The first episode in our new series with historian Robert Saunders on pivotal general elections is about the Tory disaster and Liberal triumph of 1906. David and Robert explore the reasons behind the worst result in modern Conservative party history – until now? How did the Liberals achieve their landslide? What made ‘Big Loaf, Little Loaf’ a winning election slogan? And who was Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the great forgotten prime minister?
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Coming up: the Labour landslide of 1945
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This week, TLS editors and writers guide you through a summer of reading; and Sarah Watling explores the extraordinary story of an artistic double act.
'Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece: An Untold Story', Charleston, Lewes, Sussex
'The Secret Art of Dorothy Hepworth, aka Patricia Preece', by Denys J. Wilcox
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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For the final episode in the current series, David discusses Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), her unforgettable dystopian vision of a future American patriarchy. Where is Gilead? When is Gilead? How did it happen? How can it be stopped? From puritanism and slavery to Iran and Romania, from demography and racism to Playboy and Scrabble, this novel takes the familiar and the known and makes them hauntingly and terrifyingly new.
Coming next: The Ideas Behind UK General Elections, starting with the game-changing election of 1906.
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In the penultimate episode of the current part of our Fictions series, David explores Salman Rushdie’s 1981 masterpiece Midnight’s Children, the great novel about the life and death of Indian democracy. How can one boy stand in for the whole of India? How can a nation as diverse as India ever have a single politics? And how is a jar of pickle the answer to these questions? Plus, how does Rushdie’s story read today, in the age of Modi?
Next time: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
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Durante a ditadura militar, Luiz Felipe de Alencastro escreveu sob um pseudônimo sobre a situação política brasileira para o jornal francês 'Le Monde Diplomatique'. Neste episódio, o cientista político conversa com Rodrigo Bonciani, organizador da coletânea que reúne esses artigos, "Despotismo Tropical: A ditadura e a redemocratização nas crônicas de Julia Juruna" (Tinta-da-China Brasil). No 451 MHz, eles falam sobre os poderes paralelos que atuavam durante o regime e comentam o panorama político atual. O episódio foi realizado com apoio da Lei de Incentivo à Cultura. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
This week, Ben Hutchinson on the making of Franz Kafka, a century after the writer's death; and an interview with Roz Dineen about her vision of climate catastrophe and societal collapse.
'Kafka: Making of an icon', Weston Library, Bodleian, Oxford, until October 27
Accompanying book edited by Ritchie Robertson
'Briefly Very Beautiful', by Roz Dineen
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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In this episode David discusses Ayn Rand’s insanely long and insanely influential Atlas Shrugged (1957), the bible of free-market entrepreneurialism and source book to this day for vicious anti-socialist polemics. Why is this novel so adored by Silicon Valley tech titans? How can something so bad have so much lasting power? And what did Rand have against her arch-villain Robert Oppenheimer?
Next time: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
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A não monogamia está na moda. A busca pelo termo no Google subiu quase 300 por cento entre 2021 e 2023, e o Brasil é o terceiro país que mais pesquisa sobre o assunto. Apesar desse interesse pelo tema, porém, o amor monogâmico segue sendo o sonho de muita gente.
Essa ideia do amor romântico, do felizes para sempre, tem moldado a sociedade há um bom tempo. Só que, ao contrário do que muitos imaginam, a monogamia nunca foi modelo “natural” de relacionamentos humanos.
Neste episódio de podcast, contamos a história das relações amorosas entre humanos, falamos de formas alternativas de nos relacionarmos e explicamos como elas impactam a vida em sociedade. É um segundo mergulho nas dores, delícias e desafios da não monogamia.
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Escritor, doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, professor do Departamento de Educação e Sociedade da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, pesquisador do Laboratório de Estudos Afro-Brasileiros e Indígenas.
Antropóloga, professora doutora do Departamento de Psicologia Experimental da Universidade de São Paulo, especialista em etologia e sexualidade humana.
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Bertolt Brecht’s classic anti-war play was written in 1939 at the start of one terrible European war but set in the time of another: the Thirty Years’ War of the 17th century. How did Brecht think a three-hundred-year gap could help us to understand our own capacity for violence and cruelty? Why did he make Mother Courage such an unlovable character? Why do we feel for her plight anyway? And what can we do about it?
Next time: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
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Join us for at the Hay Festival for a conversation encompassing portals to other worlds, rock bands, improbable giraffes and the travails of the M4.
'Impossible Creatures', by Katherine Rundell
'One Ukrainian Summer: A Memoir About Falling in Love and Coming of Age in the Former USSR', by Viv Groskop
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H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895) isn’t just a book about time travel. It’s also full of late-19th century fear and paranoia about what evolution and progress might do to human beings in the long run. Why will the class struggle turn into savagery and human sacrifice? Who will end up on top? And how will the world ultimately end?
Next time: Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) is a story that it’s easy to know without really knowing it at all. This week’s episode explores all the ways that Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale confounds our expectations about good and evil. What does Dr Jekyll really want? What are all the men in the book trying to hide? And what has any of this got to do with Q-Anon and Hillary Clinton?
Next time: H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine.
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