EPISODE · Feb 3, 2021 · 54 MIN
Episode 26: Towelh*ad Nutters - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins
from Old Boys Book Club · host Andrew Mole and Jonny Lennard
Yep. That's the title. We went with it. It's a direct quote, from the literary musings of Boris Johnson. That's something the UK Prime Minister wrote, that was published in a real book, by a real publisher (Harper Collins). Think about that.--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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Yep. That's the title. We went with it. It's a direct quote, from the literary musings of Boris Johnson. That's something the UK Prime Minister wrote, that was published in a real book, by a real publisher (Harper Collins). Think about that. -- 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) trope...
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Episode 26: Towelh*ad Nutters - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins
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