podcasts ποΈ
Audio that I have liked, or been moved to comment about, or both.
Note that I have put stuff in quotes sometimes…but these will only be approximations of what people have said. I’ve heard most of this stuff while running or walking the dog so I can’t be very precise
January
You’re dead to me - The Bloomsbury Group - according to Dorothy Parker, the Bloomsbury Group “lived in squares, painted in circles, and loved in triangles”
Betwixt the sheets - Real Wives of Dictators | Nadya Alliluyeva, Stalin’s Wife - i dint know that Nadya’s suicide followed a public row with her husband, during which she threw something at him
Short history of….the partition of India
Evil Genius with Russell Kane -Serge Gainsbourg - Melody Nelson came from Sunderland. Gainsbourg liked the sound of the word ‘Sunderland’
Origin Story: Socialism: The Finale β Whatβs Left? - “George Orwell was the patron saint of socialists who find other socialists annoying”
The Louis Theroux Podcast: S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs - Jimmy Carr justifies playing in the Riyadh comedy festival because he likes Saudi Arabia’s ‘direction of travel’
Short History of….. Shakespeare - Shakespeare’s father was a ‘family friend ' of Robert Catesby, the leader of the Gunpowder Plot
Talk β90s to me: Stay Another Day β The story of East 17’s accidental Christmas classic with Tony Mortimer - Tony Mortimer says that at least some of the lines in the song are about the death of his brother
Americana Music Live with Drew Holcomb and Malcolm Gladwell | Revisionist History - “people in Memphis have a hatred of Nashville baked into their childhoods”