Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

---

This episode of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast seeks to explore Burgess’s cosmopolitanism. Beginning with his formative years in Manchester, Burgess is revealed as a writer that was intellectually preoccupied by geographic location and how it affects the development of the identity in exile. It also depicts the conflict between Burgess’s identity as a professional writer, and that of ‘The Writer as International Figure’, a personality that he cultivated on television chat shows and in the press.