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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And it's nice to be doing it again.

Writers are, to some degree, at the mercy of their gift.

And if your gift includes humour, then it just comes out that way.

And I also wanted the book to be joyful.

And even though it deals with

some pretty dark subjects like The End of Life.

I didn't want it to be one of those books which say, you know, oh my God, we're all going to die, because we all know that.

I wanted to be more playful than that and more antic and to have some fun with it.

I think laughter is a really important part of anybody's, you know, well-being in the world.

And I've always thought my family is a very funny family.

You know, I mean, my sister's very funny.

My children are very funny.

We all use laughter to get through the day.

Of course it is.

Laughter is, you know, it's easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.

And also, you know, laughing is a thing we do together.

It brings us, it brings people together.

So it has a kind of community spirit to it.

And I just, speaking as a reader, I don't like books that have no sense of humour.

You know, I find them hard to read, even if they're by very great writers.

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