Rebecca Priestley
Season 6, Episode 21
While out in New Zealand Robin and Josie chatted to one of NZ’s most celebrated science writers, Dr Rebecca Priestley. They chat about Rebecca’s own work and her time in Antarctica as well as work through the big stack of books Rebecca brought in. From collections of essays and poetry, to the writings of Atul Gawande, Helen Macdonald and lots more.
Please note that the small temporary studio we were put in to record this episode only had one mic to share between the three speakers, and Josie had a bad cold, so the audio quality isn’t the best, sorry about that.
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Reading List
Rebecca recommends:
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
The Faber Book of Science by John Carey
The Awa Book of New Zealand Science edited by Rebecca Priestley
Dispatches from Continent Seven by Rebecca Priestley
Gathering Evidence by Caoillin Hughes
Atoms, Dinosaurs and DNA by Rebecca Priestley
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Complications by Atul Gawande
Better by Atul Gawande
Can You Tolerate This by Ashleigh Young
Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler
How to Watch a Bird by Steve Braunias
Multiple Exposures by Catherine Caufield
Confessing a Murder by Nick Drayson
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
The work of Paul Cleave
Robin recommends:
Mad on Radium by Rebecca Priestley
Against Empathy by Paul Bloom
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs From Outer Space by Janna Levin
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman
The work of Kurt Vonnegut
Luminous Moments by Paul Callaghan
Bird, Kansas by Tony Parker
Lighthouse by Tony Parker
The work of Oliver Sacks
Love’s Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom
The work of Iain Rankin
Josie recommends:
Sex, Botany and Empire by Patricia Fara
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
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