S1, Ep2 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

04/09/20 • -1 min

The Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists talks about how she discovered Gabriel Garcia Marquez. She responds to his statement “I am a journalist above everything else” in an intriguing exploration of how imagination turns historical fact into fictional truths.

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Stephen Fry and the international human rights lawyer Philippe Sands discuss his award-winning book East West Street, a compelling family detective story and an exploration of the legal principles that defined the Nuremberg War Trials. The conversation is riveting and exacting and you’d expect that, of course. But it’s also hilarious, and the laughter is the light in this deep darkness. #ImagineTheWorld

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S1, Ep3 Yuval Noah Harari

How did humans turn themselves from hustling African apes into the rulers of planet earth? The Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari looks at the secrets of our success and explores the themes of his bestselling debut Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind in conversation with Rosie Boycott in Cartagena de Indias in January 2016.

Lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harari’s other books include Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, available at all good bookshops and libraries.

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