Bernadette Brennan
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419 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2018
last heard 29 May
Bernadette Brennan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I have had the best time.
What about you, Bernadette?
It was an amazing festival this year.
I had a lovely time.
It was just great to be surrounded by so many fantastic writers from around the world.
And it's always a great social event as well to catch up with everybody.
So I'm very buoyed, but like BJ, I'm also very exhausted, but pleasantly so.
And I have a new list of, or a large new pile of books to read, which is always exciting.
Well, the session that was a standout for me was when Claire Wright interviewed Luke Kemp
and Amitav Ghosh.
And I've got both of those books that they were talking about at that point.
Amitav was talking about his book, The Nutmeg Tree from four years ago, which I hadn't read.
And Luke Kemp's book is called Goliath's Curse.
And it was one of the most stimulating and exciting discussions I have heard in a
So Luke Kemp, I had never heard of Luke Kemp before, and maybe that's my ignorance.
And he was introduced as a scholar from Cambridge and his topic was existential risk, which sounds sort of all very, you know, esoteric and
and whatever, and his interest is in looking at history, deep, deep history from thousands of years ago to now, and looking at the collapse of civilizations, looking at what is the great risk to the human planet.
And of course, we all know that climate change is one.
He said for a long time, all they were working on there was nuclear weapons.
But now it's robotic warfare and nuclear weapons, of course, and climate change.
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