Louis Theroux

I do actually quite enjoy sort of luxuriating in the awfulness of what we are.

No, I haven't.

And first of all, it's high praise.

It's very high praise.

My dad is, as you know, a serious literateur, someone who's brilliantly gifted, novelist and travel writer with an international reputation, more than 50 books to his name, garlanded.

And I think the novels perhaps deserve more attention than they're given.

The travel writing is very well read and well regarded.

I grew up reading his novels first.

Oh, geez.

Yeah.

I think that was my brother.

Yeah, I think that was probably my brother.

I've got an older brother, but there's versions of himself in various of his books.

Although he's got lots of, you know, he doesn't exclusively write versions of his, some people just write versions of their own life.

He doesn't do that, but there are a few that do.

And he's typically got one son.

So I always think it's not a conflation.

It's mainly my brother.

But I don't, I never sort of set out to, you know, like the short version is I always thought, oh, I'm supposed to be a writer.

Like that was the family lore.