitch for a while as they were both sympathetic to Trotskyism.

@lsobrien

Жыл бұрын

And now he's a run of the mill Establishment bore.

@christopherhitchens163

Жыл бұрын

@@lsobrien in what way

Nige's voice has changed a lot hasn't it?

@25:12 :-)

God I could give her one!! Yes, and Nigella Lawson.

Wales, land of the midnight sun? Who knew?

this was a rare occasion where Chris was genuinely funny

@Reevesy791

Жыл бұрын

Rare?

@iantpls

Жыл бұрын

oh dear Ed

@gavinwilliams1978

7 ай бұрын

He is the wittiest intellectual ever

@no-oneman.4140

5 ай бұрын

...topher.

Nigella was hot!

@vivienneandersson6019

4 ай бұрын

Still is!

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.

Aaronvich is insufferable

Stick to suggestive cooking!

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.

@jennklein1917

Жыл бұрын

Christopher became/decided he was an Atheist at the age of eight.