Introducing: The Book Club - Never Let Me Go

Hannah Fry· Host0:00

[upbeat music] Hello, it's Hannah here.

Michael Stevens· Host0:06

And Michael.

Hannah Fry· Host0:07

And welcome to The Rest is Science. And today we're doing something a little bit different because we are here with Dominic Sandbrook of Rest is History fame. Dominic, welcome to our side of the fence.

Dominic Sandbrook· Guest0:19

Thank you very much. It's lovely to be on a properly professional podcast for once, one where the presenters actually know what they're talking about. [laughs] This is a absolute first for me, so it's very exciting.

Michael Stevens· Host0:28

Dominic, I love bringing literature into the lab. Would you consider this podcast a lab, Hannah?

Hannah Fry· Host0:34

Sure. It's a lab of the mind.

Michael Stevens· Host0:36

It's, it's an ideal lab at least. [laughs] But Dominic, you've got a new show out that's called The Book Club, and so I wanted to hear about it, and I wanted to talk to you because I love books as well.

Dominic Sandbrook· Guest0:45

Ah, amazing.

Hannah Fry· Host0:46

We all love books.

Dominic Sandbrook· Guest0:47

We're gonna have a lovely relationship. So, uh, yes, I do a podcast called The Rest is History normally, and, uh, our long-t- serving producer on The Rest is History, Tabitha, and I o- would often talk about books when we're on tour and when we're preparing the shows and stuff, and we did a miniseries for our Rest is History Club members, our subscribers, all about books. So we'd looked at The Hobbit, and we looked at, uh, Dracula and some kind of great classics. Anyway, those went down quite well, so we decided to launch it as a standalone show. And actually, our second episode is a book partly about science. So it's a book called Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. So it's a book, um, in which it turns