James O'Brien meets Salman Rushdie | LBC
One of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning authors Salman Rushdie has spent the last thirty years with a death threat attached to his head. A threat that almost became a reality two years ago when he brutally stabbed 15 times by a stranger. Few people have come so close to death and lived to tell the story. Salman returns to Full Disclosure to tell James about the day he almost died and the aftermath that followed.
Salman has written a deeply personal account of the brutal attack on his life. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is out now.
This episode contains sensitive topic discussions around graphic and disturbing violence. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Salman Rushdie is a creative genius ! He loves liberty and freedom. And it's a must for a creative mind to do their work.
Really really nice interview !!!..
More strength to you Salman, from India.
@HaroonNawaz-kc4nb
Ай бұрын
Yeah ask your cow for strength
Flame on, Salman! 👍🤔 ( "Green Fire" UK ) 🌈🦉
Profound. Profound
Bless your heart.
“A cloud never dies” Thicht nach Hahn
Wonderful interview. Thank you both.
Belive 😮 u never know❤
Wow.
Dear Salman...
Right, Sir Salman: I want THREE more of the finest novels available to humanity from your pen. I want them HERE, and I want them NOW. 🖊 📖
We'll be see it
@salmonesque
Ай бұрын
Beautifully put.
Do you want to talk to me? I have a totally diferrent story to tell. Near death is unique. I was shot between the eyes with a .22mm rifle. Point blank, and I'm here nearly 50 years later still talking about it. Haunts me it does.
@mookieibra6376
Ай бұрын
What happened, how did you you end up in that situation and how did the outcome shape your life after?
@ITS1985
Ай бұрын
Did you lose your nose ?
@user-ck7jz4dh4u
Ай бұрын
@@ITS1985 Thanks for your response. I was 16, staying in a rooming house occupied by 12 or so other tennants. Strangers one and each. This guy came in to the t.v. room waving a rifle around. I was sitting on the sofa and he pointes the rifle toward me saying, Ýou know this thing is loaded". I replied,"Well don't point ........." I had no time to finish the sentence. The bullet enterred the top right side of my nose, half an inch from my right eye. There is no exit wound, no physical or visual sign of injury. Fifty years later the bullet is lodged at the C3 level of my spine. It was the most surreal experience of my life. No pain, no fear. There was some confusion like, Where am I, What is going on. I was floating in a sea of something. Iremember bright colors of green. Then, all of a sudden I had the sensation of drowning and it felt like something or someone grabbed my ankles and threw me back, with incredible force, back to the sofa where I was before. I was drowning, I was drowning on my own blood. Blood spewed from my mouth like a burst water main. I spent 7 days in hospital and went back to work. Unbelievable. A miracle?
i like james's blazer, can some ai tool find it for me
Believe in a place
Interesting how he is honest enough to admit his book was reconstruction based on many other accounts. Wouldn’t call it factual then- a compilation, maybe part fiction, part heresey. Lots of opinions for sure.
@exiledone69
Ай бұрын
And people are so pathetic they put a fatwah on someone for writing a book
@higherspirit1
Ай бұрын
@@exiledone69 Fatwah? Interesting extremist view? Just shedding light between fact vs fiction and believe it should be viewed as such. And not Muslim, Catholic actually, always support truth and humanity. Too many have sufferred on both sides. Cease fire is needed.
radio guy needs to hold more eye contact imho
I thought Salman Rushdi is dead
@ITS1985
Ай бұрын
He’s a survivor
Careful, James
Eye eye captain
A non entity. Half way through the interview and tuned out.
I Hate James O’Brien
Rushdie is so committed to being a troll and provocateur. Have no empathy for anything that happens to him.
@normalperson3451
Ай бұрын
Condoning of violence? Of killing - for words?
@ITS1985
Ай бұрын
Wrong
Hes lost so much but still learnt nothing about lies or Lying, he’s sold out to Islamophobia and pushing is still pushing it…!?!
@Phrive
Ай бұрын
I think you don't know what islamophobia means.
@georgestanley-jones6821
Ай бұрын
Name one lie
@salmonesque
Ай бұрын
Have you considered writing poetry?
Rushdie is a talentless hack. He has milked his controversy.
@salmonesque
Ай бұрын
I hope he makes an enormous cheese with said milk.
No one cares about you Rushdie made his whole career off hating ppl
@TheAArmstrong
Ай бұрын
I care
James is such a liberal !
@exiledone69
Ай бұрын
Water is also wet
He has full certainty of something he is yet to experience. That is not an intelligent position to take, saying I am not sure what will happen when I die is better. I thought he was an intellectual, clearly not.
@damianleah6744
Ай бұрын
Let him have his personal certainty. You can have a word afterwards if it makes you feel better. Because when dead I really don’t think he’ll know nor care.
@T2England
Ай бұрын
@@damianleah6744 Agreed.
@perthyren601
Ай бұрын
Do you have knowledge of something else? If you do you are a fool, if you say "I don't know" you are honest. What are you?
@robertsabre49
Ай бұрын
Obviously he is not a traveler.
@jbibro
Ай бұрын
What do you think will happen? Is it based on science, religion, or a feeling?