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S2 EP3 - Greed

27 January 2020 - 33 mins explicit
Podcast Series Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins

Avarice, or Greed as we would call it today, now there’s a proper vice, one we can all surely identify with, claim and confess to. One of the defining quotations of the materialistic 1980s came from the fictional character Gordon Gecko, the junk bond pirate played by Michael Douglas in the Oliver Stone film, Wall Street. “Greed,” he tells a dinner of fellow financiers, “for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works”. It’s easy to dismiss this. Your instinct might be to shake your head sadly, or scoff angrily. Yet...

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33 mins

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S2 EP9 - Wrapping Up

S2 EP9 - Wrapping Up

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I have been charmed and delighted to find that the comments that have come in for this series have been sound, friendly, helpful and informed. In this final episode for this series, I’ve singled out one or two. Thank you for your questioning, your listening — go on searching, asking and wondering. Wondering in both senses: wondering by wanting to know and wondering by marvelling. And here’s to madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and sceptics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

49 mins

9 March 2020 Finished

S2 EP8 - Sloth

S2 EP8 - Sloth

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Yes, we’ve come to the seventh of the seven deadly sins. Sloth. Is it sloth as in both, or sloth as in moth? Whichever, sloth lives inside us all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

22 mins

2 March 2020 Finished

S2 EP7 - Wrath

S2 EP7 - Wrath

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Mister ANGRY has been unleashed from his rage cage. Let’s drink together some of the wine from his grapes of wrath. Furious to know more? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

26 mins

24 February 2020 Finished

S2 EP6 - Gluttony

S2 EP6 - Gluttony

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Loosen your waistbands and gorge with me until you gasp. It’s Gluttony - the devil that drives us to all kinds of addiction and excess *burp*. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

28 mins

17 February 2020 Finished

S2 EP5 - Envy

S2 EP5 - Envy

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I confess. I’ve been guilty of envy. It’s not a pretty vice. And now I envy YOU - all the pleasure of this fresh new podisode ahead of you. You lucky lucky people... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

36 mins

10 February 2020 Finished

S2 EP4 - Lust

S2 EP4 - Lust

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You know you want it. You know you do. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

39 mins

3 February 2020 Finished

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