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01:02:41

152 - CIRCUS OF BOOKS director Rachel Mason

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2020/09/30

Podcast: Sup Doc: A Documentary Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: 152 - CIRCUS OF BOOKS director Rachel MasonPub date: 2020-08-03Notes from The Listener:Interview with the director of a documentary about a historic Los Angeles shop that sold books and adult videos for the gay community from the 1960s onwards. The proprietors were the guest's parents; she grew up alongside the business and its clientele. The shop's story touches on key themes from LGBT history, from religious

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00:34:39

The Telephone Call

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2020/09/30

Podcast: Shedunnit (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: The Telephone CallPub date: 2020-09-30Notes from The Listener:Bonus pick: there's a new episode of Shedunnit, the podcast by Listener editor Caroline Crampton, out today. It's all about why a murder that took place in Liverpool on the night of 20 January 1931 has haunted detective novelists for decades. Listen now.Why has the murder of Julia Wallace on the night of 20 January 1931 haunted detective novelists for decades? Well, it

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00:51:06

Episode Three: In Search of the Omphalus

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2020/09/30

Podcast: Watling Street (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Episode Three: In Search of the OmphalusPub date: 2017-09-06Notes from The Listener:Third instalment of a four part journey along Watling Street, a Celtic and Roman thoroughfare across Britain that ran from Dover in south east to Wroxeter in the north west. The whole series is well worth the time, but this episode is especially notable for its exploration of how this ancient road influenced twentieth century urban planning. The

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00:18:11

Cancel Culture is Solvable

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2020/09/25

Podcast: Solvable (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Cancel Culture is SolvablePub date: 2020-09-09Notes from The Listener:Interview with a linguistics professor about how a deeper understanding of language use can inform the debate about free speech in the time of cancel culture. The minority of "wokesters" who want to shut down reasonable debate should be treated as sharks, he argues, and metaphorically "bopped on the nose" by those of opposing or challenging views. In this scenario,

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00:25:05

The WW2 masterpiece you need to read ᛫ Robert Chandler

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2020/09/25

Podcast: VINTAGE BOOKS (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: The WW2 masterpiece you need to read ᛫ Robert ChandlerPub date: 2020-08-09Notes from The Listener:Translator of Vasily Grossman's 1952 novel Stalingrad explains the process of excavating a "definitive" text from multiple drafts and censored versions. Originally published as For A Just Cause, this Russian epic is the first of two stories Grossman wrote about Soviet society in World War Two. The second, Life and Fate, has been

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01:05:47

Episode 410: Jiayang Fan

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2020/09/25

Podcast: Longform (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Episode 410: Jiayang FanPub date: 2020-09-16Notes from The Listener:Writer Jiayang Fan describes what it is like to become the focus of anti-American nationalist sentiment in China. She and her mother settled in the US when she was seven; Fan is now a well known reporter on Chinese culture and politics. Her mother was diagnosed with ALS in 2011 and is now completely paralysed apart from her eyes, so Fan pays for round the clock

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00:51:17

Surveillance vs Privacy

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2020/09/22

Podcast: Browser Bites (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Surveillance vs PrivacyPub date: 2020-09-22Inspired by Adrian Hon’s “Digital Sight Management, and the Mystery of the Missing Amazon Receipts”, Nontsi and Lindelani are joined by X to discuss the surveillance that our devices invite vs our privacy. They discuss private sexual expression in the presence of their computers and furthermore if digital surveillance is welcome or can work together with documenting and assisting in

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00:58:05

121. No Title

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2020/09/18

Podcast: The Allusionist (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: 121. No TitlePub date: 2020-09-14Notes from The Listener:Live performance of a podcast episode about how deeply embedded notions of gender are in the English language. It ranges widely through the past in an attempt to explain the fundamental inequalities of how we address each other: why is it that a woman's title must reflect her marital status, and why does an honorific need to signify a gender anyway? There are

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00:29:30

The Flying Scotsman

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2020/09/18

Podcast: Slow Radio (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Flying ScotsmanPub date: 2020-05-31Notes from The Listener:Recording of a journey from Manchester to Carlisle on the footplate Britain's "favourite locomotive", the Flying Scotsman. Apart from a short introduction, there is no narration included, meaning that the listener is immersed completely in the ambient sounds of passengers boarding and coal being shovelled. Once the train is underway, the rhythmic puffing of the engine's

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00:34:11

R. U. OK Boomer?

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2020/09/18

Podcast: Another Day Above Ground (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: R. U. OK Boomer?Pub date: 2020-03-21Notes from The Listener:There is no better summary of this podcast's subject or style than its own tagline: "A show for, by and about Baby Boomers — it's the podcast for people who have no idea about how to download a podcast." The humorous, humble take of these hosts on later life makes a pleasant contrast to the confrontational way generational differences are usually addressed in

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00:33:16

Locked Room

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2020/09/18

Podcast: Shedunnit (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Locked RoomPub date: 2020-09-16Notes from The Listener:Bonus pick: There's a new episode of my own podcast about murder mysteries, Shedunnit, out now. This one is all about "impossible crime" stories and the work of writers like John Dickson Carr, Christianna Brand and Agatha Christie.A body is found in a sealed chamber, definitely murdered, but there is no way the culprit can have got in or out. How was it done?Special thanks to my

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00:43:01

To have children or not

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2020/09/09

Podcast: Browser Bites (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: To have children or notPub date: 2020-09-08In this episode, Nontsi and Lindelani are joined by X Njokweni in discussing the societal, cultural and spiritual obligations of having children in the African context. This conversation was inspired by Rob Delaney’s article “The pain and pleasure of vasectomy" Twitter: @XNjoks Facebook: exnjokweni Instagram: exnjokweniThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Browser,

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00:40:19

The Sky Is Falling

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2020/09/08

Podcast: Zero Hours (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Sky Is FallingPub date: 2019-10-20Notes from The Listener:Anthology fiction show with an eschatological flavour. It begins with an episode set in 1722, then each instalment jumps forward 99 years to tell the story of a possible apocalypse in a different century. One for Black Mirror fans. This episode is about a scientist living in a floating city in the year 2217 who is trying to convince a mysterious "agent of the hegemony"

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00:32:59

Real DEA Narcos - Javier Peña

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2020/09/08

Podcast: Unstructured (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Real DEA Narcos - Javier PeñaPub date: 2020-04-19Notes from The Listener:Interview with Javier Peña, a special agent in the US Drug Enforcement Administration who was part of the manhunt for Medellín Cartel leader Pablo Escobar. He talks through his early law enforcement career as a deputy sheriff in Texas and how the boom in international cocaine smuggling in the late 1980s changed his working life utterly. He volunteered for a

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00:02:53

WLS 64 Michael Longley reads A Sonnet for Michael...

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2020/09/03

Podcast: Words Lightly SpokenEpisode: WLS 64 Michael Longley reads A Sonnet for Michael Viney (repeat)Pub date: 2020-03-20Notes from The Listener:Podcast of poetry from Ireland, read by poets. This episode features Michael Longley, who is originally from Northern Ireland has spent decades writing about County Mayo in the Republic. The sonnet he reads here is about his neighbour, the naturalist Michael Viney, and all that Longley has learned to see in the world as a result of their friendship. The

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01:22:49

Escape From the Nuclear Family: Covid-19 Should...

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2020/09/03

Podcast: Intercepted (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Escape From the Nuclear Family: Covid-19 Should Provoke a Re-Think of How We LivePub date: 2020-08-05Notes from The Listener:Activist and author Naomi Klein guest hosts this political podcast to investigate the likely impact of Covid-19 pandemic on American ideas of the family. The idea is examined here at length from lots of different angles, but it all comes down to this: how will future requirements to isolate change the

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00:22:08

The Thyroid

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2020/09/03

Podcast: It Can't Hurt To Ask (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The ThyroidPub date: 2019-09-04Notes from The Listener:Heath series from the government of the state of Queensland in Australia. Each episode takes a different aspect of how we think about bodies — there are instalments about gender, pain, ears, veins — and breaks down the scientific background. Here, the area under the microscope is the thyroid gland. The show fits a lot of information into a short package, interviewing

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00:42:33

The Clue of the Blue Bottle

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2020/08/28

Podcast: The Last Archive (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: The Clue of the Blue BottlePub date: 2020-05-14Notes from The Listener:Polished, constantly intriguing series about the nature of truth and evidence. It's hosted by the historian and writer Jill Lepore, who chooses different cases from history — of murder, of racial injustice, of public health success — in order to investigate knowledge itself. It's an unlikely blend of academic discourse with popular storytelling, made all

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00:47:34

1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Carlos Santos

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2020/08/28

Podcast: Why Do You Know That? (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: 1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Carlos SantosPub date: 2020-04-29Notes from The Listener:High energy conversational podcast that invites guests to explain why they know so much about a single topic. Here, the comedian Carlos Santos goes deep on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — the four humanoid turtle superheroes named after Italian Renaissance artists who live in the New York City sewers — and specifically the

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00:26:17

The Puzzle of Consciousness

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2020/08/28

Podcast: The Hard Problem by Jesse Winters (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Puzzle of ConsciousnessPub date: 2020-03-26Notes from The Listener:Elegant survey of the history of consciousness. The host has pitched this well — it's informative but not so advanced that those who haven't studied philosophy to a high level can't follow. He draws on everyone from Descartes to Dawkins to pull together this overall picture of developing human ideas about why our awareness is as it is. As

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