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Ben Okri - You're Booked

This week we are honoured to talk to globally acclaimed author, poet, screenwriter and Booker prize winner <a href="https://benokri.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ben Okri</a> OBE! Ben has won numerous awards and honorary doctorates for his fiction and poetry and is considered one of the foremost African authors of the modern era. We talked to Ben about the meaning of being, the character of Walt Whitman, the idea of comfort reading and the importance of reading to our humanity.BOOKSDaisy Buchanan - <a href="https://www.themargatebookshop.com/shop/insatiable" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Insatiable</a>Daisy Buchanan - <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/careering/daisy-buchanan/9780751580204" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Careering</a>Ben Okri - <a href="https://amzn.to/3FRVQU1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Famished Road</a>Ben Okri - <a href="https://amzn.to/3lM3JCv" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Every Leaf a Hallelujah</a>Marcel Proust - <a href="https://amzn.to/3jaGDDQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Swann’s Way</a>Marcel Proust - <a href="https://amzn.to/3AJk1jO" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower</a>Marcel Proust - <a href="https://amzn.to/2YTza4L" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Guermantes Way</a>Marcel Proust - <a href="https://amzn.to/30BdlYD" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sodom and Gomorrah</a>Marcel Proust - <a href="https://amzn.to/3aLZPmI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Prisoner</a>Marcel Proust - <a href="https://amzn.to/3aLZPmI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Fugitive</a>Marcel Proust - <a href="https://amzn.to/2Z63CZP" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Time Regained</a>Plato - <a href="https://amzn.to/3FXsq6O" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Republic</a>Aristotle - <a href="https://amzn.to/3DPtZC5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Complete Works</a>Homer -<a href="https://amzn.to/3pg7Glb" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Odyssey</a>Homer - <a href="https://amzn.to/3lNQKQI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Iliad</a>Ana Sampson (Ed) - <a href="https://amzn.to/3lO91gT" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wonder</a>Stendahl - <a href="https://amzn.to/3DPLEti" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">La Chartreuse de Parme</a>Paul Zweig - <a href="https://amzn.to/30oiN0L" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Walt Whitman</a>Walt Whitman - <a href="https://amzn.to/3BTt7Mm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Leaves of Grass</a>Olivia Laing -<a href="https://amzn.to/3n4UkFk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The Lonely City</a>TS Eliot - <a href="https://amzn.to/3vhWhSN" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Waste Land</a>Albert Camus - <a href="https://amzn.to/3j8gdm6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Plague</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Welcome to You’re Booked, the podcast for literary nosy parkers who would like the chance to snoop around their favourite authors’ bookshelves.I’m Daisy Buchanan, your Book Inspector, and I’ll be asking our guests all about the first forbidden books they read under the covers, the beloved books they have borrowed, and never given back, and those impressive heavyweight hardbacks that make them look like intellectual giants – even though they couldn’t get beyond the first twenty pages.We’ll also be talking about what makes readers into writers, how our guests became book lovers and their favourite reading memories, all with a dash of intelligence and a dollop of irreverence. Our guests include Dolly Alderton, Nina Stibbe, Nikesh Shukla, and many more favourites from our own bookshelves. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.