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Hegel: The philosopher with the (one) big idea

noemail@noemail.org (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT

GWF Hegel (1770-1831) wanted to construct nothing less than a complete explanation of reality - nature, consciousness, art, history, politics, the lot - based on a single self-explanatory idea. Whether or not he succeeded is an interesting question (spoiler: he didn't), but more interesting is the question of why philosophy has become so much less ambitious since then, and what we can learn from Hegel today.

58: The Other Mitford Girl

noemail@noemail.org (Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader's Quarterly) — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

The Mitfords continue to fascinate us, thanks to the witty novels, biographies and letters they wrote, their political involvement on both left and right, and their brush with world history. Rarely a year goes by without another Mitford documentary, film or television series, a volume of letters or a biography. In our latest podcast our emphasis moves from the girls to their mother – matriarch of one of the most outrageous, controversial, influential, glamorous and intriguing families of the twentieth century.

Sydney Redesdale (née Bowles), known by her family as ‘Muv’, was never going to have a conventional life. Her mother died when she was 7, and from the age of 14 she ran her father’s house. She fell in love with David Mitford (later Lord Redesdale) as a teenager and they married in 1904. Of their seven children, Nancy, Pamela, Tom, Diana, Jessica, Unity and Debo, two became bestselling authors, one was imprisoned and two lost their lives as a result of the Second World War, and their political views ranged from fascism to communism.

Sydney was the original Mitford girl, from whom much of her daughters’ legendary strong will, self-confidence and extremism was born. Nancy’s satires of aristocratic life between the wars, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, portray Sydney as Aunt Sadie, vague and rather disconnected, but in fact Sydney was a divisive character and her daughters squabbled about the nature of the ‘real Muv’ for even longer than they argued about their own political differences.

Our guests on this podcast are two modern Mitfordians, Rachel Trethewey, biographer, historian and author of Muv: The Story of the Mitford Girls’ Mother, and Frances Donnelly, broadcaster, writer and contributor to Slightly Foxed. Alongside discussion of Sydney and the difficulties of writing about someone with whom you disagree and find hard to like at times, the guests and our editors choose their favourite Mitford titles.

Summer reading recommendations include R. C. Sheriff’s The Fortnight in September and Anne Tyler’s Three Days in June.

David Baldacci: How to Write Books That Actually Sell | How I Write

noemail@noemail.org (David Perell) — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT

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David Baldacci, one of the most prolific writers in the world, joins us on the show today. He has written 53 novels and seven children’s books, publishes two novels every year, and has sold more than 200 million copies worldwide.

How does he craft great stories, develop compelling characters, and build tension? How does he approach the business of publishing? Drawing from his background as a lawyer and his time in boardrooms worldwide, what strategies does he employ to ensure his books sell and are read? This conversation explores those very questions. About the host Hey! I’m David Perell and I’m a writer, teacher, and podcaster. I believe writing online is one of the biggest opportunities in the world today. For the first time in human history, everybody can freely share their ideas with a global audience. I seek to help as many people publish their writing online as possible. Follow me Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-write/id1700171470 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DavidPerellChannel Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2DjMSboniFAeGA8v9NpoPv X: https://x.com/david_perell

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Scott Dikkers: 11 Ways to Make Your Writing More Funny | How I Write

noemail@noemail.org (David Perell) — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT

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Scott Dikkers is the former editor-in-chief of The Onion, the site that brought news satire to the internet.

Before the episode, I went up to Scott and said, “I have one goal for this: I want to start writing funny. You know how to do it. Can you teach me everything you've learned?"

He’s been doing this for decades, so he was able to take me by the hand and show me what he learned, very concretely.

You're obviously not going to framework your way to becoming the next George Carlin, but there are universal principles of comedy that work in any kind of writing, whether it's for a group chat or when you are talking with friends on a Saturday night at the bar. And Scott is about to teach us how to do it. About the host Hey! I’m David Perell and I’m a writer, teacher, and podcaster. I believe writing online is one of the biggest opportunities in the world today. For the first time in human history, everybody can freely share their ideas with a global audience. I seek to help as many people publish their writing online as possible. Follow me Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-write/id1700171470 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DavidPerellChannel Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2DjMSboniFAeGA8v9NpoPv X: https://x.com/david_perell

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Ep. 395: C.S. Lewis Argues for Christianity (Part Two)

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:36:00 GMT

Continuing on Mere Christianity (1952). We discuss his take on the problem of evil, how happiness is impossible without Christ, our potential to evolve from bios (biological nature) vs. zoe (spiritual nature), sexual morality, pride, and more.

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Colonising space is for lunatics

noemail@noemail.org (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:30:00 GMT

If Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have their way, the new space age will bring holidays in orbit, asteroid mining and human colonies on Mars. Musk says humanity must become a “multi-planetary species”. But philosopher Ben Bramble argues that vision is a dangerous fantasy. In his new book, Lunacy: Ten False Promises of the New Space Age he says our priority should be solving the problems here on Earth — not chasing the promise of another world.

Guest: Ben Bramble, Lecturer in Philosophy, Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University

Producer: Ali Benton

Liz Nugent

noemail@noemail.org (BBC Radio 4) — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:30:00 GMT

The award-winning Irish writer, Liz Nugent, speaks to Take Four Books about her latest novel, The Truth About Ruby Cooper, and, together with presenter James Crawford, they explore its connections to three other works of fiction. Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s world to implode.

For her three influences Liz chose: Ian McEwan's Atonement from 2001, the book was later adapted into a film of the same name starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy; Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy from 1992; and Patrick Süskind’s 1985 novel, Perfume.

This episode was recorded in front of an audience at the Hay Festival 2026.

Producer: Dominic Howell Editor: Gillian Wheelan This was a BBC Audio Scotland production.

Min Jin Lee Reads “Testing”

noemail@noemail.org (The New Yorker) — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT

Min Jin Lee reads her story “Testing,” from the July 27, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lee is the author of the novels “Free Food for Millionaires” and “Pachinko,” which was a National Book Award finalist in 2017. Her third novel, “American Hagwon,” from which this week’s story was adapted, will be published in September.

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The brilliant poetry and turbulent life of Patrick Kavanagh

noemail@noemail.org (RTÉ) — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was a notorious presence in Dublin for much of his life. Broke, drunk and often bitter, he boozed in the bars around Grafton Street, clashing with the likes of Brendan Behan and railing against the literary establishment. Always an outsider, he nonetheless transformed Irish poetry by focusing on the ordinary aspects of rural Ireland, paving the way for the likes of Seamus Heaney, and writing perhaps the greatest love song of all time, Raglan Road.

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Margaret Drabble: The Great Good Places

noemail@noemail.org (London Review Bookshop) — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Margaret Drabble’s new collection, The Great Good Places, is an omnium gatherum of essays, stories and memoir, drawing on a lifetime’s worth of insight and wisdom. ‘Generous, perceptive, and good-humoured, Margaret Drabble is always a delight to read’, wrote Joan Bakewell; The Great Good Places has all these qualities in evidence. Drabble was in conversation with Tessa Hadley, whose most recent novel is The Party (Vintage).

You can buy a copy of The Great Good Places from the London Review Bookshop.

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Gianni Infantino

noemail@noemail.org (BBC Radio 4) — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT

The FIFA president grew up in Switzerland as part of an Italian migrant family, and fell in love with football and its administration when he was just a teenager.

Having qualified as a football lawyer and making a name for himself at the European football federation UEFA, Infantino ended up perfectly positioned to take over the presidency of the world body FIFA after the organisation was mired in corruption charges. His promise to give the member associations double the money sealed his bid.

He’s now been president for over 10 years and has overseen FIFA’s expansion, with World Cups in Qatar, Russia and now North America; the growth of the women’s game; more competitions; more controversy - and of course more money.

This week, his love affair with Donald Trump has been thrust into the spotlight after US player Folarin Balogun’s red card was suspended following Trump's appeal to Infantino. Will this latest controversy prove his undoing, or is it just another chapter in a new brazen age?

Production: Presenter: Mark Coles Producers: Tom Gillett, Eleanor Harrison-Dengate Production Coordinator: Maria Ogundele, Siobhan Reed Sound: Neil Churchill Editor: Justine Lang

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Elizabeth Strout

noemail@noemail.org (BBC Radio 4) — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Presenter James Crawford speaks to award‑winning American author Elizabeth Strout - winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a two‑time Booker Prize nominee - about her new book The Things We Never Say and its three key literary influences.

In Elizabeth's latest novel, we are taken to the New England coast, where we follow the life of history teacher Artie Dam, who is struggling to cope with the way the modern world is changing around him.

Elizabeth’s three influences are The Stories of William Trevor by William Trevor (1983), Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925), and Middlemarch by George Eliot (1872).

Producer: Rachael O’Neill Editor: Gillian Wheelan This was a BBC Audio Scotland production.

Bryan Washington Reads “Gatekeeping”

noemail@noemail.org (The New Yorker) — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT

Bryan Washington reads his story “Gatekeeping,” from the July 20, 2026, issue of the magazine. Washington is the author of four works of fiction, including “Memorial,” “Family Meal,” and “Palaver,” which won the L.A. Times Book Prize in 2025.

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Polly Barton & Chal Ravens: What Am I, A Deer?

noemail@noemail.org (London Review Bookshop) — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT

What Am I, A Deer?, Polly Barton’s debut novel, takes on the vagaries of translation – linguistic translation, self-translation, and reinvention – which she’s previously explored in the much-loved Fifty Sounds, also published by Fitzcarraldo. ‘The protagonist of What Am I, A Deer? finds herself both Schrödinger and his cat on entering the Frankfurt tram, the office, and the ‘black box’ of the karaoke booth; inside and outside simultaneously, trying to figure out whether she exists and in a state of tingling oscillation’, writes Jen Calleja. ‘Polly Barton is the maestra of controlled dissolution.’

You can buy a copy of What Am I, A Deer? from the London Review Bookshop.

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The End of Everything, with M. John Harrison

Wed, 8 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT

M. John Harrison returns to the Shakespeare and Company Podcast to talk with Adam Biles about his new novel, The End of Everything, a disaster story set in a "wrong UK" where societal collapse coincides with the arrival of an alien presence, and the strange shape-shifting "artefacts" it leaves behind.

Harrison discusses writing an "epistemological" catastrophe rather than a physical one, the decades of discipline it took to trust readers without over-explaining, and how the book's permacrisis mirrors post-2008 Britain and Brexit. He talks character-building from "bits and pieces" of real people, why he refuses to fully reveal his monsters, and how AI anxieties seeped into a book largely conceived before ChatGPT.

Buy The End of Everything: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/anabasis-2

MICHAEL JOHN HARRISON is the author of, among others, the Viriconium stories, The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Course of the Heart, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, Signs of Life, Light and Nova Swing. He has won the Boardman Tasker Prize (Climbers), the James Tiptree Jr Award (Light), the Arthur C. Clarke Award (Nova Swing) and the Goldsmiths Prize (The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again). He lives in Shropshire.

Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company.

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Caitlin Moran

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:00:00 GMT

Our guest today is the writer, columnist and broadcaster Caitlin Moran. Caitlin talks to Gyles about her unusual childhood in Wolverhampton, homeschooled by a father who was a frustrated rock star and a mother who looked like Mick Jagger. She talks about her parents' sex life and her dreams of escaping the Midlands. Caitlin talks about winning her first journalism prize and writing her first novel at 16. She talks about starting smoking on her first day at Melody Maker and meeting her husband. She talks about having a miscarriage and motherhood. She talks about rewilding her garden and the power of nature to heal and delight.

This is a brilliant conversation, full of entertainment, laughter, candour and insight. Our heartfelt thanks to Caitlin for it.

Caitlin's new podcast is called Outsiding, and is out now. It's highly recommended.

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Dada: The birth of an art movement

noemail@noemail.org (BBC World Service) — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT

In 1916, Zurich was a beacon for refugees. Fleeing the death and destruction of World War I, artists and free-thinkers from all over Europe fled to the neutral Swiss city.

And it was here that the people who would start the art movement Dada came together. In a rare interview from 1959, held in the BBC archive, Richard Huelsenbeck describes how the group of young artists and pacifists shared a despair about the war and a disgust for bourgeois values.

At the Cabaret Voltaire, he and the Romanian-born poet Tristan Tzara, the French sculptor Jean Arp and Romanian-born artist Marcel Janco experimented. Performances were known for their spontaneity, chance and absurdity - a departure from the conventional which confronted audiences. It was the beginning of an aesthetic which would spread across Europe and to New York City, eventually influencing Surrealism and later punk. This episode is produced and presented by Josephine McDermott.

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For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more.

Recent episodes explore everything from how the Excel spreadsheet was developed, the creation of cartoon rabbit Miffy and how the sound barrier was broken.

We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: the moment Reagan and Gorbachev met in Geneva, Haitian singer Emerante de Pradines’ life and Omar Sharif’s legendary movie entrance in Lawrence of Arabia.

You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, like the invention of a stent which has saved lives around the world; the birth of the G7; and the meeting of Maldives’ ministers underwater. We cover everything from World War Two and Cold War stories to Black History Month and our journeys into space.

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After the Fireworks

noemail@noemail.org (Adam) — Thu, 9 Jul 2026 19:14:11 GMT

We’re still in the Fourth of July spirit around the 250th birthday of our nation, hooked in particular by one grand American historian’s question to it: is the United States on the road to a new civil war?

David Blight.

David Blight, Sterling Professor of History at Yale, has been our guest before—on his Pulitzer-winning biography of Frederick Douglass: The Prophet of Freedom. And now he’s our biographer of the American experiment, looking ahead by looking back. The experiment, he says, is in deep, maybe critical trouble.

And here’s more from David Blight on the U.S. in crisis—this is a recent talk at the American Academy in Berlin:

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The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate

noemail@noemail.org (ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com (New York Times Opinion)) — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Already this summer, there have been huge wildfires in the Southwest and Great Plains and an extraordinary heat wave in Europe, as the world stares down the barrel of a powerful El Niño. Climate change is accelerating, and yet climate politics right now is in disarray.

But something else is happening, too. Advances in clean energy technology mean it is now possible to build a world of energy abundance that was the stuff of dreams just a few years ago. That means a new kind of climate politics is possible — one that doesn’t just talk about sacrifice and disaster prevention but also can present decarbonization as a path to somewhere better, where everyone has more, not less.

Bill McKibben is one of the best people at articulating that vision. He’s a founder of the climate action groups 350.org and Third Act, and he’s been at the vanguard of the climate movement for decades. His 1989 book, “The End of Nature,” is considered the first book on global warming written for a general audience. His latest book, published last year, is “Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization.”

Mentioned:

“Global Electricity Review 2026” by Ember

The End of Nature by Bill McKibben

“The New Right’s Very Old Vision of Men,” The Ezra Klein Show with Helen Lewis

“We’re All Living in the ‘Mirror World’ Now,” The Ezra Klein Show with Naomi Klein

Book Recommendations:

The Glorians by Terry Tempest Williams

The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit

The Carbon Wave by Leah C. Stokes

Brought to You By by Amy Westervelt

End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.

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483: When Harry Met Fruity – the highs and lows of theatre

noemail@noemail.org (Radio Oldie) — Wed, 8 Jul 2026 09:34:51 GMT

Editor Harry Mount chats to Supplements Editor Charlotte Metcalf about the theatre.
Charlotte adores London's pre-eminence as the great theatre city of the world. And Harry, once an avid theatregoer, has given up - thanks to the expense, discomfort and the terrifyingly low hit rate of brilliant plays with brilliant actors.

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The making of Oasis’ Wonderwall

noemail@noemail.org (BBC World Service) — Mon, 6 Jul 2026 15:20:00 GMT

In 1995, the British band Oasis released one of their biggest hits as a single from their number one album: (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?

The song Wonderwall was a departure from their usual music, but it has gone on to be one of their most successful songs and was a top 10 hit in 15 countries.

It has also become an anthem for the British public and has become a key part of England’s 2026 World Cup campaign.

Nick Brine was the sound engineer who worked with the band to record the iconic track at Rockfield Studios. He speaks to Tim O’Callaghan.

Witness History is a short BBC World Service podcast about history that takes you inside big moments from the past through first-hand testimony and archive. Each weekday, in around nine minutes, we revisit one moment that helped shape the world and hear it through the voice of someone who was there. Scientists, artists, campaigners, soldiers, leaders and everyday people tell their true stories.

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Martin Amis talking with Philip Dodd in 2014

noemail@noemail.org (BBC Radio 4) — Sun, 21 May 2023 10:09:00 GMT

Martin Amis, whose death has been announced at the age of 73, was noted for his writing style and literary voice. His novels included The Rachel Papers, Money and London Fields and a series of works exploring figures including Stalin (in Koba the Dread) and the Holocaust in Time's Arrow and The Zone of Interest. On publishing this in 2014, he joined Radio 3's Philip Dodd and recorded a discussion in front of an audience at a Prom Plus event. Their conversation centres on ideas of evil, culpability and Jewish history.

A Radical Vision for Israelis and Palestinians

noemail@noemail.org (ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com (New York Times Opinion)) — Tue, 7 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

The old solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict don’t seem to fit the present reality.

A two-state solution feels increasingly impossible, given the scale of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Palestinian determination for a right of return. And a one-state solution, in which Israelis and Palestinians would live as equal citizens in a single state, is hard to imagine, given how strongly both peoples seek political self-determination.

But what if those aren’t the only options?

A Land for All is an Israeli-Palestinian initiative that is proposing a confederation model: two sovereign states, structured to allow freedom of movement between them. It’s a theory of peace based on neither separation nor unification. It holds, first, that both peoples have a relationship to and claim on all the land and, second, that both peoples want to control their own political destinies.

I have been — and am — skeptical of solutions to a conflict that is so devoid of the political conditions for a settlement. But even if you’re far from your destination, it’s worth knowing where it is you hope to go. So could this be an answer for both peoples? How would it handle the problems that have bedeviled previous solutions, from security and violence to religious extremism?

Rula Hardal and May Pundak are the executive directors of A Land for All. Hardal is a Palestinian citizen of Israel who received her doctorate in political science from the University of Hannover in Germany, and Pundak is an Israeli lawyer, activist and social entrepreneur. They joined me to explain how A Land for All would work and why they think it might succeed where so much else has failed.

Mentioned:

A Land for All plan

Rula Hardal’s Book Recommendations:

The Holocaust and the Nakba, edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg

States of Denial by Stanley Cohen

Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov

May Pundak’s Book Recommendations:

Tomorrow Is Yesterday by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

The Moomin series by Tove Jansson

Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.

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Poetry and the Turning World: Food

noemail@noemail.org (The London Review of Books) — Sun, 5 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT

The most popular modern food poem is probably William Carlos Williams’s ‘This Is Just to Say’, in which the speaker confesses to eating the plums his wife was saving for breakfast. Food has often been a means for poetry to represent intimate relationships, but, as Sarah and Sandeep explore in this episode, it has also provided ways of thinking about alienation, societal change, survival and displacement. In Tony Harrison’s 'V.', supermarkets and food providers become central motifs in a discussion of Britain’s changing landscapes; Bhanu Kapil’s How to Wash a Heart uses the memory of a grandfather planting yogurt under a tree as a means of understanding the aftermath of Partition; and in Yousif M. Qasmiyeh’s ‘Communion’, set in the Beddawi refugee camp in Lebanon, lentils become part of a living archive through which experiences are transmitted across generations.

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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v07/n01/tony-harrison/v

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Bobby Sands, Margaret Thatcher, and the 1981 hunger strikes

noemail@noemail.org (RTÉ) — Mon, 6 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT

On 5 May 1981, 26-year-old Bobby Sands became the first of ten IRA hunger strikers to die at the Maze Prison, changing the course of history in Northern Ireland. In this episode, Diarmaid and Catriona assess his life, his status as a Republican icon, and how he impacted the career of his chief antagonist, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher among others.

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America's first president was an aggressive land speculator

noemail@noemail.org (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) — Thu, 2 Jul 2026 13:10:00 GMT

As the United States celebrates 250 years of Independence, what were the driving motivations of America's revolutionary leader - and first president - George Washington? Professor Colin G. Calloway details Washington's intense interest in land speculation, in the vast native territories west of the Appalachian mountains.

Guest:

Colin G Calloway, Professor of history at Dartmouth College, author of The Indian World of George Washington

Prefab Sprout - a tale of mystery, eccentricity and pop’s most famous motorbike

Thu, 2 Jul 2026 10:27:39 GMT

Nige Tassell fell in love with the literary allusions of Prefab Sprout when at school and his new book ‘Truly Gifted Kids’ tells their unique and inscrutable story – and involves some delightfully off-road “deerstalker” investigation. You’ll find self-sabotage, square pegs in round holes, the eternal pressure to have hits, and a devoted portrait of ringmaster Paddy McAloon that leaves you convinced there’s never been anyone quite like him before or since. This sparks off in a million directions, these among them …

… the lure of bands who'd clearly been to the library and were unlikely to have a huge hit

... Paddy’s stoic defence of their name

… his distaste for “diary songwriting” of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen

… Jesse James, Elvis, Hey Manhattan: the obsession with the romance of America

… the archive of unrecorded songs (one box labelled ‘For Rod Stewart’)

… how the success of The King Of Rock ‘N’ Roll came to haunt them

… the inconceivable moment they appeared on the National Lottery with Bob Monkhouse and Mystic Meg

… pop tribalism on the school bus

… the dreadful circumstance that lead to I Trawl the Megahertz

… Paddy’s visual transformation from tousled pop star to hermetic semi-reclusive Gandalf

… and the fate of the Steve McQueen motorbike.

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David Sedaris: Bestselling Author Gives His Best Writing Advice | How I Write

noemail@noemail.org (David Perell) — Wed, 1 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT

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David Sedaris has long been one of the funniest writers in the game, and he’s got a method for how he does it. It starts with observation, always looking for what’s surprising, ridiculous, or a little bit strange about the world. Then, every single day, he writes the best ideas down in a journal.

But there’s also a willingness to put himself in absurd situations, like working as a Christmas elf at Macy’s or cleaning up litter off English country roads for eight hours a day. He’s sold more than 16 million books, and he’s been writing for The New Yorker for more than 30 years. Today, he’s here to teach us how he does it. About the host Hey! I’m David Perell and I’m a writer, teacher, and podcaster. I believe writing online is one of the biggest opportunities in the world today. For the first time in human history, everybody can freely share their ideas with a global audience. I seek to help as many people publish their writing online as possible. Follow me Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-write/id1700171470 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DavidPerellChannel Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2DjMSboniFAeGA8v9NpoPv X: https://x.com/david_perell

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Paul Yoon Reads Fiona McFarlane

noemail@noemail.org (The New Yorker) — Wed, 1 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT

Paul Yoon joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Hostel,” by Fiona McFarlane, which was published in The New Yorker in 2024. Yoon was one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” in 2010, and has published five books of fiction, including the novel “Run Me to Earth” and the story collection “The Hive and the Honey,” a winner of the Story Prize. A new novel, “Etna,” will be published in August.

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Claire-Louise Bennett & Ben Pester: Magic & Mechanics

noemail@noemail.org (London Review Bookshop) — Sat, 4 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT

In Magic and Mechanics, the latest in Scratch Books’ ‘Reverse Engineering’ series, six writers – George Saunders, Claire-Louise Bennett, Mark Haddon, Camilla Grudova, Amber Medland and Colin Barrett – present and disassemble one of their recent short stories. To celebrate its launch, join Claire-Louise Bennett in conversation with novelist Ben Pester as they discuss their work, exploring the ways that their backgrounds in theatre have led them to create exhilarating and innovative prose writing.

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Episode Forty-Three | Tim MacGabhann

noemail@noemail.org (Brendan Barrington) — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:32:36 GMT

In this episode of The Dublin Review Podcast, Aingeala Flannery talks to Tim MacGabhann about his short story Meteorites, which appeared in The Dublin Review NUMBER 78 | SPRING 2020.

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The Day of the Papering by Bernie McGill

noemail@noemail.org (BBC Radio 4) — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT

An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from the writer Bernie McGill. Read by Amy Molloy.

The Author. Bernie McGill is the winner of the 2023 Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her collection ‘This Train is For’. She is the author of the novels ‘The Butterfly Cabinet’, ‘The Watch House’ and one previous short story collection ‘Sleepwalkers’. She has written audio scripts for heritage projects and stage scripts for theatre. She is a Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund and an honorary member of The Linen Hall Library in which building her writing archive is held.

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The poetry of Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh

noemail@noemail.org (BBC World Service) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:30:00 GMT

In the Studio enters the creative world of award-winning Irish-language poet Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh as she composes a new poem. We follow its journey from first draft to first public reading. Ailbhe writes exclusively in Irish. She is deeply rooted in the language’s literary tradition yet unmistakably modern in outlook and has become one of the most distinctive literary voices of her generation. Working from the early-morning quiet of her kitchen table in Cork, the documentary centres on a new triptych inspired by her nine-year-old daughter’s fascination with Greek mythology. Ailbhe takes Dualtagh Herr behind the scenes of her new work, reflecting on childhood imagination, motherhood, and the creative process.

The Jackpod: Apostle of the common good

noemail@noemail.org (WBUR) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty has been listening to what Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy has been saying in town hall style interviews as he promotes his book, “Crisis of the Common Good.”

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Little Happier: Why Winston Churchill Used Courteous Speech in a Letter About War

noemail@noemail.org (Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:00:00 GMT

A letter from Churchill demonstrates the value of courtesy, even—or perhaps especially—at moments of highest battle.

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HoP 496 He Unwilling, She Unwilling: Jean Racine

noemail@noemail.org (Peter Adamson) — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

How the “neo-classical” tragedies of Racine explore the battle between passion and reason.

Poetry and the Turning World: Weather

noemail@noemail.org (The London Review of Books) — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:00:00 GMT

In Wordsworth’s 1807 description of ‘golden daffodils’, the breeze animates both the scene and the inner life of the speaker. Like many poets, Wordsworth turned to the weather to mediate between internal and external experiences. In this episode, Sarah and Sandeep look at the ways in which weather has functioned as a poetic tool, and consider three recent poems which describe the intimate and communal effects of atmospheric events: Maureen McLane's ‘Rocks’, with its ‘rain/when I’d just told her it would hold off’; ‘Surface Mapping’ by Jake Skeets, describing the death of 191 horses on Navajo land during a drought; and Ishion Hutchinson's ‘After the Hurricane’, in which the silence after a violent storm becomes a space to assess different forms of aftermath.

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Will Mackin Reads "Pig Lab"

noemail@noemail.org (The New Yorker) — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT

Will Mackin reads his story “Pig Lab,” from the July 6 & 13, 2026, issue of the magazine. Mackin, a U.S. Navy veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the author of “Bring Out the Dog,” which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize as the best début short-story collection of 2018.

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Harry Styles

noemail@noemail.org (BBC Radio 4) — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:00:00 GMT

The former boyband member and teen heartthrob, Harry Styles, is going into the final week of his sold-out residency at Wembley before continuing his world tour.

After winning music competitions while at school in Cheshire, Styles entered television’s biggest talent show, The X Factor, in 2010. While not making it as a solo star he was grouped together with four other contestants to form One Direction and becoming one of the most successful boybands of all time selling over 100 million records worldwide.

One Direction created a modern-day Beatlemania before going on permanent hiatus in 2016. Since then Style’s has released four solo albums and launched a career beyond music seeing him take on film roles, modelling gigs and become known as a fashionista. His celebrity best friend the actor James Corden, who used to ‘babysit’ the teenage Harry when he first started out in London is among the guests who speak to Mark Coles for this week’s Profile.

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The end of the human internet

noemail@noemail.org (Vox) — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Sean talks with Atlantic writer Charlie Warzel about the increasingly weird experience of being online. They discuss AI-generated content, bots, algorithms, the “dead internet theory,” and why so much of the web now feels artificial, manipulated, or unreal. They also explore psyops, conspiracy culture, social media, and the deeper question lurking beneath the AI boom: What are human beings actually for?

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Guest: Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel)

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John Lanchester & Hattie Crisell: Look What You Made Me Do

noemail@noemail.org (London Review Bookshop) — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:00:00 GMT

When a steamy Netflix show called ‘Cheating’ becomes the much-talked-about megahit of the moment, baby-boomer Kate is alarmed to find it contains secrets from her marriage to architect husband Jack that only she should know. John Lanchester, LRB contributing editor and author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital, explores popular culture, the dynamics of marriage and intergenerational conflict in his latest novel Look What You Made Me Do (Faber). Lanchester was in conversation with Hattie Crisell, author of In Writing (Granta).

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Rosebud in NYC - Michael Feinstein

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:00:00 GMT

Michael Feinstein, the pianist, singer and perhaps the greatest living interpreter of what is known as The Great American Songbook, is our guest today. He talks about his childhood, when his life was changed by his father's impulsive decision to buy a piano, which young Michael discovered he could play by ear. He talks about being an outsider, his belief in reincarnation, and his early enthusiasm for the classic songs of America's golden age. Michael talks about his deep friendship and working relationship with Ira Gershwin, and how that led him to meeting Rosemary Clooney, and later, Liza Minnelli. He talks about his relationship with Liza, and what makes it special - and what makes her such an electrifying performer.

This is a truly fascinating edition of Rosebud - remarkable for its honesty, openness and tenderness. We close with Michael's beautiful rendition of "My Love Is Here To Stay" by George and Ira Gershwin, performed by Michael Feinstein. If you love music, emotion and conversation, you'll love this episode.

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Midnight No-call Blues

noemail@noemail.org (Fiona Keane) — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:18:21 GMT

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Roz Chast: While You Were Sleeping

noemail@noemail.org (mary.shimkin@symphonyspace.org (Symphony Space)) — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works from an evening with New Yorker author and cartoonist Roz Chast, inspired by Chast’s book I Must be Dreaming. “The Wife on Ambien,” by Ed Park, is a sort of late-night fever dream. It’s read by John Fugelsang. In Tessa Hadley’s “Bad Dreams,” images than begin in dreams envelop a family in real life.The reader is Rita Wolf. Tom Barbash’s “Stay Up With Me” charts the rocky path of an old love affair. It’s read by Jason Ralph. And stay tuned for Chast’s own weird dream life, some of which she shares in this episode.

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Episode #237 ... The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer

noemail@noemail.org (Stephen West) — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:01:00 GMT

Today we talk about two famous critiques of Stoicism. One by Friedrich Nietzsche who thought the Stoics weren't life affirming enough and so rob themselves of some of the best parts of life. The other by Arthur Schopenhauer who thought the Stoics were too life-affirming of worldly things to ever reach a deep understanding of things. Hope you love it! :)

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Episode #203 ... Why the future is being slowly cancelled. - Postmodernism (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism)

noemail@noemail.org (Stephen West) — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:38:00 GMT

Today we continue developing our understanding of the ideas that have led to what Mark Fisher calls Capitalist Realism. We talk about tolerant relativism, postmodern artwork, the slow cancellation of the future, Hauntology and Acid Communism. Hope you enjoy it! :)

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Episode #214 ... Framing our Being in a completely different way. (Heidegger)

noemail@noemail.org (Stephen West) — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:40:49 GMT

Today we look at Heidegger's critique of metaphysics and the traditional subject-object framing in philosophy. How multiple framings are necessary for a fuller picture of our being. His challenge to thinkers like Nietzsche and Descartes. Dasein, the limitations of objectivity. Phenomenology as an alternative focusing on the importance of lived experience. And his ideas on temporality and death as a horizon of our being. Hope you love it! :)

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Episode #212 ... Nietzsche and Critchley on the tragic perspective. (Amor Fati pt. 2)

noemail@noemail.org (Stephen West) — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:14:00 GMT

Today we begin by talking about Nietzsche's concept of life-affirmation. Contrasting it with the renunciative, rational traditions of Western thought. The episode then delves into Greek tragedy through the lens of Simon Critchley's work; making a case for how these ancient plays offer a life-affirming perspective by embracing the ambiguity of human existence.

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Episode #231 ... The Late Work of Wittgenstein - Language Games

noemail@noemail.org (Stephen West) — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:53:00 GMT

Today we talk about the late work of Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations. We talk about the meaning of words. Augustine's theory. Forms of life. Rules and practices. Grammar. Geometry. Family resemblance. And the role of a philosopher on the other side of accepting this view of language. Hope you love it. :)

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95: Carlo Gebler talks to Virginia Evans about The Correspondent

noemail@noemail.org (Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley) — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:00:00 GMT

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Epistolary novels used to be all the rage Think Clarissa, think Dracula, think the more recent We need to talk about Kevin. Last year saw another smash hit epistolary novel, The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, published to wide acclaim and stellar sales, and shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Fiction prize . Three times a week, 73-year-old Sybil Van Antwerp sits down at her desk in her Maryland home to write her letters. Her correspondence has been, as she puts it, "the mainstay of my life". Virginia was in Dublin this June for the Carlow University Pittsburgh's MFA in Creative Writing Program residency at Trinity College, Dublin and we’re thankful to poet and program director Tess Barry for allowing us to feature this interview on Books for Breakfast. The interviewer is noted writer Carlo Gebler who was also Virginia’s mentor during the year she spent on the creative writing MPhil in Trinity. So grab a coffee and sit back and listen to Carlo Gebler and Virginia Evans.

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Frank Cottrell-Boyce

noemail@noemail.org (BBC Radio 4) — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:45:00 GMT

The writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks to John Wilson about his cultural influences and career. He started out as a screenwriter on the television soaps Brookside and Coronation Street, before publishing his debut children's novel Millions in 2004. The book won the prestigious Carnegie Medal and a screenplay version was made into a film by Danny Boyle. He also wrote five films for the director Michael Winterbottom, including Welcome To Sarajevo and Twenty Four Hour Party People. In 2012, Frank renewed his creative partnership with Danny Boyle as the writer of the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. After many bestselling children’s books including Framed, Cosmic and The Astounding Broccoli Boy, in 2024 he was appointed as the Children’s Laureate.

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How Murdoch's media wields power and punishment

noemail@noemail.org (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT

For many decades, Rupert Murdoch's global media empire has wielded immense power and political influence in Australia and abroad. A new book examines their tactics.

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Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Communication, Deakin University
Andrew Dodd, Professor in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne

Co-authors of Getting Murdoched: How Murdoch’s Media Wields Power and Punishment

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Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:40:00 GMT

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Playwright Anna Deavere Smith turns to her family’s history for inspiration

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:50:12 GMT

For more than 50 years, Anna Deavere Smith has pioneered a type of theater built from real people's words, interviewing hundreds of Americans and then performing their words verbatim. Now she's telling a story from her own family with ‘Basil Biggs.’ It’s about her great-great-grandfather, a free Black man, who reburied the Union dead at Gettysburg and prepared the ground for Lincoln's most famous speech. Smith spoke with Tonya Mosley about how ‘Finding Your Roots’ led her to this story and why she sees herself as an Americanist.

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George Saunders

noemail@noemail.org (BBC Radio 4) — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:45:00 GMT

The Booker Prize winning American author George Saunders talks to John Wilson about his cultural influences. He made his name as a writer of satirical or absurdist short stories which often explore contemporary consumerist society, always underpinned with a strong sense of human compassion and empathy. In 2017, his first full length novel Lincoln In The Bardo - about Presidential grief amid a cacophony of spiritual voices - won the Booker Prize and became a global bestseller. His latest novel Vigil once again explores death and the afterlife. George Saunders teaches creative writing at Syracuse University, New York, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in American literature.

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What's next for Lebanon, as UN Peacekeepers prepare to leave?

noemail@noemail.org (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT

After nearly five decades, United Nations peacekeepers are preparing to leave Lebanon, bringing one of the organisation's longest-running missions to a close. Established in 1978 following Israel's invasion of the country, the force has monitored hostilities, supported security efforts and helped protect civilians Who will fill the vacuum once the peacekeepers are gone?

Guest: Ray Murphy – a former United Nations peacekeeper in Lebanon and Professor with the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway
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480: Editor Harry Mount chats to Fruity Metcalf, editor of the new Oldie Review of Books, free with the July issue of The Oldie

noemail@noemail.org (Radio Oldie) — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:25:00 GMT

They gossip about her wild night in Manhattan with old friend Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City – and wonder why authors aren't as glamorous as they used to be.
What makes for the best book covers? Fruity talks about the joy of working for Virago, who made the glorious green jackets, with the ideal paintings to match. And why do all covers now seem to have a man in a suit loitering on a street corner or running down a dark alley?

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479: Kathy Lette in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

noemail@noemail.org (Radio Oldie) — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:14:44 GMT

Kathy Lette burst onto our scenes as the exuberant and hilariously outspoken Australian novelist with Puberty Blues when she was just 17. With 20 more novels to her name since then, she talks to Charlotte Metcalf about her move to Britain, her marriages, sex and relationships, raising an autistic son and her latest novel The Sisterhood Rules which is underpinned by her determination to boost older women’s confidence and encourage and promote female solidarity.

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The Jackpod: Yankee Doodle Caged

noemail@noemail.org (WBUR) — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on why he feels ambivalent about the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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Little Happier: An Important Creativity Lesson from “Green Eggs and Ham”

noemail@noemail.org (Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project) — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:00:00 GMT

It may seem counter-intuitive, but it’s true: imagination is often sparked more by constraint than by freedom.

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