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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In a way, there's bits of me that would prefer to be well-known for being a good writer.

Thank you.

You know, it used to be when I started out as a writer, when people would write about my books, they would mention that they were funny.

And then after the attack on the satanic verses, everybody stopped saying I was funny.

Really?

Yeah, and people who read it, I get two reactions to people who read it now.

One is, where's the dirty bit?

Because we can't find it.

Yeah.

And the second is, who knew it was funny?

And I say, people who read it.

I don't know about the heroism, but I think I have to be part of the fight.

Right.

I mean, there is a fight about free expression in America, too, at the moment.

And I feel like I'm in that fight.

They've canceled the prize giving because they have people attacking them for not being sufficiently anti-Israeli or pro-Palestinian or something.

Right.

I mean, everybody's so angry right now.

that nobody can listen or talk to anybody else.

So people just shout at each other.

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