Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins

Examining the 7 Deadly Sins

49 minutes 49 seconds

S2 EP9 - Wrapping Up

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 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.
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9 March 2020, 1:00 am
22 minutes 4 seconds

S2 EP8 - Sloth

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.
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2 March 2020, 1:00 am
26 minutes 26 seconds

S2 EP7 - Wrath

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?
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24 February 2020, 1:00 am
28 minutes 52 seconds

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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17 February 2020, 1:00 am
36 minutes 59 seconds

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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10 February 2020, 1:00 am
39 minutes 46 seconds

S2 EP4 - Lust

You know you want it. You know you do.
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3 February 2020, 1:00 am
33 minutes 43 seconds

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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27 January 2020, 1:00 am
28 minutes 18 seconds

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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20 January 2020, 1:00 am
32 minutes 16 seconds

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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13 January 2020, 5:00 am
34 seconds

Trailer — Season 2: 7 Deadly Sins

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins is coming in early 2020
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30 December 2019, 9:05 am
1 hour 5 minutes

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

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 Stephen Fry. Music composed and conducted by Guy Farley with The Chamber Orchestra of London.

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14 May 2018, 2:00 am
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