EPISODE · Feb 28, 2020 · 57 MIN
Episode 11: His Grizzled Little Donkey Chest - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins
from Old Boys Book Club · host Andrew Mole and Jonny Lennard
Episode 11 is here, and Barlow is bemused by yet another journalist, constructing what newspaper men call a 'piece' (an article) against him! Meanwhile, the police guarding Westminster seem to have swapped roles with the Chuckle Brothers, and Pickel debates the meaning of the word Holocaust, because he thinks he's caused one. It's a heck of a ride.--Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny and Andy, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of modern societies oldest (and most incongruous) tropes - the Old Boy.We have reached peak 'Old Boy' with Johnson, Trump, Farage et al leading the world towards a leather-clad man cave of environmental catastrophe. But what exactly is an Old Boy?In what will almost certainly be called the pinnacle of modern satire, but is as yet unreviewed, Jonny and Andy introduce the world to Old Boy after Old Boy in the best way they know: by decoding the literature they have willingly created.
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Episode 11 is here, and Barlow is bemused by yet another journalist, constructing what newspaper men call a 'piece' (an article) against him! Meanwhile, the police guarding Westminster seem to have swapped roles with the Chuckle Brothers, and Pickel debates the meaning of the word Holocaust, because he thinks he's caused one. It's a heck of a ride. -- Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny and Andy, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined t...
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