Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud, where each week we choose some of our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Patrick Gibbons and on this week's podcast, Angus Colwell explains why young Brits now aspire to be more Australian. Paul Wood

analyzes the daring plan to reclaim the Chegos Islands. Andrew Rule reviews Canseus

the enchanting lives of others, explaining why to read is to love. And finally, with events

throughout the year marking the 300th anniversary of John Vambra's death,

Jonathan Meath says that the architect, adventurer, playwright and spy defies taxonomy.

Up first, Angus Colwell.

Catherine and Heathcliff.

These are surely roles that every attractive British actor should aspire to.

Why moat between auditions for years

if you don't think it could be your windswept hair decorating bus posters one day? So the British

director Emerald Fennell's casting of two Australians, Jacob Adelaude and Mugger Robbie, to play

these parts in Wuthering Heights feels unfair. But her decision is canny. Allaudy and Robbie are both

gorgeous, of course. But they also

come bearing a new type of cultural clout. Their perfect hair and facial symmetry are nothing,

compared with the quirkiness of their being Australian, the aesthetic that's seducing young Brits

most of all. The first clue was about five years ago, when many British men started looking

ridiculous.

They still do.

You can see them in London and our university towns.

They grow outrageous mullets with the side shaved off.

They grow attention-seeking mustaches.

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