Luke Turner is co-founder of the excellent music and culture site The Quietus and a contributor to the Guardian, NME, Vice and many more.

As a child, Luke was obsessed with the Second World War. His new book, Men At War, examines how the war stories he loved shaped his ideas of masculinity.

He joined me to discuss what it means to be a modern man.

Buy Men At War here

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I’m joined by Bruce and James from the world’s best movie podcast, Betamax Babylon, to talk about the role films play in our mental health - and why it’s never really possible to clear your mind completely.

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How do you really get to know someone? How do you show them that you see and understand who they really are? This is what David Brooks, best-selling author and New York Time columnist, sets out to discover in his new book How To Know A Person. It contains some life changing lessons in empathy, friendship and communication. David joined me on this episode to talk about all that stuff and his own personal growth from cold fish to warm-hearted empath. Something for us all to aspire to!

Buy his excellent book here