The Offcuts Drawer

I was delighted to contribute some more readings to Laura Shavin’s excellent podcast series the Offcuts Drawer, in which she interviews established writers and gets them to talk about some of their work which never ended up being used. This episode featured The Guardian’s foreign correspondent Luke Harding and was a fascinating insight into his experiences. The full episode is here and here I am reading an unpublished extract from Luke’s notebook about an unexpected meeting with the Taliban.