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Really True Fiction is a podcast scouring famous works of fiction to swim through the real life lessons, thoughts, wisdoms, insights and ideas therein.
Update frequency:
every 116 days
Average audio length:
98 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
119 episodes
since Sept. 5, 2019
episodic
explicit content
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Liberal souls are people who are genuinely curious and interested in the world, they find vanity boring, and they live to see themselves and others flourish existentially in their finite time on the planet.
I have written a book! It is called The Liberal Soul, and it is available now for purchase.…
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In this episode we dive into the fabulous 2016 film Arrival; directed by Denis Villenueve and based on a short story by Ted Chiang. In this episode we discuss the contextual nature of language, seeing the big picture, education and learning, fractal reality, the importance of failure, the importanc…
Big thanks to Graham King for joining me on episode 90!
In this episode we chat about the great film Boogie Nights (1997) by Paul Thomas Anderson. In this episode we wrangle with notions of:
The essence of Faustian bargain being that you don't even ask for what you really want, and the isola…
Welcome to a bonus episode of Really True Fiction. Those with a keen eye will have noticed that our last two episodes were on 1984 and Brave New World. So, for a bonus, Dan and I do a bit of a compare and contrast between them; seeing as they are both very famous and of a similar ouevre. In this bo…
Welcome to part two of our double bill on famous dystopia! In this episode Dan Holder and I delve into the 1931 novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. While disecting Huxley's vision of a dys(u?)topia, we chat about:
How this should've been an essay
Is this even dystopia?
Boring mantra and c…
In this episode my friend Dan Holder and I dive into maybe the most referenced/least read book ever: 1984. In this episode we chat about Orwell's favourite pub, paying attention to the little things in life and how thought crime makes us lose those things, how Winston is attracted to all the little…
Finally, we made it. I was very grateful to once again be joined by Dan Holder, Lydia Rollinson and Graham King to finish off the Harry Potter books. In this last instalment of the series we talk about:
Students becoming more excellent than their teachers, changing your opinion of someone because …
Welcome to the first foursome for Really True Fiction! A big thanks to Dan, Lydia and Graham for joining me to chat about the (best?) sixth Harry Potter book. In our conversation we cover such ground as:
Relationships as status vs feeling, the monster in the chest, Ginny's subtle art of not giving…
Jump on the Hogwart's Express! We are going to back school!
I'm very pleased to be joined by Dan Holder (who joined me on the Master and Commander episode) and Lydia Rollinson to talk about the fifth Harry Potter book. It was a total blast to have two Brits on to talk about a very British, as w…
For this episode of Really True Fiction I am pleased to have Stuart Kaija and Graham King on as guests to discuss the 2013 novel The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (winner of the Pulitzer prize). I had never heard of this book before it being introduced to me for this episode and I thorougly e…
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