In those times they often turned to text or to writing as a means of, I suppose, preserving that feeling. And also one of the Thomas Mann, for example, of German novelist, who became an exile and went to live in the United States. He did this wonderful series of radio broadcasts via the BBC to Germany and the occupied countries of Europe. It wasn't enough to just transmit it on short wave, because Germans weren't allowed to have shortwave radios.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie is joined by award-winning author and professor, Sarah Bakewell.
Sarah joins us to discuss her latest work of nonfiction, Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope
Isy and Sarah also discuss Humanism and religion, finding beauty in the complexity of the world, a brief history of human dissection, and the writing of Michel de Montaigne.
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