now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. here s a story that sounds like fiction. a boy in scotland is raised in post industrial poverty. his father is absent, his mother addicted to alcohol and dead by the time the boy is 16. he is bullied mercilessly because he s different, gay, in an intolerant culture. that boy becomes a fashion designer. he writes a first novel which wins the prestigious booker prize. this is no fiction. his name is douglas stuart and he is my guest today. douglas stuart in new york state, welcome to hardtalk. hi, stephen. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you on the show. douglas, i think people right around the world are still discovering your extraordinary novel, shuggie bain. they may be surprised to learn that it took you pretty much a decade, maybe a little bit more than a decade, to actually complete this novel. now, that makes it sound like it was very difficult to write. w
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tonight. these shows changed the way that we think about sexuality. for god s sake, ellen, tell him you re gay. you re talking about gay rights. you re talking about women s rights. gender diversity. dismantling the patriarchy. you know, sexual revolution. so i m officially out of men to [ bleep ]. i have to get married or move. but if you can make them laugh, then maybe we ll watch it again. anything and everything. let s get our sex talk on. oh, mom covered it all pretty good. yeah, maybe about the birds and the bees, but i m your daddy, and i m here to keep it 100. despite the fact that your mother thinks i m uptight, cray-cray, right? sitcoms are a great place to talk about taboo, awkward subjects like sex because it s disarming and people just want to laugh. i want to go home to my own room to sleep in my own bed. i don t want another beer. would you like another beer? oh, yeah. but it s always been from like the straight white man s poi
separation breeds separation but i do think there can be some balance. yeah. i think that the first point to make is not how we re sleeping but the fact that in terms of situationally but in terms of quality, we are all so stressed. yeah. this is hard this covid and angs angst. i m not surprised to hear well over 60% of everybody feels like they re not sleeping well right now. listen. i have had issues sleeping. you know, there s number of reasons that i won t give here but a lot of it has to do with what we do, the people who come after us and all kinds of things. so i ve had that issue. but okay, you know, fine. i m a big boy and we have the privilege of having this platform so there are tradeoffs but i think the key to all of this when you tell me i sleep too much, snaps. wherever i can get a nap, i can take a nap all day and i think if more people should do especially since you bogarted my bed in the back of the suv. i got my own. you know where you got