Arthur Smith’s birthday podcast - Grouchy Club Podcast 41

With Copstick still in Kenya, John Fleming is joined in a Soho alleyway by comedian Arthur Smith, who talks about his theory of mindlessness, synthesised comedians, writing for Frankie Howard, being in a Danish pantomime, why he may go trans-gender, Shakespeare, being pedantic, semi-colons, creative writing courses, Daphne Fairfax and his several half-written novels... plus Arthur performs the opening lines of Dante’s “Inferno” in the original medieval Italian.www.grouchyclub.co.ukYou can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883Arthur mentions his Mindlessness videos:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZi2z9AEf7Cn7Qu0KFeNn_Aand his website:http://www.arthursmith.co.ukJohn Fleming’s daily blog is at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com