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Podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Episode: Salman Rushdie - ‘I’d rather have had a different life’
Description: TW: this episode contains graphic descriptions of violence and injuries.
Two years ago, Sir Salman Rushdie, one of the most celebrated and famous authors in the world was on stage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, when a figure dressed in black clothes and a mask rushed onto stage and stabbed him numerous times. He nearly died.
Today, I’m so honoured that this extraordinary man joins me to talk about what this experience taught him - and how the forces of love ultimately triumphed over the forces of hatred. We t...