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820 Irish Radical Poet Eva Gore-Booth (with Sonja Tiernan)

After reading an email from a listener in Ghana, Jacke talks to Sonja Tiernan about her book Eva Gore-Booth: Irish Radical Poet, Rebel, and Reformer, which tells the story of a young woman who cast aside her aristocratic origins to champion the causes of barmaids, circus performe ... Show More

55m 31s

Jul 27

819 Robert Louis Stevenson (with Glenda Norquay) | The Rise of HOT Literati | My Last Book with Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

After discussing a news article detailing the rise of "hot literati," Jacke talks to biographer Glenda Norquay (Robert Louis Stevenson: A Critical Life) about the amazing life of Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish author of classic works like Kidnapped and Treasure Island. PLUS ... Show More

1h 4m

Jul 20

818 Muriel Spark (with James Bailey) | My Last Book with J. Michael Lennon

Jacke talks to author James Bailey about his critically acclaimed biography Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark. PLUS J. Michael Lennon, friend and biographer of Norman Mailer ( Norman Mailer: A Double Life), stops by to discuss his choice for the last book he ... Show More

1h 13m

May 2024

Virtues and Vices - AIRC518

In today's podcast, we talk about vices and virtues. You'll learn vocabulary connected to the seven deadly sins and the seven heavenly virtues. Can you name all of them in English? Shownotes and more podcasts to improve your English at: <a href= "http://www.inglespodca ... Show More

28m 56s

Feb 2025

NEW SERIES: The Deadly Seven

Host Ashley Willcott is known as a TV anchor, a former judge, and a trial lawyer, and nearly all of the cases she's covered over the years intersect with one of the seven deadly sins. Pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth. The opposite of the seven heavenl ... Show More

1m 8s

May 2020

Servants of the Most Merciful #7

The Sins They Are Capable Of

54m 24s

Feb 2021

Where do the 7 deadly sins come from?

Let's start by getting the elephant out of the room: the Bible has nothing to do with this list. The fact that the 7 deadly sins come from Bible is a misconception. The 7 deadly sins, also known as the 7 capital sins, came into existence far after the books of the Bible were writ ... Show More

2m 44s

Mar 2020

S2 EP8 - Sloth

Yes, we’ve come to the seventh of the seven deadly sins. Sloth. Is it sloth as in both, or sloth as in moth? Whichever, sloth lives inside us all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

22m 4s

Feb 2025

NEW SERIES: The Deadly Seven

Host Ashley Willcott is known as a TV anchor, a former judge, and a trial lawyer, and nearly all of the cases she's covered over the years intersect with one of the seven deadly sins. Pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth. The opposite of the seven heavenl ... Show More

1m 8s

Apr 2012

The Seven Deadlies: Sloth

Sloth: When does mere laziness become moral failure? When does apathy descend into sloth? In this episode, Julie and Robert tackle one final deadly sin, traveling through both Dante's purgatory and the neural pathways of the human mind. Painting by Jacques de Backer (Luciano P ... Show More

23m 35s

Apr 2019

The Science of Sin: Why We Do Bad Things & How to Lead When You Are Not in Charge

Why does traffic just seem to stop for no reason then magically clear up? You are sure there must be an accident or construction but there isn’t. So what causes it? We begin this episode with an explanation of that. (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090608151550.htm) ... Show More

52m 23s

Jun 2024

WOF 440: Atoning for the Seven Deadly Sins

Our journey continues through Dante's poetic imagery of the seven deadly sins. As Bishop Barron describes them in order of th ... Show More

14m 22s

The Seven Deadly Sins