A Good Read: Adam Hills & Steven Pinker

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Society & Culture, Books

4.2 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Adam Hills and Steven Pinker talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. The Last Leg presenter and comedian Hills picks Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and Harriett's choice is another tale of non conformists, Albert Camus' The Outsider. Psychologist and popular science author Steven Pinker claims 1930s style guide Elements of Style by Strunk & White is a good read.

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0:00.0	In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.
0:07.9	But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA
0:12.0	was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.
0:18.0	Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?
0:21.3	When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?
0:25.0	I wouldn't even know where to start.
0:26.6	And I'm with the irony.
0:28.5	Steakknife.
0:29.7	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:33.0	My name is Annie Matmanus.
0:34.7	And my name is Nick Grimshaw.
0:36.0	How long have we known each other, babe?
0:37.6	Probably 20 years now.
0:39.3	And in that time, we've always worked in and around music, right?
0:43.0	We have.
0:43.6	So it kind of makes sense that we do a podcast about it.
0:45.9	It sounds like he's been 20 years in the making.
0:48.0	It's not Avatar for podcasts, basically.
0:50.2	But it is good.
0:51.2	So we put the world to rights with regards to music. It's all the stuff that you'd want to chat to your mate about over a pint.
0:57.3	Sightracked with us, Annie and Nick.
0:59.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
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