Ben Caplan
Book Shambles
Canadian singer-songwriter Ben Caplan is on tour in Europe at the moment with his band and new musical Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, so he dropped by the studio to chat with Robin and Michael Legge, subbing for Josie again whilst she’s on maternity leave. They chat of Jewish refugees, squeezing philosophy lines into songs, great music biographies by hard rockers and much more. And Michael does an ad for Mercedes for which we very much didn’t get paid for.
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Reading List
Ben recommends:
The work of Martin Heidegger
The work of Immanuel Kant
Beautiful Scars by Tom Wilson
Oration on the Dignity of Man by Pico della Mirandola
The work of Friedrich Nietzsche
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
The work of John Ralston Saul
Robin recommends:
Nothing by Janne Teller
War by Janne Teller
Our Hidden Lives by Simon Garfield
Watchmen by Alan Moore
The work of Howard Zinn
Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
The work of Richard Feynman
The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
White Line Fever by Lemmy Kilmister
The Final Programme by Jerrt Cornelius
Michael recommends:
The Dirt by Mötley Crüe
Drunk Folk Stories by Beans on Toast
Iggy Pop Life Class by Jeremy Deller
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