Salman Rushdie
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469 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 13 Jun
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Oh, they're at least as bad, yes.
And when weddings happen, they're disgracefully show-offing, you know, and I just thought I wanted to have a go at that.
No particular billionaire, but billionaires in general.
Unfortunately, that's only one, you know, there's lots more.
Yeah, but in the case of some of these wealthy families, they're multi-generationally wealthy.
I mean, the Ambani's, for example, the patriarch was the grandfather.
He was the one who got the family fortune going.
So it's not that they're nouveau riche.
Old money can be just as tasteless as nouveau riche, can it?
Yeah, I don't like to over-claim too much for the power of art, but I think in a story you can say that something's possible which may not be that easy in real life.
It's nice to believe it.
They do.
The powerful and the wealthy.
Humour is what they hate most, which comes back to what we were talking about, laughter.
If you think about the gentleman who runs this country at the moment, he hates jokes.
He can't take a joke.
He's trying to get comedians silenced, as if the President of the United States didn't have a real job to do.
Well, I think certainly in the case of this book, some of that happened for sure.
I mean, I think one of the things about having a long life is that your whole life is available to you as source material.
Yeah.
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