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Podcast: Start Here
Episode: Season 2 - Episode 2: Drill
Pub date: 2025-03-05

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This week, Alexis Ffrench takes a deep dive into one of the most raw and expressive genres in modern music: Drill. Joined by writer and youth specialist Ciaran Thapar, they explore the roots of Drill, from its origins and social context to its signature bass-heavy sound and global influence. Together, they unpack the artistry behind the genre, its evolution—especially within the UK—and where to begin if you're new to Drill. Whether you're a long-time listener or just curious, this episode offers an essential guide to understanding the power and presence of Drill music today.

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Podcast: The Colin McEnroe Show (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Bring back the beaver!
Pub date: 2025-03-11

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Beavers build sophisticated dams and deep-water ponds that slow erosion of riverbanks, create cooler deep-water pools for temperature-sensitive plant and fish species, and increase the water table, a big deal for Western states coping with drought. And they're social animals who have mates, kits, and an active social life.

But centuries-old myths and fables about the beaver have led to their destruction and prevented us from recognizing their charms and value to the ecosystem. We fear them, dislike them, and use them for all the wrong reasons, like killing them for their pelts.

Let's celebrate the beaver!

GUESTS:

• Jim Robbins: Freelance journalist based in Montana and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. He’s the author of several books including, The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and An Urge To Save the Planet
• Rachel Poliquin: Freelance writer and curator. She’s the author of The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing, and Beaver, for the Reaktion Books’ Animal Series
• Heidi Perryman: Child psychologist and the founder of Worth A Dam
• Sherri Tippie: Rescues beaver in Colorado and rehabilitates and relocates them to areas where ponds are needed

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Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired on November 19, 2014.

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Podcast: Face-Off (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Feminist Rebels
Pub date: 2025-03-11

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China’s leader, Mao Zedong famously said that “Women hold up half the sky.” But these days it doesn’t feel that way in China. Unfair marriage rules, difficulties getting a divorce, barriers to owning property and many more restrictions are challenging women to speak out, and act. We’ll hear about the Chinese “leftover women” who are veering from the traditional path and about the Chinese feminists of today.

Guest:  Leta Hong Fincher, author, Left Over Women. 

Recommended Books:

Left Over Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China by Leta Hong Fincher

Tiananmen Square by Lai Wen

Sound design, original score, mixing and mastering by Rowhome Productions. Rowhome’s Creative Director is Alex Lewis. John Myers is Rowhome’s Executive Producer.

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Podcast: George Hall at 100 (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode One – George Hall in Conversation with Neil Pearson and Leonie Mellinger
Pub date: 2025-02-25

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George Hall at 100 is a special series celebrating the life and career of one of the most important, influential and inspirational acting teachers in the history of British theatre.

To mark George’s 100th birthday on February 5th 2025, his friends recorded new, fascinating and often very funny conversations with him, resulting in five episodes full of star names and fabulous anecdotes.

Episode one sees Neil Pearson and Leonie Mellinger join George for a hugely entertaining chat about their time being taught by him at the Central School of Speech and Drama between 1977 and 1980. 

Recorded just before his 100th birthday, George tells some wonderful and often surprising stories about Sir Laurence Olivier: his obsession with colonic irrigation and his then secret affair with Dame Joan Plowright. George also shares memories of Sir John Gielgud, Dame Edith Evans, Sir Alan Bates, Dame Maggie Smith, Leslie Caron and many others.

You’ll hear from an array of his well-known former students at Central: Lindsay Duncan, Rufus Sewell, James Purefoy, Peter Chelsom, Harriet Thorpe, Christopher Eccleston and James Nesbitt, who recall stories about the man who had a massive impact on their lives and careers.

George began watching music hall and theatre productions in Edinburgh in the 1930s, was patted on the head as a child by Rachmaninoff, became an expert morse code telegraphist in Blackpool’s Empress Ballroom during World War 2 and attended the Old Vic School from 1949–51 alongside Dame Joan Plowright and Prunella Scales.

During his subsequent eight-decade career, he has also been an actor, cabaret artist, television music director, voice coach, writer, theatre director, music hall performer, international lecturer and a composer of film and TV scores. He even wrote a song with Clive Dunn that was produced by George Martin and then banned by the BBC!

George was Director of the legendary acting course at Central for nearly a quarter of a century, taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for another 22 years, Yale University for over a decade and is still teaching the history of musical theatre at the Royal Academy of Music after more than 30 years.

His former students have won a vast array of awards including Oscars, Baftas, Oliviers, Tonys and Golden Globes—and as well as surely being one of the world’s oldest working teachers, George has quite possibly watched more British theatre productions than anyone alive.

Sir Tony Robinson, Belinda Lang, Nickolas Grace and Nigel Lilley have also had new conversations with George for this series, with guest anecdotes in those episodes from the likes of Michael Grandage, Priscilla Dunn, Freddie Fox, Kevin Whately, Zoe Wanamaker, Tessa Peake-Jones, Sara Kestelman, Amanda Barrie, David Robb, Janet Ellis, Peter Davison, Fern Britton, Peter Guinness, David Horovitch, Tom Read Wilson, Lalla Ward, Wendy Allnutt, Johanna Adams Farley, Mary Hammond and Dave Clark.

George Hall at 100 is produced by Square Elephant Productions with Danny Garlick. The series has been generously supported by Steve Moreschi, whose great uncles, the theatrical agents Sonny and Hyman Zahl, worked with George in the 1950s.

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Podcast: Myths and Legends (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 401: Chinese Zodiac: Rat Race
Pub date: 2025-01-29

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🐀It's Race Day🐀Today, we tell the story of how the animals in the Chinese Zodiac got their years: a race that's terrible for all involved.

😈 The Creature: Nian

Why you want to dress in red to avoid long, unpleasant runs on New Year's Day, though any run in January or February (or in general) is unpleasant.

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Podcast: Princeton UP Ideas Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Sophia Rosenfeld, "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Pub date: 2025-02-05

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Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to believe. But the option to choose in such matters was not something we always possessed or even aspired to. At the same time, we have been warned by everybody from marketing gurus to psychologists about the negative consequences stemming from our current obsession with choice. It turns out that not only are we not very good at realizing our personal desires, we are also overwhelmed with too many possibilities and anxious about what best to select. There are social costs too. How did all this happen? The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life (Princeton UP, 2025) tells the long history of the invention of choice as the defining feature of modern freedom.

Taking readers from the seventeenth century to today, Sophia Rosenfeld describes how the early modern world witnessed the simultaneous rise of shopping as an activity and religious freedom as a matter of being able to pick one's convictions. Similarly, she traces the history of choice in romantic life, politics, and the ideals of human rights. Throughout, she pays particular attention to the lives of women, those often with the fewest choices, who have frequently been the drivers of this change. She concludes with an exploration of how reproductive rights have become a symbolic flashpoint in our contemporary struggles over the association of liberty with choice.

Drawing on a wealth of sources ranging from novels and restaurant menus to the latest scientific findings about choice in psychology and economics, The Age of Choice urges us to rethink the meaning of choice and its promise and limitations in modern life.

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Podcast: This Is Actually Happening (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 348: What if you survived the Burundian genocide?
Pub date: 2025-02-04

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During the 1993 mass killing of Tutsis in Burundi, a young man raised in a tight-knit community becomes a target of ethnic cleansing, but as he faces his final, horrifying moments, he runs for his survival, awakening to a new life. 

 

Today’s episode featured Gilbert Tuhabonye. You can reach out to him at [email protected]. You can also find him on the following socials:

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Please read more about Gilbert here. 

Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Jason Blalock

 

Content/Trigger Warnings: mass killing, burning humans alive, machete/chopping of humans, death march, genocide, explicit language

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Podcast: Philosophize This! (LS 78 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Episode #222 ... Dostoevsky - Love in The Brothers Karamazov
Pub date: 2025-02-16

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Today we talk about the philosophical themes around love in The Brothers Karamazov. We talk about Dostoevsky's existential, tragic form of Christianity. Family as a microcosm of society. Active love as an experiential framing. The Grand Inquisitor. Hope you love it! :)

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Podcast: Haptic & Hue (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Tapestries For Troubled Times
Pub date: 2025-01-02

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Tapestries for Troubled Times

The stitches of the Bayeux Tapestry fix the story of the Norman Conquest of England in our imaginations in an extraordinarily charismatic way. But nearly a thousand years later modern stitchers are picking up their needles to reframe their stories in just as powerful a fashion, showing that textiles can rewrite our histories.

The Bayeux Tapestry was created by women in an age of great violence and uncertainty. It became the defining narrative of the battle between Harold Godwinson and William, Duke of Normandy, for the throne of England that took place in 1066.

The Great Tapestry of Scotland - finished just over ten years ago is an incredible work that retells the story of an entire nation from its very beginnings. It shows that when women tell the story in stitches a very different kind of history emerges.

Neither work changes the facts – nothing does that - but both are demonstrations of the power of stitch to redefine how we see ourselves and give us different perspectives on events, which ones we find important and what we feel about them. This episode of Haptic & Hue is about the power of Tapestry, ancient and modern, to recreate and reframe our stories.

For more information about this episode and pictures of the people and places mentioned in this episode please go to https://hapticandhue.com/tales-of-textiles-series-7/.

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Podcast: Capitalisn't (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Did NIMBYs Kill the American Dream?, with Yoni Appelbaum
Pub date: 2025-02-20

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“Homeownership is the American Dream.” This saying is so ingrained in our zeitgeist that most Americans don't even pause to question it. However, according to the Black Knights Home Price Index, the average US home price increased nearly 80% from April 2015 to April 2023. Census data reveals that the median household income only increased by 4% during this period. Homeownership has thus become increasingly out of reach, especially for young professionals. So, how did the American Dream become an American nightmare?

In his brand new book, “Stuck: How the Privileged in the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity,” The Atlantic’s Deputy Editor Yoni Appelbaum offers a contrarian view, arguing that the crisis in American homeownership isn’t actually about cost—it’s about mobility. There are many places in America where housing remains affordable and even dirt cheap. The problem is that those affordable options are in less desirable locations, with fewer opportunities for high-quality jobs, education, and health care. Thus, young professionals continue to migrate to communities where opportunities are bountiful, but housing is not.

Appelbaum joins Bethany and Luigi to discuss how Americans got “stuck.” Why does mobility matter so much? What are the implications of reduced mobility for Americans’ faith in capitalism and the belief that our country is still the land of opportunity? If treating a home as an investment—which many of us do—means less mobility, is being “stuck” so wrong for society? Together, the three of them unpack this entangled question of mobility, homeownership, and what it means for the reformulation of the American Dream.

Capitalisn't episodes mentioned:
Shattering Immigration Myths: Data Beyond Borders, with Leah Boustan
Raj Chetty's Surprising New Insights on How Children Succeed
What Happened to the American Dream? With David Leonhardt

Read an excerpt from Appelbaum's book on ProMarket (Penguin Random House)

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