Listen

Description

With Copstick still in Kenya, John Fleming is joined in a Soho alleyway by comedian Arthur Smith, who talks about his theory of mindlessness, synthesised comedians, writing for Frankie Howard, being in a Danish pantomime, why he may go trans-gender, Shakespeare, being pedantic, semi-colons, creative writing courses, Daphne Fairfax and his several half-written novels... plus Arthur performs the opening lines of Dante’s “Inferno” in the original medieval Italian.

www.grouchyclub.co.uk

You can also download this audio podcast from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/grouchy-clubs-mostly-about/id977279883

Arthur mentions his Mindlessness videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZi2z9AEf7Cn7Qu0KFeNn_A
and his website:
http://www.arthursmith.co.uk

John Fleming’s daily blog is at: http://blog.thejohnfleming.com