EP.129 - HELEN LEWIS
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST
Adam Buxton
4.8 • 21.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Adam talks with British journalist Helen Lewis about her book Difficult Women, A History of Feminism In 11 Fights, her encounter with Canadian clinical psychologist and author Jordan Peterson who Helen interviewed for GQ magazine in 2018, the downside of keeping up to date with current affairs and much else.
Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and to Matt Lamont for additional editing. Podcast artwork by Helen Green
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| 0:00.0 | I added one more podcast to giant podcast bin |
| 0:05.0 | Now you have blocked that podcast out and started listening |
| 0:10.0 | I took my microphone and found some human folk |
| 0:14.0 | Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke |
| 0:19.0 | My name is Adam Baxter and I'm a man |
| 0:24.0 | I want you to enjoy this, that's the plan |
| 0:31.0 | Hey, how you doing podcats? |
| 0:35.0 | Adam Baxter here, reporting to you from a farm track |
| 0:39.0 | in Norfolk, East Anglia, UK |
| 0:42.0 | It is late July 2020 |
| 0:46.0 | rather an overcast evening |
| 0:49.0 | Although I have just rounded a corner |
| 0:53.0 | and I'm now looking at a wide open field |
| 0:56.0 | The sun is going down |
| 0:58.0 | and because there are still many clouds in the sky |
| 1:02.0 | of different kinds, the city, the numbers |
| 1:06.0 | it's shaping up to be a very good sunset |
| 1:11.0 | That's one of the advantages of the overcast day out here in Norfolk |
| 1:17.0 | It very often turns into quite a pretty evening |
| 1:22.0 | This is a good intro, isn't it? |
| 1:24.0 | Come on, country chat |
| 1:27.0 | Up ahead is my dog friend Rosie Bucston |
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