Matthew L Tompkins, Julia Blackburn and Daniel O’Sullivan

Chapter 1

Introduction

Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco joins Augustin Macellari and Tom Edwards for a look ahead to next week’s news.

Chapter 2

Matthew L Tompkins

The human brain is a wonderful thing but it’s also vulnerable to deception. Matthew L Tompkins, a magician-turned-psychologist, joins us to explore how illusionists, fakirs, mystics and magicians have exploited its weaknesses, and what our complicity in their trickery says about us.

Chapter 3

Daniel O’Sullivan

Musician Daniel O’Sullivan has been around the block, playing for such iconic bands as drone-titans, Sunn o))), This is Not This Heat and Grumbling Fur. He’s also a solo artist and joins us to discuss his sophomore album, ‘Folly’.

Chapter 4

Julia Blackburn

Until just a few thousand years ago, Britain wasn’t an island – it was connected to Europe via a sunken landmass now known as Doggerland. To this day, East Anglia is littered with its residue, as poet and author Julia Blackburn explains.