Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-01-23
Chris Williamson & John Sweeney: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #273
Alexei Navalny: Putin's Enemy Explained - John Sweeney - #273
John Sweeney is an investigative journalist and a writer. There is a fascinating and incredibly dangerous poker game going on in Russia at the moment.
John Sweeney recommended Animal Farm by George Orwell and 1984 by George Orwell, and discussed A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt, The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon and others, and A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Hero of Our Time
Discussed“this reads sounds like a spy novel it's actually um i'm thinking of um a poem um by le montov a hero of our time”
Where to get it
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A Man for All Seasons
Discussed“and he kind of reminds me of sir thomas more in the bitten man for all seasons i love robert bolt who wrote that”
Where to get it
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The Manchurian Candidate
Discussed“He wrote a book which became the origin of um the manchurian candidate the novel was based on this guy's research”
Where to get it
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A Life on Our Planet
Discussed“the other day i started listening to david attenborough's um a life on this planet and it was so good and yet so depressing”
Where to get it
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Animal Farm
Recommended“go to by the way go via belarus um take a copy of a 1984 animal farm leave it in a bar”
Where to get it
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1984
Recommended“go to by the way go via belarus um take a copy of a 1984 animal farm leave it in a bar”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Useful Idiot
“i've written a novel called um the useful idiot which is about stalin's time about fake news in 1933”
Passing Animal Farm
“take a copy of a 1984 animal farm leave it in a bar”
Passing 1984
“take a copy of a 1984 animal farm leave it in a bar”
Plugged The Useful Idiot
“and that's a really interesting arc as well which we're going to get into on the next one but i implore everyone to go and have a listen to that also useful idiot and the usual i've done an audio book as well”