Hi, this is Everything Else, the FT's Culture Podcast. I'm Al.

And I'm Gris. This week will be discussing sleep and Why We Sleep, a new book by the neuroscientist Matthew Walker, and the journalist Harriet Fitch Little.

And later on, Gris will chat to Chris Krauss, writer, filmmaker and author of cult feminist novel, I Love Dick.

We'd love to hear from our listeners.

Are you an insomniac or an excellent sleeper?

Have you read I Love Dick?

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Hi, Rose. How's your week been?

Hi, Al. My week has been quite a fun week. I actually have ventured into the world of food and drink over...

Congratulations.

And I went to a gin education master class at the Hoban dining rooms, gin bar.

And did you drink a lot of gin?

I drank a lot of gin.

Did you get wasted?

I got quite drunk.

I would highly recommend it.

It's on Saturday afternoons.

People can go along.

It was research.

It was very much research.

What they didn't tell us before was have something to eat. While I would

recommend listeners to hop along to the gin bar, I would also say, line your stomach first. It is

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