Elizabeth Day
speaker
377 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 Jun
Elizabeth Day’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's lived in denial of it for most of his life.
And he gets a scholarship to a boarding school, and there he meets the wealthy, aristocratic, charming Ben Fitzmaurice.
And he becomes kind of fixated on Ben, and they become best friends.
And then they have a massive falling out because of something that happens at university.
And one of us opens with Martin being invited back into Ben's family fold.
And he's not sure why he's been invited back in, but Ben is on course to become the next Prime Minister of the UK.
Fucking hell.
And he wants to tie up a lot of loose ends, while Martin is hellbent on revenge.
Oh, this is good, isn't it?
I hope so.
This is really good.
And there is a character in it as well, because I also wanted to look at the times that we live in and why so often we have in the recent past elected, in my mind, leaders who have no experience of what it is to live life as a normal person.
They've...
That's part of the terrible problem.
No, I know.
Yes, and it's part of the issue is because we've become so accustomed to those people putting themselves forward and then being elected into positions of power, we see that as the representation of power.
So we become kind of acclimatised, the idea that that's what a leader looks like.
And very often these people who go to elite schools and then go to elite academic institutions and then sail into politics straight away and become career politicians,
They've never questioned their own entitlement.
They've always felt that they were born to rule.
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