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Alain de Botton – The School of Life

August 23, 2008

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[display_podcast] Alain de Botton is a writer of essayistic books, which refer both to his own experiences and ideas – and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It’s a style of writing that has been termed a ‘philosophy of everyday life.’ His first book, Essays in Love [titled On Love in the US], minutely analysed […]

Julie Burchill & Chas Newkey-Burden – Not In My Name

August 9, 2008

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Julie Burchill has been writing her often controversial journalism for almost 30 years, for publications as diverse as The NME, The Spectator, Daily Mail, The Times, The Express and The Guardian. She was also founding editor of The Modern Review. Julie’s colourful private and social life has generated almost as many column inches over the […]

Lynsey Hanley – Estates: An Intimate History

August 1, 2008

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[display_podcast] Lynsey Hanley writes for the Observer, The Guardian, The Word and the New Statesman. She was born in Birmingham in 1976. She moved to London in 1994 to study politics and history at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. Her first book, Estates: An Intimate History, is published by Granta Books.