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The Arts Hour: Travel Writer and Novelist Paul Theroux

Travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux: I'm Not Grumpy

07/09/2013

Travel Writer and Novelist Paul Theroux

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Travel Writer and Novelist Paul Theroux

'People think I'm grumpy, I'm really not. I have the disposition of a hobbit' Paul Theroux

'People think I'm grumpy, I'm really not. I have the disposition of a hobbit' - Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux explains why good travel writers cannot be cantankerous. Film-maker Kim Mordaunt on his adventures with unexploded bombs and dangerous homemade rockets in Laos. Indie director Shane Carruth is unconcerned that audiences have difficulty understanding his films. Poet Stephen J Kalinich takes us on a tour of urban poetry in Los Angeles. Legendary soul musician Booker T Jones plays live in the studio and explains how his paper round paved the way to fame and fortune at Stax Records. Plus, veteran film director Nic Roeg talks about shooting one of the most famous sex scenes in cinema history and how the censor saw something that wasn't even there.

(Photo: Paul Theroux. Credit: Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty)
(Photo: Booker T Jones: Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty)

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