Episodes

  • Island Song - Pepsi Demacque-Crockett

    Island Song - Pepsi Demacque-Crockett
    Jan 30 2025
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    Title: Island Song
    Author: Pepsi Demacque-Crockett
    Narrator: To Be Announced
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 10:14:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-30-2025
    Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Family Life

    Summary:
    One sister found the courage to leave, the other must find the courage to live … From the Caribbean to 1950s London, an epic story of finding home, Island Song is an atmospheric and lyrical debut of compelling storytelling, for fans of Louise Hare and Kristin Hannah. ‘We are born of fighters … slaves wanting to be free. Never let anyone take away the fire in your belly, my daughters…’ When their father dies, Agnes Deterville and her sister Ella must forge their own paths in life. Headstrong Agnes dreams of a new life far away. Cautious Ella fears the world beyond their small village in St Lucia. When Agnes departs for a new life in 1950s London, they are both confronted by heartbreak, loneliness, and tragedy. Separated by an ocean, but bound by love, can the sisters keep their island song singing in their hearts?
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    10 hrs and 14 mins
  • Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human - Guy Leschziner

    Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human - Guy Leschziner
    Nov 21 2024
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    Title: Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human
    Author: Guy Leschziner
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8:57:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 11-21-2024
    Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science, Philosophy

    Summary:
    Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Envy. Lust. Anger. These are the seven deadly sins, the vices of humankind that define immorality, the roots of all evil in the world. Or so some believe. But do these sins really represent moral failings, or are they simply human functions that aid us? Are they just the result of how our bodies, psyches, and brains in particular, are wired? This new book by Dr Guy Leschziner, a professor of neurology and sleep medicine, explores the underlying nature of the seven deadly sins, their neuroscientific and psychological basis, their origin in our genes and crucially how certain medical disorders give rise to them. Drawing on his clinical practice, we meet individuals whose physical and psychological conditions have given rise to these sins, where brain injury or other experiences have sparked ‘immoral’ actions. He explores how illness can simply expose what lies within us and investigates how the origins of these traits lie in evolutionary imperatives to preserve the wellbeing of the tribe. Perhaps, he suggests, these character traits are less of a moral question and more biological, which raises fundamental issues of responsibility and blame in the face of ‘sin’. Combining cutting-edge science placed in the context of real-life experience with patients, the book reexamines where the boundaries between normal human nature, pathology and sin are drawn. And, most importantly, whether these hard-wired traits truly represent sin, or simply the intensity of our intrinsic desire to survive and thrive.
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    8 hrs and 57 mins