Damian Barr: On My Culture Radar

The Literary Salon host and author on the genius of Keith Haring, Natalie Haynes’s comedy classics and why Schitt’s Creek is a sitcom with a difference.


Maggie and him

Damian Barr grew up poor but wanted more from life. So Margaret Thatcher made sense to him. He has changed – but the British PM still dominates his memoir of his 1980s childhood






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