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Welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm Connor Boyle.

Following the shocking attack on Salman Rushdie last Friday, many of the acclaimed authors, friends and admirers have joined in praising a singular literary talent and his extraordinary courage. Here at Intelligence Squared, Rushdie has appeared across numerous events and recordings over

the years and we wish him a swift recovery.

We wanted to play you one of those recordings today from the Intelligence Squared archive.

The episode you're about to hear was recorded as part of our 2021 series Touchstones with Razia Iqbal.

Rushdie talks about his love of James Joyce, Bob Dylan and the amulet his father gave him as a young

boy. Here's Razia with more. Now we all have touchstones, points of reference that we return to and that hold our interests throughout our lives, things that offer hope, comfort and inspiration.

Now, it could be a book, it could be a poem, a film, a painting, a song, an object, even a place, anything.

It's their choice in their history.

I'm delighted today to introduce my guest, the writer Salman Rushdie.

It's not an overstatement to say that his second novel, Midnight's Children, changed literary fiction.

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