Frederick Forsyth: The Day of the Jackal at 50

<div>My guest in this week’s book club podcast is Frederick Forsyth, whose classic thriller <em>The Day of the Jackal</em> has been in print for 50 years this summer. He tells me about banging it out in a few weeks on a typewriter with a bullet hole in it, the shady characters who informed his research - and how he never realised that, for much of its readers, The Jackal would be the hero…</div>