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“It’s increasingly evident that narration is built in to the human floor-plan as it were. Little kids take to story-telling very, very early… The fact is that we will tell stories; it’s part of being human.
“What effects those stories may have are often quite unforeseen by the people telling them, but if they are listened […]

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Philosopher Julian Baggini has taken to film-making to promote his latest book entitled Should You Judge This Book by its Cover? In the book, he subjects one hundred proverbs and other examples of homespun wisdom to philosophical scrutiny. And in the film - well, click below and see for yourself.
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 Christopher Kelly: Attila the Hun [20:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“The Huns are a blank canvas. That’s what makes them so interesting. We know only one word of Hunnic, the word strava, the Hunnic word for funeral. We have no Hunnic poetry, we have no Hunnic literature.”
My guest on this edition of Podularity is Cambridge classicist, Christopher Kelly. His book on Attila the Hun and […]

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