Best Matthew Tilley Podcasts (2025)

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Chosen by God; not exempt from His judgment - Amos 3 39:35

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Preached by Matthew Tilley at North Beaver Baptist Church (West Jefferson, NC) on Sunday, September 21, 2025. Part of the Uncomfortable Truths for Comfortable Christians series in Amos.By Matthew Tilley

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Richard Scott, Emily Berry & Jane Yeh: That Broke Into Shining Crystals 39:30

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‘With his electric Soho, Richard Scott has arrived like a lightning bolt in our midst’ said T.S. Eliot Prize judge Sinéad Morrissey on the publication of his first collection in 2018. To celebrate publication of his second, That Broke into Shining Crystals (Faber), Richard will be reading alongside fellow poets Emily Berry (Dear Boy, Stranger Baby …

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Ariana Reines & Alice Blackhurst: Wave of Blood 1:10:05

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Poet and playwright Ariana Reines will be making a rare UK appearance to read from her new collection with Divided Books, Wave of Blood, a lyric essay she has described as an ‘experiment in ethics’ reckoning with the US wars on terror and their repercussions. Reines was joined in conversation by critic and academic Alice Blackhurst, whose most rece…

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Judgment begins at the house of the Lord - Amos 1:3-2:16 37:14

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Preached by Matthew Tilley at North Beaver Baptist Church (West Jefferson, NC) on Sunday, September 7, 2025. Part of the "Uncomfortable Truths for Comfortable Christians" series in Amos.By Matthew Tilley

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Making good decisions - James 4:13-17 22:54

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Preached by Dr. J.T. Byerly at North Beaver Baptist Church (West Jefferson, NC) on Sunday, August 31, 2025.By Matthew Tilley

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Emily Callaci & Helen Charman: Wages for Housework 54:14

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In Wages for Housework (Allen Lane) Emily Callaci, professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells the story of a movement that shot to prominence in the 1970s, distilling a century of feminist struggle and critique into a single bold slogan. Focusing on five women who helped forge and fight for it – Selma James, Mariarosa Della …

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Oluwaseun Olayiwola & Camille Ralphs: Strange Beach 1:01:43

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In his debut collection Strange Beach – the very first title in Fitzcarraldo’s new poetry series – poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola finds the body to be a porous landscape across which existential dilemmas of gender, sexuality and race are enacted and explored. Poet and novelist Andrew McMillan writes of Olayiwola’s work ‘the tideline of …

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Rosie Johnston (Part 2) 24:49

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Rosie Johnston reads further poems from her new collection Safe Ground and talks to me about truth, peace, forgiveness and her new-found love of the Irish mandolin. The Poetry Bath's theme tune is composed and performed by Nigel Horn. In 2023 The Poetry Bath moved to Buzzsprout from Wildhart Radio. You can listen to all 51 earlier episodes via my w…

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Answering the Lord's call - Amos 1:1-2; 7:14-15 36:21

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Preached by Matthew Tilley at North Beaver Baptist Church (West Jefferson, NC) on Sunday, August 24, 2025. Part of the "Uncomfortable Truths for Comfortable Christians" series in Amos.By Matthew Tilley

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Sue Tilley & Charlie Porter: On Leigh Bowery 1:01:36

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From his arrival in London in 1981 – clutching a suitcase and sewing machine – to his death from AIDS on New Year’s Eve 1994, Leigh Bowery – the man described by Boy George as ‘modern art on legs’ – led an extraordinary life; a life chronicled in the equally extraordinary biography by his closest friend and confidante Sue Tilley, reissued by Thames…

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More than conquerors - Romans 8:31-39 41:49

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Preached by Matthew Tilley at North Beaver Baptist Church (West Jefferson, NC) on Sunday, August 17, 2025. Part of the "From Condemned to Conquerors" series on Romans 8.By Matthew Tilley

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Deborah Levy & Adam Thirlwell: The Position of Spoons 45:17

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In The Position of Spoons novelist, essayist and playwright Deborah Levy invites the reader to share in her interior world, mapping her own life through the lives and works of the artists and writers who have shaped her own practice, from Marguerite Duras to Colette and Ballard, and from Lee Miller to Francesca Woodman and Paula Rego. Levy, describ…

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Make us more like Jesus - Romans 8:28-30 35:09

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Preached by Matthew Tilley at North Beaver Baptist Church (West Jefferson, NC) on Sunday, August 10, 2025. Part of the "From Condemned to Conquerors" series on Romans 8.By Matthew Tilley

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Rosie Johnston (Part 1) 28:28

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Rosie Johnston returns to the Poetry Bath to read from her new collection Safe Ground. In this episode Rosie talks to me about mothers, aunts, gulls and her devotion to the sea. The Poetry Bath's theme tune is composed and performed by Nigel Horn. In 2023 The Poetry Bath moved to Buzzsprout from Wildhart Radio. You can listen to all 51 earlier epis…

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Matthew Hollis & Norman McBeath: The Seafarer 1:01:45

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Matthew Hollis has reworked the classic Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer into a poem desperately relevant for our times: in a society threatened by climate change and the coming-loose of social bonds, Hollis invites us to hear, as the Anglo-Saxons did, the spirit music of land, wind and sea. Hollis’s text is one half of a collaborative project with th…

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Jesus: Our hope for tomorrow and help for today - Romans 8:22-27 30:46

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Preached by Matthew Tilley at North Beaver Baptist Church (West Jefferson, NC) on Sunday, August 3, 2025. Part of the "From Condemned to Conquerors" series on Romans 8.By Matthew Tilley

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Carol Mavor & Lauren Elkin: Serendipity 56:33

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In Serendipity (Reaktion) Carol Mavor uses Anne Frank’s journal, discovered in the Secret Annex after the Second World War, Emily Dickinson’s poems, scribbled on salvaged envelopes hidden in a drawer, Lolita, rescued from incineration by Nabokov’s wife Véra and her own memory of eating a frozen hot chocolate in New York’s Serendipity 3, a dessert c…

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Jesus restores all of creation - Romans 8:18-21 28:07

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Preached by Matthew Tilley at North Beaver Baptist Church (West Jefferson, NC) on Sunday, July 27, 2025. Part of the "From Condemned to Conquerors" sermon series on Romans chapter 8.By Matthew Tilley

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Philip Terry & Marina Warner: Dante’s Purgatorio 1:05:50

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In his 2014 Dante’s Inferno poet and provocateur Philip Terry moved the action to Essex University. His Purgatorio (Carcanet) transports us to nearby Mersea Island, where Ted Berrigan leads our author up an artificial mountain to meet with artists Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread and Damien Hirst, as well as Christopher Marlowe, Boris Johnson, Lady …

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Living as children of God - Romans 8:12-17 30:08

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Preached by Matthew Tilley at North Beaver Baptist Church (West Jefferson, NC) on Sunday, July 20, 2025. Part of the "From Condemned to Conquerors" sermon series on Romans chapter 8.By Matthew Tilley

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Fitzcarraldo at 10: Kate Briggs, Brian Dillon & Helen Charman 1:01:55

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It’s hard to believe that Fitzcarraldo Editions has only existed for ten years; during that short time, they have published a remarkable selection of books (gathering four Nobel Prizes between them), and their iconic blue and white covers have become a mainstay of the bookshop. To celebrate their first decade, Fitzcarraldo are publishing some of th…

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Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe - Romans 8:1-11 40:25

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Preached by Matthew Tilley at North Beaver Baptist Church (West Jefferson, NC) on Sunday, July 13, 2025. Part of the "From Condemned to Conquerors" sermon series on Romans chapter 8.By Matthew Tilley

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Tariq Ali & Oliver Eagleton: You Can’t Please All 59:55

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In You Can’t Please All (Verso), a sort of sequel to his seminal 1987 memoir Street-fighting Years, Tariq Ali continues the story of a life lived flamboyantly and magnificently on the Left. Pen portraits of friends and comrades such as Edward Said, Derek Jarman, Richard Ingrams, Benazir Bhutto, Mary-Kay Wilmers, E.P. Thompson, Perry Anderson and Ro…

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Simon Critchley & James Butler: On Mysticism 1:00:56

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From Jesus Christ to Krautrock via Julian of Norwich and T.S. Eliot, Simon Critchley’s On Mysticism (Profile) brilliantly displays the author’s playful, eclectic erudition in an evocation of the phenomenon he defines, after Evelyn Underhill, as ‘experience in its most intense form.’ Critchley was in conversation about mysticism East and West with t…

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Patrick Cockburn & Duncan Campbell on Claud Cockburn 53:42

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Campaigning journalist Claud Cockburn – defiantly anti-establishment and proudly Communist – had as his watchword ‘believe nothing until it is officially denied’, a saying borrowed by his son Patrick, himself a legendary foreign correspondent, for his biography of his maverick father. Described by schoolfriend Graham Greene as the greatest journali…

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Tilley & Del 47:09

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Performer, poet and visual artist Tilley Milburn joins me with their friend and creative partner, the elegant patchwork piggie Del, to promote Tunbridge Wells Fringe Festival. The festival will run from 28th June to 13th July and Tilley & Del will be performing with their show Human:Pig Musings and hosting Puffing & Wooling, a calming space that's …

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Pankaj Mishra & Gareth Evans: The World After Gaza 1:12:46

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Building on his seminal lecture ‘The Shoah After Gaza’ (LRB 21 March 2024) and his earlier books From the Ruins of Empire and The Age of Anger, novelist and essayist Pankaj Mishra’s latest work The World After Gaza (Fern Press) seeks to place the current crisis in Gaza and Palestine within the broader context of the troubled and tragic history of c…

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David Russell & Adam Phillips: On Marion Milner & Creativity 59:06

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Marion Milner, across her long career as psychoanalyst, essayist and artist, thought deeply about creativity in all its forms, exploring fields as diverse as anthropology, folklore, education, literature, art, philosophy, mysticism, and psychology. In Marion Milner: On Creativity, David Russell, Professor of English at the University of California,…

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Rebecca Solnit & Carole Cadwalladr: No Straight Road Takes You There 1:17:13

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Rebecca Solnit’s latest essay collection explores subjects as diverse as the climate crisis, toxic masculinity and the rise of the far right with her usual flair and capacity for radical hope: Merlin Sheldrake has described No Straight Road Takes You There as ‘a book of fierce and poetic thinking - and a guide for navigating a rapidly changing, non…

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Margaret Atwood and Sarah Howe: Paper Boat 1:17:00

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Before she became a well-known novelist, Margaret Atwood was an award-winning poet. She has been publishing poetry for more than 60 years, from the self-published, hand-set Double Persephone in 1961 to its follow up The Circle Game which won the Governor General’s Award, to her latest, critically-acclaimed collection Dearly in 2020. Paper Boat (Cha…

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Matthew Stewart (Part 2) 33:13

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Surrey-born, Sussex & Spain-dwelling Matthew Stewart reads more poems from Whatever you do, just don't and talks to me about the delicate process of writing about grief. He also tells me about his love of poetic portraiture and life on the edge. The Poetry Bath's theme tune is composed and performed by Nigel Horn. In 2023 The Poetry Bath moved to B…

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Solvej Balle & Chris Power: On the Calculation of Volume 56:42

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‘Every morning, she wakes up to the 18th of November. She no longer expects to wake up to the 19th of November, and she no longer remembers the 17th of November as if it were yesterday.’ Solvej Balle’s septology On the Calculation of Volume (Faber), thirty years in the making, was published in Danish by the author’s own press to huge and universal …