Nieves Concostrina habla de cómo Alfonso XII perjudicó la educación al prohibir la libertad de cátedra para impedir la difusión de teorías científicas como la evolución, adaptando la enseñanza universitaria al dogma católico.
In the second of two episodes about Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, David talks to critic and memoirist Catherine Taylor about the novel’s place in the history of feminism. Is its idea of ‘free women’ meant to be ironic? Why are the things that shocked its original readers not the things that shock its readers today? What makes Lessing so much more angry about male hypocrisy than she is about male brutality? And what else by Lessing should we all read?
Join us on Friday 19th June at the Regent Street Cinema in London for the final film in our current season: a screening of Never Let Me Go followed by a live podcast recording with geneticist and science writer Adam Rutherford. Tickets available now https://bit.ly/4x641XC
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Nieves Concostrina explica como el desastre educativo en España se originó con el Concordato de 1851, cuando la reina Isabel II entregó el control absoluto de la enseñanza a la Iglesia católica a cambio de legitimación política.
Argentinian doctor Marcos Hourmann had been working in Spain for almost two decades when one night he found himself faced with a situation that was new to him: a patient was asking him to end her suffering. The decision he made would change his future.
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May has flown by — here's a listen back at some of the conversations we've had this month on The TLS Podcast.
We hear from Merlin Holland on the afterlife of his grandfather Oscar Wilde, David Horspool on the luscious world of the lido, Samantha Ellis on Charlotte Brontë's relationship with material reality, and Dinah Birch finds solace in letters and diaries from the past.
In today’s episode David explores Doris Lessing’s bold and brilliant The Golden Notebook (1962), a book about female emancipation, political disillusionment and much, much more. Why did Lessing insist that the novel’s original critics misunderstood what the book was about? What makes her description of joining and then leaving the Communist Party in 1950s London different from any other account? How did a book about mental disintegration capture the essence of the age?
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Join us at the Cheltenham Science Festival this Wednesday 3rd June for a live recording of the podcast with David in conversation with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, to talk about trust, democracy and knowledge in a divided world. There are a few tickets still available: book now https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/the-politics-of-trust-lessons-from-wikipedia
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Este episódio tem descrições detalhadas de violência e pode não ser adequado para todos.
No último dia 18 de maio, a Marinha de Israel atacou ilegalmente, em águas internacionais, navios em missão humanitária que tentavam romper o bloqueio à Faixa de Gaza para atender a população. As ações resultaram na apreensão dos barcos da Flotilha Global Sumud e no sequestro de ativistas de diversos países, incluindo o Brasil.
O médico pediatra Cássio Pelegrini, que atua no atendimento a imigrantes em São Paulo, era um dos integrantes da Flotilha e é o entrevistado do Pauta Pública desta semana. Na conversa com Andrea Dip, ele faz um relato detalhado do horror vivido nas mãos dos militares israelenses: espancamentos, choques, privação de água, exposição ao frio e ao calor, violência sexual e violência psicológica extrema. Relatos de tortura, que contaram com o aval do próprio ministro de Segurança Nacional do país, Itamar Ben-Gvir, que chegou a divulgar em suas redes sociais vídeos de ativistas amarrados e ajoelhados, com a legenda “bem-vindos a Israel”.
Apesar da violência extrema, Pelegrini considera que os ativistas seguem firmes no apoio ao povo palestino: “eles fraturaram muitos corpos e foram violentos com a gente psicologicamente, mas em nenhum momento tivemos dúvida de que era o correto estar ali. Então, moralmente, a gente saiu intacto”, afirma.
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Que temores só as mulheres sentem? Este episódio traz uma conversa sobre o universo narrativo da escritora colombiana Pilar Quintana, que lança o romance Noite Negra (Companhia das Letras) e participa d'A Feira do Livro 2026 no domingo (31 de maio). As convidadas do programa são a jornalista Adriana Ferreira Silva, que resenhou o romance para a Quatro Cinco Um, e a tradutora Elisa Menezes, que o verteu para o português. Na conversa, elas falam de como Quintana retrata os perigos enfrentados por uma mulher rodeada de homens não confiáveis, da questão racial, que faz lembrar o Brasil, e dos desafios da tradução.
This week, Dinah Birch finds solace in letters and diaries from the past, whether they be joyous, heartbreaking or down-to-earth; John Talbot reads us his poem of a very specific corner of London.
A Literary Letter for Every Day of the Year, edited by Liz Ison
The Writer’s Room: The hidden worlds that shape the books we love by Katie da Cunha Lewin
Diaries of Note: 366 lives, one day at a time, edited by Shaun Usher
For the first in a new set of episodes about some of the great political fictions of the past hundred years David explores Aldous Huxley’s much misunderstood dystopian masterpiece Brave New World (1932). How did Huxley imagine that a future society could be both horribly regimented and crazily libertarian? Why is it Pavlovian conditioning and not genetic engineering that builds the humans of the future? What makes the book eerily prophetic of 21st-century consumer culture? And where does Shakespeare fit in?
Do scroll back in your feed for many more earlier episodes of The Great Political Fictions!
Out tomorrow on PPF+: a bonus episode about the other great English-language dystopia of the last century – George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Why does a book that is out of date and out of time still haunt everyone who reads it today? To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up to PPF+ now https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
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The twins Ana and Lichi grew up far from their parents. They spent their childhood moving from city to city, always in the care of a relative. Being together was the only constant in their lives: they had only each other. But at age 13, a trip to northern Paraguay would change their lives forever.
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Como uma fiscal do trabalho entediada se tornou uma das principais responsáveis pela proibição do amianto no Brasil? Como uma lei do estado de Goiás permite que uma empresa continue minerando este produto cancerígeno anos depois do banimento nacional?
Today’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Regent Street Cinema in London: David talks to the writer and broadcaster Helen Lewis about George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck (2005). A film about the golden age of journalism and the grim years of McCarthyism, it tells the story of Ed Murrow’s attempt to take down scaremongering and conspiracy theories. Where is McCarthyism at work today? What’s happened to cancel culture? How was early TV like podcasting? And is George Clooney a hero for our times?
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Desde a ascensão do bolsonarismo, em 2018, as eleições presidenciais passaram a ser marcadas por instabilidade, desinformação e dificuldade de prever candidaturas e possíveis resultados. A cinco meses das disputas de 2026, o atual cenário político já é complexo e instável. Lula disputa sua possível última eleição em um contexto atravessado por guerras no mundo, crises econômicas e pela crescente desinformação nas redes sociais, impulsionada pelo avanço da inteligência artificial. Ao mesmo tempo, o bolsonarismo tenta reorganizar sua sucessão política em meio às incertezas sobre a possível candidatura de Flávio Bolsonaro, atualmente envolvido em escândalos e em disputas de narrativa em torno da própria realidade dos fatos.
O Pauta Pública desta semana mergulha neste cenário com um dos maiores nomes do jornalismo brasileiro, Ricardo Kotscho. Na entrevista com a Andrea Dip, ele alerta que o debate público brasileiro vive uma crise que vai muito além dos nomes colocados na disputa presidencial. Kotscho analisa como a desinformação, a fragilidade das instituições e o esvaziamento da participação política ajudam a moldar o cenário atual do país, e destaca a importância do jornalismo no comprometimento com o futuro do país.
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O que revela o olhar de quem viveu a guerra? Neste episódio, a escritora Beatriz Bracher fala sobre o romance Guerra — I (Editora 34), primeiro volume da sua trilogia sobre a Guerra do Paraguai. A narrativa, criada pela costura de relatos reais, coloca em primeiro plano vozes que presenciaram o conflito, despertando no leitor o horror à guerra, diz Bracher. Ela também lembra que o convívio entre brancos e negros, senhores e escravizados e pessoas de diferentes regiões do país no front de batalha foi uma primeira descoberta do Brasil pelos brasileiros. A conversa aconteceu durante A Feira do Livro 2025, com mediação do escritor Joca Reiners Terron.
This week, David Streitfeld takes us to Earthsea and the wonderful imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin; and Samantha Ellis on Charlotte Brontë's relationship with material reality.
'The Word for World: The maps of Ursula K. Le Guin', edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin
'Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand', by Ursula K. Le Guin
'Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats'
'So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018'
'A Larger Reality', edited by Conner Bouchard-Roberts
'Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes', by Eleanor Houghton
Mano Brown e Semayat Oliveira recebem Rashid pra um papo reto sobre vida, rap, amizade e memória.Entre lembranças de tempos difíceis, composição, caminhada e a influência do rap de geração pra geração, os três refletem sobre o conceito de sucesso e como cada um enxerga isso de um jeito diferente. Um encontro sincero entre quem viveu a cultura de perto e nunca deixou de acreditar no próprio caminho.Tem conversa boa, risada, reflexão e aquela fé genuína de que o rap sempre foi destino.Ouça agora. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Today it’s the second of our episodes trying to make sense of what’s happening in British politics with a bit of historical perspective: this time asking what is likely to follow from the current crisis. David talks to historians Robert Saunders and David Klemperer, Hannah White from the Institute for Government and political scientist Rob Ford. Can the current electoral system survive? Are either – or both – of the two main parties about to be replaced? Does Britain need proper devolution? And where do things stand on the prospect of Farage as PM?
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Alexis Figueroa is willing to do the unthinkable to get a celebrity’s autograph. In this episode, we follow him as he attempts to get the one autograph that got away, that of an aging rocker he’s been after for more than a decade. Will Alexis get the memento he’s looking for, or will his best-laid plans fail him once more?
This story was originally published in 2018.
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