The Avid Reader Show
A podcast by Samuel Hankin
796 Episodes
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Episode 781: William O. Stephens - Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher-King
Published: 10/2/2025 -
Episode 780: James Barrat - The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans At Everything
Published: 9/29/2025 -
Episode 779: Michaela Vieser & Isaac Yuen - The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination
Published: 9/24/2025 -
Episode 778: Mary Roach - Replaceable You: Adventures In Human Anatomy
Published: 9/23/2025 -
Episode 777: Svend Brinkmann - The Experience Society: Life Beyoned Subjectivity
Published: 9/23/2025 -
Episode 776: Einstein in Oxford - Andrew Robinson
Published: 3/17/2025 -
Episode 775: Hidden in the Heavens - Jason Steffen
Published: 3/17/2025 -
Episode 774: Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy - Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember
Published: 2/18/2025 -
Episode 773: David Bates - An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence
Published: 2/18/2025 -
Episode 772: Gareth Gore - Opus
Published: 2/18/2025 -
Episode 771: Jonathan Silvertown - Selfish Genes to Social Beings: : A Cooperative History of Life
Published: 11/26/2024 -
Episode 770: Elizabeth Winder - Parachute Women: The Women Behind The Rolling Stones
Published: 11/25/2024 -
Episode 769: Jim Baggott - Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement
Published: 11/22/2024 -
Episode 768: Lewis Cohen MD - Winter's End: Dementia and Dying
Published: 11/21/2024 -
Episode 767: Rowan Jacobsen - Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul
Published: 11/21/2024 -
Episode 766: Debbie Urbanski - After World
Published: 8/28/2024 -
Episode 765: Roz Dineen - Briefly Very Beautiful: A Novel
Published: 8/28/2024 -
Episode 764: Chris French - The Science Of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure The Paranormal
Published: 8/28/2024 -
Episode 763: Adam Forrest Kay - Escape From Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory
Published: 8/22/2024 -
Episode 762: Christy Spackman: The Taste of Water Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage
Published: 8/22/2024
The Avid Reader is a podcast for book lovers. Tune in for interviews, recommendations, and insider news from Sam Hankin, host and owner of independent bookstore Wellington Square Bookshop - www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com