Salman Rushdie

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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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You know, sort of important for me.

But then on the flight up there, I thought,

Chautauqua is a really small town, and if he's in the county jail, how far is that from the institution?

And it turned out it was like a five-minute drive.

So I thought, well, let's go to the jail.

You get there, it's a really boring jail.

It's a little cell block and a wall with some barbed wire.

But I thought, you know, he's in there, I'm out here.

That feels good.

You win.

And what happened is a weird thing happened.

My feet started dancing.

You were dancing?

No, my feet were dancing.

Well, I thought, you know, you've got to give the enemy an even break.

If you're going to have a serious conversation, then it can't just be me yelling at him, telling him what a bad person he is, which I think.

He's 24.

He wasn't even born when this thing happened.

And he, by his own account, had read nothing I'd written.

And yet he was willing to commit murder.

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