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Well, hello and welcome to this very special edition of Backlisted, the podcast that aims to give new life to old books.

I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound, the website where authors and readers come together

to make great books. And I'm

the author of a book called The Year of Reading Dangerously

and we're joined as ever on backlisted by the writer and moral compass.

Matthew Clayton, you're welcome.

Well it's difficult, you've got to be moral compass if you've got your family here at Port

earlier.

Yeah, yeah.

We're out of our usual environment today, which is as you probably know the

kitchen table that I'm bound, but we're here in the idyllic setting of the wall

garden at Port Elliot in Cornwall, in the middle of a festival. It's not just obviously just us.

There is a festival going on the Port Elliot Festival.

Are you all having a nice time at the festival?

Good.

So we, we're very pleased to be joined today by Jesse Armstrong.

Jesse has with his partner Sam Bain created award-winning series such as Peep Show,

Fresh Meat, he co-wrote the film Four Lions, he's written for Veep, the

Mitchell, that Mitch and that Mitchland Weble look, Smack the Pony and his novel love, sex and other foreign policy goals.

Thank you.

It was published in 2015.

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