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After an unplanned short hiatus from the podcast, I'm back behind the mic talking about my favorite author, Charles Dickens. My guest today is author Jesper Soerensen and he's just written a book about Dickens and his stories. In the episode we talk about his book, we share plenty of recommendations, and have a lot of discussion about the stories that Dickens wrote. We do not talk spoilers, so whether you're relatively new to Dickens or are a hardcore fan, there is something for everyone in today's interview! Find Jesper online: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soerensen.jesper/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soerensen.jesper/ Medium: https://medium.com/@soerensen.jesper My author page at Olympia Publishers: https://olympiapublishers.com/authors/jesper-soerensen Charles Dickens: The Stories of His Life: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1804390143?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Books mentioned: We talk about all of Charles Dickens' novels, and several biographies by Michael Slater, Fred Kaplan, and Peter Ackroyd. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro and book discussion 14:00 Biographies about Dickens 21:00 Discovering Dickens 28:00 Reading Dickens when you're older 31:01 Top 5? More like top 20... 38:50 Favorite Dickens Characters 45:55 What's coming up next? #podcast #charlesdickens #victorianbooks ____________ There are 4 ways you can help support the channel! -Like and subscribe!-I'm now a bookshop.org affiliate - check out my shop and find your next great read! https://bookshop.org/shop/bookshelfodyssey -Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bookshelfpod - My Amazon Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2PTGNQWISVZE/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_3 _____________ Find Me Online: Podcast: https://bookshelfodyssey.buzzsprout.com/ Voxer: @artbookshelfodyssey Discord: https://discord.gg/8MFceV2NFe Facebook Group Page: @thebookshelfodyssey Twitter: @odyssey_podcastInstagram: @bookshelfodysseypodcast
Het valt nauwelijks te overschatten hoeveel Isaac Newton voor de wetenschap heeft betekend. De zwaartekracht, de wetten van Newton en eigenlijk ons hele wereldbeeld komen van de Brit. Maar, wist jij dat we het kattenluikje ook aan hem te danken hebben? Als wetenschapper was hij niet erg strak van leer. Stiekem, in het donker, hield Newton zich vooral bezig met de zwarte kunsten. Geobsedeerd door het voorspellen van de toekomst en de jacht naar het eeuwige leven zonderde Isaac zich af.Thomas en Gijs zoeken deze aflevering uit wie deze magiër nou eigenlijk echt was, en hoe zijn wetenschappelijke nalatenschap zó groot werd.Bronnen voor deze aflevering: Newton, van Peter Ackroyd. Geproduceerd door Tonny Media Volg ons op Instagram & TikTok Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
'Going for a walk' is a popular pastime among older and younger generations alike because of its well-known benefits for our physical and mental health. But you may be surprised to hear that meandering through pretty streets or hiking along mountainous ridges have not always been considered leisure activities, according to Daniel Gale, a researcher of pedestrianism. “散步”是老一辈和年轻一代都流行的消遣方式,因为它对我们的身心健康有众所周知的好处。 但步行行为研究员丹尼尔·盖尔 (Daniel Gale) 表示,你可能会惊讶地发现,蜿蜒穿过美丽的街道或沿着山脊徒步旅行并不总是被视为休闲活动。 He says that in Britain, walking for fun "wasn't really a thing" until the 1780s. Before that, it was just something people did out of necessity, and some people associated it with criminal activity. But for Charles Dickens, the famous English 19th Century author, marching through London streets and tramping around the countryside was a big part of the creative process; a time to absorb what was going on around him. He walked at an impressive pace of four miles per hour, according to his biography by Peter Ackroyd. 他说,在英国,直到 1780 年代,为了好玩而散步“才真正成为一件事”。 在此之前,这只是人们出于必要而做的事情,有些人将其与犯罪活动联系起来。 但对于英国 19 世纪著名作家查尔斯·狄更斯来说,在伦敦街头游行、在乡村漫步是创作过程的重要组成部分; 一个吸收周围发生的事情的时间。 根据彼得·阿克罗伊德(Peter Ackroyd)为他撰写的传记,他行走的速度令人印象深刻,为每小时四英里。 But if speed-walking isn't your thing, perhaps you can take inspiration from another big-thinking wanderer. 19th Century American writer Henry David Thoreau took a slower approach, preferring to saunter over hills and fields and meander through the woods. He said that he could not preserve his health and spirits, unless he spent four hours a day walking at least. 但如果你不喜欢快走,也许你可以从另一位有远见的流浪者那里获得灵感。 19世纪的美国作家亨利·大卫·梭罗采取了一种缓慢的方式,更喜欢漫步在山丘和田野上,蜿蜒穿过树林。 他说,除非每天至少步行四个小时,否则他无法保持健康和精神。 This idea of taking a stroll to clear your head has survived through to the 21st Century, but has pedestrian etiquette remained the same? A 1780 article for the London Magazine advised pedestrians to avoid things such as loitering in conversation and obstructing people behind you with a "sauntering gait". Nowadays, we could probably add distracted phone-users to that list. 散步来清醒头脑的想法一直延续到了 21 世纪,但行人礼仪还保持不变吗? 1780 年《伦敦杂志》的一篇文章建议行人避免在谈话中闲逛以及以“漫步步态”妨碍身后的人等行为。 如今,我们或许可以将分心的电话用户添加到该列表中。 In this modern age, when many of us are tied to our desks and to our screens, the simple act of stepping out onto the city pavements, or getting lost in nature, may make all the difference to our wellbeing. Whether you see yourself more as a casual stroller or a purposeful strider, why not build a habit out of it? 在当今时代,当我们许多人都被办公桌和屏幕束缚时,走出城市人行道或迷失在大自然中的简单行为可能会对我们的健康产生重大影响。 无论你认为自己是一个休闲的散步者还是一个有目的的漫步者,为什么不养成一种习惯呢? 词汇表go for a walk 散步pastime 消遣,娱乐meander 漫步,闲逛hike 远足leisure activity 休闲活动pedestrianism 徒步主义march 行走tramp 长途行走pace 步速speed-walking 快速行走wanderer 四处游走的人saunter 漫步,闲逛stroll 散步,溜达pedestrian etiquette 行人礼仪loiter 游荡,徘徊gait 步态,步法step out 走出去pavement 人行道stroller 散步的人strider 阔步行走的人
Listener discretion advised: This episode delves into the disturbing details of the Whitechapel murders of 1888, and may not be suitable for all audiences. Serialized from 1989 to 1996, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's graphic novel From Hell was first released in a single volume in 1999, just as the world was groaning into the present century. This is an important detail, because according to the creators of this astounding work, the age then passing away could not be understood without reference to the gruesome murders, never solved, of five women in London's Whitechapel district, in the fall of 1888. In Alan Moore's occult imagination, the Ripper murders were more than another instance of human depravity: they constituted a magical operation intended to alter the course of history. The nature of this operation, and whether or not it was successful, is the focus of this episode, in which JF and Phil also explore the imaginal actuality of Victorian London and the strange nature of history and time. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies). Buy the Weird Studies sountrack, volumes 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2), on Pierre-Yves Martel's Bandcamp (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com) page. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Daniel Silver, Terry Nichols Clark, and Clemente Jesus Navarro Yanez, “Scenes: Social Context in an Age of Contingency” (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254963890_Scenes_Social_Context_in_an_Age_of_Contingency) Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, From Hell (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780958578349) Floating World (https://www.thecollector.com/edo-japan-ukiyo-floating-world/), Edo Japanese concept Phil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780199939916) John Clellon Holmes recordings (https://www.library.kent.edu/special-collections-and-archives/john-clellon-holmes-recordings) Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes Collection (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781802792546) Yacht Rock (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1047801/), web series Stephen Knight, [Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JacktheRipper:TheFinalSolution)_ Colin Wilson, Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1425635) Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780486471433) Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67729.Hawksmoor) Weird Studies, Episode 89 on “Mumbo Jumbo” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/89) Charles Howard Hinton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hinton), mathematician J. G. Ballard, Preface to Crash (https://uglywords.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/on-j-g-ballards-1995-introduction-to-crash-6-2/) William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780440423621)
The Spirit of Place Tim Gilmore is a prolific local history author who has written extensively about Jacksonville. As the writer and creator of www.jaxpsychogeo.com, a project that explores place and catalogs the Southern Gothic, he has told more than 700 stories of strange and historic locations in and around Jacksonville, Florida. He has also published 22 books. "Ever since UNF English Professor Alex Menocal introduced me to the concept of psychogeography years ago, I've been enthralled with it," Gilmore says. "It's a portmanteau word, the psychology of geography, [meaning] something like the spirit of place. It's where the name for my website, jaxpsychogeo, comes from." Gilmore seems equally fascinated with Jacksonville and its people. He is also the founder of JaxbyJax. A literary arts festival, now in its 10th year, JaxbyJax was built on the theme of “Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville.” Few writers have written about Jacksonville more than Gilmore. He joined us last November to talk about his latest book, The Culture Wars of Warren Folks. Tim Gilmore has written 22 books including Box Broken Open: The Architecture of Ted Pappas; Murder Capital: Eight Stories, 1890s-1980s; Channeling Anna Fletcher; Repossessions: Mass Shooting in Baymeadows; The Book of Isaiah: A Vision of the Founder of a City, illustrated by Shep Shepard; Devil in the Baptist Church: Bob Gray's Unholy Trinity; and The Mad Atlas of Virginia King. Four of the works he's written for the stage have been produced by Florida State College at Jacksonville DramaWorks and his writing has appeared in numerous publications both locally and nationally. JaxPsychoGeo has received mention in publications including The Miami Herald, The Washington Post and The New Yorker and was featured in the A24 book Florida! A Hyper-Local Guide to the Flora, Fauna and Fantasy of the Most Far-Out State in America. Gilmore teaches Literature and Writing at Florida State College at Jacksonville. He's received awards from FSCJ, the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville and Jacksonville City Council. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida. You can also read his twice-weekly newsletter, Tim Gilmore's deadpaper, at timgilmore.substack.com. Interviewer Shep Shepard is a professor of English at FSCJ's Nassau Center. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida and has worked as a full-time instructor at FSCJ for twenty years. In his spare time, he produces music under various monikers, edits fiction and nonfiction prose, creates digital art, and enjoys time with his wife Ana and their dogs Meka and Moxie. READ Check out Tim's work from the Library Catalog: https://jkpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=AUTHOR%3D%22tim+gilmore%22&te= Tim Recommends: Pyschogeographical Works I've long been a huge Cormac McCarthy fan. I've assigned The Road to numerous classes over the years. Of all the McCarthy I've read, I most highly recommend The Road and two of his earlier novels: First, there's the 1973 novel Child of God, which somehow manages to be one of the most horrifying things I've ever read and one of the most beautiful. Few writers could achieve that strange incongruous feat, perhaps none better than McCarthy. Meanwhile, his 1979 novel Suttree paints as detailed a picture of down-and-out Knoxville, Tennessee, as Joyce ever painted of Dublin. It's perhaps the greatest American psychogeographical work. When I recently read John Oliver Killens' 1954 novel Youngblood, I couldn't believe I'd not read him already. This novel, alongside Harry Crews' newly reissued 1978 memoir A Childhood, has to be among the best writings ever to come out of Georgia. The two of them work like split-screen, a Black childhood and a white childhood, both so different and so similar. Both writers had ties to Jacksonville. Crews said mid-20th century Jax was the place poor Georgia farmers went when the crops failed. Various artists and writers have used psychogeography in different ways. I've returned time and again to my favorite such writings, which I can't recommend enough – novels like Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton and Hawksmoor and Toni Morrison's Beloved. On the face of it, Ackroyd and Morrison couldn't be more different, but they both explore how culture is haunted by history and how patterns of history present themselves as ghostly. Then there's Joseph Mitchell's Joe Gould's Secret, a nonfiction account of a homeless Greenwich Village icon who claimed to have written the longest book in the world. Tim Recommends: Other Jax Authors I'd be negligent if I didn't give a shout-out to our local literary community, which runs so much deeper and wider than most locals realize and includes works like Julie Delegal's Seen and Andres Rojas's Third Winter in Our Second Country and Johnny Masiulewicz's Happy Tapir zine series. I could name dozens of other writers I admire and their works, but as soon as I attempt a long list, I'll foolishly omit someone and lose a few nights' sleep. (I already see 15 or 20 people in my mind's eye whose names I didn't mention, but could have, just now.) Anyone who wants an extensive list of writers participating in the Jax community, just look at the archives for the last nine festivals at jaxbyjax.com. I'll just say this is the 10th year of JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival, which my wife Jo Carlisle and I founded and then relinquished to the more capable hands of Darlyn and Brad Kuhn. --- Never miss an event! 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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Poe (1809-1849), the American author who is famous for his Gothic tales of horror, madness and the dark interiors of the mind, such as The Fall of the House of Usher and The Tell-Tale Heart. As well as tapping at our deepest fears in poems such as The Raven, Poe pioneered detective fiction with his character C. Auguste Dupin in The Murders in the Rue Morgue. After his early death, a rival rushed out a biography to try to destroy Poe's reputation but he has only become more famous over the years as a cultural icon as well as an author.WithBridget Bennett Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of LeedsErin Forbes Senior Lecturer in 19th-century African American and US Literature at the University of BristolAndTom Wright Reader in Rhetoric at the University of SussexProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list: Peter Ackroyd, Poe: A Life Cut Short (Vintage, 2009)Amy Branam Armiento and Travis Montgomery (eds.), Poe and Women: Recognition and Revision (Lehigh University Press, 2023)Joan Dayan, Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe's Fiction (Oxford University Press, 1987)Erin Forbes, ‘Edgar Allan Poe in the Great Dismal Swamp' (Modern Philology, 2016)Kevin J. Hayes (ed.), Edgar Allan Poe in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2012) J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe (Oxford University Press, 2018)Jill Lepore, 'The Humbug: Poe and the Economy of Horror' (The New Yorker, April 20, 2009)Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark (Vintage, 1993)Scott Peeples and Michelle Van Parys, The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City (Princeton University Press, 2020)Edgar Allan Poe, The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin, 2006)Shawn Rosenhelm and Stephen Rachman (eds.), The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Poe (1809-1849), the American author who is famous for his Gothic tales of horror, madness and the dark interiors of the mind, such as The Fall of the House of Usher and The Tell-Tale Heart. As well as tapping at our deepest fears in poems such as The Raven, Poe pioneered detective fiction with his character C. Auguste Dupin in The Murders in the Rue Morgue. After his early death, a rival rushed out a biography to try to destroy Poe's reputation but he has only become more famous over the years as a cultural icon as well as an author.WithBridget Bennett Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of LeedsErin Forbes Senior Lecturer in 19th-century African American and US Literature at the University of BristolAndTom Wright Reader in Rhetoric at the University of SussexProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list: Peter Ackroyd, Poe: A Life Cut Short (Vintage, 2009)Amy Branam Armiento and Travis Montgomery (eds.), Poe and Women: Recognition and Revision (Lehigh University Press, 2023)Joan Dayan, Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe's Fiction (Oxford University Press, 1987)Erin Forbes, ‘Edgar Allan Poe in the Great Dismal Swamp' (Modern Philology, 2016)Kevin J. Hayes (ed.), Edgar Allan Poe in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2012) J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe (Oxford University Press, 2018)Jill Lepore, 'The Humbug: Poe and the Economy of Horror' (The New Yorker, April 20, 2009)Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark (Vintage, 1993)Scott Peeples and Michelle Van Parys, The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City (Princeton University Press, 2020)Edgar Allan Poe, The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin, 2006)Shawn Rosenhelm and Stephen Rachman (eds.), The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)
Con Iain Sinclair. Un gran libro del colosal Sinclair, uno de los escritores actuales más brillantes y originales, auténtico mentor en la sombra de Alan Moore y adorado por escritores como William Gibson o Peter Ackroyd, entre otros. Nos formamos a nosotros mismos y, a su vez, somos formados por las paredes que nos contienen. Los edificios afectan a nuestra manera de dormir, trabajar, socializar e incluso respirar. Pueden aislarnos y ponernos en peligro, pero también curarnos. Proyectamos nuestras esperanzas y temores en los edificios, mientras ellos absorben nuestras historias.
An episode from 8/18/23: What makes a story or prayer or poem last? What circumstances can lead one monarch to order the execution of another? And why, over the past twenty years, was Mary Oliver the best-selling poet in America? Tonight's episode is another three-parter: In the first part, I read from one of the great scholars of the Hebrew Bible in our time, James Kugel. I focus on a passage from his How to Read the Bible, and his summary of the variety of meanings that the twenty-third Psalm have inspired since it was first written. He asks how we judge the validity of any interpretation. In the second part, I read from Peter Ackroyd's Tudors, on the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587). In the third part, I read three poems from the American poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019). They can all be found in her career-spanning selection, Devotions: "White Owl Flies into and Out of the Field," "Wild Geese," and "Snow Moon - Black Bear Gives Birth." Don't forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/support
This talk was given to the PLS in 2001 by Winifred Dawson. Winifred was born in London, but educated in Belfast which is where she met Larkin when they were both working at Queen's University Library. Win also went on to write herself and published a biography of Amy Audrey Locke, a muse for the poet WB Yeats. Win opens with a reflection on Larkin's love for his parents, However, the talk is mainly about Larkin's relationship with the women in his life: Ruth Bowman, Winifred, Monica Jones, Patsy Strang, Maeve Brennan (who is listening in the audience) and Betty Mackereth. Ruth, Maeve and Win went on to form a friendship, having first met at Ruth's house in 1993, 8 years after Larkin died. Maeve Brennan can be heard very briefly at the end of the talk. The talk is full of humour, and a frank account of her feelings about Larkin, as well as readings of Larkin's poetry and letters. The poetry readings were not recorded at the time of the talk, and so are instead read by members of the current Philip Larkin Society committee. We have also added the 1975 poem ‘When first we faced' after Toads Revisited as a second poem about Betty Mackereth. Books and writers mentioned: Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion(1993) Philip Larkin Selected Letters ed. Anthony Thwaite (1993) Playing the Harlot- Patsy Avis (published by Virago in 1996) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (1954) Peter Ackroyd, Katherine Mansfield, Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two- Birds (1939), The Real Charlotte by Somerville and Ross (1894), John Betjeman, Scenes from Provincial Life by William Cooper (1950) , DH Lawrence, The Porter's Daughter: The Life of Amy Audrey Locke by Winifred Dawson (Sarsen Press, 2014) Larkin's review of The Girls by Henry de Montherlant (1959) can be found in Required Writing (1983) Poems mentioned- poems which are read in the episode are in bold: Days, Faith Healing, An April Sunday Brings the Snow , Reference Back, Mother, Summer, I Wild Oats, No Road, Within the dream you said, Show Saturday, Talking in Bed, Poem About Oxford, Latest Face, Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album, At thirty-one, when some are rich He hears his beloved, Long roots, Maiden Name, Broadcast, Morning at last, Toads Revisited, When First We Faced, To My Wife, Counting, An Arundel Tomb References: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/28/winifred-dawson Ann Thwaite's obituary of Win Dawson https://philiplarkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/About-Larkin-01.pdf First issue of About Larkin Further reading: Philip Larkin, Life, Art and Love by James Booth (Bloomsbury, 2014) Thank you to Jim Orwin for the original recording and sleeve notes. Thank you to Graham Chesters, Simon Smith, Daniel Vince, Phil Pullen, Clarissa Hard, Rachael Galletly, Alex Davis, Gavin Hogg and Julian wild for reading the poems. Produced by Lyn Lockwood and Gavin Hogg PLS Membership and information: philiplarkin.com Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Buy 'The Righteous Jazz' at their Bandcamp page: https://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazz
The Coronation of King Charles III promises to be very big on pomp and circumstance, but it may also play a leading role in healing divisions between post-Brexit Britain and the European Union. Leading EU officials will be in attendance at Westminster Abbey.This podcast shares a personal perspective on some of the momentous changes in the UK over recent years, and includes comparisons between the hot topics on both sides of The Atlantic. Our co-host Richard last lived in London in the 1970's and 80's. During late March and April he returned, spending a month there.Richard tells us that forty years ago London was "darker, smellier, poorer, louder and less orderly than the great city of today." He shares examples that illustrate this shift, as well as discussing the great impact of Brexit on the UK economy and politics. Jim and Richard examine the special relationship between the US and UK plus similarities and differences in debates over cancel culture, populism, immigration and abortion.The 2016 Brexit vote that led to the UK's withdrawal from the EU has not been the disaster that many had forecast. But the British economy is losing ground compared to other leading nations of Europe. Growth is flat and a small recession is forecast for later this year. Compare this with Ireland— still inside the EU— where the economy has been growing at more than twice the European average. The Irish growth rate may be as high as 8% this year.Recommendations: Refreshed after his recent trip, Richard urges listeners, if possible, to head overseas for at least a week or two. Travel is not only a tonic for the soul, but also broadens our political and cultural perspectives. During his trip, Richard read two fine books about the world-class city: "London: A Short History", a short, fluid and lively account by E.N. Wilson, and the much longer "London: The Biography", by Peter Ackroyd. Both give the reader a rich sense of London's very long and layered story.Anti-recommendation: Jim urges listeners to be very skeptical about the accuracy of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot. While researching an article for The Manhattan Institute recently, Jim came across potentially alarming examples of made-up quotes and magazine articles that were cited but never actually written. Jim discusses the crucial differences between search engines and new forms of AI. This article in The New York Times looks at how ChatGPT can fabricate information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Arya Aryan's book The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (Cambridge Scholars, 2022) explores the postmodernist representation of reality and argues that historiographic metafictional texts, such as Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (1987), are hetero-referential in their creation of a heterocosm, as opposed to representational and anti-representational views of art. It argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not simply self-referential, but hetero-referential, consciously revealing the paradoxes of self-referentiality while simultaneously creating a heterocosmic world where the text is capable of referring to an external reality. The book highlights Chatterton's narrative strategies and techniques which result in revealing the text's meaning-granting process. The novel acknowledges the existence of reality and the text's possibility of representation, but contends that reality is a human construct. In addition, the book demonstrates that representation is possible through fictive referents, and thus hetero-referential. Arya Aryan is assistant professor in English Literature. He received his PhD in postmodern and contemporary literature and the medical humanities from Durham University (UK). He also carried out a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Tübingen. His research interests are postmodernism, contemporary literature and the medical humanities. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Arya Aryan's book The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (Cambridge Scholars, 2022) explores the postmodernist representation of reality and argues that historiographic metafictional texts, such as Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (1987), are hetero-referential in their creation of a heterocosm, as opposed to representational and anti-representational views of art. It argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not simply self-referential, but hetero-referential, consciously revealing the paradoxes of self-referentiality while simultaneously creating a heterocosmic world where the text is capable of referring to an external reality. The book highlights Chatterton's narrative strategies and techniques which result in revealing the text's meaning-granting process. The novel acknowledges the existence of reality and the text's possibility of representation, but contends that reality is a human construct. In addition, the book demonstrates that representation is possible through fictive referents, and thus hetero-referential. Arya Aryan is assistant professor in English Literature. He received his PhD in postmodern and contemporary literature and the medical humanities from Durham University (UK). He also carried out a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Tübingen. His research interests are postmodernism, contemporary literature and the medical humanities. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies
Arya Aryan's book The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (Cambridge Scholars, 2022) explores the postmodernist representation of reality and argues that historiographic metafictional texts, such as Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (1987), are hetero-referential in their creation of a heterocosm, as opposed to representational and anti-representational views of art. It argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not simply self-referential, but hetero-referential, consciously revealing the paradoxes of self-referentiality while simultaneously creating a heterocosmic world where the text is capable of referring to an external reality. The book highlights Chatterton's narrative strategies and techniques which result in revealing the text's meaning-granting process. The novel acknowledges the existence of reality and the text's possibility of representation, but contends that reality is a human construct. In addition, the book demonstrates that representation is possible through fictive referents, and thus hetero-referential. Arya Aryan is assistant professor in English Literature. He received his PhD in postmodern and contemporary literature and the medical humanities from Durham University (UK). He also carried out a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Tübingen. His research interests are postmodernism, contemporary literature and the medical humanities. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history
Arya Aryan's book The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (Cambridge Scholars, 2022) explores the postmodernist representation of reality and argues that historiographic metafictional texts, such as Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (1987), are hetero-referential in their creation of a heterocosm, as opposed to representational and anti-representational views of art. It argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not simply self-referential, but hetero-referential, consciously revealing the paradoxes of self-referentiality while simultaneously creating a heterocosmic world where the text is capable of referring to an external reality. The book highlights Chatterton's narrative strategies and techniques which result in revealing the text's meaning-granting process. The novel acknowledges the existence of reality and the text's possibility of representation, but contends that reality is a human construct. In addition, the book demonstrates that representation is possible through fictive referents, and thus hetero-referential. Arya Aryan is assistant professor in English Literature. He received his PhD in postmodern and contemporary literature and the medical humanities from Durham University (UK). He also carried out a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Tübingen. His research interests are postmodernism, contemporary literature and the medical humanities. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art
Arya Aryan's book The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (Cambridge Scholars, 2022) explores the postmodernist representation of reality and argues that historiographic metafictional texts, such as Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (1987), are hetero-referential in their creation of a heterocosm, as opposed to representational and anti-representational views of art. It argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not simply self-referential, but hetero-referential, consciously revealing the paradoxes of self-referentiality while simultaneously creating a heterocosmic world where the text is capable of referring to an external reality. The book highlights Chatterton's narrative strategies and techniques which result in revealing the text's meaning-granting process. The novel acknowledges the existence of reality and the text's possibility of representation, but contends that reality is a human construct. In addition, the book demonstrates that representation is possible through fictive referents, and thus hetero-referential. Arya Aryan is assistant professor in English Literature. He received his PhD in postmodern and contemporary literature and the medical humanities from Durham University (UK). He also carried out a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Tübingen. His research interests are postmodernism, contemporary literature and the medical humanities. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies
Join Simon, Kuro, Joey and guest Sam as we discuss a "cure" for autism, LGBT history and young people coming out, something Simon read about ancient Greek friendships and bad newspaper articles.We mentioned another podcast, Bad Gays, which discusses queer villains throughout history. We also recommended some books, Queer City by Peter Ackroyd and the upcoming Queer as Folklore by the lovely Sasha Coward.We are not linked to any of these amazing people but highly recommend them as interesting listens and reads. As ever we thank you, our loyal listeners for sticking with us. We would love to hear from you and our Twitter is open @AtypicalThePod for messages and comments. Have a topic you would like us to cover, or do you fancy joining us for a natter, maybe tell us about your area of interest or expertise and share these things with everyone. We would also recommend our friend The Autistic Women for another great view on living with autism and our friends at the All Bets are Off podcast who cover addiction.
We kick off Season 7's spotlight on Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio with his majestic, “Lion of St. Mark.” This enormous painting announces Venice's return to power after a run-in with the League of Cambrai. We'll find out how a winged lion became the symbol of Venice, what happens when a couple of tourists get carried away, and how a pope changing his mind led to Venice's resurgence. SHOW NOTES “Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice” is on view Nov. 20, 2022–Feb. 12, 2023. Find out more at https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/carpaccio-renaissance-venice.html “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Goudimel Hodie nobis caelorum rex” composed by Claude Goudimel. Performed by Michel Rondeau. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/43315-hodie-nobis-caelorum-rex/ Artwork information Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice by Peter Humphrey et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. https://www.italyouritaly.com/blog/2021/1/21/the-lion-of-san-marco https://www.britannica.com/topic/League-of-Cambrai Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd ©2009, Anchor Books. Post comments or questions at alonglookpodcast.com
Episode: 2380 Isaac Newton's other life as Master of the Royal Mint. Today, Isaac Newton coins money.
Bir İngiliz kasabası, sakin bir hayat... Derken korkulan şey olur, kasabaya bir yabancı taşınır. Cinayet Masası'nda bu hafta Peter Ackroyd'dan Bay Cadmus var.
Bir İngiliz kasabası, sakin bir hayat... Derken korkulan şey olur, kasabaya bir yabancı taşınır. Cinayet Masası'nda bu hafta Peter Ackroyd'dan Bay Cadmus var. #CinayetMasası
Please consider supporting Human Voices Wake us by clicking here: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support Tonight I go over Shakespeare's “To be or not to be” soliloquy from Act 3 scene 1 of Hamlet. Throughout the episode I include the performance of this speech from modern actors: the first is by Paapa Essiedu, and the second by Andrew Scott. The very last, to give a sense of what the original pronunciation of the speech would have sounded like, is performed by Ben Crystal. A larger compilation of nine different versions can be found here, and a YouTube search provides even more. The books read from in this episode are Ben and David Crystal's Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion, Marjorie Garber's Shakespeare After All, and Peter Ackroyd's Shakespeare: The Biography. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support
#myopinion #book #review I'm listening Peter Ackroyd's Alfred Hitchcock in BibliON https://biblion.odilo.us/info/Alfred-Hitchcock-00907421
#oqueachei #livro #review I'm listening Peter Ackroyd's Alfred Hitchcock in BibliON https://biblion.odilo.us/info/Alfred-Hitchcock-00907421
In this episode, we chat with Dr Ashleigh Prosser about the Australian PhD system. How does it work? How much teaching is involved? What does the application process look like? Find out more in this week's deep dive! About Ashleigh: Dr Ashleigh Prosser FHEA is an early career researcher, and the Manager Capability Development in the Educational Enhancement Unit (Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Education) at the University of Western Australia. She completed her PhD by research in English & Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia, for which she wrote a study of the Gothic mode in contemporary author Peter Ackroyd's London-based novels and historical works. Ashleigh's research interests lie with the Gothic, and its relationship to haunting and the uncanny in literature and popular culture. Ashleigh is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Managing Editor of Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, co-founder of the Australasian Horror Studies Network, and the social media manager for The Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (@GANZA_Official), Find Ashleigh's Twitter here: @GANZA_Official This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter and Instagram @phdpendingpod or write an email to phdpendingpod@gmail.com.If you like our content, support PhD Pending by subscribing to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/phdpendingpod, or heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page for a once-off donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. Jingle by Scott Holmes ("Our Big Adventure," licensed CC BY-NC 4, available at www.scottholmesmusic.com, free for use, copy and redistribute in any medium or format, under Creative Commons). Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Another two part episode: The first is a brief sequel to an episode from last September, called Loneliness. (You can listen to that episode here) The second part (beginning at 19:19) is a reading from Peter Ackroyd's biography of William Shakespeare—buy the book here. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support
Historian Catharine Arnold discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Catharine Arnold is a popular historian and television presenter specialising in dark themes. Her most recent book is Pandemic 1918, the Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History. Her other books include the acclaimed London Quartet. These include: Necropolis, London and its Dead, ‘entertainment of the most garish and exquisite kind,' Peter Ackroyd, The Times. The Independent also rated Necropolis one of its Top Ten History Books in 2010. Her first novel, Lost Time, won a Betty Trask award. Daisies https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/may/30/new-dvd-releases-daisies-czech Masha by Mara Kay https://shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-youngest-lady-in-waiting-by-mara-kay Bilgewater by Jane Gardam https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jane-gardam/bilgewater/ George Barker's poetry https://mypoeticside.com/poets/george-barker-poems Ronald Frame https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/13078532.Ronald_Frame_blows_the_dust_off_a_Dickens_heroine/ It's Never Too Late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Never_Too_Late_(1956_film) This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm
Writer, film maker, poet, flaneur, metropolitan shaman, curator of lost cultures, beat aficionado, and underground poet Iain Sinclair takes us on a walk through his life in the counterculture. We have brief encounters with Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock, Peter Ackroyd, J.G.Ballard and Nicholas Hawksmoor as we hear tales of the poetry underground, life working as a Hackney council gardener, blacklegging in the London docks, cigars in Clerkenwell, an epic ancestral journey from Leadenhall Market to Peru, DIY-publishing, writing, writing, writing, and of course The City, as we circle towards hearing Iain reading selections from Lud Heat, the epic 1975 piece that was destined to become the root text of London psychogeography. For more on on Iain and his work: www.iainsinclair.org.uk ---------- Get the Bureau's Newsletter Support our wild endeavours The Bureau of Lost Culture Home Go on - follow, rate and review us - or be in touch directly bureauoflostculture@gmail.com We'd love to hear from you. -------------
A reading from chapter six of Peter Ackroyd's history of early seventeenth-century England, Civil War (or Rebellion, as the book has been retitled in its America, apparently not to upset anybody buying it by accident and hoping to read about a different Civil War). Ackroyd uses two texts to paint a brief picture of London at the time: Thomas Dekker's The Seven Deadly Sins of London (1607), and Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair(1614). Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support
Peter Ackroyd. „Paskutinis Oskaro Vaildo testamentas“. Skaito aktorius Vytautas Rumšas.
Peter Ackroyd. „Paskutinis Oskaro Vaildo testamentas“. Skaito aktorius Vytautas Rumšas.
Peter Ackroyd. „Paskutinis Oskaro Vaildo testamentas“. Skaito aktorius Vytautas Rumšas.
Peter Ackroyd. „Paskutinis Oskaro Vaildo testamentas“. Skaito aktorius Vytautas Rumšas.
Peter Ackroyd. „Paskutinis Oskaro Vaildo testamentas“. Skaito aktorius Vytautas Rumšas.
Peter Ackroyd. „Paskutinis Oskaro Vaildo testamentas“. Skaito aktorius Vytautas Rumšas.
Peter Ackroyd. „Paskutinis Oskaro Vaildo testamentas“. Skaito aktorius Vytautas Rumšas.
BIBLIOTECA SUBMERSA é a nova série de episódios do Podcast da Raphus Press, uma ironia bastante séria com o conceito de canônico e marginal, de popular e elitista, de aceito e não aceito, a partir das obras de autores que, aparentemente, tinham alguma influência (ou relevância) de certas obras ou autores no passado e que, hoje, parecem ausentes das livrarias, cadernos culturais, canais de vídeo na Internet. Nossa inspiração é Jorge Luis Borges e uma conhecida citação de Virginia Woolf: “Livros usados são selvagens, destituídos; surgem em grandes bandos de penas variadas e possuem certo encanto que falta aos volumes domesticados de uma biblioteca.” Acervo revisto de hoje: Recuperação do sentido da realidade (“Hawksmoor”, de Peter Ackroyd) Obras citadas: “Hawksmoor”, de Peter Ackroyd. Nosso podcast também está disponível nas seguintes plataformas: - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NUiqPPTMdnezdKmvWDXHs - Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-da-raphus-press/id1488391151?uo=4 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xMDlmZmVjNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw%3D%3D Apoie o canal: https://apoia.se/podcastdaraphus. Ou adquira nossos livros em nosso site: http://raphuspress.weebly.com. Dúvidas sobre envio, formas de pagamento, etc.: http://raphuspress.weebly.com/contact.html.
A reading of two chapters from Peter Ackroyd's book, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination. Chapter 5, "A Rare & Singular Bede," covers the life of the Venerable Bede, as well as education and culture in England in the eighth century. Chapter 14, "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes," is a brief look into Anglo-Saxon (aka Old English) poetry, and its continued life and reverberations in English poetry, through the present day. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support
With about a third of the Australian wool clip bought at retail in Europe, what does the re-opening of society in parts of Europe mean for wool demand and the future of our fibre? Peter Ackroyd shared his extensive experience and knowledge in this vital market at this vital time.
Adnan Bostancıoğlu "Hafıza Köşesi" ismi verdiği bu bölümde; İngiliz biyografi yazarı, romancı, eleştirmen Peter Ackroyd ve kitapları hakkında bilgiler paylaşıyor.
Een ander leven van Rudi Meulemans Luister deze week terug naar een zomeraflevering van vorig jaar over Een ander leven van Rudi Meulemans, Samen met super special guest Jantine Broek kletsen we over Engeland als vakantieland en de nodige kritische noten die we kunnen plaatsen bij het nostaligisch escapisme dat daar vaak bij komt kijken. Gelukkig kunnen we ook heerlijk wegdromen bij de genderfluïde relaties van de 20e eeuwse queer community rond Vita Sackville-West en Harold Nicolson. In 1947 maakten Vita Sackville-West en haar man Harold Nicolson samen met hun vriend James Lees-Milne een reis door zuidwest-Engeland. Namens de National Trust, de organisatie die Engels erfgoed restaureert en bewaart, bezocht het reisgezelschap het ene landhuis na het andere. Het waren voor hen iconen van een tijd waarin alles beter was. Zeventig jaar later reist Rudi Meulemans deze opmerkelijke historische figuren achterna. Onderweg eet hij in de pubs waar zij aten, slaapt hij in de hotels waar zij sliepen en bezoekt hij de landhuizen die door toedoen van zijn voorgangers bewaard zijn gebleven. Gaandeweg wordt duidelijk hoe kwetsbaar het verleden is, tot er plots, aan het eind van Meulemans' reis, iets gebeurt wat zijn leven op z'n kop zet. Dan dringt de vraag zich onherroepelijk op: is het überhaupt mogelijk om dingen vast te houden? Bestel het boek hier in onze webshop. Hoe zit dat met dat 'nostalgische Engeland'? In deze aflevering bespreken we Engeland als plek voor nostalgische wegdromerij en plaatsen we daar een aantal kritische noten bij. Wil je hier meer over weten, begin dan bijvoorbeeld bij één van deze titels: Ten eerste, dit is het boek dat in onze hoofden rondspookte tijdens het lezen van Een ander leven. Orlando is het verhaal van een dichter die van gender verandert en eeuwenlang leeft tussen allerlei literaire beroemheden uit de Engelse geschiedenis. Virginia Woolf baseerde dit verhaal direct op Vita Sackville-West en haar familie. Bestel het boek hier in onze webshop. In Brit(ish) bespreekt Afua Hirsch de raciale stereotypen en onderliggende machtssystemen die vorm geef aan ons hedendaagse begrip van de Britse identiteit. "You're British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking where you're from? We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch's personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be - and an urgent call for change." Bestel het boek hier in onze webshop. In ons gesprek noemen we dat queerness in dit boek wordt besproken als een heerlijke vrijheid, zonder er per se aandacht is voor de verschillende vormen van uitsluiting die historisch gezien ook vorm gaven aan de queer gemeenschappen in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. In zijn boek Queer City geeft Peter Ackroyd een mooie geschiedenis van die gemeenschappen in de hoofdstad Londen. Het biedt zo een mooie context voor het boek van Meulemans. Bestel het boek hier in de webshop. Jantine bespreekt in deze aflevering hoe het strake klassensysteem in het Verenigd Koninkrijk doorwerkt in alle elementen van de samenleving. In zijn driedelige televisieserie All in Good Taste (2012) onderzoekt Grayson Perry hoe deze verdeling doorwerkt als het aankomt op smaak. In aflevering drie, die hier te zien is op YouTube, bespreekt hij de smaak van de hogere sociale klasse tijdens een bezoek aan de Cotswolds. Tot slot een kritische noot naar onszelf. Jantine appt me na het beluisteren van de aflevering met schaamrood op de kaken dat ze een verspreking bij zichzelf hoort: ze zegt dat de 15e eeuw de zogenaamde 'Elizabethaanse eeuw' is, maar dat moet de 16e eeuw zijn.
The conversations in this episode were recorded in the Langham Hotel in West London 20 years ago. Mark Bowden recounts the life of the mega rich drug dealer Pablo Escobar in his book 'Killing Pablo'. Mark Bowden's book is a type of biography and following that Peter Ackroyd tells David Freeman about his fascinating biography of London. A different dimension of London's history is told by Liza Pickard in her book 'Dr. Johnson's London'. Finally the award winning journalist Christina Lamb tells the remarkable story of a rich eccentric who a hundred years ago built a replica of an English country house in the middle of Africa. 'The Africa House' is a an astonishing true story that would make an amazing film.
London, The Biography, by Peter Ackroyd, 2000. Chapter 65. - Book of 821 pages!... Music: Victorian Era Music Compilation || Victorian England Steampunk London 19th Century https://youtu.be/Tjb0Dbv-GRg
London, The Biography, by Peter Ackroyd, 2000. Chapter 65.
Aujourd'hui, à l'Histoire nous le dira, l'histoire d'un algorithme entraîné à détecter l'écriture du dramaturge le plus étudié et le plus joué au monde, William Shakespeare. Pour soutenir financièrement la chaîne, trois choix: 1. Cliquez sur le bouton « Adhérer » sous la vidéo. 2. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hndl 3. UTip: https://utip.io/lhistoirenousledira Avec: Laurent Turcot, professeur en histoire à l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada Script: Louis-Étienne Villeneuve Abonnez-vous à ma chaine: https://www.youtube.com/c/LHistoirenousledira Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/histoirenousledira Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/turcotlaurent Les vidéos sont utilisées à des fins éducatives selon l'article 107 du Copyright Act de 1976 sur le Fair-Use. Pour aller plus loin: Petr Plecháč, « Relative contributions of Shakespeare and Fletcher in Henry VIII: An Analysis Based on Most Frequent Words and Most Frequent Rhythmic Patterns », Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2020. https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05652 Peter Ackroyd, Shakespeare : The Biography, Londres, Vintage, 2006. Brian Gibbons, Shakespeare and Multiplicity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993. #histoire #documentaire
The first of a few episodes over the coming months when we look at Victorian Jobs. Email:thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast http://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/08/31/dog-feces/ http://www.blackstockleather.com/history-of-the-leather-tanning-industry/ Peter Ackroyd. London Under. London: Vintage, 2012 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/quite-likely-the-worst-job-ever-319843/ Henry mayhew, london labour and the London poor, oxford press 2010
Taking a few minutes away from recording Page One In Review episodes, Charles Adrian talks about a particular kind of convalescent literature. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/. “Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don’t go in much for the structured approach to career progression. It’s up to each individual witch to take on a girl to hand the area over to when she dies. Witches are not by nature gregarious, at least with other witches, and they certainly don’t have leaders./Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn’t have.” from Weird Sisters by Terry Pratchett. You can read about Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Series on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld The first Page One In Review episode, which is Page One 157, was recorded on the 18th of March, 2020. Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith is discussed in Page One 76 and Page One 175, Germany by Neil MacGregor is discussed in Page One 177, The Cloudspotter’s Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney is discussed in Page One 27 and Page One 163, and Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary by M. R. James is discussed in Page One 36 and Page One 165. Also mentioned in this episode is London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd. Another book by Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor, is discussed in Page One 121. And there are mentions of books by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and P. D. James, The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks and the Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E. Butler (of which Imago is the third book). Other books by Terry Pratchett mentioned in this episode are The Colour Of Magic, Equal Rites, Mort, Reaper Man and Weird Sisters. Episode image is a detail from the cover of Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, published in 1993 by Corgi Books; cover illustration by Josh Kirby. Episode recorded: 9th September, 2020. Book listing: Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Een ander leven van Rudi Meulemans Samen met super special guest Jantine Broek bespreken we Een ander leven van Rudi Meulemans. We kletsen over Engeland als vakantieland en de nodige kritische noten die we kunnen plaatsen bij het nostaligisch escapisme dat daar vaak bij komt kijken. Gelukkig kunnen we ook heerlijk wegdromen bij de genderfluïde relaties van de 20e eeuwse queer community rond Vita Sackville-West en Harold Nicolson. In 1947 maakten Vita Sackville-West en haar man Harold Nicolson samen met hun vriend James Lees-Milne een reis door zuidwest-Engeland. Namens de National Trust, de organisatie die Engels erfgoed restaureert en bewaart, bezocht het reisgezelschap het ene landhuis na het andere. Het waren voor hen iconen van een tijd waarin alles beter was.Zeventig jaar later reist Rudi Meulemans deze opmerkelijke historische figuren achterna. Onderweg eet hij in de pubs waar zij aten, slaapt hij in de hotels waar zij sliepen en bezoekt hij de landhuizen die door toedoen van zijn voorgangers bewaard zijn gebleven. Gaandeweg wordt duidelijk hoe kwetsbaar het verleden is, tot er plots, aan het eind van Meulemans’ reis, iets gebeurt wat zijn leven op z’n kop zet. Dan dringt de vraag zich onherroepelijk op: is het überhaupt mogelijk om dingen vast te houden?Bestel het boek hier in onze webshop. Hoe zit dat met dat 'nostalgische Engeland'? In deze aflevering bespreken we Engeland als plek voor nostalgische wegdromerij en plaatsen we daar een aantal kritische noten bij. Wil je hier meer over weten, begin dan bijvoorbeeld bij één van deze titels: Ten eerste, dit is het boek dat in onze hoofden rondspookte tijdens het lezen van Een ander leven. Orlando is het verhaal van een dichter die van gender verandert en eeuwenlang leeft tussen allerlei literaire beroemheden uit de Engelse geschiedenis. Virginia Woolf baseerde dit verhaal direct op Vita Sackville-West en haar familie. Bestel het boek hier in onze webshop. In Brit(ish) bespreekt Afua Hirsch de raciale stereotypen en onderliggende machtssystemen die vorm geef aan ons hedendaagse begrip van de Britse identiteit. "You're British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking where you're from? We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch's personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be - and an urgent call for change."Bestel het boek hier in onze webshop. In ons gesprek noemen we dat queerness in dit boek wordt besproken als een heerlijke vrijheid, zonder er per se aandacht is voor de verschillende vormen van uitsluiting die historisch gezien ook vorm gaven aan de queer gemeenschappen in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. In zijn boek Queer City geeft Peter Ackroyd een mooie geschiedenis van die gemeenschappen in de hoofdstad Londen. Het biedt zo een mooie context voor het boek van Meulemans.Bestel het boek hier in de webshop. Jantine bespreekt in deze aflevering hoe het strake klassensysteem in het Verenigd Koninkrijk doorwerkt in alle elementen van de samenleving. In zijn driedelige televisieserie All in Good Taste (2012) onderzoekt Grayson Perry hoe deze verdeling doorwerkt als het aankomt op smaak. In aflevering drie, die hier te zien is op YouTube, bespreekt hij de smaak van de hogere sociale klasse tijdens een bezoek aan de Cotswolds. Tot slot een kritische noot naar onszelf. Jantine appt me na het beluisteren van de aflevering met schaamrood op de kaken dat ze een verspreking bij zichzelf hoort: ze zegt dat de 15e eeuw de zogenaamde 'Elizabethaanse eeuw' is, maar dat moet de 16e eeuw zijn.
The Ninja reviews one of his recent lockdown reads: Thames by Peter Ackroyd. Ninja delves into etymology, culture, history, human filth and the guts of beasts in this meandering biography of arguably the world’s most written-about river.
Updates on everything everyone’s reading (and NOT reading, side-eye straight to Thrift Books) in lockdown. Bookshop.org Thriftbooks.com Trailer for The Pieces I Am, Toni Morrison documentary. Peter Ackroyd's Venice on Audible, narrated by Simon Vance Books mentioned: The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling; His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman; Ducks, Newburyport, Lucy Ellmann; Slocum’s Inheritance, Jack Logan; Excellent Women, Babara Pym; Accept No Mediocre Life: Living Beyond Labels, Libels, and Limitations, David Foster; Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison; The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Washington Square, Henry James; Little, Big, John Crowley; Venice, Peter Ackroyd.
“It has become a commonplace of Shakespearian biography that, from roughly his age of twenty to his age of twenty-eight, we encounter the ‘lost years.’ But no years are ever wholly lost. There may be a gap in chronology, but the pattern of a life may be discerned obliquely and indirectly.” - Peter Ackroyd in Shakespeare the BiographyFrom the birth of his twins to his arrival on the London theatre scene, we have no record of what Shakespeare was doing. This isn’t from a lack of trying, but if you weren’t getting baptised, married or buried, if you weren’t involved in a court case or a land purchase, and you weren’t a member of the nobility, you basically didn’t exist. If no one was writing about you, there would be no record. On top of that, Elizabethan record keeping wasn’t exactly top notch and there were quite a few fires thrown in there for good measure. What does this all mean? Well, it means we will never be able to say for 100% certainty what Shakespeare was doing during these years. We can make educated guesses and speculate, but until a magic document shows up, there’s no irrefutable proof. Not all hypotheses are created equal though, so it is worth examining the most prevalent theories and how likely or unlikely they are. Which is exactly what Eli and I will be doing today. Strap on your deductive reasoning caps and let’s explore Shakespeare’s lost years. Primary research sources:Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter AckroydThe Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Teller of Tales by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4467-teller-of-the-talesLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Minstrel Guild by KevinMacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4056-minstrel-guildLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Amanda and Jenn discuss books about mother-daughter relationships, climate change primers, engaging audiobooks, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian, new in paperback from Algonquin Books, and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. FEEDBACK Daevabad Trilogy (City of Brass #1) by S.A. Chakraborty, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, and City of Spires series (City of Strife #1) (rec’d by Eric) QUESTIONS 1. Hello! I’m hoping to find a couple of books- fiction or nonfiction that delve into the complicated world of mother-daughter relationships. I don’t necessarily have a BAD relationship with my own mother, but we have a very difficult time communicating about anything real, and I struggle with how much she depends on my “needing” her to do things for me- even though I am almost 30 and have always been very independent. Books are often my therapy, and I’m looking for stories that will help inspire and motivate me with ideas on how to better our relationship. Or, at least, make me feel like I am not alone in this. Any recommendations? Thanks so much!! 2. Hi! A dear friend of mine was home schooled in a restrictive (abusive) environment. The only books he has ever read are the Bible and Twilight. Later in adulthood, he also suffered a traumatic brain injury, so his ability to concentrate is sometimes low. He’s recently decided to go for his GED and we are all very happy for him! One of the things he wants to do is read some of the books on the high school curriculum, but honestly I’m not sure where to start him. I don’t want to discourage him by starting him on something like Pride and Prejudice or Lord of the Flies where both the vocabulary and the syntax would be unfamiliar to him. I don’t think he could parse the sentence structure. I’m trying to push him towards Stephen King or other really popular, compelling stories until he gets in the physical habit of reading, but he would really like something “literary”. Can you recommend something classic, but plain (American) English and good for fostering a love of reading in someone who has always been denied that opportunity? Thanks, -Ella 3. I’m asking for a book recommendation for my mom. For the last several years, we’ve been having conversations about climate change and the climate crisis. She knows it’s an issue, but hasn’t had the sense of urgency or engagement around it that I do. She’s never shown an interest in diving deeper into the topic until this weekend when I was home for Thanksgiving. She asked if I had a recommendation for a book (or podcast) that could explain it and why it’s such a crisis in a way that’s easy to follow. I heard your recommendation recently for So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo and I am wondering if there is a book like that for climate change? I feel like this is an opportunity to really get her engaged and I don’t want to mess it up!! Thanks and I hope you had a great Thanksgiving! -Ashley 4. I have set the goal for myself to try to not read books by straight white men this year (going through at least March of next year), but have had some difficulty finding read-a-likes for the rereads I’ve been craving. I really want to read something in which the city of London is a character. My go to would be the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch or London: a Biography by Peter Ackroyd, both of which I loved. Help! Thanks! -Emi 5. I am looking for a captivating audiobook . Bahni Turpin is a favorite narrator of mine. I am not in the mood for humor or satire. I love literary fiction and I am specifically looking for books by and about people of the African diaspora. Do you have any good recommendations for me? Thank you. I am desperate for a good listen. My favorite listens to date include: Adult The Count of Monte Cristo The Seasons of Beento Blackbird Young Adult Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Children of Blood and Bone -Regina 6. I was recently diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, and I’m looking for a fiction novel that shows me I’m not alone. I’m not looking for something about social anxiety, though, and I’ve already read Turtles All the Way Down, All the Bright Places, Every Last Word and other mental health-centered books. I mostly read YA, but Adult or Middle Grade would be awesome too! If there’s an LGBT aspect that would be a great bonus. Thank you so much!! -A Chronic Worrier 7. I love books that are about everything and nothing with a hint of magical realism. Some of my favorites are: Wolf by Jim Harrison, Gilead by Marilyn Robinson, The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, and Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi. I’d love to discover less known writers; fiction only, please. Can’t wait to hear your picks! -Michelle BOOKS Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin The Magical Language of Others by EJ Koh (tw: suicidal thoughts and attempts, disordered eating, domestic violence, sexual assault, depression) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (trigger warnings: child abuse) The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells Climate Changed by Philippe Squarzoni NW by Zadie Smith Brick Lane by Monica Ali (tw: domestic violence) Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (tw: slavery) Book of Night Women by Marlon James, narrated by Robin Miles (tw: slavery & related violence) Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (rec’d by Jamie Canaves) How To Be a Movie Star by TJ Klune (tw: suicidal thoughts, depression, anxiety) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Tentacle by Rita Indiana, translated by Achy Obejas (tw: sexual assault, transphobia, homophobia, use of slurs, racism)
“We may see the young Shakespeare, therefore, spending thirty or forty hours each week in memorising, construing, parsing and repeating prose and verse in Latin. We may hear him talking the language, to his schoolmaster and to his fellow pupils.” Peter Ackroyd in Shakespeare: A BiographyA common argument of anti-Stratfordians is that Shakespeare was uneducated. He only completed grammar school and never even attended a single day of university. So, it seems impossible that a man with a “grade school” education could grow up to be such a prolific writer. That idea, though, completely disregards the realities of Elizabethan Grammar School.Yes, Shakespeare only attended school for about four years. However, in those four years he received an education similar to that of a modern day classics undergraduate. The students, by years three and four, were encouraged to speak only Latin at school. That means for 12+ hours a day for 5 ½ days per week for 44 weeks per year, they were speaking Latin. To say Shakespeare was uneducated is simply incorrect. He was not as educated as other writers, but with his grammar school education he was given all of the tools necessary to write his plays.Today, we will be taking a closer look at what Shakespeare’s education was like and how it contributed to the writer he became. Grab your quill and ink pot and let’s head to school.Teller of Tales by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4467-teller-of-the-talesLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Minstrel Guild by KevinMacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4056-minstrel-guildLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this week’s books podcast, Sam's guest is Robert Alter - who has just published the fruits of decades of labour in the form of his complete new translation of the Hebrew Bible into English. Acclaimed for his Bible translations by Seamus Heaney, John Updike and Peter Ackroyd, Prof Alter explains how Biblical Hebrew really works, what can and cannot be preserved in translation - and why, as he sees it, nearly every modern translation of the Bible gets it catastrophically wrong.
In this week’s books podcast, Sam's guest is Robert Alter - who has just published the fruits of decades of labour in the form of his complete new translation of the Hebrew Bible into English. Acclaimed for his Bible translations by Seamus Heaney, John Updike and Peter Ackroyd, Prof Alter explains how Biblical Hebrew really works, what can and cannot be preserved in translation - and why, as he sees it, nearly every modern translation of the Bible gets it catastrophically wrong. Presented by Sam Leith, the Spectator's Literary Editor.
Welcome to episode two of our series discussing the biblical theme of the Son of Man. In this episode, Tim and Jon discuss humanity's role in relation to other parts of creation, specifically animals. In part one (0:00-30:15), the guys briefly recap the first episode and quickly go over Daniel’s dream in Daniel 7, where he has a vision of the Son of Man appearing. Tim then dives into the language and ideas presented in Genesis 1 and specifically focuses on the order of creation and how the days are paired. Genesis 1:1-2: In the beginning God created the skies and the land and the land was wild and waste, and darkness was over the face of the watery deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Wild (tohu) = unordered Waste (vohu) = uninhabited Day 1 - Light: Separated from dark, day and night. Day 4 - Lights appointed to rule the day and night. Day 2 - Waters above separated from waters below. Day 5 - Creatures in waters below, creatures in waters above. “And God created the great sea monsters..." (1:21) “And God blessed them, saying be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters…” (1:22) Day 3 - Water separated from dry land. “Let the land bring forth (ותוצא) plants and vegetation and seed-producing plants and trees producing fruit.” (1:12) Day 6 - Creatures on the land. “Let the land bring forth (ותוצא) living beasts by their kinds.” (1:25) “Let us create the human (ha-adam) in our image and as our likeness… And God blessed them, and said, (1) be fruitful and multiply and fill the land and subdue it, and rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the beasts on the land.” (1:26-28) Gen 2:1-3: God rests on the seventh day, which does not end. Tim then focuses on humanity's relationship with animals. Tim notices that humans are the “second comers” to creation, who are given the responsibility to rule over the animals who came first. This is a pattern that shows itself many times in Genesis. (Think about Joseph’s sons later in the story.) Tim then asks what it means for humans to be called to rule over the animals. Tim cites Richard Bauckham’s book Living with Other Creatures, “It is not often well enough noticed that the command God gives to humanity refers to two rather different matters. It refers first to the relationship of humans to the earth, secondly to their relationship to other living creatures...and they are not the same thing. Humans are not alone in being told to be fruitful and to multiply and to fill, the first and birds were given the same blessing on day 5. Only humans are told to fill and to subdue the land. In the narrative this refers clearly to agriculture, taking possession of the soil and working it in order to make it yield more food for humans than it would otherwise do. But what about all the other land animals? How does humanity’s role of subduing land relate to God’s blessing of the animals to fill the land? Notice God’s next words to the humans: See, I have given you (humans) every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food. (Gen 1: 29– 30) Why does God tell humans that he has given every plant for food for the other living creatures? Surely, the reason is that it is the humans who need to know that the produce of the earth is not intended to feed them alone, but also all the living species of the earth. The clear implication is that the earth can provide enough food for all creatures. Humans are not to fill the earth and subdue it in a way that leaves no room and no sustenance for the other creatures who share the earth with them. God has given them too the right to live from the soil. So the human right to make use of the earth, to live from it, is far from unlimited. It must respect the existence of other creatures. The biblical portrait of human dominion over the animals must be filled out by the Bible’s vision of “royal rule.” Since Genesis depicts the image of God as a kind of royal function, the rule of a king over others, it is worth recalling the only passage in the law of Moses that refers to the role of the king in Israel (Deut. 17: 14– 20). There it is emphasized that the king is one among his brothers and sisters, his fellow-Israelites, and should not forget it. He should not accumulate wealth or arms or indulge in any of the ways kings usually exalt themselves above their subjects. Only if they remember their fundamental solidarity with their people will kings be able to rule truly for the benefit of their people. Similarly, only when humans remember their fundamental solidarity with their fellow-creatures will they be able to exercise their distinctive authority within creation for the benefit of other creatures.” (pp. 226-228) In part two (30:15-41:30), Jon asks about carnivorous animals like lions. Tim says that life survives at the expense of other lives right now, but apparently, in the new creation, that will fundamentally change. Tim says that humans bear responsibility for animal’s destiny; that’s why we are called to rule them. This is humanity acting in their identity of the divine image. Tim shares this quote: “The close relation of the term for God’s image with that for the commission to exercise dominion emerges quite clearly when we have understood selem as a plastic image. Just as powerful earthly kings, to indicate their claim to dominion, erect an image of themselves in the provinces of their empire where they do not personally appear, so man is placed upon earth in God’s image as God’s sovereign emblem. He is really only God’s representative, summoned to maintain and enforce God’s claim to dominion over the earth.” Gerhard von Rad, Genesis: A Commentary, ed. Peter Ackroyd et al., trans. John H. Marks, Revised Edition., The Old Testament Library (Philadelphia, PA: The Westminster Press, 1972), 59–60. Tim says that a human making an idol is an oxymoron. Humans are the image of God, so why would they make one? Tim then posits that in Genesis 3, an animal (the snake) is the one who deceives Adam and Eve. Humans end up getting ruled by the animals instead of ruling them. In part three (41:30-53:00), the guys discuss Psalm 8: O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have shown Your splendor above the heavens! ….When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained; What is human that You take thought of him, And the son of man (human) that You care for him? Yet You have made him a little lower than elohim (God or angelic beings), And You crown him with glory and majesty! [kavod va-hadar ‘divine attributes’] You make him to rule [mashal] over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field, The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth! Notice how God’s exaltation and glorification of humans is set within an inclusion frame about God’s own majesty and reputation. An exalted humanity doesn’t compete with God, rather it increases God’s own honor, because humans are an expression of the divine beauty and creativity. In part four (53:00-end), Tim shares this quote: “One point of saying that God is the absolute sovereign (as the biblical texts say time and again) is to say that he is free: free to exalt and share his own power and divine power with those whom he wills, through a transformation of their nature and identity; free to create entities that in various ways share in his identity as ruler and judge, and who manifest his presence within the world… The God of the biblical story is able to enter into and take on the nature and identity of the very reality he has created, taking it up into his very self. God’s identity is, apparently, “sharable.” … God’s identity is not a zero-sum game. To say that God shares his identity with humanity does not mean he suffers a loss of being; on the contrary, it is actually a way of saying that his identity is magnified and his glory extended.” [Tim’s note: “and, we may add, this is the way the divine love is extended as well.”] - Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Jesus Monotheism, 310-312. Tim says that for God, relationship with creation means entering into a shared relationship with it. Show Produced By: Dan Gummel, Jon Collins Show Music: Defender Instrumental, Tents The Cave Resides Deep in the Forest, Artificial Music Talking with You, Copyright free Very Chill Saxaphone, Copyright free Show Resources: Gerhard von Rad, Genesis: A Commentary Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Jesus Monotheism Richard Bauckham, Living with Other Creatures. Our video on the Son of Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6cWEcqxhlI&t=113s
Sevin Okyay bu hafta yabancı bir polisiye romanla yayında. Peter Ackroyd en sevilen romanlarından biri olan Hawskmoor'da, Londra kiliselerinde cinayetler işleyen bir katille onun peşindeki dedektifin hikâyesini anlatıyor. Sevin Okyay kitaptan bir bölüm okutuyor, romana ve yazarına ilişkin yorumlar yapıyor.
'among school children' by Peter Ackroyd read by Tom O'Sullivan. 'among school children' first appeared in the collection 'The Diversions of Purley' published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd in 1987. A transcript is not available. More from Tom O'Sullivan can be found at https://www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/joanne-tatham-tom-o-sullivan
IntroductionPeter Ackroyd is the COO of the Campaign for Wool and the President of the International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO). Peter shares insights about the start of the Campaign for Wool together with HRH The Prince of Wales and the latest campaign's event. He also talks about provenance and wool's environmental credentials providing value to retailers, brands and the consumer. About Peter AckroydPeter Ackroyd is the Global Strategic Advisor for The Woolmark Company in Sydney, Australia and the Chief Operating Officer of the Campaign for Wool. In May 2011 he was elected President of the International Wool Textile Organisation and re-elected in April 2016. Specialising in world markets for woollen and worsted yarns and fabrics, Peter has particular expertise in marketing in Europe, the Middle East, Japan, Korea and China, along with in-depth knowledge of the menswear supply chain ‘from farm to fashion'. He also serves as Vice President of the Strategy Board of Première Vision Paris.
This was made while I was reading Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd for my other podcast The Bowie Book Club. It's a spooky and entertaining book - highly recommended. Hope you like this too.
Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we readHawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd, a wildly entertaining story of occultism, the churches of London, police procedures and how time isn't as straightforward as you might think.
This week, the American Sheep Industry visits with Peter Ackroyd, President of the International Wool Textile Organization (IWTO) at the mid-year meeting in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Matthew Sweet with a film music inspired by London's historic East End, prompted by the release of "The Limehouse Golem" which features a new score by Johan Soderqvist. The film, by Juan Carlos Medina, stars Bill Nighy as a Victorian detective, troubled by a case of bizarre and perplexing murder. The plot is inspired by the novel of the same name by Peter Ackroyd. Matthew focuses on the more colourful aspects of East London - as has appealed to film makers - of Charles Dickens, Opium Dens, Jack the Ripper and the Krays. Featured films include "Oliver"; "From Hell"; "Time After Time"; "The Verdict"; "Broken Blossoms"; "It Always Rains on Sundays"; "Sparrows Can't Sing"; "Legend"; "Eastern Promises" and "The Long Good Friday".
More often associated with comic films, actor Bill Nighy turns his hand to gothic horror in his latest movie The Limehouse Golem. Based on the Peter Ackroyd novel, Nighy plays Inspector Kildare, a compassionate detective, drafted in to investigate a series of grisly murders in Victorian London. He talks to Samira about the safety of comedy and how he hates a challenge.As Londoners were treated to three different productions of Hamlet this summer, we explore why audiences can never seem to get enough of The Prince of Denmark. Samira is joined by Dame Janet Suzman, who has both acted in and directed the play; Kosha Engler who is currently playing Gertrude and Ophelia in a 3 person abridged version with her husband Benet and her father-in-law Gyles Brandreth; and psychotherapist Mark Vernon.American photographer Steve McCurry's most famous image is Afghan Girl, a photo taken in 1984 for the cover of National Geographic Magazine. The multi award-winning photographer has been travelling regularly in Afghanistan since the 1979 Russian invasion and tells Samira about his latest book; Afghanistan, a collection of pictures taken over a four decade career. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Edwina Pitman.
Josie and Robin are joined by writer Johann Hari to talk about all manner of things. From his new book, ‘Chasing the Scream’ and rebuilding trust with readers, to the work of Rebecca Solnit, Simon Ings, Peter Ackroyd and more. This is a bonus episode, free to all with no charge to our Patreons. Subscribe to the all new Cosmic Shambles which is launching soon at cosmicshambles.com
This week on Turned out A Punk, it is legit legends week as we welcome, guitarist of the legendary Viletones, Freddie Pompeii the show for a legendary episode. Hear stories of acid fuelled Velvet Underground experiences to laying the foundation of Punk and being in arguably the most important Canadian punk band ever. -The Abridge Version: 60’s Garage “Punk” -Bubble: Dot Records Recording Artists -Going to Mariposa Music Festival -Beating the The Draft -A band with Dan’s brother Peter Ackroyd -Meeting Mickey from the Curse -A Weed Bust -Experiments in Fuzz: learning to play guitar in prison -Peter Panic: one-man-proto-punk -Getting fired from the Gasworks: Meeting Steve Leckie -The Southern Ontario Circuit and eating Moose meat spaghetti, -“Freddie, What are you Into man!?!?!”: Getting Punked -Being a country songwriter. -Seeing the Velvet Underground play a Sister Ray… in a coffee shop… ON ACID! -Snorting coke and smoking weed in the lobby during Genesis -The New York Dolls and KISS (“Just a rock metal band”) at Massy Hall -Seeing an ad in the paper for the a band -Forming the Viletones -Zoom and Chris Hate -The Viletones and the self-mutilation on stage and in the audience. -Touring the US for the -The Reds -Ben Vaughn Combo -Other US shows -Bleecker Bob taking you to the hospital -The Diodes -Teenage Head: Friends from the start -Lydia Lunch puling you off the stage to have her way with you. -The Cramps and Suicide opening for the Canadian Weekend at CBGB’s -“The Nazi Thing” an attempt at parody -The Viletones on the CBC -The Media buzz -The almost UK debut -Enter The Secrets: The end of the Viletones AND MORE!!!!!!
Arthur Miller's Pullitzer prize winning 1949 play, Death of a Salesman, set in Brooklyn in New York, is one of the greatest American tragedies ever written. In a production to celebrate the centenary of Miller's birth at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford on Avon, Artistic Director Greg Doran directs Anthony Sher as Willy Loman, Harriet Walter as his wife Linda and Alex Hassel as their son Biff. How well does this production portray the darkness that lies at the heart of the American dream? Oscar nominated for The Squid and the Whale, "While We're Young" is Noah Baumbach's 8th feature film, and his second collaboration with star Ben Stiller. A comedy about the generational divide in a technologically driven age - what new insights does it provide on the perennial conflict between age and youth? Award winning novelist, biographer and poet Peter Ackroyd's turns his attention to Alfred Hitchcock in a new biography which details the director's stormy, controlling relationships with his leading ladies, as well the painstaking way in which he mastered his cinematic craft manifest in such cinema classics as Notorious, Rear Window, Psycho and The Birds. What new light can the "Master of Biography" shed upon the "Master of Suspense?" When you go to see an exhibition at the National Gallery in London you expect to see paintings. However in Frames in Focus: Sansovino Frames it is the frames themselves that are the stars of the show - one of the first times ever a UK gallery has created an exhibition (almost) purely from frames alone. What does this exhibition reveal about the art of the picture frame? And a new BBC 2 television series, Sex and The Church, explores the complex question of the church's attitude towards sex from the birth of Jesus to the present day, presented by Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch.
In this episode we review the Monmouth Coffee shops, pay tribute to Peter Ackroyd's comprehensive London: The Biography, and interview Steve Payne of SciFi Funk about his five favourite films.
Harriett Gilbert is joined by the journalist Kevin Maguire and the columnist Lucy Mangan to discuss their favourite books: 'Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady' by Florence King, 'The Clerkenwell Tales' by Peter Ackroyd and 'The Smoking Diaries' by Simon Gray.
Recorded in A Room for London, the creative / living space in the shape of a boat on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank of the Thames, Open Book explores the impact the city has had on literature - from Chaucer and Dickens to Martin Amis and Peter Ackroyd; the themes it evokes and why it creates such a diverse backdrop to novels. Mariella Frostrup is joined by novelists who've all been charmed by London - Will Self, Amanda Craig, Dreda Say Mitchell and Ben Aaronovitch.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the novelist, historian and biographer, Peter Ackroyd. As a child he used to walk the streets of London with his grandmother - an experience that, he believes, fostered his own love for the city. He was appointed literary editor of The Spectator when he was just 23 and has gone on to write dozens of books since. He has written a biography of London, as well as books about people he calls 'cockney visionaries' such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and, now, Charlie Chaplin. Yet, of the work he's produced so far, he says: "Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death. So that final book is the one which gives me a sense of achievement."Producer: Christine Pawlowsky.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the novelist, historian and biographer, Peter Ackroyd. As a child he used to walk the streets of London with his grandmother - an experience that, he believes, fostered his own love for the city. He was appointed literary editor of The Spectator when he was just 23 and has gone on to write dozens of books since. He has written a biography of London, as well as books about people he calls 'cockney visionaries' such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and, now, Charlie Chaplin. Yet, of the work he's produced so far, he says: "Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death. So that final book is the one which gives me a sense of achievement." Producer: Christine Pawlowsky.
Coming up the first in our London Calling season of World Book Clubs which will be going out each Saturday over the next four weeks. In the run up to the London Olympic games we'll be discussing four novels which focus on different aspects of the United Kingdom’s colourful and historic capital city. This week we talk to acclaimed novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd who will be discussing his haunting Whitbread prize-winning novel, Hawksmoor, with an audience at St George's Church, Bloomsbury. St George's is the final church designed by lauded architect of the English Baroque, Nicholas Hawksmoor, a central and sinister figure in this compelling murder mystery set amongst the labyrinthine streets of 18th Century London. (Image: Peter Ackroyd)
With the start of British Summer Time we profile two upcoming mass rides: Velonotte London and the Edinburgh Pedal on Parliament. On the night of Saturday 23rd June, Sergey Nikitin's Velonotte (pictured in Rome, above) will come to London as part of the 2012 London Festival of Architecture. A night ride starting at St Paul's cathedral, traversing the East End to the Olympic Park and finishing with a live orchestra welcoming the dawn at the London Pleasure Gardens. The ride will feature a simultaneous broadcast on Resonance FM of soundscapes and Velonotte's expert guides including Peter Ackroyd, Ricky Burdett, David Adjaye, Sergey Romanyuk and Peter Murray. Continue reading →
Including interviews with actress Olivia Colman and writers Peter Ackroyd, Sue Townsend and Charlotte Keatley. Also John Wilson explores why so many of this year's BRIT nominees take literature as their inspiration and we examine why there is no UK e-book chart.
With Mark Lawson. Mark reports on the latest art-work to adorn the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar - a golden boy on a rocking horse designed by Elmgreen and Dragset. and unveiled today by Joanna Lumley, who discusses the work. Peter Ackroyd reflects on his biography of Wilkie Collins, author of the Moonstone and The Woman in White, and friend of Charles Dickens, whose personal life was full of secrets. In Basildon is a new play by David Eldridge about a close knit Essex family coming to terms with a recent death. Writer Tim Lott gives his verdict. And Mark speaks to two of the ten composers taking inspiration from Handel's Water Music for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The new works will be performed as part of the 1000 boat flotilla travelling down the Thames on June 3. Debbie Wiseman, whose film scores include Tom and Viv and Wilde, and Christopher Gunning, whose music includes the theme for Poirot, talk about the challenges of re-imagining Handel's famous score. Producer Timothy Prosser.
Peter Ackroyd talks to us about his new history of England and Philip Carter explains how a group of architects have made it into the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Mariella Frostrup speaks to writers Peter Ackroyd and Kevin Crossley-Holland about the legend of King Arthur. Novelist Philip Kerr talks about his new book Field Grey. And writer Paul Bailey discusses the life, work and letters of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lamedusa, author of The Leopard
Peter Ackroyd joins James Naughtie and a group of readers to discuss, and read from, his spooky novel Hawksmoor.
The Trial of Elizabeth Cree Penny-dreadfuls, transvestitism, the English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincey and Grand Guignol are touched on in this conversation about the underside of the Victorian Age.