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While the TV show is on break, this pod brings you a tasty edit of the news items that would have made it onto the programme – as a quartet of some of the creatives behind the scenes at the show discuss what makes each item Have I Got News For You worthy. Hosted by Jack Harris, Queenie Miller, Emerald Paston and Mike Rayment. A Hat Trick Podcast

The author of such acclaimed books as The Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology.

Throughout 2017, John Crace, The Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer, watched Prime Minister Theresa May's efforts to remain strong and stable - and, indeed, Prime Minister. He coined the term Maybot for her malfunctioning public appearances. And now, in this edited collection of his unremittingly witty sketches, he tells the full story of Theresa May's turbulent first year in Westminster. 

Is it just me? We gnaw on that, don't we? Is it just me? Well, look around. Look at the rage, the resolution, the 'hear me roar', the panic, the power, the chin hairs, the shame, the empathy, the conversation, the sheer potential. Welcome to Midulthood. A place where we recognise that we are all more alike than we are unalike. Of course it's not just you. If we're not in it together, we're not in it at all....

An accessible guide that breaks down the complex issues around mass surveillance and data privacy and explores the negative consequences it can have on individual citizens and their communities. No one is exempt from data mining: by owning a smartphone, or using social media or a credit card, we...

Bloomsbury presents I Drink Therefore I Am by Roger Scruton, read by Kris Dyer. Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy. We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and...

Bloomsbury presents How Good It Is I have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko's Fight for Ukraine, written and read by Lara Marlowe. The first time Lara Marlowe interviewed Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko in Ukraine in 2023, Marlowe realized that the 28-year-old woman army officer was one of...

The book chronicles - sometimes dramatically, sometimes poignantly - the king's imprisonment after his defeat in the civil war, the events and paliamentary debates leading up to the charges of high treason being brought against the king, and a virtual transcript of the trial itself - bringing into our living-rooms the spirited arguments between Charles and the president of the court, Lord Bradshaw.

FNH audio presents an unabridged reading of How I Found Livingstone. In 1866 Dr David Livingstone entered the dark continent of Africa in search for the source of the river Nile and disappeared. In 1869 Henry M. Stanley, funded by the New York Herald drove his expedition into the heart of Africa to find and relieve Livingstone. Stanley's journey became a true-life adventure. Adversity of every kind stood in his way. Starvation, inundation, murderous natives, mutiny, thieves, extortionists, murderers, slavers, and even becoming embroiled in a war.

Internet journalist and entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart shares his outspoken views about the liberal media machine, the federal government and how he sees that Americans everywhere are being misled. "Brash, funny, fiery, and irreverent." —Rush Limbaugh, American conservative political...

L’Impero romano non è mai caduto. Tutti gli imperi della storia si sono presentati come eredi degli antichi romani: l’Impero romano d’Oriente; il Sacro Romano Impero di Carlo Magno; Mosca, la terza Roma. E poi l’Impero napoleonico e quello britannico. I regimi fascista e nazista. L’impero americano e quello virtuale di Mark Zuckerberg, grande ammiratore di Augusto: il primo uomo a guidare una comunità multietnica di persone che non si conoscevano tra loro ma condividevano lingua, immagini, divinità, cultura.

In February 2013, Toronto's former mayor, Rob Ford, was caught on video smoking crack cocaine. Weeks later, he was accused of groping a campaign rival; had to leave a gala for being too intoxicated; and was fired as the coach of a high school football team. The events were part of a stream of Rob Ford "mishaps", which include a DUI; accusations of domestic violence; a trial where the Toronto City Council stripped him of his powers; even accusations of murder.

Philip Gourevitch's unforgettable modern classic We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families opened our eyes to the 1994 genocide of Rwanda's Tutsi minority: close to a million people murdered by their neighbours in one hundred days. Now Gourevitch brings us a staggeringly vivid and intimate exploration of how killers and survivors live together again in the same communities, grappling with seemingly impossible burdens of memory and forgetting, denial and confession, vengefulness and forgiveness.

""No one makes me laugh harder than Judy Gold. If I had to pick one comedian to write a book about free speech, it would be Judy."" – Amy Schumer From award-winning comedian Judy Gold, an equal parts thoughtful and hilarious polemic on the current efforts to censor comedians, arguing that they...

When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observations American society and political system, found in the two volume book he published after his visit, still remain surprisingly relevant today. (Summary by the Bookworm)

Hjemme i kunsten - En podcast om almen kunst AKK – Almene Kunstklubber laver kunstprojekter i almene boligområder. Projekter, der kiler kunst ind i hverdagslivet for de almene beboere og deres naboer i byen, og som skaber fællesskab, forandring og sammenhængskraft i og omkring almene boligområder. Kunstscenen og den almene boligsektor kan ved første øjekast virke som et umage par. Den almene sektor på den ene side, hvor næsten 1 milion bor og selv bestemmer, hvordan de vil leve og bo. Og så kunstscenen på den anden side, der af nogen beskrives som en lukket klub. Almene ...

Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he met and eventually married Mary Ritter Beard, one of the founders of the first greek-letter society for women, Kappa Alpha Theta. Many of his books were written in collaboration with his wife, whose own interests lay in feminism and the labor union movement (Woman as a Force in History, 1946).In 1921, Charles and Mary Beard published their ...

The historical works of Tacitus are a history of the period from A.D. 14 to 96 in thirty volumes. Although many of the works were lost (only books 1-5 of the Histories and 1-6 and 11-16 of the Annals survive), enough remains to provide a good sense of Tacitus’s political and moral philosophy.He recognized the necessity for strong rulers but argued that more should be done to manage the succession of power and allow for the ascension of talent. Tacitus asserted that it was the dynastic ambitions of Rome’s many emperors that caused the decline of moral and political life and precluded the ...

'I hælene på Band of Brothers' er en podcastserie i fem afsnit, der går bag om den ikoniske tv-serie og den virkelige historie om Easy Companys utrolige bedrifter under 2. verdenskrig.Værterne Lars G. Mathiasen, Anders Agner og Philip Chr. Ulrich dykker ned i seriens fortælling, karaktererne og de historiske begivenheder, der har inspireret serien, som i 2026 kan fejre 25-års jubilæum.Dette er en podcast for både fans af Band of Brothers og alle med interesse for 2. Verdenskrig.Præsenteret af Kongressen.com

Witamy na oficjalnym kanale @BusinessBasics w języku polskim! Omawiamy podstawowe koncepcje biznesowe i przedsiębiorczości, oferując dogłębne analizy oraz praktyczne porady, które pomogą Ci osiągnąć sukces w świecie biznesu. Naszym celem jest dostarczanie jasnych i istotnych informacji dla przedsiębiorców i entuzjastów ekonomii.​ Dołącz do naszej społeczności, aby poszerzyć swoją wiedzę na temat strategii biznesowych, odkrywać skuteczne metody oraz być na bieżąco z najnowszymi trendami ekonomicznymi. Twoje zaangażowanie i pytania wzbogacają nasze dyskusje i ...