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Book Club: Sue Prideaux

Book Club: Sue Prideaux

Best of the Spectator · The Spectator

October 16, 202441m 30s

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<div>In this week's <em>Book Club</em> podcast Sam Leith’s guest is the great Sue Prideaux who, after her prize-winning biographies of Nietzsche, Munch and Strindberg, has turned her attention to Gauguin in <em>Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin</em>. She tells me about the great man's unexpected brief career as an investment banker, his highly unusual marriage and his late turn to anticolonial activism. Plus: why she starts with his teeth.<br><br>This podcast is in association with <em>Serious Readers</em>. Use offer code ‘TBC’ for £100 off any HD Light and free UK delivery. Go to: <a href="http://www.seriousreaders.com/spectator">www.seriousreaders.com/spectator</a><br><br>Produced by Patrick Gibbons and Oscar Edmondson.</div> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>