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Talking Books — 278 episodes · page 2 of 3
Chapter 152: What are the ultimate questions in life?
Chapter 153: Where is home?
Chapter 151: Paul Beatty: The art of satire
Chapter 150: Do surfers have perfect fetish?
Chapter 149: Is the Kamasutra just a sex manual?
Chapter 148: The Path to a better way of life
Chapter 147: Is god dead in the West?
Chapter 145: Has Islamic philosophy shaped the West?
Chapter 146: How prevalent is health anxiety?
Chapter 144: Is the hand the visible part of the brain?
Chapter 143: Does grief divide?
Chapter 142: Can you judge a nation by its literature?
Chapter 141: What makes a poet - Ted Hughes?
Chapter 140: Do we value women's work enough?
Chapter 139: Can adultery be a sign of true love?
Chapter 138: Do animals think and feel?
Chapter 137: What is the value in a university degree?
Chapter 136: Glenn Patterson - the job of the writer
Chapter 135: Grit and godlessness
Chapter 134: The High Priestess of Soul
Chapter 133: The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
Chapter 132: Does free will exist?
Chapter 131: What is noise?
Chapter 130: Are we all pretending?
Chapter 129: What makes a classic book?
Chapter 128: Has Judas been wrongly remembered?
Chapter 127: A Russian tale of love and woe
Chapter 124: Can love be kindled by infidelity?
Chapter 126: The evolutionary science behind God
Chapter 125: Does paradise exist here on earth?
Chapter 122: What Happens When You Leave Rehab?
Chapter 123: Is Mankind Inherently Violent?
Chapter 121: The complications and creativity of love
Chapter 120: Where can you find meaning in life?
Chapter 118: how will work change in the future?
Chapter 119: do we have a right to more than one child?
Chapter 117: The master of spy fiction unmasked
Chapter 116: Why are we so obsessed with our bodies?
Chapter 114: the demon dog of crime fiction
Chapter 115: the role of the sacred in the world
Chapter 113: What's wrong with getting what we want?
Chapter 112: A journey into words and letters
Chapter 111: The master of the modern western
Chapter 110: Can we love without lying?
Chapter 109: How should we remember Rudyard Kipling?
Chapter 108: Why's it good to feel bad?
Chapter 107: The controversies and class of Martin Amis
Chapter 106: capturing the theatrical & personal in ink
Chapter 105: A reluctant nudist and an American giant
Chapter 104: A philosophy of serenity & the oldest hate
Chapter 102: What makes a man great?
Chapter 103: Managing trauma and morality
Chapter 101: What makes water so magical?
Chapter 100: Can happiness be found in books?
Chapter Ninety-Nine:Can socialist thought save Britain?
Chapter Ninety-Eight: David Foster Wallace and suicide
Chapter Ninety-Seven: Are we slaves to our jobs?
Chapter Ninety-Six: Gore Vidal, a divisive genius
Chapter Ninety-Five: Indian drama and Greek tragedy
Chapter Ninety-Four: the best of drama and jazz
Chapter Ninety-Three: dirty wars and secret histories
Chapter Ninety-Two: Masters of murder and mystery
Chapter Ninety-One: Does economics leave room for love?
Chapter Sixty-Nine: How has mental illness changed?
Chapter Ninety: The stress of family and gender
Chapter Eighty-Nine: Identity surveillance & radicalism
Chapter Eighty-Eight: How do we face the unknown?
Chapter Eighty-Seven: Shaping history through love
Chapter Eighty-Six: How does writing uncover the truth?
Chapter Eighty-Five: How do we best organise our mind?
Chapter Eighty-Four: How can reading be controversial?
Chapter Eighty-Three: Does real life outshine fiction?
Chapter Eighty-Two: Memory, identity, and love
Chapter Eighty-One: How powerful can a voice be?
Chapter Eighty: Talking books and writing in West Cork
Chapter Seventy-Nine: What's the cost of progress?
Chapter Seventy-Eight: What is the nature of love?
Chapter Seventy-Seven: What shapes our moral compass?
Chapter Seventy-Six: Does a location change a writer?
Chapter Seventy-Five: Culture, identity, and blood
Chapter Seventy-Four: Remembering, love, and friendship
Chapter Seventy-Three: Books and their emotional power
Chapter Seventy-Two: Northern lights and dark hearts
Chapter Seventy-One: How does our memory shape us?
Chapter Sixty-Eight: Faulkner and the South
Chapter Sixty-Seven: Changing emotions and vaccinations
Chapter Sixty-Six: Morality and science-fiction
Chapter Sixty-Five: What questions can science answer?
Chapter Sixty-Four: Preaching the Apocalypse
Chapter Sixty-Three: How does art & the past shape us?
Chapter Sixty-Two: Classics and trans-Atlantic writing
Chapter Sixty-One: Can jazz and silence be spiritual?
Chapter Sixty: The impact of love and losing it
Chapter Fifty-Nine: What can we learn from poems?
Chapter Fifty-Eight: A personal life in short stories
Chapter Fifty-Seven: Delving into memory
Chapter Fifty-Six: Writing nightmares and lives
Chapter Fifty-Five: Coming-of-age & the role of gender
Chapter Fifty-Four: The duality of Samuel Beckett
Chapter Fifty-Three: What is the philosophy of reading?