British politics is a of a nightmare to keep up with at the moment. Reading every think-piece or news story about how life is getting objectively worse would be enough to make your eyes fall out. That's why we created The British Dream, a podcast that pumps analysis of how everything is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ directly into your ears. Stay positive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Premier Skills English podcast is a part of a project from the British Council and Premier League for people who are learning English and love football. If you want to know more visit the website https://www.britishcouncil.org/premierskillsenglish, or get in touch at premierskills@britishcouncil.org.
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🇬🇧 I'm Michael Lavers and this podcast will help you improve your English. I'm an online English teacher for students learning as a second language. In this podcast, I answer your questions about learning and help you achieve your goals in British English. Once a month I talk to a teacher or expert on topics related to language.
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Americrown Dreams - A British Royal Family Podcast
Americrown Dreams - A British Royal Family Podcast
Self-appointed royal correspondents Jenna and Katelyn discuss current events in the British Royal Family with a keen focus on the third generation of royals, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle.
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RHLSTP is an award-winning series in which comedian Richard Herring ("The Podfather" - The Guardian) chats with some of the biggest names in comedy and entertainment. Stephen Fry, Eddie Izzard, Dawn French, David Mitchell, Katherine Ryan and Brian Blessed are amongst the many stars to have been interviewed across the 400+ episodes... Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rhlstp. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A new immersive fiction podcast from RomComPods! Recently jilted by her boyfriend (who also happens to be her boss...yikes!), Casey is offered a dream job launching the British spin-off of the cooking TV show she produces, and heads to London looking for love. What she doesn’t expect is to find it TWICE! Showmance stars Skyler Samuels (Scream Queens), Jack Turner (One Winter Weekend), and Elliot Knight (Life Sentence). Want more? Head to romcompods.com and follow @RomComPods on IG.
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If you’re passionate about dressage, at whatever level, unaffiliated or affiliated, British Dressage is here to help further your enjoyment and ensure the sport continues to go from strength to strength. Whether you are already a competitor or just starting out, a regular spectator, or keen to get involved in other ways, British Dressage has plenty to offer you from quality training, a packed schedule of competitions and the latest news from our international teams. British Dressage is commi ...
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Michelle and Jayne are the Disney Dream Girls and they are your guides to the place where dreams begin. Whether it is Walt Disney World, Disneyland Paris or The Disneyland Resort they aim to entertain and inform with fun features, planning tips, park history, guests interviews and reviews. If you want a show that enthuses about the fabulous food and amazing attractions of the US and European Disney theme parks, then this podcast is for you!
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*The Bureau of Lost Culture broadcast curious, half-forgotten, countercultural stories, oral testimonies and rare tales from the underground. *Join host Stephen Coates and a wide range of guests including musicians, artists, writers, activists and commentators in conversation. *Listen live on Saturdays at 9.00am on London’s premier independent station Soho Radio or via all major podcast providers: *The Bureau is now collected at The British Library Sound Archive
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In this podcast series, Mike moves away from the traditional DE&I rhetoric, to get a better understanding of what diversity, equity and inclusion actually means for us as individuals. Are we seeing real change? Do you feel a greater sense of belonging in your workplace and community? Each week Mike and his guest open an honest dialogue on a specific DE&I topic, some discussions will be inspirational, others might be a little uncomfortable but hopefully all will be interesting and thought pro ...
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Summer, 1989, somewhere in deepest darkest England. Mockery Manor is a theme park where people disappear, and it's up to a pair of chaotic teenage twins to catch a killer. British Podcast Awards 'Best Fiction' Nominee 2020. If you like Hot Fuzz, Scream, and Only Murders In The Building, then Mockery Manor is for you. Mockery Manor is a full-cast production best enjoyed using headphones.
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You probably think you know what life was like in Britain after the war. But what myths do we tell ourselves about the pre-digital world? From coal to contraception and ID cards to school beatings, Ros Taylor delves into the truth about British postwar life in Jam Tomorrow. From the makes of Oh God, What Now? Follow Jam Tomorrow on Twitter
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A series of interviews with authors of new books from Princeton University Press
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Welcome to pen to Paycheck Authors podcast. We’re two indie authors; Matilda Swift, author of quintessentially British Cozy Mysteries, and Sam Cummings, author of Young Adult books about magic, myths, and monsters. With over a dozen books between us, and still a long way to go towards the ‘quit the day job’ dream, we’re here to write our way to financial success. Listen along for our mastery through missteps journey
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Makin' money gambling, investing, and livin' the dream...
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Capturing the nation in conversation, in partnership with the British Library.
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A Doctor Who fan and his friend rank every episode ever, from the new series and the old.
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A Podcast Sharing Interesting Stories From Interesting People Every 2 Weeks On Sunday At 1:00 PM (Formally The Brit Kids Show)
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Produced by The Midgemans World in collaboration with Commissar Roach. Contains explicit language. New Episodes on Fridays and Sundays. Streamed Weekly at www.twitch.tv/midgeman 7:30pm British Time!
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The Green Dream with Dana Thomas is a weekly magazine about how to "green-up" your life. A New York Times bestselling author, British Vogue's European Sustainability Editor, and leading voice in the climate movement, Thomas welcomes experts, creators, and changemakers from politics to fashion for dynamic conversations on all things sustainable. Episodes will close with reviews by respected critics of the latest books, films, music, and more that in some way explore humanity and the planet. T ...
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Master advanced English and get your dream job with the Total English podcast! Boost your understanding and confidence through conversational English episodes that explore a variety of engaging topics. You’ll advance your English listening skills and learn the words and phrases needed to speak English professionally - all while having fun. Hosted by Shandon, a native British English teacher with 15 years of language learning and 6 years of teaching experience, this podcast gives you everythi ...
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A Load of BS on Sport: The Behavioural Science Podcast with Daniel Ross and Dan Biggar
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A Load of BS on Sport: The Behavioural Science Podcast dives deep into the psychology of what makes elite performers tick; how they think about success and failure, how they find and maintain peak performance, how they manage fear and adversity, how they make decisions under pressure, how they deal with risk and uncertainty. Daniel is a behavioural science and sports fanatic while Dan has lived his dream on the rugby field for the past 17 years, winning three Six Nations titles, earning over ...
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An intimate journey of remembering and reclaiming ancestral stories, feminine wisdom, and earth magic. Throughout the series, I talk with guests from Ireland & the British Isles about ancestral dreaming and remembering as a pathway back to reverent ways of living in the modern world. Through stories, teachings, and personal sharing we’ll discover the greater possibility of who we can be in this time of planetary change.
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Homegrown is BACK and BIGGER than ever! Australian Music Lives here - Only on Triple M and the LiSTNR App Weeknights from 10pm, British India Drummer and Triple M's own Matty O hosts the Australian Music show that EVERY band wants to get on!
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The Santiago Boys is a nine-part podcast about a group of radical utopians around Salvador Allende, Chile's socialist president. Undeterred by the Cold War and machinations of their enemies and aided by an eccentric British consultant, they try to wrestle control over technology from multinationals and intelligence agencies and use it to create a more egalitarian economy. As their dream gets crushed by Pinochet's bloody coup, the Santiago Boys find an unexpected afterlife - and in Silicon Va ...
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The UK Travel Planning Podcast is full of practical tips and advice to help you plan your dream trip to the UK whether you are visiting England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Travel expert Tracy Collins shares years of knowledge and experience of travelling to, and around, the UK to help you plan your UK itinerary. Listen to special guest interviews full of travel inspiration and practical tips for popular and off the beaten path destinations. Learn more about the best ways to travel ...
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Muskets! Spells! Beards! This British 5E D&D podcast has it all! Follow the adventures of four mad voice actors and three would-be privateers across the shores of Calcinea, a Napoleonic world full of dungeons, dragons, flintlocks and fireballs! Every Tuesday at 7pm GMT. Rated 15+.
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Joined each episode by special guests, British Asian authors, Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee take a wry look at the world of books, writing, and the creative arts, tackling everything from bestsellers to pop culture and Big Fat Asian Weddings. Insightful, funny, packed with stellar interviews – Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Ann Cleeves, Mike Gayle, to name a few – and the odd dose of cross-cultural confusion, they dare to explore the parts other podcasts cannot reach. Find out more: www.redhotc ...
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I'm Ty and welcome to Off Script. I've been pretty fortunate to have a phone book of people that have incredibly inspiring stories and are extremely knowledgable in their fields of expertise. These people have added a huge amount of value to my life and I wanted to share some of their stories with you in the hope that you can take something little away that will add value to your life. Expect honest, open and raw chats, we won't be holding back on letting them express themselves, and we'll b ...
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PsychCrunch is the podcast from the British Psychological Society's Research Digest. Each episode we explore whether the findings from psychological science can make a difference in real life. Just how should we live, according to psychology? We speak to psychologists about their research and whether they apply what they've discovered in their own lives.
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This is a deep dive into some of the host and the guests' favourite films, many of which we consider among the pinnacles of film achievement.
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A group of friends from both sides of the pond chatting about all things Trek! We were brought together through the love of Star Trek Fleet Command, a mobile and PC MMO game!
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The Intuitive Creative - Dreaming Music, Songwriting, and Infinite Creativity
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Adama Nesil is a British singer-songwriter who ‘receives' her songs during her sleep. This podcast features all of the audio blog posts from her website, theintuitivecreative.com. The Intuitive Creative is about Adama’s songwriting process, tips for intuitive songwriting (’song capturing’), insights for accessing unlimited creativity for artists of all backgrounds and levels of experience, and tips for parents with children interested in creating music and songs.
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Jason Craveiro is a Real Estate developer in British Columbia, Canada who has completed numerous assignments directing, managing, and negotiating deals across the entire real estate spectrum.
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David Crouch is your host in an examination of Digital Work Futures. He chats with a range of people who have made a meaningful career / vocation away from large cities to living and working on the Gulf Islands in British Columbia. These people began working remotely from home, and living a different dream for their life, years and decades before any pandemic generated interest in Remote Work, Live Where You Want, and WFH (Work From Home). Valuable insights on how to successfully create a di ...
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The Unexpected Success Podcast highlights inspirational stories of entrepreneurs and professionals that dared to dream, beat all odds and achieved success.
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A new podcast hosted by Jill Douglas with former Scotland international and British & Irish Lion Doddie Weir bringing the sporting and medical worlds together. Supported by Aberdeen Standard Investments.
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This is the podcast for Petrolheads. Join professional racing driver Jason Plato and lover of all things automotive, Dave Vitty, for some quality car chat, and some very famous passengers joining them for the ride. Fuelling Around is powered by Adrian Flux.
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You know all about your WWEs, TNAs, ROHs and even the indies. You're familiar with Lucha Libre and an expert of Puroresu. But chances are you're missing out on the best kept secret in the wrestling sphere: BritWres. Let Oli, Rob and Arn be your guides to the wonderful world of British Grappling and get in on the ground floor of a true reemergence of the scene. From the underground vibe of PROGRESS to the international dream matches provided by RevPro to the sheer level of insanity provided b ...
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They're all around us, year after year; tinsel wallpaper accompanying moments in shops you'd rather not be in, belted out arm in arm by people drunk on eggnog, anchored to blurry archive footage on BBC4. Poke through the Advent calendar doors as musician Holly Boson and many friends spend December 2018 attempt to hear these songs clearly for the first time, in a critical journey through the British Christmas radio canon.
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Enter into the Realm of Unknown, with host Shane Cummings, and explore the Paranormal, Supernatural, conspiracies, unknown history and more from the American Northeast; along with mysteries from around the globe. Support the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/realmofunknown
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Maybe you dream of moules frites and Belgian beer every night, or maybe you wake up wishing you were anywhere else, but Belgium is where the long and winding road has brought you. The "More From Brussels" podcast aims to bring a fresh perspective on this city, an adopted home away from home for so many expats.
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You like European football? You too can learn to love the Austrian Bundesliga! British sports reporters Tom Middler, Lee Wingate & Simon Clark are around the grounds in Austria to keep you up to date with all the exciting things going on in the Bundesliga and with the Austrian National Team. Come and join us for the ride with The Other Bundesliga.
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Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies
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S4 E10v Barbadian Roots, British Dreams: A Windrush Tale
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Summary In this conversation, Charles Sealy reflects on his life journey from growing up in Barbados to moving to England as part of the Windrush generation. He shares his experiences in education, his career in nursing, and the challenges of racism and identity faced by the black community. He discusses his voluntary work, the impact of the Windru…
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Justene Hill Edwards, "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank" (Norton, 2024)
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In Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank (W. W. Norton, 2024), Justene Hill Edwards exposes how the rise and tragic failure of the Freedman’s Bank has shaped economic inequality in America. In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman’s Ban…
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Sanaullah Khan, "Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self" (Lexington Books, 2023)
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Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) explores the interrelation between carceral conditions and substance use by considering the intersections between drug markets, sidewalks, households, and prisons in Baltimore. Sanaullah Khan argues that while housing, medicalization, and incarceration…
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Anne M. Whitesell, "Living Off the Government?: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policymakers, pundits, and activists following the massive economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anne Whitesell takes up this timely debate, showing us how our welfare system, in its current state, fails the people it is designed to serve. From debates…
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525 The Disney Dream Girls
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On this week's podcast, Michelle and Jayne discuss some items of news from both Disneyland and Walt Disney World. We hope you enjoy the podcast and invite you to give your opinions on our Facebook page - find the Disney Dream Girls on Facebook. If you want to find out more about the show, you can find pictures and show notes available on our websit…
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Water You Thinking? – "Under the Lake/Before the Flood" & "The Underwater Menace"
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We take the podcast down where it's hotter, under the water. Forget your troubles. Life is the bubbles. Under the sea.Kirjoittanut Porter Mason
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Freya Gowrley, "Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage (Princeton UP, 2024) is a beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to today While the emergence of collage is frequently placed in the twentieth century when it was a favored medium of modern artists, its earliest beginnings are tied to the invention of paper in China ar…
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Phuc Tran, "Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In" (Flatiron Books, 2020)
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For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In (Flatiron Books, 2020) shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, P…
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Mirin Fader, "Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon" (Hachette, 2024)
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It’s now the norm for NBA and collegiate teams to have international players dotting their rosters. The Olympics are no longer a gimme for Team USA. Both via fans streaming from all over the globe and leagues starting in countries throughout the world, the international presence of the game of basketball is a force to be reckoned with. That all sta…
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Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)
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For fans of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim is one of the true titans – the genius who brought us Sweeney Todd and West Side Story, Into the Woods, and Company. With acclaimed revivals of his landmark shows regularly performed in London and New York, and new generations being introduced to the man who forever transformed musical theatre, Sondheim…
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Ben Yagoda, "Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America--from French fries to Awesome, man!--are destroying the English language. But what about the influence going the other way? Britishisms have been making their way into the American lexicon for more than 150 years, but the process has accelerated since the turn of the twenty-f…
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From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy
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This is episode two Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly battles behind the economic ideas that shape our world. For a full list of credits, and for the rest of the episodes, visit the series page. This episode looks at shifting landscape of economic thinking wit…
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Ben Yagoda, "Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America--from French fries to Awesome, man!--are destroying the English language. But what about the influence going the other way? Britishisms have been making their way into the American lexicon for more than 150 years, but the process has accelerated since the turn of the twenty-f…
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RHLSTP Book Club 115 - Robert Popper
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Book Club #115 - The Elsie Drake Letters - Richard talks to the creator of Friday Night Dinner and Look Around You, Robert Popper, about his collection of letters from Elsie Dark (aged 104) to various unsuspecting companies and people of note. They chat about the genesis of his previous letter writing campaign, The Timewaster Letters, what made him…
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This week: A textbook corner kick
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This Week explores some of the biggest stories from the Premier League and the world of football and focuses on the most interesting vocabulary. In this episode, Jack talks about Manchester City who welcomed Southampton, Chelsea who hosted Newcastle United and Liverpool who travelled to London to take on Arsenal. You can read the transcript and com…
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Ronald Drabkin, "Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor" (William Morrow, 2024)
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Frederick Rutland—”Rutland of Jutland”—was a war hero, renowned World War I aviator…and a Japanese spy. In the years leading up to Pearl Harbor, Rutland shared information on U.S. aviation and naval developments to the Japanese, desperate for knowledge of U.S. capability. The funny thing was, as Ron Drabkin notes in his book Beverly Hills Spy: The …
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Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre, "Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience" (U South Carolina Press, 2024)
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A journey through Southern Appalachia to explore the complex messages food communicates about the region. Depictions of Appalachian food culture and practices often romanticize people in the region as good, simple, and, often, white. These stereotypes are harmful to the actual people they are meant to describe as well as to those they exclude. In H…
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When We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happens to Human Connections?
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Today’s book is: The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton University Press, 2024), by Dr. Allison Pugh, which explores the human connections that underlie our work, arguing that what people do for each other is valuable and worth preserving. Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations with people in a broad …
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David Peña-Guzmán: Animals Dream and that Makes Them Morally Considerable (JP)
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In his marvelous new book, When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness (Princeton UP, 2023), David Peña-Guzmán (SF State as well as the lovely philosophical podcast Overthink) offers up something new in animal studies--"a philosophical interpretation of biological subjectivity." Although we share no linguistic schema with animals t…
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Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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There has been a lot of commentary from scholars and journalists as to the meaning of Donald Trump’s three appointments to the United States Supreme Court – with regards to changes in jurisprudence, increased separation of the Court from political processes that legitimate it. Drs. Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson have done something a little diff…
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When We Put Our Money Where Our Mouths Are
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In this week’s episode, Samantha and Matilda talk about trusting the process, specifically when it comes to ads! Next week, Sam and Matilda will try to figure out the best way to be authentic to themselves in their messaging. Where to find Sam and Matilda: SAM IG: @sammowrimo Website: www.samantha-cummings.com Book to start with: Curse of the Wild …
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Friederike Baer, "Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, they actually came from six German territories within the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of the war, members of the German corps, including women and children, spent extended periods of time in loca…
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Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
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For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, or James Agee. This has resulted in overwhelming depictions of poor people as living abject, violent lives in filthy and degrading conditions. In Poor Things: How Those with Money D…
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Curiosity is an important thing to practice to be better English language learners and enjoy your life more. When we start learning a language, we’re naturally very open and curious to learning new things. It can be an amazing feeling when you’re really into something and you’re looking up every little detail. However, along the way, we naturally g…
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S9 Ep1: Kevin McCloud: We should drive cars which are beautiful and give you great joy!
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Fuelling Around is back for its ninth series, and the boys are launching with one of their favourite people on the planet! Kevin McCloud has hosted Grand Designs on Channel 4 for the past 25 years and shows no signs of stopping, but when he's not marvelling at ingenious architectural design, Kevin likes to indulge his other great love of cars! He's…
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004: Shaun Edwards on rugby coaching styles, cultural differences & player development
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In this episode of A Load of BS on Sport, we sit down with Shaun Edwards, the legendary defence coach of the French national rugby team and a former playing great who has shaped the careers of countless athletes, including our very own Dan Biggar. We dive deep into Shaun’s coaching philosophy, the cultural nuances of rugby and the secrets behind bu…
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RHLSTP 535 - Tommy Cannon
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#535 Rock On! - Richard is at Hull City Hall with the biggest RHLSTP audience we’ve had and he’s angry about the city claiming to have the smallest window in the country. His guest is legendary comedian and actor Tommy Cannon. They talk about how Cannon and Ball met at a welding factory, how Bobby cajoled him into forming an act and what he might h…
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An advanced English listening practice about the advantages and disadvantages of working from home! Working from home has become more and more common since the Coronavirus pandemic. In this episode for advanced English learners, I speak about: What working from home is How it works in England The advantages of working from home Its disadvantages Of…
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Experience the Magic of County Durham with Anna Unger
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What if you could uncover County Durham's hidden gems and rich heritage through the eyes of a local expert? In this week's episode of the UK Travel Planning Podcast, Tracy is joined by Anna Unger, a Blue Badge guide who lives and works in the northeast of England, to delve deeper into the wonders of County Durham. This episode perfectly complements…
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Michael Hardt, "The Subversive Seventies" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set the mold for today's activism. The 1970s was a decade of "subversives". Faced with various progressive and revolutionary social movements, the forces of order--politicians, law enforcement, journalists, and conservative intellectuals--saw subversives everywhere.…
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Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History (Cornell UP, 2021) helps make sense of the protectionist turn, providing the first intellectual history of the genealogy of neomercantilism. Eric Helleiner identifies many pioneers of this ideology between the late eighteenth an…
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Growing Up in the Fallout of the Utopian Dream
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In the turbulent late 1970s, six-year-old Susanna Crossman moved with her mother and siblings from a suburban terrace to a crumbling mansion deep in the English countryside. They would share their new home with over fifty other residents - idealists from all over the world - armed with worn paperbacks on ecology, Marx and radical feminism and drawn…
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Melissa Deckman, "The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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As the 2024 American presidential election approaches, it is common to hear scholars and journalists discuss the role of particular groups such as Latino men or suburban white women might play in a razor tight race. Less attention is paid to the nation’s youngest voters: Gen Z. Born between 1997 and 2012, these voters have experienced a decade of u…
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Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics (Princeton UP, 2024) provides a major reassessment of this monumental figure in the Western religious and political tradition, tracing the remar…
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Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)
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In Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study (University Press of Florida, 2024), Nicolas Delsol compares zooarchaeological and material evidence from sites across Mesoamerica and the Caribbean to show how the introduction of cattle, beginning with imports by Spanish colonizers in the 1500s, shaped colonial American…
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RHLSTP - Rich Beyond My Wildest Dreams
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This week, Richard was a guest on a whole other podcast - ‘Rich Beyond My Wildest Dreams’, the podcast where guests talk through all the absurd ways they’d spend a £200 million EuroMillions jackpot. Join Sarel & Richard as they break down all of Richard’s wild plans - we’re talking... a teleportation device, a live-in dental hygienist, and paying e…
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On this week's podcast, Michelle is joined by Christine Surh who shares her trip report on her recent Adventures by Disney trip which is combined with a visit to Disneyland Paris. We hope you enjoy the podcast and invite you to give your opinions on our Facebook page - find the Disney Dream Girls on Facebook. If you want to find out more about the …
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Eve Dunbar, "Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
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Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation (U Minnesota Press, 2024) offers new and insightful readings of African American women's writings in the 1930s-1950s, illustrating how these writers centered Black women's satisfaction as radical resistance to the false and incomplete promise of liberal racial integratio…
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Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
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Economics sometimes feels like a physics–so sturdy, so objective, and so immutable. Yet, behind every clean number or eye-popping graph, there is usually a rather messy story, a story shaped by values, interests, ideologies, and petty bureaucratic politics. In Cited Podcast’s new mini-series, the Use and Abuse of Economic Expertise, we tell the hid…
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva, "The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game" (UNC Press, 2024)
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In The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, 2024), Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential challenge to one of America's favorite pastimes: college football. Drawing on twenty-five in-depth interviews with former players from some of the country's most prominent college football teams, Kalma…
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Megan Steigerwald Ille, "Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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Every year a relatively small number of canonic operas are produced around the world. Many companies shy away from new works, afraid of alienating a predominantly white, older, wealthy audience who are comfortable with operatic traditions. But opera can also be a site of incredible innovation. Opera for Everyone: The Industry’s Experiments with Ame…
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RHLSTP Book Club 114 - Emily Herring
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Book Club #114 - Herald of a Restless World - Richard is not the only Herring to be a published author and his niece Emily comes on the podcast to talk about her impressive book about Henri Bergson, his life and philosophy. If like Richard you only know Bergson as a punchline to a Monty Python sketch then you will get to know a lot more about this …
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