Spectator Out Loud: Ian Thomson, Patrick Kidd, Mike Cormack, Ursula Buchan and Richard Bratby
Best of the Spectator · The Spectator
July 27, 202535m 54s
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Show Notes
<p>On this week’s <em>Spectator Out Loud</em>: Ian Thomson on what the destruction of the Hotel Oloffson means for Haiti (00:54); Patrick Kidd analyses Donald Trump and the art of golf diplomacy (06:43); Mike Cormack reviews Irvine Welsh’s <em>Men In Love</em> (16:49); Ursula Buchan provides her notes on the Palm House at Kew (20:38); and, Richard Bratby argues that Johann Strauss deserves better than to be the victim of snobbery – plus listen to the end for an extract from Strauss’s <em>Emperor Waltz</em> (24:24). </p><br><p>Produced and presented by Patrick Gibbons.</p>
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