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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Midnight’s Children

In today’s Great Political Fiction 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?


Tomorrow: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale


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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Atlas Shrugged

In today’s 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?


Tomorrow: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children


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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Mother Courage & Her Children

Our ninth Great Political Fiction is Bertolt Brecht’s classic anti-war play, 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?


Tomorrow: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged


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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: The Time Machine

Our eighth Great Political Fiction is H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895) which 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?


Tomorrow: Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage & Her Children


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#118 - Camões, fogo ardente — 500 anos de nascimento

Luís Vaz de Camões (1524-80) reinventou o soneto, viajou pelos sete mares, foi preso, deportado, exilado, perdeu um olho durante uma batalha, salvou seus manuscritos de um naufrágio e se entregou sem pudor aos amores e à boemia. Hoje é cantado na música pop, dá nome a um bife no Rio de Janeiro e virou até comercial de carro. Acima disso tudo, porém, está uma poesia que chega até nós em pleno vigor e beleza, inseminando a produção brasileira contemporânea. Nos 500 anos do poeta, este episódio narrativo resgata a biografia e decifra as múltiplas facetas desse apaixonado. Uma história contada em prosa e verso por Gregório Duvivier, Paulo Henriques Britto, Maria Bochicchio, Sabrina Sedlmayer, Luiz Antonio Simas e Rui Tavares, com textos lidos pela atriz Maria Manoella.

Episódio especial realizado com o apoio da Lei de Incentivo à Cultura e do Instituto Camões-CCP Brasília.

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Today’s Great Political Fiction is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) - a story that it’s easy to know without really knowing it at all. David 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?


Tomorrow: H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine


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Musk, Moraes e o Brasil no centro da disputa - com David Nemer

No sábado (17), o bilionário Elon Musk, dono da rede social X (anteriormente conhecida como Twitter), anunciou o fechamento dos escritórios da plataforma no Brasil. A decisão resulta de uma crescente tensão entre Musk e o ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal, Alexandre de Moraes, que iniciou em abril deste ano, quando uma série de e-mails de funcionários da empresa foram revelados. Na época Musk chegou a chamar Moraes de "ditador brutal". Logo depois, Moraes incluiu Musk no inquérito das milícias digitais para investigar se o empresário cometeu crimes de obstrução à Justiça, organização criminosa e incitação ao crime.

Para avaliar o cenário que levou Elon Musk a fechar os escritórios da X no Brasil, o Pauta Pública desta semana recebe o professor e pesquisador David Nemer. Atualmente, ele integra o Departamento de Estudos de Mídia e é também afiliado do Departamento de Antropologia e do programa de Estudos Latino-Americanos da Universidade da Virgínia. Para Nemer, a decisão de encerrar as atividades do antigo Twitter no Brasil é sinal de que Musk quer violar as leis do país sem ter que lidar com as consequências judiciais e financeiras. O que, para o especialista, é um péssimo sinal.

Dê o play no episódio para saber mais sobre esta análise e as possíveis consequências de ter o Brasil no centro de uma disputa que ganhou dimensões políticas, envolvendo o representante de uma das maiores redes sociais do mundo, que apoia a extrema direita. Não esqueça de seguir e curtir o Pauta Pública nas plataformas de áudio. Deixe também o seu comentário. 

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Phineas Redux

The sixth Great Political Fiction in our summer re-release is Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Redux (1874), his lightly and luridly fictionalised account of parliamentary polarisation in the age of Gladstone and Disraeli. A tale of political and personal melodrama, it explores what happens when political parties steal each other’s clothes and politicians find themselves hung out to dry by their colleagues. A story of integrity and hypocrisy and how hard it is to tell them apart.


Tomorrow: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde


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Making Change

This week, Lucy and Alex are joined by Amber Massie-Blomfield, who discusses her new book about the connections between art and protest.


'Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World', by

Amber Massie-Blomfield


Produced by Charlotte Pardy


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Bom Dia, Fim do Mundo | As Amazônias de Silvio Santos, Delfim e Tuíre

No episódio de estreia, Giovana Girardi, Marina Amaral e Ricardo Terto conversam sobre como as mortes de Delfim Netto, Silvio Santos e Tuíre Kayapó ajudam a entender a relação complicada do país com a Amazônia.

Os próximos episódios de Bom dia, Fim do Mundo serão publicados em feed próprio. Aproveite para buscar e seguir o podcast na sua plataforma favorita. 

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Middlemarch Part 2

This second episode about George Eliot’s masterpiece explores questions of politics and religion, reputation and deception, truth and public opinion. What is the relationship between personal power and faith in a higher power? Is it ever possible to escape from the gossip of your friends once it turns against you? Who can rescue the ambitious when their ambitions are their undoing?


Tomorrow: Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Redux


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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Middlemarch Part 1

Today’s Great Political Fiction is George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1872), which has so much going on that it needs two episodes to unpack it. In this episode David discusses the significance of the book being set in 1829-32 and the reasons why Nietzsche was so wrong to characterise it as a moralistic tale. Plus he explains why a book about personal relationships is also a deeply political novel.


Also today: Middlemarch Part 2


Tomorrow: Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Redux


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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Fathers and Sons

Our fourth Great Political Fiction is Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862), the definitive novel about the politics – and emotions – of intergenerational conflict. How did Turgenev manage to write a wistful novel about nihilism? What made Russian politics in the early 1860s so chock-full of frustration? Why did Turgenev’s book infuriate his contemporaries – including Dostoyevsky?


Tomorrow: George Eliot’s Middlemarch Parts 1 & 2


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#120 – Dois Rios: O caldeirão do inferno

Este episódio é a primeira parte da minissérie Dois Rios.

Uma história que envolve um presídio em uma ilha, uma vila misteriosa, um punhado de pessoas sendo injustamente despejadas, um professor idealista, uma defensora pública engajada, um espertalhão semeador de discórdia, e uma possível conspiração que se aproxima de algumas das pessoas mais poderosas da política brasileira.

Mergulhe mais fundo

O bandido da chacrete: ascensão e queda de um fundador do Comando Vermelho (link para compra)

Entrevistados do episódio

Julio Ludemir

Escritor, roteirista e produtor cultural. Fundador da Festa Literária das Periferias (Flup) e da Batalha do Passinho. Autor de “O bandido da chacrete”, “Sorria, você está na Rocinha” e “No coração do Comando”.

Gelsom Rozentino

Doutor em História, professor do departamento de Ciências Humanas da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), e diretor do Ecomuseu Ilha Grande.

Elisa Cruz

Doutora e Mestra em Direito Civil pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), professora da FGV Direito Rio, e defensora pública do estado do Rio de Janeiro.

Ficha Técnica

Apoio de edição: Matheus Marcolino.

Mixagem de som: Vitor Coroa.

Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama.

Design das capas dos aplicativos e do site: Cláudia Furnari.

Direção, roteiro e edição: Tomás Chiaverini

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Mary Stuart

Our third Great Political Fiction is Friedrich Schiller’s monumental play Mary Stuart (1800), which lays bare the impossible choices faced by two queens – Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots – in a world of men. Schiller imagines a meeting between them that never took place and unpicks its fearsome consequences. Why does it do such damage to them both? How does the powerless Mary maintain her hold over the imperious Elizabeth? Who suffers most in the end and what is that suffering really worth?


Tomorrow: Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons


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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Gulliver’s Travels

Today’s episode on the Great Political Fictions is about Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) – part adventure story, part satire of early-eighteenth-century party politics, but above all a coruscating reflection on the failures of human perspective and self-knowledge. Why do we find it so hard to see ourselves for who we really are? What makes us so vulnerable to mindless feuds and wild conspiracy theories? And what could we learn from the talking horses?


Tomorrow: Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart


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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Coriolanus

In the first episode of the summer daily re-release of our series on the Great Political Fictions, David talks about Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (1608-9), the last of his tragedies and perhaps his most politically contentious play. Why has Coriolanus been subject to so many wildly different political interpretations? Is pride really the tragic flaw of the military monster at its heart? What does it say about the struggle between elite power and popular resistance and about the limits of political argument?


Tomorrow: Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels


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What If… The Vietnam War Had Ended in 1964?

What If… The Vietnam War Had Ended in 1964?


For our latest counterfactual David talks to historian Thant Myint-U about his grandfather U Thant, UN Secretary General for most of the 1960s and the man who might have ended the Vietnam War before it really got started. How close did U Thant get to bringing LBJ and the Vietcong to the negotiating table in 1964? What ultimately scuppered his chances? And how differently might the Cold War have turned out if he had succeeded?

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Coming soon: More What Ifs… on WWI, the Russian Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Up next: Fifteen Fiction for Summer from Coriolanus to Hamilton

 


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Desamparo e ansiedade de fim do mundo - com Rita Von Hunty

Ecoansiedade é o termo definido pela Associação Americana de Psicologia para descrever o ‘medo crônico da catástrofe ambiental’ – uma sensação de ansiedade, frustração e pessimismo com o futuro em relação às consequências das mudanças climáticas. O termo está diretamente associado a um discurso de fim do mundo que parece permear notícias mundo afora. 

Mas quais são os caminhos para lidar com a ideia de fim dos tempos? Rita Von Hunty vem ao Pauta desta semana para nos ajudar a refletir sobre o desamparo e a ansiedade do fim do mundo. Professora, artista e estudante de psicanálise, Rita Von Hunty discute a importância de se pensar em estratégias de enfrentamento não apenas para a crise climática, mas também para as crises sociais e políticas, além da necessidade de nos unirmos na construção de um futuro que não perpetue o modelo de vida que nos envenena, destroi e mata. O episódio está imperdível.

Relacionado ao tema, convidamos você também a acompanhar, a partir de 22 de agosto, o Bom Dia Fim do Mundo, videocast da Agência Pública, realizado em parceria com a TV PUC. Serão programas semanais para discutir as diversas crises que afetam o mundo e o nosso dia a dia. 


Quem faz o Pauta:
 
●      Apresentação:  Andrea Dip e Clarissa Levy||
●      Produção: Ricardo Terto e Stela Diogo ||
●      Pauta e Entrevista: Andrea Dip e Clarissa Levy ||
●      Roteiro, Edição e Mixagem Final: Ricardo Terto ||
●      Artes e ID Visual: Tayná Gonçalves ||
●     Coordenação de Redes Sociais: Karina Tarasiuk ||
●     Publicação site e transcrição: Ana Alice e Raphaela Ribeiro ||
●      Trilha original composta por Pedro Vituri ||

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Fixtures and Funerals

This week, Lucy and Alex are joined by the novelist David Peace, who explains what drew him to writing about the 1958 Munich Air Disaster.


'Munichs', by David Peace


Produced by Charlotte Pardy


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