Eternal Youth

By Nicholas Barrett

To understand a person you have to know what was happening in the world when they were twenty.

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Eternal Youth episodes:

March 19, 2025 Frantz Fanon wants to dance
In 1925, Frantz Fanon regrets joining the fight against fascism. Music by Timbah.
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20min
January 10, 2025 Margaret Thatcher tastes defeat
In 1945, Margaret Thatcher watches her hero go down in flames.

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21min
August 30, 2024 James Baldwin buries his father
In 1943, James Baldwin buries is father and meets his hero.

Music by Timbah

Bibliography:

Native Son by Richard Wright

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Talking at the Gates a Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
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26min
May 29, 2024 Lyndon Johnson and the janitor
Did Lyndon Johnson really care about civil rights or was he motivated by party unity and cold political calculation?

Music by Timbah

Bibliography: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
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22min
April 30, 2024 Hannah Arendt and the little magician
In 1926 Hannah Arendt says goodbye to the most exciting philosopher in Germany.

Music by Timbah.
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23min
March 31, 2024 Ayn Rand and the supercommunist
In 1925 Ayn Rand plots her escape from Leningrad while Stalin and Trotsky plot against each other.

Music by Timbah
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23min
January 29, 2024 Vladimir Nabokov and the revolution
In 1919, the 20-year-old Vladimir Nabokov has fled from revolutionary Petrograd and decamped to the Crimea where he writes poetry, catalogues butterflies, plays chess and waits for Lenin's Red Army to arrive.

Bibliography:

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd

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23min
December 31, 2023 George Orwell the cop
In 1923, there is no such thing as George Orwell, but a policeman called Eric Blair is collecting stories.

Music:

Paws by Timbah

Bibliography:

Shooting an Elephant by Geroge Orwell
Burmese Days by Geroge Orwell
1984 by Geroge Orwell
Orwell: The New Life by DJ Taylor

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21min
November 26, 2023Sigmund Freud and the long depression
In 1874 the Austrian economy was on its keens and a young Sigmund Freud met Franz Brentano, "an ideal human being".

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Music: Paws by Timbah

Bibliography:

The Austrians by Gordon Brook-Sheperd
Becoming Freud by Adam Phillips
Freud by Stefan Zweig
Freud An Intellectual Biography by Joel Whitebook
Sigmund Freud by Matt Ffytche

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Thank you to Barnaby Slater.

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20min
November 10, 2023 Friedrich Nietzsche disappoints his mother
In 1864 Nietzsche went to Bonn, where he tried and failed to study theology.

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Music: Friends From the Afterlife by Heston Mimms.
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21min

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How many episodes does Eternal Youth have?

The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.