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The Lovejoy Hour

Ep. 135 – (RE-VISIT) WILL STORR/SELF-ESTEEM – A conversation with… - INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6767 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to writer Will Storr about his book ‘Selfie’. Tim and Will discuss self obsession, why you should remind your children they are only human and how we can blame all of social media on the ancient Greeks. Nice one, Antiquity, thanks for that.
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If you would like to find out more about Will, his book is available here

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast sponsored by Cooker, spelt quicker, pronounced cooker, 100 degree boiling hot water, direct to your kitchen tap.

0:08.1

Today is a revisit special.

0:12.6

It's a podcast from yesteryear.

0:16.7

We're going to replay a podcast that we loved.

0:21.1

Today we're going to be replaying the conversation I had with Will Storr.

0:25.9

Now, Will Storr is a fascinating guy.

0:29.0

I thoroughly enjoyed his book.

0:30.4

He had a book out at the time when we interviewed him called Selfie,

0:33.9

which is not about taking pictures of yourself.

0:36.8

Well, it kind of indirectly is but it's about

0:39.6

our self-obsession there's some talk about Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and there is a

0:47.9

whole discussion on how the East and the West are different why we're feeling a little

0:54.1

bit miserable about our lives.

0:55.9

There's a lot of that in there.

0:57.2

And potentially where we're going wrong.

1:00.4

I found the whole conversation fascinating,

1:03.9

but I find most of my conversations fascinating.

1:05.8

And I really do like his book.

1:08.1

And what I do like about his book is it comes in like a silver cover.

1:11.8

So you can look at yourself.

1:15.3

Have you, please tell me.

1:19.6

I just got it.

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