EP.265 - LUCY WALKER
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST
Adam Buxton
4.8 • 21.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Adam talks with British/American documentarian Lucy Walker about being at the same school, psychedelic drug therapy and whether life's happiness curve is not a downwards slide to the end, but is actually 'U' shaped.
Conversation recorded face-to-face in London on 04 September, 2024
Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support
Podcast illustration by Helen Green
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| 0:00.0 | Ho-ho-ho! |
| 0:00.8 | Adam Buxton here! |
| 0:02.2 | In just over a week, I'll be meeting Joe Cornish to record our annual Christmas podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | And as usual, we'd like to include a few contributions from you, the podcasts. |
| 0:11.1 | The address for submissions is Adam Buxton Podcast at gmail.com. |
| 0:16.2 | You'll also find that address on my website, adam-buckston.co.uk. |
| 0:20.5 | A few things to bear in mind that'll really help us |
| 0:22.4 | out before you start emailing. Thing one. Please make the subject header of your emails, Adam and Joe |
| 0:27.9 | Christmas 2025, followed by a description of the content, for example, made up joke, egg corn, |
| 0:34.0 | travel and tale, or superb anecdote. Thing two, no personal or work-related messages, please. |
| 0:39.7 | Just things that will delight me, Joe, and your fellow listeners on Christmas Day. |
| 0:43.9 | And please remember that whatever you send us might be made public. |
| 0:47.4 | Three, please keep it short. |
| 0:49.1 | Just a few lines, ideally. |
| 0:50.5 | We won't have time to read long messages or listen to long audio clips. |
| 0:54.2 | Four, the deadline for contributions is Monday the 1st of December at midnight. |
| 0:58.7 | Festive thank you. |
| 1:00.0 | I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin. |
| 1:05.5 | Now you have plucked that podcast out and started listening. |
| 1:09.8 | I took my microphone and found some human folk |
| 1:13.6 | then I recorded all the noises while we spoke my name is Adam Buxton I'm a man |
| 1:24.6 | I want you to enjoy this, that's the plan. |
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