Salman Rushdie: When I die, I know there will be nothing

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

One of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning authors Salman Rushdie has spent the last thirty years with a death threat attached to his head. A threat that almost became a reality two years ago when he brutally stabbed 15 times by a stranger. Few people have come so close to death and lived to tell the story. Salman returns to Full Disclosure to tell James about the day he almost died and the aftermath that followed.

Salman has written a deeply personal account of the brutal attack on his life. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is out now.

This episode contains sensitive topic discussions around graphic and disturbing violence. Listener discretion is advised.

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0:00.0	Birmingham.
0:01.0	Being an actor, I find it easy to switch.
0:03.0	One minute, I am an impulsive detective.
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0:29.5	This episode contains discussion of graphic and disturbing violence.
0:34.2	Listener discretion is advised.
0:38.2	This is a global player original podcast.
0:50.1	Hello and welcome to full disclosure.
0:52.0	A podcast project conceived to let me spend more time with interesting people than I would ever manage to secure on the radio show.
0:59.0	But this week's guest is special for a number of reasons, partly because Salman Rushdie, you have done this before.
1:05.4	And I said at the beginning of our last interview that we like to cover life and times on full disclosure.
1:10.6	But your life and your
1:11.7	times have been far too full and extraordinary to get close to touching the sides in the space of an
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