Harold Pinter on The Book Show

While I am clearly one of those nervous wrecks and wusses that Mark Latham has recently railed against, as I should be attending to the Rugby League Grand Final at this moment, I have nonetheless quite unashamedly been listening instead to Harold Pinter and Romana Koval on Radio National. (Sirdan is doing his bit for manhood though, as he actually has gone to the Grand Final, and Pinter is at least a noted Cricket tragic, about the only thing he shares with his near-contemporary John Howard.)

There was plenty of strong stuff, as you will see in the transcript linked above, and a wonderful reading from The Birthday Party. Here is a short taste.

It’s not often I put a thriller in “Best Books”…

Traitor’s Kiss (2003) by Gerald Seymour scores today though, and you may read more on my Blogspot Books and Ideas, posted there because WordPress was having a spasm just now.