The Fiorella Files Episode 5 – Douglas Murray, Victor Hugo & Tom Sharpe

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The Fiorella Files Episode 5 – Douglas Murray, Victor Hugo & Tom Sharpe

The Fiorella Files, Episode 5 Debuts Tonight at 7:00pm Central and Encore  tomorrow morning at 9:00am London time!

The Madness of Crowds: Douglas Murray

In this book, British author Douglas Murray takes a sledgehammer to the West’s identity-politics-obsessed culture, offering safe passage across the minefield we have created. Warning of the breakdown in freedom of speech and the insidious influence of social media in fanning the flames, Murray truly does challenge the madness of crowds in this book. Essential if depressing reading.

Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Is this really the greatest novel of the nineteenth century? Possibly even one of the greatest ever written? Tune in to find out just what it is about Jean Valjean’s struggle that resonates across the centuries and why this is perfect lockdown reading.

Blott on the Landscape – Tom Sharpe

Need a break from relentless bad news and the misery of the Coronavirus? Pay a little visit to a sleepy English village, where a revolting aristocrat by the name of Sir Giles is plotting revenge against his dragon of a wife. Read about Lady Maude’s tireless attempts to thwart Sir Giles from having their ancestral home demolished to make way for a new road so that he can pocket the compensation money and do a runner. Thank God for Blott, a shadowy former POW whose loyalty to Lady Maude knows no bounds…

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