Hi, I'm Oona Chaplin, and I'm the host of a new podcast called Hollywood Exiles.
It tells the story of how my.
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Hello, this is the BBC World Service.
I'm Harriet Gilbert.
Welcome to World Book Club, where this month we've been reading a book that sold over a million copies in 45 languages, even though it's about the mysteries of quantum physics.
And if you're thinking, oh, no, that's not for me, I've never been strong on science, think again.
I know almost nothing about science.
And this book is so friendly and fascinating and most of all, inspiring that it's quite banished my science phobia.
It's called Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.
And joining me to answer questions about it from BBC listeners around the world is its Italian author, the physicist Carlo Rovelli.
Carlo, welcome to World Book Club.
Thank you very much.
It's a pleasure to be here.
Well, our pleasure, too.
And can I just say, someone's just told me that when the Chinese president Xi Jinping gave a televised talk recently, one of your books on physics was prominently displayed behind him, which is pretty impressive, isn't it?