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The LRB Podcast

The London Review of Books

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The LRB Podcast brings you weekly conversations from Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas. Hosted by Thomas Jones and Malin Hay, with guest episodes from the LRB's US editor Adam Shatz, Meehan Crist, Rosemary Hill and more. From the LRB Subscribe to the LRB: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/subslrbpod Close Readings podcast: ⁠https://lrb.me/crlrbpod⁠ LRB Audiobooks: ⁠https://lrb.me/audiobookslrbpod⁠ Bags, binders and more at the LRB Store: ⁠https://lrb.me/storelrbpod⁠ Get in touch: [email protected]
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Close Readings

London Review of Books

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Close Readings is a new multi-series podcast subscription from the London Review of Books. Two contributors explore areas of literature through a selection of key works, providing an introductory grounding like no other. Listen to some episodes for free here, and extracts from our ongoing subscriber-only series. How To Subscribe In Apple Podcasts, click 'subscribe' at the top of this podcast feed to unlock the full episodes. Or for other podcast apps, sign up here: https://lrb.me/closereadin ...
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London Review Bookshop Podcast

London Review Bookshop

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Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more. Find out about our upcoming events here More from the Bookshop: Discover our author of the month, book of the week and more: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/bkshppod⁠⁠ From the LRB: Subscribe to the LRB: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/subsbkshppod⁠ Close Readings podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/crbkshppod⁠ LRB Audiobooks: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/audiobooksbkshppod⁠ Bags, binders and more at ...
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Tea & Strumpets: A Regency Romance Review

Zoë Wernick & Kelsey Lubbe

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Tune in to hear two friends discuss all the steamy (and sometimes tepid) details of the regency romance genre. Join us each episode as we take a trip across the pond and into the past in search of swoon-worthy Happily Ever Afters! We talk about all your regency favorites like Julia Quinn’s Bridgertons or Lisa Kleypas’ Ravenels, plus we dive deep into exciting new releases from rising stars like Scarlett Peckham, Cat Sebastian, and Evie Dunmore. We’ve got full book reviews AND fabulous interv ...
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** Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks ** Host David Barr Kirtley, author of the book Save Me Plz and Other Stories, talks geek culture with guests such as Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Simon Pegg, Bill Nye, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy has appeared on recommended podcast lists from NPR, The Guardian, Wired, The A.V. Club, BBC America, CBC Radio, WVXU, io9, Omni, The St ...
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Welcome to "Reeding Between the Lines," your go-to podcast for all things books! Featuring Ahren, Sara, and Nicole Reed. A brother, sister, and mother with different tastes but the same passion for reading. Join us as we explore, review, and debate books from every genre. Ready to dive into your next great read?@reedingpod
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Being James Bond

Joseph Darlington

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Being James Bond is celebrating 13+ Years of podcasting! Still dedicated to learning and exploring all you need to know, so that you can experience life, just a little more like James Bond.
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Around The World In 80 Podcasts

Ben Smith, Lawrence Ostlere & Nick Harris-Fry

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Three quite daring explorers are circling the globe in 80 episodes, following the path of fictional sourpuss Phileas Fogg in the poorly written novel Around the World in 80 Days. Join them as they get to know a different destination each week whilst delivering a drawn out and mostly damning book review.
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The Cookbook Circle

Hannah & Victoria @ The Cookbook Circle

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The Cookbook Circle is here to help you rediscover those cookbooks that you already have at home. We combed through every possible list of ‘best cookbooks’, and created our own master list. In each episode of The Cookbook Circle, we’ll pick one book and decipher its genius. We’ll read it cover-to-cover, cook a few of the recipes each and report back on what we loved, what we didn’t, and let you know if we think it deserves a place in all those ‘best of’ lists, giving it a Cookbook Circle mar ...
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A Podcast devoted to Douglas Adams' lesser known Dirk Gently book franchise and it's numerous different adaptations for all different forms of media. Hosted by four fans of Adams from all corners of the globe: Ed from the UK, Nemo from Australia, Dalek from the USA, and Caen from Sweden. Together, they form the Electric Monks, and they believe that their podcast is a pretty cool and froody one; stick with us for adventure, excitement and really wild things. As featured in the Acknowledgement ...
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Justin Waite runs the SharePickers Investment Club which employs a unique, systematic method to uncover small, profitable companies on the London Stock Exchange. Each potential investment undergoes comprehensive analysis and is evaluated against 15 crucial financial metrics. This fact-based, quantitative approach allows us to pinpoint high-potential growth businesses and deliver consistent results, bypassing the hype and focusing on the numbers. *****MY BOOK***** How to Become a MicroCap Mil ...
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TWO OLD BUCKS

David and Del

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A frequently thoughtful and sometimes whimsical examination of the world around us as seen through the cataract-clouded eyes of two long-time friends and explorers. Sporadically funny, invariably insightful, sometimes we're not sure.
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The Broken Bird Podcast

Broken Bird Theatre

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There are times when the stars align: when a beautiful series of events leads to the culmination of something absolutely marvellous. Often, however, this is not the case... Meet Broken Bird, the rambling, interactive storytellers, and follow the on their journeys as they charge through the realms of language, theatre, and history with all the grace of an ice skating platypus, accompanied by their nameless pet tortoise and an assortment of guests ranging from the holier-than-thou to the devil ...
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Life, Actually is a lifestyle podcast created in 2022 by Belfast-born Londoner & manifestation junkie Rebekah Kane. Weekly episodes discuss manifesting, adulting, relationships, friendships, mindfulness & wellness, money, self-help & personal development, and all the other things we’ve got to overcome in our twenties. Each week we highlight a new topic of figuring-it-out, usually with a focus on get-out-of-your-own-way and a sprinkle of Irish humor. If you are bored of your daily grind, need ...
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Homegirl Harmonies is a familiar experience where the host, Poe and the occasional special guest Homie, delve into conversations that range from society and its dimensions to culture, business and more through the lens of a Homegirl. LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE to be apart of the weekly circle with your Homegirl! Episodes available on Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Spotify and more!
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PEPRN Podcast

Ashley Casey

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Blog Order (Podcast 1 in Blog 40) 40. J. Miller, K. Vine, and D. Larkin, ‘The Relationship of Product and Process Performance of the Two-Handed Sidearm Strike’, Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy, 2007, 12, 61–75. 41. K. L. Oliver and R. Lalik, ‘The Body as Curriculum: Learning with Adolescent Girls’, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2001, 33, 303–33. 42. C. C. Pope and M. O’Sullivan, ‘Darwinism in the Gym’, Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2003, 22, 311–27. 43. J. Quay, ‘Experie ...
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After 9/11, George W. Bush launched a global War on Terror. What followed was an unprecedented expansion of American power, from Guantánamo Bay to drone strikes, mass surveillance to the weaponisation of the financial system. Asked when it would end, Vice-President Dick Cheney replied: ‘Not in our lifetime.’ Two decades later, we’re still living in…
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Tron has never been a massively successful franchise in terms of Box Office or critical acclaim, yet its always been a franchise that had amazing ideas that the 3 films have never delivered on.Join Neil & Jose as the delve into all 3 Tron films and look at what made the first two films cult hits and have such a hardcore fan base, but also why the f…
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The REAL reason Income Tax won’t be going up in the Budget Plus why you should start looking at house builders now. CO’S MENTIONED TODAY: MJ Gleeson #GLE ***** About The SharePickers Investment Club ***** The SharePickers Investment Club employs a unique, systematic method to uncover small, profitable companies on the London Stock Exchange. Each po…
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Baylie Carson is starring as Oceon in the UK premiere of Ride The Cyclone. With book, music and lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, Ride The Cyclone has become a cult favourite with a huge online following. Lizzi Gee has directed and choreographed the show which begins performances tonight (14th November) at the Southwark Playhouse. Baylie…
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Reeves: Woefully Incompetent or Just Clueless? PLUS CO’S MENTIONED TODAY: DSW CAPITAL #DSW FONIX MOBILE #FNX TEN LIFESTYLE #TENG TIME FINANCE #TIME ***** About The SharePickers Investment Club ***** The SharePickers Investment Club employs a unique, systematic method to uncover small, profitable companies on the London Stock Exchange. Each potentia…
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Diego Andres Rodriguez is In The Frame! Diego is part of the all-star cast of the brand new musical Roam which is being staged for a one-night concert. Roam will play the Shaftesbury Theatre later this month, directed by Rupert Hands. The show centres on a nomadic clan whose caravan breaks down en route to a sacred festival, forcing them to confron…
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Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, and Anthony Ha join us to discuss Season 1 of the FX series Alien: Earth, a prequel to the classic films Alien and Aliens. Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy David Barr Kirtley
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Ken Worpole, ‘a literary original, a social and architectural historian whose books combine the Orwellian ideal of common decency with understated erudition’ (New Statesman), has written on many subjects during his long career, from cemeteries to hospices to the novels of Alexander Baron, but has often returned to the subject of his beloved Essex. …
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At the end of the 20th century and across the first decade of the 21st, a swathe of countries across Latin America elected left-wing governments in what became known internationally as the Pink Tide. In more recent years, what many have seen as a second wave of progressive governments have collapsed, giving way to right-wing leaders such as Milei, …
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How Does A Chancellor Go For Growth And Achieve The Very Opposite?! - Unemployment is the worst it’s been since covid - Record equity outflows - How can OpenAI afford to pay $1.4 trillion? PLUS CO’S MENTIONED TODAY: AB DYNAMICS #ABDP ALTITUDE GROUP #ALT FDM GROUP #FDM LUCECO #LUCE ***** About The SharePickers Investment Club ***** The SharePickers …
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Nice Rally but it Doesn't Make Sense! ALSO… 26% of large private sector companies and 20% of public sector organisations are preparing for redundancies in the next 12 months due to AI. PLUS CO’S MENTIONED TODAY: Avingtrans #AVG Eagle Eye Solutions #EYE Eco Animal Health #EAH ***** About The SharePickers Investment Club ***** The SharePickers Invest…
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Gen V Season 2 promised to keep the chaos, blood, and satire of The Boys alive — but somewhere along the way, it lost its edge. The We Needed Roads crew dives deep into their disappointment behind Prime Video’s latest superhero spin-off.From messy storylines and uneven character arcs to a waste of a good villain, we break down why Gen V feels like …
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Imagine a woman setting herself the task of liking her son’s choice of wife. At first she finds her daughter-in-law unbearable, but through the effort of seeing her clearly and justly she comes to accept and even appreciate the younger woman. For Iris Murdoch this is an example of moral labour, the struggle to achieve virtue that is understood intu…
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The Biggest Obstacle to UK Growth is Reeves Plus: - Higher earners to ‘pay thousands more’ in Reeves’ income tax raid - Rachel Reeves cools on big cash ISA reforms - Retail footfall sinks for sixth straight month as Brits fear Budget taxes - ITV confirms talks on possible sale of its media & ent ops to Sky - Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Te…
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Ash Hunter is playing Billy in the premiere of The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights by Hannah Doran at the Park Theatre. The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights is Hannah’s debut play and won last year’s Papatango New Writing Prize. Ash’s character is a young man who steals steaks to pay for his mother’s cancer treatment, it’s described as…
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The Bank of England MPC Should be Replaced by AI Monetary Policy Committee votes 5-4 to keep Bank Rate at 4.0% Inflation expected to fall in October and November Investors see 55% chance of rate cut on December 18 CPI inflation is judged to have peaked. You have different members of the MPC coming to different conclusions on the same data. The Bank…
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We're excited to cover Alice Waters' - of Chez Panisse fame - first cookbook, as a culinary figure who's often been referenced by other chefs we've discussed on the pod. Find out what we thought of her simple, seasonal cooking. Intro track: Disco - All Good Folks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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With Testo Junkie, Pornotopia, An Apartment in Uranus and Can the Monster Speak, Paul B. Preciado became established as one of the most exciting and challenging social thinkers of our time. His latest book Dysphoria Mundi (Fitzcarraldo), a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry and autofiction, draws on the experience of the Covid pa…
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Between the 1960s and the turn of the century, an astonishingly large number of serial killers grew up or operated in America’s Pacific Northwest. Caroline Fraser’s book Murderland, reviewed in the LRB by James Lasdun, argues that a significant contributing factor may have been the spew of lead fumes and other toxic emissions that billowed unchecke…
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The Two Real Reasons Reeves Needs to Raise Tax on Working People So she has to raise tax due to 2 reasons that are her fault, namely: She gave herself only around £10bn headroom, when previous chancellors have given themselves £30bn. Even if the economy had been strong and showed growth, there would be little room for error. The growth she was hopi…
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Does this Signify the Bottom in Oil? OPEC+ agree to pause their planned oil production hikes in the first months of next year Total productivity at state-owned bodies fell by the sharpest decline since the final quarter of 2022 The EY Item Club has downgraded Britain’s growth for next year and unemployment will peak at 5% next summer PLUS CO’S MENT…
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We finally covered a film festival...kind of, if not having seen any of the films is coverage? But thankfully we know someone that did attend the London International Film Festival this year, first time guest on the We Needed Roads Podcast film journalist and co-host of the W-rated Podcast Clare Ellen Hope.Neil sits down with Clare to find out all …
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Recorded in July, this is a previously unreleased section of Aimée Fisher and George Crawford's recent episode of In The Frame. In this bonus section, Aimée discusses her auditions for Paddington The Musical and why she's excited to be part of her first original cast of a new musical. [Please note this was recorded before rehearsals or performances…
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped began life serialised in a children’s magazine, but its sophistication and depth won the lifelong admiration of Henry James. Set in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rising, Kidnapped follows young lowlander David Balfour’s flight across the Highlands with the rebel Alan Breck Stewart. In Stevenson’s hands, a str…
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September and October have been replete with gaming sessions. Can you have too much of a good thing? That’s the question we ask this episode. Dirk is joined in the Zoom of Role-Playing Rambling by Graham Bottley from Arion Games, which is celebrating 20 years publishing games and supplements. It has had the licence for Advanced Fighting Fantasy, Me…
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C.J. Borger is playing Goldie Wilson and Marvin Berry in the West End production of Back To The Future The Musical at the Adelphi Theatre. Having opened in London in 2021, Back To The Future has a book by Bob Gale and new music and lyrics by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard, alongside additional songs from the film including ‘The Power of Love’ and …
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Will AI Lead to the Loss of Jobs and Trash the Economy? PLUS: - Trump & Xi Agree Deal - Reeves looks at early scrapping of windfall tax on oil and gas - Google parent Alphabet beats forecasts with first $100bn quarter PLUS CO’S MENTIONED TODAY: FILTRONIC #FTC SOLID STATE #SOLI HARGREAVES SERVICES #HSP JOURNEO #JNEO ***** About The SharePickers Inve…
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Gender, race and identity collide on the open seas in Xiaolu Guo’s Call Me Ishmaelle (Chatto), a powerful, feminist reimagining of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. She was in conversation with Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan: Or the Whale, who has described Guo’s latest novel as being ‘as animal and visceral and shape-shifting and subversive as the b…
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Andy Burnham recently said that the government is ‘in hock to the bond markets’, and the political turbulence of the past few years, not least the downfall of Liz Truss following her ‘mini-budget’, would seem to back this up. But the bond markets are only part of the picture: the actions of the Bank of England and the fiscal rules a government sets…
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