Miguel Delaney Q&A

Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year

Ora Et Labora

Arts, Books, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Simon and Matt put a range of questions to our special guest, the author and sports journalist Miguel Delaney. They ask about his favourite authors, which books he's jealous of and wished he'd written, his writing processes - especially when touring so much - and who he'd invite to his fantasy dinner party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.0	studio with journalist and author Miguel Delaney. His book, States of Play, was discussed just a few
1:08.9	days ago on our other podcast. So these are the questions
1:12.5	for you, Miguel. What is the, I mean, I don't know if you have time for reading, because
1:16.4	you're being a full-time journalist. What is the last book that you really, really enjoyed
1:22.0	reading? So I'm currently reading Carlos Choice, which I'm very much enjoying. But that followed on from, this is a quite weird one, actually.
1:32.0	Star Wars was on TV today.
1:33.7	And I wanted to check something.
1:35.2	I remember reading that book 22 years ago, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.
1:40.1	And suddenly I wanted to check something in it.
1:43.3	And I literally read the whole thing again
1:46.1	in the space of 24 hours.
1:48.1	And this was last month
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