Welcome to Under the Skin with me Russell Brand. This show is sponsored by a book I have written

called Recovery, which is available now. You can order it on Amazon. You can also get the audio

book and get it on orderable. There's probably all sorts of ways. You can get it. It's really

good book. I'm proud of it. Check it out. Also come see me on tour. Rebirth, very good show.

Proud of this as well. I talk about it a little bit in this fourth coming episode. I'm in

Leicester on December the 6th. New Castle, 14th December and Brixton on December the 19th.

If you want tickets to that go to Russellbrand.com. Now it's time for Under the Skin.

Pancaux Mischra is a historian and novelist and is a recipient of Yao University's Windam Campbell

literature prize born in North India. His work has appeared in the New York Times,

Time, The Guardian and the Independent and his books include an enter suffering,

The Buddha in the World, from the ruins of Empire and his latest Age of Anger,

a history of the present, which explains how the wider embrace of mass politics,

technology and the pursuit of wealth and individualism has cast billions of drifts in the

demoralised world. Welcome to the show, Pancaux. Thank you for coming. Thanks for having me.

What I know of your work suggests to me that you are addressing themes that have

interest did us on Under the Skin and driven us, but on a huge scale. I'm trying to address

the essence of what we've been trying to tackle on a global scale. Your latest book, Age of Anger,

you're talking about rage, this is a time that is determined by rage. Are you saying that this

is cross culturally, regardless of where you are in this particular economic story,

like whether it's like the claps of empire, that you know, a nostalgia that's been experienced

in this country or the United States where rage feels like a very present emotion, rage and despair.

On recent visits to America, I sort of felt in the few public spaces that I was in,

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