I think I’ve always had a mild intellectual challenge on him and in a way it’s nice to acknowledge the previous generations of Australians who shaped the UK as we know it now.
He’s about to start a podcast on the BBC, and has a website (though I wouldn’t have called it ‘the first personal multimedia extravaganza of its type anywhere in the world’): “His impressive multi-media website, which acts as a one-stop shop for much of his work, may encourage other broadcasters and writers to follow suit. There is work by James and his favourite authors, plus webcasts of dozens of interviews conducted in his living room with the likes of Julian Barnes, Martin Amis and Cate Blanchett.”