The poet, author and broadcaster Michael Rosen almost died of COVID-19. He talks to Samira Shackle about that experience, described in his new book ‘Many Different Kinds of Love’. They discuss the value of kindness, touch and practical atheism, and reflect on liminality in life and literature. Plus, Michael describes his anger at the “unethical and immoral” decisions made by the British government, and urges against the dangerous devaluing of some lives over others, amidst our present pandemic.
Hosts: Samira Shackle and Alice Bloch
Producer: Alice Bloch
Music: Danosongs
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Further reading:
“Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and the NHS” (2021) Michael Rosen
“In A Word: Quarantine” (2020) Michael Rosen, New Humanist Magazine
“In A Word: Wellbeing” (2018), Michael Rosen, New Humanist Magazine
“In A Word: Deniers” (2021) Michael Rosen, New Humanist Magazine
"King Lear" (c1606) William Shakespeare
“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” (1916) James Joyce
“Ulysses” (1922) James Joyce
The Poetry of William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
"Alice in Wonderland" (1865) Lewis Carroll
Inside The New Space Race, with Nicholas Schmidle
Black Resistance and Racist Policing, with Adam Elliott-Cooper
(M)otherhood and Choice, with Pragya Agarwal
Quantum Physics & Philosophy, with Carlo Rovelli
Bonus: Rutger Bregman and Philippe Sands - Are Humans Naturally Good? From How To Academy
Why our minds need the wild, with Lucy Jones
Learning from our ancestors, with Alice Roberts
How to Fix the Internet, with Chris Bail
The Cosmos & Us, with Jo Marchant
Deporting Black Britons, with Luke de Noronha
Activism and Belief, with Rosemary Hancock
Desire in the age of Consent, with Katherine Angel
Looking back in anger at 'Cool Britannia' with Jason Arday
Escaping the logic of work, with Mareile Pfannebecker
Sensuous knowledge and black feminism, with Minna Salami
The symbolic power of charity, with Jon Dean
Taking sex robots seriously, with Kate Devlin
Faith, fraternity and the Orange Order, with Joe Webster
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