Welcome back

24 min • 12 maj 2025

Welcome back! I’ve been away for a while, and never even said see ya later or goodbye.

This episode covers a little bit about why I stopped the podcast, what I’ve been up to, and where the podcast will go in the future.

books recommended:

100 years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda

Someone To Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob Wakesburg

COMING UP: interviews with Matt Smith (Hometree CEO) & Ellie Middleton (author of UNMSKED & How To Be You), and a review of ‘The Compassionate Mind’ by Paul Gilbert

let me know if you have any suggestions for guests or topics you want me to look in to aneedtoread.podcast@gmail.com

sponsors: www.betterhelp.com/aneedtoread for 10% off your first month of therapy

Senaste avsnitt

#163 From the Kardashians to Alain de Botton, with Daisy Harris-Burland and Harriet Bradley

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#162 Life lessons from Philosophers

26 april 2022 | 32 min

#161 Novels to read this summer

19 april 2022 | 28 min

#160 Toxic Positivity with Whitney Goodman

12 april 2022 | 46 min

#159 Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

7 april 2022 | 31 min

#158 The power of big business crooks, with Patrick Alley

4 april 2022 | 58 min

#157 A new way to think about happiness

31 mars 2022 | 48 min

#156 The Sunny Nihilist, with Wendy Syfret

28 mars 2022 | 59 min

Get Rich or Lie Tryin’ with Symeon Brown

10 mars 2022 | 65 min

#152 Human Kind: A hopeful history

7 mars 2022 | 35 min

The science of breath with James Nestor

3 mars 2022 | 55 min

#150 Who are you, really?

24 februari 2022 | 25 min

Time management for mortals with Oliver Burkeman

21 februari 2022 | 56 min

#148 How the West became self-obsessed

18 februari 2022 | 36 min

#147 The Sh*t They Never Taught You with Adam Ashton

14 februari 2022 | 47 min

#146 The Power of Geography with Tim Marshall

6 februari 2022 | 55 min

#145 Why you can’t pay attention

30 januari 2022 | 49 min

#144 Letters From A Stoic (Seneca and why you’ve heard of him)

24 januari 2022 | 32 min

#143 The Sweet Spot: suffering, pleasure and the key to a good life

17 januari 2022 | 24 min

#142 How technology and social media use impacts our health Dr Rachael Kent

11 januari 2022 | 83 min

#141 Rethinking Positive Thinking

4 januari 2022 | 26 min

#140 Existential problems and simple solutions with Alex Holmes

20 december 2021 | 59 min

#139 Mindfulness In Plain English

16 december 2021 | 28 min

#138 Leaving the NHS, McMindfulness and Personal Finance 101 with Yusef Smith

13 december 2021 | 100 min

#137 The Women of WW2 with Tessa Dunlop

9 december 2021 | 52 min

#136 Prisoners of Geography

6 december 2021 | 34 min

#132 Putting an end to procrastination with Nir Eyal

18 november 2021 | 48 min

#131 Answering your questions

15 november 2021 | 38 min

#130 The Science of Luck with Dr Richard Wiseman

11 november 2021 | 39 min

The Status Game, with Will Storr

8 november 2021 | 62 min

#128 Is Lying really that bad?

3 november 2021 | 29 min

#127 Mental health and fitness with Lucy Davis

1 november 2021 | 68 min

#126 Hitch hiking to Iran and connecting with yourself with Adam Lind

25 oktober 2021 | 82 min

#125 Healing with humour with Chris Hall

18 oktober 2021 | 62 min

#124 What makes a man superior? with Emilia Thompson and Emma Storey Gordon - Part2

13 oktober 2021 | 46 min

#123 What makes a Superior Man? with Emilia Thompson and Emma Storey Gordon - Part 1

10 oktober 2021 | 67 min

#122 Activism, Koalas and Arnie with Kae Kurd

6 oktober 2021 | 75 min

#121 Is being kind to yourself the key to a good life?

4 oktober 2021 | 21 min

#120 Jamie Clements on masculinity, opening up and making mistakes.

30 september 2021 | 61 min

#119 How to focus on what matters everyday

26 september 2021 | 30 min

#118 The future of artificial intelligence with Mo Gawdat

22 september 2021 | 61 min

#117 How To Change

19 september 2021 | 40 min

#112 Addiction, sobriety & becoming a psychotherapist With Talitha Fosh

2 september 2021 | 80 min

#111 Building better relationships by treating intimacy as a skill with Shaun Galanos

21 juli 2021 | 61 min

#109 The School Of Life

11 juli 2021 | 36 min

#108 Justin Moran on building a brand with purpose

6 juli 2021 | 62 min

#107 Jeff Haden on the truth about motivation

30 juni 2021 | 58 min

#106 Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

27 juni 2021 | 32 min

#105 How reading can change your life with Ty Temel

23 juni 2021 | 103 min

#103 Thomas Erikson - Surrounded By Idiots and Psychopaths

16 juni 2021 | 78 min

#102 The Motivation Myth

13 juni 2021 | 39 min

#101 Daisy Harris-Burland (The Bookmark Queen) on a creative life

9 juni 2021 | 89 min

#99 How to actually rest with Gabrielle Brown & James Reeves

24 maj 2021 | 59 min

#98 How to deal with different personalities with Sinead Hegarty

17 maj 2021 | 59 min

#97 The Happiness Trap

12 maj 2021 | 43 min

#95 Emilia Thompson PhD on authenticity & vulnerability

3 maj 2021 | 65 min

#94 How to make it in comedy with Russell Kane

28 april 2021 | 57 min

Why people attach to conspiracy theories with David Grimes

21 april 2021 | 63 min

#91 The Psychology Of Money

18 april 2021 | 22 min

#89 The truth about the British Empire

11 april 2021 | 60 min

#88 Victoria Spence on Owning & loving yourself and eating disorder recovery

7 april 2021 | 61 min

#87 One year of A Need To Read with Giles Crisp

4 april 2021 | 98 min

#86 The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A guide to wealth and happiness

1 april 2021 | 32 min

#85 Jamie Clements on Breathing for your brain

24 mars 2021 | 66 min

#84 The Art Of Thinking Clearly

22 mars 2021 | 27 min

#82 Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

15 mars 2021 | 40 min

#81 Kathryn Bonella on spending time in prisons with Drug Traffickers

10 mars 2021 | 34 min

#80 Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

7 mars 2021 | 27 min

#79 Sinead Hegarty 2

4 mars 2021 | 102 min

#78 Siobhan O'Hagan 2

25 februari 2021 | 92 min

#77 Greenlights and the importance of journalling

22 februari 2021 | 34 min

#76 Steven Pressfield

17 februari 2021 | 60 min

#75 Lives of The Stoics and more from Ryan Holiday

14 februari 2021 | 30 min

#74 Maeve Moon: Healing from trauma and life as a former escort

11 februari 2021 | 52 min

#73 Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

8 februari 2021 | 25 min

#72 James Haskell: Reading for escapism

3 februari 2021 | 64 min

#70 The Mastery Of Love

29 januari 2021 | 28 min

#69 The Science Of Storytelling & A Bunch of Novels

26 januari 2021 | 20 min

#68 Molly Teshuva

22 januari 2021 | 96 min

#67 I Am Malala

19 januari 2021 | 20 min

#66 Diren Kartal

11 januari 2021 | 58 min

#65 Mental Health In Lockdown

6 januari 2021 | 43 min

#64 Chasing The Scream: The search for the truth about addiction

2 januari 2021 | 46 min

#63 Utopia For Realists

29 december 2020 | 28 min

#62 Paul Mort - Will Save Your Life

22 december 2020 | 63 min

Sex Education with Jenny Keane

17 december 2020 | 124 min

#60 Awareness

8 december 2020 | 29 min

#59 The War Of Art

4 december 2020 | 23 min

#58 Adam Strauss - on Psychadelics and OCD

1 december 2020 | 57 min

The SOLDIER mindset with Jay Morton

14 november 2020 | 68 min

#52 Chessie King- How to be your own best friend

8 november 2020 | 71 min

#50 Phil Bowne, author of Cows Cant Jump

4 november 2020 | 60 min

#49 How To Read

2 november 2020 | 33 min

#39 Books That Matter with Molly Masters

11 september 2020 | 44 min

#27 Lucy Lord

15 juli 2020 | 62 min

#26 Greg McKeown on Essentialism

13 juli 2020 | 75 min

#24 Jonny & Yusef from Propane Fitness

7 juli 2020 | 76 min

#20 Sinead Hegarty on Relationships

28 juni 2020 | 59 min

#19 The Tao of Pooh

26 juni 2020 | 13 min

#18 Shona Vertue

23 juni 2020 | 83 min

#16 Siobhan O'Hagan

17 juni 2020 | 71 min

#14 James Smith

10 juni 2020 | 55 min

Welcome back

Senaste avsnitt

Books for boys w Lucas Oakley

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Irelands native rainforests with Matt Smith

Welcome back

Entangled life of fungi with Merlin Sheldrake

Novels to read in 2023

#187 Dan Osman

Saving the planet without the bullshit, with Assaad Razzouk

Nutrition, Politics and Philosophy, with Alan Flanagan

Earth is a hothouse with Prof. Bill McGuire

BEING YOU: Consciousness, Dreams and the Self with Prof. Anil Seth

Philosophy for hard times, with Kieran Setiya

Mental Health and Behaviour Change with Dr. Mike II

The Future of Farming with George Monbiot

The Law of Attraction debunked by David Grimes, an actual scientist.

Psychology of Online Behaviour with Dr Nicola Fox Hamilton

How to save our planet, with Professor Mark Maslin

What’s wrong with Self-Help, with Siobhan O’Hagan

Exponentially faster and cheaper tech with Azeem Azhar

#174 The Suicide Issue with Professor Rory O’Connor

#173 The truth about Modern Slavery with Emily Kenway

How humans evolved by working together, with Professor Nichola Raihani

The art of self-deception

#169 Stoicism in practise, with Ben Aldridge

#168 #ManBox, Feminism and The Patriarchy with the Nice-Ish-Psychologist

#167 Lies that shaped history with Otto English (Author of Fake History)

#166 How Proust can change your life

#165 Behaviour change with Tiny Habits

#164 Hygge: The Danish philosophy of happiness and coziness

#163 From the Kardashians to Alain de Botton, with Daisy Harris-Burland and Harriet Bradley

#162 Life lessons from Philosophers

#161 Novels to read this summer

#160 Toxic Positivity with Whitney Goodman

#159 Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

#158 The power of big business crooks, with Patrick Alley

#157 A new way to think about happiness

#156 The Sunny Nihilist, with Wendy Syfret

Get Rich or Lie Tryin’ with Symeon Brown

#152 Human Kind: A hopeful history

The science of breath with James Nestor

#150 Who are you, really?

Time management for mortals with Oliver Burkeman

#148 How the West became self-obsessed

#147 The Sh*t They Never Taught You with Adam Ashton

#146 The Power of Geography with Tim Marshall

#145 Why you can’t pay attention

#144 Letters From A Stoic (Seneca and why you’ve heard of him)

#143 The Sweet Spot: suffering, pleasure and the key to a good life

#142 How technology and social media use impacts our health Dr Rachael Kent

#141 Rethinking Positive Thinking

#140 Existential problems and simple solutions with Alex Holmes

#139 Mindfulness In Plain English

#138 Leaving the NHS, McMindfulness and Personal Finance 101 with Yusef Smith

#137 The Women of WW2 with Tessa Dunlop

#136 Prisoners of Geography

#132 Putting an end to procrastination with Nir Eyal

#131 Answering your questions

#130 The Science of Luck with Dr Richard Wiseman

The Status Game, with Will Storr

#128 Is Lying really that bad?

#127 Mental health and fitness with Lucy Davis

#126 Hitch hiking to Iran and connecting with yourself with Adam Lind

#125 Healing with humour with Chris Hall

#124 What makes a man superior? with Emilia Thompson and Emma Storey Gordon - Part2

#123 What makes a Superior Man? with Emilia Thompson and Emma Storey Gordon - Part 1

#122 Activism, Koalas and Arnie with Kae Kurd

#121 Is being kind to yourself the key to a good life?

#120 Jamie Clements on masculinity, opening up and making mistakes.

#119 How to focus on what matters everyday

#118 The future of artificial intelligence with Mo Gawdat

#117 How To Change

#112 Addiction, sobriety & becoming a psychotherapist With Talitha Fosh

#111 Building better relationships by treating intimacy as a skill with Shaun Galanos

#109 The School Of Life

#108 Justin Moran on building a brand with purpose

#107 Jeff Haden on the truth about motivation

#106 Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

#105 How reading can change your life with Ty Temel