Andrew is a rock critic, travel writer, foreign correspondent, radio host, and author. He mostly works for Monocle radio. Find him on Twitter @andrew_mueller and recently on BlueSky.

[2:12] Andrew's intro [4:07] The book he picked up at a bus stop that changed his life [7:30] Are conservatives more funny? [8:08] The troll who left his basement [9:10] Why American culture is the best [13:50] Does humour date? [14:49] The time he was sort of cancelled [16:15] Women writing about war [18:18] Meeting the pilot who bombed Hiroshima [21:57] The Pub Landlord [25:50] The Flashman Papers [28:55] Unorthodox ways of telling history and Laurent Binet [32:35] The supreme pleasure of correcting the official record [33:36] Australian rules football and what it says about Australian culture [39:43] The literary dealbreaker [41:04] His favourite self-help book.

Reading list:

Andrew Mueller - Carn: The Game, and the Country That Plays It

P. J. O'Rourke - Holidays in Hell

Christina Lamb - Our Bodies, Their Battlefield

Julie Wheelwright - Sisters in Arms

Samantha Power - A Problem from Hell

Paul W Tibbets - Return of the Enola Gay

Francis Wheen - Karl Marx

Laurent Binet - HHhH

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

George MacDonald Fraser - The Flashman Papers

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