Fools, Frauds and Firebrands

Roger Scruton is widely seen as one of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A polymath who wrote a wide array of fiction, nonfiction, and reviews, he was also the author of over fifty books. A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, Scruton was professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London; university professor at Boston University, and a visiting professor at Oxford University. He was one of the founders of the Salisbury Review, contributed regularly to the Spectator, the Times, and the Daily Telegraph and was for many years wine critic of the New Statesman. Sir Roger Scruton died in January 2020.

Rory Barnett is a British narrator, living in London. Although English by nationality, his ancestry is worldly to say the least: he is part French, Danish, English, Irish, and Russian. He speaks French fluently and studied German and Spanish. He even studied a bit of Arabic and Chinese. He went to one of the most famous schools in the world-Eton College-and started working at the BBC in 2000. He was a radio presenter, reporter, and news producer. That's where he learned to speak into a microphone. He also learned the priceless skill of injecting life and meaning into complicated news stories, as well as how to read news copy without mistakes on first sight. He left the BBC to become a full-time voice artist. Rory has an obsessive love for trivia (sports, films, music) and sometimes acts as quizmaster for charity quiz evenings. He also sings in a band.