Tony Judt: a man in a hurry
August 12th, 2010 by Steve Bowbrick
At the end of June, Radio 4 broadcast an amazing episode of Peter White's No Triumph No Tragedy. White interviewed historian Tony Judt in his New York home. The programme was universally praised - it was a very moving account of the late stages of Motor Neurone Disease (Lou Gehrig's in the US). How late we could only have guessed but on 6 August Judt died in New York.
So here's the programme (MP3 - length: 41:38) and a couple of episodes of Radio 3's Night Waves in which he also appears - one from before his diagnosis in 2008 (discussing his book of essays Reappraisals
Judt wrote regularly for the NYRB over many years - most recently a series of very moving and direct sketches from his life. All of his NYRB stuff is here (some of it behind a paywall, but not this lovely one about the food his mother cooked in the fifties). He was interviewed for NPR's Fresh Air in March. Here's a good obit from The Telegraph.
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