In this podcast I ramble about technology and what I think the future will hold.
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Literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry through to physics. Presented by Sam Leith.
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Live Your Best Life is hosted by Liz Wright! Each week Liz shares shares from her personal encounters and insights to help you experience the wonderful transforming Power of the New Creation Life. Join us each Monday as Liz shares stories from her own life and brings us conversations with her friends from around the world who have insights to the season and moment we are in. You’ll be empowered with practical keys and powerful insights to step into your most authentic self. Start living your ...
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Returning guest, Shawn Bolz, joins Liz to bring important insights and divine perspective in our current time. He shares what Heaven is doing right now, because where your attention goes, your affection grows. When we see chaos and enemy activity exposed, we can actually be encouraged that God is about to do something because it means the light is …
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My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the writer, artist and historian Amy Jeffs. Her new book Saints: A New Legendary of Heroes, Humans and Magic aims to recover and bring back to life the wild and fascinating world of medieval saints. She tells me what we lost with the Reformation (all the good swearing, among much else), what was the diff…
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Author, teacher, and president of Engage Deliverance & Training, Jareb Nott, unpacks Biblical meditation in a powerful conversation with Liz Wright. He shares how we can align our minds to the reality of His Presence and the realm of glory, and receive healing and transformation. This is the place of the renewing of our minds, where Holy Spirit tan…
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The Book Club has taken a short summer break and will return in September. Until then, and ahead of the 85th anniversary of the start of World War Two, here’s an episode from the archives with the author Ian Sansom. Recorded ahead of the 80th anniversary in 2019, Sam Leith talks to Ian about September 1, 1939, the W.H. Auden poem that marked the be…
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Simon Braker joins Liz in this week’s episode to discuss the vital importance of our yieldedness to Holy Spirit. It’s possible to have Spirit filled language without Spirit filled experience. Recently, the Lord spoke three phrases to Simon that drastically shifted his perspective:“Many have a Charismatic theology with a cessationist experience”, “M…
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The Book Club has taken a short summer break and will return in September with new episodes. Until then, here’s an episode from the archives with the theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli. Carlo joined Sam in March 2023 to discuss his book Anaximander and the Nature of Science and explain how a radical thinker two and a half millennia ago was the fir…
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Liz shares a timely word that there has been an assault on the Body of Christ to cause division and the house to collapse. A house divided cannot stand. The house of relationships, of marriages, of families, of ministries, of churches, and so on. But no more! Heaven is on assignment to break the oppression of division and enable us to step into the…
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My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Adam Higginbotham, whose new book Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space describes the 1986 space shuttle disaster that took the lives of seven astronauts and, arguably, inflicted America's greatest psychic scar since the assassination of JFK. He tells me about the extraord…
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Jeff Oliver is a pastor, author and historian of the acts of Holy Spirit in modern times, and joins Liz today for a powerful conversation around the Azusa street revival. He has recently co-authored a book with Rick Joyner, ‘Keys to Experiencing Azusa Fire’. He shares the foundations of the Azusa street revival and the impact of William Seymour’s l…
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My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Nathan Thrall, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book A Day In The Life of Abed Salama – which uses the story of a terrible bus crash in the West Bank to describe in ground-up detail the day-to-day lives of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. Speaking to me from Jerusalem, Nathan tells me wh…
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Returning guest, Eric Gilmour, joins Liz for an impactful conversation about living from rest and encountering our Father in stillness. When we lean on His chest and receive His rest, we enter into it for ourselves and are able to fully let go. God wants to transform us by deeper dependency. As we see in Song of Songs 8, lovers lean. When we trust …
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My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the writer and comedian David Baddiel, talking about his new book My Family: the Memoir. He talks about childhood trauma, what made him a comedian, and how describing in minute detail his mother’s decades long affair with a slightly crooked golfing memorabilia salesman is an act not of betrayal but of lo…
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Author and teacher, Corey Russell, joins Liz to talk about the greatest miracle of all. His new book, ‘Praying with Holy Spirit’ contains profound keys for our experiential prayer life and relationship with Holy Spirit. Often we are looking for ‘the next thing’, but the most incredible thing has already happened, God lives in you! We can become ove…
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My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the writer and film director Neil Jordan, who joins me to discuss his new book Amnesiac: A Memoir. He talks, among other things, about writing for the page and the screen, the uses of myth, putting words into the mouths of historical figures, seeing ghosts in aeroplanes, being ripped off by Harvey Weinst…
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Liz shares a recent encounter where the Lord showed her there is nothing mundane in our lives when lived as worship to the King. She was taken by surprise as this encounter happened while listening to a classical rendition of Agnus Dei by Leopold Mozart. When asking the Lord what was happening and what it was about this song, Holy Spirit told her H…
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My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Roger McGough, whose new The Collected Poems: 1959-2024 anthologises a poetic career 65 years long and counting. Roger tells me about revisiting his old work and making it new, why he's 'not being serious' about the future of Poetry Please, and how he narrowly missed being on the Pyramid Stage at Glaston…
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International prophet, author and pastor, Julian Adams, joins Liz to discuss powerful revelation from his new book, Terra Nova. Julian carries a passion for everyone to authentically experience the love of the Father, and he shares keys on how to hear His voice. Who we believe the Father to be is how we will express Him, so if we have an incorrect …
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My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Michael Nott, author of the new biography Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life. He tells me about the poet's early trauma, his transatlantic identity, his unconventional family and his compartmentalised life, part teaching and writing, part sex, drugs and rock and roll.…
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Liz is joined by Justin Paul Abraham for an inspirational conversation on Kingdom Governance and what that practically means. Justin shares how effectively governing is all from union and love. He engages the heart of God and gets Heaven’s perspective on the matter, and then releases that in the spirit. He shares many testimonies of where he has se…
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In her new book Cairn, the Scots poet Kathleen Jamie sets a capstone of sorts on her trilogy of short prose collections Findings, Surfacing and Sightlines. She joins Sam on this week’s Book Club podcast to talk about why she hesitates to call herself a nature writer, how prose found her late in life, and why whale-watching isn’t what it used to be.…
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Returning guest, Dr. Brian Simmons joins Liz for a deep conversation around the throne of God. Brian shares that the Scriptures contain keys for us to understand the power and authority of the throne of God. It is the governmental epicentre of the cosmos, everything revolves around the throne room yet the Book of Daniel tells us it is on wheels—it …
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My guest for this week's Book Club is the journalist and author Åsne Seierstad. She tells me about her new book The Afghans: Three Lives Through War, Love and Revolt; how and why she constructed a novelistic narrative about real-life people and events, and what her encounters with human rights activist Jamila, Taliban commander Bashir and thwarted …
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Liz shares an incredible experience with Jesus while preparing to film for Season 2 of Encountering God on God TV. Amidst warfare while preparing to film, Jesus imparted into her deep faith and stillness, an absolute knowing of who we are and His faithfulness. She then felt complete synchronization with her interior world and God’s heart and mind. …
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My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Mark Bostridge. In his new book In Pursuit of Love: The Search for Victor Hugo’s Daughter, Mark describes his quest to uncover the traces of Adele Hugo and the doomed love affair which cost her her sanity. He tells me how Adele’s story chimed in poignant ways with his own life and what it taught him abou…
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Revivalist, speaker and author, Jen Miskov, joins Liz for a catalytic conversation that will change your life. Her new book, co-authored with Dr Heidi Baker, is called Sustain the Flame, and it contains an invitation for all of us. Receive a fresh baptism of fire today, a fresh hunger and renewed first love with Jesus. When you are living in the fl…
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My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Marlon James, who ten years ago published his Booker Prize winning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. He tells me how that remarkable book came about, how he feared it would be 'my Satanic Verses', what genre means to him, the importance of myth, and what he learned from the X-Men.…
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Rachel Shafer, worship leader, songwriter, speaker and author of ‘Come Home’ speaks with Liz in this episode about powerful decrees and praying for prodigals. Rachel shares a fresh revelation of the story of the Prodigal son and the Father’s heart. Be encouraged that you have a divine destiny and even if you have wandered off, God can reconstruct y…
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In this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is the Booker Prize winning novelist Richard Flanagan, talking about his extraordinary new book Question 7. It weaves together memoir, reportage and the imaginative work of fiction. Flanagan collides his relationship with his war-traumatised father and his own near-death experience with the lives of H G We…
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Liz is joined by TV presenter, podcast host, and author, Randy Kay, who shares his experience of clinically dying in hospital, and then meeting Jesus in Heaven. Randy opens up this holy encounter, and what the Lord showed him about his life and how loved we all are. You will be wrecked by the profound love of God as you listen, and how intense His …
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June 3rd marks the centenary of Franz Kafka's death. To talk about this great writer's peculiar style and lasting legacy, I'm joined by two of the world's foremost Kafka scholars. Mark Harman has just translated, edited and annotated a new edition of Kafka's Selected Stories, while Ross Benjamin is the translator of the first unexpurgated edition o…
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Be transformed in the core of your being by the Word of God as Liz teaches on faith being the substance of things hoped for. Become really aware internally of when faith becomes substance in you. The moment you begin to feel faith bubbling up inside of you, what you’re believing for becomes substance, it begins to materialize. Hold that awareness w…
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My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Conn Iggulden, probably the best selling author of historical fiction of our day. This week Conn publishes Nero, the first in a new trilogy about the notorious Roman emperor. He tells me about how he learned to write historical fiction, his years-long path to overnight success, and the advantages (and di…
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Senior Pastor of Eden Center in Seattle, Darren Stott, joins Liz Wright for a powerfully encouraging conversation. They discuss revelation and keys from Darren’s new book, ‘Unapologetically Supernatural’. Darren shares how to get unstuck and start moving in the miraculous, because we are the Father’s strategy to bring Heaven to earth! The supernatu…
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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! On this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by Olivia Laing to talk about her new book The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise. Olivia explores what it is we do when we make a garden, through her own experience of restoring the beautiful garden in her now home. She tells me about what gardens h…
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In this profoundly important conversation, Liz is joined by David Hoffbrand, author of The Jewish Jesus. It is vital for us to come to a deeper understanding of Jesus as a Jewish man. As David says, the Jewish Jesus is the only Jesus! After all, this is how the early Church knew and understood Him, and even in Revelation, Jesus is still identified …
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This week, my guest on the Book Club podcast is the poet Jackie Kay, whose magnificent new book May Day combines elegy and celebration. She tells me about her adoptive parents – a communist trade unionist and a leading figure in CND – and growing up in a household where teenage rebellion could mean going to church. We also discuss her beginnings as…
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Revivalists Tommy and Miriam Evans join Liz Wright to share their powerful God stories and their journey of encountering Holy Spirit and learning to depend on Him. Be encouraged that you can invite Holy Spirit into the busyness and chaos of your day and He will meet you there. He is your best friend and wants to do life with you! Tommy explains how…
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On this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by Ariane Bankes, whose mother Celia was one of the great beauties of the early twentieth century. Ariane's new book The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century tells the story of the defiantly bohemian lives of Celia and her twin sister Mamaine, whose love affairs and friendships with A…
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This episode is an invitation to reset into authentic rest and genuine trust, surrendering to God all the needs of your life. Liz shares a deep encounter where Jesus told her to let go and lean into Him. There is a grace right now to completely let go and trust Him like never before. Difficult moments and challenging circumstances are opportunities…
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My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the author and historian Kathryn Hughes, whose new book Catland tells the story of how we learned to love pusskins. Content warning: contains Kipling, Edward Lear, some stinking carts of offal, and the troubled life and weird art of the extraordinary Louis Wain.…
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Apostolic voice Obii Pax-Harry joins Liz to share a vitally important visitation she recently had with the angel over the global economy. The time of relevance and dominance of the Church is here! This is our time to experience great wealth as God promised in Deuteronomy 8:18. The Joseph’s and Daniel’s are being positioned as glory carriers to brin…
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On this week’s Book Club podcast I’m joined by Percival Everett, who has followed up his Booker-shortlisted The Trees with James, a novel that reimagines the story of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of the fugitive slave Jim. Percival tells me what he learned from Mark Twain, how being funny doesn’t make him a comic noveli…
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Show Notes: Evangelist Chris Overstreet joins Liz Wright to share his powerful God story and how he is compelled by the experiential love of Jesus to spread the Gospel. Be inspired to step out in Spirit-led obedience and be set free from the fear of man. Check in with your heart if there are any soul ties that are giving fear of man access to your …
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In this week’s Book Club podcast my guest is Dorian Lynskey. In his new book Everything Must Go, Dorian looks at the way humans have imagined the end of the world from the Book of Revelations to the present day. He tells me how old fears find new forms, why Dr Strangelove divides critics, and why there’s always a few people who anticipate global an…
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“He is who we think He is—He is good, He is kind, He is healer, He is faithful.” - Jessika Tate There is only one thing required to live a life yielded to the purposes of Heaven—our unending “yes”. Living in love with Jesus can lead us to many destinations, marking those around us with an invitation to know His passionate pursuit, no matter their c…
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My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the investigative reporter Annie Jacobsen, whose hair-raising new book Nuclear War: A Scenario imagines – minute by minute – what would unfold if the nuclear balloon went up. But rather than a work of fantasy, this is based on meticulously sourced reporting about the effects of nuclear weapons and the st…
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Be shifted again into divine perspective in this episode, as Liz shares some of her personal prophetic journey that she has been on, and what the Lord has showed her about where we are heading in the Body of Christ. She explains where we are going now as the Bride who reigns governmentally from a place of deep intimacy. It’s time for us to know who…
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Emma Stark of Global Prophetic Alliance joins Liz to discuss the profound time we are in. There is an accelerated pace where we are shifting from being Spirit filled to living Spirit led. The leadership of Holy Spirit is becoming our continual experience where we live in ongoing encounter. Emma explains what true Kingdom governance is and goes thro…
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In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is the Pulitzer prize winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose new book is the memoir A Man of Two Faces. He tells me about the value of trauma to literature, learning about his history through Hollywood, falling asleep in class... and the rotten manners of Oliver Stone.…
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My guest in this week's Book Club is Joel Morris, an award-winning comedy writer whose credits run from co-creating Philomena Cunk to writing gags for Viz and punching up the script for Paddington 2. In his new book Be Funny Or Die, he sets out to analyse how and why comedy works. He tells me why there are only three keys on the clown keyboard, wha…
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