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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

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,

Natasha Faroes looks at one of the underreported angles of this general election, the potential

return of ex-Labour MP Keith Fas. Robert Addis warns against studying sociology A-level.

Reviewing Catherine Bucknell's book, Christopher Isherwood, Inside Out, Lucaster Miller, says Isherwood's

experiences in Weimar, Germany, would haunt him for the rest of his life.

Sam McPhail provides his notes on Madri, the Lager Conquering British Pubs,

and Toby Young explains his decision to vote reform.

Finally, in our guest life column this week,

Katriona Olding, widow of the much-loved spectator low-life columnist Jeremy Clark,

reflects on love, family and friendship.

Up first, Natasha Faroze. When Keith Fazz announced his ambition to stand as

independent for Leicester East, no one in my hometown was surprised. Vaz may be a joke nationally known for his

cocaine use and a fondness for rent boys, but in Leicester East, he remains something of a local hero.

It may seem astonishing to the rest of the country,

but it's quite possible that despite everything, come July, Vaz will make a triumphant return.

Leicester was one of the first British cities to have a majority non-white population,

and its British Indians are a highly prized voting bloc.

They are the country's largest immigrant group,

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