Hello and welcome to the rest of his politics. Question time with me, Alistair Campbell.

And me, Rory Stewart. Right Rory, we had loads of questions last week about sleep and we

talked a bit about our reading but I think we got a lot of people say they felt our

recommendations were a bit heavy, okay? Somebody said can we give them something a bit

lighter. So I'm going to give Billy Connelly's last book was absolutely fantastic. And also

talking of Connelly, I, after watching the Elvis film, which is wonderful, I, Fiona and I,

on our drive-through France, we listened to the Ray Connelly Elvis Presley biography, which

is definitely worth a read. So give us something that's non-philosophical, Rory, not about

world poverty and how to beat it. Yeah. So I've been rereading John LaCarrie, loving it, his

smiling novels. And I'd particularly recommend for people who'd want to try one of them,

the Honorable Schoolboy, which has got the most incredible descriptions of Hong Kong and 70s.

The end of the American Civil Vietnam, some unforgettable scenes in U.S. air bases with

drunken American colonels trying to justify the final flight from the Hanoi roof, sorry,

the Saigon roof, people trying to navigate their way through that extraordinary moment in the 70s

Cold War. And above all, LaCarrie's incredible eye for details, the way in which someone

wears their cuffs, the way they walk, patterns of speech, the way that he puts across the whole

hypocrisy and horror of the British government through a single meeting with some cracked cups

of coffee. Ah, very good. It's about hypocrisy and horror of working in the British government.

There's something of which you feel very, very close to. Let's cook a similar subject. I always

enjoy hearing about what you're both reading. But where do you find the time to read in your lives?

Do you read more now than earlier on in your careers? And I'm going to relate that to a question

from George. I'm applying to university later this year. What were your university experiences?

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