2013 Martin Amis BBC Hard Talk Interview Full Programme
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2013
- It was death that urged Martin Amis to America -- though not, as reported in parts, some sort of death of the England left behind.
"My mother died the year before last, and we were thinking about that," says the novelist, 62, waistcoated, meeting the evening with a bottle of beer in his home in Brooklyn, New York. "My mother-in-law [a Brooklyn resident] was the same age, and her husband of 40 years was ailing too. He died quite suddenly, before we'd even got here. But we'd been thinking for months: they're not going to be here for ever."
So Amis and family -- wife Isabel Fonseca, daughters Fernanda and Clio -- left London for New York, at first to commandeer the mother-in-law's floor and later to take up residence in a towering, turn-of-the-20th brownstone in Brooklyn. "There was a half-hearted attempt to make it look as though this was out of disaffection for England," says Amis. "Me saying, 'England can go fuck itself.'" He means newspaper reports, published around the time of the move last summer, that framed it as a demonstrative emigration: a flounce out. "There wasn't an iota of that."
RIP. A supreme stylist.
I've never read anything by Martin Amis, but listening to him makes me want to.
A really wonderful writer. He is greatly missed.
What an enjoyable chat.... for all parties, I dare say.
Thank you for uploading!
Rip Martin
Amis is king. I love him. Always will.
You two are a genius of your respective fields !......
Thanks for uploading, even though the quality is not that great...
Well I wasn’t expecting much, what with the Day Today opening sequence, but his interlocutor was exceedingly articulate and well-researched. It made for a probing interview.
The host of Hardtalk looks like Martin's brother !!!.... Nice interview !!!...
MONEY will remain a long lasting work of Fiction for all of us. He speaks in a such way like he writes that you can't help reading/ listening him......
Hard talk, sherry, lunchtime, almost!😂
Almost inaudible voices are easily ignored.
When he gets to his keyboard; just for today I will feel superior.
He died this week. May 2023.
why should he prove he likes england? the most awful question to be asked. like writers should praise england omg yes
Too short
I thought Lionel Asbo was hilarious, but Martin Amis divides opinion.
I understand that Lionel Asbo was panned. This country is fucked - and we need no ghost come back from the grave to tell us that much. But I seriously doubt that a successful Oxford graduate novelist approaching seventy is the man best equipped to explain precisely why.