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Episode 10: From Refugee to Radical 44:09

منذ 2 years44:09

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44:09

When a young Eva Kollisch arrives as a refugee in New York in 1940, she finds a community among socialists who share her values and idealism. She soon discovers ‘the cause’ isn’t as idyllic as it seems. Little does she know this is the beginning of a lifelong commitment to activism and her determination to create radical change in ways that include belonging, love and one's full self. In addition to Eva Kollisch’s memoirs Girl in Movement (2000) and The Ground Under My Feet (2014), LBI’s collections include an oral history interview with Eva conducted in 2014 and the papers of Eva’s mother, poet Margarete Kolllisch, which document Eva’s childhood experience on the Kindertransport. Learn more at www.lbi.org/kollisch . Exile is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute , New York | Berlin and Antica Productions . It’s narrated by Mandy Patinkin. Executive Producers include Katrina Onstad, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Associate Producers are Hailey Choi and Emily Morantz. Research and translation by Isabella Kempf. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson, with help from Cameron McIver. Theme music by Oliver Wickham. Voice acting by Natalia Bushnik. Special thanks to the Kollisch family for the use of Eva’s two memoirs, “Girl in Movement” and “The Ground Under My Feet”, the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and their “Voices of Feminism Oral History Project”, and Soundtrack New York.…

منذ عام واحد 58:28

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Loubna Mrie is a Syrian activist and writer living in the United States.

Omar Dahi is a professor of economics at Hampshire College and a research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

After Assad

The LRB Podcast

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published منذ عام واحد

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Loubna Mrie is a Syrian activist and writer living in the United States.

Omar Dahi is a professor of economics at Hampshire College and a research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Who is Paul Marshall? 1:01:17

منذ 7 أيام1:01:17

1:01:17

A decade ago, the hedge fund manager Paul Marshall was known as a Lib Dem donor and founder of the Ark academy chain. Now, as the owner of UnHerd , GB News and, since last September, the Spectator , he’s a right-wing media tycoon. Peter Geoghegan joins Thomas Jones to discuss Marshall’s transformation. He explains the ‘symbiotic relationship’ between Marshall and Michael Gove, their shared connection to evangelical Christianity, and the changing shape of conservative politics in Britain. Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/marshallpod Sponsored links: Use the code ‘LRB’ to get £150 off Serious Readers lights here: https://www.seriousreaders.com/lrb Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Close Readings: 'Crotchet Castle' by Thomas Love Peacock 36:12

منذ 14 يومًا36:12

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Thomas Love Peacock didn’t want to write novels, at least not in the form they had taken in the first half of the 19th century. In Crotchet Castle he rejects the expectation that novelists should reveal the interiority of their characters, instead favouring the testing of opinions and ideas. His ‘novel of talk’, published in 1831, appears largely like a playscript in which disparate characters assemble for a house party next to the Thames before heading up the river to Wales. Their debates cover, among other things, the Captain Swing riots of 1830, the mass dissemination of knowledge, the emerging philosophy of utilitarianism and the relative merits of medieval and contemporary values. In this extended extract from 'Novel Approaches', a Close Readings series from the LRB, Clare Bucknell is joined by Freya Johnston and Thomas Keymer to discuss where the book came from and its use of ‘sociable argument’ to offer up-to-date commentary on the economic and political turmoil of its time. 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 Sponsored links: Use the code ‘LRB’ to get £150 off Serious Readers lights here: https://www.seriousreaders.com/lrb See A Knock on the Roof at the Royal Court Theatre: https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/a-knock-on-the-roof/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Deaths in Custody 35:37

منذ 21 يومًا35:37

35:37

Since 1995, at least 51 young people have died in Scottish prisons. These include Katie Allan and William Lindsay, who shared strong support networks and, despite very different life experiences, died in similar circumstances. Their deaths were deemed preventable in a long-awaited inquiry that identified a ‘catalogue’ of failures but led to no prosecutions. Dani Garavelli has been investigating William and Katie’s deaths since 2018. She joins Malin to discuss the high rate of suicide in custody and why Scotland’s supposedly enlightened approach to youth justice is deeply flawed. Find Dani Garavelli’s piece on the episode page: https://lrb.me/deathsincustodypod Sponsored links: Use the code ‘LRB’ to get £150 off Serious Readers lights here: https://www.seriousreaders.com/lrb See A Knock on the Roof at the Royal Court Theatre: https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/a-knock-on-the-roof/ LRB Audio Discover audiobooks, Close Readings and more from the LRB : https://lrb.me/audiolrbpod Get in touch with the podcasts team: podcasts@lrb.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Have we surrendered to climate breakdown? 50:26

منذ 28 يومًا50:26

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In 2015, a vigorous response to climate change seemed possible: even fossil fuel companies talked about transitioning to cleaner energy. But exploration and exploitation of oil and gas reserves have continued unabated, and in 2024, annual temperatures surpassed the 1.5ºC limit set by the Paris Agreement. In a recent piece, Brett Christophers describes the global shift from active policymaking to acceptance and surrender. He joins Tom to discuss the roles of Europe, the US and China in climate change, why solutions like ‘carbon capture’ are futile and where there’s room for cautious optimism. Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/climateovershootpod Sponsored links: Use the code ‘LRB’ to get £150 off Serious Readers lights here: https://www.seriousreaders.com/lrb Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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On Vigdis Hjorth 46:14

منذ 5 weeks46:14

46:14

The Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth is a master of the collapsing relationship. In her twenty books, five of which have been translated into English, she turns her eye to estranged siblings, tormented lovers, demanding parents and disaffected colleagues with the same combination of philosophical penetration and sympathy. But she hasn’t always received the recognition afforded to her male peers. On this week’s episode, Toril Moi joins Malin to discuss Hjorth’s early reputation as an ‘erotic’ novelist and what that gets wrong about her work. Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/hjorthpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Close Readings: ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen 32:41

منذ 6 weeks32:41

32:41

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.…

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Ronald Reagan’s Make-Believe 1:04:38

منذ 7 weeks1:04:38

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Ronald Reagan, as Jackson Lears wrote recently in the LRB , was a ‘telegenic demagogue’ whose ‘emotional appeal was built on white people’s racism’. His presidency left the United States a far more unequal place at home, with a renewed commitment to deadly imperial adventures abroad. Yet he had a gift for making up stories that ‘made America feel good about itself again’. On the latest episode of the LRB podcast, Lears joins Tom to discuss Reagan’s life and self-made legend, from his hardscrabble Midwestern boyhood to the White House by way of Hollywood, and to consider the lasting effects of his presidency. Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/reaganpod Sponsored link: Sign up for The Syllabus: https://the-syllabus.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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After Assad 58:28

منذ 8 weeks58:28

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In the month since Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by a coalition of rebel forces, thousands of political prisoners have been released while many more remain missing, assumed lost to the regime. The most powerful group among the rebels, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has moved to take control of the country while Israel has seized the opportunity to carry out extensive bombing of Syria’s military facilities. In this episode, Adam Shatz is joined by Loubna Mrie and Omar Dahi to discuss these events and consider what the end of fifty years of Ba’athist tyranny means for the Syrian people both at home and in exile. Loubna Mrie is a Syrian activist and writer living in the United States. Omar Dahi is a professor of economics at Hampshire College and a research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Read more in the LRB : Tom Stevenson: Assad's Fall https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/tom-stevenson/assad-s-fall LRB Audio Discover audiobooks, Close Readings and more from the LRB : https://lrb.me/audiolrbpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Abbamania 58:17

منذ 9 weeks58:17

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‘OK, that’s that. It’s over now,’ Björn Ulvaeus thought after Abba broke up in 1982. ‘But,’ as Chal Ravens writes in the latest LRB, ‘Björn’s zeitgeist detector was, as usual, on the blink.’ By the late 1990s, Abba ‘were basically tap water’. In the latest episode of the LRB podcast, Chal joins Thomas Jones to discuss the foursome’s rise to global domination from distinctly Swedish origins, and whether the arc of history bends towards disco. Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/abbamaniapod Sponsored links: Get a copy of the new edition of Pellegrino Artusi’s groundbreaking cookbook from Toronto University Press: https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9780802086570 LRB Audio Discover audiobooks, Close Readings and more from the LRB : https://lrb.me/audiolrbpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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A Conversation with Neal Ascherson 1:16:54

منذ 10 weeks1:16:54

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Neal Ascherson has worked as a journalist for more than six decades, reporting from Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, its successor states and elsewhere. He has also written more than a hundred pieces for the London Review of Books , from its seventh issue (in February 1980) to its most recent. In this episode of the LRB podcast, Ascherson talks to Thomas Jones about his recent piece on the journalist Claud Cockburn and about his own life and career, from his time as propaganda secretary for the Uganda National Congress to the moment he witnessed preparations for the kidnapping of Mikhail Gorbachev in Crimea but ‘missed the scoop of a lifetime’. Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/aschersonpod Listen to Neal Ascherson deliver his 2012 LRB Winter Lecture: https://lrb.me/aschersonwl LRB Audio Discover audiobooks, Close Readings and more from the LRB : https://lrb.me/audiolrbpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Close Readings: Marcus Aurelius 1:00:09

منذ 11 weeks1:00:09

1:00:09

This week on the LRB Podcast, a free episode from one of our Close Readings series. For their final conversation Among the Ancients, Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones turn to the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Said by Machiavelli to be the last of the ‘five good emperors’ who ruled Rome for most of the second century CE, Marcus oversaw devastating wars on the frontiers, a deadly plague and economic turmoil. The writings known in English as The Meditations , and in Latin as ‘to himself’, were composed in Greek in the last decade of Marcus ’ life. They reveal his preoccupation with illness, growing old, death and posthumous reputation, as he urges himself not to be troubled by such transient things. Readings by Hazel Holder. To listen to more Among the Ancients and all other Close Readings series in full, subscribe: Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPq In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadings Or purchase a gift subscription: https://lrb.me/audiogifts Further reading in the LRB: Mary Beard: Was he quite ordinary? https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n14/mary-beard/was-he-quite-ordinary Emily Wilson: I have gorgeous hair https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n11/emily-wilson/i-have-gorgeous-hair Shadi Bartsch: Dying to Make a Point https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n22/shadi-bartsch/dying-to-make-a-point M.F. Burnyeat: Excuses for Madness https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v24/n20/m.f.-burnyeat/excuses-for-madness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Saving Masud Khan 38:01

منذ 12 weeks38:01

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Wynne Godley was by turns a professional oboist, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, an economist at the Treasury and a director of the Royal Opera House. Yet at thirty he found himself ‘living through an artificial self’ and turned to psychoanalysis for help. Masud Khan was a protégé of D.W. Winnicott and the darling of British psychoanalysis. He was also much else besides. In this unforgettable piece from 2001, Godley describes his baffling and disastrous sessions with Khan. Read by Duncan Wilkins. Find the original piece and further reading at the episode page: https://lrb.me/godleypod LRB Audio Discover audiobooks, Close Readings and more from the LRB : https://lrb.me/audiolrbpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Gaza, Before and After 1:25:14

منذ 13 weeks1:25:14

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Ghassan Abu-Sittah and Muhammad Shehada join Adam Shatz to describe what life was like in Gaza in the months and years leading up to the Hamas attack on Israel last October, and to discuss the experiences of Gazans during Israel’s subsequent – and ongoing – devastation of the territory. More in the LRB : Adam Shatz: Israel's Descent https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/adam-shatz/israel-s-descent Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah after Gaza https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza Also available to watch: https://youtu.be/_w3Pe00I_Ro LRB Audio Discover audiobooks, Close Readings and more from the LRB : https://lrb.me/audiolrbpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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On Lisa Marie Presley 42:14

منذ 14 weeks42:14

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As Elvis’s only child, Lisa Marie Presley was burdened from birth with extraordinary, largely unwanted fame. Before her death in 2023, she spent years as tabloid fodder, less for her sporadic music career than for her highly publicised relationships with Michael Jackson, Nicolas Cage and Scientology. In a recent review of her posthumous memoir, Jessica Olin celebrates Lisa Marie’s resilience and charisma in the face of ruthless publicity. Jessica joins Tom to discuss Lisa Marie’s ambivalent relationship with fame, and how a new generation are encountering the Presley family saga through her daughter, Riley Keough. Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/lisamariepod Sponsored Links: Find out more about ACE Cultural Tours: https://aceculturaltours.co.uk To learn more about financial support for professional writers, visit the Royal Literary Fund here: https://www.rlf.org.uk/ Audio Gifts from the LRB : https://lrb.me/audiogifts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Labour's Economic Conundrum 53:19

منذ 15 weeks53:19

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William Davies joins Tom to assess the efforts of the new Labour government in tackling the UK's many economic challenges. They consider whether Rachel Reeves’s first budget, with its substantial tax rises, can do anything more than arrest the decline of the public finances, and what Keir Starmer hopes to achieve with his public overtures to the likes of Google and BlackRock. Will their technocratic style of government be able to survive the pressures of populist politics, or is their long-term thinking simply too long-term to bring election-winning improvements to people’s everyday lives? Read William Davies's piece: https://lrb.me/davies4622pod LRB Audio Discover audiobooks, Close Readings and more from the LRB : https://lrb.me/audiolrbpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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