President trump, quote, he is no order con man. He is way above average in the american political system is his easiest mark ever. Guest yeah. This was that was early the campaign. I think that was in march of 2016. So it was just around the time when he was sewing up the republican nomination and the purpose of that article is this is a come. Com compilation of articles to explain the trump phenomenon for people who were having to take it serious come to grip watches the fact this was happening. So i took kind of a different approach to trump and tried to really listen to what his supporters were saying and try to focus on what he was doing, and my take on him is that he was a Brilliant Media manipulator and that he was perfectly suited to play on all the weaknesses of the american political media, ask that turned out to be truism was i had stucks to my guns on the piece. Thought he would be president and then later on i didnt believe that. Host well, the dave after the election you w
Katherine Rundell pops up on my screen as if by magic. She has just been announced as the winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year, for her children’s novel Impossible Creatures, though when we speak, she’s in Cornwall, near Padstow, where she goes to write. At 36, she’s already gathering quite a collection of awards: she won a Costa prize in 2017 for her novel Explorers, and last year, she won the Baillie-Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for Super-Infinite, her biography of the poet and preacher