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Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year

Tom Burgis Q&A

Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year

Ora Et Labora

Arts, Books, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8984 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Journalist and author Tom Burgis joins Simon and Matt for our bonus Q&A episode. He talks about the authors he admires, the stories and scandals he wishes he had discovered, and who he would invite to his fantasy dinner party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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indeed. Hello and welcome to our bonus Q&A episode of Books of the Year.

1:15.6

We're in the studio here with Tom Burgess whose book is Kukuland,

1:19.1

Where the Rich Own the Truth.

1:20.4

You can hear, if you've missed that that you can go back and listen to that

1:24.1

and then a lot of what you're about here might make sense by the way I was gonna make

1:28.2

because you work for the FT and the FT review they did say what I used to yeah

1:31.9

yeah you used to work for the yeah you know you work for the

1:33.2

you work for the guy but the FT amongst them you make this book has been

1:37.0

universally praised they said pace and sordid

1:39.8

you want that yeah that's sort. People go, oh, actually. Yeah, not like any article in the FT.

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