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Hello and welcome to The Spectator's Book Club podcast. I'm Sam Leith, the literary editor of The Spectator,

and this week my guest is the biographer Roger Lewis, whose book The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,

a monumental biography originally published in 2004,

is being reissued to celebrate the centenary of Peter Sellers' birth.

Roger, all these years on, where does Sellers' reputation stand, do you think?

Well, do you know, Sam, I think his reputation is better than ever, higher than ever,

because when you think of all the potential rivals and competitors and new people that

have come along in the meantime, no one quite measures up to Peter Sellers.

You've almost got to go back to Charlie Chaplin and what he did

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