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  • Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Two)

    We continue on Being and Time, now in ch. 2 on what "the world" is in our Being-in-the-World and so what it is for us to encounter objects and how this is different than, e.g. the interaction of two physical objects.

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    45 min
  • 42: Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
    Paddy Leigh Fermor was just 18 when he set forth from the Hook of Holland, bound for the Golden Horn . . .

    Artemis Cooper, Paddy’s biographer, and Nick Hunt, author of Walking the Woods and the Water, join the Slightly Foxed team to explore the life and literary work of Patrick Leigh Fermor. 

    Equipped with a gift for languages, a love of Byron and a rucksack full of notebooks, in December 1933 Paddy set off on foot to follow the course of the Rhine and the Danube, walking hundreds of miles. Years later he recorded much of the journey in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. In these books Baroque architecture and noble bloodlines abound, but adventure is at the heart of his writing. There was to have been a third volume, but for years Paddy struggled with it. Only after his death were Artemis and Colin Thubron able to see The Broken Road into print. 

    The trilogy inspired Nick Hunt to follow in Paddy’s footsteps. What were country lanes are now highways, and many names have changed, but Nick found places that Paddy had visited, with their echoes of times past. 

    Following discussions of a love affair with a Romanian princess, Paddy’s role in the Cretan resistance in the Second World War and Caribbean volcanoes in The Violins of Saint-Jacques, we turn our focus to his books on the Greek regions of Roumeli and the Mani, and the beautiful house that Paddy and his wife Joan built in the latter, Kardamyli. And via our reading recommendations we travel from Calcutta to Kabul In a Land Far from Home, to William Trevor’s Ireland and to Cal Flynn’s Islands of Abandonment.

    Books Mentioned
    We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information.

    •  Nella Last’s War, Slightly Foxed Edition No. 60 (1:12)
    • Graham Greene, A Sort of Life, Plain Foxed Edition (1:18)
    • Artemis Cooper, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure (2:32)
    • Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water (4:15)
    • Nick Hunt, Walking the Woods and the Water (6:52)
    • Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road, edited by Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron (23:05)
    • Patrick Leigh Fermor, Three Letters from the Andes (24:23)
    • W. Stanley Moss, Ill Met by Moonlight (34:31)
    • George Psychoundakis, The Cretan Runner (38:25)
    • Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Traveller’s Tree is out of print (40:06)
    • Simon Fenwick, Joan: Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor (41:11)
    • Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence (43:24)
    • Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint-Jacques (43:27)
    • Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani (46:27)
    • Patrick Leigh Fermor, Roumeli (46:31)
    • Robert Macfarlane, The Gifts of Reading, inspired by A Time of Gifts
    • Syed Mujtaba Ali, In a Land Far from Home (49:05)
    • Taran Khan, Shadow City (51:21)
    • Eugenie Fraser, The House by the Dvina (51:44)
    • Cal Flynn, Islands of Abandonment (53:49)
    • William Trevor, Fools of Fortune (55:33)
    • Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (56:10)
      • Related Slightly Foxed Articles
      • A Great Adventure, Andy Merrills on Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts; Between the Woods and the Water, Issue 38 (4:15)
      • Off All the Standard Maps, Tim Mackintosh-Smith on Patrick Leigh Fermor, Roumeli, Issue 2 (46:31)
        Other Links
        • Artemis Cooper’s website: www.artemiscooper.com 
        • Nick Hunt’s website: www.nickhuntscrutiny.com 
        • Siân Phillips reads from A Time of Gifts
        • Read two extracts from A Time of Gifts: Dropping anchor at the Hook of Holland and The largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe
        • ‘When I first read A Time of Gifts I felt it in my feet’: Robert Macfarlane reads from The Gifts of Reading
        • The Leigh Fermor House in Kardamyli, Greece – Benaki Museum
        • Artemis Cooper on the Leigh Fermor House, Condé Nast Traveller 
          Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach

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          1 hr
        • Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part One)

          We continue on Being and Time (1927), now into ch. 1 (sec. 9) on Existenz and how our way of Being is different than that of the objects of science, and what this means for authenticity and choice.

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          0 min
        • Sir Thomas Wyatt

          At last, our first jousting poet - Frank meets Sir Thomas Wyatt, head-on. The poems referenced are They Flee From Me and Farewell Love and All Thy Laws For Ever by Sir Thomas Wyatt.

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          38 min
        • Lauren Groff Reads “To Sunland”

          Lauren Groff reads her story “To Sunland,” from the July 4, 2022, issue of the magazine. Groff has published four novels, including “Fates and Furies” and “Matrix,” which came out last year. Her second story collection, “Florida,” which was published in 2018, won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. 

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          35 min
        • Leontia Flynn

          Drunken nights and floppy discs - Frank gets excited about the poetry of Leontia Flynn. The collection referenced is Profit and Loss by Leontia Flynn and the individual poems referenced are Anecdote and The Floppy Disk.

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          37 min
        • Electric Toothbrushes (& Water Flossers)

          Take a look down the aisle of any high street chemist and the array of electric toothbrushes on offer is as dazzling as the teeth they promise to give you. You can pay upto £500 for the latest versions whiose myriad features include interactive apps that give you feedback on your brushing technique.

          The market is dominated by two big brands, both promising a ‘professional’ clean: Oral B, whose iO brush has an oscillating action and Philips’ Sonicare, which uses tens of thousands of vibrations every minute to clean your teeth.

          After having to pay a lot more for private treatment because she couldn’t find an NHS dentist in her area, listener Holly got in touch to ask whether getting an electric brush might save her trips to the dentist in future. And wouldcould a more expensive brush really clean her teeth better than a cheaper electric one? Or even the trusty traditional (and far cheaper) manual one she currently uses?!

          Greg takes to the dentists chair to find out, testing both the Oral B and Philips brands as well as one of the latest trends – water flossing, which claim even better results than regular flossing with tape or interdental brushes. Is it the best thing since sliced bread? Or marketing BS?

          Greg guests this episode include a dental expert who's been studying electric brushes since their inception and the consumer group Which? who ranked electric toothbrushes in a recent consumer test of their own.

          This series, we’re testing your suggested wonder-products. Seen an ad, trend or fad and wonder if there's any evidence to back up the claim? Tell us! Drop us an email to [email protected] .

          PRESENTER: Greg Foot

          PRODUCER: Simon Hoban

          25 min
        • Claire-Louise Bennett Reads “Invisible Bird”

          Claire-Louise Bennett reads her story “Invisible Bird,” from the May 30, 2022, issue of the magazine. Bennett is the author of the short-story collection “Pond” and the novel “Checkout 19,” which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. 

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          35 min
        • Philosophy vs. Improv #32: "On the Standard of [Bad] Taste" w/ Babette Babich
          Babette teaches at Fordham and recently edited the collection "Reading David Hume's 'On The Standard of Taste,'" which Mark made use of for PEL#289. So, more philosophically beefy than our typical PvI episode, and yet also live and hence unpredictable. Taste it! 

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          56 min
        • Author Jennifer Egan: Writing Through Time

          Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan (“A Visit from the Goon Squad”) joins us this week. She describes the structural pulse of her new novel (4:00), why she’s drawn to nonlinear storytelling (6:33), and what “The Candy House” reveals about authenticity (7:40) in the digital age (14:26). Then, we revisit a formative trip to Europe (21:21) that inspired her to write (26:30) and move to New York, where she worked as a secretary to a countess (32:16) and rediscovered her creative voice (34:12).

          On the back-half, Jennifer reflects on her late brother Graham (36:57), his courageous battle with schizophrenia (38:30), and his lasting presence in her work (40:13). We also discuss the role of luck (50:02), the value of pushing past boundaries (52:00), and how she continued to write in the face of loss (55:57). To close, she reads a healing passage from “Manhattan Beach” (57:22).

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          1 hr 4 min