The Big Book Project

Author: Atreyee Majumder and Bhavin Patel

Big Books demand heavy work - and were up for it! In this podcast, we take on some of our favourite, often obscure and unpopular books, and unpack the ways in which they have made sense to us. Tune in! Hosted by Atreyee Majumder and Bhavin Patel. Atreyee is an anthropologist, a teacher, a published poet, and an amateur violinist. Bhavin is a lawyer and teacher, and learns the tabla and the piano.
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Genres: Science, Social Sciences

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Episode 4: Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Sunday, 24 August, 2025

Welcome back! Here's the much-delayed fourth episode of the Big Book Project, in which Atreyee and Bhavin talks about one of the biggest books around: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. We also talk about Isiah Berlin's essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox, Brian Klaas's Fluke, and Robert Sapolsky's Determined.