This week, we drop in on a conversation between Mary Beard and two former TLS editors; and Anne Enright joins us to talk about turning poet in her new novel.
'Emperor of Rome: Ruling the ancient Roman world', by Mary Beard
'Big Caesars and little Caesars: How they rise and how they fall -
from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson', by Ferdinand Mount
'Palatine: An alternative history of the Caesars', by Peter Stothard
'The Wren, The Wren', by Anne Enright
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week Lea Ypi joins David to talk about some of the ideas in his new book, The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs. They discuss how to think about the power of the state in the modern world: Can it be changed? Can it be controlled? Can it be anything other than capitalist? Plus, how will AI alter the relationship between human beings and the corporate machines that rule our world?
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Nos idos de 2010, a jornalista Natália Viana recebeu um estranho telefonema. Ela teria de estar em Londres dali a dois dias para participar do maior vazamento de documentos secretos da história. A Natália obedeceu, largou tudo, se descambou para a Inglaterra e se juntou a uma força tarefa que ajudaria a mudar o jornalismo mundial.
Neste episódio de podcast, a gente reconta essa história, relembra dos primórdios do WikiLeaks, fala sobre os impactos da iniciativa no jornalismo e na política internacional, e analisa a situação jurídica de Julian Assange.
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Design das capas dos aplicativos e do site: Cláudia Furnari.
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama.
Mixagem de som: Vitor Coroa.
Apoio de produção: Ana Carolina Maciel.
Apoio de edição: Matheus Marcolino.
Direção, roteiro e edição: Tomás Chiaverini.
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This week, Nicola Shulman introduces the volunteer army who joined James Murray to create the OED; and John Niven on his extraordinary memoir of his brother's life.
'The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford
English Dictionary', by Sarah Ogilvie
'O Brother', by John Niven
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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For the last episode in our summer season on the great twentieth-century essays and essayists, David discusses Joan Didion's 'The White Album' (1979), her haunting, impressionistic account of the fracturing of America in the late 1960s. From Jim Morrison to the Manson murders, Didion offers a series of snapshots of a society coming apart in ways no one seemed to understand. But what was true, what was imagined, and where did the real sickness lie?
More on Joan Didion from the LRB archive:
Thomas Powers on Didion and California:
'The thing that California taught her to fear most was snakes, especially rattlesnakes...This gets close to Didion's core anxiety: watching for something that could be anywhere, was easily overlooked, could kill you or a child playing in the garden – just like that.'
Mary-Kay Wilmers on Didion and memory:
'Reassurance is something Didion doesn't need. She is talking to herself, weighing up the past, going over old stories, keeping herself company. Staging herself.'
Martin Amis on Didion's style:
'The Californian emptiness arrives and Miss Didion attempts to evolve a style, or manner, to answer to it. Here comes divorces, breakdowns, suicide bids, spliced-up paragraphs, 40-word chapters and italicised wedges of prose that used to be called "fractured".'
Patricia Lockwood on reading Didion now:
'To revisit Slouching Towards Bethlehem or The White Album is to read an old up-to-the-minute relevance renewed. Inside these essays the coming revolution feels neither terrifying nor exhilarating but familiar – if you are a reader of Joan Didion, you have been studying it all your life.'
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