Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek biographer Plutarch (c46 AD-c120 AD) and especially his work ‘Parallel Lives’ which has shaped the way successive generations see the Classical world. Plutarch was clear that he was writing lives, not histories, and he wrote these very focus...

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Episode summary: Donal Trump and managing emotions in the here and now - The Blindboy Podcast | Acast

Episode summary: Sharing an episode from a series we think many of our listeners will like to hear. Reverend William Barber II and Yara Allen discuss how music intertwines with social movements, focusing on the contributions of theomusicology and Repairers of the Breach’s journey, alongside the Mora...

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Episode summary: The story of an 2700 year old archive, its accidental preservation, and the unprecedented—and often funny—glimpse it gives us into the daily life of an ancient king.

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Episode summary: Why should a teenager bother to read a book, when there are so many other demands on their time? We hear from Atlantic staffers about the books they read in high school that have stuck with them. Books you read in high school are your oldest friends, made during a moment in life whe...

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Episode summary: Fixing Sick Cities (with Alain Bertaud) - Econlib

Episode summary: The claim that 79% of asylum seekers in Sweden go on holiday in their home country has been repeated regularly on social media. It’s used to argue that recent refugees are being disingenuous about the danger they face in the country they have fled from. But when you look at the surv...

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Episode summary: Recently, professors at elite colleges told Atlantic writer Rose Horowitch that their students don’t read whole books anymore. They blamed cell phones, standardized tests, and extracurriculars, and they mostly agreed that the shift began in high school. In this episode of Radio Atla...

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Strange goings on, possibly because I listened to a bunch of podcasts with the phone in Airplane Mode, a few epsidoes were marked as completed within the same minute, which my daggy Python program was not equipped to deal with. So, rather than mess about, here they are.

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Episode summary: Should our fanbase be known as “The Overrated”?

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