11 min

It's Me or the Lamborghini A Point of View

    • Personal Journals

When it comes to fast cars or literary festivals, Howard Jacobson reckons that, for the average male, there isn't usually much of a contest.

'You don't get as many men at a literary festival as you do on a street corner where there's a Lamborghini parked,' writes Howard. 'Or you didn't.'
But he senses a change - and a new interest in men talking and reading about love.
It's not that men find female characters too soft - rather, that they often find the male characters aren't soft enough.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

When it comes to fast cars or literary festivals, Howard Jacobson reckons that, for the average male, there isn't usually much of a contest.

'You don't get as many men at a literary festival as you do on a street corner where there's a Lamborghini parked,' writes Howard. 'Or you didn't.'
But he senses a change - and a new interest in men talking and reading about love.
It's not that men find female characters too soft - rather, that they often find the male characters aren't soft enough.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

11 min

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