Five Favourite Books

Five Favourite Books

Podcast af The Institute of Public Affairs

This podcast is exclusive to IPA Members until a later date. Head to ipa.org.au/bookoffer for more details. Dr Bella d'Abrera speaks to Australia's le...

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episode Five Favourite Books with Bella d'Abrera: Janet Albrechtsen artwork
Five Favourite Books with Bella d'Abrera: Janet Albrechtsen

Lawyer, opinion columnist at The Australian and all round Superwoman Dr Janet Albrechtsen discusses her five favourite books with the IPA's Bella d’Abrera. Listen to Janet and the IPA’s Bella d’Abrera use books to springboard a wide-ranging discussion on what inspires us to become the people we ARE, what happens when PASSING FADS and classic literature collide, what can we learn about current political trends from books of the past... and oh! Did we hear someone mention Harry Potter?

18. nov. 2020 - 1 h 2 min
episode Greg Sheridan: The Everlasting Man artwork
Greg Sheridan: The Everlasting Man

Greg’s final pick is The Everlasting Man which was published in 1925. Chesterton, who was an historian, a writer, a philosopher, a lay theologian and an art critic, was a prolific author, penning approximately 80 books, several hundred poems, 200 short stories and 4000 essays. Listen to Greg explain why this particular work, out of all the books Chesterton wrote, has been so important in Greg’s life.

07. aug. 2020 - 57 min
episode Greg Sheridan: Leave it to Psmith artwork
Greg Sheridan: Leave it to Psmith

Greg explains why this particular Wodehouse is his favourite of all Wodehouse’s comic novels. It follows the adventures of Ronald Psmith (“the ‘p’ is silent, as in pshrimp”) who is always willing to help a damsel in distress. ‘Leave it to Psmith’ is, as Greg says, the moment in which Wodehouse declared himself a genius. The plot is farcical, the characters are everything you’d expect and more, the many similes will make you laugh out loud.

31. jul. 2020 - 52 min
episode Greg Sheridan: My Antonia artwork
Greg Sheridan: My Antonia

Find out why American author Willa Cather’s 1918 novel about immigrants’ experience in Nebraska, told through the memorable character of Ántonia Shimerda makes Greg’s favourite five books, even though he says he doesn’t like landscape writing, claims that he has no visual imagination, and normally chooses books with both rich dialogue and intellectual content.

24. jul. 2020 - 48 min
episode Greg Sheridan: The Sword of Honour Trilogy artwork
Greg Sheridan: The Sword of Honour Trilogy

This episode is a discussion of Evelyn Waugh’s masterful and epic work which follows Guy Crouchback’s experience of World War Two. Greg loves this book because it’s a celebration of Guy’s decency. Guy is not a superhero, he doesn’t have a particular high IQ, he doesn’t win the war and he doesn’t even win the girl.  But there is a theme of moral survival in the novel which comes through as it occurs to Guy during the course of the war that Stalin cannot be allowed to win.

18. jul. 2020 - 45 min
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