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Back to SearchJonathan Sandler, "The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir of a Yorkshire Schoolboy's Adventures in the United States and Europe" (2022)
Episode 1354
Jonathan Sandler’s The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir of a Yorkshire Schoolboy’s Adventures in the United States and Europe, is an adaptatio…
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Steven Veerapen, "The Wisest Fool: The Life of James VI and I" (Birlinn, 2023)
Episode 94
James VI and I has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is the homosexual King, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly sovereign who never …
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Clive Moore, "Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s" (Australia National UP, 2017)
Episode 87
Malaita is one of the major islands in the Solomons Archipelago and has the largest population in the Solomon Islands nation. Its people have an unde…
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Peter Foster, "What Went Wrong with Brexit? And What We Can Do about It" (Canongate, 2023)
Episode 17
It’s been over three years since the UK withdrew from the EU and no one – not even the most ardent Brexiter – thinks it has gone well so far. Defendi…
2 years, 9 months ago
James Newlin and James W. Stone, "New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 217
Dr. Richard Waugaman is an emeritus supervising and training analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. He is also a well-respect…
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Taylor Cowdery, "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 245
Is the raw material of literature the paper, ink, vellum, paphyrus, and increasingly electronic data that it is inscribed on? Or is the stuff of lite…
2 years, 9 months ago
Andrew Hesketh, "Escape to Gwrych Castle: A Jewish Refugee Story" (U of Wales Press, 2023)
Episode 434
In 1939, a number of German Jewish refugee children, brought over on the Kindertransport, found themselves in Abergele, North Wales. Their temporary …
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The Future of the NHS: A Discussion with Gavin Francis
Episode 76
The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are …
2 years, 9 months ago
Kimberly Mair, "The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 94
During the crisis of the Second World War in Britain, official Air Raid Precautions made the management of daily life a moral obligation of civil def…
2 years, 9 months ago
Peter K. Andersson, "Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 70
The first biography of Henry VIII’s court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor age
In some …
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