In this recording Alasdair talks about some of the work that influenced his Gothic novel Poor Things - from Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey to Mel Brook’s film Young Frankenstein - and explains why he feels the opening of this book may be his best.

In the recording I incorrectly credited Gene Wilder as the director of Young Frankenstein instead of Mel Brooks and Alasdair rightly sounds rather dubious!

You can find a personal perspective on Alasdair and some of his work including Poor Things, in Who is Alasdair Gray?

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