Iain Lee
Season 6, Episode 5
We may well call all our guests broadcasters, but Iain Lee is a proper one. The comedian and TalkRadio host joins Robin and Josie to talk about great books on mental health, the work of Will Storr, Matt Haig, Anna Minton and many more all ending in a massive Vonnegut love in.
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Reading List
Iain recommends:
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia by Marc Leeds
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J Shields
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us by Will Storr
The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr
What’s Going On? by Ben Edmonds
The Secret Seven series by Enid Blyton
Slaugherhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
Robin recommends:
Psychiatric Tales by Daryl Cunningham
Supercrash by Daryl Cunningham
The Shock of The Fall by Nathan Filler
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory. and what he taught the world by Suzanne Corkin
Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut’s Life and Novels by Gregory D. Sumner
If This Isn’t Nice What Is? by Kurt Vonnegut
The work of Howard Zinn
On Reading and Books by Arthur Schopenhauer
Moondust: In Search of Men Who Fell To Earth by Andrew Smith
The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
The Horrid Henry series by Francesca Simon
The poems of John Cooper Clarke
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memories, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
Josie recommends:
No Logo by Naomi Klein
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power by Alex Nunns
Ground Control by Anna Minton
Big Capital: Who is London For? by Anna Minton
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
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