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The LRB Podcast brings you weekly conversations from Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas. Hosted by Thomas Jones and Malin Hay, with guest episodes from the LRB's US editor Adam Shatz, Meehan Crist, Rosemary Hill and more. Find the LRB's new Close Readings podcast in on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or search 'LRB Close Readings' wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The new London Book Fair FREE podcasts include views from key figures within the industry and interviews with the three authors taking part in the LBF Author of the Day programme. The podcasts will include a mix of both audio and video episodes. The London Book Fair is held on the 14-16 April 2008, at Earls Court, London. Find out more at www.londonbookfair.co.uk
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The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels. Staged annually, LBF sees more than 25,000 publishing professionals arrive in London for the week of the show to learn, network and kick off their year of business.
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The place where young readers meet to talk about books. The show includes a celebrity reader and an interview with the author. The host is award winning public radio journalist Kitty Felde. Book Club won the California Library Association Technology Award and the DC Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Humanitites. Named one of the top 10 podcasts for kids by THE TIMES of London.
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Paul London (professional wrestler & actor) joins $2LF's Zak Shaffer (avid 80's wrestling fan), as they each bring a favorite match from the territory days of wrestling (80's & early 90's) to revisit, corresponding with pop culture moments from that time.
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Welcome to Two Dollar Late Fee, an 80s movie podcast hosted by 80s ninjas, Zak and Dustin and bathed in the soothing glow of celeb interviews, soundtracks, nostalgia and positivity. It’s also the home of Territory Marks, revisiting the glory days of pro wrestling, with Paul London. No late fees here. Promise. NEW EPISODES EVERY SUNDAY!
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SoA Sounds is the podcast channel of the Society of Authors, the UK trade union for all types of writers, illustrators and literary translators. www.societyofauthors.org
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The ArtTactic Podcast, the leading podcast on the art market, covers a wide range of topics from art investment to general topics about the global art market industry. Each episode features an in-depth interview with a key art market figure.
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In Material Matters, host Grant Gibson talks to a designer, maker, artist, architect, engineer, or scientist about a material or technique with which they’re intrinsically linked and discovers how it changed their lives and careers. Follow us on Instagram @materialmatters.design and our website www.materialmatters.design The Material Matters fair will return in 2025, as part of the London Design Festival. Material Matters is produced and published by Delizia Media Ltd.
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The Cover Podcast is a podcast all about books hosted by two booksellers from Cardiff.
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Author interviews, Reading Short Stories & Behind the scenes of making fiction.
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Close Readings is a new multi-series podcast subscription from the London Review of Books. Two contributors explore areas of literature through a selection of key works, providing an introductory grounding like no other. Listen to some episodes for free here, and extracts from our ongoing subscriber-only series. How To Subscribe In Apple Podcasts, click 'subscribe' at the top of this podcast feed to unlock the full episodes. Or for other podcast apps, sign up here: https://lrb.me/closereadin ...
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If you've enjoyed watching the 1998 BBC television miniseries, you'd probably want to renew your acquaintance with William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847 novel, Vanity Fair. However, if you're unfamiliar with what has been dubbed one of the Best 100 Books in English Literature, you certainly have a treat ahead. Miss Pinkerton's Academy in Chiswick Mall in London is where young ladies with ambitions of making a good marriage are sent by their socially aspiring middleclass parents. Two young ladie ...
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Annabel Keenan on Her New Book Climate Action in the Art World
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In this week's episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, Adam Green is joined by Annabel Keenan, art writer and author of Climate Action in the Art World: Towards a Greener Future. They discuss why sustainability has taken so long to become a real conversation in the art world, even though many individuals care deeply about the climate in their personal li…
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AHEC's David Venables on US hardwood forests and using what nature provides.
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David Venables is the European director for the American Hardwood Export Council. Over the last 20 years, the organisation has created an array of extraordinary installations, sculptures and products – working with the likes of Alison Brooks, Waugh Thistleton, Heatherwick Studio, Jaime Hayon, Benedetta Tagliabue, and Stefan Diez to name just a few …
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Tales From The Video Store: "Making Megaforce" w Bob Lindenmayer
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The Good Guys Always Win…Even In 2025! Bob Lindenmayer comes to the video store to discuss his new documentary Making Megaforce (other than Megaforce), favorite “vehicle” movie, & more! Making Megaforce is one part documentary, one part personal quest to regain childhood, and 100% love to the cult classic Megaforce! In this episode, Bob Lindenmayer…
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Close Readings: Nietzsche's 'Schopenhauer as Educator'
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In this extended extract from their series 'Conversations in Philosophy', part of the LRB's Close Readings podcast, Jonathan Rée and James Wood look at one of Friedrich Nietzsche's early essays, 'Schopenhauer as Educator'. For Nietzsche, Schopenhauer’s genius lay not in his ideas but in his heroic indifference, a thinker whose value to the world is…
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TOP TEN LIST #8: On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
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Today it’s a book for older kids – "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas. Our main character is an aspiring rap star dealing with sudden fame and the reputation of her late father. Our readers are from West Education Campus in Washington, D.C. Actress Tallie Johnson is celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host. Favorite Books from West Education Campus: Los…
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Zachary Small & Tim Schneider Break Down the New York Spring Auctions
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In this week's episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, host Adam Green is joined by Zachary Small, culture reporter covering art for The New York Times, and Tim Schneider, founder of The Gray Market and a freelance journalist, to break down New York’s May auctions and what they reveal about the current state of the art market. While the material this sea…
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Conversations in Philosophy: 'Schopenhauer as Educator' by Friedrich Nietzsche
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For Nietzsche, Schopenhauer’s genius lay not in his ideas but in his heroic indifference, a thinker whose value to the world is as a liberator rather than a teacher, who shows us what philosophy is really for: to forget what we already know. ‘Schopenhauer as Educator’ was written in 1874, when Nietzsche was 30, and was published in a collection wit…
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Territory Marks: The Bill Mercer Tribute with Marc Lowrance
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Legendary announcer and commentator, Marc Lowrance is back to celebrate the life of the great Bill Mercer! Bill Mercer left an indelible mark on the wrestling industry. It’s only fitting that he is honored by someone who admired him and called him a friend, Marc Lowrance. In this episode Marc and Zak pay tribute to Bill by reflecting on his career …
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Territory Marks: The Bill Mercer Tribute with Marc Lowrance
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Legendary announcer and commentator, Marc Lowrance is back to celebrate the life of the great Bill Mercer! Bill Mercer left an indelible mark on the wrestling industry. It’s only fitting that he is honored by someone who admired him and called him a friend, Marc Lowrance. In this episode Marc and Zak pay tribute to Bill by reflecting on his career …
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‘The Church needs to change; the Church cannot afford to change,’ Colm Tóibín wrote recently in the LRB. In this episode of the podcast, he joins Tom to discuss how the new pope will have to navigate this paradox. He also looks back at the Francis papacy, and the way that Francis behind his smile ran the Vatican with an iron first; at relations be…
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Book Club for Kids Goes to the City of Stem LA Maker Faire
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What's your favorite book? A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 7 -Lemony Snicket Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan Angry Aztecs (Horrible Histories) - Terry Deary Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery Invisible Inkling - Emily Jenkins Cat Kid Comic Club - Dav Pilkey Aru Sha - Roshani Chokshi Frizzy - Claribel Ortega…
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Rosa Whiteley on shells and creating a new building material.
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Rosa Whiteley is a designer, writer and researcher, who trained as an architect at Manchester School of Architecture and the Royal College of Art. Subsequently, she has worked within Cooking Sections, the Turner Prize nominated design and art collective, as a project manager and lead researcher and, since 2021, she has been the director of Material…
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Novel Approaches: ‘North and South’ by Elizabeth Gaskell
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In North and South (1855), Margaret Hale is uprooted from her sleepy New Forest town and must adapt to life in the industrial north. Through her relationships with mill workers and a slow-burn romance with the self-made capitalist John Thornton, she is forced to reassess her assumptions about justice and propriety. At the heart of the novel are a s…
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80s Kids Unite: The Scholastic Book Fair
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The greatest week of school was the book fair! In this episode we celebrate the Scholastic Book Fair, the books we couldn’t live with out, the Book Mobile, and more! Corey (Podcasting After Dark), Diallo (TV Obscura), & Zak (Territory Marks) are joined by fellow “Night Boy” John Toma aka “That 80s Dude” as they reminisce on their love (or in Corey’…
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80s Kids Unite: The Scholastic Book Fair
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The greatest week of school was the book fair! In this episode we celebrate the Scholastic Book Fair, the books we couldn’t live with out, the Book Mobile, and more! Corey (Podcasting After Dark), Diallo (TV Obscura), & Zak (Territory Marks) are joined by fellow “Night Boy” John Toma aka “That 80s Dude” as they reminisce on their love (or in Corey’…
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Breaking Down New York’s Packed Art Fair Week with ARTnews' Maximilíano Durón
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In this week's episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, host Adam Green is joined by Maximilíano Durón, Senior Editor at ARTnews, to break down one of the busiest New York Art Weeks in recent memory. This year, TEFAF and Independent moved up their schedules, landing in the same week as Frieze, NADA, Future, and several other fairs, creating a packed and f…
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Top Ten List: #9: The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
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Students from Stuart-Hobson Middle School in Washington, DC talk about "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. The conversation covers everything from death to Nazis to books. Actress Melanie MacQueen (Robotech) is celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host. Markus Zusak interview is courtesy of the Australian bookstore Booktopia. Spoiler Alert: plot points a…
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In the Soviet Archives: a conversation with Sheila Fitzpatrick
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When Sheila Fitzpatrick first went to Moscow in the 1960s as a young academic, the prevailing understanding of the Soviet Union in the West was governed by the ‘totalitarian hypothesis’, of a system ruled entirely from the top down. Her examination of the ministry papers of Anatoly Lunacharsky, the first Commissar of Enlightenment after the Revolut…
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Love and Death: Self-Elegies by Plath, Larkin, Hardy and more
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Philip Larkin was terrified of death from an early age; Thomas Hardy contemplated what the neighbours would say after he had gone; and Sylvia Plath imagined her own death in vivid and controversial ways. The genre of self-elegy, in which poets have reflected on their own passing, is a small but eloquent one in the history of English poetry. In this…
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Artificially Intelligent: the latest on collective licensing and parliamentary debate
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On the 25th of February 2025 the industry came together in an unprecedented show of support to recognise the importance of human-centred creativity as developments in the Artificial Intelligence space continued apace. As government considers their next steps, we reflect on that work and bring you all the latest as the Authors’ Licensing & Collectin…
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Claudy Jongstra on working with wool and creating her own biodynamic farm.
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Claudy Jongstra is a Dutch artist and designer who has become globally renowned for her, often monumental, textile installations and tapestries made from wool. After establishing her studio in Friesland in the Dutch countryside during 2001, she started an ecological venture, which involved maintaining a herd of indigenous sheep and creating a biody…
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The Ira Heiden Interview "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors"
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The Wizard Master, Ira Heiden comes to Two Dollar Late Fee to talk Freddy Krueger, Twisted Sister, Brandon Lee, & more! Ira Heiden (A Nightmare On Elm Street: Dream Warriors, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Illegally Yours) sits down with Grace & Zak to discuss his career in Hollywood, his friendship with Bill Allen (Rad), the band that almost wound …
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In 2013, a group of French and Egyptian archaeologists discovered of cache of papyri as old as the Great Pyramid of Giza. Some of the texts were written by people who had worked on the pyramids: a tally of their daily labour ferrying stones, for instance, between quarry and building site, and the payment they received in fabrics and beer. Robert Ci…
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This week, host Kitty Felde asks future scientists what they are reading. Here's some suggestions: Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas Books of Bayern - Shnnon Hale Five Worlds - Mark Siegel The Hardy Boys - Franklin W. Dixon Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo Percy Jackson 5: The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan Pe…
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James Stourton on London’s Postwar Art World and the Rise of the Global Market
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In this week's episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, host Adam Green speaks with James Stourton, British art historian and former chairman of Sotheby’s UK, about his new book Rogues and Scholars: A History of the London Art World: 1945 to 2000. Stourton reflects on key moments that shaped the postwar British art market, including the landmark Jakob Gol…
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Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Franz Kafka
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In the stories of Franz Kafka we find the fantastical wearing the most ordinary, realist dress. Though haunted by abjection and failure, Kafka has come to embody the power and potential of literary imagination in the 20th century as it confronts the nightmares of modernity. In this episode, Marina Warner is joined by Adam Thirlwell to discuss the w…
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A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
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Don’t dream til it’s over, because One…Two Dollar Late Fee’s coming to scare you…this month, with A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors! In this pre episode to their upcoming interview with Ira Heiden (A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Illegally Yours, Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark) Grace and Zak dig deep into the Freddy Krueger cla…
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Inside The Artists Speak Report with Charlotte Burns and Julia Halperin
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In this week's episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, host Adam Green is joined by journalists Charlotte Burns and Julia Halperin to discuss The Artists Speak Report, a major new survey they authored, commissioned by Anonymous Was A Woman. Based on responses from over 1,000 female artists, the report offers a rare and essential look into how artists are…
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The Soviet Women’s Anti-Fascist Committee was set up in 1941 to foster connections with Allied countries and encourage British and US women to ‘invest personally’ in the war effort. Two years later, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship in New York started its own letter-writing programme. The correspondence between a few hundred pairs…
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Last week, we talked about “Refugee,” Alan Gratz’ tale of kids fleeing violence and political oppression around the world. It’s a tough read. I had to put it down a few times. But how difficult is it to write a book about a tough subject? We asked Alan Gratz.By Kitty Felde
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