Bertolt Brecht’s classic anti-war play was 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?
Next time: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
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Join us for at the Hay Festival for a conversation encompassing portals to other worlds, rock bands, improbable giraffes and the travails of the M4.
'Impossible Creatures', by Katherine Rundell
'One Ukrainian Summer: A Memoir About Falling in Love and Coming of Age in the Former USSR', by Viv Groskop
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895) 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?
Next time: Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children
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“The SmolPhone project is an action research on the topic of low-tech in the domain of IT systems. Its practical aspects consist in designing a sort of low-tech smartphone offering some services of a classical smartphone with a one-week battery lifetime. The goal is not to optimize a typical smartphone but rather to reconsider the smartphone design space, exploring unusual architectures and evaluating the set of features that should be part of long-lasting smartphones.”
Quoted from: Rautureau, Aloïs, et al. “Quantifying the tiny-Small design of the SmolPhone.” ICT For Sustainability (ICT4S). 2024. Related articles.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) is a story that it’s easy to know without really knowing it at all. This week’s episode 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?
Next time: H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine.
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This week, we hear from two international prize-winning authors, Jenny Erpenbeck and Mircea Cărtărescu.
'Kairos' by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann
'Solenoid' by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter
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This week's great political novel 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.
Next time: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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E se fosse possível mudar de realidade? E se você pudesse criar uma realidade e se transportar para lá? E se você pudesse passar alguns meses junto com seus personagens de ficção favoritos? Isso, claro não é possível.
Mas existe uma comunidade crescente na internet que não pensa assim. Que pensa ser plenamente possível transferir a nossa consciência para outro universo. Qualquer universo.
Essa prática, conhecida como shifting, se popularizou durante a pandemia e atrai um número crescente de crianças e adolesces, que, insatisfeitos com a vida que têm, escolhem mudar para outro universo.
Neste episódio, explicamos o que é o shifting, por que ele tem crescido tanto e que perigos ele pode trazer para mentes jovens e desavisadas.
Entrevistados do episódio
Pesquisador de Pós-Doutorado do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental do Instituto de Psiquiatria da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (PROPSAM/IPUB/UFRJ), onde coordena o Núcleo de Pesquisa em Devaneio Excessivo e Desregulação Emocional
Psicóloga e produtora de conteúdo shifter.
Ficha técnica
Pauta, produção e reportagem: Júlia Magalhães e Laura Mirada.
Apoio de edição: Matheus Marcolino.
Mixagem de som: Vitor Coroa.
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama.
Design das capas: Cláudia Furnari.
Direção, roteiro e edição: Tomás Chiaverini
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