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- 1 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever LivedAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 2 How to Argue with a RacistAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 3 A Fortunate ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 A Seventh ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Black and British: A Forgotten HistoryDavid Olusoga · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Control: The History and The Disturbing Present of EugenicsAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 CreationAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 G.John Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 John Berger, From LifeTom Overton · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Book of HumansAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The Human ConditionHannah Arendt · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Machine StopsE.M. Forster · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Rise and Fall of the Artificial StateJill Lepore · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever LivedAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 2 How to Argue with a RacistAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 3 A Fortunate ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 A Seventh ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Black and British: A Forgotten HistoryDavid Olusoga · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Control: The History and The Disturbing Present of EugenicsAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 CreationAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 G.John Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 John Berger, From LifeTom Overton · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Book of HumansAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The Human ConditionHannah Arendt · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Machine StopsE.M. Forster · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Rise and Fall of the Artificial StateJill Lepore · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever LivedAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 2 How to Argue with a RacistAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 3 A Fortunate ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 A Seventh ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Black and British: A Forgotten HistoryDavid Olusoga · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Control: The History and The Disturbing Present of EugenicsAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 CreationAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 G.John Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 John Berger, From LifeTom Overton · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Book of HumansAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The Human ConditionHannah Arendt · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Machine StopsE.M. Forster · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Rise and Fall of the Artificial StateJill Lepore · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
The Truth About Trump's Venezuela Oil Deal, with Anne Applebaum
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What Do the Dead Internet Theory and Russian Intelligence Operations Have in Common? With Carl Miller
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What Happens If Billionaires Control the Tools of War? With Sharon Weinberger
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The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
Sharon Weinberger
her new book is valley of death how big tech is fueling the future of war ▶ tap to play from here
Zero to One
Peter A. Thiel
i always tell people read his book zero to one which lays out his thoughts on entrepreneurship ▶ tap to play from here
Project Maven
Katrina Manson
one of the ones i recommend particularly for people in the ai issue is it's called project maven and project maven was the name of this ▶ tap to play from here
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
i really recommend um bad blood the original book on theranos by john carrew ▶ tap to play from here
What Happens If Billionaires Control the Tools of War? With Sharon Weinberger
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The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
Sharon Weinberger
her new book is valley of death how big tech is fueling the future of war ▶ tap to play from here
Zero to One
Peter A. Thiel
i always tell people read his book zero to one which lays out his thoughts on entrepreneurship ▶ tap to play from here
Fragmented: The Pentagon, Silicon Valley, and the Future of War
Katrina Manson
one of the ones i recommend particularly for people in the ai issue is it's called project maven and project maven was the name of this ▶ tap to play from here
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
i really recommend um bad blood the original book on theranos by john carrew ▶ tap to play from here
Is Politics Beyond Satire? Live with Armando Iannucci, Jan Ravens and Jess Phillips [Archive]
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
i was a great fan david copelfield i was a great fan of charles dickens and he's a satirist really ▶ tap to play from here
Diana: Her True Story
Andrew Morton
it was around the time the andrew morton book had come up but the divorce hadn't happened ▶ tap to play from here
Is Politics Beyond Satire? Live with Armando Iannucci, Jan Ravens and Jess Phillips [Archive]
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
i was a great fan david copperfield i was a great fan of charles dickens and he is a satirist really ▶ tap to play from here
Diana: Her True Story
Andrew Morton
it was around the time the andrew morton book had come up but the divorce hadn't happened and it it really shocked me ▶ tap to play from here
The Forgotten War: Inside the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo
Anjan Sundram
in his acclaimed memoir stringer sunderam tells the story of that journey offering a remarkable portrait of a country and its people and what it means to report from the front lines of history ▶ tap to play from here
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
sort of has a s somewhat controversial text about you know ▶ tap to play from here
The Forgotten War: Inside the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo
Anjan Sundram
in his acclaimed memoir stringer sunderham tells the story of that journey ▶ tap to play from here
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
uh somewhat controversial text about you know oh a portray of congo ▶ tap to play from here
Marina Hyde and Jesse Armstrong, Live in Brighton
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The Gruffalo
Julia Donaldson
i also bought the groffalo granny a couple of weeks ago it's actually about the size of the groffalo grani the story is far less good ▶ tap to play from here
The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network
Katherine Losse
there's a really good book writ written by like the forty third employee of facebook which is called something like the boy kings or something ▶ tap to play from here
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
he wrote a brilliant book called lies poker about which was that that great sort of invective against the kind of eighties kind of manhattan banking greed ▶ tap to play from here
Were Castles the Original Military-Industrial Complex? With Dan Jones
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Castles: A Fortified History of the World
Dan Jones
now in a new book castles a fortified history of the world the he explores across more than three thousand years of castle history ▶ tap to play from here
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Dan Jones
i'd written a book called powers and thrones back in that was published back in twenty twenty one ▶ tap to play from here
The Iliad
Homer
we know troy because of the homeric poems the iliad the odyssey ▶ tap to play from here
The Odyssey
Homer
we know troy because of the homeric poems the iliad the odyssey ▶ tap to play from here
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
walpole was writing what's usually regarded as the first gothic novel the castle of atranto ▶ tap to play from here
Parzival
Wolfram von Eschenbach
as recounted by vram von eschenbach into some of his great operas parseval loengrin ▶ tap to play from here
Archive: Is Mark Zuckerberg Damaging Society?
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Has America Abandoned Ukraine? With Michael McFaul
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From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
Michael McFaul
he's the author of books including the excellent from cold war to hot peace an american ambassador in putin's russia ▶ tap to play from here
Autocrats versus Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder
Michael McFaul
and most recently audocrats versus democrats china russia america and the new global disorder ▶ tap to play from here
What Must Burnham Sacrifice To Make Britain Grow? With Michael Gove
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A Journey
Tony Blair
i do think that one of the best books written by a serving or recently serving politician about politics is his memoir ▶ tap to play from here
Why Are People Having Fewer Children Than They Want? With Camilla Cavendish
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Generation Maybe: Why We're Having Fewer Children and What It Means for Us All
Camilla Cavendish
in her new book generation may be why we're having fewer children and what it means for us all she investigates why birth rates are falling across very different countries ▶ tap to play from here
Extra Time: 10 Lessons for an Ageing World
Camilla Cavendish
i was in tokyo to write a different book which i published which was about the aging of the world ▶ tap to play from here
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
Richard Reeves
one of the fox that influenced me while i was reading while i was writing all this was richard reeves all those books about men and boys ▶ tap to play from here
Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis
Nicholas Eberstadt
the book he wrote that really made me think was called men without work ▶ tap to play from here
Archive: Can the Arts Drive Social Change? With Idris Elba, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Yassmin Abdel-Magied
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How One Family Remade Britain: Thomas and Oliver Cromwell, with Miranda Malins
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The House of Cromwell
Miranda Malens
her new book is called the house of cromwell ▶ tap to play from here
The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
we have a brand new edition of three volume edition from oxford university press of all of oliver cromwell's known letters writings and speeches ▶ tap to play from here
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
robert graves similarly with i claudius getting inside the mind of ▶ tap to play from here
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
hilary mantel that's what she does in wolf hall so brilliantly is ▶ tap to play from here
Can Europe Defend Itself? Timothy Garton Ash on Europe's Future
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Europe in Seven and a Half Chapters: The Shortest Introduction to the World's Oldest and Newest Continent
Timothy Garton Ash
his new book europe in seven and a half chapters the shortest introduction to the world's oldest and newest continent condenses a lifetime of studying traveling and writing about europe ▶ tap to play from here
Can Pigs Really Appreciate Bach? Katherine Rundell Live
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The Golden Mole: And Other Living Treasure
Katherine Rundell
in her book the golden mole the modern bestary she she gave us a kind of literary menagerie ▶ tap to play from here
Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell
captain is also of course the celebrated author of the impossible creatures series ▶ tap to play from here
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Katherine Rundell
super infinite the book about john dunn ▶ tap to play from here
Naturalis Historia
Pliny the Elder
pliny the elder who in seventy ad wrote a book called the historia naturalis ▶ tap to play from here
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
douglas adams author of pitch hackers guide to the galaxy ▶ tap to play from here
Last Chance to See
Douglas Adams
who also wrote a wonderful book called last chance to see ▶ tap to play from here
The Explorer
Katherine Rundell
reading um the explorer to my class probably up to my classes for about six years in a row now ▶ tap to play from here
Rooftoppers
Katherine Rundell
my best review i ever had was of rooftoppers and it was a one star on amazon ▶ tap to play from here
Archive: What Are the Chances We Exist at All? With Brian Cox and Alice Roberts
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Human Universe
Brian Cox
what you've been exploring more recently with your recent series and your recent book um brings us all the way to us ▶ tap to play from here
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being
Alice Roberts
i mean how y your book is called the incredible unlikeliness of being ▶ tap to play from here
The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski
there's that great moment in in the sense of man when brunowsky is in ▶ tap to play from here
What James Baldwin Can Teach Us About the World Today
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Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
why does james baldwin's writing continue to resonate with readers 70 years after the publication of giovanni's room ▶ tap to play from here
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
including the book of prize wedding the famous road and astonishing the gods ▶ tap to play from here
Astonishing the Gods
Ben Okri
including the book of prize wedding the famous road and astonishing the gods ▶ tap to play from here
Madame Sosa and the Festival of the Broken Hearted
Ben Okri
his most recent novel is madame sosa and the festival of the broken hearted ▶ tap to play from here
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
like five next time uh notes of a native sun and we wouldn't talk about the book we'll just swap lines ▶ tap to play from here
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
James Campbell
good friend of mine i haven't seen him for a long time maybe he's in the audience called james campbell wrote a beautiful book later on about baldwin ▶ tap to play from here
Stars of the New Curfew
Ben Okri
i was in my twenties and i was struggling with a book of mine uh at the time called stars of the new cerfew book of short stories ▶ tap to play from here
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
so he writes go talit on the mountain and writes those great uh books of early essays ▶ tap to play from here
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
a response a kind of a letter a review from hana i think the lady the great lady who wrote the famous book on totalitarianism ▶ tap to play from here
Gravity and Grace
Peter Sterios
this is from the great lady who wrote this wonderful essay on the gravity and grace ▶ tap to play from here
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
uncle tom's cabin why baldwin over and over he was obsessed with it ▶ tap to play from here
The Last Gift of the Master Artists
Ben Okri
it's a conundrum i deal with in a novel of mine called the last gift of the master artists ▶ tap to play from here
The Price of the Ticket
James Baldwin
the first sentence of this tremendous book the price of the ticket is collected essays ▶ tap to play from here
The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer
forty eight mayler brings out the naked and the dead seminopo huge ball ▶ tap to play from here
Advertisements for Myself
Norman Mailer
a moment in um advertisements for myself miller wrote ▶ tap to play from here
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