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36: Should Being a Girlboss Earn Me a Break From...

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2024/10/28

Ash and Moya wonder why women still shoulder the burden of housework, even when they're #leaningin to their careers. Plus, a listener who doesn't know how to deal with his cheating ex-partner.Email your missed connections and dilemmas to ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley.

01:34:22

Novara FM: The Age of Disaster Nationalism w/ Richard...

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2024/10/24

Around the world, far-right movements are mobilising support by placing the blame for real catastrophes – Covid-19, the war in Ukraine, their own riots and insurrections – on entirely made-up enemies, among them Muslims, immigrants and feminists. This is what Richard Seymour, a writer, theorist and founding editor of Salvage magazine, calls 'disaster nationalism'. He joins Richard Hames to discuss the current irruption of riots, pogroms and genocide, the global south's incipient fascism, the

01:50:26

Downstream: Insects Are Disappearing and We Should Be...

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2024/10/22

From pollinating crops to managing organic waste on a continental scale, insects are vital to life on Earth. They are also disappearing.Dave Goulson is an entomologist and ecologist whose books communicate the majesty of insects and arthropods – along with a grave warning about their demise. He talks to Aaron to Bastani talk about the critical lack of scientific expertise in government, the allure of dung beetles, and how to make your garden a haven for insect life. Help us build people-powered

01:00:20

35: Help! My scatty friends can't meet my standards

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2024/10/22

Are you a Black Cat? Or a #cleangirl? Do you have Main Character Energy? Moya has a big theory about the urge to give ourselves new labels. Plus, a listener hates that her friends and family can't meet her high standards. Email your missed connections and dilemmas to ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley.

01:19:03

Novara FM: Understanding Hezbollah, Israel's 'Best...

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2024/10/17

What does Israel hope to achieve this time, nearly 20 years after its last failed ground offensive in Lebanon? And how should we understand its adversary, a political party that also functions as a fighting force, a historical movement, and a regional power? Richard Hames is joined by Elia Ayoub, a Lebanese-Palestinian researcher and writer based in the UK, to sketch the political roots and strategic goals of Hezbollah. He explains the group's complex links with Iran and Syria, why the killing of

01:04:39

34: How mean can you be to other people's kids?

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2024/10/15

Ash and Moya channel their inner Clint Eastwoods to lament the rise of trick or treating and consider how to interact with other people’s children. Plus, a listener dealing with confusing feelings after a difficult abortion.Email your missed connections and dilemmas to ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley.

01:51:02

ACFM Trip 46: Death

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2024/10/11

Of all the unseen forces that shape human society, could death be the most powerful? The ACFM crew take a leftwing look at mortality in this Trip, asking how capitalism has altered our approach to the inevitable. Jem, Nadia and Keir discuss how industrialised workers were taught to prepare for death, why powerful men are obsessed with their legacies, why we failed to ritualise or remember the Covid dead, and the fear of being desensitised to killing. Find the books and music mentioned in the show:

01:15:31

Novara FM: When Does a Crowd Become a Mob? w/ Dan Hancox

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2024/10/10

The English language is full of pejoratives for large groups of people: mob mentality. Herd behaviour. Crowd contagion. Much of this apprehension stems from one of the most influential works of psychology ever written, Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. Unfortunately, Le Bon’s big idea – that crowds produce derangement and violence in even the most rational subject – was not based on any actual research. So why the lingering suspicion? In his new book, Multitudes: How Crowds

00:51:12

33: What makes you embarrassed to be leftwing?

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2024/10/08

Moya and Ash turn the weapon on themselves with a Mystery Question about the lows of being on the left – haters and losers, pyrrhic victories, strategic balls-ups and the rest. Plus, a listener who's falling out of love just as their partner needs support. Email your missed connections and dilemmas to ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley.

01:36:12

Novara FM: How the British State Is Trying to Crush...

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2024/10/03

The Palestine Movement is the largest movement in British politics for a century. It has been vilified and policed as if it were a tiny group of extremists.In this investigative episode of Novara FM, series producer Richard Hames is joined by Simon Childs, commissioning editor at Novara Media, to expose the authoritarian turn inside the British state that is driving the crackdown on Palestine solidarity. From Suella Braverman's use of draconian 'Henry VII' powers to Michael Gove's attempts to

00:49:31

32: What makes a house a home?

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2024/10/01

Inspired by Moya’s big move, Ash wonders what the necessary ingredients are to turn a house share into a home. Plus, advice for a listener whose friend is infatuated with her lecturer.Email your missed connections and dilemmas to ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley. Help us build people-powered media: https://novara.media/support

01:17:24

Novara FM: Our New Cyberboss Overlords w/ Craig Gent

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2024/09/27

How can we resist exploitation when our boss has been replaced by a computer? That's the premise of Cyberboss, a new book by Craig Gent, North of England editor for Novara Media, explaining how "algorithmic management" is being tested on Amazon packers, Deliveroo drivers and supermarket shoppers. He talks to NM's head of audio Chal Ravens about the strange forms of resistance that emerge when even your boss has no idea how the system actually works. Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management

01:44:02

Downstream: The UK’s Landowning Elite Are Destroying...

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2024/09/25

Guy Shrubsole is an author and campaigner whose new book The Lie of the Land seeks to expose the history of the British elite’s relationship to the land they own and debunk the myths that they perpetuate. He sat down with Aaron to talk about grouse moors, planning permission and exactly what we should do about The Fens.

00:58:53

31: Why isn't my best friend excited about my wedding?

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2024/09/24

Moya and Ash argue over a big theory about our need for surprise. Has modern life killed off spontaneity in everything from dating to holidays? Plus: advice for a listener who’s wondering why an old friend isn’t more excited to be his best man. Email your missed connections and dilemmas to ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley.

01:07:20

30: Unbothered, moisturised, happy – and ready for a...

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2024/09/17

Are you sitting comfortably? Because Moya has come to a big realisation – and some new rules for dating etiquette. Plus: a new batch of your Missed Connections! Get in touch if you recognise any of these objects of our affection.Send your dilemmas and missed connections: ifispeak@novaramedia.com

01:26:36

ACFM Microdose: The Joy of Fascism

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2024/09/15

A month after racist riots engulfed the country, the ACFM crew ask what fascism – and antifascism – look like in Britain today. Do the riots and counter-protests mark a return to "street politics"? Why didn't the Labour party align itself with opponents of the pogroms? And how popular are extreme rightwing views among Britain's frustrated youth? Jem, Nadia and Keir take a closer look at the make-up of the rioters and the reaction from the public, the media and politicans. Sign up to the ACFM

01:13:40

Novara FM: Mourn the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the...

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2024/09/12

"Don’t mourn, organise" were the final words of American labour activist Joe Hill before his execution in 1915. But sometimes our feelings of grief don't lend themselves to good organising – sometimes we might just want revenge. In her forthcoming book, critic and journalist Sarah Jaffe looks at the many kinds of grief that shape our social and political lives, from family bereavement and mass death during a pandemic, to factory closures and the spectre of climate breakdown. She joins Eleanor

00:59:43

Downstream: We Have Enabled Putin w/ Anne Appelbaum

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2024/09/10

Political scientists agree that we are now living in a "multipolar" world, with power contested by multiple states and blocs. But how we arrived at this formation, and whether the newly powerful actors on the global stage are inherently problematic, remain areas of disagreement. Someone with has a distinct perspective on this new world order is Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World. Anne sat down with Aaron to

01:00:26

29. Has therapyspeak improved our lives?

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2024/09/03

Does knowing your attachment style make life easier? Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about our newfound fluency in the language of therapy. Plus: advice for a listener who’s becoming estranged from his sister.Only two weeks to go until our live show at the London Podcast Festival! Join Moya, Ash and special guest Yomi Adegoke, author of The List, for an intimate conversation on 15th September. Tickets are available from kingsplace.co.uk. Email your missed connections and dilemmas to

01:18:32

Novara FM: Motherhood In and Against the State w/...

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2024/08/29

Motherhood was once at the centre of the feminist movement's demands, from campaigns for reproductive rights and Wages For Housework, to the mobilisation of anti-nuclear mums at Greenham Common. But in the 21st century, the politicisation of mothering seems to have shrunk in its ambition. In her new book Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood, literary scholar and historian Helen Charman tells the story of motherhood in the UK and Ireland from the 1970s to the 2010s. From Margaret

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