Owen Jones
Season 1, Episode 4Political books are the starting point for this week as Josie and Robin are joined by author and political activist Owen Jones to talk of everything from Naomi Kline, Ronnie Barker, Howard Zinn and the poetry of Louise Mensch.
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Reading List
Owen recommends:
Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class – Owen Jones
The Hobbit – J.R. Tolkien
The work of Orson Scott Card
The Alchymist’s Cat – Robin Jarvis
The Deptford Mice – Robin Jarvis
The Dark is Rising Sequence – Susan Cooper
The Complete Short Stories – Roald Dahl
This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs The Climate – Naomi Klein
The work of John Pilger
Antar and the Eagles – William Mayne
The Lines of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
Robin recommends:
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein
The 96 books of Bertrand Russell
Renegade – Mark E. Smith
Pan Book of Horror Stories
The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book – Eric Idle
Gullible’s Travels – Billy Connolly
Sauce – Ronnie Barker
The Literary Companion to Sex – Fiona Pitt-Kiethley
Children of the Matrix – David Icke
The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire – Arundhati Roy
Flat Earth News – Nick Davies
Passionate Declarations – Howard Zinn
A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
Josie recommends:
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken
The Point Horror books
The Goosebumps series
The poems of Louise Mensch
The novels of Anne Widdecombe
The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – David Shafer
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