My guest this week is Ben Sixsmith, an English writer living in Poland who you can follow on Twitter here. Ben’s book Kings & Comedians: A Brief History of British-Polish Relations is available on Amazon.
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This post is looking a little unloved but it was an interesting listen! I was curious whether Ben likes Poland so much partly because he finds the local culture more in tune with some of his personal values or if there’s a completely different reason why he enjoys it so much. He can definitely write though and I hope he has every success with it.
Thanks, MBE. Yeah, feedback on podcasts is hard to come by!
You’ve gone from strength to strength over the last year or so, Tim, and these podcasts have been a very welcome addition to your output. I’m looking forward to the next one already!
I generally enjoy Ben’s stuff whenever I come across it (usually on/via Twitter) and his observations about writing are no doubt interesting but he’s probably a bit too reserved/cautious to make a really entertaining podcast guest. I favour the looser-tongued vitriol and bile merchants!
Thanks Trevor!
I generally enjoy Ben’s stuff whenever I come across it (usually on/via Twitter) and his observations about writing are no doubt interesting but he’s probably a bit too reserved/cautious to make a really entertaining podcast guest.
To be fair, Ben was the only one who used his real name and has a reputation to upkeep (Chris Mounsey’s is still shot from his Devil’s Kitchen days 😉 )
I favour the looser-tongued vitriol and bile merchants!
I’ll see what I can do!