MuggleCast is your weekly ride into the world of Harry Potter, including the books and upcoming TV show! Our Harry Potter podcast, hosted by four life-long friends, brings its listeners entertaining and thought-provoking discussions about the Wizarding World. With each new episode we discuss everything Harry Potter: the latest news, the Potter books, the upcoming MAX TV Show, Fantastic Beasts, the theme parks, the video games, the fandom, and more! We're currently hosting a Chapter by Chapte ...
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Harry Potter Magic Podcasts
It’s the English class you didn't know you missed and the meaningful conversations you didn't know you craved. Join Vanessa Zoltan and Matt Potts as they bring thought, reflection and laughter to Harry Potter; not just as novels, but as instructive and inspirational texts that will teach us about our own lives. Relive the magic of Harry Potter chapter by chapter as Matt and Vanessa explore themes such as commitment, revenge and forgiveness. This podcast creates time in your week to think abo ...
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Step into the Wizarding World with immersive, audiobook-style readings of fan-made stories. Harry Potter Ljudbokskanalen brings character-driven tales to life with clear narration, careful pacing, and a focus on relationships, intrigue, and magic at Hogwarts and beyond. Expect longform episodes that feel like a true audiobook, plus occasional multi-chapter arcs that follow canon timelines or explore thoughtful alternate paths. New listeners can start anywhere that catches the eye. Returning ...
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Eneasz Brodski; ty to JK Rowling
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This is an alternate universe story, where Petunia married a scientist. Harry enters the wizarding world armed with Enlightenment ideals and the experimental spirit.
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Instead of seeing criticism as an indication of not liking something, Professor Julian Wamble invites listeners of Critical Magic Theory to explore the things about the characters, plot points, and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter broadly that have always given them pause or made them smile without knowing why. It is in this navigation of the positive and the negative aspects of a world that we find true magic.
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Welcome to the world of Harry Potter book collecting! Each episode, hosts Carly, Erik, and Melanie discuss the never ending adventure of collecting Harry Potter translations from all over the world. Join in as they explore the physical books that helped make Harry Potter a worldwide phenomenon. Whether it is a conversation about different cover art, spreading the need to know information about that rare translation or signed book, or everyday magical chatter, they’ve got you covered! Dialogu ...
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Ever wondered what it's like to experience the magic of Harry Potter for the very first time? Or maybe you're a seasoned witch or wizard looking for a fun reread? In Harry, Sorry I’m Late! Join Harry Potter newcomer Alicia and lifelong Potterhead Kofi as they read and react to the beloved series chapter by chapter. Expect laughs, HP trivia that'll test your knowledge, silly games, detours into pop culture and whatever spells their fancy. Kofi, who practically breathes Harry Potter, accompani ...
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The Potter Discussion: Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts and the Wizarding World Fandom
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The Potter Discussion is the ultimate Harry Potter podcast, giving you weekly discussions on the most exiting topics in Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, and beyond! In each episode, we talk about a new topic within the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts fandom, in addition to the occasional quiz or breakdown of a character. If you are a PotterHead and a Harry Potter super-fan, this podcast is for you! Sit back, subscribe, and let's dive into the unknown!
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Potter+ is your Podcasting home for the upcoming Harry Potter Television. Join the Grapefruit Networks resident self proclaimed (and independently verified) Harry Potter expert as he interviews magical guests and breaks down the news, theories and speculation around the new series, the fandom and beyond! *** The Grapefruit Network © 2020-2024 - All Rights Reserved. No reproduction of this content is permitted without express written consent. "Potter Plus" is not endorsed, sanctioned or in an ...
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Tales from Godric’s Hollow - Discussing Harry Potter Books, Movies, and News
Joe Slionski, Lauren Aragon, and "Atari" Alex Carrejo
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Tales from Godric’s Hollow is a Harry Potter podcast hosted by Marissa Dorado (A Ravenclaw who has read the books hundreds of times since childhood) and Joe Slionski (A Hufflepuff who has read the books only a handful of times since getting into it as an adult). TFGH originally started out as a book club style podcast introducing a Muggle to the Harry Potter series for the first time. After bringing original host "The Muggle" Josh Brown through his re-read of the series, The Platinum Duo, wi ...
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A Disney & Universal Studios Parks & Movies Podcast, discussing all sorts of topics to keep you entertained no matter where you live! Join us for game shows, drafts, rankings, debates, and plenty of armchair imagineering! If you enjoy the show, consider checking us out on Youtube and becoming a member of our Magic Mafia community on Patreon for bonus content, virtual hangouts, and more! Patreon.com/wtmhpodcast Hope to see you all there, and thanks for your support!
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Taking a deep dive into the works of Shami Stovall’s Frith Guild Arcanist, Astra Academy Arcanist and Crown Tournament Arcanist, we will be exploring and discussing the books that take us to an amazing new world full of mystical creatures that will make you feel like you are in a world between Harry Potter and Pokemon!
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Fi and Rae are two friends for whom Harry Potter began their love of reading. Now they're taking their questions about the Wizarding World to a more public forum.
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"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic..." (Albus Dumbledore)
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In the South, food and music go hand in hand. They define much of what we think of as Southern culture, and they say a lot about our past, our present, and our future. Each week, Sid Evans, Editor in Chief of Southern Living, sits down with musicians, chefs, and other Southern icons to hear the stories of how they grew up, what inspires them, and why they feel connected to the region. Through honest conversations, Sid explores childhood memories, the family meals they still think about, and ...
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Three Latina witches discussing all things Harry Potter. Serving you the finest witchcraft biweekly.
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Anna and Zoe invite you to join them in reliving the magic of the wizarding world of Harry Potter... one chapter at a time.
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The Ultimate Disneyland & WDW Audio Adventure Podcast. A celebration of the magical sounds of Disney in FULL STEREO SOUND, brought to you by "the Disney Sounds Guy" Paul Barrie. A WindowtotheMagic is a weekly journey into the wonderful world of the Disney Theme Parks, and the sounds which make those parks so fantastic. Containing everything from Disney created "source audio" to sounds recorded "live" at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, this is just the fix every Disney fan needs when they c ...
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A cultural analysis through the lens of gender, magic, dreams & more!
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Two millennials revisit their favorite childhood obsession: Harry Potter. Rebecca and Frances look at the series in a new light and bring listeners along for the ride as they discuss everything from plot holes to fanfiction. This podcast is meant to capture our collective love for the fandom while also taking a hard look at the problematic aspects of it. Warning: hold onto your butterbeer, because spoilers, swearwords, and sexually explicit language may occur!
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Grab your wands and revisit the magic! In this chapter-by-chapter deep dive into the Harry Potter series, we explore the text with fresh eyes while reflecting on the fandom, uncovering hidden details, and connecting the wizarding world to today’s Muggle life. Whether you’re a lifelong Potterhead or just rediscovering the series, join us for thoughtful discussions, fandom nostalgia, and plenty of laughs along the way. Let’s turn on the light and illuminate the magic together! Follow us on Ins ...
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A Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff Examine the World of Harry Potter
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Alyssa and Clark take a fresh look at books they missed. This season, we're reading through Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Tune in for muggle jokes, quidditch contempt, and a whole lot of dinosaurs.
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The Tiny Potters | A Kid Led Harry Potter Podcast
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This podcast is the property of The Half-Blood Princesses. Join hosts Demi and Jess every three weeks as they explore topics in the Harry Potter series. The magical segments include Quick Quotes Corner, Fun Facts, and Tales of Magic and Mischief.
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The Many Adventures of Sammy Magic is a fully improvised retelling of one of the world's most cherished book series, Harry Potter. The only difference? We actually make the story good. Join along as Sammy Magic and his friends, Greg Ginger and Harmony Smartz head to Wizard Harvard to attempt to defeat the most dastardly magician of all-time... Evil Douglas. The Many Adventures of Sammy Magic is a parody series and falls under fair use law. Fight me.
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"Join Taavi and Mona, a Ravenclaw and a Slytherin as they snake their way through the twists and turns of the Harry Potter series and its many offshoots. Listen as they boundlessly speculate and critique both Harry and the wizarding world that he's discovered.
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Ever wrap up your day and wish you could drop into your favorite pub to chat about the things you ACTUALLY care about? Do you find yourself in a incredibly technical job (say, as a doctor, a lawyer, a pilot, or a professor) and wish you could just talk to your friends about Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter, or have a game night? Well then you came to the right place:! Every week William, Cody, Dallas, and Alex get together to geek out, laugh a lot, and talk about life. So if you need a place ...
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Prepare for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 by reliving the first five Harry Potter films now available FOR DOWNLOAD on iTunes. Rediscover the magic of HARRY POTTER.
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Welcome All! I am Thesally Ravenwood! And welcome to Mists and Myths of Magic Podcast, where we will be going through the books talking about all this Harry Potter! The Philosophical aspect that I have picked up over the years of being a potter head and lover of learning!
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We here at Dissecting the Magic, London, are proud to say that we are perfectly normal, thank you very much....Okay maybe with the exception of our perhaps unhealthy obsession with Harry Potter, we are somewhat normal. So grab a box of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavoured Beans (Bean Boozled could work to I guess), and a cup of Butter Beer and join our conversation!
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Este podcast esta diseñado para que encuentres información sobre tus temas geeks favoritos, Magic, Warhammer, videojuegos y universos alternos como LoTR, Harry Potter, Star Wars entre otros. Con invitados especiales cada episodio
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Witches, Wizards, and Muggles: Join your hosts Doug and Mona in Season 2 as they discuss every aspect of the out of print Harry Potter Trading Card Game! Learn about the history of the game, the various types of cards, how to play, tactics, and more! Email us at [email protected]!
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Interviews with Authors about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
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The Parkscope Podcast is an irreverent look into the world of amusement parks and themed entertainment. Our show covers everything - from regional roller coasters to multi-billion dollar themed attractions and everything in between. EXPLICIT WARNING: Some adult language, situations, and beverages occur. It's all PG-13 fun.
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Welcome to We Solemnly Swear: A MickOlsen Podcast! We are a group of sisters who are diehard Harry Potter fans and want to share our crazy passion and knowledge for the wizarding world with other PotterHeads!
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Beyond the Well: Epic Fantasy Storytelling & Immersive Audio Adventures Step into Aldarion, a world of ancient magic, lost legends, and unfolding mysteries. Beyond the Well is a narrative fiction podcast that brings listeners into the heart of an epic fantasy universe, where each episode unveils gripping heroic journeys, deep lore, and powerful storytelling. Told as if unfolding in real time, these stories blend high fantasy, mythic adventure, and immersive world-building, perfect for fans o ...
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Why Can't We Be Wizards
Kevin Rizza, Mike Turley, Alie Turley, Mitchell Cassidy, Charlotte Cassidy, Elliot Kelley
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A wizarding comedy improv storytelling podcast fated by dice. Six friends craft an original story with new characters set at a modern and inclusive Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Come be wizards with us! New episodes fortnightly on Fridays. ✨ Twenty-two years after the Battle of Hogwarts and Harry Potter's triumphant victory over He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, five young friends retrace the steps of thousands of students to discover magic, friendship, and perhaps a bit of mischief at ...
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Hogwarts Radio is a general entertainment HARRY POTTER podcast dedicated to discussing all things about J.K. Rowling's wizarding world! Tune in each episode to hear the latest developments on the new 'Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them' film series, and SO MUCH MORE!
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Go behind the scenes with your favorite Netflix films and series.
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If you're like us, you can never get enough of a good book or series, especially one as captivating as Harry Potter. This series has transformed the lives of many and helped bring magic to people around the world. Co-hosts Matthew and Emilie deep dive into every nook and cranny of the Harry Potter universe from our perspective, and intend to take you, the listener, along a magical journey from where it all began; Number 4, Privet Drive.
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Huzzah!!! Dragons, Magic, and the Knights of the Hardcover: Brandon (BJ), Zach, and Chris summarize and dissect their favorite fantasy books with a sharp edged blade. Grab your maps, fill up your horn with ale, and take the heroes journey with us to the lands unknown.
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Discussing inconsistencies, plot holes, and wild theories in the Wizarding World and beyond. New episodes on Wednesdays!
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Hermione: Has anyone seen a toad? A boy named Neville’s lost one. Ron: No. Hermione: Oh, are you doing magic? Let’s see then. Ron: Aghhhemm. Sunshine, daises, butter mellow, turn this stupid fat rat yellow! {Zap. Nothing happens. Ron shrugs.} Hermione: Are you sure that’s a real spell? Well, it’s not very good, is it? Of course I’ve only tried a few simple spells myself, and they’ve all worked for me. For example...{Hermione goes over and sits across from Harry. He points her hand at his gla ...
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Prof Responds: Lions, Magic, and Gryffindors’ Gamble for the Greater Good
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In this Prof Responds finale on the Hogwarts houses, we wrestle with the lion’s legacy: is Gryffindor bravery actually just recklessness in disguise? From Harry’s headlong heroics to Neville’s considered courage, we explore how Gryffindors embody bravery differently—and why the house so often gets rewarded for dangerous choices. We also dig into Ho…
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At The Beep, Slay (OOTP Chapter 38, The Second War Begins)
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Help MuggleCast grow! You have until September 18 to become a member at the Slug Club level to receive this year's incredible physical gift: The MuggleCast 20th Anniversary Yearbook! Pledge now at Patreon.com/mugglecast, and receive a slew of other great benefits instantly! Listeners can browse our official merch at MuggleCastMerch.com and pick up …
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Mark Seligman, "AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature" (First Hill Books, 2025)
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Taking recent spectacular progress in AI fully into account, Mark Seligman's AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature (Anthem Press, 2025) explores prospects for artificial literary translation and composition, with frequent reference to the hyperconscious literary art of Vladimir Nabokov. The exploration balances reader-friend…
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Jessica B. Harris, "Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine" (Clarkson Potter, 2025)
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Discover the sweeping story of how Indigenous, European, and African traditions intertwined to form an entirely new cuisine, with over 90 recipes for the modern home cook—from the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer and star of the Netflix docuseries High on the Hog. One of our preeminent culinary historians, Dr. Jessica B. Harris has conducted deca…
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When Should the Majority Rule – and is it time to resign democracy?
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When do limits on majorities enhance democratic rule, and when do they undermine it? Join Nic Cheeseman as he talks to Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, well-known as authors of the best-selling book How Democracies Die, about their new framework for understanding when the best way to protect democracy is to constrain the wishes of the majority, …
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Rebecca Nagle, "By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land" (Harper, 2024)
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In 2020, the US Supreme Court ruled, in a surprise decision, that treaties still on the books as US law meant that the Muscogee people of Oklahoma maintained legal jurisdiction over a large portion of the state; in short, that much of Oklahoma remained Indian Country. McGirt v. Oklahoma has been fought over in the court system since, but the implic…
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Michael Poznansky, "Great Power, Great Responsibility: How the Liberal International Order Shapes US Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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In the wake of World War II, the United States leveraged its hegemonic position in the international political system to gradually build a new global order centered around democracy, the expansion of free market capitalism, and the containment of communism. Named in retrospect the "liberal international order" (LIO), the system took decades to buil…
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Disco didn't just happen—it emerged from the vibrant gay club scene of 1970s New York City. In this episode, hosts Ryan Purcell and Kristie Soares explore how iconic venues like the Continental Baths, the Mineshaft sex club, and the legendary Paradise Garage became part of a musical revolution that transformed popular culture. Joining them is Lucas…
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Ivy Odom Just Wrote the Next Great Southern Cookbook
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Ivy Odom has in many ways become the face of Southern Living. In addition to creating videos about all things Southern on social media, Ivy is a writer, recipe developer, and television host. And now she’s also an author, with a brand new cookbook called My Southern Kitchen: From Suppers to Celebrations, Recipes for Every Occasion. The book is a co…
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In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks writer, illustrator, filmmaker and Academy Award winner Shaun Tan. Shaun is best known for illustrated books that deal with social and historical subjects through dream-like imagery. His books have been widely translated throughout the world and enjoyed by readers of all ages. …
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Christopher Millington, "Murder in Marseille: Right-Wing Terrorism in 1930s Europe" (Manchester UP, 2025)
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On 9 October 1934, terrorists murdered King Alexander I of Yugoslavia in a Marseille street. The Croatian ultranationalist Ustashe was behind the attack. The Ustashe hoped that the king’s death would cause the collapse of Yugoslavia and the liberation of the Croat people. Murder in Marseille: Right-Wing Terrorism in 1930s Europe (Manchester UP, 202…
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Zach Fredman and Judd Kinzley eds., "Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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This timely collection of essays examines Sino-American relations during the Second World War, the Chinese Civil War and the opening of the Cold War. Drawing on new sources uncovered in China, Taiwan, the UK and the US, the authors demonstrate how 'grassroots' engagements - not just elite diplomacy - established the trans-Pacific networks that both…
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Celene Reynolds, "Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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When the US Congress enacted Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, no one expected it to become a prominent tool for confronting sexual harassment in schools. Title IX is the civil rights law that prohibits education programs from discriminating “on the basis of sex.” At the time, however, the term “sexual harassment” was not yet in use; th…
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Hermione tells herself this arrangement with Draco is temporary, a clean line between biology and choice. Then the cracks show. He will not meet her eyes, real talk dries up, and the library becomes her refuge while she and Ginny pull on the missing threads of Omega lore and learn how valuable, and how vulnerable, an unbound witch truly is. Non-dis…
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85 - Is the Attractions Worth the Wait?!
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In this week's episode: Piper, Mark, Lindsey, and Jake guess the live wait times of certain attractions found inside the parks. On top of that, they explain if the attraction is worth the wait that is posted, and what their maximum wait time would be to wait! So join along, have some fun guessing and choosing your wait times for the attractions, an…
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Owen Rees, "The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization" (Norton, 2025)
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When Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his bleak and barbarous new surroundings. Like many Greeks and Romans, Ovid thought the outer reaches of his world was where civilization ceased to exist. Our own fascination with the Greek and Roman world has for centuries followed this perspective, shrouding culture…
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Everybody was shocked when, in 1999, David Lynch released a G-rated film with a Norman Rockwell setting that didn’t have a dark underbelly or wild reveal; if you have a David Lynch bingo card, The Straight Story is the free space. And while The Straight Story is as wholesome a film as you can find, it's never sentimental or corny. Dan thinks it’s L…
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Mark Goble, "Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Slow motion is everywhere in contemporary film and media, but it wasn't always so ubiquitous. How did slow motion ascend to the dubious honor of becoming our culture's least "special" effect? And what does slow motion — a trick secured paradoxically through the camera's ever-racing speeds of capture — tell us about the temporalities and trajectorie…
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Christine Shepardson, "A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity" (U California Press, 2025)
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A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity (U California Press, 2025) traces the rhetorical strategies of religious radicalization that encouraged fifth- and sixth-century miaphysite Christians to be willing to suffer physical deprivation and harm rather than abandon the church that th…
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Katherine Eva Maich, "Bringing Law Home: Gender, Race, and Household Labor Rights" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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The personal nature of domestic labor, and its location in the privacy of the employer's home, means that domestic workers have long struggled for equitable and consistent labor rights. The dominant discourse regards the home as separate from work, so envisioning what its legal regulation would look like is remarkably challenging. In Bringing Law H…
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Spike Bucklow, "The Year: An Ecology of the Zodiac" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
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Spike Bucklow joins Jana Byars to talk about The Year: An Ecology of the Zodiac (Reaktion, 2025). This delightful book defies genre. It is a journey through nature’s yearly cycle, blending science, history and poetic reflection.The Year takes us on a journey exploring how nature transforms across twelve months, each chapter focusing on a specific m…
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Alex R. Tipei, "Unintended Nations: How French Liberals' Empire of Civilization Remade Southeast Europe and the Post-Napoleonic World" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
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In the wake of Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, French liberals set out to create an informal empire. Their efforts to cultivate unequal partnerships with Christian, Greek-speaking elites in southeast Europe shaped national identities and structured global civilizational hierarchies over the decades that followed. Unintended Nations: France’s Empire of C…
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Mallory Loehr on a Life in Children's Books
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In her thirty plus years of enthusiastic dedication to Random House Children’s Books, Mallory Loehr has played a seminal role in the development of this business. She has led numerous editorial teams, working with them to develop strategies for growth, across trade and brand, for all ages and formats, including for Random House Books for Young Read…
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Julien Mailland on "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry"
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Julien Mailland, Associate Professor of Media Management, Law, and Policy at The Media School of Indiana University Bloomington, about his book, The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry. The book examines key moments, beginning in the 1970s, in which legal decisions influenced …
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Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: In Space, No One… and The Fly
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It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we continue our analysis of the FX series Alien: Earth with episode 5, “In Space, No One…” and episode 6, “The Fly.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network…
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WTTM #793 - "A Special Show In Remembrance Of A Special Lady"
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CONTACT US TODAY! PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/wttmpodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@windowtothemagic YouTube: http://youtube.com/windowtothemagic Email: [email protected] Voicemail: 1-307-GET-WTTM (438-9886) On this episode, Paul reads an email that he received from a listener, then we head out to the parks for a very special j…
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A secret room, a single word key, and a choice that should have been simple. Hermione Granger is learning that casual never stays casual at Hogwarts. Morning finds Draco Malfoy distant in public yet relentless in private, his scent a shield that turns corridors into contested ground. In class, Theodore Nott stiffens at the truth. In the library, Pa…
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Lucy Sante, "Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City (The Experiment, 2022)
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From 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. This feat of engineering served to meet New York City’s ever-increasing need for water, sustaining its inhabitants and cementing it as a center of industry. West of the…
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Mary-Frances O’Connor, The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can be an Opportunity for Healing (Harper One, 2025)
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The Grieving Body: How the stress of Loss Can be an Opportunity for Healing (Harper One, 2025)by Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D. The follow-up to celebrated grief expert, neuroscientist, and psychologist Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor’s The Grieving Brain focuses on the impact of grief—and life’s other major stressors—on the human body. Coping with death a…
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Keisha N. Blain, "Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
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Even before they were recognized as citizens of the United States, Black women understood that the fights for civil and human rights were inseparable. Over the course of two hundred years, they were at the forefront of national and international movements for social change, weaving connections between their own and others’ freedom struggles around …
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Amir Moosavi, "Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, the Iran-Iraq War was the longest conventional war fought between two states in the twentieth century. It marked a period that began just after a revolutionary government in Iran became an Islamic Republic and Saddam Hussein consolidated power in Iraq. It ended with both wartime governments still in power…
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Martin Austin Nesvig, "The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Cambridge UP, 2025) by Dr. Martin Austin Nesvig tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of sorcery in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. These non-native women – the mulata of Seville…
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Nadia Ragbar, "The Pugilist and the Sailor" (Invisible Publishing, 2025)
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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interview debut Toronto author, Nadia Ragbar, about her novel, The Pugilist and the Sailor (Invisible Publishing, 2025). The Pugilist and the Sailor follows conjoined twins, Bruce and Dougie. Dougie is an ambitious amateur boxer, having dragged his brother into the ring since childhood. Bruce is a bookkeeper…
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If Jude Law doesn't play young Albus Dumbledore, I quit | Why we need two actors, Why it should be Jude Law, Other characters who deserve multiple actors, More!
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Send us a text In this episode, we talk about why Jude Law should play young Dumbledore in the new TV show. Enjoy! Topics/Summary: · Listen to episode 298 called “Warwick Davis is returning as Flitwick? Who else should reprise their role?” here! · 2:14 Why two actors? Well, Dumbledore has a complex past. He feels like he was a different person back…
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In the silent heart of the Hogwarts library, want meets restraint, and Hermione Granger chooses a path that will not be simple. The aftermath is tenderness, tears, and truth told in a whisper, followed by a luminous summons that delivers her and Draco Malfoy to Headmistress McGonagall, where rules, consequences, and an extraordinary compromise are …
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Laura Garbes, "Listeners Like Who?: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Why is radio so white? In Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry (Princeton UP, 2025) Laura Garbes, a Sociologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, explores the history of public radio, theorising it as a white institutional space. Alongside the rich history and theoretical fram…
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Huseyn Aliyev, "Who Fights for Governments? Paramilitary Mobilization in Ukraine and Beyond" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)
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Exploring why, when and under which circumstances individuals decide to take up arms mobilizing for pro-government militias, Huseyn Aliyev's Who Fights for Governments? Paramilitary Mobilization in Ukraine and Beyond (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) draws on insights from long-standing ethnographic fieldwork among former and active members of Ukraine's …
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The High Frontier: Gerard O’Neill’s Space Utopia
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This is the first episode of Cited Podcast’s new season, Green Dreams. Green Dreams tells stories of radical environmental thinkers and their dreams for our green future. Should we make those dreams reality, or are they actually nightmares? For the rest of the episodes, visit the series page, and subscribe today (Apple, Spotify, RSS). In the 1970s,…
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Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the End of History" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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The apostle Paul was a Jew. He was born, lived, undertook his apostolic work, and died within the milieu of ancient Judaism. And yet, many readers have found, and continue to find, Paul's thought so radical, so Christian, even so anti-Jewish – despite the fact that it, too, is Jewish through and through. This paradox, and the question how we are to…
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Kevin Passmore, "The Maginot Line: A New History of the Fall of France" (Yale UP, 2025)
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The Maginot Line was a marvel of 1930s engineering. The huge forts, up to eighty meters underground, contained hospitals, modern kitchens, telephone exchanges, and even electric trains. Kilometres of underground galleries led to casements hidden in the terrain, and turrets that rose from the ground to fire upon the enemy. The fortifications were in…
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“Plato and the Tyrant” with author James Romm
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In 388 BCE, Plato, at the age of about forty and in the midst of writing The Republic, visited for the first time the then-Greek city state of Syracuse, on the eastern shores of Sicily. Syracuse was ruled by a tyrant, Dionysius, who on death was followed by his son, also a tyrant. Over the course of his three separate visits to Syracuse over the ye…
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Nidhi Mahajan, "Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean" (U of California Press, 2025)
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Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean (U of California Press, 2025) follows sailors from the Gulf of Kachchh in India as they voyage across the Indian Ocean on mechanized wooden sailing vessels known as vahans, or dhows. These voyages produce capital through moorings that are spatial, moral, material, and conceptual. With a view from…
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Samuel Arbesman, "The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World—and Shapes Our Future" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
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In the tradition of classics such as The Lives of a Cell, a bold reframing of our relationship with technology that argues code is "a universal force--swirling through disciplines, absorbing ideas, and connecting worlds" (Linda Liukas). In the digital world, code is the essential primary building block, the equivalent of the cell or DNA in the biol…
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Susan Gregg Gilmore, "The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush" (Blair, 2025)
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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Susan Glimore about her wonderful novel, The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush (Blair, 2025). Young Leonard Bush buries his lost leg and saves his whole East Tennessee town in this winsome and miracle-making novel. When twelve-year-old Leonard Bush loses his leg in a freak accident, he decides to g…
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Matthew Benjamin Cole, "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" (U of Michigan Press, 2025)
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Are we already living in some kind of fascist or technocratic dystopia? How do we avert the AI dystopia? These are the types of things that you'll see thrown about in op-eds and analysis pieces all over the net and the press. Dystopia is doing some kind of work in our political vocabulary that goes beyond a reference to those iconic dystopian novel…
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Made for Harry Potter audiobook lovers, this chapter follows Hermione Granger through a day of sharp longing, sharper intellect, and a choice that puts consent at the center. A chance to study with the Patil twins, an unexpected letter from Draco Malfoy that includes timetables and safe meeting spots, and a private library negotiation become the gr…
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Send us a text Hey Friends! Welcome back to Potter Plus, Your podcasting home for the upcoming Harry Potter Television Show and so much more! I have a special treat for you today. On Potter Plus' sister show, A Doctor and a Lawyer walk in to a bar... host Magic Month. During Back to Hogwarts season we dedicate entire month to the boy who lived. For…
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Emily Adrian, "Seduction Theory" (Little, Brown, 2025)
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Emily Adrian is the author of Seduction Theory (Little, Brown, 2025) Daughterhood, The Second Season, and Everything Here Is Under Control, as well as two critically acclaimed novels for young adults. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Point, Joyland, EPOCH, Alta Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Millions. Originally from Portland, Or…
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Devika Shankar, "An Encroaching Sea: Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India, 1860-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Ecological and political instability have time and again emerged as catalysts for risky development projects along India's south-west coastline. In An Encroaching Sea: Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India, 1860-1950 (Cambridge UP, 2024) Devika Shankar probes this complicated relationship between crisis and development th…
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Vera Michlin-Shapir, "Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era (Cornell UP, 2021) offers a new framework for understanding Russian national identity by focusing on the impact of globalization on its formation, something which has been largely overlooked. This approach sheds new light on the Russian case, revealing a dynamic Russian identi…
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