Tag: Stephen Fry

  • Audible Review: Sum – Tales from the Afterlives

    Audible Review: Sum – Tales from the Afterlives

    This week, I’m going to be discussing Audible’s production of David Eagleman’s Sum: Tales from the Afterlives – 40 fictional possibilities of what might await us beyond the grave. Sum – Tales from the Afterlives I was first drawn to this small book in its solid incarnation by a quotation from Stephen Fry on the…

  • Top 5 Reasons to Start Listening to Audible

    Top 5 Reasons to Start Listening to Audible

    1. Autobiographies There’s just something special about hearing someone tell their own life story, particularly when it’s someone who is familiar/famous, whose inflexions might seem odd if they were pronounced by anyone else. Current favourite Brian Blessed’s ‘Absolute Pandemonium’ – it honestly hurt listening to this book, I laughed so much! Blessed’s booming anecdotes are the…