Lucy Cooke
Season 7, Episode 7
On this week’s episode Robin and Josie are joined by writer and broadcaster Lucy Cooke to talk about her new book The Unexpected Truth About Animals. There’s tales of weird zoology, the grafting of monkey’s testicles, Will Self and Josie has a go at Aristotle.
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Reading List
Lucy recommends:
Testicular grafting from ape to man by Serge Voronoff
Pseudodoxia Epidemica by Thomas Browne
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Great Apes by Will Self
Money by Martin Amis
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Robin recommends:
The Unexpected Truth About Animals by Lucy Cooke
What the Fuck Did I Do Last Night? by Rowland Rivron
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and Richard M. Powersy
Zona by Geoff Dyer
Cock and Bull by Will Self
Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography by Victoria Price
The Way of the Panda by Henry Nichols
Lonesome George by Henry Nichols
Sleepy Head by Henry Nichols
Josie recommends:
The Girlfriend by Michelle Frances
The Book of Dave by Will Self
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