Alex Clark celebrates the life and work of Edna O'Brien with filmmaker Sinéad O'Shea and novelists Eimear McBride and Jan Carson at this year's Belfast Book Festival.
'Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story', by Sinéad O'Shea
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about three trials that took place over two months in the late spring of 1895 that brought about the destruction of Oscar Wilde. Why did Wilde trigger his own doom by suing his nemesis Lord Queensbury for libel? What did he fail to understand about how he would come across in a courtroom? And how did the persecution of Wilde and his gay lifestyle reveal the hidden terrors of late Victorian England and its high society, up to and including the prime minister?
Out now on PPF+: Part 2 of David’s latest conversation with Robert Saunders in which they talk about the past, present and future of the politics of unemployment. Can Labour ever again be the party of labour? Whose work is it anyway? To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up now to PPF+ https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
Tickets are now available for our autumn film season at the Regent Street Cinema in London, starting on 5th September with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope followed by a live recording of PPF with special guests Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, aka the best-selling husband-and-wife crime-writing duo Nicci French. For tickets and details on all the films https://www.ppfideas.com/events
Next time in Politics on Trial: Dreyfus vs the Conspiracy Theory
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Today’s episode is the first in a new strand with the historian Robert Saunders looking at significant political anniversaries and their meaning for today. Summer 2025 is 70 years since the UK recorded its lowest ever unemployment rate in peacetime: just 1% (or 215,800 people) in July 1955. David and Robert explore the history of unemployment: how it’s been measured, what it means, why it matters and when it changes the course of political history. From Victorian trade unionism to the Thatcher revolution: who gets to decide on the value of work?
Out now on PPF+: Part 2 of this conversation taking the story from the 1980s to the present, via New Labour, the financial crisis of 2008 and Covid. How has the meaning of work changed over that period? How has it got mixed up with the politics of immigration? And is the Labour Party still the party of labour? To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up now to PPF+ https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
Next time in Politics on Trial: Oscar Wilde vs the Philistines
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
O que em você vem do seu pai? Às vésperas do Dia dos Pais, o 451 MHz apresenta uma conversa tocante entre o ensaísta José Henrique Bortoluci e a poeta Julia de Souza sobre o que carregamos de nossos pais e o poder da escrita para elaborar o luto depois que eles morrem. No episódio, os autores falam de seus livros O Que É Meu (Fósforo, 2023), de Bortoluci, e John (Âyiné, 2023), de Souza, que partem da experiência pessoal deles com a memória, a doença e a perda dos pais. Gravado durante A Feira do Livro 2024 e mediado por Paulo Roberto Pires, colunista da Quatro Cinco Um e editor da revista Serrote, o encontro trata também dos processos criativos dos convidados, que escreveram a partir de diários e entrevistas, e dos limites da exposição da intimidade e da dor.
Apoio confirmado: Lei Rouanet – Incentivo a Projetos Culturais
Seja um Ouvinte Entusiasta e apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
This week, a special interview with farmer and writer James Rebanks about a life-changing stay on the Norwegian coast.
'The Place of Tides', by James Rebanks
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
For today’s episode in Politics on Trial it’s two trials for the price of one, which between them changed the course of British and Irish history. In 1889 the leading Irish politician Charles Parnell was cleared of any involvement in the notorious Phoenix Park murders by Irish republican terrorists seven years earlier. In 1890 Parnell was found to be the adulterer in a divorce case involving his mistress and her husband. That scandal destroyed him, permanently split the campaign for Irish self-government and upended Liberal politics in Britain. How did Parnell come to have such a hold on British and Irish politics? Why could he survive accusations of terrorism but not of adultery? And what does his fate reveal about the high-wire politics of a highly decorous and extremely dangerous age?
For all the information about our autumn season of screenings and live recordings, 'Films of Ideas', and to book tickets, go to our website: https://www.ppfideas.com/events
Next Time: Now and Then w/Robert Saunders: Whatever Happened to Full Employment?
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Este episódio de podcast conta como é a vida de alguém que precisa lidar com a cefaleia em salvas, doença crônica rara que causa uma das maiores dores que um humano pode sentir.
Quando alguém visita um pronto socorro se queixando de dor, é comum que os profissionais de saúde peçam para que o paciente tente mensurar o tamanho dessa dor. Apesar de ser difícil classificar a intensidade de dor numa escala de números ou de cores, existem dores intensas ao ponto de atingirem o nível máximo. Esse é o caso da cefaleia em salvas.
Essa dor de cabeça é rara (atinge cerca de 0,1% das pessoas) e causa um sofrimento inigualável: algumas pacientes já relataram que a cefaleia em salvas supera a dor do parto. Além disso, não é incomum que pensamentos suicidas surjam durante os períodos de crise, que podem durar até um mês.
Mas a característica mais intrigante da cefaleia em salvas não é a intensidade da dor, e sim a frequência. Depois do período de crise, ela desaparece completamente. Alguns tentam esquecer que ela existe. O problema é que depois de algum tempo adormecida, ela volta com força. E o ciclo se repete.
Mergulhe mais fundo
Escuta Essa: Dor – link para o episódio
Hypothalamic activation in cluster headache attacks
Episódios relacionados
#127: Larissa contra as bactérias
#107: Dr. Oscar e o menino que precisava enxergar
#92: Quando a Covid não vai embora
Entrevistados do episódio
Filósofo e podcaster. É apresentador dos podcasts Bola Presa, Escuta Essa, Pouco Pixel e Debate de Bolso.
Médica neurologista especialista em cefaleia em salvas. É doutora em neurologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), membra da Academia Brasileira de Neurologia, da Sociedade Brasileira de Neurologia e da International Headache Society.
Ficha técnica
Produção e 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 sonorização: Tomás Chiaverini
Today’s political trial is one of the most notorious in American history: eight men charged with and convicted of murder in 1886 for a terrorist outrage that none of them committed. A bomb had been thrown at the police during a workers’ rally in Chicago but this trial was not about punishing the person who threw it. Rather it was a witch hunt of the men and the movement that were thought to have inspired it. Anarchism was put on trial and condemned in the Haymarket case. Who promoted and who resisted the invasion of paranoia and conspiracy theories into an American courtroom? And was it anarchists or was it the forces of law and order that were ultimately responsible for Chicago’s descent into violence and retribution?
For all the information about our autumn season of screenings and live recordings, 'Films of Ideas', and to book tickets, go to our website: https://www.ppfideas.com/events
Next time in Politics on Trial: Charles Parnell vs the English
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Neste episódio, a jornalista Milly Lacombe e a advogada Mayra Cotta conversam sobre caminhos para o feminismo enfrentar as desigualdades estruturais entre homens e mulheres, com o pano de fundo das relações de poder da sociedade capitalista. Autora de Feminismo Para Não Feministas (Planeta), Lacombe destaca que o feminismo é uma luta existencial, enquanto Cotta, autora do romance Um Ex-Amigo (Paralela), diz que essa luta precisa ser coletiva. Na conversa realizada durante A Feira do Livro 2025 e conduzida pela editora da Quatro Cinco Um Iara Biderman, as convidadas ainda falam sobre limitações e contradições da esquerda na defesa dos direitos das mulheres.
O episódio foi realizado com apoio do Ministério da Cultura e tem apresentação exclusiva da Petrobras.
Seja um Ouvinte Entusiasta e apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
This week, Emile Chabal braces himself against the barrelling force of the Mistral; and Kathryn Hughes is exhilarated by memories of dancing to Dickens in the carpark of the Horsham Odeon.
'The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France', by Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
'Showtime!', at the Charles Dickens Museum, until January 18, 2026
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Today’s great political trial concerns the prosecution and execution of John Brown in 1859 for his raid on Harper’s Ferry in the attempt to free America’s slaves, an event that helped precipitate the American Civil War. It was also a trial that produced three of the greatest speeches in American history: by Brown himself, by Henry Thoreau and by Frederick Douglass, which between them constitute an indictment of slavery for the ages. How did one man’s unilateral declaration of war convulse an entire nation? And how did his trial confirm what was becoming increasingly clear: that a house divided against itself cannot stand?
For all the information about our autumn season of screenings and live recordings, 'Films of Ideas', and to book tickets, go to our website: https://www.ppfideas.com/events
Next time in Politics on Trial: The Haymarket Eight vs the Police
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Qual é o papel da memória na reparação de séculos de escravidão? Neste episódio, a historiadora Luciana da Cruz Brito e a escritora Bianca Santana debatem a importância da memória negra e como lidar com violências históricas e questões sociais herdadas de quatro séculos de escravização no Brasil. O ponto de partida é o livro Reparação: Memória e Reconhecimento (Fósforo), organizado por Brito e do qual Santana é uma das autoras. A conversa aconteceu durante A Feira do Livro 2025, com mediação da editora Fernanda Sousa, e destaca o papel da literatura na valorização da memória coletiva negra.
O episódio foi realizado com apoio do Ministério da Cultura e tem apresentação exclusiva da Petrobras.
Seja um Ouvinte Entusiasta e apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
Login