Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself (POD)

Alan Alda

'The message is consistent: it's not what you do in life, but how you do it. Notice everything. Always be open to new ideas, new experiences. Alda is chatty, easygoing and humble ...His words of inspiration would be a perfect gift' - "Publishers Weekly". Acclaimed actor and internationally bestselling a...

Confabulations

John Berger

'Language is a body, a living creature ...and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and pol...

Fantastic Mr Fox: A Play

Roald Dahl (adapted by Sally Reid)

Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl - a short dramatization by Sally Reid - perfect for schools - of Dahl's immensely popular story for younger readers in which clever Mr Fox outwits the three nasty farmers- Boggis. Bunce and Bean. An excellent adaptation by Sally Reid, with staging advice on props, lightin...

How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

Michael Pollan

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness. 'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to resea...