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Frost Over The World - Ben Elton - 09 Nov 07

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Sir David Frost talks to comedian and novelist Ben Elton about his latest novel 'Blind Faith' and how intellect is being sidelined in favour of faith and feelings.

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  • Mr Elton is Cracking the Illusion of the Information Society Making every Individual Powerfull when true Human Power is in the ability to unite togeather for all, week or Strong, Winner or loser. Celebrities are a side show. a circus to got with the bread.

  • My feelings exactly. Horrific, yet not so far from reality in our time. As you say, we must prevent it from happening. There's a straight line from our culture now, to the situation in his book, and lets not forget the environment also(lake London, the shores of Notting Hill)!! Mandatory part of religious studies, great idea. So... Ev Love!!(evolve) :-)

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  • Great interview. very clever guy, love his books :D

  • what a great bloke ....

  • Good point!

    PS Did Ben Elton make documentary?

  • I didn't know Ben Elton. I know great SciFi, i know literature. And i LOVED Blind Faith.. Very smart, to the point, very well written both in literary and sci-fi terms

  • Ev Love

  • my only problem with b.elton is he made his name slagging off the establishment in the 80's, now he's very much a firm member of it! His is a very acute comedian but a bit fo a tedious author. I do prefer Stephen Fry for comical literature.

  • He's very derivative. Look at 'Blind Faith', 'Dead Famous' and all the American Idol shit. He does rip off a fair bit of gear. He's a bit of a thinker, but too populist and does, with the greatest respect to him, 'borrow' a fair bit of stuff. He's making sense here.I would love some of those arseholes who have chinese characters on their arse and someone wrote 'gullible cunt' in chinese. It would serve them fucking right.

  • I wrote Ben Elton 8 pages of comedy routines & gave it to him back stage years ago it would have been nice if i got a nice letter from him saying thanks I wasn't after royalties or anything I was just wanting hisappr4ciation. Some of his Mr Bean episodes particularly the religious sketches were virtually stolen from me but who would know that today? Anyway I still think hes a great comedian.

  • and Peter Cook was the best.

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