Before Paul Howard became a million selling author with the hilarious Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series he was an award winning sports journalist. This week Paul joins Jarlath to talk about being raised Irish in London, how the election of a Tory government forced his family to leave, the impact the anti-English bullying of his classmates had upon him and how writing mock-reports on World Cup matches at the age of 11 eventually eventually lead to the real thing.
Paul also discusses the life of a journalist before the days of the internet, the teenager who inspired Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, the anxiety of taking Ross to the stage and how he narrowly avoided prison when "ANGLO: The Musical" was accused of being in contempt of court.
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