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Talking Books

by Newstalk

The world and lived experience of books, their authors and readers – think insight, warmth, imagination, smell, journey and emotion.Listen and subscribe to Talking Books on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Episodes

  1. Chapter 246: Walking to Jerusalem with Justin Butcher

  2. Chapter 250: 'More Dashing' with Adam Sisman

  3. Chapter 249: 'Our Boys' with Helen Parr

  4. Chapter 248: 'How the Work Thinks' with Julian Baggini

  5. Chapter 247: The Vogue with Eoin Mc Namee

  6. Chapter 259: Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business

  7. Chapter 252: 'Schadenfreude' with Tiffany Watt Smith

  8. Chapter 243: Why We Need Religion with Stephen Asma

  9. Chapter 242: Attention with Joshua Cohen

  10. Chapter 239: 'Music as an Art' with Roger Scruton

  11. Chapter 238: Death of a Translator with Ed Gorman

  12. Chapter 244: The Desert and the Sea Michael Scott Moore

  13. Chapter 241: 'The Book of Common Prayer'

  14. Chapter 245: 'Living with Buildings' with Iain Sinclair

  15. Chapter 236: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt

  16. Chapter 240: 'The Happiness Dictionary' with Tim Lomas

  17. Chapter 234: Robert Graves with Jean Moorcroft Wilson

  18. Chapter 233: ISLA Festival 2018 - Instituto Cervantes

  19. Chapter 243: 'Passing Judgment' with Terri Apter

  20. Chapter 237: Inheritors of the Earth

  21. Chapter 236: My Country: A Syrian Memoir

  22. Chapter 231: The Day That Went Missing

  23. Chapter 224: Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments

  24. Chapter 230 'The Wandering Vine' with Nina Caplan

  25. Chapter 220: The West Cork Literary Festival

  26. Chapter 219: 'Heavens on Earth' with Michael Shermer

  27. Chapter 226: 'The Odyssey' translated by Emily Wilson

  28. Chapter 228: 'Compass' with Mathias Enard

  29. Chapter 227: The Happiness Curve with Jonathan Rauch

  30. Chapter 217: The Female Persuasion with Meg Wolitzer

  31. Chapter 229: 'Science and Spiritual Practices

  32. Chapter 215: 'Why Poetry' with Matthew Zapruder

  33. Chapter 225: Javier Cercas & Jennifer N Makumbi

  34. Chapter: 220 'American Histories' with John E Wideman

  35. Chapter 223: 'The House of Broken Angels'

  36. 218: Marx: A Very Short Introduction with Peter Singer

  37. Chapter 210: Writing Malawi

  38. Chapter 222: 'How Shostakovich Changed My Mind'

  39. Chapter 209: 'Moving Kings' with Joshua Cohen

  40. Chapter 221: 'Win Win' with Joanne Lipman

  41. Chapter 216: 'Gorbachev: His Life and Times'

  42. Chapter 214: Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction

  43. Chapter 213: 'Solitude' by Michael Harris

  44. Chapter 211: Byron's Letters and Journals

  45. Chapter 212: Why Liberalism Failed

  46. Chapter 199: Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa

  47. Chapter 208: 'Freud: The Making of an Illusion'

  48. Chapter 207: 'Humankind' with Timothy Morton

  49. Chapter 206: 'Far and Away' with Andrew Solomon

  50. Chapter 205: Secularism with Andrew Copson

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The world and lived experience of books, their authors and readers – think insight, warmth, imagination, smell, journey and emotion.Listen and subscribe to Talking Books on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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The world and lived experience of books, their authors and readers – think insight, warmth, imagination, smell, journey and emotion.Listen and subscribe to Talking Books on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on...

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