Peter Godfrey-Smith

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184 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 24 Aug

Peter Godfrey-Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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They provide a frame for much of the book, and also, as I said, a respite from difficult themes, personal and global.

So that's how the book works, but let's back up and start with something about Emily Rabitaw.

Some of the um sections have a kind of diary like structure as well.

She goes month by month and week by week through pivotal times.

And that of course has a quilt like appearance as well.

These fragments from particular moments stitched together.

The books had considerable acclaim.

Uh it was listed by Time magazine and L Magazine as one of the best books of twenty twenty four.

The New York Times has praised it.

Uh the LA Times named it one of their books recommended for easing climate anxiety.

And I think that's a kind of interesting choice.

I didn't feel gr greatly eased.

Yeah, okay.

There's a cathartic role in a way that the book might have.

That's that's true.

Yeah.

It was also named by Science Friday as one of the best beach reads for summer twenty twenty four.

So really a a diverse range of many kinds of acclaim that it's had in the media since it came out in twenty twenty four.

Let's start with the opening and the introduction of the birds.

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