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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

I'm Fraser Nelson.

Every week on this podcast, we ask a few of our writers to read their piece from the magazine Out Aloud.

In this episode, Roddy McDowell celebrates Speedway Racing, that's the sport which once captivated the nation,

but is now sadly a shadow of its former self.

Then, Theo's New examined the late Stanley Kubrick's obsession with making the ultimate biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte,

an ambition he repeatedly failed to achieve.

Gus Carter relates the poignant history of the Watts Memorial on London South Back

and asks whether follow Jimmy Olimbubni Adioli, a young man who died trying to save a woman

who fell into the Thames earlier this month, should be the latest name to be added to it.

And finally, Toby Young argues that the new guidelines on racial sensitivity for drama critics

only serve to dull the magic of theatre.

First, Roddy McDowell.

It's classified by the government as an elite sport,

but you'll struggle to find it mentioned in the national press.

The current European champion is a Britain, Robert Lambert,

but I'd be surprised if many people listening to this have ever heard of him. It was once

reckoned to be Britain's second most popular spectator sport, but the weekly numbers attending

this summer's shortened league season will be in the low tens of thousands. I'm talking about

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