Podcasts: Hisham Matar on James Baldwin, Private Eye on Justin Welby, Jeremy Clarkson etc

Fed swans, ducks and, obvs, moorhens, including juvies. Listened to three podcasts.

Notes on a Native Son (different writers on a Baldwin passage – excellent series). This one was Hisham Matar, choosing not a bit from a novel or essay but Baldwin on a talk show in May 1969. A must must listen.

The Baldwin appearance on the talk show is a key part of the excellent documentary I am not your Negro.

Also released two weeks ago in the same series, Colm Toibin on Baldwin, choosing the first paragraph of Go Tell It To The Mountain.

Finally, Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, with palpable anger, disbelief and disgust about Justin Welby’s lack of contrition or penance about his behaviour for a looong time. Also on media shenanigans and Jeremy Clarkson as Farmer Palmer. Fwiw, I love the audio skeuomorph, the clattering of typewriter keys and the platen being pushed back. You have to be oooold (like me) to remember that.