On October 22, Dalrymple was interviewed at the Dorset Literary Festival by journalist Rene Wyndham. This was a long and wide-ranging discussion occasioned by the release of Not With a Bang But a Whimper.

Monday Books, who recorded the above interview and mailed it (overseas, mind you) to yours truly? With the assistance of two glasses of wine, that’s how. Absentmindedness, thy name is Chianti.