The Audio Browser

Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Close Readings: ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen
Pub date: 2025-01-29

Get Podcast Transcript →
powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

On one level, Mansfield Park is a fairytale transposed to the 19th century: Fanny Price is the archetypal poor relation who, through her virtuousness, wins a wealthy husband. But Jane Austen’s 1814 novel is also a shrewd study of speculation, ‘improvement’ and the transformative power of money.

In this abridged version of the first episode of Novel Approaches, Colin Burrow joins Clare Bucknell and Thomas Jones to discuss Austen’s acute reading of property and precarity, and why Fanny’s moral cautiousness is a strategic approach to the riskiest speculation of all: marriage.

To listen to the full episode, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:

Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrna

In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsna

Find further reading and viewing on the episode page: https://lrb.me/mansfieldparkpod

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The London Review of Books, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Brain in a Vat (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Mass Shootings | Kurt Blankschaen
Pub date: 2025-04-13

Get Podcast Transcript →
powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Does our common understanding of mass shootings help us to prevent them?

Blankschaen argues that our common beliefs and media narratives around gun ownership, mental illness, and school policies are unhelpful in preventing future mass shootings.

Can we even provide an adequate definition of mass shootings?

Should we give up the concept of mass shootings altogether, and focus instead on the particular shooters and victims in each circumstance?

Read Kurt’s paper here: https://philpapers.org/rec/BLAAMS

[00:00] Introduction and Thought Experiment

[01:35 ] Exploring the Concept of Mass Shooters

[06:56] Challenges in Profiling and Predicting

[12:06] Defining Mass Shootings and Intent

[24:10] Policy Implications and Conceptual Concerns

[28:09] Terrorist Attacks vs. Mass Shootings

[29:31] Tailoring Solutions to Different Types of Violence

[35:54] Farm Murders in South Africa: A Case Study

[40:14] The Role of Guns in Mass Shootings

[42:53] Media Influence and Moral Panic

[55:18] International Comparisons and Cultural Context

[57:55] Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Check out FeedSpot's list of 90 best philosophy podcasts, where Brain in a Vat is ranked at 15, here: https://podcast.feedspot.com/philosophy_podcasts/

The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Brain in a Vat, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Weird Work (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: "I'm a location scout."
Pub date: 2022-06-02

Get Podcast Transcript →
powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Lori Balton has been a location scout with over IMDB credits to her name. She’s scouted locations for every type of film. 

From big budget action movies like Heat, Armageddon, The Dark Rises, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters to Nic Cage classics – Face Off and City of Angels.

Not to mention, recent gold man award noms, like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, There Will be Blood, Top Gun Maverick (prediction), and the upcoming, star-studded contender Babylon. For her contributions to the profession Lori was the first location scout to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Lori takes Sam through how she got started in scouting, how the profession has hanged over time, and why.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sam Balter & Matthew Brown, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Library of Mistakes (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: EP 27: Seven Crashes (with Harold James)
Pub date: 2024-07-08

Get Podcast Transcript →
powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization



Join Russell Napier for a fascinating discussion with Harold James, author of Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalisation. And unlike many of our episodes, brace yourself for a relatively optimistic conclusion!

•The Library of Mistakes runs an outstanding course called the Practical History of Financial Markets. To find out more, go to: www.libraryofmistakes.com/course

Produced by Fraser Allen.

www.libraryofmistakes.com


The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Library of Mistakes, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: HistoryExtra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Why we shouldn't see museum artefacts as 'stolen'
Pub date: 2025-03-30

Get Podcast Transcript →
powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Debates about whether museum artefacts should be returned to the cultures that made them have made headlines several times in recent years. But historian and author Justin M Jacobs explains to Matt Elton why he believes that calls for these objects to be repatriated often overlook the wishes of the people who made them in the first place.

(Ad) Justin M Jacobs is the author of Plunder?: How Museums Got Their Treasures (Reaktion Books, 2024). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fplunder%2Fjustin-m-jacobs%2F9781789149487.

The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Immediate, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Vittles (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Lost Food of Soho
Pub date: 2025-03-24

Get Podcast Transcript →
powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

The Lost Food of Soho is a one-episode podcast by Lucy Dearlove. You can listen to it for free on Substack, on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, which are now hosting all back-issues of the Vittles podcast.

You can buy prints of today’s map, created by the artists Anna Hodgson and Harry Darby exclusively for Vittles.

A reminder, too, that we’ve released prints ahead of the publication of issue 1 of Vittles magazine, which you can shop here.

Cast of The Lost Food of Soho

Hilary Armstrong – writer, worked in Andrew Edmunds Marcus Harris – DJ/promoterRussell Davies – creator of eggbaconchipsandbeansJeremy Lee – chef proprietor of Quo VadisChristine Yau – former owner of Y MingDarren Coffield – artist and author of Tales From The Colony Room: Soho’s Lost BohemiaIain Sinclair – authorPolly – sex work and organiser with SWARMMegan Macedo – writer and former Sister Ray employee

There are many versions of Soho. ‘Italian caffs and delis Soho’. ‘Private members club Soho’. ‘Jazz bar Soho’. ‘Blitz Club Soho’. ‘Terence Conran Soho’. ‘Film industry Soho’. ‘Music industry Soho’. ‘Paul Raymond Soho’. All existing separately but simultaneously: sometimes overlapping, sometimes built on the rubble of each other.

We often talk about an ‘Old Soho’ of the mind – sometimes entirely of the imagination. Usually the qualification for a person or an establishment being worthy of the description ‘Old Soho’ is for it to be no longer with us, but there are some exceptions: Trisha’s, Bruno’s, The Admiral Duncan, Ronnie Scott’s, Algerian Coffee Stores, Bar Italia, Andrew Edmunds. Then there is a ‘New Soho’, mainly made up of restaurants. These two places, taking up the same physical space, are often pitted against each other, but I have little nostalgia for Old Soho. As the historian Dan Cruickshank puts it in his book Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People: ‘from the debris of death and destruction has sprung new life, often strange and exotic.’

But even allowing for nostalgia, you can’t avoid that Soho has experienced huge, irredeemable losses. Many of them restaurants. Many of them since 2000. The Stockpot, Alastair Little, Ed’s Easy Diner, Dionysus, the New Piccadilly, Y Ming. Then there are the many unheralded takeaways and late night restaurants serving the area around Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Street and the northern streets of Soho during the early 2000s before various factors, Crossrail included, physically decimated the night time economy. 

These are the places I want to celebrate in The Lost Food of Soho. Soho is constantly shifting and evolving, and I wanted to draw a line in the sand for the period during the 2000s in which I got to know it, which often feels overlooked. ‘My’ Soho now feels like it qualifies as Old Soho too. Millennial Soho — just like its patrons — had one foot in the past and one eye on the future, whether it liked it or not. In a strange way, it has changed the way Londoners eat. Lucy Dearlove

Places named in The Lost Food of Soho, in order of mention:

Dionysus, The Astoria, The French House, Metro Cinema, The Palomar, Burger King, The Stockpot, Ed’s Easy Diner, Wimpy, Presto, Zed Cafe, Burger and Beyond, Patty and Bun, The Breakfast Club, Cheat Meals, The Admiral Duncan, Comptons, Joe and the Juice, Andrew Edmunds, Maison Berteaux, Patisserie Valerie, Quo Vadis, Bifulco, Debono, I Camisa, Cheung Dam, Y Ming, Bar Italia, Ronnie Scott’s, Garlic and Shots, Alastair Little, Koya, Hoppers, Ciccone’s Pizza Bar, Wheeler’s, The Colony Room, Duck Soup, Bar Pollo, Soho House, Zilli’s, Cafe Boheme, The Gay Hussar, Bob Bob Ricard, Pizza Express, Sister Ray, Vital Ingredient, Tossed, Soderbergh, The Blue Posts, Berwick Street Market, Pizza Pilgrims, Bone Daddy, Supreme, Bar Bruno, The Intrepid Fox, Byron, Madame Jojos, Raymond Revue Bar, The Box, Rooms by the Hour, The New Piccadilly, The Devonshire.

Credits

Lucy Dearlove is an audio producer, sound designer and writer originally from North East England, now based in St. Leonards-on-Sea. Her food podcast, Lecker, is a two-time winner of the Fortnum & Mason Podcast of the Year Award.

The full Vittles masthead can be found here.

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.vittlesmagazine.com/subscribe

The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vittles, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Big Time (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dead Fish Tell No Tales: Part 1 | 2
Pub date: 2025-03-31

Get Podcast Transcript →
powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Chase Cominksy and Jacob Runyan are the luckiest fishermen on Lake Erie, taking home trophy after trophy on the competitive fishing circuit in Ohio. When anglers get suspicious of the duo’s wins, the truth spills out along with some walleye guts.

Big Time is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Piece of Work Entertainment and Campside Media in association with Olive Productions. Follow and listen on Apple Podcasts.

apple.co/BigTimePod

The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Apple TV+ / Campside Media, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Starts With A Bang podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Starts With A Bang #116 - Disintegrating exoplanets
Pub date: 2025-04-05

Get Podcast Transcript →
powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Out there in the Universe, each star represents an opportunity: a chance for a stellar system to develop that just might possess something remarkable. While we normally think about life, and intelligent life at that, as the grand prize the Universe has to offer, there are a wide variety of fascinating phenomena that are out there to consider. Whereas Mercury, for example, is the closest world to our Sun in our own Solar System, it still takes 88 days to make a complete revolution. In other systems, however, exoplanets can be so hot that they orbit their parent star in less than a single Earth day.

In fact, we've discovered a few systems that are so extreme, the planets that orbit them are in the process of disintegrating: where the heat, winds, and radiation from the parent star actually blows part of the planet itself away. This doesn't just include a planet's atmosphere, which is what we see for giant worlds, but even the surfaces and interiors of rocky planets in the most extreme cases. At temperatures of around 2000 degrees and upwards, these exoplanets can lose their crusts, mantles, and even their cores over long enough timescales.

Believe it or not, we've actually caught a few exoplanets doing exactly this, and we've got the JWST spectra in hand for one of them now, teaching us, for the first time, what a planetary interior is made of outside of our own Solar System. I'm so pleased to have the first author from that 2025 study, soon-to-be Dr. Nick Tusay, as our guest on this edition of the Starts With A Bang podcast, as we take a look at the most extreme exoplanetary systems ever discovered!

(This image shows an illustration of an evaporating, rocky exoplanet, with an enormous dust tail arising from the material blown off of the planet from its interaction with the nearby star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ethan Siegel, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: What It's Like To Be... with Dan Heath (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Brain Surgeon
Pub date: 2025-03-11

Get Podcast Transcript →
powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Zapping parts of the brain to know where to cut, operating a mouth-controlled microscope that's worth more than a house, and carrying the weight of life-or-death decisions with Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, a brain surgeon at the Mayo Clinic. How do you preserve a mathematician's expertise when removing tumors? And how did he go from picking tomatoes to performing brain surgery?

Dr. Q wrote about his remarkable journey to the operating room in the book, Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon.

He was also featured in the Netflix documentary series The Surgeon’s Cut.

IF YOU LIKE THIS EPISODE: Check out what it's like to be a hospice nurse, a nurse, a veterinarian.

GOT A COMMENT OR SUGGESTION? Email us at [email protected]

FOR SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: Email us at [email protected]

WANT TO BE ON THE SHOW? Leave us a voicemail at (919) 213-0456. We’ll ask you to answer two questions:

1. What’s a word or phrase that only someone from your profession would be likely to know and what does it mean?

2. What’s a specific story you tell your friends that happened on the job? It could be funny, sad, anxiety-making, pride-inducing or otherwise.

We can’t respond to every message, but we do listen to all of them! We’ll follow up if it's a good fit.

The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dan Heath, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Illuminated (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: A Georgian Polyphonic Feast
Pub date: 2025-03-23

Get Podcast Transcript →
powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Welcome to the feast! We’re invited to a traditional Georgian ‘Supra’ to immerse ourselves in the magic of Georgian polyphonic singing.

The table groans with food, the wine flows, and the singing fills the heart. Led by toastmaster Levan Bitarovi, diners are guided through a narrative, weaving together their personal and collective experiences, through song.

At home in the mountains, in Georgia's "singing village" Lakhushdi, people sing like they breathe. A lullaby, a grieving song, a song when the belly is full, a song for milking the cow. It’s a part of everyday life and forms the connective tissue of the community.

For Paris-based singer Luna Silva, these songs bring her the comfort and sense of togetherness of her childhood circus home. Since first hearing the music as an ethno-musicology student in London, she has made several trips to the Georgian mountains to immerse herself in the musical tradition, and now teaches polyphonic singing to her French choir. She even took them with her to Lakhushdi. Now, the French choir has invited their Georgian hosts to attend their first Supra in Montreuil, Paris.

In the pauses during the Supra, as people talk and eat, we hear from singers and diners what makes the Supra so important in Georgia. Luna and Levan also dissect the polyphonic singing style, as voices are added and removed to demonstrate how individual pitches and harmonies are brought together. They are layered over each other, surrounding the listener in a bath of sound which touches the soul.

As the Supra draws to a close, everyone joins together to sing a song to life.

You can hear more from the musicians at https://adilei.ge/en/about-us/

You can also find Lakhushdi, the Singing Village on various music streaming websites. Search for ‘The Singing Village Lakhushdi’.

Presented by singer and ethno-musciologist Luna Silva

Featuring singers Levan Bitarovi, Madona and Ana Chamgeliani, Avto Turkia and Lasha Bedenashvili

Produced by Amanda Hargreaves

Executive producer: Carys Wall

Sound recordist: Léonard Ibañez

Sound designer: Joel Cox

With thanks to the Choeur d'Aronde in Montreuil

A Bespoken Media production for BBC Radio 4

The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC Radio 4, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.