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Podularity is a regular on-line books programme that features interviews with writers in a wide variety of genres. Join host, George Miller, in conversation with novelists, poets and authors of non-fiction. Think of it as an on-going literary festival on-line.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 46
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2011
26. Who owns your body?
“This is what I think is really surprising to most people: you don’t actually own your body, in the sense that tissue taken from it and used afterwards is yours to use as you see fit.
“The law tradit…
00:00:01 |
Fri 03 Jul 2009
25. Menopause and medicine
Louise Foxcroft: Hot Flushes, Cold Science
“There was a physician called John Fothergill in the late eighteenth century who said that it was amazing that women had been taught to dread this natural …
00:00:01 |
Tue 17 Mar 2009
24. Lost in Birmingham
Catherine O’Flynn: What Was Lost
“As he reached for his crisps something caught the corner of his eye and he looked back at the wall of monitors. He saw the figure standing in front of the banks and …
00:26:09 |
Mon 02 Mar 2009
23. Exploring the haunted city
Neil Gregor: Haunted City – Nuremberg and the Nazi Past
“By the end of the war, Nuremberg had a reputation second to none as a Nazi town.”
In this week’s podcast I talk to historian Neil Gregor about…
00:23:06 |
Fri 13 Feb 2009
22. From barman to biographer
Rodge Glass – Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography
In this week’s podcast, Rodge Glass tells me how, after his first disastrous meeting with Alasdair Gray in a bar in Glasgow, he later went on to b…
00:23:57 |
Sat 07 Feb 2009
21. In Pushkin’s library
“Pushkin died romantically, famously in a duel in 1837. He’s often thought of as the founding father of modern Russian literature, which makes him sound rather dusty and old-fashioned, but in fact he…
00:21:40 |
Fri 16 Jan 2009
20. “Grub first, ethics later”
The first Podularity podcast of 2009 is an interview with polymath Raymond Tallis about his most recent book, Hunger, which appears in the Art of Living series from Acumen Publishing.
The Times has d…
00:16:37 |
Thu 08 Jan 2009
19. Mark Vernon on: What is wellbeing?
Mark Vernon has just brought out a book on wellbeing in a new series of which he’s general editor. But this isn’t a run-of-the-mill self-help series. The series is called The Art of Living and it’s …
00:14:14 |
Fri 03 Oct 2008
18. Julian Baggini: Mistrust the lucky ducky
“In marketing and in politics people have got more sophisticated in their manipulation techniques, so more than ever we need to know what they are, so that we can spot the truth when we see it.”
Juli…
00:12:33 |
Fri 19 Sep 2008
17. “Unstitching the carefully tailored suit” – among the dead philosophers
“The book is written against the view that a philosopher’s biography is of no importance and that philosophy can be reduced to a series of systems of thought. It’s really an attempt to rewrite the hi…
00:24:08 |
Sat 30 Aug 2008
16. “Our sweaty ape hands on the thermostat”
“The chemistry of this is more than a century old… The basic physics of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases has been known for a very long time. In fact some back-of-the-envelope calculations w…
00:24:18 |
Sun 03 Aug 2008
15. The Big Parade with Mary Beard
“I’m interested in saying, look, how can you challenge the Asterix-and-the-Romans kind of image that we tend to have of Rome? We are determined to turn a blind eye to Roman subtlety, humour and sophi…
00:33:33 |
Fri 20 Jun 2008
14. The Mighty Handful and more
“In Russian music you have a very different portrayal of Russia [from the one you find in literature], which has very strong rhythms, very festive images. It’s very bright, very colourful, very, very…
00:24:06 |
Fri 06 Jun 2008
‘An extended passport application’ – the poetry of Michael Hofmann
“It’s almost as though my poetry is an extended passport application… It’s an attempt to be naturalized. I think I’ve failed to be naturalized and therefore there is this German residue about things.…
00:29:39 |
Mon 26 May 2008
12. A Chinese character
“I think the burning question is: we think of printing as having revolutionized intellectual life in Europe, how come it doesn’t appear to have revolutionized intellectual life in China? There’s no g…
00:30:14 |
Fri 02 May 2008
11. ‘Gonged on Missy’
‘You always suppose you’re the heroine in the story of your life; the day you discover you’re the monster, it’s apt to come as a surprise’
Dol McQueen, ‘flash-girl’, 1862
Chris Hannan‘s dazzlingly ac…
00:22:00 |
Thu 24 Apr 2008
10. Fleeing Hitler – the story of the Paris exodus
On 14 June 1940 German tanks swept into Paris. That the city would fall to the Nazis was by then a foregone conclusion; it had been declared an ‘open city’ the day before. In other words, it would pu…
00:25:52 |
Thu 27 Mar 2008
9. Talking about animals
‘As soon as humans make images, they make them about humans and they make them about animals and the relationship between them.’
My guest on this week’s programme is Martin Kemp, Professor of the His…
00:22:15 |
Thu 20 Mar 2008
8. A Philosopher in Everytown
Philosophy can seem the most cerebral and abstract of disciplines. So what would happen if a philosopher stepped out of his study and ’embedded’ himself in an ordinary (but unfamiliar) community in h…
00:23:23 |
Fri 14 Mar 2008
7. Russian Childhood
This week’s Podularity podcast features an interview with Catriona Kelly, who has just published a monumental new history of childhood in twentieth-century Russia. The book, Children’s World: Growing…
00:32:17 |
Fri 15 Feb 2008
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