Louis Theroux
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Good luck, everyone.
You have amazing poise on stage.
And in fact, maybe above the writing is kind of...
Confidence that you project, an ability to own the room.
Yeah.
It's striking reading about you, reading your book.
This almost Damascene moment that took place when you were 26, would you say?
When you're working as a marketing guy for Shell and you'd gone to Cambridge.
You'd grown up in Slough, west of... Notoriously, I shouldn't say this to all my fans in Slough, but it's my word for being...
Kind of a dreadful place.
Only because of the Betjeman poem.
It probably is lovely, is it?
It's better.
Come friendly bombs and rain on Slough.
And fall on Slough.
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Rain over death or something.
Lovely.
It's more of a third-life crisis.
Yeah, maybe a third-life crisis.