To mark our 100th episode, Andy and John visit one of the UK’s most celebrated writers, Sir Philip Pullman, the author of more than 30 books, most famously the worldwide bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy. The book under discussion is one of Sir Philip’s favourites: The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton (1621).

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