Salman Rushdie

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469 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 13 Jun

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So it's also a story about friendship in old age.

Yeah.

Affection.

Affection manifesting itself as argument, right?

They argue with each other all the time, but actually they can't do without each other.

Exactly.

It's loving bickering.

I actually met an old gent like this when I was in

in Chennai in South India many years ago.

And he stuck with me because he hated everything.

You know, he hated the fact that he was alive.

You know, he hated his family.

He hated the fact that all his friends were dead.

He hated children and all that.

But he was funny with it.

It was keeping him going.

What I did in the end was to double him.

I said, let's have two of him.

I love it.

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