to sort of more of your writers they've got a couple popular ones a famously couple years ago dylan bob dylan which was a very very controversial choice maybe would has been punished for being a bit too successful she said sometimes that she's not deliberately a bestselling author that she's actually a literary writer but happens to sell a lot of books but maybe i would like to see the academy you know maybe occasionally pay to play to the crowd and pick a writer that people heard of scott thanks very much should just quickly mention the page 100 because book short let alone for a while is one of the books featured in our series 100 joan must reads rhymes. everybody around the world associates the peaceful revolution of 1909 that brought about the downfall of communist east germany with this is city berlin the fall of the bubble in wall but the revolution actually got underway in the eastern german city of lights with demonstrations after monday prayers in the st nicholas church that the 1st major demo was 30 years ago on october 9th and the man who behind the scenes was hugely influential in

bob dylan somebody you would consider to be a rival? >> no, he's way above me. no way. >> jimmy: you played charades with bob dylan? >> i did. ame to america, i went to neil diamond's house. he and his wife marcia at the time invited to us dinner and bob dylan was there. you can imagine how i felt. afterwards they said let's played charades, sounds like two syllables. the greatest poet in the world. could he do sounds like two syllables? no. and he was on my team. and i am a competitive [ bleep ]. >> jimmy: even a situation like that where there's a guy you admire greatly you become annoyed at him. >> i threw oranges at him. the next day my friend who was there, tony, said just to remind me last night you did throw oranges at bob dylan. i went, "did i?" bless his heart. i love him to death. they were small. >> jimmy: you make a lot of fun of yourself and you reveal a lot of things. it was late at night. you said you were awakened by a noise and there were a couple of guys in your place. >> well, i just, you know, i took my hair off and then i heard this noise and i thought i'm being burgled and i thought i've got to go and se