S1, Ep2 How to Fail: Sebastian Faulks
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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The Importance of Being Gratitude
Your father was a decorated soldier. He won the military cross and your maternal grandfather served in a trench unit at the Somme. And I wanted to ask you whether you felt that men of your generation felt the lack of having fought in a world war themselves. Well growing up in the 50s and 60s, I assumed that there would be a war in an admittedly very uninformed infantile way. But actually it wasn't a ridiculous assumption. Now we're looking at where we are, our generation of people born in the so-called baby boom are now reviled because we didn't do what our grandparents and parents did. We've stolen all the money from our children and grandchildren and
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