Show overview
Thinking Books has been publishing since 2017, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 4 episodes. That works out to roughly 1 hours of audio in total. Releases follow an irregular cadence.
Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 16 min and 23 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 5.8 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Nigel Warburton.
From the publisher
Nigel Warburton interviews a range of authors about their books about thinking
Latest Episodes
David Edmonds on Undercover Robot
David Edmond, author of many books, including Wittgenstein's Poker (which he co-wrote with John Eidinow) has recently co-written Undercover Robot, a brilliant and amusing children's story about a girl-robot. I interviewed him about this book, and how he came to write it for this episode of the Thinking Books podcast.
Bianca Bosker on Cork Dork
Some books can change the way you experience the world. Bianca Bosker's Cork Dork is one of these. It tells how she trained her senses of smell and taste to become a sommelier, starting from a position of almost complete ignorance about wine. But more than that it is a book about experiencing the world more fully. For more episodes of Thinking Books, go to www.thinkingbooks.co
Tim Harford on Messy
Sometimes disorder can be a source of efficiency and creativity. Tim Harford explores some cases where lack of planning and order has been a boon in this interview with Nigel Warburton, based on Tim's recent book Messy.
Matthew Syed on Black Box Thinking
How can we learn from failure? In this episode of the Thinking Books podcast, Matthew Syed, author of Black Box Thinking discusses the importance of feedback from the world in a wide range of contexts.