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Podcast: The LRB Podcast
Description: The LRB Podcast brings you weekly conversations from Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas. Hosted by Thomas Jones and Malin Hay, with guest episodes from the LRB's US editor Adam Shatz, Meehan Crist, Rosemary Hill and more.Find the LRB's new Close Readings podcast in on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or search 'LRB Close Readings' wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Author: The London Review of Books
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A Conversation with Neal Ascherson with full transcript and summary
Update: 2025-01-01
Duration: 01:16:54
Shownotes: Neal Ascherson has worked as a journalist for more than six decades, reporting from Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, its successor states and elsewhere. He
Duration: 01:16:54
Shownotes: Neal Ascherson has worked as a journalist for more than six decades, reporting from Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, its successor states and elsewhere. He
has also written more than a hundred pieces for the London Review of Books, from its seventh issue (in February 1980) to its most recent. In this episode of the LRB podcast, Ascherson talks to Thomas Jones about his recent piece on the journalist Claud Cockburn and about his own life and career, from his time as propaganda secretary for the Uganda National Congress to the moment he witnessed preparations for the kidnapping of Mikhail Gorbachev in Crimea but ‘missed the scoop of a lifetime’.Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/aschersonpodListen to Neal Ascherson deliver the 2012 LRB Winter Lecture: https://lrb.me/aschersonwlSubscribe to Close Readings for 2025: https://lrb.me/audioOr give your loved ones a Close Readings subscription: https://lrb.me/audiogifts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Close Readings: Marcus Aurelius with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-12-24
Duration: 01:00:09
Shownotes: This week on the LRB Podcast, a free episode from one of our Close Readings series. For their final conversation Among the Ancients, Emily Wilson
Duration: 01:00:09
Shownotes: This week on the LRB Podcast, a free episode from one of our Close Readings series. For their final conversation Among the Ancients, Emily Wilson
and Thomas Jones turn to the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Said by Machiavelli to be the last of the ‘five good emperors’ who ruled Rome for most of the second century CE, Marcus oversaw devastating wars on the frontiers, a deadly plague and economic turmoil. The writings known in English as The Meditations, and in Latin as ‘to himself’, were composed in Greek in the last decade of Marcus’ life. They reveal his preoccupation with illness, growing old, death and posthumous reputation, as he urges himself not to be troubled by such transient things.To listen to more Among the Ancients and all other Close Readings series in full, subscribe:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPq In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsOr purchase a gift subscription: https://lrb.me/audiogiftsFurther reading in the LRB:Mary Beard: Was he quite ordinary?https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n14/mary-beard/was-he-quite-ordinaryEmily Wilson: I have gorgeous hairhttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n11/emily-wilson/i-have-gorgeous-hairShadi Bartsch: Dying to Make a Pointhttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n22/shadi-bartsch/dying-to-make-a-pointM.F. Burnyeat: Excuses for Madnesshttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v24/n20/m.f.-burnyeat/excuses-for-madness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Saving Masud Khan with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-12-18
Duration: 00:38:01
Shownotes: Wynne Godley was by turns a professional oboist, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, an economist at the Treasury and a director of the Royal
Duration: 00:38:01
Shownotes: Wynne Godley was by turns a professional oboist, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, an economist at the Treasury and a director of the Royal
Opera House. Yet at thirty he found himself ‘living through an artificial self’ and turned to psychoanalysis for help.Masud Khan was a protégé of D.W. Winnicott and the darling of British psychoanalysis. He was also much else besides. In this unforgettable piece from 2001, Godley describes his baffling and disastrous sessions with Khan.Read by Duncan Wilkins.Find the original piece and further reading at the episode page: https://lrb.me/godleypodGive your loved one a Close Readings subscription or audiobook for Christmas: https://lrb.me/audiogifts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gaza, Before and After with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-12-14
Duration: 01:25:14
Shownotes: Ghassan Abu-Sittah and Muhammad Shehada join Adam Shatz to describe what life was like in Gaza in the months and years leading up to the
Duration: 01:25:14
Shownotes: Ghassan Abu-Sittah and Muhammad Shehada join Adam Shatz to describe what life was like in Gaza in the months and years leading up to the
Hamas attack on Israel last October, and to discuss the experiences of Gazans during Israel’s subsequent – and ongoing – devastation of the territory.More in the LRB:Adam Shatz: Israel's Descenthttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/adam-shatz/israel-s-descentPankaj Mishra: The Shoah after Gazahttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gazaAlso available to watch: https://youtu.be/_w3Pe00I_RoAudio Gifts from the LRB: https://lrb.me/audiogifts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On Lisa Marie Presley with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-12-04
Duration: 00:42:14
Shownotes: As Elvis’s only child, Lisa Marie Presley was burdened from birth with extraordinary, largely unwanted fame. Before her death in 2023, she spent years as
Duration: 00:42:14
Shownotes: As Elvis’s only child, Lisa Marie Presley was burdened from birth with extraordinary, largely unwanted fame. Before her death in 2023, she spent years as
tabloid fodder, less for her sporadic music career than for her highly publicised relationships with Michael Jackson, Nicolas Cage and Scientology.In a recent review of her posthumous memoir, Jessica Olin celebrates Lisa Marie’s resilience and charisma in the face of ruthless publicity. Jessica joins Tom to discuss Lisa Marie’s ambivalent relationship with fame, and how a new generation are encountering the Presley family saga through her daughter, Riley Keough.Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/lisamariepodSponsored Links:Find out more about ACE Cultural Tours: https://aceculturaltours.co.ukTo learn more about financial support for professional writers, visit the Royal Literary Fund here: https://www.rlf.org.uk/Audio Gifts from the LRB: https://lrb.me/audiogifts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Labour's Economic Conundrum with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-11-27
Duration: 00:53:19
Shownotes: William Davies joins Tom to assess the efforts of the new Labour government in tackling the UK's many economic challenges. They consider whether Rachel Reeves’s
Duration: 00:53:19
Shownotes: William Davies joins Tom to assess the efforts of the new Labour government in tackling the UK's many economic challenges. They consider whether Rachel Reeves’s
first budget, with its substantial tax rises, can do anything more than arrest the decline of the public finances, and what Keir Starmer hopes to achieve with his public overtures to the likes of Google and BlackRock. Will their technocratic style of government be able to survive the pressures of populist politics, or is their long-term thinking simply too long-term to bring election-winning improvements to people’s everyday lives?Read William Davies's piece: https://lrb.me/davies4622podAudio Gifts from the LRB: https://lrb.me/audiogifts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Endgame in Ukraine with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-11-20
Duration: 00:57:29
Shownotes: James Meek talks to Tom about his latest report from Ukraine, where he spent time in Kharkiv and Kupiansk in the east of the country.
Duration: 00:57:29
Shownotes: James Meek talks to Tom about his latest report from Ukraine, where he spent time in Kharkiv and Kupiansk in the east of the country.
In Kharkiv, he found a population living in fear not only of the Russian glide bombs falling daily on the city, but also of the increasingly ruthless activity of the Ukrainian military recruitment office, desperate to secure fresh troops to resist Russia's advances. James and Tom discuss the current state of the conflict, what a Trump presidency might mean for US policy and whether Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles could make any difference to the progress of the war.Read James's latest report from Ukraine:https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n22/james-meek/nobody-wants-to-hear-thisSponsored Link:Get 10% off creative writing courses at NCW Academy in 2025 with code LRB10:https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/academy/Audio Gifts from the LRB: https://lrb.me/audiogifts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Trump Takeover with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-11-15
Duration: 00:53:20
Shownotes: Adam Shatz is joined by Jamelle Bouie and Deborah Friedell to pick through the results and implications of Trump’s victory. The US has a booming
Duration: 00:53:20
Shownotes: Adam Shatz is joined by Jamelle Bouie and Deborah Friedell to pick through the results and implications of Trump’s victory. The US has a booming
economy of high wages and nearly full employment, yet economic discontent, particularly around inflation, has been one of the more popular explanations for the election result. As well as considering the importance of inflation, Jamelle and Deborah look at what went wrong with the Harris campaign’s big bet on abortion rights, why Republican-voting women say they feel safer under Trump and why the Democrats’ insistence that democracy was on the ballot failed to resonate with many voters.Read Adam Tooze on the Democrats' defeat in the LRB:https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n22/adam-tooze/the-democrats-defeatRead Deborah Friedell on J.D. Vancehttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n20/deborah-friedell/short-cutsAudio Gifts from the LRB: https://lrb.me/audiogifts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Mendel Inheritance with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-11-06
Duration: 00:52:19
Shownotes: When Gregor Mendel published the results of his experiments on pea plants in 1866 he initiated a fierce debate about the nature of heredity and
Duration: 00:52:19
Shownotes: When Gregor Mendel published the results of his experiments on pea plants in 1866 he initiated a fierce debate about the nature of heredity and
genetic determinism that continues today. The battle lines were drawn in England in the late 19th century by William Bateson, who believed in fixed genetic inheritance, and W.F.R. Weldon, who argued that Mendel’s experiments revealed far more variation than Bateson and his supporters acknowledged. In this episode Lorraine Daston joins Tom to chart the development of these arguments, described in a new book by Gregory Radick, through scientific and cultural discourse over the past 150 years, and consider why the history of science has a tendency to track such controversies in antagonistic terms, often to the detriment of the science itself.Read Lorraine's piece: https://lrb.me/dastonpodSponsored links:Use the code ’LRB’ to get £100 off Serious Readers lights here: https://www.seriousreaders.com/lrbClose ReadingsSing up to the LRB's Close Readings podcast:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/crpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Early Modern Maths with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-10-30
Duration: 00:36:42
Shownotes: On budget day, Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England, from the black
Duration: 00:36:42
Shownotes: On budget day, Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England, from the black
and white squares of the ‘reckoning cloth’ to logarithmic calculating machines, as described in a new book by Jessica Marie Otis. How did the English go from seeing arithmetic as the province of tradespeople and craftsmen to valuing maths as an educational discipline? Tom and Malin consider the importance of the move from Roman to Arabic numerals in this ‘quantitative transformation’ and the uses and abuses of statistics in the period.Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/earlymodernmathsSponsored links:Use the code ’LRB’ to get £100 off Serious Readers lights here: https://www.seriousreaders.com/lrbTo find out about financial support for professional writers visit the Royal Literary Fund here: https://www.rlf.org.uk/Find out more about ACE Cultural Tours: https://aceculturaltours.co.ukDiscover the LRB's subscription podcast, Close Readings, and audiobooks here: https://lrb.me/audio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On Binyavanga Wainaina with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-10-23
Duration: 00:44:09
Shownotes: In the latest issue of the LRB, Jeremy Harding reviews How to Write about Africa, a posthumous collection of essays and stories by Binyavanga Wainaina,
Duration: 00:44:09
Shownotes: In the latest issue of the LRB, Jeremy Harding reviews How to Write about Africa, a posthumous collection of essays and stories by Binyavanga Wainaina,
one of postcolonial Africa’s great anglophone satirists. Jeremy joins Tom to talk about Wainaina’s life and work, including the title essay and his ambivalent response to its popularity (‘I went viral,’ he later said, ‘I became spam’); his reporting from South Sudan; the ‘lost chapter’ from his memoir in which he imagines coming out to his parents; and his account of travelling to Senegal to interview the musician Youssou N'Dour, a piece that Harding describes as both ‘beautifully done’ and ‘extremely funny’.Find further reading and external links on the episode page: https://lrb.me/wainainapodSponsored links:Use the code ’LRB’ to get £100 off Serious Readers lights here: https://www.seriousreaders.com/lrbFind out more about ACE Cultural Tours: https://aceculturaltours.co.ukSee Hansel and Gretel at the Royal Opera House: https://www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-events/hansel-and-gretel-details Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A New War in Lebanon with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-10-18
Duration: 00:47:36
Shownotes: In his third conversation looking at the crisis in the Middle East, Adam talks to Mohamad Bazzi about Israel’s expansion of its war into Lebanon
Duration: 00:47:36
Shownotes: In his third conversation looking at the crisis in the Middle East, Adam talks to Mohamad Bazzi about Israel’s expansion of its war into Lebanon
and the recent assassinations of Yahya Sinwar and Hassan Nasrallah. They discuss the factors behind Israel’s unprecedented aggression and why, as in Gaza, it’s able to operate without restraint, not least from the Biden administration.Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and a professor of journalism at New York University.Read Adam Shatz on the death of Nasrallah in the latest LRB.https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n20/adam-shatz/after-nasrallah Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The End of Hamas? with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-10-18
Duration: 00:36:51
Shownotes: In the second of three conversations about the crisis in the Middle East, recorded shortly before the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was reported,
Duration: 00:36:51
Shownotes: In the second of three conversations about the crisis in the Middle East, recorded shortly before the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was reported,
Yezid Sayigh talks to Adam Shatz about why he sees Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October as an inflection point both for the Palestinian movement and global history. Sayigh believes that the attacks reflected an erosion of Palestinian leadership, as well as a moral and strategic crisis. Only a new vision of Palestinian liberation, rooted in progressive ideals rather than in the ethno-religious project of Hamas, he argues, can lead to genuine Palestinian freedom and sovereignty.Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.Read Adam Shatz on the death of Nasrallah in the latest LRB:https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n20/adam-shatz/after-nasrallah Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Inside Israel with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-10-16
Duration: 01:00:56
Shownotes: In the first of three episodes on the crisis in the Middle East, Adam Shatz is joined by Mairav Zonszein and Amjad Iraqi to discuss
Duration: 01:00:56
Shownotes: In the first of three episodes on the crisis in the Middle East, Adam Shatz is joined by Mairav Zonszein and Amjad Iraqi to discuss
the experiences of Israeli Jews and Palestinian citizens of Israel. While the Netanyahu government is opposed by many Israeli Jews, and increasing numbers have left the country, support for Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon remains high because few can imagine an alternative. For Palestinian citizens of Israel, who have long suffered restrictions on their democratic rights, the escalating crisis has intensified that discrimination, while stirring a deep sense of fear regarding their future. Mairav and Amjad talk to Adam about the tensions in Israeli society, not least between the government and military, and why Netanyahu has shown so little interest in the lives of the hostages still held by Hamas.Mairav Zonszein is a journalist and Senior Israel Analyst with Crisis Group.Amjad Iraqi is an editor at +972 Magazine and an associate fellow with Chatham House's MENA programme.Read Adam Shatz on the death of Nasrallah:https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n20/adam-shatz/after-nasrallah Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Death and Life of the Department Store with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-10-09
Duration: 00:40:02
Shownotes: ‘The department store is dying,’ Rosemary Hill wrote recently in the LRB, reviewing an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris on the
Duration: 00:40:02
Shownotes: ‘The department store is dying,’ Rosemary Hill wrote recently in the LRB, reviewing an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris on the
origins of the grands magasins. She joins Tom to talk about their 19th and 20th-century heyday as cathedrals of consumerism as well as places where women could spend time away from home, and away from men, safely and respectably. She also recalls the Christmas she worked in the toy department at Selfridges, demonstrating wind-up bath toys.Sponsored links:Use the code ’LRB’ to get £100 off Serious Readers lights here: https://www.seriousreaders.com/lrbFind out more about ACE Cultural Tours: https://aceculturaltours.co.ukSee Maddaddam at the Royal Opera House: https://www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-events/maddaddam-details Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
After Grenfell with full transcript and summary
Update: 2024-10-02
Duration: 01:03:18
Shownotes: The final report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry established that the fire on 14 June 2017, which killed 72 people, was the ‘culmination of decades
Duration: 01:03:18
Shownotes: The final report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry established that the fire on 14 June 2017, which killed 72 people, was the ‘culmination of decades
of failure’. Every death was avoidable, and every death was the result of choices made by corporations, individuals and elected officials. James Butler, who writes about the report and its findings in the current issue of the LRB, joins Tom to discuss the causes and consequences of the fire and whether those responsible will be brought to justice.Read James's piece: https://lrb.me/butlergrenfellSponsored links:Use the code 'LRB' to get £100 off Serious Readers lights here: https://www.seriousreaders.com/lrbTo find out about financial support for professional writers visit the Royal Literary Fund here: https://www.rlf.org.uk/Discover the LRB's subscription podcast, Close Readings, and audiobooks here: https://lrb.me/audio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Euripides Unbound with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-09-25
Duration: 00:40:37
Shownotes: In November 2022, archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Philadelphia, two hours south of Cairo, discovered a clump of papyri in a shallow grave. On
Duration: 00:40:37
Shownotes: In November 2022, archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Philadelphia, two hours south of Cairo, discovered a clump of papyri in a shallow grave. On
one of them were written nearly a hundred lines from two lost plays by Euripides. Robert Cioffi, who has been working with the same team on a new archaeological mission, joins Tom to discuss the find, the precarious transmission of ancient manuscripts, and the time he tried to make papyrus in his kitchen.Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/euripidespodSponsored links:Find out more about ACE Cultural Tours: https://aceculturaltours.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Streisand’s Way with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-09-19
Duration: 00:50:36
Shownotes: Singing, acting, directing, writing: Barbra Streisand always insisted on doing it her way. Malin Hay, who recently reviewed Streisand’s 992-page autobiography, joins Tom to discuss
Duration: 00:50:36
Shownotes: Singing, acting, directing, writing: Barbra Streisand always insisted on doing it her way. Malin Hay, who recently reviewed Streisand’s 992-page autobiography, joins Tom to discuss
her performances on stage and screen, her prodigious voice and why her best movie may be one where she doesn’t sing at all.Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/barbrapodMalin’s Streisand playlist: https://lrb.me/barbraplaylistSponsored links:Find out more about ACE Cultural Tours: https://aceculturaltours.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
‘The Cleverest Woman in England’ with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-09-11
Duration: 00:40:26
Shownotes: Jane Ellen Harrison was Britain’s first female career academic, a maverick public intellectual burdened with the label ‘the cleverest woman in England’. Her quips and
Duration: 00:40:26
Shownotes: Jane Ellen Harrison was Britain’s first female career academic, a maverick public intellectual burdened with the label ‘the cleverest woman in England’. Her quips and
quirks became legendary, but many of those anecdotes were promulgated by Harrison herself. Mary Beard joins Tom to discuss Harrison’s legacy, the challenges in writing her life and the careful cultivation of her voice.Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/jeharrisonpodSponsored Links:The Kluge Prize: https://loc.gov/klugeToronto University Press: https://utorontopress.com/LRB AudioDiscover the LRB's subscription podcast, Close Readings, and audiobooks: https://lrb.me/audiopod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On Edith Piaf with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-09-06
Duration: 00:29:29
Shownotes: This episode is a chapter from Complicated Women by Bee Wilson, a new LRB audiobook, based on pieces first published in the London Review of
Duration: 00:29:29
Shownotes: This episode is a chapter from Complicated Women by Bee Wilson, a new LRB audiobook, based on pieces first published in the London Review of
Books. Wilson explores the lives of ten figures, from Lola Montez to Vivienne Westwood, who challenged the limitations imposed on women in dramatically different ways. In this free chapter, she describes the ways that Edith Piaf’s life and art embodied the needs of her public, and how she became a symbol of postwar French resilience.Podcast listeners can get 20% off using the code POD20 at checkout.Buy the audiobook here and listen in your preferred podcast app: https://lrb.me/audio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jean-Paul Sartre: 'Being and Nothingness' with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-09-04
Duration: 00:35:41
Shownotes: This week, a chapter from a new LRB audiobook, Becoming a Philosopher: Spinoza to Sartre by Jonathan Rée. This collection of ten biographical pieces, read
Duration: 00:35:41
Shownotes: This week, a chapter from a new LRB audiobook, Becoming a Philosopher: Spinoza to Sartre by Jonathan Rée. This collection of ten biographical pieces, read
by Rée, describes the lives of some of most influential thinkers of the past four hundred years and the radical and sometimes bizarre ideas that emerged from them. The audiobook also includes an introductory conversation between Rée and Thomas Jones, host of the LRB Podcast. In this free chapter, Rée looks at the life of Jean-Paul Sartre up to the publication of his first major philosophical work, Being and Nothingness, in 1943.Podcast listeners can get 20% off using the code POD20 at checkout.Buy the audiobook here and listen in your preferred podcast app: https://lrb.me/audio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Great Auks! with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-08-29
Duration: 00:43:40
Shownotes: The great auk was a flightless, populous and reportedly delicious bird, once found widely across the rocky outcrops of the North Atlantic. By the 1860s
Duration: 00:43:40
Shownotes: The great auk was a flightless, populous and reportedly delicious bird, once found widely across the rocky outcrops of the North Atlantic. By the 1860s
it was extinct, its decline sharpened by specimen collectors and at least one volcanic eruption. Human-driven extinction was ‘almost unthinkable’ until the auk’s disappearance, Liam Shaw writes. He joins Tom to discuss when, where and why the great auk died out.Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/aukspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jane Austen, Simone de Beauvoir and Herodotus with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-08-21
Duration: 00:30:33
Shownotes: What do Jane Austen, Simone de Beauvoir and Herodotus have in common? They all appear in three of this year’s Close Readings series, in which
Duration: 00:30:33
Shownotes: What do Jane Austen, Simone de Beauvoir and Herodotus have in common? They all appear in three of this year’s Close Readings series, in which
a pair of LRB contributors explore an area of literature through a selection of key works. This week, we’re revisiting some of the highlights from subscriber-only episodes: Clare Bucknell and Colin Burrow on Emma, Judith Butler and Adam Shatz on The Second Sex, and Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones on Herodotus’ Histories.To listen to these episodes in full, subscribe to Close Readings:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3Md5fd5In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/audio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How to Read Genesis with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-08-15
Duration: 00:47:54
Shownotes: The Book of Genesis begins with the creation of the universe and ends with the death of Jacob, patriarch of the Israelites. Between these two
Duration: 00:47:54
Shownotes: The Book of Genesis begins with the creation of the universe and ends with the death of Jacob, patriarch of the Israelites. Between these two
events, successive generations confront the moral tests set for them by God, and in doing so usher in the Abrahamic religious tradition. In Reading Genesis, Marilynne Robinson argues for the continued relevance of Genesis as a foundational text of Western culture. James Butler joins Malin to discuss Robinson’s account in the light of a long, rich and conflicted history of interpretation.Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/genesispodSponsored link:Learn more about the Royal Literary Fund here: https://rlf.org.uk/LRB AudioDiscover the LRB's subscription podcast, Close Readings, and audiobooks: https://lrb.me/audiopod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The First Pandemic? with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-08-07
Duration: 00:29:18
Shownotes: In the 160s CE, Rome was struck by a devastating disease which, a new book argues, may have been the world’s first pandemic. Galen began
Duration: 00:29:18
Shownotes: In the 160s CE, Rome was struck by a devastating disease which, a new book argues, may have been the world’s first pandemic. Galen began
his career treating ’the protracted plague’ with viper flesh, opium and urine, but despite his extensive documentation, we still don’t know what a modern diagnosis would be. Josephine Quinn joins Malin to discuss contemporary theories about the Antonine Plague and what ice cores and amulets can tell us about the disease’s impact.Further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/romanplaguepodLRB AudioDiscover the LRB's subscription podcast, Close Readings, and audiobooks: https://lrb.me/audiopod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’ with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-07-31
Duration: 00:55:22
Shownotes: When Wittgenstein published his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in 1921, he claimed to have solved all philosophical problems. One problem that hasn’t been solved though is how
Duration: 00:55:22
Shownotes: When Wittgenstein published his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in 1921, he claimed to have solved all philosophical problems. One problem that hasn’t been solved though is how
best to translate this notoriously difficult work. The expiry of the book’s copyright in 2021 has brought three new English translations in less than a year, each grappling with the difficulties posed by a philosopher who frequently undermined his own use of language to demonstrate the limitations of what can be represented. Adrian Moore joins Malin Hay to discuss what Wittgenstein hoped to achieve with the only work he published in his lifetime and to consider how much we should trust his assertion that everything it contains is nonsensical.Find further reading and listening on the episode page: https://lrb.me/tractatuspodLRB AudioDiscover the LRB's subscription podcast, Close Readings, and audiobooks: https://lrb.me/audiopod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Patrick McGuinness: Back to Bouillon with full AI transcript and summary
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Shownotes: Patrick McGuinness reads his diary from our 6th June issue about his family’s hometown of Bouillon in Belgium. He reflects on the linguistic and national
Duration: 00:32:54
Shownotes: Patrick McGuinness reads his diary from our 6th June issue about his family’s hometown of Bouillon in Belgium. He reflects on the linguistic and national
barriers he crossed to return there each year; on the changes wrought on the town by the end of the industrial era; and on the ways that history and global politics can shape a locality beyond recognition.Read the diary here: https://lrb.me/mcguinnesspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
At the Republican National Convention: Day Four with full AI transcript and summary
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Shownotes: It’s the final day of the Republican National Convention. Andrew O'Hagan and Deborah Friedell dissect Trump’s marathon acceptance speech and ask what a second term
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Shownotes: It’s the final day of the Republican National Convention. Andrew O'Hagan and Deborah Friedell dissect Trump’s marathon acceptance speech and ask what a second term
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At the Republican National Convention: Day Three with full AI transcript and summary
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Shownotes: At day three of the Republican National Convention, Andrew O'Hagan and Deborah Friedell discuss what a second Trump presidency would mean for American foreign policy.
Duration: 00:23:23
Shownotes: At day three of the Republican National Convention, Andrew O'Hagan and Deborah Friedell discuss what a second Trump presidency would mean for American foreign policy.
They compare notes on J.D. Vance's memoir Hillbilly Elegy, and reflect on his keynote speech. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
At the Republican National Convention: Day Two with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-07-18
Duration: 00:26:27
Shownotes: Andrew O'Hagan and Deborah Friedell return to the Republican National Convention. They explore second day's theme, Make America Safe Again, and discuss how this convention
Duration: 00:26:27
Shownotes: Andrew O'Hagan and Deborah Friedell return to the Republican National Convention. They explore second day's theme, Make America Safe Again, and discuss how this convention
compares to the last one Andrew attended, the RNC in 2004. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
At the Republican National Convention: Day One with full AI transcript and summary
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Shownotes: Andrew O'Hagan and Deborah Friedell report on day one of the Republican National Convention. They react to Trump's choice of vice president and reflect on
Duration: 00:21:18
Shownotes: Andrew O'Hagan and Deborah Friedell report on day one of the Republican National Convention. They react to Trump's choice of vice president and reflect on
the key note speech by Sean O'Brien, the first time the head of the Teamsters' Union has ever addressed the RNC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mendez: How I became an audiobook narrator with full AI transcript and summary
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Shownotes: The worst thing you can say to anyone who works in hospitality, Mendez writes, is ‘Maybe you’ll meet someone!’ But a chance encounter while waiting
Duration: 00:18:48
Shownotes: The worst thing you can say to anyone who works in hospitality, Mendez writes, is ‘Maybe you’ll meet someone!’ But a chance encounter while waiting
tables lead to their new niche. In this episode, Mendez reads their recent piece about the art of audiobook narration and how they became the voice of Pelé.Find the original piece and further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/mendezpodLearn more about the Charleston Trust: https://www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/anne-rothenstein/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Labour's Big Win with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-07-05
Duration: 00:53:59
Shownotes: John Lanchester, Tom Crewe and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite join James Butler to dissect Keir Starmer's victory and the historic collapse of the Conservative Party. They discuss
Duration: 00:53:59
Shownotes: John Lanchester, Tom Crewe and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite join James Butler to dissect Keir Starmer's victory and the historic collapse of the Conservative Party. They discuss
what the result tells us about the needs and frustrations of the country, the ways in which the new Labour government might achieve some of the things it’s promised and why comparisons with Harold Wilson have been so prevalent.Read Tom Crewe on fourteen years of the Tories:https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/tom-crewe/carnival-of-self-harm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
UK Election Special: The Economy with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-07-03
Duration: 00:57:12
Shownotes: The day before the election, James Butler is joined by William Davies to talk about something everyone seems to agree on: the very poor state
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Shownotes: The day before the election, James Butler is joined by William Davies to talk about something everyone seems to agree on: the very poor state
of the UK’s public finances. The past fourteen years of Conservative rule began with the technocratic austerity of George Osborne and ended with the return of the ‘grown-ups’, Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak, to inflict more pain. In between came the chaos of Brexit and the Truss-Kwarteng ‘mini-budget’. What will a likely Labour government pick up from this? Are we still stuck in the age of Osborne, or will something resembling the public investment strategy of Bidenomics emerge through initiatives such as the National Wealth Fund and Great British Energy, as Rachel Reeves has promised?Read Will's latest LRB piece: https://lrb.me/davieselectionpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
UK Election Special: Foreign Policy with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-06-29
Duration: 00:59:20
Shownotes: ‘The world is growing more dangerous’ warns the Conservative manifesto, which puts security at the heart of its pitch. The Labour manifesto, on the other
Duration: 00:59:20
Shownotes: ‘The world is growing more dangerous’ warns the Conservative manifesto, which puts security at the heart of its pitch. The Labour manifesto, on the other
hand, doesn’t mention the world beyond the UK at all in its five ‘missions’. Are the Tories simply being honest with voters, or trying to distract from their domestic record? In this episode, James Butler is joined by Tom Stevenson and Iona Craig to discuss the challenges facing the next foreign secretary, from Gaza to the pressures of a possible Trump presidency. Labour’s current approach seems to promise ‘Blair without the Iraq War’, but how far will this allow UK foreign policy to depart from its normal attitude of subservience to the United States?Read more in the LRB:Tom Stevenson on diplomacy: https://lrb.me/stevensonelectionpodJames Butler's latest election post: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/june/new-order Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Faked Editions with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-06-26
Duration: 00:41:55
Shownotes: For forty years, Thomas James Wise made a fortune forging copies of books that had never existed, sometimes even convincing their authors they were the
Duration: 00:41:55
Shownotes: For forty years, Thomas James Wise made a fortune forging copies of books that had never existed, sometimes even convincing their authors they were the
real deal. Despite a damning exposé by amateur detectives in the 1930s, Wise never confessed or faced legal repercussions, and his fakes have become collectors’ pieces in their own right. Gill Partington joins Tom to explain Wise’s success and final undoing, and to discuss the value of forgeries, hoaxes and reproductions as art.Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/wisepodFind out more about the Royal Literary Fund: https://rlf.org.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
UK Election Special: The Broken State with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-06-19
Duration: 00:52:01
Shownotes: For the second episode of our series on the UK election, James Butler is joined by Sam Freedman to talk about the enormous challenges facing
Duration: 00:52:01
Shownotes: For the second episode of our series on the UK election, James Butler is joined by Sam Freedman to talk about the enormous challenges facing
the next government. From hospital waiting lists to criminal court backlogs and even potholes, the fabric of the British state seems to be beyond repair. It’s not simply a problem of funding: poor management, a lack of scrutiny and extreme centralisation combined with the almost total destruction of local government have all played a part. James and Sam consider whether there’s anything to be done about this chronic dysfunction, and whether the next official opposition could in fact be the Liberal Democrats.Sam Freedman is co-author of the substack Comment is Freed. His book Failed State: Why Britain’s Institutions are Broken and How We Fix Them will be released in July 2024.Read more from James Butler the LRB:James Butler on the crisis in care: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n05/james-butler/this-concerns-everyoneSponsored LinkGet £100 off your Serious Readers order: https://www.seriousreaders.com/LRB Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
UK Election Special: Climate with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-06-13
Duration: 00:54:52
Shownotes: In the first in a series of episodes on the UK general election, James Butler is joined by Ann Pettifor and Adrienne Buller to discuss
Duration: 00:54:52
Shownotes: In the first in a series of episodes on the UK general election, James Butler is joined by Ann Pettifor and Adrienne Buller to discuss
climate policy and its apparent absence from the campaign so far. Several years ago the Labour Party was committed to a Green New Deal but has since backed away from that promise, while the Conservatives have decided that abandoning their own climate commitments is a vote-winner. Ann, Adrienne and James consider why political leadership and courage have disappeared on this issue, what environmental policy might look like with a Labour government, and how Chinese bicycles demonstrate the problem of international climate action.Read James's latest blog post on the election: https://lrb.me/butlersunakpodAnd more on climate in the LRB:Will Davies on why capitalism won't save the planet: https://lrb.me/daviesclimatepodJames Butler on Andreas Malm and ecoterrorism: https://lrb.me/butlerclimatepod2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What was the Venetian ghetto? with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-06-12
Duration: 00:40:48
Shownotes: From the ghetto's creation in 1516 until its dissolution at the end of the 18th century, Jews in Venice were confined to a district enclosed
Duration: 00:40:48
Shownotes: From the ghetto's creation in 1516 until its dissolution at the end of the 18th century, Jews in Venice were confined to a district enclosed
by canals, patrolled by guards and locked at night. Yet its residents were essential players in Venetian life, and in practice the ghetto saw far more traffic through its gates than its founders intended. Erin Maglaque joins Tom to discuss what life in the ghetto was like, and why an open-air prison could be considered relatively tolerant by the standards of early modern Europe.Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/ghettopodSponsored links:Find out more about Solved from the University of Toronto Press: https://utorontopress.com/9781487506827/solved/Learn more about Serious Readers: https://seriousreaders.com/lrb/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Forecasting D-Day with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-06-05
Duration: 00:13:45
Shownotes: The D-Day planners said that everything would depended the weather. They needed 'a quiet day with not more than moderate winds and seas and not
Duration: 00:13:45
Shownotes: The D-Day planners said that everything would depended the weather. They needed 'a quiet day with not more than moderate winds and seas and not
too much cloud for the airmen, to be followed by three more quiet days'. But who would make the forecast? The Meteorological Office? The US Air Force? The Royal Navy? In the event, it was all three. In this diary piece published in 1994, Lawrence Hogben, a New Zealand-born meteorologist and Royal Navy officer, describes the way this forecasting by committee worked, and why they very almost chose the wrong day.Read by Stephen DillaneFind the article and further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/ddaypodWatch the short film based on this piece: https://lrb.me/ddayytSponsored links:Learn more about Serious Readers: www.seriousreaders.com/lrbSign up to the LRB's Close Readings subscription:In Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadings Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On J.G. Ballard with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-05-29
Duration: 00:37:11
Shownotes: J.G. Ballard’s life and work contains many incongruities, outraging the Daily Mail and being offered a CBE (which he rejected), and variously appealing to both
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Shownotes: J.G. Ballard’s life and work contains many incongruities, outraging the Daily Mail and being offered a CBE (which he rejected), and variously appealing to both
Spielberg and Cronenberg. In a recent piece, Edmund Gordon unpicks the contradictions and contrarianism in Ballard’s non-fiction writing, and he joins Tom to continue the dissection. They explore Ballard’s strange combination of ‘whisky and soda’ conservatism and the avant-garde, what he was trying to achieve through his fiction, and how ‘Ballardian’ Empire of the Sun really is.Sponsored links:Find out more about Pace Gallery London’s Kiki Kogelnik exhibition here: https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/kiki-kogelnik-the-dance/Learn more about Serious Readers: www.seriousreaders.com/lrbSign up to the LRB's Close Readings subscription:In Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadings Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On Festac ’77 with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-05-22
Duration: 00:46:00
Shownotes: Marilyn Nance was 23 when she photographed Festac ’77, a global celebration of Black and African art that she described as ‘the Olympics, plus a
Duration: 00:46:00
Shownotes: Marilyn Nance was 23 when she photographed Festac ’77, a global celebration of Black and African art that she described as ‘the Olympics, plus a
Biennial, plus Woodstock’. In his review of Nance’s book, Sean Jacobs traces a more fraught history of the festival than her photographs would suggest. Sean joins Tom to discuss what Festac meant for politicians, attendees and the proponents of négritude, third worldism and pan-Africanism.Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/festacpodFind out more about Serious Readers: https://www.seriousreaders.com/lrb Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rebecca Solnit: In the Shadow of Silicon Valley with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-05-15
Duration: 00:43:36
Shownotes: Rebecca Solnit has lived in San Francisco since 1980, but the city she used to know is fast disappearing, ‘fully annexed’, as she puts it,
Duration: 00:43:36
Shownotes: Rebecca Solnit has lived in San Francisco since 1980, but the city she used to know is fast disappearing, ‘fully annexed’, as she puts it,
by the tech firms from Silicon Valley. In this episode of the LRB podcast, Solnit reads her piece from the 8 February issue of the paper, both a eulogy for the city that’s been lost and a dissection of the dystopia that’s replacing it, ‘returning us’, as she puts it, ‘to a kind of feudalism’.Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/solnitpodFind out more about Coram Boy at Chichister Festival Theatre here: https://www.cft.org.uk/events/coram-boy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Women in Philosophy with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-05-08
Duration: 00:57:01
Shownotes: The recovery of history’s ‘lost’ women is often associated with the advent of feminism, but, Sophie Smith writes, women’s contributions to Western philosophy have been
Duration: 00:57:01
Shownotes: The recovery of history’s ‘lost’ women is often associated with the advent of feminism, but, Sophie Smith writes, women’s contributions to Western philosophy have been
regularly rediscovered since at least the 14th century. She joins Tom to discuss what we can learn from the women who held their own alongside Plato, Descartes and Hume.Find Sophie’s piece and further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/sophiesmithpodFind out more about Pace Gallery’s upcoming exhibitions here: https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/Find out more about Coram Boy at Chichister Festival Theatre here: https://www.cft.org.uk/events/coram-boyLRB AudioDiscover the LRB's subscription podcast, Close Readings, and audiobooks: https://lrb.me/audiopod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Unspeakable Acts with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-05-02
Duration: 00:47:01
Shownotes: James Pratt and John Smith were the last men hanged in England for the crime of sodomy, reported to the authorities by nosy landlords who
Duration: 00:47:01
Shownotes: James Pratt and John Smith were the last men hanged in England for the crime of sodomy, reported to the authorities by nosy landlords who
later petitioned for clemency. Tom Crewe joins Thomas Jones to explain how exceptional – and unexceptional – the case was, the historical forces that led to the death sentence and the surprising ambivalence many Londoners felt about ‘unnatural crimes’ in the 1830s.Find out more about Bluets at the Royal Court theatre here: https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/bluets/Find Tom Crewe’s piece and further reading at the episode page: https://lrb.me/prattsmithpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Where does culture come from? with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-04-25
Duration: 01:08:15
Shownotes: The word ‘culture’ now drags the term ‘wars’ in its wake, but this is too narrow an approach to a concept with a much more
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Shownotes: The word ‘culture’ now drags the term ‘wars’ in its wake, but this is too narrow an approach to a concept with a much more
capacious history. In the closing LRB Winter Lecture for 2024, Terry Eagleton examines various aspects of that history – culture and power, culture and ethics, culture and critique, culture and ideology – in an attempt to broaden the argument and understand where we are now.Terry Eagleton delivered this lecture as part of the LRB's Winter Lecture series at St James's Church, Clerkenwell, London on 27 March 2024.Read Terry Eagleton’s lecture in the LRB: https://lrb.me/eagletonwlWatch the lecture on YouTube: https://lrb.me/eagletonwlytFind out more about Bluets here: https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/bluets/LRB AudioDiscover the LRB's subscription podcast, Close Readings, and audiobooks: https://lrb.me/audiopod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Remembering the Future with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-04-17
Duration: 00:38:26
Shownotes: In her recent LRB Winter Lecture, Hazel V. Carby discussed ways contemporary Indigenous artists are rendering the ordinarily invisible repercussions of ecocide and genocide visible.
Duration: 00:38:26
Shownotes: In her recent LRB Winter Lecture, Hazel V. Carby discussed ways contemporary Indigenous artists are rendering the ordinarily invisible repercussions of ecocide and genocide visible.
She joins Adam Shatz to expand on the artists discussed in her lecture, and how they disrupt the ways we’re accustomed to seeing borders, landmasses, and landscapes empty – or emptied – of people.Find the lecture and further reading on the episode page: lrb.me/carbypodWatch the lecture on YouTube: lrb.me/carbyytFind out more about Bluets at the Royal Court theatre here: https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/bluets/Listen to the We Society Podcast here: https://acss.org.uk/we-society-podcast/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Leaving Haiti with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-04-10
Duration: 00:43:56
Shownotes: Since the 2010 earthquake, ordinary life in Haiti has become increasingly untenable: in January this year, armed gangs controlled around 80 per cent of the
Duration: 00:43:56
Shownotes: Since the 2010 earthquake, ordinary life in Haiti has become increasingly untenable: in January this year, armed gangs controlled around 80 per cent of the
capital. Pooja Bhatia joins Tom to discuss Haitian immigration to Chile and the US, the self-defeating nature of US immigration policy and the double binds Haitian refugees find themselves in. Should you pay a bribe if it marks you out as a candidate for kidnapping? Can you be deported to a country without an operating airport? And if asylum laws protect people who are being persecuted, what happens when that covers an entire nation?Find Pooja's Haiti coverage on the episode page: lrb.me/haitipodFind out more about Bluets at the Royal Court theatre here: https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/bluets/Listen to the We Society Podcast here: https://acss.org.uk/we-society-podcast/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gurle Talk with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-04-04
Duration: 00:34:01
Shownotes: Modern English speakers struggle to find sexual terms that aren’t either obscene or scientific, but that wasn’t always the case. In a recent review of
Duration: 00:34:01
Shownotes: Modern English speakers struggle to find sexual terms that aren’t either obscene or scientific, but that wasn’t always the case. In a recent review of
Jenni Nuttall’s Mother Tongue, Mary Wellesley connects our linguistic squeamishness to changing ideas about women and sexuality. She joins Tom to discuss the changing language of women’s anatomy, work and lives.Find further reading on the episode page: lrb.me/gurletalkListen to Mary Wellesley and Irina Dumitrescu on medieval humour: lrb.me/millerstale Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Belgrano Diary: Half a Million Sheep Can't Be Wrong with full AI transcript and summary
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Update: 2024-03-28
Duration: 00:31:42
Shownotes: When Argentina invades the Falkland Islands, Margaret Thatcher sends a huge flotilla on an 8000-mile rescue mission – to save a forgotten remnant of the
Duration: 00:31:42
Shownotes: When Argentina invades the Falkland Islands, Margaret Thatcher sends a huge flotilla on an 8000-mile rescue mission – to save a forgotten remnant of the
empire, and her premiership. Onboard the nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror, Lieutenant Narendra Sethia starts to keep a diary.This is an extract from the first episode. To listen to the rest of it, and the full series, find 'The Belgrano Diary' in:Apple PodcastsSpotifyor wherever you get your podcasts.Archive:‘Good Morning Britain’/ITV/TV-Am, ‘Newsnight’/BBC/BBC News, ‘Falkands War – The Untold Story’/ITV/Yorkshire Television, ‘Leach, Henry Conyers (Oral history)’/Imperial War Museum, ‘President Regan’s Press Briefing in the Oval Office on April 5, 1982’/White House Television Office, ‘Diary’/James M. Rentschler, TV Publica/Radio y Televisión Argentina S.E, The Falklands War: Recordings from the Archive/BBC Worldwide, Parliamentary Recording Unit Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Update: 2024-03-27
Duration: 00:48:44
Shownotes: Rosemary Hill, reviewing Steven Brindle’s Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830, celebrates his approach to architecture as a social, collaborative endeavour, where human need (and
Duration: 00:48:44
Shownotes: Rosemary Hill, reviewing Steven Brindle’s Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830, celebrates his approach to architecture as a social, collaborative endeavour, where human need (and
human greed) stymies starchitectural vision. Rosemary takes Tom on a tour of British and Irish architecture, from the Reformation through industrialisation, featuring big egos, unexpected outcomes and at least one architect she thinks it’s ‘completely fair’ to call a villain. Find further reading on the episode page: lrb.me/brindlepodListen to Rosemary on the design of Bath: lrb.me/stonehengepodAnd on Salisbury Cathedral: lrb.me/salisburypod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.