Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Each week we ask a few of our writers to read their piece from the magazine aloud.

I'm Max Jeffrey.

On this week's episode, Richard Dawkins tells us how to convert an atheist to a Christian. Lisa Hasseldyne explains the dire state of the German army.

Douglas Murray looks at the return of the Trump show.

Cindy Yu reviews a high-ranking Chinese intelligence officer's account of life under the CCP,

and Mary Wakefield wonders whether it's wrong to track her child. First up, Richard Dawkins.

Monday and Tuesday, I gave over to two long conversations with Arvid Agron, a Swedish biologist who

wants to write a scientific biography of me. As the author of The Gene's Eye View of Evolution, he knows the subject inside-out.

Disconcertingly, he seems to have read every word I've ever written, and has an almost

telepathic familiarity with my entire stock of humorous anecdotes. I wouldn't put it past him

to divine what my mother, who died at 102, would certainly have said.

But I don't understand.

Why would anyone want to write a biography of you?

He's now going to start looking for a publisher, and she would no doubt want to wish him luck.

I'm reminded of a nice publicity campaign for one of Douglas Adams' books,

a cardboard dummy of a little old lady in a hat saying,

Hello, I'm Douglas' mum. Do buy his book. It's awfully good.

If anyone merits a good biography, it's Ayan Hersey Ali.

Her autobiography, infidel, chronicles her extraordinary life from childhood in the Islamic

hell for women of Somalia, her escape to the Netherlands where she swiftly learned Dutch and became

an MP, then the all-too-credible threat from the jihadist murderer of her colleague, Theo Van Gogh,

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