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In this interview the Italian pianist Federico Albanese tells about his inspirations from writers such as Virginia Woolf to film-makers like Terrence Malick. He also tells about his latest collaborative EP with Tara Nome Doyle.

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Everyone perceives Japan in their own unique way. Everyone ‘invents’ their own Japan as Oscar Wilde said in his essay ‘The Decay of Lying’.

In this episode Matt Alt - the author of a brilliant book ‘Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World’ - tells the story behind the unique products such as anime, manga, video games or karaoke.

Matt lives in Tokyo since 2003 and runs a localization company with his wife Hiroko Yoda, which produces the English-language versions of popular Japanese video games, comic books, and other forms of entertainment.

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In this interview Vashik Armenikus speaks to Professor Nicholas McDowell, the author of a recent biography of the poet John Milton.  In his groundbreaking biography, Prof. McDowell explores the formative years of John Milton and what led to the creation of the greatest narrative poem in English language - Paradise Lost.

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In the 7th episode of the ARTIDOTE podcast, Vashik Armenikus speaks with the Austrian photographer Stefan Draschan. 

Stefan is an award winning photographer and author of the ‘Reflections on Art’ photography series. 

In this interview he talks about his journey to becoming photographer after first working as a music journalist.  He also shares his favourite masterpieces of cinematography, fine art and literature.

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In October 2018, I attended a concert by a German pianist Martin Kohlstedt held here in London. It was one of the most atmospheric concerts that I can remember in my life.

In this interview Martin told me about his hometown, about the role that subconscious plays in creation of his  music and about his connection with trees and why he calls himself 'a child of the forest'.

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I wanted to meet the award-winning street artist Alice Pasquini since 2015, that was when I accidentally stumbled upon her work on Brick Lane in London. I instantly fell in love with her art. In this episode, she told me about her journey to becoming street-artist. She told me about the most dangerous countries in the world to be a street artist; we talked about what influences her and what is it like to be a woman in street art.

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Donald Robertson is a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and author of a great book called How to Think Like a Roman Emperor.

In this episode he tells Vashik Armenikus about different techniques that Marcus Aurelius - the Roman Emperor and the author of Meditations - used to cope with stress, anger and anxiety.

He also shared his practical experience of how he applied various strategies used by the Stoics in his practice with patients.

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If you're looking where to start listening classical music, this is a place. Professor Laura  Tunbridge reveals the personality of Beethoven through the composer's nine masterpieces. However, if you're already familiar with Beethoven, Laura's research will reveal a side of Beethoven you might not have heard before.

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Can one learn a new language using modern apps? How does language learning influence our thinking? Vashik Armenikus asks these and many other questions on language learning to Gaston Dorren   - the author of  'Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages' and 'Lingo: A language spotter’s guide to Europe'.

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