In the final episode of season 6, Sophie and podcast regular Nic Aubury dive into what might be one of the biggest issues present in online discourse, the engine that drives many a Twitter argument and shouty Facebook post, perhaps the reason why we can't all just get along: Disagreemaphobia. Never heard of it? Press play to find out more!For more information on Sophie and her writing please visit www.sophiehannah.com. If you're enjoying the podcast please consider leaving a rating or review, or tell a friend about us.

How To Hold A Grudge

Disagreemaphobia

In a change to the episode trailed last week, Sophie speaks to Matt Williams, author of The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it.The Science of Hate is published by Faber & Faber and is available now in paperback, eBook and audio. For more information about Sophie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.comIf you're enjoying How to Hold a Grudge please leave a rating or review, or tell a friend.

How We Think About Hate

This week Sophie is once again joined by Miranda Jewess, editorial director at Viper Books to discuss a very specific kind of book-related grudge. Sometimes celebrities publish books, and some people consider this to be HIGHLY grudgeworthy. Confused? Listen on...For more info on Sophie and her writing please visit www.sophiehannah.comIf you're enjoying this podcast please leave a rating or review or tell a friend.

Celebrity Book Grudges

Sophie is once more joined by bestselling author and game writer/designer Naomi Alderman to dicuss the phenomenon of the Covid Mitigation - do we more easily dismiss or forgive bad behaviour due to extreme mitigating circumstances and if so, should we be more careful about how dar we stretch the limits of acceptablity?For info about Naomi and her writing please visit www.naomialderman.com.If you're enjoying this podcast please leave a rating or review, or tell a friend!

The Covid Mitigation

This week Sophie interviews lifecoach and podcaster Sarah Bond who specialises in forgiveness. Sarah is the host of the Forgive Everyone For Everything Every Day Right Away podcast. you can listen and subscribe here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/forgive-everyone-for-every-thing-every-day-right-away/id1530737246For more information on Sophie and her writing please visit www.sophiehannah,com. If you're enjoying this podcast please leave a rating or review and tell your friends!

Forgiveness with Sarah Bond

Sophie is once again joined by Nic Aubury to discuss the fascinating and divisive issue of punching up and punching down. Punching down is wrong, but is punching up really okay?For more information about Sopie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.com. If you're enjoying the podcast please leave a rating or review, and tell your friends!

Punching Up, Punching Down

This week Sophie and podcast regular Nic Aubury discuss the subject of The Onus. What is the Onus, where did it come from, and most improtantly, can it ever be grudgeworth to have the Onus placed on you? for more information about Sophie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.com. If you're enjoying the podcast please leave a rating or review, and tell a friend!

The Onus

This week Sophie welcomes back Professor Nicholas Shackel for another philosophical deep-dive.Sophie and Prof. Shackel turn their attention to the concept of The Neutrality of Circumstances and whether or not some things can in fact be inherently grudgeworthy. For more info on Sophie and her books visit www.sophiehannah.com, and if you're enjjoying the podcast please leave a rating or review, or tell a friend!

Grudgeworthiness as Fact

This week Sophie welcomes writer, psychologist and critic Dr Terry Apter to dicuss the subjects of being judgemental and passing judgement. Dr Terry Apter is the author of Passing Judgement: The Power of Praise & Blame in Everyday Life. For more infomation about her books and other work visit www.terriapter.com.For more information on Sophie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.com and if you enjoy the podcast please leave a rating or review, or better yet tell a friend!

Passing Judgement

Sophie welcomes a new guest to the podcast this week to delve deeper into the world of grudges than ever before. Professor Nicholas Shackel is a lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University. He and Sophie tackle philosophical approaches to knowledge - how we know what we know and what 'knowing' really is. Plus of course how these philosophical perspectives interact with Sophie's philosophy of grudges!for more information about Sophie and her writing please visit www.sophiehannah.com. If you've enjoyed this podcast please leave a rating or review, or tell a friend!

How Do We Know?

This week on HOW TO HOLD A GRUDGE Sophie and podcast regular Nic Aubury discuss a story from within Paul Zindel's classic novel THE PIGMAN which also acts as a personality test of sorts. What can your opinions on the story tell you about your personality, and perhaps more importantly, is the test grudgeworthy?For more information about Sophie please visit www.sophiehannah.com and if you enjoy this podcast please leave a rating or review.

A Murder Story

How to Hold A Grudge returns for a brand new season! In this episode Sophie and Grudge Poet Laureate Nic Aubury discuss the phenomenon of 'Whataboutery' and how grudgeworthy it is. Is it a single grudgeworthy behaviour? Are there different types of Whataboutery? Press play dear listener and find out!For more info on Sophie and her books please visit www.sophiehannah.com, and if you like the podcast please leave a rating or review.

What About Whataboutery?

HOW TO HOLD GRUDGE returns for a brand new season. Featuring podcast regulars, fresh faces (voices?) and all-new grudges for your Grudge Cabinet, it's going to be the bigest and best season yet! Look out for episode 1 coming 15th April 2021.

Season 6 Trailer

In this special end-of-season bonus episode Sophie is once more calls on bestselling author Naomi Alderman to help delve into a new Presidential inauguration-inspired grudge classification type - the We Go High/We Go Low grudge. For more information on Naomi and her work visit www.naomialderman.comYou can find out more about Sophie and her books at www.sophiehannah.com

S5 Episode 11 - We Go High

This week Sophie and bestselling author Naomi Alderman turn their attention to self-help author ans speaker Byron Katie, and her method of self-inquiry known as "The Work". For more information on Naomi and her work visit www.naomialderman.comYou can find out more about Sophie and her books at www.sophiehannah.com

S5 Episode 10 - The Work of Byron Katie

Many of us believe it’s always wrong, and bad for us, to hold a grudge. But what if our grudges, when handled correctly, can be positively good for us and for others? What if grudges are actually great — not a cause for guilt, but exactly what we need to lead a happier, safer, more fulfilled life? Join internationally bestselling crime writer and grudge-holder extraordinaire Sophie Hannah to find out all about the power of grudges to transform your life for the better and to make the world a more peaceful and compassionate place.

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