Spectator Out Loud: Best of Notes on...
Best of the Spectator
The Spectator
4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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The Best of Notes on... gathers the funniest, sharpest and most wonderfully random pieces from The Spectator’s beloved miscellany column. For more than a decade, these short, sharp essays have uncovered the intrigue in the everyday and the delight in digression. To purchase the book, go to spectator.co.uk/shop
On this special episode of Spectator Out Loud, you can hear from: William Moore on jeans; Laura Freeman on Brits in Paris; Justin Marozzi on boxer shorts; Mark Mason on coming second; Michael Simmons on doner kebabs; Fergus Butler-Gallie on Friday the 13th; Hannah Tomes on rude place names; and, Margaret Mitchell on lobsters.
Produced and presented by Patrick Gibbons, with an introduction from William Moore.
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| 1:25.6 | Thank you. Get started today at Thanta.com. Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud, where each week we choose some of our favorite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud. I'm Patrick Gibbons, and for this |
| 1:27.7 | very special episode of Spectator Out Loud, we've asked several of the authors of our notes on |
| 1:32.5 | articles to read their pieces that are featured in a new book from The Spectator. To tell us a little bit |
| 1:37.6 | more about this compilation, here is our features editor, William Moore. If you are a fan of a |
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