SPUTNIK 208: George Galloway Interviews Mark Millar

One day (and very soon), our guest this week will be the most famous Scotsman in the world and you’ll thank us for introducing you to his work. A multi-award-winning writer, he’s breathing new life into comic book heroes such as the X-Men, Spiderman, and the Fantastic Four, and fast becoming a most unlikely Hollywood mogul who doesn’t own a smartphone and even picks his own kids up from school. But even more unlikely, he’s a socialist, a Brexiteer, and a Roman Catholic. At the tender age of 13, he made Superman a communist and asked what if he had been brought up in the Soviet Union instead of the US, and had landed on a collective farm in the Ukraine rather than in Kansas… and had worked not for ‘truth, justice and the American way’ but for Stalin and the USSR. Mark Millar MBE is a Renaissance man, or whatever they call such a man when he comes from Coatbridge, Scotland, so we invited him aboard Sputnik for a very special journey orbiting his very own ‘Millarworld.’