Stick with Attenborough, Self and James - the rest is dire
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“The other reviews of this podcast are very odd - nearly all seem to have been written as if David Attenborough were the only contributor. Regrettably this is not the case. He did a series of episodes years ago and hasn't been heard from on this programme since. The usual contributors are Lisa Jardine, David Cannadine and Sarah Dunant. Fortunately Alain de Botton and Joan Bakewell seem to have dropped away. Generally the episodes are mind-numbing. If there's a dull point to be made or a conventional view to be expressed, these contributors can be relied upon to do so. If there's a history of something uninteresting to be strung out over ten minutes, you'll find it here. I find my attention drifting off while they extol the niceness of baking cakes, or the cuteness of teddy bears; I skip forward when they trace the history of British charity shops or US presidential inaugurations.
However, when one of the gems from Clive James, David Attenborough or Will Self has come up, that's entirely different. Clive James is laugh-out-loud funny, self-deprecatingly delightful, always fabulously fun to listen to, even when I disagree with half or more of what he says. I still hugely enjoy listening to it. David Attenborough is a towering mind, and his curiosity and whimsical insights and sheer love of the animal world is compelling. Will Self is a bit of a relevation - an intellectual flick-knife, a thundering, eloquent rager against injustice, selfishness, gluttony, lazy-mindedness, hereditary power and else besides. Compared with the usual suspects on this programme these three contributors are like a lungful of oxygen on leaving a fetid classroom, or waking up from a stupor.
So all in all this podcast is worthwhile, but only for the right episodes.”Read full review »
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