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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 Petra Gibbons and on this week's podcast, Owen Matthews says that Venice's

residents never stop complaining. Bijon Amrani analyzes the state of the nation as he reads

his church notebook. Andrew Hankinson ponders the erosion of privacy as he reviews Tiffany Jenkins' new

book, Strangers and Intimates, The Rise and Fall of Private Life.

As 28 years later arrives at the cinema, Laurie Penny explains the politics behind Alex

Garland's film franchise. And finally, Andrew Watts provides his notes on, the British dessert

staple that is Angel Delight. Up first, Owen Matthews.

Venice Bitch.

Its residents never stopped complaining about visitors.

Venetians are once again revolting.

Not this time against cruise ships, wheeled luggage, over tourism, or rule from mainland Mestre.

No. According to a small but vocal contingent of the island's cities eternally discontented, it is Amazon's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, who embodies

all that threatens La Serenissimo. Bezos's offence is that he is planning to marry Lauren Sanchez, a former TV journalist,

in a three-day celebration in central Venice, beginning on 24th of June.

His 250 guests will include many of the most famous and wealthy people on the planet.

The celebrity-obsessed Italian press, deprived with such a world-class spectacle

since George Clooney's

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