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, y

S2 EP8 - Sloth

Mar 2nd, 2020 22m 4s

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.

S2 EP7 - Wrath

Feb 24th, 2020 26m 26s

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.

S2 EP6 - Gluttony

Feb 17th, 2020 28m 52s

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.

S2 EP5 - Envy

Feb 10th, 2020 36m 59s

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.

S2 EP4 - Lust

1 Feb 3rd, 2020 39m 46s

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

S2 EP3 - Greed

2 Jan 27th, 2020 33m 43s

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 jun

S2 EP2 - Pride

1 Jan 20th, 2020 28m 18s

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

S2 EP1 - Introduction

3 1 Jan 13th, 2020 32m 16s

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

Trailer

Trailer — Season 2: 7 Deadly Sins

Dec 30th, 2019 34s

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins is coming in early 2020 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

S1 EP6 - Great Leap Years - The Iotatron that Wasn't

May 14th, 2018 1h 5m

Series 1 Finale! Across the ocean of discovery the swells are building with ever increasing mass and speed. The swells of robotics, AI, nano science, the internet of things, quantum computing, genomics, gene editing, bio-augmentation, bionics,

S1 EP5 - Great Leap Years - Let's Play Monopoly

1 May 7th, 2018 59m 40s

The War of the Currents and a new type of person arises, an almost wholly American invention - the salesman. The foundations are set for the rise of one of the mightiest company's the world had ever seen - International Business Machines. Or as

S1 EP4 - Great Leap Years - Raising the Vail and Catching the Tube

Apr 30th, 2018 55m 22s

The sperm whale, Bell Labs, vacuum tubes and the dawning age of information at the speed of light.Researched, written & read by Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by Guy Farley with The Chamber Orchestra of London. Hosted on Acast. See a

S1 EP3 - Great Leap Years - Bells, Nobels, More Bells and Prizes

Apr 23rd, 2018 54m 16s

The spark that Napoleon sent across the century from Paris to New York with the prize fund that seeded the Bell Labs energised the next century's, in ways that the emperor could never have guessed at.Researched, written & read by Stephen Fry. M

S1 EP2 - Great Leap Years - A Faustian Pact

Apr 16th, 2018 50m 51s

A medieval tech start-up led by serial entrepreneur Johannes Gutenberg and his invention that unleashed a societal revolution.As Europe recovered from the scourge of the Black Death, a young man from a family that had made its name in metalwork

S1 EP1 - Great Leap Years - When We Were Very Young

Apr 9th, 2018 41m 47s

Far out in the ocean of discovery huge swells have been gathering and combining to create the great tsunami that will soon engulf us, We look back at how innovation in technology has, from the first, changed our ways of living, our sense of who

Trailer

Trailer — Season 1: Great Leap Years

Apr 1st, 2018 2m 30s

Stephen Fry previews his epic new documentary podcast series entitled Stephen Fry’s Great Leap Years – the stories behind inventions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.