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356 - UNLOCKED - Things Fell Apart: A Conversation with Jon Ronson

The Fifth Column

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Graham Linheim's Influence on Ricky Gervais

I thought this might come up because you mentioned at the beginning friends that have been affected by this. And I thought of Graham Linheim. He wrote Father Ted, one of my favorite episodes of I'm Alan Partridge. Incredibly talented and funny. But he seems to throw his career away in a way to get involved in trans issues. Did that have some kind of motivating effect on you? Because your friends with him.

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