Backstage at the Apollo Part I
2017 End of Year Special Part II
It’s Part II of our end of year specials, but Part I of those we recorded backstage at the Hammersmith Apollo as part of the Compendium of Reason gigs. Guests on this episode include Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Ben Goldacre, Helen Czerski, Jon Butterworth, Steve Mould, Hannah Fry, Laura Kid and Steve Best with book recommendations from photography collections to graphic novels to expansive novels.
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Sophie Ellis Bextor image by Steve Best
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Reading List
Robin recommends:
The House of the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The love stories of HP Lovecraft
Democracy by Alecos Papadatos
Joker Face by Steve Best
Freewheeling John Dowie by John Dowie
In England by Don McCullin
Finding Vivian Maier by Vivian Maier and John Maloof
Unreasonable Behaviour by Don McCullin
Sophie Ellis-Bextor recommends:
This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
The Nix by Nathan Hill
Jennie by Paul Gallico
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Girls by Emma Cline
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
The work of Maggie O’Farrell
How Music Works by David Byrne
How The Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr Seuss
Ben Goldacre recommends:
Two Cheers for Anarchism by James C Scott
KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money by JMR Higgs
Helen Czerski recommends:
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
Steve Mould recommends:
How to Be A Scientist by Steve Mould
Hannah Fry recommends:
Unfair by Adam Benforado
How Not To Be A Boy by Robert Webb
Jon Butterworth recommends:
Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis
The work of Iain Banks
Laura Kidd recommends:
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Steve Best recommends:
Comedy Snapshot by Steve Best
Galen Rowell: A Retrospective by Galen Rowel and Tom Brokaw
Homeless by Lee Jeffries
Lost Angels by Lee Jeffries
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