Category Archives: Philosophy

ANKE RICHTER – Cult Trip

Anke Richter is a journalist who puts herself on the line in this book by joining a number of different cults and sects to try and understand from the inside what draws people into these organizations. Sometimes she finds things out about herself in the process.

The Read

The Interview

Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023

megan stack – ‘women’s work’

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Megan Stack found herself working from home but being a full time professional journalist with two children, needed a little help around the house – which started her thinking about the value of that ‘help’ and how to calculate the contribution of ‘women’s work’.

She has written an indepth examination of just what is defined as’women’s work’, and attempted to calculate the value of this work to our society. Thought provoking, and probably just plain provoking to some who have tended to devalue the sorts of tasks that millions of women perform daily.

Here she reads from her book at the point where she begins to think about those other women who come to work for her, their origins, their expectations , in contrast to her own life.

Megan Stack reads from ‘Women’s Work’

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Megan Stack – Interview.

Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2019

David Leser – Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing

David Leser “ Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing”

I like the sense of mild exasperation suggested by the  title of  David Leser’s  latest book where he applies his not inconsiderable skills of investigative journalism to the  current latest global discussion on the relationship between the sexes.

David Leser reads from “ Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing”

 

 

David Leser Interview

 

Recorded at the Byron writers Festival 2019

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ALI ALIZADEH – The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc

Naturally the first thing I asked Ali Alizadeh was what he felt he had to add to the enormous canon of books, films and plays, that have been written about this real but almost semi mythical historical woman. He believes he really  has a special mission to write about her last days in a way no-one else has done before . His extensive research  and obvious empathy for his subject has produced a new insight into the last days of  this tragic figure.

 

Ali Alizadeh  reads from -‘ The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc’

 

 

Ali Alizadeh – Interview

Recorded at Byron writers Festival 2018

Keenan Malik- ‘From Fatwah to Jihad’

Episode sixteen: Keenan Malik- ‘From Fatwah to Jihad’

   

Keenan Malik is an Indian-born British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, trained in neurobiology and the history of science . he is also a writer, lecturer and broadcaster and a  presenter of Analysis, BBC Radio 4’s flagship current affairs programme and a panelist on the Moral Maze.

It is 20 years since the late Ayatollah Khomeini declared that everyone involved in the publication and sale of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses should be killed. Keenan Malik’s book FROM FATWAH TO JIHAD – The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath attempts to understand the legacy of its publication  and questions the  notions of political correctness it has led us into in our debates about cultural differences.

Keenan opened our interview by explaining the context for his book and the significance of its publication date. Because it is such  an important  and complex issue , Keenan’s read and interview will be our whole show this week.

Music Track : ‘ Bollyrock ‘by Fourplay from Cd ‘Now to   the Future’

Keenan Malik was recorded at the Byron Writers Festival 2017

New Authors on Narratives!

Each week there will be an upload of between 3 to 5 new authors on the Narratives site- here are this weeks offerings.

Travels with my Guitar
Travels with my Guitar

Carl Cleves has read from his memoir  ‘Tarab’ of an hilarious and horrifying account of consulting a Faith Healer in South America .

 

 

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Peter Breen has read  from his soon to be published memoir ‘Candidates Disease’ in which we get an insiders account of the goings on in Federal Parliament during the last elections.

 

Heresy

David Lovejoy reads from ‘Heresy’ – a book that is both philosophical argument and fiction.