Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins

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Stephen Fry's 7 Deady Sins - I will take each one of the Seven Sins in turn, lay them out on the surgical table and poke, prod, pry and provoke in an attempt to try to anatomise and understand them; I hope and believe it will be, if nothing else, delicious fun and something of a change from the usual run of podcastery.

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Trailer — Season 1: Great Leap Years

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins

04/01/18 • 2 min

Stephen Fry previews his epic new documentary podcast series entitled Stephen Fry’s Great Leap Years – the stories behind inventions.

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S1 EP1 - Great Leap Years - When We Were Very Young

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins

04/09/18 • 41 min

Far out in the ocean of discovery huge swells have been gathering and combining to create the great tsunami that will soon engulf us, We look back at how innovation in technology has, from the first, changed our ways of living, our sense of who we are and what we are to expect from life.

Researched, written & read by Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by Guy Farley with The Chamber Orchestra of London.

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S2 EP1 - Introduction

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins

01/13/20 • 32 min

An exploration of the human heart.

In this new series I will take each one of the Seven Sins in turn, lay them out on the surgical table and poke, prod, pry and provoke in an attempt to try to anatomise and understand them; I hope and believe it will be, if nothing else, delicious fun and something of a change from the usual run of podcastery.

Researched, written & read by Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by Guy Farley.

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S2 EP5 - Envy

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins

02/10/20 • 36 min

I confess. I’ve been guilty of envy. It’s not a pretty vice. And now I envy YOU - all the pleasure of this fresh new podisode ahead of you. You lucky lucky people...

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S2 EP2 - Pride

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins

01/20/20 • 28 min

For two thousand years Pride has stood at the very top of the list of the Seven Deadly Sins. Perhaps no longer. Perhaps a new sin is rising to replace it.

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S2 EP8 - Sloth

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins

03/02/20 • 22 min

Yes, we’ve come to the seventh of the seven deadly sins. Sloth. Is it sloth as in both, or sloth as in moth? Whichever, sloth lives inside us all.

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S2 EP9 - Wrapping Up

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins

03/09/20 • 49 min

I have been charmed and delighted to find that the comments that have come in for this series have been sound, friendly, helpful and informed. In this final episode for this series, I’ve singled out one or two. Thank you for your questioning, your listening — go on searching, asking and wondering. Wondering in both senses: wondering by wanting to know and wondering by marvelling. And here’s to madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and sceptics.

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S2 EP3 - Greed

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins

01/27/20 • 33 min

Avarice, or Greed as we would call it today, now there’s a proper vice, one we can all surely identify with, claim and confess to. One of the defining quotations of the materialistic 1980s came from the fictional character Gordon Gecko, the junk bond pirate played by Michael Douglas in the Oliver Stone film, Wall Street. “Greed,” he tells a dinner of fellow financiers, “for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works”. It’s easy to dismiss this. Your instinct might be to shake your head sadly, or scoff angrily. Yet...

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