Salman Rushdie
speaker
469 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 13 Jun
Salman Rushdie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, I think the big difference is that now security is an issue again.
You know, which it hadn't been for like,
more than 20 years, 25 years.
But now if I'm, I mean, I'm, you know, I'm afraid even at the Dolce Festival, there's going to have to be a measure of security.
Do you feel safe?
Well, I feel safe as long as I'm taking sensible precautions.
No, I don't think you ever adjust to that.
You know, it's incredibly annoying.
not to have an entire quadrant of your field of vision.
So what do you miss about having two eyes?
I miss my right eye.
That's what I miss.
I mean, just try it, you know, try covering up one of your eyes and spending a day like that.
it's it's really not easy yeah so and that that hasn't become normal for you you still feel like a slightly damaged version of of the full yeah i mean i've gotten used to it if that's what you mean yeah but but not i think about it every day and i think you know it yeah it's it's it's not easy
No, no, no.
I mean, I'm...
I'm too long in the tooth to start censoring myself.
I think I'm pretty good at saying what I think.
And more importantly, writing what I think.
Because I'm a little bit trying to back off the role of being a kind of spokesman on every subject under the sun.
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