The Ghost Writer (2010) and Love Actually (2003) – The Tony Blair Christmas Special Extravaganza!

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The Ghost Writer (2010) and Love Actually (2003) – The Tony Blair Christmas Special Extravaganza!

24/12/2023

Peter Grey

Dec 24, 2023

Transcript

The fourth episode of the The Grey Album Podcast – an audio companion to the newsletter that takes a free-wheeling look at pop culture.

This episode we talk about two films as part of our Tony Blair Christmas Special Extravaganza: The Ghost Writer (2010), Roman Polanski’s political thriller about a controversial former British Prime Minister and Love Actually (2003), Richard Curtis’s modern Christmas classic rom-com.

Featuring:

2000s anti-neocon pop culture
New Labour Home Secretaries
500 IQ Theorycel Gordon Brown
Love Actually as Blairite propaganda
Deported from Saudi Arabia for being too handsome
Joni Mitchell > Joe Rogan
Gordon Brown’s Kitchen Nightmares
‘You will never convince me to eat the brown meat’

and much, much, more!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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