Graham Greene
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Sep 13, 2026
Sebastian FaulksGUEST
It sounds drab, but even in the sort of drabness, there's a kind of romance, I think.
Sebastian FaulksGUEST
Um, and if you think of the novels of Graham Greene, um, you know, they're, they're very seedy, but there's a sort of glamour in the seediness.
Sebastian FaulksGUEST
And I think there's a sort of glamour and romance in, in broken down London and people putting their lives together, uh, in the broken glass and the burned out buildings.
Sebastian FaulksGUEST
And, you know, there is, you know, there's sex and romance and love in the air, too, um, as there often is when, when people think life is going to be very short because, you know, you're being blitzed.
Joanne MurphyGUEST
Now, again, you know, a lot of the people that talk about servant leadership, a lot of the people that talk about responsible and ethical leadership, it has to be said or at the end of their corporate careers rather than at the start.
Joanne MurphyGUEST
So this then brings us back to the human dimension, you know, as Graham Greene, the author Graham Greene, who I think actually wrote quite a lot about religion as well.
Joanne MurphyGUEST
Graham Greene, you know, talked about the human factor.
Joanne MurphyGUEST
You know, there's the human factor in all of these things, and that is the difficulty.
Joanne MurphyGUEST
But like all issues of leadership, It is idealistic until the rubber hits the road.
Jon RonsonGUEST
So I'm going around this castle like Quasimodo at Notre Dame letting out these shrieks.
Jon RonsonGUEST
[laughs] Like some tormented castle visitor from a, a Graham Greene novel.
Mishal HusainHOST
And you dedicate the castle to Joel, your son.
Jon RonsonGUEST
Mm.
Jim ThayerHOST
The editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster, Michael Korda, has said, in fact, he said it to me, characters' weaknesses are more interesting than their strengths.
Jim ThayerHOST
And he mentioned the characters of Graham Greene, John le Carré, and William Shakespeare, in particular Shakespeare's Othello.
Jim ThayerHOST
Readers understand weaknesses.
Jim ThayerHOST
Most of us have them because that's how humans are made.
Russell HowardHOST
All right, let's do it, let's do it
Jon RichardsonHOST
... like a jackass reading The Independent, reading about Graham Greene, and all, all I can hear in my headphones, I'm trying to listen to Counting Crows-
Russell HowardHOST
Mm-hmm
Jon RichardsonHOST
... and think, "I wonder if I've got a salient point to make about Washington being 200% behind me," Musharraf claims.
Russell HowardHOST
You'll literally, you'll look like a snowman.
Russell HowardHOST
It, it's gonna sort you out.
Russell HowardHOST
[laughs] All right then, well, what do w- tell us about Graham Greene.
Russell HowardHOST
Let's make it current affairs.
Don SwansNARRATOR
They have to accept they are complicit in something that provides some good thing to others.
Don SwansNARRATOR
It's a very Graham Greene way of thinking about sacrifice.
Don SwansNARRATOR
The campus they inhabit is a febrile zone in which lofty ideals and cynicism collide.
Don SwansNARRATOR
It's a place where kids freely police one another, with social media their constant weapon of choice.
Susan LeverGUEST
After the First World War, I suppose, there was this return to Christianity and C.S. Lewis, who was his tutor in Oxford and Tolkien, you know, were religious men.
Susan LeverGUEST
And so, you know, Graham Greene and Evelyn Ward, they became Catholics, you know.
Susan LeverGUEST
And so we've got that move in the 20s and 30s of people of his generation becoming religious, which he didn't.
Susan LeverGUEST
And then suddenly, he's very close to James McCauley, and James McCauley has become a Catholic and is writing to Alec a lot about belief and so on.
Don SwansNARRATOR
They have to accept they are complicit in something that provides some good thing to others.
Don SwansNARRATOR
It's a very Graham Greene way of thinking about sacrifice.
Don SwansNARRATOR
The campus they inhabit is a febrile zone in which lofty ideals and cynicism collide.
Don SwansNARRATOR
It's a place where kids freely police one another, with social media their constant weapon of choice.
Hannah RichellGUEST
And it sort of feels like the conversation you start when you meet is so abruptly cut off when somebody dies so suddenly.
Hannah RichellGUEST
That I think it's Graham Greene who describes it in The End of the Affair as like having, you know, the relationship that belonged to both of you suddenly only exists for one of you, and it's like having limbs gradually amputated because the memories that you held together are suddenly only held by one person.
Hannah RichellGUEST
And when you forget them, they're completely gone.
Hannah RichellGUEST
So there's an element of wanting to sort of, yes, keep Matt close and hold him on the page.
Jonathan AmesGUEST
And then it got to the point where I'm going to write.
Jonathan AmesGUEST
And I saw this with Graham Greene.
Jonathan AmesGUEST
I'd read, and Ernest Hemingway.
Jonathan AmesGUEST
And various writers say they had a goal of 500 words a day, or 1,000 words a day, or two pages a day.
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