Julia Gillard

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335 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 29 Jul

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Secret Life of Books · A Podcast of One's Own x SLOB: Special Collaboration · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

Oh, that's really wonderful.

So, yeah, I was, I left relieved because often... Totally, because it's so important that these things be honoured.

Really wonderful.

I've got this image in my mind now of a young Sophie tottering around with stacks and stacks of books, 300 books.

What is changing about our literary habits between when you went to Harvard and

Here's your reading list, 300 long.

And the way it's done now, I got to interview the very famous author Ian McEwan on stage at the Hay Book Festival in Wales.

He's written a book called, his most recent book is called What Can We Know?

And he's got two academics in the future, Tom and Rose, in the year 2,119.

And I'd have to say I laughed out loud when I hit the

paragraph that describes in 2,119, they're trying to teach sort of English and history, but they can't get, you know, the students, they can't get the students to read a whole book.

And the maximum essay length they can set is 400 words.

There's a lot in that and...

Obviously, the war for our attention is, you know, peak now.

You've got so many choices about where to put your attention.

And when you do put it on social media, on things that scroll, you know, the algorithm is finally tuned to make it as addictive as possible.

It sure is.

Yeah.

And you can feel it yourself.

I'm not a huge social media scroller.

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