Intelligent Speech - interviews, conversations and presentations of ideas

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Intelligent Speech - interviews, conversations and presentations of ideas episodes

January 14, 2021 Erin Brown and Cyrus Roedel talk about their new podcast - Revolution 1
Roifield speaks of the creators of Revolution 1 a new podcast about the story of the Tunisian Revolution — the uprising that ignited the Arab Spring — to life through the voices of those who lived it.
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38 min
June 24, 2020 Jennifer Gliere
Jennifer a soprano hails from Cincinnati, Ohio and has been described as “a sensitive artist who knows how to turn a phrase while giving urgent meaning to the text.” She has appeared in recital and oratorio in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, and throughout the United States. She talks to Roifield about her voice, relationships and intimacy.
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45 min
November 30, 2019 Jarett Kobek - Only Americans Burn in Hell
Only Americans Burn in Hell is the only novel for our certifiably insane times. Its American warts and all everyone takes a kicking in this brilliant book.
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1 hr 1 min
September 12, 2019 Ep: 4 - 2 Nicole Phillips human rights and law professor on Haiti and loving spirits.
Nicole is a fascinating soul, her world encompasses the precision of law and the love and appreciation of her adopted nation. Her love of Haiti has led her to immerse herself completely in its culture, becoming a priestess and the bride of five Haitian spirits.
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1 hr 4 min
August 09, 2019 Ep: 3 Se 2 - David Shields talks about his film Marshawn Lynch a history.
I speak to David Shields about is new film Marshawn Lynch: A History which explores the silence that nonconformist NFL star Marshawn Lynch deploys as a form of resistance. Culling more than 700 video clips and placing them in dramatic, rapid, and radical juxtaposition, the film is a powerful political parable about the American media-sports complex and its deep complicity with racial oppression.

Born and raised in in Oakland by a single mother, Lynch became an All-American, an All-Pro running back, and a Super Bowl champion, but over the last five years he has emerged as a nationally significant figure precisely because he has refused to “play the game” of being a dutiful, cliché-bound interviewee. Silence-as-rebellion has African-American roots tracing back to slavery, and it’s a gesture that has flourished spectacularly in Oakland, where Lynch is deeply involved in the betterment of his hometown and where “troublemakers” have changed the game generation after generation—from Jack London and Gertrude Stein to the Black Panthers, Hells Angels, and Oakland Raiders (where Lynch is now finishing his career) to Bill Russell and Curt Flood to Alice Walker and Ishmael Reed to Tupac Shakur, Ryan Coogler, and Boots Riley.

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49 min
February 08, 2019 Ep: 2 Se 2 - Corey Brettschneider - The Oath and the Office
Corey Brettschneider talks to Roifield about the articles and amendments that hold the president to his oath of Office.
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1 hr 12 min
December 07, 2018 Ep: 1 Se 2 - Interview with a sex worker, Alisa Sophia on intimacy and connections
Alisa Sophia talks to Roifield about how she became a prostitute, how she finds satisfaction in her work and her hope for finding her life partner.
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1 hr 7 min
June 15, 2018 Ep: 72 - Jez Collins of the Birmingham Music Archive on why isn't Birmingham better?
Roifield asks Jez Collins of the Birmingham Music Archive, to if Birmingham is so big why isn’t it better?

"Madam Medusa" by UB40 was a vivid description of Margaret Thatcher's rise to power depicted in a grotesque style, featuring some of the band's most impassioned and bitter lyrics.

Beshara were a reggae band from Moseley, Birmingham, formed in 1976. The band are most notable for their 1981 lovers rock hit "Men Cry Too".

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1 hr 18 min
May 25, 2018 Ep: 71 - Aziz Al Dory on the secret source of The Game of Thrones.
We ask Aziz Al Dory of the history of Westeros podcast why is the Game of Thrones so compelling?

Lion Babe is an American alternative R&B duo from New York City, consisting of singer Jillian Hervey and producer Lucas Goodman. "Treat Me Like Fire" features a warm constant vynil record crackle it was released in 2012,

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58 min
May 12, 2018 EP: 70 - The man behind the Wrap Dress, Fake Fur & inspiration for Dior's 'New Look' designer Charles James - author Michèle Gerber Klein
He was the half American Englishmen who became Americas first couturier. The only designer who's patterns are officially recognised as works of art, Charles James came to the US at a time when American designers were giving their ideas for free, while their European counterparts were protecting their intellectual rights through licensing. The man behind the Wrap Dress, the sports bra, the puffer jacket, Dior's New Look of the 1940s and the first fake fur prototype, Charles James was a man who left a far-reaching legacy. Latterly a luxury hotel-hopping International hobo, he hung out with Warhol yet is little known to those outside the world of fashion. Well known philanthropist, author and collector Michèle Gerber Klein talks about her book 'Charles James: Portrait of an Unreasonable Man' and her passion for fashion.
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47 min

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Intelligent Speech where Roifield Brown speaks to friends and interesting people with the backdrop of great tunes. Imagine a poor mans Mike Pesca from The Gist doing Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 6…