Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 245
Welcome to the Global Corporations Special Series on the Law Channel on the New Books Network. This Special Series is dedicated to interviews with sc…
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Cars, Race and Class with Yunis Alam
In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan spoke to Dr Yunis Alam about cars, class and race. They discussed the role that car…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ben Bowles, "Boaters of London: Alternative Living on the Water" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Episode 352
Boaters of London is an ethnography that delves into the process of becoming a boater, adopting an alternative lifestyle on the water and the politic…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ashis Ray, "The Trial That Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence" (Routledge India, 2024)
Episode 230
In 1945 to 1946, postwar India was enthralled by the treason trial of three officers—formerly of the Indian National Army, who fought against the Bri…
1 year, 2 months ago
Jon Chapple, "Sri Krishna Prem: A Wing and a Prayer" (Blazing Sapphire Press, 2024)
Episode 581
Sri Krishna Prem: A Wing and a Prayer is an in-depth, spiritual biography of a British fighter pilot (WW I), Ronald Nixon (1898-1965). Raised in an i…
1 year, 2 months ago
Matt Lodder, "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 163
There is a pervasive stereotype of tattoo culture as relating to an underworld of scoundrels, sailors, and ne’er-do-wells, yet it has existed in the …
1 year, 2 months ago
Clive Bloom, "London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 163
From Kensington to the East End, under candlelight, gas lamp and then neon signs, London is both a bustling physical metropolis and a stirring psychi…
1 year, 2 months ago
Sally Coulthard, "A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects" (HarperCollins UK, 2024)
Episode 162
For most of human history, we were rural folk. Our daily lives were bound up with working the land, living within the rhythm of the seasons. We poure…
1 year, 2 months ago
Nima Bassiri, "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 515
Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured agains…
1 year, 2 months ago
Martha Bayless, "Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 93
The people of early England (c. 450–1100 CE) enjoyed numerous kinds of entertainment, recreation and pleasure, but the scattered records of such thin…
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