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Shaun Bythell: Return of the Bookseller Diarist
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Matthew Sweet: The Great Dictator
Listen to Matthew Sweet: The Great Dictator from The Book Club. In this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam Leith is joined by author Matthew Sweet to discuss his new biography, The Great Dictator, about the bestselling novelist Barbara Cartland.They explore the extraordinary life behind Barbara Cartland’s instantly recognisable image – from her beginnings in the aftermath of the First World War to her career as one of the bestselling authors of all time.
Steven Pinker: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
Listen to Steven Pinker: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... from The Book Club. In this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam Leith is joined by psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker to discuss his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…Pinker explores the powerful idea of ‘common knowledge’ - not simply what we know, but what we know that other people know, and what we know they know we know.
John Sellars: Stoicism Is Not What You Think
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Anand Gopal: Days of Love and Rage
Listen to Anand Gopal: Days of Love and Rage from The Book Club. In this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam Leith is joined by The New Yorker writer Anand Gopal, whose new book, long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize, is Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Revolution.What does freedom mean once the dictator has gone? Anand explains why he spent eight years reporting on Manbij, a city of 150,000 that pushed out the Assad regime and set about building a democracy from scratch – and how the argument over what came next split the revolution in two.
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