A chat about Princess Diana, conceived as pandering ear-candy, gets derailed by argument over the legacy of Lord Louis Mountbatten, England's last Viceroy of India. Peter and Dana step back from the brink, however, to repair their friendship and consider a secular saint. This is the best 20-minute podcast of its generation.

Cheese and Chat No. 9: The Diana Debacle

Peter Foges is a film and television producer. He worked for the BBC in London for fifteen years as a correspondent, an anchor, a producer, and a director before moving to the United States to serve as BBC TV's bureau chief. He sits on the Editorial Board of Lapham's Quarterly. 

Dana Vachon is a novelist and screenwriter. He is the co-author, with Jim Carrey, of the novel Memoirs and Misinformation, and the author of the novel Mergers and Acquisitions. His essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Vanity Fair. 

Together they eat cheese. And chat.

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Peter Foges is a film and television producer. He worked for the BBC in London for fifteen years as a correspondent, an anchor, a producer, and a director before moving to the United States to serve as BBC TV's bureau chief. He sits on the Editorial Board of Lapham's Quarterly. Dana Vachon is a novelist and screenwriter. He is the co-author, with Jim Carrey, of the novel Memoirs and Misinformation, and the author of the novel Mergers and Acquisitions. His essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Vanity Fair. Together they eat cheese. And chat.

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