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Podcast: The Selects Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Sunshine Hotel by Sound Portraits
Pub date: 2025-09-03

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Today we present an all time favorite of the team at Selects.  This iconic work by Dave Isay and Stacy Abramson is a vivid portrait of New York City’s Bowery, before it got swallowed by a museum and high end retail and luxury real estate.  In the late 90’s The Sunshine Hotel remained one of the last flophouses left on the Bowery, New York’s skid row. As you meet the cast of characters at the Sunshine hotel you will be transported to another time in New York City history.  

This small collection of oral histories from one Bowery hotel became catalyst for StoryCorps, a collection of over 630,000 oral histories now stored in the Library of Congress.  

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Original Series Credits:

This documentary comes from Sound Portraits Productions, a mission-driven independent production company that was created by Dave Isay in 1994. Sound Portraits was the predecessor to StoryCorps and was dedicated to telling stories that brought neglected American voices to a national audience.

Produced By: David Isay, Nathan Smith, Stacy Abramson, and Suzanne Clores

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Podcast: ill-advised by Bill Nighy (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: You're Not a Weirdo
Pub date: 2025-10-16

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Bill answers your questions from how to cope with sleepless nights to where to buy the perfect shirt.

This episodes' playlist is called ‘Country Hurts’

• Storm Windows - John Prine 
• Leavin’ - Shelby Lynne
• Dying Star - Ruston Kelly
• Lately I’ve let things slide - Caitlin Rose
• How Can I Protect You - Alabama 3 - featuring Aslan 

This playlist can be found here on Spotify

And the book of the episode is Miranda July's 'All Fours'

We'd love to hear from you - please get in touch via our instagram page at @illadvisedbybillnighy or you can email us at [email protected]

If you like to hear more of Bill, you can join him in The Back Room on Patreon (- www.patreon.com/illadvisedbybillnighy )- for bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to new episodes, events and merchandise and more - see you there.

If you would like to join it's important to sign up online first to avoid the Apple fees in their app, then download it later.

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Podcast: Stuff You Should Know (LS 89 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Mystery of the Sleepy Sickness
Pub date: 2025-10-02

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Back in the early 1900s, a new pandemic happened out of nowhere with odd symptoms, that was never solved or cured. It just went away. Which means it's right up our alley. 

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Podcast: Split Screen: There Goes My Childhood (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Thrill Seekers, Episode 1: Are You a Thrill Seeker?
Pub date: 2024-09-23

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Would you go on a reality show if you didn’t know what it was about? Even if they promised you the adventure of a lifetime? In 2005, 12 people did just that. They answered an ad that read “Thrill Seekers wanted” and began auditioning for a show unlike any other in British television history.

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Podcast: Read Me a Poem (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: “Of Light” by Agha Shahid Ali
Pub date: 2025-10-07

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Amanda Holmes reads Agha Shahid Ali’s “Of Light.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: [email protected]. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

 

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

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Podcast: Think from KERA (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: I know what you know – why that’s good for both of us
Pub date: 2025-09-23

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It’s common knowledge, say, that every driver stops for a stop sign – and we shouldn’t take that shared understanding for granted. Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the rules of society we all know and follow and the ways our world would fall apart if people disregarded this social contract. His book is “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life.”

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Podcast: Model Wars (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Freakin’ Animal
Pub date: 2025-09-10

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Paul Fisher is a semester away from graduating college when his knack for seducing beautiful women catches the eye of alleged mobster Larry Lind. Larry convinces Paul to work for him, and we follow Paul’s journey from growing up in the Valley to running a model agency in gritty 1980s New York City, with absolutely no experience. 

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Podcast: The Guernsey Deportees (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 1: The Deportation Order: Hitler’s Retaliation
Pub date: 2025-04-23

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⚡ In 1942, during the height of World War 2, Hitler ordered the deportation of more than a thousand islanders from Guernsey. In retaliation against the Allied Forces, innocent men, women and children were forced to leave their island homes - set on a path to Biberach internment camp.

💡 Jill Chubb was just 3 years old when she set sail, but her memories are vivid and clear. And in this special podcast series, her grandson, former BBC Guernsey presenter Ollie Guillou, charts her story - joined by three other deportees and two prominent historians.

🔎 This first episode explores the moments leading up to the deportation, and how the Guernsey Deportees found out the news. We get a sense of pre-war life in Guernsey and how it began to change during the course of the war. And from cargo ships to train rides, we learn how the journey to Biberach began.

⚙️ With special thanks to:

Jill Chubb, Chair of the Guernsey Deportees Association

Ralph Godwin, Deportee

Janet de Santos, Deportee

Jill Oliver, Deportee

Alan Chubb, Secretary of the Guernsey Deportees Association

Dr Gilly Carr, University of Cambridge

Matthew Lucas, War historian

📍 Written and produced by Ollie Guillou and Phillippa Guillou. This is a Channel Islands Podcasts production.

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Podcast: When Science Finds a Way (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Early warning systems: using tech to predict disease outbreaks
Pub date: 2025-09-24

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By the time we realise an outbreak is underway, the disease is already spreading, and the window to act is closing fast. But what if we could get ahead of it? Over the past decade, scientists and technologists have been developing powerful modelling tools that combine health and climate data to forecast where and when outbreaks might occur.

Alisha is joined by Dr Anna Ibarra Stewart to explore how early warning systems are being developed to help stay ahead of viruses like dengue and Zika and reduce the impact of outbreaks before they escalate. They also discuss the challenges of turning research into practical tools that can be used in the regions most affected by disease. We hear from HARMONIZE, a groundbreaking project in Brazil where scientists, governments and local communities are working side by side to turn predictive insights into real-world impact.

When Science Finds a Way is brought to you by Wellcome, an independent global foundation that supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. For more information and podcast transcripts visit wellcome.org/podcast

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Podcast: The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Miriam Solomon on How Stigma Shapes Psychiatry
Pub date: 2025-09-19

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This week, Thomas Spiteri speaks with Professor Miriam Solomon, Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and a leading voice in philosophy of science, medicine, and psychiatry.

Solomon reflects on her intellectual trajectory, from her early studies in the natural sciences at Cambridge and her doctoral work at Harvard, to her later contributions in the philosophy of medicine and psychiatry. She describes how questions about knowledge-making — from consensus conferences to evidence-based medicine — led her to examine psychiatry and, most recently, the constitutive role of stigma in shaping psychiatric categories.

In the conversation, Solomon argues that stigma is not only a social force attached to mental illness from the outside but also a factor that has shaped psychiatry from within. It has influenced the recognition, definition, and revision of diagnostic categories, as she illustrates through cases drawn from the history of psychiatry. She situates these examples within broader debates about the nature of psychiatric disorder, the limitations of the DSM, and possible alternative frameworks.

In this episode, Solomon:

• Recounts her path from philosophy of science to psychiatry, shaped by formative years at Cambridge and Harvard
• Explains why consensus conferences and evidence-based medicine sparked her interest in psychiatry and the DSM
• Argues that stigma is not only a social prejudice but a constitutive force within psychiatric knowledge
• Examines the role of stigma in categories like Asperger’s and PTSD, and its entanglement with hermeneutical injustice
• Assesses debates over defining psychiatric disorder, including the harmful dysfunction model, and emphasises the centrality of “harm” over “dysfunction”
• Discusses the challenges facing the DSM
• Calls for greater awareness of how stigma operates, both within psychiatry and in everyday experiences of mental illness

Relevant Links

• Miriam Solomon’s home page
• On the Concept of "Psychiatric Disorder": Incorporating Psychological Injury
• Miriam Soloman PhilPapers
• Making Medical Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2015)

Transcript coming soon. 

Photo Credit: Amira Solomon

Thanks for listening to The HPS Podcast. You can find more about us on our website, Bluesky, Instagram and Facebook feeds. 

This podcast would not be possible without the support of School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne and the Hansen Little Public Humanities Grant scheme.

Music by ComaStudio.
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