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The two-man pedalo of enquiry sets out on the Bank Holiday boating lake of news pausing to consider …  

… Florence Welch, Dua Lipa and the rise of the rock and roll book club.

… the 92 year-old that Bob Dylan supported at the Cascades Amphitheatre, Ridgefield.

… the Beatles had 18 drummers!

… the sad end to Billy Joel’s tour schedule.

… is Hollywood dead?

… what’s your relationship with reading if your first experience of literature is dressing up as a wizard on World Book Day?

… why is there something unfailingly comic about drummers being fired?

… “No nudity! No voluminous outfits!”: Cannes new red carpet ruling.

… is Chimes Of Freedom Bob Dylan at ‘peak wordage’?

… are books and record sleeves the new antiques, items to furnish a room?

… Sherlock Holmes, Hunter S Thompson: Corey Hart of Slipknot’s recommended reading.

… and how Springsteen is taunting Trump.

Plus Starry Eyed And Laughing, old drummer gags and who the hell’s seen Ne Zha 2 or Mickey 17?

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As summer is just around the corner, flocks of college students will be heading over to the US on a J1. However there are growing concerns of students under a Trump presidency. So what are the do’s and don’ts for students spending their summer in the states?  Pat was joined on the show by Louise Corrigan, Immigration Lawyer, Oisin Gaffey Outgoing Editor in Chief of The University Observer and Alex Rowley, Newstalk reporter  who will be travelling over to the states this summer.

Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York
Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies’ Choice Award, France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.

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Almost nothing stands the test of time. Machiavelli's writings are a rare exception.

Why are we still talking about Machiavelli, nearly 500 years after his death? What is it about his political philosophy that feels so important, prescient, or maybe chilling today?

In this episode, Sean speaks with political philosopher and writer Erica Benner about Niccolo Machiavelli’s legacy. The two discuss The Prince, Machiavelli’s views on democracy, and what he might say about the Trump administration were he alive today.

Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Erica Benner, political philosopher, historian, and author of Be Like the Fox

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I love book titles, and when I finally tracked down the book attached to one of my favorite titles, I was astonished to learn where I heard about it.

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Ian McMillan's guests are the Scottish Makar Peter Mackay, Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison, as well as Indian dancer and poet Tishani Doshi, and the musician Scanner.

Scanner lets us into the baffling and mysterious 'poetry' of album titles by Autechre, Aphex Twin and other electronic music artists. Scanner has worked with Laurie Anderson, and Pauline Oliveros amongst other artists, as well as creating sound design for installations at museums, at an airport and for dancers at the London Olympics. For this week's Verb Scanner has created sound design for poems by Peter Mackay, inflected with uncertainty and nostalgia

We hear new poetry by Peter Mackay, in Gaelic and English, written in response to 'O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast' by Robert Burns. Peter explains why Burns is a great poet for uncertain times, and why the Gaelic word 'ta' is so useful. His poems can be also heard at the Poetry Jukebox, at the Linenhall Library in Belfast (part of a set of curated poems by ten different writers responding to work in the 'Fragments of Scottish Poetry Project').

Queen's Gold Medal winning poet, and former Poetry Laureate of Jamaica Lorna Goodison explains why Miss Lou, (the ground-breaking champion of nation language in Jamaica, and a good friend to Lorna) is a key character in her new version of Dante's Inferno (Carcanet).

Indian Poet and dancer Tishani Doshi presents the next in our recurring series 'The Neon Line' - where we celebrate a stand-out line from a poem, and work out why it's powerful, beautiful, or memorable. Tishani also shares new poetry that explores the connection between human emotions and the natural world.

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Dylan Jones – writer, former editor of i-D, Arena and GQ - was 15 in 1975 and dressed like Jimmy McCulloch of Wings (“a lot of denim and silk scarves”), a time he thinks had enormous influence on the following five decades. There are many highlights in his latest book ‘1975: The Year The World Forgot’, a lot of them discussed here with David and Mark, including …

… the lasting impact of the cover of Patti Smith’s Horses.

… the “frightening” Millie Jackson, 50 years ahead of her time.

… why Blood On The Tracks was the first middle-aged rock album. 

… the information black-out and the value of the ‘70s rock press - particularly Street Life – for such experimental music.

… how the sarcasm of Steely Dan still feels contemporary – “Donald Trump is a figure they could have made up 50 years ago”.

… the three key rhythms of the ‘70s – Fela Kuti’s afro-beat, James Brown’s funk and Klaus Dinger’s Neu!-beat.

… the reason Donna Summer’s Love To Love You Baby is 17 minutes long.

… how Brian Eno’s accident led to the birth of ambient music. 

… “writing about pop music allows you to write about anything”.

… how the sophistication and intellect of the mid-‘70s was pilloried in Punk’s Year Zero.

… the Quiet Storm genre - aka “foreplay music” – from Sade to Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

... the unrecognised power of the female record-buyer and the sexism of the rock press.

… and the greatest record of 1975!

Pre-order ‘1975: The Year The World Forgot’ here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/1975-World-Forgot-Dylan-Jones/dp/1408721988

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We're joined in this episode by a leading expert on one of the most famous works of philosophy ever written: Descartes' Meditations.

Is the European Union heading for a slow-motion collapse? In this unfiltered conversation, economist Yanis Varoufakis and journalist Wolfgang Münchau join Freddie Sayers to dive deep into the political and economic forces reshaping Europe—from the rise of populism in Romania and Poland, to the EU's failure to offer a compelling future to Eastern member states.

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