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, your listening — go on searching, asking and&nbsp;wondering. Wondering in both senses: wondering by wanting to know and wondering by marvelling. And here’s to madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and sceptics. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

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, your listening — go on searching, asking and&nbsp;wondering. Wondering in both senses: wondering by wanting to know and wondering by marvelling. And here’s to madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and sceptics. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years

S2 EP9 - Wrapping Up

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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S2 EP8 - Sloth

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? For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

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? For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S2 EP7 - Wrath

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*. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

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*. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S2 EP6 - Gluttony

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... For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

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... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S2 EP5 - Envy

You know you want it. You know you do. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

You know you want it. You know you do. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S2 EP4 - Lust

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.&nbsp;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”.&nbsp;It’s easy to dismiss this. Your instinct might be to shake your head sadly, or scoff angrily. Yet... For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

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.&nbsp;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”.&nbsp;It’s easy to dismiss this. Your instinct might be to shake your head sadly, or scoff angrily. Yet... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S2 EP3 - Greed

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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S2 EP2 - Pride

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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S2 EP1 - Introduction

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins is coming in early 2020 For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins is coming in early 2020 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Trailer — Season 2: 7 Deadly Sins

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, autonomous weaponry and transport, brain machine interfacing – all these existentially transformative developments are gathering pace and momentum now and a remarkable future beckons. Researched, written & read by&nbsp;Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by&nbsp;Guy Farley&nbsp;with The Chamber Orchestra of London. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

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, autonomous weaponry and transport, brain machine interfacing – all these existentially transformative developments are gathering pace and momentum now and a remarkable future beckons. Researched, written & read by&nbsp;Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by&nbsp;Guy Farley&nbsp;with The Chamber Orchestra of London. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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

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.&nbsp;Or as we all know it today, IBM. Researched, written & read by&nbsp;Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by&nbsp;Guy Farley&nbsp;with The Chamber Orchestra of London For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

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.&nbsp;Or as we all know it today, IBM. Researched, written & read by&nbsp;Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by&nbsp;Guy Farley&nbsp;with The Chamber Orchestra of London For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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

The sperm whale, Bell Labs, vacuum tubes and the dawning age of information at the speed of light. Researched, written & read by&nbsp;Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by&nbsp;Guy Farley&nbsp;with The Chamber Orchestra of London. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

The sperm whale, Bell Labs, vacuum tubes and the dawning age of information at the speed of light. Researched, written & read by&nbsp;Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by&nbsp;Guy Farley&nbsp;with The Chamber Orchestra of London. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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

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&nbsp;Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by&nbsp;Guy Farley&nbsp;with The Chamber Orchestra of London.&nbsp; For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

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&nbsp;Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by&nbsp;Guy Farley&nbsp;with The Chamber Orchestra of London.&nbsp; For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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

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, specifically in gold and silver smithing pondered a new invention, It would combine his knowledge of working hot and molten metals with other technologies that had yet fully to coalesce in his mind. He believed that if he got it all right it would make him a staggering amount of money. Researched, written & read by Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by Guy Farley with The Chamber Orchestra of London.&nbsp; For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

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, specifically in gold and silver smithing pondered a new invention, It would combine his knowledge of working hot and molten metals with other technologies that had yet fully to coalesce in his mind. He believed that if he got it all right it would make him a staggering amount of money. Researched, written & read by Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by Guy Farley with The Chamber Orchestra of London.&nbsp; For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S1 EP2 - Great Leap Years - A Faustian Pact

Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years explores topics ranging from the rise of humankind as the inventor, to the astonishing combination of persistence, investment and inspiration it took to create the Gutenberg Press and the communication technologies that created our world. It tells the story of how our lives have been transformed by a fascinating and compelling mixture of human decision and vision, greed and need.

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Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years

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