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The specialisation of our species is storytelling -- and yet, some people say, we are really just telling the same stories again and again.
Welcome to Episode 69 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.
In this episode, Amit discusses the classic book by Christopher Booker, The Seven Basic Plots. Booker asserts that there are just seven storylines we recycle again and again -- and all of literature & Hollywood & Bollywood & Tollywood & Lollywood draw on these. What are they? Can there be more? Why should we never feel constrained as storytellers? What do Jaws, Sholay and the Russia-Ukraine war have in common?
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
For magnificent, detailed, juicy show notes, click here.
By Amit Varma and Ajay Shah4.8
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The specialisation of our species is storytelling -- and yet, some people say, we are really just telling the same stories again and again.
Welcome to Episode 69 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.
In this episode, Amit discusses the classic book by Christopher Booker, The Seven Basic Plots. Booker asserts that there are just seven storylines we recycle again and again -- and all of literature & Hollywood & Bollywood & Tollywood & Lollywood draw on these. What are they? Can there be more? Why should we never feel constrained as storytellers? What do Jaws, Sholay and the Russia-Ukraine war have in common?
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
For magnificent, detailed, juicy show notes, click here.

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