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I'm your host, Mike White.

On this episode, I am talking with David Manderson.

He is the author of The Anti-Hero's Journey, the work and life of Alan Sharp.

It is part of the Studies and History and Culture of Scotland series.

As a release this year, it is all about Alan Sharp.

If you've heard our episode about night moves, you've heard us talk about Alan Sharp.

He did a lot more than just that.

He led a fascinating career, and Mr. He led a fascinating career and Mr. Anderson captures that in his book, highly recommended, and I hope you enjoy this interview. Can you tell me more about you and how you got into academia?

As you can see, I'm not necessarily all that young anymore. I was a teacher for many years. I worked in

further education colleges in America. The equivalent is the community college. I taught in them

for 30 years, for 25 years or so, 23 years. And then I got an offer of a job at the university.

So I went to that and I became a lecturer in screenwriting.

It wasn't necessarily my whole bag.

Quite liked her, but there were other aspects of things that I can have done,

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