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Craig was on the pod last year talking about his glorious Beatles book \\u2018One Two Three Four\\u2019 and he\\u2019s just published a collection of his writing called \\u2018Haywire: the Best of Craig Brown\\u2019 \\u2013 Private Eye diaries, columns, reviews, essays and other assorted comic gems. It\\u2019s very good indeed. \\u201cSatirists,\\u201d he reminds you, \\u201care on the side of things going wrong.\\u201d Here are just a few of the topics that stumble into view in this very funny and illuminating ramble \\u2013 John Stonehouse, the strange life of Arthur Lowe, \\u201call entertainers are disturbed\\u201d, Bruce Springsteen as dictatorial bandleader, Liz Truss\\u2019s speech patterns, meeting people he\\u2019s lampooned in print, Kenneth Williams, Bruce Robinson\\u2019s preposterous Jack the Ripper book and how Lieutenant Pigeon is anagram (but of what?).

Buy \\u2018Haywire: the Best Of Craig Brown\\u2019 and his other wonderful books here \\u2026 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Craig-Brown/e/B001HCVLIU%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

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