Enjoyed listening to #PhillipAdams learning from #JenniferAckerman about the wisdom and wonder of #owls on #LateNightLive on #ABC #RadioNational. 🦉

Episode Tite: From Aztecs to wizards: the enduring enchantment of owls

Link to episode on the #ABCAustralia website: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/the-enchantment-of-owls/102599558

As a #MartinAmis fan, I enjoyed last week's tribute repeat episode of ABC Radio National's #LateNightLive from 2020, with #PhillipAdams in conversation with the recently departed English author about the last book he wrote, Inside Story, on the death of his closest friend, #ChristopherHitchens.

Phillip and Martin also explore other questions on how to live, grieve and die. And my favourite part of their conversation is a philosophical discussion about 36 minutes into the episode, where Phillip admits to Martin that he shares the English poet and author Philip Larkin's fear of "being dead" rather than "dying" itself. That is, "the notion of billions of years of nothingness". To which Martin responds, "Did you mind all those millenia when you were yet to born?"

Please note: Phillip issues a "health warning" that the episode contains some "adult themes" and "if that's not you cup of tea, perhaps switch off". Or, in our case, scroll on.

#writers #books #philosophy #life #death

Link to episode on #ABCAustralia website: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/late-night-live-martin-amis/102356210

Good to hear and learn from #Indigenous voices discussing the situation in the NT, the #VoiceToParliament and January 26 on #LateNightLive with #PhillipAdams. 👇

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/indigenous-update-brazil-lula-indian-art-dealer/14135328