A Need To Read

By Ed Cunningham

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Episodes: 128

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A Need To Read mixes book reviews with personal journals inspired by books and interviews with really smart and interesting people, to bring you, what is statistically, one of the best book podcasts on the internet. If you want more from me please sign up for the Good To Know newsletter-- where you can find my latest musings on whatever I’m obsessed about that week and join my book club! https://edjcunningham.substack.com/

Episode Date
The world of Fungi with Merlin Sheldrake
Feb 17, 2023
Novels to read in 2023
Jan 05, 2023
#187 Dan Osman
Dec 05, 2022
Saving the planet without the bullshit, with Assaad Razzouk
Nov 28, 2022
Nutrition, Politics and Philosophy, with Alan Flanagan
Nov 20, 2022
What’s a Hothouse Earth? with Prof. Bill McGuire
Nov 13, 2022
Consciousness, Dreams, Free Will and The Self, with Prof. Anil Seth
Nov 07, 2022
Philosophy for hard times, with Kieran Setiya
Nov 02, 2022
Mental Health and Behaviour Change with Dr. Mike II
Oct 24, 2022
The Future of Farming with George Monbiot
Oct 16, 2022
The Law of Attraction debunked by David Grimes, an actual scientist.
Oct 11, 2022
The Psychology of Online Behaviour with Dr Nicola Fox Hamilton
Oct 05, 2022
#177 How to save our planet, with Professor Mark Maslin
Sep 01, 2022
#176 What’s wrong with Self-Help, with Siobhan O’Hagan
Aug 11, 2022
Exponentially faster and cheaper tech with Azeem Azhar
Aug 03, 2022
#174 The Suicide Issue with Professor Rory O’Connor
Jul 19, 2022
#173 The truth about Modern Slavery with Emily Kenway
Jul 12, 2022
#172 God is Not Great
Jul 05, 2022
How humans evolved by working together, with Professor Nichola Raihani
Jun 21, 2022
The art of self-deception
Jun 15, 2022
#169 Stoicism in practise, with Ben Aldridge
Jun 08, 2022
#168 #ManBox, Feminism and The Patriarchy with the Nice-Ish-Psychologist
May 30, 2022
#167 Lies that shaped history with Otto English (Author of Fake History)
May 24, 2022
#166 How Proust can change your life
May 17, 2022
#165 Behaviour change with Tiny Habits
May 10, 2022
#164 Hygge: The Danish philosophy of happiness and coziness
May 05, 2022
#163 From the Kardashians to Alain de Botton, with Daisy Harris-Burland and Harriet Bradley
May 03, 2022
#162 Life lessons from Philosophers
Apr 26, 2022
#161 Novels to read this summer
Apr 19, 2022
#160 Toxic Positivity with Whitney Goodman
Apr 12, 2022
#159 Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Apr 07, 2022
#158 The power of big business crooks, with Patrick Alley
Apr 04, 2022
#157 A new way to think about happiness
Mar 31, 2022
#156 The Sunny Nihilist, with Wendy Syfret
Mar 28, 2022
#153 Get Rich or Lie Tryin’ with Symeon Brown
Mar 10, 2022
#152 Human Kind: A hopeful history
Mar 07, 2022
The science of breath with James Nestor
Mar 03, 2022
#150 Who are you, really?
Feb 24, 2022
#149 What you need to know about time, with Oliver Burkeman
Feb 21, 2022
#148 How the West became self-obsessed
Feb 18, 2022
#147 The Sh*t They Never Taught You with Adam Ashton
Feb 14, 2022
#146 The Power of Geography with Tim Marshall
Feb 06, 2022
#145 Why you can’t pay attention
Jan 30, 2022
#144 Letters From A Stoic (Seneca and why you’ve heard of him)
Jan 24, 2022
#143 The Sweet Spot: suffering, pleasure and the key to a good life
Jan 17, 2022
#142 How technology and social media use impacts our health Dr Rachael Kent
Jan 11, 2022
#141 Rethinking Positive Thinking
Jan 04, 2022
#140 Existential problems and simple solutions with Alex Holmes
Dec 20, 2021
#139 Mindfulness In Plain English
Dec 16, 2021
#138 Leaving the NHS, McMindfulness and Personal Finance 101 with Yusef Smith
Dec 13, 2021
#137 The Women of WW2 with Tessa Dunlop
Dec 09, 2021
#136 Prisoners of Geography
Dec 06, 2021
#132 Putting an end to procrastination with Nir Eyal
Nov 18, 2021
#131 Answering your questions
Nov 15, 2021
#130 The Science of Luck with Dr Richard Wiseman
Nov 11, 2021
The Status Game, with Will Storr
Nov 08, 2021
#128 Is Lying really that bad?
Nov 03, 2021
#127 Mental health and fitness with Lucy Davis
Nov 01, 2021
#126 Hitch hiking to Iran and connecting with yourself with Adam Lind
Oct 25, 2021
#125 Healing with humour with Chris Hall
Oct 18, 2021
#124 What makes a man superior? with Emilia Thompson and Emma Storey Gordon - Part2
Oct 13, 2021
#123 What makes a Superior Man? with Emilia Thompson and Emma Storey Gordon - Part 1
Oct 10, 2021
#122 Activism, Koalas and Arnie with Kae Kurd
Oct 06, 2021
#121 Is being kind to yourself the key to a good life?
Oct 04, 2021
#120 Jamie Clements on masculinity, opening up and making mistakes.
Sep 30, 2021
#119 How to focus on what matters everyday
Sep 26, 2021
#118 The future of artificial intelligence with Mo Gawdat
Sep 22, 2021
#117 How To Change
Sep 19, 2021
#112 Addiction, sobriety & becoming a psychotherapist With Talitha Fosh
Sep 02, 2021
#111 Building better relationships by treating intimacy as a skill with Shaun Galanos
Jul 21, 2021
#109 The School Of Life
Jul 11, 2021
#108 Justin Moran on building a brand with purpose
Jul 06, 2021
#107 Jeff Haden on the truth about motivation
Jun 30, 2021
#106 Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
Jun 27, 2021
#105 How reading can change your life with Ty Temel
Jun 23, 2021
#103 Thomas Erikson - Surrounded By Idiots and Psychopaths
Jun 16, 2021
#102 The Motivation Myth
Jun 13, 2021
#101 Daisy Harris-Burland (The Bookmark Queen) on a creative life
Jun 09, 2021
#99 How to actually rest with Gabrielle Brown & James Reeves
May 24, 2021
#98 How to deal with different personalities with Sinead Hegarty
May 17, 2021
#97 The Happiness Trap
May 12, 2021
#95 Emilia Thompson PhD on authenticity & vulnerability
May 03, 2021
#94 How to make it in comedy with Russell Kane
Apr 28, 2021
Why people attach to conspiracy theories with David Grimes
Apr 21, 2021
#91 The Psychology Of Money
Apr 18, 2021
#89 The truth about the British Empire
Apr 11, 2021
#88 Victoria Spence on Owning & loving yourself and eating disorder recovery
Apr 07, 2021
#87 One year of A Need To Read with Giles Crisp
Apr 04, 2021
#86 The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A guide to wealth and happiness
Apr 01, 2021
#85 Jamie Clements on Breathing for your brain
Mar 24, 2021
#84 The Art Of Thinking Clearly
Mar 22, 2021
#82 Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
Mar 15, 2021
#81 Kathryn Bonella on spending time in prisons with Drug Traffickers
Mar 10, 2021
#80 Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Mar 07, 2021
#79 Sinead Hegarty 2
Mar 04, 2021
#78 Siobhan O'Hagan 2
Feb 25, 2021
#77 Greenlights and the importance of journalling
Feb 22, 2021
#76 Steven Pressfield
Feb 17, 2021
#75 Lives of The Stoics and more from Ryan Holiday
Feb 14, 2021
#74 Maeve Moon: Healing from trauma and life as a former escort
Feb 11, 2021
#73 Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Feb 08, 2021
#72 James Haskell: Reading for escapism
Feb 03, 2021
#70 The Mastery Of Love
Jan 29, 2021
#69 The Science Of Storytelling & A Bunch of Novels
Jan 26, 2021
#68 Molly Teshuva
Jan 22, 2021
#67 I Am Malala
Jan 19, 2021
#66 Diren Kartal
Jan 11, 2021
#65 Mental Health In Lockdown
Jan 06, 2021
#64 Chasing The Scream: The search for the truth about addiction
Jan 02, 2021
#63 Utopia For Realists
Dec 29, 2020
#62 Paul Mort - Will Save Your Life
Dec 22, 2020
Sex Education with Jenny Keane
Dec 17, 2020
#60 Awareness
Dec 08, 2020
#59 The War Of Art
Dec 04, 2020
#58 Adam Strauss - on Psychadelics and OCD
Dec 01, 2020
The SOLDIER mindset with Jay Morton
Nov 14, 2020
#52 Chessie King- How to be your own best friend
Nov 08, 2020
#50 Phil Bowne, author of Cows Cant Jump
Nov 04, 2020
#49 How To Read
Nov 02, 2020
#39 Books That Matter with Molly Masters
Sep 11, 2020
#27 Lucy Lord
Jul 15, 2020
#26 Greg McKeown on Essentialism
Jul 13, 2020
#24 Jonny & Yusef from Propane Fitness
Jul 07, 2020
#20 Sinead Hegarty on Relationships
Jun 28, 2020
#19 The Tao of Pooh
Jun 26, 2020
#18 Shona Vertue
Jun 23, 2020
#16 Siobhan O'Hagan
Jun 17, 2020
#14 James Smith
Jun 10, 2020