Will Self
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664 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
Will Self’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh.
He was semi-detached then for several years.
And that was bewildering.
I mean, people wonder about, you know, I often get asked as a satirist, you know, where this huge contempt for the English comes from.
And I don't really have a huge contempt for the English.
What I am is a proper satirist.
So I see societies from outside.
The English take it amiss because they think I should be one of their own and not see it.
But the thing is, I grew up estranged from the society I was in.
In part, yeah, and the Jewishness is interesting, because it was very odd, the Jewishness, because Mum was an anti-Semite.
I mean, she really didn't want to be identified as a Jew.
She was delighted that she had blonde children.
She would say to us, do not make a big deal about it, you pass.
You can pass.
My immediately older brother, although he's philo-Semitic, has always passed.
And in the 1980s, when there was still casual anti-Semitism among the middle class...
I would say, what do you do about it?
Because I would call it out.
You know, I had a boss who said to me, oh, you don't want to go and pitch to them over there, Will.
They're all yits.
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