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Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential and controversial feminine figures in the literary life of the London society. Night and Day is one of her first novels published in 1919 which displays the moral and spiritual issues that people confront. The author herself was an emotionally unstable person, her episodes of mental illness and suicidal depression being recurrent and always brought into the public attention. The novel revolves around the life of the main character, Katherine Hilb ...
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Something True brings you incredible and bizarre true stories from the footnotes of history. A dog in the United States Cabinet? A leading rocket scientist who quit his job to make a moonchild? Virginia Woolf donning blackface to prank a navy? They're all true. They're all Something True.
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Each week three people from the Minnesota arts community talk about a performance, opening, or event they're excited to see or want others to check out.
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Welcome to Book Wise, where we explore leadership through books. Books are “uniquely portable magic” (Stephen King) and “mirrors of the soul” (Virginia Woolf). From BookClub.com, host Britt Brewer (with guest host appearances from CEO Jonathan Munk) helps you find the next book that stops you in your tracks… and just might shape your life and career.
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A weekly book review and discussion program hosted by Pat Leach. Updated on Thursdays.
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On 9 March 2013, the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College host a workshop to mark the centenary of the publication of Leonard Woolf's path-breaking first novel, set in then Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, The Village in the Jungle. Woolf's novel (the first of only two) is a leading yet often overlooked modernist document and is increasingly recognized as an extraordinarily far-sighted colonial text, an oblique record of his years as a colonial officer in Ceylon (1904-11). It has also bec ...
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Masterpiece Theatre meets Mystery Science Theater 3000 in a podcast of highbrow readings and lowbrow commentary. Comedians Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai come together to read aloud classic and not-so-classic literature from the public domain and provide real-time commentary with the help of special guests. Subscribe now to experience the best and worst from the likes of Edgar Allen Poe, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sherwood Anderson, Jack London, and many more... no one escapes ...
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Narrative Edge from Georgia Public Broadcasting highlights books with Georgia connections. Hosted by two of your favorite public radio book nerds who also happen to be your hosts of All Things Considered on GPB radio, Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya . In this podcast Peter and Orlando will introduce you to authors, their writings, and the insights behind their stories mixed with their own thoughts and ideas on just what gives these works the Narrative Edge.
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The London Library Podcast features a leading writer or figure in the cultural world discussing the books which have shaped them. The first guest is social historian, author of bestselling The Five and London Library member Hallie Rubenhold. Founded by Thomas Carlyle in 1841 The London Library is one of the world’s great lending libraries and a place of inspiration and support to writers, readers and scholars of all kinds. Well-known members and former members include: Charles Dickens, Charl ...
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Created off the back of @thegreatwomenartists Instagram, this podcast is all about celebrating women artists. Presented by art historian and curator, Katy Hessel, this podcast interviews artists on their career, or curators, writers, or general art lovers, on the female artist who means the most to them.
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Drew and Sarah are college friends who share a love of pop culture from 80s music, old Hollywood movies, iconic closeted characters, and campy TV shows. Countless LGBTQ+ stories remain hidden in history, but deserve to be in the spotlight. Drew and Sarah explore the memorable and the not-so-well-known LGBTQ+ people that influenced both their lives and society. Peppered in every story are their hot takes and sass. Listen in, learn, and laugh along as they humorously and affectionately tell th ...
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Gli influencer dei libri
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Är du nyfiken på skönlitteratur och annan kultur och vill ha tips av bibliotekarier med koll? Lyssna på Bibliotekspodden Solen! Vi pratar om litteratur kring olika teman och ger också tips på annat inom kulturvärlden som vi gillar. Bibliotekspodden Solen görs av Elias Hillström, Alice Thorburn och Patrik Schylström, bibliotekarier på Stadsbiblioteket i Stockholm.
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Just a millennial musing about books, TV, movies, music, and pop culture all while trying to navigate this sea called the 21st century.
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Dicussions of literature from a philosophical perspective.
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Short and sweet summaries of fundamental feminist texts from the past 500+ years. She Speaks Volumes provides a primer for critical moments in the history, theory, and philosophy of feminism. Each episode explores a writer, and their contribution to modern feminism.
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Encouraging artistic exploration
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Sleep Magic: Sleep Hypnosis & Meditation for Sleep Podcast
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Fall asleep fast and wake up restored every night with the power of sleep hypnosis, meditation for sleep, and hypnotic bedtime stories. Sleep Magic is a soothing sleep podcast designed to ease your mind and guide you into a deep, restorative sleep. Hosted by hypnotherapist Jessica Porter, this sleep podcast blends sleep hypnosis, sleep meditation, and guided hypnotic bedtime stories to help listeners around the world get sleepy, fall asleep fast. Find long term relief from insomnia and build ...
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A podcast in which five idiots get together to discuss the finest works of classic literature. Listen to them struggle with subtexts, historical contexts, symbolism and the minor fact that none of them have actually read the book.
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In this bibliotherapy podcast, Dr Steven Davies and Dr Alexander Fox discuss the life-changing insights that great books have to offer. Each episode offers an in depth, mental health-focused analysis of a chosen book, and through their conversation, Alex and Steven try to get to the root of how we can best use that author's wisdom to avoid common pitfalls and live happier, more fulfilling lives.
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Share the Load explores all things consent, including and beyond sex. I'm your host, Mia Schachter. I'm an intimacy coordinator for film, television, and theater, and a writer and educator in Los Angeles. You can find me on IG @consent.wizardry and you can reach me at [email protected] with listener questions for future episodes. www.consentwizardry.com
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What’s the true cost of great art? Faustian pacts with the devil are exciting, sure, but the grim reality of human degredation, pain and suffering is the source for so much of what we treasure today as the greatest books of all time. Join us as we explore the broken authors that wrote our favourite novels. Murder, mental illness, neglect, alcohol and drug abuse all wait within so tread carefully!
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Our Friends Said They'd Listen is one of the two greatest podcasts hosted by David and Ron, who host two great podcasts. We talk about all kinds of movies - especially old and obscure ones. Plus really bad ones that we like for some reason. Nobody wears pants during taping (we thought it was important to include that last part).
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Night and Day by Virginia Woolf | Hypnotic Bedtime Story
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In tonight's Hypnotic Bedtime Story with Jessica, we're going to be enjoying Night & Day by Virginia Woolf, sinking into the daily lives of two women in Edwardian England. Just relax, and let the prose lull you gently into sleep. As always, tonight's episode will start with a relaxing introduction from Jessica, before we sink into tonight’s Sleep H…
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25: Author Series: Emily Dickinson And Virginia Woolf
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In this episode, hosts Sarah and Drew explore the lives and impacts of literary icons Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf. The hosts delve into Dickinson's family background, her struggles with mental health, and the societal expectations of women in the 1800s, drawing parallels to Woolf's experiences. This conversation delves into the life of Virgi…
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Review Show: The Naked Gun, Madonna, Paul Weller, The Assassin
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Tom Sutcliffe is joined by reviewers Ekow Eshun and Hanna Flint to discuss Liam Neeson in a sequel to the beloved Naked Gun comedy film series, new Amazon Prime action TV series The Assassin which stars Keeley Hawes as a hitwoman, a new covers album from Paul Weller called Find El Dorado and the long-awaited Ray of Light remix album Veronica Electr…
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Ep. 24 - Musician and hypnotherapist Lupe 8
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Listen on for my interview with musician and hypnotherapist Lupe 8! Lupe takes us on her journey of self-discovery with stops in Argentina, Mexico, Germany, and England. She tells us how she got to music, left it, and came back again, and how she began her hypnotherapy practice and business, BEC8ME. MOMMO G Insta https://www.instagram.com/mommo.g/ …
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Artist Andy Goldsworthy on his five-decade retrospective exhibition.
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Artist Andy Goldsworthy on his retrospective exhibition, which spans a five decade career. Best known for his work in the landscape, this exhibition sees the artist create dramatic large scale works for the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh - including an avenue of oak branches, a room of reeds suspended from the ceiling, and a room full of stone…
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Cyrus is a newly sober son of Iranian immigrants. Guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, he embarks on a quest to uncover a family secret. Hear a review of the New York Times best-selling novel “Martyr!” by Kaveh Akbar on this week’s “All About Books”By Nebraska Public Media
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A Sleepy Summer Afternoon In Maine | Rewind Sleep Hypnosis
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In tonight's summer rewind Sleep Hypnosis, Jessica will reflect on the very special, safe and lazy feelings she gets when she spends an afternoon walking around Portland, taking in the sea and air and enjoying the delights of Casco Bay. She will transport you there, so you know exactly what she's talking about. As always, tonight's episode will sta…
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Motherland writer Helen Serafinowicz on making her debut as a playwright with a Liverpool legend
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Motherland writer Helen Serafinowicz on putting Wayne and Coleen Rooney at the heart of her debut play - The Legend of Rooney's Ring - which has just opened at the Royal Court in Liverpool. Literary critic Alex Clark examines the Booker Prize longlist which was announced today. Love Forms by Claire AdamThe South by Tash AwUniversality by Natasha Br…
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The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS by Martin Padgett
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Michael Hardwick had no idea that when a police officer stood at his bedroom door on August 3, 1982, he would become a face of the gay rights movement. Arrested for sodomy, Hardwick sued for his right to privacy to the Supreme Court, even as the HIV/AIDS epidemic began to take its toll. When he lost, his era-defining case inspired a half-million pe…
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Tom Lehrer remembered, plus Nick Drake's unreleased songs
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Richard Stilgoe pays tribute to the great American humorist and songwriter Tom Lehrer, who has died at the age of 97. Samira discusses newly released and previously unheard songs by Nick Drake. Petra Volpe talks about her acclaimed film Late Shift, which tells the story of nurse's night shift in a Swiss hospital. Presenter Samira AhmedProducer: Har…
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Tom is joined by poet and writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes and dance critic Lyndsey Winship to review the latest big screen to stage musical adaptation Burlesque the Musical, Matthias Glasner's German-language family drama Dying, and Disney Plus series Washington Black based on the hit book by Esi Edugyan. Plus, as the UK government announces an overhaul …
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Grief, Hang-xiety, and your Partner’s Instagram Likes 💌 Magic Mailbag
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Welcome to another Magic Mailbag episode, where Jessica answers your questions, and gives her advice for your dilemmas. Tonight, we're diving into morning-after anxiety, whether astrology is real, and if long distance relationships are worth the effort. To hear the full episode, Join Sleep Magic Premium ✨ Enjoy 2 bonus episodes a month plus all epi…
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Prison-themed stage productions, Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and the composer Bruckner's fascination with death masks
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A new stage production that's been inspired by the writer's own experience as an inmate. Academy Award winning playwright and director Terry George served a sentence in Long Kesh jail near Lisburn in the 1970s and his time there - when a number of successful and unsuccessful escape attempts were made. These inspire The Tunnel, a play which is being…
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“Robert F. Kennedy:The Road Not Taken” by Dennis &Laura Crawford
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Nebraska was one of only 15 states that held primaries in 1968. Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy campaigned hard in the state. “Robert F. Kennedy: The Road Not Taken” by Dennis and Laura Crawford is a new history of the ’68 Nebraska campaigns, Hear an interview with co-author Dennis Crawford on this week’s “All About Books”…
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Addressing Burnout | Stress Relief Hypnosis For Great Sleep
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In tonight's Sleep Hypnosis with Jessica, we're going to be addressing burnout. Life is demanding. And if you keep giving into those demands every single day without checking in with yourself, you may find yourself starting to struggle. So let's create a practice that can help. It's time to drop whatever stress you’re carrying right now and fill up…
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The Fantastic Four changed comics forever in 1961 by making superheroes more human, but on screen the team has struggled. Now Marvel is rebooting their First Family for the third time with a big budget spectacular starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Author and journalist Hannah Strong and journalist and co-hos…
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Samira talks to Mark Gatiss about his new detective series, Bookish. Playwright Suzie Miller discusses her new courtroom drama Inter Alia, about a Crown Court Judge facing a family crisis. We explore the impact of President Trump's cuts to US public media and consider the legacy of British cinema of the 80s. Presenter: Samira AhmedProducer: Simon R…
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Enjoy these bitesize episodes where we highlight some of Jessica's most life-changing advice. Today, we're talking about quieting the negative thoughts in your head that make it hard to relax. To hear more on this topic, and practice a targeted hypnosis, just search "Addressing Negative Thoughts Sleep Magic". Want more Sleep Magic? Join Sleep Magic…
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26: Author Series: Audre Lorde And Hans Christian Andersen
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*Last 5 minutes, Drew's voice disappears! You will just hear Sarah's nonsense. We will fix it for next time* Join Drew and Sarah as they dive into the fascinating world of LGBTQ+ authors in their ongoing Writers Series. This episode explores the unique perspectives and creative processes of... Hans Christian Andersen: The fairy tale writer whose li…
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Review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North TV Series
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Tom Sutcliffe with reviewers Bidisha and Caroline Frost discuss the TV adaptation of Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the cringe comedy film Friendship, starring Paul Rudd, and the wedding comedy Till The Stars Come Down, which has transferred from The National to London's West End. Also the latest ad…
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How Scandinavian design has influenced our homes
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As a new exhibition of Ikea textiles opens, we discuss the impact of Scandinavian design concepts on our homes, with curator Anna Sandberg Falk of the Ikea Museum in Sweden and designer Anna Campbell Jones. Bestselling author John Niven talks about his latest novel The Fathers, an exploration of contemporary fatherhood and masculinity which is set …
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In the graphic novel “Feeding Ghosts”, artist Tessa Hulls traces Chinese history across three generations of women in her family. Growing up, Hulls watched both her mother and grandmother struggle with unexamined trauma and mental illness. Hear a review of this Pulitzer Prize winning memoir on this week's "All About Books".…
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Football and Art - united in a new work created by former footballer Edgar Davids and artist Paul Pfeiffer
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Former footballer Edgar Davids and artist Paul Pfeiffer on creating a new work for the Manchester International Festival. As four new twenty minute operas are premiered at the Buxton International Festival, Helen Goodman, artistic manager at the festival, and Hannah Ellis Ryan, artistic director of theatre company, HER Productions, discuss how shor…
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The Fantasies of Future Things By Doug Jones
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The Fantasies of Future Things is set in the rapidly changing landscape of Atlanta on the eve of the 1996 Olympics. On this episode of Narrative Edge, Peter and Orlando delve into this powerful debut novel, which tells the story of two Black men working for a real estate development firm that is responsible for uprooting the very communities they c…
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Gruelling film productions - stories from the sets of Apocalypse now and Fitzcarraldo
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We mark Bastille Day with a dive into President Macron’s cultural policy for France. And we revisit the dark heart of filmmaking with two people who were there during the making of Apocalypse Now and Fitzcarraldo. Documentaries made about both films have been re-released - Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse, about Apocalypse Now is in cine…
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Review Show: Wet Leg's new album and Johnny Depp's artist biopic Modigliani
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Nancy Durrant and Boyd Hilton join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss Moisturizer, the second album from the female English indie rock duo Wet Leg. Their self-titled debut reached number one on the UK charts. They also assess Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness, directed by Hollywood star Johnny Depp. The film is Depp's first since 1997 and it cov…
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Art Hounds: Audio scavenger hunts, pottery favorites and outdoor scenes on canvas
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From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Their recommendations are lightly edited from the audio heard in the player above. Want to be an Art Hound? Submit here. ‘Hidden Herald’ returns with new audio stories around St. Paul Last year, Jamie Danie…
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Kat Sadler, creator of BAFTA-winning sitcom Such Brave Girls
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Bestselling novelist Kate Mosse - much of whose historical fiction is set in medieval France - reacts to the news that the Bayeux Tapestry is to go on display at the British Museum in London next year. Comedian and actor Kat Sadler on her BAFTA-winning sitcom Such Brave Girls, which is set in a dysfunctional single parent family. Sitar virtuoso Nis…
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An introduction to Nebraska author, Loren Eiseley
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His writing combined keen scientific observation with mystery and wonder. This week on “All About Books” a look at the life and writing of Lincoln native Loren Eiseley. Tom Lynch, Emeritus Professor of English at UNL will introduce readers to this unique and influential writer.By Nebraska Public Media
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Download your free gift today 💫 Your self-care journal
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Upgrade to Team Magic on Apple Podcasts or via this link ⭐️ https://sleepmagic.supercast.com/ When you join Team Magic this July, you’ll get access to a whole bundle of support: ad-free listening, bonus episodes, and also, a free gift – our new Self Care journal to help you sleep better and feel more grounded. 🧘 The journal is designed to go hand i…
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Emily Kam Kngwarray as told by Kelli Cole [Exhibition walkthrough at Tate Modern!]
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I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the esteemed curator Kelli Cole to discuss the trailblazing Australian artist, Emily Kam Kngwarray!This is a very special BONUS episode and [as a one-off format] an exhibition walkthrough of Kngwarray's show at TATE MODERN. This is the first large-scale presentation of Kngwarray’s work ever…
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The Power of Gratitude | Guided Sleep Hypnosis
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In tonight's Sleep Hypnosis with Jessica, we're going to be thinking about all the things in the world we're grateful for. Because wherever you point your mind, your life follows. When we slow down our minds and direct them toward gratitude, our whole body begins to feel good. Which, obviously feels good! And when we feel good, we tend to create go…
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Superman is back on the big screen for the first time in nearly a decade, we speak with director James Gunn.We preview a season of films at the BFI, starring pioneering black film star Dorothy Dandridge. Best known for Carmen Jones, (her performance made her the first African American to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar) she died aged just 42 …
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Author Raynor Winn is accused of fabricating parts of her memoir The Salt Path, which she denies. We ask Alexandra Pringle, former Editor in Chief at Bloomsbury, how publishers respond when a book's authenticity is called into question. Oasis are performing together for the first time in 16 years, kicking off in Cardiff at the weekend. Music journa…
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Tom is joined by reviewers Kate Maltby and Stephanie Merritt to discuss Laura Wade's adaptation for the RSC of Somerset Maugham's comedy The Constant Wife. Also Wendy Erskine's Belfast -set novel; The Benefactors. A polyphonic telling of a teenage girl's assault and its aftermath. And Rebecca Lenkiewicz's directorial debut Hot Milk. Based on Debora…
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Enjoy these bitesize episodes where we highlight some of Jessica's most life-changing advice. Today, we're talking about navigating the financial stress that can keep us up at night. To hear more on this topic, and practice a hypnosis that will help you quiet that voice, just search "Handling Financial Stress Sleep Magic". Want more Sleep Magic? Jo…
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Art Hounds: Healing medicine, abstract art and ‘Endometriosis: The Musical’
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From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Their recommendations are lightly edited from the audio heard in the player above. Want to be an Art Hound? Submit here. Healing through the senses Molly Johnston works for Springboard for the Arts in Fergu…
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Reaction to the Sean 'Diddy' Combs court case verdicts, and Back to the Future at 40
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As the jury in the trial of music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs delivers its verdicts, author and cultural critic Mikki Kendall discusses how Americans will react. On the eve of the 40th anniversary of its release, The Independent's chief film critic Clarisse Loughrey and Dan O'Brien of the University of Essex discuss Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale's infl…
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Set in Venice, the popular detective series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti has a new mystery to solve. In “A Refiner’s Fire” by Donna Leon, Brunetti confronts the present-day menace of teenage street gangs.By Nebraska Public Media
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Finding Resilience In Hard Times | Guided Sleep Hypnosis
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In tonight's Sleep Hypnosis with Jessica, we're going to be exploring the power of getting back up when we're knocked down. Resilience is part of being alive, of being connected to nature. Whether it’s recovering from illness, or moving forward after a loss, or pushing back against oppression, resilience is part of who we are. As always, tonight's …
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