Best Richard M. Golden Podcasts (2025)

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Edward Stanley et. al., "A North American Tour Journal 1824-1825: The Making of a Prime Minister" (Sutton Publishing, 2025) 39:42

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A North American Tour Journal 1824-1825: The Making of a Prime Minister (Sutton Publishing, 2025) follows Edward Stanley's 1824-25 journey through North America, a formative tour that profoundly shaped his political ideals. In July 1824, Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley arrived in New York City at the end of a month-long voyage from Liverpool. The you…

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Brian Duff, "Restaurant" (Bloomsbury, 2025) 43:02

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In the last few decades, restaurants and food culture have achieved extraordinary cultural presence. Chefs are heroes and thought leaders, well-executed entrées go viral, dining out has become theater, plating has become art and ubiquitous Instagram content. But in recent years restaurants have faced crisis upon crisis. Restaurant (Bloomsbury, 2025…

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Katherine Fusco, "Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System" (Columbia UP, 2025) 43:30

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We tend to think about movie stars as either glamorous or relatable. But in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Hollywood star system was taking shape, a number of unusual stars appeared on the silver screen, representing groups from which the American mainstream typically sought to avert its eyes. What did it mean for a white entertainment columnist to …

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Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump" (Random House, 2025) 1:05:57

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Everyone feels it. Cultural and political life in America has become unrecognizable and strange. Firebrands and would-be sages have taken the place of reasonable and responsible leaders. Nuanced debates have given way to the smug confidence of yard signs. How did we get here? In Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to …

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Maria Dadouch, "I Want Golden Eyes" (U Texas Press, 2025) 25:37

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This interview is with one of the translators, M. Lynx Qualey. A girl must save herself and her family after discovering her society's secrets in this sci-fi novel in translation. I Want Golden Eyes (U Texas Press, 2025) is set on the Comoros Islands at the end of this century in a futuristic city called Quartzia, the home of a genetically privileg…

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Ambra Suriano, "Narrative Paths Through Mamre and Sodom" (T&T Clark, 2025) 20:32

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What is the narrative of Mamre and Sodom (Genesis 18-19) really about? Surprisingly, Ambra Suriano says the main topic has to do with the knowledge of good and evil. Tune in as we speak with Ambra Suriano about her recent monograph, Narrative Paths Through Mamre and Sodom: The Oak and The Gate (T&T Clark, 2025). Ambra Suriano studied philology and …

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Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography" (SUNY Press, 2025) 52:11

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Ofer Ashkenazi is a Professor of History and the director of the Richard Koebner-Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. While on sabbatical, in 2025-2026 he is the Mosse Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the co-author of the recently published monograph Still Lives: Jewish Photography…

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Markus Vinzent, "Christ's Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century" (Routledge, 2023) 1:18:06

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This volume explores the creation of the collection now known as the New Testament. While it is generally accepted that it did not emerge as a collection prior to the late second century CE, a more controversial question is how it came to be. Markus Vinzent, who had held the H.G. Wood Chair in the History of Theology at the University of Birmingham…

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The Morning Rush with Bill Carroll - September 5th, 2025 1:38:19

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Bill Carroll does At The Movies with Richard Crouse, Medical Myth Busting with Dr. Barry Dworkin, Sound Off @ 7, Sun Media Columnist Brian Lilley joins the show, Trending Today with Steve Bunda, and much more.By iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - The Inbox - September 5, 2025 4:37

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Bill takes some time to hear from the listeners to wrap up the show!By iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - Republicans and Democrats unite to grill RFK Jr. 17:29

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Bill is joined by Infectious Diseases Specialist and Professor at the University of Toronto Dr. Isaac Bogoch to talk about RFK Jr.'s senate hearing yesterday as well as vaccines.By iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - Is crime really down? 10:10

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Bill Carroll is joined by Sun Media Columnist, Brian Lilley, for his weekly hit.By iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - Mom with invincible feet breaks record for fastest barefoot 100-m over LEGO bricks 3:57

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Bill is joined by his producer Steve Bunda to talk about the trending topic of the day!By iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - Here’s how much you need to earn to afford a one-bedroom apartment in Ottawa 13:17

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Bill is joined by Senior Economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives David Macdonald to talk about the trend of rising rent pricesBy iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - Bill "Sounds off" about release on bail 7:57

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Every day at 7, tune into The Morning Rush to hear Bill Sound Off on a top story of the day.By iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - "Golden Threads" found in woman's joints while investigating severe knee pain 7:07

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Bill is joined by Dr. Barry Dworkin for his daily Medical Myth Busting segment.By iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - At The Movies with Richard Crouse - September 5, 2025 10:54

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Bill talks to Movie Critic Richard Crouse highlighting: The Conjuring: Last Rites, The Threesome, as well as the Toronto International Film FestivalBy iHeartRadio

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Bénédicte Meillon, "Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth" (Bloomsbury, 2022) 53:59

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Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth (Bloomsbury, 2022) tackles the reenchantment process at work in a part of contemporary ecoliterature that is marked by the resurfacing of the song of the earth topos and of Gaia images. Focusing on the postmodernist braiding of various indigenous and ecofeminist ontologies,…

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Jeremy Black, "British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1744-57" (Routledge, 2016) 53:08

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The years between 1744 and 1757 were a testing time for the British government as political unrest at home exploded into armed rebellion, whilst on the continent French armies were repeatedly victorious. Providing an analytical narrative, supported by thematic chapters, this book examines the relationship between Britain's politics and foreign poli…

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David J. Lynch, "The World's Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (And What Would Make It Right)" (PublicAffairs, 2025) 58:59

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The triumphant globalization that began in the 1990s has given way to a world riven by conflict, populism, and economic nationalism. In The World's Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (And What Would Make It Right), (PublicAffairs, 2025) David J. Lynch offers a trenchant, fast-paced narrative of the rise and fall of the greatest engi…

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free" (Simon & Schuster, 2025) 37:26

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Claire McCardell forever changed fashion—and most importantly, the lives of women. She shattered cultural norms around women’s clothes, and today much of what we wear traces back to her ingenious, rebellious mind. McCardell invented ballet flats and mix-and-match separates, and she introduced wrap dresses, hoodies, leggings, denim, and more into wo…

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Dan Roche, "Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing" (MIT Press, 2025) 1:05:02

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Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing (MIT Press, 2025) is a book about artificial eyes—about the artisans and artists who make them, and about the life-changing and sometimes life-saving experience of wearing them, as author Dan Roche has done for 15 years. Eye making is done by hand, for one person at a time, by a very small number of ocul…

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Cary Baker, "Down On The Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music" (Jawbone Press, 2025) 59:40

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This is the story of music performed on the streets, in subways, in parks, in schoolyards, on the back of flatbed trucks, and beyond, from the 1920s to the present day. Drawing on years of interviews and eyewitness accounts, Down On The Corner (Jawbone Press, 2025) introduces readers to a wide range of locations and a myriad of musical genres, from…

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Karen Bartlett, "Escape from Kabul: The Afghan Women Judges Who Fled the Taliban and Those They Left Behind" (New Press, 2025) 1:01:03

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In this episode, New Books Network Host Nina Bo Wagner speaks with Karen Bartlett about The Escape From Kabul: A True Story of Sisterhood and Defiance (The New Press and Duckworth, 2025). The book follows Afghan women judges who fought for justice in the courtroom, then fought to escape with their lives. Across twenty years of U.S.-backed governmen…

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Tom Wooldridge, "Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2022) 50:25

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Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2022) presents an accessible introduction to the conceptualization and treatment of eating disorders from a psychoanalytic perspective. Each of the chapters offers a different perspective on these difficult-to-treat conditions and taken together, illustrate the breadth and depth that psychoa…

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Daniel Horowitz, "Bear With Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America" (Duke UP, 2025) 48:37

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From teddy bears and Winnie-the-Pooh to Smokey Bear, Yogi Bear, and Cocaine Bear, American popular culture has been fascinated with real and fictional bears for more than two centuries. Bears are ubiquitous, appearing in advertisements, as logos for sports teams, and as central characters in children’s books, cartoons, movies, and video games. In B…

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The Morning Rush with Bill Carroll - September 4th, 2025 1:36:08

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Bill Carroll does On the Field with Steve Bunda, Medical Myth Busting with Dr. Barry Dworkin, Sound Off @ 7, CEO of The Residential Construction Council of Ontario Richard Lyall joins the show, Trending Today with Steve Bunda, and much more.By iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - The Inbox - September 4, 2025 5:01

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Bill takes some time to hear from the listeners to wrap up the show!By iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - Don't expect to be getting a raise soon according to wages and salary data 6:43

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Bill is joined by Darcy Clark, a Senior Principal in Compensation at the consulting firm Normandin Beaudry, to talk about the slowing rate of raisesBy iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - Slowing the housing market could lead to job losses for construction sector, says Ontario Builders Group 9:57

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Bill is joined by CEO of The Residential Construction Council of Ontario Richard Lyall to talk about the housing market and what the current issues with it are.By iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - Date them until you hate them? TikTok trend has people dating until they hate each other so the break up is easier 4:50

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Bill is joined by his producer Steve Bunda to talk about the trending topic of the day!By iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - Watson’s Mill faces new challenges as city looks to transfer historic Manotick properties 11:19

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Bill is joined by Vice President and Chair of Fundraising & Marketing for Watson's Mill Manotick Inc. Shannon Giust to discuss the upcoming plans by the city to transfer the rights to Watson's Mill.By iHeartRadio

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The Morning Rush - Bill "Sounds off" about the Night Mayor's new website 8:57

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Every day at 7, tune into The Morning Rush to hear Bill Sound Off on a top story of the day.By iHeartRadio