P.J. O’Rourke and Lionel Shriver on the Battle for the White House

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🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This episode was from one of our live Intelligence Squared events, featuring satirist P. J. O’Rourke and bestselling author Lionel Shriver. They joined us for a night of withering satire, relentless ridicule and sharp political insight in a discussion chaired by Razia Iqbal of the BBC. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0	Hello and welcome to this Intelligence Squared
1:02.0	Podcast with me, Farra Jossat. And me Daniel Ben Corin. Hello and
1:03.4	me, Daniel Bain Corin. This week we have PJ O'Rourke and Lionel Shriver in conversation about the battle for the White House.
1:11.4	Daniel tell us about this conversation.
1:13.2	So in this episode we had the American political satirist PJ O'Rourke in conversation
1:19.2	with the novelist Lion or Shriver who's perhaps best known for her book, We Need to talk about Kevin,
1:25.0	and they were talking about the forthcoming US presidential election.
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