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Mar 2023
52m 21s

Sarah Bakewell with Isy Suttie

PENGUIN BOOKS UK
About this episode

This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie is joined by award-winning author and professor, Sarah Bakewell.


Sarah joins us to discuss her latest work of nonfiction, Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope 


Isy and Sarah also discuss Humanism and religion, finding beauty in the complexity of the world, a brief history of human dissection, and the writing of Michel de Montaigne.


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