The Hedgehog and the Fox

By The Hedgehog and the Fox

Podcasts hosted by George Miller, presenting fresh ideas and stimulating conversations on a wide variety of subjects, with a particular focus is on books published by university presses.

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April 12, 2019 Conversations with Publishers: Derek Krissoff, West Virginia University Press
This week, we launch a new series, Conversations with Publishers. It seems to me that being curious about books needn’t stop at the people who write them; it can also… Read More
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35min
March 30, 2019 Mark Polizzotti: a translation manifesto
My guest this week is Mark Polizzotti, author notably of a biography of surrealist André Breton; publisher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and acclaimed translator from French of books… Read More
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40min
March 14, 2019 Bradley Stephens: Victor Hugo, beyond Les Misérables
This week we’re focusing on one of the nineteenth century’s most successful and influential writers, Victor Hugo. By the time of his death in 1885, Hugo was undoubtedly the most… Read More
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33min
March 06, 2019 Tim Ingold: ‘Anthropology’s subject is humanity unsliced’
This week we tackle a big question with my guest Tim Ingold: what’s the point of anthropology? Tim tells me: ‘Anthropology should be an ethical project which is dedicated to… Read More
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32min
February 26, 2019 Amaranth Borsuk on The Book
This week the Hedgehog and the Fox turn their curiosity on books themselves, indeed on a book entitled The Book by Amaranth Borsuk, which appears in the MIT Essential Knowledge… Read More
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36min
February 18, 2019 Sten-Åke Stenberg: Born in 1953
I was in Stockholm for the first time a few weeks before Christmas, so I was intrigued when I recently came across a new book about a study that’s followed… Read More
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28min
January 31, 2019 Lynn Hunt: why history matters
In the first Hedgehog & Fox podcast of 2019, we grapple with some big questions – does history matter? If so, why? And is it, and other forms of knowledge,… Read More
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37min
December 21, 2018 Paul Luna on typography
My guest in this week’s programme is Paul Luna, who’s the author of a recent book on typography in the Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press. Paul is… Read More
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36min
December 11, 2018 Monica Cure on the power of the postcard
This week the Hedgehog and the Fox examine the humble postcard. In fact, when the postcard was new it was anything but humble, as Monica Cure, my guest on today’s… Read More
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32min
December 02, 2018 Jonathan Loesberg on translating a ‘lurid and breathless’ bestseller
A few weeks ago, I put up an interview with Anne O’Neill-Henry about her book Mastering the Marketplace, which examines the dawn of the era of the bestseller in nineteenth-century… Read More
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30min

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