Most amazing 2 minutes of radio you’ll hear this week

Here’s our favourite radio moment of the week, an interview on Radio 3 between historian Matthew Sweet and author Naomi Wolf.

Wolf has written a new book, “Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love” and it’s about homosexuality and its criminalisation in 19th-century England.

Except Sweet thinks she might have got a few things wrong. Quite serious things, it turns out, and it’s quite the listen.

Everyone listen to Naomi Wolf realize on live radio that the historical thesis of the book she's there to promote is based on her misunderstanding a legal term pic.twitter.com/a3tB77g3c1

— Edmund Hochreiter (@thymetikon) May 23, 2019

And this is what people made of it.

Interviewer: "When I found this I didn't know what to do with it." So I went with ambushing her on live radio.

— Yay, Bikes and Peds! (@billcawte) May 24, 2019

That’s awkward.

In fairness, I probably would have thought “death recorded” meant that.

But I also didn’t decide to write a book on it.

— John Dalton (@Dalton642) May 24, 2019

If you wrote a book on it I hope you'd at least read the Old Bailey's page on it to the end. That's all it would have taken.

— Sonetka (@BoleynBooks) May 24, 2019

Funniest thing is her saying 'this needs to be investigated'…AFTER SHE'S WRITTEN A BOOK ON IT.

— Nikhil (@nikhilsoneja) May 24, 2019

To everyone blaming the editor: No, no no. I am responsible as a writer for my own research. I spend hours fact-checking. Verification processes rule my writing.
The idea that writers can just put words on paper and someone else does the hard work cheapens writing.

— Femme (@FemCondition) May 24, 2019

Naomi Wolf: death recorded 2019

— face drawn on weather radar (@Radar_Face) May 24, 2019

And you can hear the whole interview here.

Full interview from Radio 3's most recent 'Arts & Ideas'. Full context of the excerpt starts at 19:00, excerpt itself starts at 24:30.https://t.co/szwLrxVSvE

— Edmund Hochreiter (@thymetikon) May 23, 2019