RHLSTP Book Club 106 - Stefan Stern

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Book Club #106 - Fair or Foul - The Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition - Richard chats to journalist and friend Stefan Stern about his terrific book about the positives and negatives of ambition, Fair or Foul. What prompted him to tackle this subject? Why is the play Macbeth the perfect scaffolding for this discussion and what do people need for their ambitions to be considered a success. They chat about Boris Johnson, Elizabeth Holmes, the effect of lockdown and mortality on ambitions, why you need to set goals and why you need to be able to change those goals as you move along. Why do we lose ambition somewhat in middle age and is it just to do with our failure to achieve what we hoped to achieve and is ambition tied to mental illness or is that only the case if we are only out for ourselves.

Buy the book here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/fair-or-foul-the-lady-macbeth-guide-to-ambition-stefan-stern/7650720?ean=9781800183186

See Rich's stand-up tour Can I Have My Ball Back - https://richardherring.com/ballback/

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0:19.5	ballback tour is nearly done. Thank you to everyone who's come. It's getting better and better and it's been so much fun.
0:27.2	This week on Tuesday, I'm in Guilford, the Yvonne-Arneu theatre. Wednesday I'm in, that has sold out but check with the theatre for returns,
0:35.9	and Thursday, my Andover, Lights theatre and that is it.
0:39.1	Richard Herring.com slash, ballback slash tour for details of those links. We're hopefully doing
0:46.1	some more in 2025 so hopefully we'll come near you. It's been it's been really
0:50.9	good. I've really loved doing stand-up again. Might stop doing podcasts. But we are doing
0:55.3	more podcasts as well in Less Square Theatre, September, October, November. And on October the 20th,
1:01.6	we're going to be at Birmingham Town Hall.
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