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Podcasts from Jonny Brick, including radio shows from the Football Literary Society. View his portfolio at jonnybrick.com, with information on Now That"s What I Call NOW (2018) and A Country Way of Life (2018).

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00:34:06

The Work Tape - Katy Hurt

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2025/05/05

Katy Hurt releases her 13-track album Gimme A Break on May 23. She joins Jonny Brick of A Country Way of Life to talk about inspiration and composition in equal measure. The Work Tape offers songwriters the chance to talk about how they write, and explores their existing catalogue.Find out more at katyhurt.com

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00:34:59

The Work Tape - Tricia Duffy aka Little Lore

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2025/04/07

Tricia Duffy, who records as Little Lore, has just released the six-song EP River Stories. In the first of a new series from A Country Way of Life, Tricia joins Jonny Brick to write a song, Break First. The Work Tape offers songwriters the chance to talk about how they write, and explores their existing catalogue. Find out more about Tricia's project at littlelore.uk

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00:27:33

Holly Hunt

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2025/03/30

Here's Rotherham United fan Paul Chuckle reading the new book by Holly Hunt, a fellow Miller who chronicles The Greatest of Great Escapes. In Spring 2016, Neil Warnock guided Rotherham, the club he once played for, to Championship safety, and Holly was watching on with delight.Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greatest-Great-Escapes-Rotherham-Uniteds/dp/1801509441

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00:35:19

Matt Coughlan Returns

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2025/03/23

Matt Coughlan returns to the Football Literary Society to promote Groundhopper, the sequel to his book Turncoat. He sets himself the task of hitting 100 grounds, and burrows into the non-league scene to unearth some hidden gems and criticise some of the less good places to watch football.Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Groundhopper-Tales-Footballs-Equivalent-Trainspotting-ebook/dp/B0F145HD2V?ref_=ast_author_dp

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00:02:48

NOW 120 APT

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2025/03/23

NOW 120 APT by jonny_brick

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00:32:40

Scott Walkinshaw

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2025/03/14

Scott Walkinshaw, who runs the Oxblogger Substack, has written a book on Oxford United's Glory Years, in which he chronicles the club's rise up to the First Division in the 1980s.Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Glory-Years-Oxford-United-1980s/dp/1801509352

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00:35:00

Chris Lee III

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2025/03/09

Chris Lee completes a hat-trick of visits to the Football Literary Society, as he comes to plug Shades of Green, a picaresque journey through the island of Ireland and its football teams.Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shades-Green-Journey-Irish-Football/dp/1801509476

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01:02:45

Leo Ackerman and Alex Urwin

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2025/03/03

Leo Ackerman and Alex Urwin both captained the Oxford University First XI in the late 2010s, under the inspirational coaching of Mickey Lewis. After Mickey's death in 2021, Leo and Alex spent three years working on his biography Mad Dog, where commentators, players and coaches had not one bad word to say about a man with a strongly influential view on life. Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mad-Dog-Mickey-Lewis-Story/dp/1801509360

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00:35:53

Matthew Oldroyd

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2025/02/23

Matthew Oldroyd's book Trailblazers runs through the past 160 years of Nottingham Forest FC. Matthew, who is involved in Forest fan group Forza Garibaldi, has endured plenty of ups and downs in a lifetime of support for the club, whose remarkable history he has spent five years researching.Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trailblazers-Breaking-History-Nottingham-Football-ebook/dp/B0DV3SJN5M

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00:35:58

Chris Evans Returns

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2025/02/09

Making a return visit to the Literary Society, Chris Evans has written a biography of 'football icon' Gary Lineker. Although he touches on his post-football career in TV, podcasting and politics, he is more interested in his time playing for Leicester City, Everton, Tottenham Hotspur and Barcelona.Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gary-Lineker-Portrait-Football-Icon/dp/1399416995

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00:34:10

Ronny Blaschke

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2025/02/02

When it comes to football literature with heft and panache, Ronny Blaschke is Germany's answer to Jonathan Wilson. Ronny's book Football and Racism won awards at home in 2024, and it has just been published in an English translation. He spoke to over 120 people in his investigation of how colonialism shaped the sport. In his writing career so far, Ronny has taken a footballistical view of the environment, homosexuality, hooliganism and the far-right. Find the book here:

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00:32:31

Dan Tester

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2025/01/26

Dan Tester wrote Brighton & Hove Albion On This Day in 2007. He updated it in 2011 and has just published a third edition. The last 13 years have been the most successful years in the club's 124-year history, with a new stadium, European awaydays and exciting South American talent passing through Falmer on their way to true greatness.Dan talks about being a Brighton fan then and now, and rhapsodises about the three cult heroes on the cover of the book who appear alongside Lewis Dunk and Mark

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00:56:36

David Winner Returns

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2025/01/20

For the 300th show, David Winner returns to talk about his book-length essay Excerpts from a New England: Gareth Southgate, Eight Years and Eighteen Episodes. He also discusses his forthcoming sequel to Brilliant Orange, which 25 years after it was written is still The Book on Dutch football, and explains how everything is connected.

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00:33:47

James William - Second Half

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2024/12/29

Since 2020 Dogma has chronicled the past and present of Brighton & Hove Albion, winning Fanzine of the Year at the FSA Awards 2023 on account of the meaty articles and magnificent illustrations. James William is part of the editorial board who are working on Issue 14 to be published in the middle of the 2024/25 season; he popped into the Football Literary Society for a chat which is published in two halves.To read a selection of articles from back issues of Dogma, visit dogmabrighton.com.

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00:41:21

James William - First Half

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2024/12/27

Since 2020 Dogma has chronicled the past and present of Brighton & Hove Albion, winning Fanzine of the Year at the FSA Awards 2023 on account of the meaty articles and magnificent illustrations. James William is part of the editorial board who are working on Issue 14 to be published in the middle of the 2024/25 season; he popped into the Football Literary Society for a chat which is published in two halves. To read a selection of articles from back issues of Dogma, visit dogmabrighton.com.

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00:59:54

David Proudlove Returns

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2024/12/22

David Proudlove spends his leisure hours walking around Britain discovering the industrial roots of association football. Following his first book about stadiums lost to history, David's new one Work and Play looks at the origins of the game from a variety of industries, including railways, coalmines and shipbuilding. Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Work-Play-Industrial-English-Football/dp/1801507627

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00:43:58

Rob Carless

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2024/12/15

If you head to Rob Carless' online portal, bobsbooks66.co.uk, you will discover a trove of football literature. On his visit to the Football Literary Society, we ran though that catalogue, which takes in books about Manchester United, Aston Villa club legend Shaun Teale and Rob's new book on the EFL Cup. In the next few years, Rob will put out books on the recent triumphs and struggles of the Italian men's football team and his beloved Aston Villa, who have won the League Cup many times. Rob's

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00:58:42

Jon Spurling Returns

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2024/12/08

The first time Jon Spurling came into the Football Literary Society, he was plugging a book about football in the 1970s. This time, he's written about the following decade in the fantastic Go To War Football on the Brink in the '80s, in which he runs through the good, ugly and even worse about the game in the years before the Premier League was founded. Find the book, published by Biteback, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Go-War-How-Rocked-Football/dp/1785907492

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00:48:29

Colin Whelan

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2024/12/01

Colin Whelan is a civil servant who would much rather be writing books. His first is Super Squad, which kicks off a planned trilogy working through English football by era; this volume deals with the 1960s and 1970s, and Colin picks a squad that includes European and World Cup winners, forgotten Scottish defenders and one of Colin's first heroes, Ray Kennedy.Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CWWY35FB

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00:45:35

Dr Mark Biram

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2024/11/25

Dr Mark Biram is a professor of Foreign Languages at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. His PhD thesis was on women's football in South America, including time spent in Brazil and Colombia; his second book, Viva Colombia: A Social History of Colombian Football, looks at 15 key matches and 15 key players in that country's history. Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Viva-Colombia-History-Colombian-Football-ebook/dp/B0DCVZDP8B/

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