51: John Lennon: Shaved Fish - Tom Holland

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🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Author, cultural historian and presenter, Tom Holland discusses John Lennon's 1975 hand-picked compilation 'Shaved Fish', with Chris Shaw.

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0:00.0	One, two, three, four.
0:04.0	Yeah! Hello and welcome to I am the Eggpot with me Chris Shaw.
0:36.0	The Eggpods take a jaunty stroll through Pepperland,
0:38.9	discussing the Beatles and solo Beatle albums with a potpourri of delicious guests. In this episode,
0:45.2	I'm joined by author, TV and radio presenter, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,
0:51.2	Tom Holland. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you so much.
0:55.2	Thank you for coming.
0:56.1	I'm a big fan, I have to say.
0:57.8	I'm not going to get all gushy, but, yes.
1:00.1	Your book, Dominion, The Making of the Western Mind.
1:03.7	It's in paperback now, isn't it?
1:05.0	Yes, available from all good bookshops.
1:08.3	But none of the bad ones.
1:10.0	None of the bad ones, no.
1:11.5	And it's got the Beatles on the cover.
1:13.2	I know.
1:14.1	You are, I mean, part of it, you're arguing that most of our assumptions and values in the West
1:18.4	derive from Christianity.
1:20.6	And somehow, you've managed to cover two and a half thousand years.
1:24.8	Is that right?
1:25.4	Yes.
1:25.8	So, I mean, mostly I write about the ancient world.
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