Hello, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Chronicles, where today we're going to have an

enormous amount of fun talking all about Flashman by George

MacDonald Fraser and who better to talk about it with then the office's very own Flash Dan.

Yeah, thank you very much. Thank you for joining Dan. I noticed when you were alighted upon doing this

book, you didn't ask me if I had read them. You'd simply asked if I I wanted to do the Chronicles. Of course I read them. I took you for a

Flashman man. Yes, absolutely. Yes. Best series of books ever written. Well, that really is

what we have to say just straight out to the gate, because obviously we're at the point now

where at the time of recording this, this is probably Chronicles number 22, 23, something like that.

And so we've covered quite a bit by this point.

You know, we've talked about Lovecraft, we've talked about medieval German epics, we've

talked about all sorts of different types of story.

This is the spiciest thing that we have done so far,

easily, and by far the most based. Yes, I mean, you couldn't write a book like that today

without getting arrested. No. I mean, I don't know how much I can say, to be honest,

because, I mean, we would get arrested if I described it too accurately.

But for example, Flashman himself is described as black on account of being, you know, having black hair and black whiskers.

Yes.

You know, you might think that gets a bit confusing when he travels south of Madrid.

But he's got an entirely different word for those characters, and he uses it

as often as he possibly can. Yes, he's very liberal. As well as all manner of slurs for all types of

foreigners, European harlots and so on. Oh, and yes, and his father-in-law's Morrison's business

companions, those of the tribe, who unfortunately flashmen in the book that his father-in-law's Morrison's business companions.

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