The writer and comedian David Baddiel has written a book called 'Jews Don't Count', which explores the insidious, pervasive, exclusionary nature of ‘progressive’ antisemitism. Here, he talks to Toby Lichtig about how and why one of the most persecuted minorities in history continues to be overlooked
'Jews Don't Count' by David Baddiel
Producer: Ben Mitchell
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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by David Gallagher to discuss two new books about Jorge Luis Borges – one a collection of essays and remembrances by the great Latin American writer Mario Vargas Llosa, the other a more curious offering by the American writer and critic Jay Parini; David Baddiel on the insidious, pervasive, exclusionary nature of ‘progressive’ antisemitism; Alice Wadsworth and Lucy Dallas on food podcasts and the French comedy-drama Call My Agent!
Medio siglo con Borges, by Mario Vargas Llosa (published in Spain by Alfaguara)
Borges and Me: An encounter, by Jay Parini
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel
'The Sporkful' and 'Off Menu' available on podcast platforms
Call My Agent!, Netflix
Producer: Ben Mitchell
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Itamar Vieira Junior conversa com o apresentador e com a jornalista Paula Carvalho sobre o premiado romance Torto arado, religiosidade, antropologia, o trabalho como geógrafo do Incra, a Chapada Diamantina, o romance regional e suas preferências literárias. Participação especial: Josyara
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Clifford Thompson to discuss One Night in Miami, a film by Regina King, which sees Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown and Cassius Clay gather for heated debate; from exclusivity and luxury in imperial China to cheap ubiquity in modern day Europe, Norma Clarke considers the rise and fall of porcelain; plus, a new poem by Anne Carson, “Sure, I Was Loved”
One Night in Miami, dir. Regina King
The City of Blue and White: Chinese porcelain and the early modern world by Anne Gerritsen
Porcelain: A history from the heart of Europe by Suzanne L . Marchand
“Sure, I Was Loved” by Anne Carson, in this week’s TLS
Producer: Ben Mitchell
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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the TLS's Classics editor Mary Beard, who, via an old exam paper, emphasizes the importance of teaching Classics in context (Q1: "Dryads, Hyads, Naiads, Oreads, Pleiads … Does 'Classical influence' in modern poetry always come down to snobbery and elitism?”); Zachary Leader reports on the latest offerings from the Joyce Industry; and Jane O'Grady considers how the Enlightenment undid itself.
James Joyce and the Matter Of Paris, by Catherine Flynn
James Joyce and the Jesuits, by Michael Mayo
Panepiphanal World: James Joyce’s epiphanies, by Sangam Macduff
The Enlightenment: The pursuit of happiness 1680–1790, by Ritchie Robertson
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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the Karachi-based journalist Sanam Maher to discuss cliché and originality in foreign correspondents' writing on Pakistan; a whistle-stop tour through (some) of the books of 2021; Lucy Scholes reviews a clutch of novels in the British Library's Women Writers series, dedicated to once-popular writers
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a divided nation, by Declan Walsh
O, the Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith
The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair
Chatterton Square by E. H. Young
Father by Elizabeth Von Arnim
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A chef Paola Carosella e Carlos Monteiro — autor do Guia Alimentar para a População Brasileira — conversam sobre comida de verdade e ultraprocessada, políticas públicas e gestos individuais para uma alimentação saudável, gostosa, afetiva e socialmente justa. Contém spoilers da ceia de Natal (e sobre o que eles guardam na geladeira).
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the critic Muriel Zagha to marvel at a five-volume, “definitive” study of the iconic French filmmaker Jacques Tati, every aspect of whose apparently chaotic cinematic universe was controlled to the nth degree; Calum Mechie considers some new approaches to the life and legacy of George Orwell; and – “Can we take it? Can Dickens take it?” – ’tis the season for adaptations of A Christmas Carol…
The Definitive Jacques Tati, edited by Alison Castle
On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A biography by D. J. Taylor
Orwell: A man of our time by Richard Bradford
Becoming George Orwell: Life and letters, legend and legacy, by John Rodden
Eileen: The making of George Orwell, by Sylvia Topp
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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Toby Lichtig are joined by Stephen Lovell, Professor of Modern History at King’s College London, to discuss two important biographies of Joseph Stalin, covering the opposite ends of the dictator’s life; the debate around the official Home Office history of Britain, a document full of omissions and riddled with errors, rolls on; and can a book make you a better person? Can even the high modernists be mined for lessons in life? Joanna Scutts considers the relationship between 'serious' literature and self-help.
Stalin: Passage to revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny
Late Stalinism: The aesthetics of politics by Evgeny Dobrenko, translated by Jesse M. Savage
The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for advice in modern literature, by Beth Blum
Reading for Life by Philip Davis
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Mil dias depois do assassinato da vereadora Marielle Franco e do motorista Anderson Gomes, mergulhamos neste crime que chocou o país e mostrou as entranhas do poder paralelo no Rio de Janeiro.
Como foi o assassinato, como as investigações começaram, que pistas levaram aos executores e quem são eles, o que se sabe sobre os possíveis mandantes e como tudo isso se relaciona com o crime organizado carioca.
– Entrevistados do episódio
Repórter investigativa em O Globo, além de advogada, trabalhou no Jornal do Brasil e no jornal O Dia. Em 2005, revelou a existência de grupos paramilitares na região de Jacarepaguá (RJ) que extorquiam dinheiro de moradores. Foi dela a ideia de batizá-los como milícias. Pela reportagem, ganhou o Prêmio Especial Tim Lopes de Jornalismo Investigativo (2009). Co-autora do livro “Mataram Marielle: Como o Assassinato de Marielle Franco e Anderson Gomes Escancarou o Submundo do Crime Carioca”.
Repórter e professor de Jornalismo na PUC-Rio, trabalhou em a Última Hora, e no grupo Estado. Em 1997, transferiu-se para o jornal O Globo, onde cobre Política. Ganhou sete vezes o Prêmio Esso. É autor de diversos livros, e co-autor do livro: “Mataram Marielle: Como o Assassinato de Marielle Franco e Anderson Gomes Escancarou o Submundo do Crime Carioca (Intrínseca, 2020)”.
Formado em economia e jornalismo, trabalhou em algumas das principais redações do país, entre elas Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo e Veja. É doutor em Ciência Política pela Universidade de São Paulo (2012), com mestrado em Ciência Política pela Universidade de São Paulo (2003). É co-autor de “A Guerra: a ascensão do PCC e o mundo do crime no Brasil” (Todavia, 2018), e autor de “A república das milícias: Dos esquadrões da morte à era Bolsonaro” (Todavia, 2020).
– Ficha técnica:
Produção, apresentação e edição: Tomás Chiaverini
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama
Mixagem: Vitor Coroa
Este episódio contou com músicas de: Beto Villares, Blue Dots, Kay Engel e Lobo Loko.
Um encontro com a poeta Angélica Freitas, que logo depois de lançar a coletânea Canções de Atormentar mudou-se para Berlim, para um ano de residência literária. Participação especial: Fabrício Corsaletti.
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