This October, we talk about the author Daphne du Maurier, why prostitution should be decriminialised, and the history of the north-south divide in England. The views expressed in this podcast are our own.

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The Fault Line: Bush, Blair and Iraq

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-fault-line-bush-blair-and-iraq/id1531812209

Americast

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/americast/id1473150244

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton 

https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Dolly-Alderton/Ghosts--The-Debut-Novel-from-the-Bestselling-Author-of-Ev/24752108

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Dolly-Alderton/Everything-I-Know-About-Love/23046924

Failosophy: A Handbook for When Things Go Wrong by Elizabeth Day

https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Elizabeth-Day/Failosophy--A-Handbook-for-When-Things-Go-Wrong/24987084

Figure 1: Daphne du Maurier

Bibliography

https://www.dumaurier.org/bibliography.php

Rebecca (2020)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2235695/

My Cousin Rachael (2017)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4411596/

Growing Pains: The Shaping of a Writer by Daphne du Maurier

https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Daphne-Du-Maurier/Myself-When-Young--The-Shaping-of-a-Writer/6947052

Rebecca’s Tale by Sally Beauman

https://www.amazon.com/Rebeccas-Tale-Sally-Beauman/dp/0751533130

Desert Island Discs: Daphne du Maurier

https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/dame-daphne-du-maurier/id529077652?i=1000368648584

Figure 2: 96% of sex workers in New Zealand feel that decriminalisation protects their rights

TED: Juno Mac on the laws sex workers really want

https://www.ted.com/talks/juno_mac_the_laws_that_sex_workers_really_want?language=en

Petition to decriminalise sex work, English Collective of Prostitutes

https://prostitutescollective.net/petition/

The Guilty Feminist: Sex Worker Rights

https://guiltyfeminist.com/episode/?episode=224

Prostitution: What’s the harm?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3619056/

Figure 3: The north-south divide

Coronavirus infection: Why is there a North-South divide in England?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/54250626

A Divided Kingdom? A Brief Study on the North-South Divide in British Culture and Society, Christina Vassell

https://phantom-media.co.uk/2018/10/a-divided-kingdom-a-brief-study-on-the-north-south-divide-in-british-culture-and-society/

The north-south divide is as old as England itself. Unity is only ever fleeting, James Hawes

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/25/north-south-divide-old-as-england-itself-unity-is-only--ever-fleeting

Today in focus: Covid in the UK: a new north-south divide?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Mp2ltgNfGQDzNF7qz9Xrg