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Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins Stephen Fry | SamFry Ltd
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Stephen Fry's 7 Deady Sins - I will take each one of the Seven Sins in turn, lay them out on the surgical table and poke, prod, pry and provoke in an attempt to try to anatomise and understand them; I hope and believe it will be, if nothing else, delicious fun and something of a change from the usual run of podcastery.
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S2 EP1 - Introduction
An exploration of the human heart.
In this new series I will take each one of the Seven Sins in turn, lay them out on the surgical table and poke, prod, pry and provoke in an attempt to try to anatomise and understand them; I hope and believe it will be, if nothing else, delicious fun and something of a change from the usual run of podcastery.
Researched, written & read by Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by Guy Farley.
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S2 EP2 - Pride
For two thousand years Pride has stood at the very top of the list of the Seven Deadly Sins. Perhaps no longer. Perhaps a new sin is rising to replace it.
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S2 EP3 - Greed
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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S2 EP4 - Lust
You know you want it. You know you do.
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S2 EP5 - Envy
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...
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S2 EP6 - Gluttony
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*.
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Mr Fry uses words like a master artist uses a brush. He truly is a national treasure. Like everything he’s done this series is amazing.
Not half as clever as he thinks
I know Stephen Fry is popular on both sides of the Atlantic as a sort of honorary great-uncle full of wisdom and wit, but this podcast is dull. When it’s not being tedious. Take episode one of the second season, for example. It’s an interminable old-man rant about the awfulness of the modern world which leaves one thinking: why on earth is he going on about something he clearly loathes, for so long?
I’m with Julie Burchill on this.