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Episode 17: Too Pale for a Palestinian Arab - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins

from Old Boys Book Club · host Andrew Mole and Jonny Lennard

Welcome, to the end game. Part 3: I come to bury Ceasar.Somehow, despite the supposedly overwhelming presence of security, the terrorists have made it through this chef-packed audience and are next to the president. What will Jones The Bomb's demands be? Have they planned this far ahead? Can we assume several broken plot-lines that resemble a Carry-On film?Listen on to find out.--Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny Lennard and Andrew Mole, 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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Welcome, to the end game. Part 3: I come to bury Ceasar. Somehow, despite the supposedly overwhelming presence of security, the terrorists have made it through this chef-packed audience and are next to the president. What will Jones The Bomb's demands be? Have they planned this far ahead? Can we assume several broken plot-lines that resemble a Carry-On film? Listen on to find out. -- Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny Lennard and Andrew Mole, Anthropol...

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