If like me, you love Stephen Fry like the wonderful and deeply glorious uncle you never had, you'll be happy to hear that his first podcast has literally just gone online, tonight. Quite simply entitled Broken Arm, on account of detailing his recent injury in Brazil, it sees him talking conversationally and compellingly, as you'd expect.While the great man claims to be "woozy" from painkillers, there's little evidence: he remains the most eloquently ticklesome human being in all Christendom. Witness - or rather, hear - his description of his snapped arm's radial nerve as looking like "an errant piece of spaghetti" on the X-Ray...
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God bless Steven Fry.
I'm with Oli on that one.
I was lucky enough to interview the great man for the DVD extras on 'The Life and Death Of Colonel Blimp' (he's a massive Powell and Pressburger fan.) It's really depressing when your heroes turn out to be turds, but he apologised profusely for being all of 3 minutes late and was every bit as witty, charming and kind as I'd hoped.
Splendid. It's one of my ambitions to meet the man. Him and Tom Baker. Then I'll be happy. Unless Tom takes a drunken swing at me.
Even that'd be kind of fun...
Whilst Googling for that, I came across this, a discussion of blasphemy between Mr Fry and Christopher Hitchens, chaired by Joan Bakewell.
Some serious brainpower in that room, even if you don't necessarily agree with the things being said (I do, for the record).
J
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