The Book Club

Sue Prideaux: Wild Thing, A Life of Paul Gaugin

41 min listen

In This Episode

In this week’s Book Club podcast Sam Leith’s guest is the great Sue Prideaux who, after her prize-winning biographies of Nietzsche, Munch and Strindberg, has turned her attention to Gauguin in Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin. She tells me about the great man’s unexpected brief career as an investment banker, his highly unusual marriage and his late turn to anticolonial activism. Plus: why she starts with his teeth.

Produced by Patrick Gibbons and Oscar Edmondson.

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