Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and I'm here in the Private Eye Office with Helen Lewis,

Adam McQueen and D.J. Taylor.

We are here for our summer culture special, specifically books.

Don't expect any opera or any film or anything else. The book special.

You might be listening to this on a beach, you might have brought with you, oh I don't know a Jack Reacher, a James

Patterson, or maybe the Diaries of Chips Chanon, let's hope, because this is

page 94, we're going to be talking about political books.

D.J. writes a lot of the reviews although obviously we can't confirm which ones he does or

doesn't write but D.J. you read a lot of political books as well as sort of One Direction memoirs and things in your line of work?

Well I do and it's quite interesting because whenever I propose some kind of political tone for the eye.

Ian, Islam, always says,

God, you're the only person I know who's

in the least interested in this terrible

substandard disappearing disparage genre.

And I think there is a way in which the whole sort of atmosphere

in which political memoirs or books about politics get written

and received has changed over the

over the last few decades I mean they used to be big commercial propositions

Minister ministerial memoirs would be serialized for huge sums of money in Sunday newspapers and several then this is 30 years ago and my wife was then working at Harper Collins who paid a

fortune for the two volumes of Mrs Thatcher's memoirs and the first one which was the Downing Street

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