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Jun 2024
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ADDICTION AS CONTROL | Irvine Welsh and ...

Raoul Martinez
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This podcast is released alongside the acclaimed new docuseries 'In The Eye Of The Storm — The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis'. Watch it here: http://www.eyeofthestorm.info


Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist and short story writer. His 1993 novel Trainspotting was adapted into an era-defining film. To find out more, go to: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/167724/irvine-welsh


Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, politician, author and the former finance minister of Greece. To find out more, go to: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/


Raoul Martinez is a philosopher, author and filmmaker. To find out more, go to: http://www.creatingfreedom.info


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