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The Borris Broadcasts

The Borris Broadcasts

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 The Borris House Festival of Writing & Ideas promises a weekend of stimulating dialogue and discourse, gathering together intriguing international minds from all over the world and inviting them to Borris Village for a few days. Prize-winning novelists, poet laureates, genre-changing musicians, mind-expanding academics, journalists from far reaches of the globe, but also artists, film-makers, political commentators, musicians, architects - and regular people who have experienced the extraordinary - grace the stages across the weekend. It has become known for its casual, friendly atmosphere, and for its extraordinary line-up of speakers, carefully curated by a small team led by Vivienne Guinness and Hugo Jellett. In the past years this festival has welcomed Donna Tartt, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, David Gilmour, Chrissie Hynde, Dominic West, Kate Tempest, Don McCullin, John Paul Jones, Michael Chabon, Sebastian Barry, PJ Harvey, Antony Beevor, Anne Enright, Martin Amis, Roy Foster, Michael Cunningham, Tommy Tiernan, Michael Harding, Louis De Bernieres, Philomena Lee, Joseph O'Connor, Bob Geldof, Michael Craig Martin, Colm Toibin, Florence Welch, David Simon, Mary Robinson and many many others. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJhXPcEub2kZuewkonABDKgThe views, information, or opinions expressed during this podcast are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of The Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas Art Social Sciences
Episodes
  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: Ocean Vuong & Alex Clark

    On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: Ocean Vuong & Alex Clark
    Feb 21 2025

    Vietnamese American writer, professor and photographer, Ocean Vuong (Time is a Mother), talks to literary journalist Alex Clark.

    Supported by the T.S. Eliot Foundation.
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    53 mins
  • Deviant Minds: Jon Ronson & Marie Cassidy.

    Deviant Minds: Jon Ronson & Marie Cassidy.
    Dec 8 2024

    Jon Ronson (author of the Psychopath Test, The Men Who Stare At Goats, amongst others) talks to former State Pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy, on a subject very close to his heart: psychopaths.
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    55 mins
  • Iain McGilchrist & John Lloyd: There's no such thing as a thing.

    Iain McGilchrist & John Lloyd: There's no such thing as a thing.
    Nov 20 2024

    Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and his Emissary, talks to producer John Lloyd (QI, Blackadder) talks about his recent(ish) book: The Matter with Things, his life and his study of the divided brain.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
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