On the second episode of my new podcast, I discussed the New York Times‘s piece: At N.Y.U., Students Were Failing Organic Chemistry. Who Was to Blame?; talked to Gareth Russell about his new book, Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (the most astonishing thing I learned: neither her husband, nor her husband’s doctors, told her about his terminal diagnosis); and did my first Q&A section, during which I answered questions about the drinking habits of the British, my affection for football, and, inevitably, The Beatles.
If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll subscribe at one of the many services linked here. And if you don’t enjoy the podcast, the complaints department is next to the display department mentioned in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”