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Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins
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Stephen Fry's 7 Deady Sins - I will take each one of the Seven Sins in turn, lay them out on the surgical table and poke, prod, pry and provoke in an attempt to try to anatomise and understand them; I hope and believe it will be, if nothing else, delicious fun and something of a change from the usual run of podcastery.
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S2 EP9 - Wrapping Up
Mar 9, 202000:49:49Tap to summarizeI have been charmed and delighted to find that the comments that have come in for this series have been sound, friendly, helpful and informed. In this final episode for this series, I’ve singled out one or two. Thank you for your questioning, your listening — go on searching, asking and wondering. Wondering in both senses: wondering by wanting to know and wondering by marvelling. And here’s to madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and sceptics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S2 EP8 - Sloth
Mar 2, 202000:22:04Tap to summarizeYes, 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.
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S2 EP7 - Wrath
Feb 24, 202000:26:26Tap to summarizeMister ANGRY has been unleashed from his rage cage. Let’s drink together some of the wine from his grapes of wrath. Furious to know more? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S2 EP6 - Gluttony
Feb 17, 202000:28:52Tap to summarizeLoosen your waistbands and gorge with me until you gasp. It’s Gluttony - the devil that drives us to all kinds of addiction and excess *burp*. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S2 EP5 - Envy
Feb 10, 202000:36:59Tap to summarizeI confess. I’ve been guilty of envy. It’s not a pretty vice. And now I envy YOU - all the pleasure of this fresh new podisode ahead of you. You lucky lucky people... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S2 EP4 - Lust
Feb 3, 202000:39:46Tap to summarizeYou know you want it. You know you do. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S2 EP3 - Greed
Jan 27, 202000:33:43Tap to summarizeAvarice, or Greed as we would call it today, now there’s a proper vice, one we can all surely identify with, claim and confess to. One of the defining quotations of the materialistic 1980s came from the fictional character Gordon Gecko, the junk bond pirate played by Michael Douglas in the Oliver Stone film, Wall Street. “Greed,” he tells a dinner of fellow financiers, “for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works”. It’s easy to dismiss this. Your instinct might be to shake your head sadly, or scoff angrily. Yet... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S2 EP2 - Pride
Jan 20, 202000:28:18Tap to summarizeFor two thousand years Pride has stood at the very top of the list of the Seven Deadly Sins. Perhaps no longer. Perhaps a new sin is rising to replace it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S2 EP1 - Introduction
Jan 13, 202000:32:16Tap to summarizeAn exploration of the human heart.In this new series I will take each one of the Seven Sins in turn, lay them out on the surgical table and poke, prod, pry and provoke in an attempt to try to anatomise and understand them; I hope and believe it will be, if nothing else, delicious fun and something of a change from the usual run of podcastery.Researched, written & read by Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by Guy Farley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Trailer — Season 2: 7 Deadly Sins
Dec 30, 201900:00:34Tap to summarizeStephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins is coming in early 2020 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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