Jane Bussmann - ‘Worst date ever’




Intelligence Squared show

Summary: In this full version of her critically accliamed one-woman show, Jane Bussmann explains the absurdity of real life and how the indirect route, one that took her from Hollywood to Uganda, is often the most interesting. Bussman gives a one hour live performance of her book The Worst Date Ever (2009). The book begins with Bussmann working as a celebrity journalist, interviewing Ashton Kutcher and falling foul of celebrity agents, follows her through various attempts at feature writing for broadsheets and eventually sees her applying to work as a teacher in Uganda as a cover for her desire to know more about about two men: one a symbol of war, another who fights for peace.