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Nov 2024
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18. Malcolm Gladwell

Bbc Radio 4
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Kirsty Young asks the writer and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell what advice he would give his younger self.

Gladwell's writing, in books such as The Tipping Point and Outliers, successfully distil complex ideas for a mass audience, and he has worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker. His podcasts include Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood. Gladwell recalls his childhood in a largely Mennonite community in rural Canada, reflects on the shared culture of his English father and Jamaican mother, and shares his joy at becoming a parent later in life.

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