Beste Athena C Podcasts (2024)

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Fireside Chats on Turtle Island, take 1 52:21

16d ago52:21

52:21

I did it, folks: I returned to the burning bouncy castle that is the small town settler entity on Turtle Island. In between fulfilling various karmic obligations and reconnecting with fellow settlers, relatives and friends on both sides of the Trump/Kamala cultic divide, I managed to do some real-life investigation of Indigenous reservations, visit…

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The Classic Postclassic Maya: Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Popol Vuh (Kʾicheʾ, 1550s) 3:36:56

2M ago3:36:56

3:36:56

The first half of the Popol Vuh as we have it from the Kʾicheʾ colonial tradition is a quintessentially Kingless epic, as the story revolves around pre-human gods, successive generations of hero twins, who must defeat a series of aggrandizer figures, including the lords of death in the underworld, in order to bring about the dawning of the human ag…

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Asiatic Athena: karmic roots of Greek culture in Hittite class struggle (Song of Release, 15th c. BCE) 45:50

4M ago45:50

45:50

In a series that I hope will include Martin Bernal’s classic Black Athena (about the modern British fabrication of “ancient Greece” and its true roots in ancient Egypt), we start with the East: in recent decades, great advances in Hittite studies have illuminated much of the mechanics of transmission of Mesopotamian literature and religion to a nas…

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Consuming the Samurai Self (“The Playboy Dialect,” 1770, Japan) 2:02:21

4M ago2:02:21

2:02:21

A close reading of “The Playboy Dialect,” a classic sharebon, or narrative of fashion and manners in the pleasure quarters of Edo-period Japan, where a consumer culture, to rival anything concocted by the capitalist dictatorships of the Century of the Self, was wielded as a weapon of class struggle by the rising urban commoner class against the de …

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The origins of class society and revolutionary consciousness according to Second-Temple Judaism: 1 Enoch, Jubilees [PREVIEW] 1:12:41

6M ago1:12:41

1:12:41

The rise of ancient empires in the Eurasian continent ushered in the Axial Age, with its ideologies of absolute good and evil and the promise of revolutionary recompense for unheard-of oppression by the Occupiers of the Earth (שכני הארץ). The books of 1 Enoch and Jubilees, quoted by name in the New Testament, still contained in the Bible of the Eth…

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S5 Ep76: FUNNY DAD SPECIAL with Jody Kamali - 58:11

6M ago58:11

58:11

FUNNY DAD SPECIAL TWO Host Hatty Ashdown & Gemma Beagley are joined by Bristolian born comedian, famed Terry the odd job man, Leicester Comedy Award nominee and dad of two Jody Kamali. They fly around all the topics from childish jealousy ,New York, how being a working class comic has effected our progression and how Best in Class really woke us up…

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Return to Camões’ “Isle of Love” w/ Min 1:47:09

7M ago1:47:09

1:47:09

I thought I had a hot take in response to the Little Mermaid discourse last year, but predictably I’m not the first one to think of reading the Isle of Venus in Camões’ Lusiads against the Age of Exploration diary entries in which roving European savages discuss their adventures in more complex Indigenous kinship structures where sex was not commod…

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S5 Ep75: FUNNY DAD SPECIAL with Erik Pohl 46:13

7M ago46:13

46:13

Host Hatty Ashdown & Gemma Beagley chat to Australian comic and Bill Murray ( Angel) resident mc, single dad of two Erik Pohl . They cover so many topics from being the only dad on the wats app , why no one comes up to you at baby groups, How Gemma did her best not to make friends at baby groups, single dad life and myth busting , and one of the be…

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ParaPower Mapping the Six-Pointed Crusader State [PREVIEW] 12:53

7M ago12:53

12:53

The antisemitic, Nazi-adjacent ideology of Zionism says that members of the Jewish religion must be uprooted from their ancestral homelands and gathered into a white supremacist settler colony ruled by Jews native to Europe—a new kind of crusader state. And like the crusader states, at the behest of their Euro-American masters, the Zionist entity p…

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 8: a mushroom dinner, a falsified archive 1:27:00

8M ago1:27:00

1:27:00

In the final installment of the series, we cover all that is known about the mysterious death of this strangely GLADIO-brained scholar of classical Japanese literature and favorite translator of “aesthetic terrorist” Mishima Yukio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S5 Ep74: Lets get Vulnerable on the Socials with Sarah Cawood 49:58

8M ago49:58

49:58

Host Hatty Ashdown & Gemma Beagley our so excited to be joined by 90's icon, mum of two, pocket rocket Sarah Cawood ( Live and Kicking, Girlie Show, Top of the pops ). If you don't follow Cawood on Instagram where she's abit of a social legend you might wonder what she's been up to ?so kick off your Uggs and have a dive with us into Sarah's world- …

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 7: The Shield Society of Notting Hill [PREVIEW] 20:46

9M ago20:46

20:46

We explore the Windsor Free Festival, Sunday Head, Albion Free State milieu of hedonist, individualist, libertarian (and decidedly anti-communist) radicalism in 1970s Britain, led by figures like Ubi Dwyer, Sid Rawle, and Paul Pawlowski, as well as scions of elite families like Heathcote Williams and Nic Albery—in light of the fact that, as we have…

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 6: Clockwork Albion 1:59:30

9M ago1:59:30

1:59:30

From the semi-autobiographical novel of Ivan’s second Japanese wife, Nobuko Albery (née Uenishi), we have some very sardonic portraits of the Morrises and their upper-crust left-wing milieu in France, as well as a fascinating subplot involving a drug-trafficking, blue-blooded hippie cult leader character who seems a fusion of Mishima Yukio and Nic …

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S5 Ep73: Cocks, Churches and Christmas - Sarah Bowles 52:19

9M ago52:19

52:19

Host Hatty Ashdown is joined by Comedian Producer and single mum of three Sarah Bowles ( Funny Women Industry award winner, ISH Edinburgh Comedy Award Co founder) In this episode Hatty gives us a update on the change in her personal life, getting through Christmas if this year looks *different for you ! Bowels talks about her marriage break up , si…

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 5: Ogawa Ayako, ballet master of Cold War Japan [PREVIEW] 13:21

10M ago13:21

13:21

From 1956 through 1966, during which time he moved from London to Tokyo to New York, Ivan was married to the ballerina Ogawa Ayako, known in the society papers—by analogy with Jackie (Kennedy)—as Yakkie. In the realm of ballet, where other important Cold War battles were fought such as securing the defection of the Tatar dancer Rudolf Nureyev from …

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 4: beasts in human guise 1:13:24

10M ago1:13:24

1:13:24

We finish our run through Ivan’s parents’ adventures, including their support for Kenyan Mao Mao revolutionaries and participation in the American-sponsored “Kenyan airlift” that also produced Barack Obama Sr, supporting Greek, Turkish, and Mexican communists in their way, but for one reason or another being unable to stop their son Ivan from becom…

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 3: in the shadow of HUAC [PREVIEW] 16:02

10M ago16:02

16:02

We follow Ivan’s parents, the peripatetic idle rich leftist novelist/journalists Ira and Edita Morris, from their wartime career “writing” in Haiti on the eve of the coup that brought the progressive President Estimé to power, then making “democratic” anti-fascist propaganda for the American Office of War Information and the Voice of America while …

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 2: communists in cashmere 1:16:56

10M ago1:16:56

1:16:56

I remain haunted by the ghost of a weeb, a shitlib superspy who, after cutting his chops as a naval intelligence officer in U.S.-occupied Hiroshima and Tokyo, wrote some of the first English-language scholarship of any depth on the Tale of Genji and the martial ballads, published geopolitical strategic analysis on how the Fourth Reich might best ru…

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S5 Ep72: Be careful... with Brona C Titley 48:53

10M ago48:53

48:53

APOLOGIES WE TOOK A SHORT BREAK DUE TO PERSONAL LIFE SH*T - MORE ON THAT LATER Irish comedy writer, actor and mother Brona C Titley Joins Hatty and Gemma.( The Outlaws, Motherland, Buffering for ITV, Spitting Image) She once said on Twitter / X that after 12 years of marriage her and her wife have achieved perfect synchronisation by farting at exac…

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The Last Crusade (inshAllah) [PREVIEW] 11:47

11M ago11:47

11:47

A chatty episode to break the hiatus. I discuss recent news of the new final solution being demoed by the Zionist entity in Gaza. These days I’m walking around with posture like a ballerina because I’ve been de-settlerising and un-domesticating my leg muscles by running in huaraches and doing squats. We take a look at the First Crusade as seen in A…

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Doraemon’s Protocols of the Elders of Zion 1:30:58

1y ago1:30:58

1:30:58

Family movie day with the Schmudlachs in Tokyo usually results in a special episode of the Kingless Generation, as I dissect the petit bourgeois propaganda to which I’ve been subjected in an (arguably) more constructive forum than ranting to my kids—but this latest Doraemon film outdid even last year’s Ukraine War puff piece, and I had to call on P…

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S3 Ep72: "I don't want to know about pokemon"- with Margaret Cabourn-Smith 45:57

1y ago45:57

45:57

Hatty and Gemma are joined by FM favourite Comedy Actress Margaret Cabourn-Smith ( Mirander, Catastrophe, Motherland, Buffering ) host of hit podcast Crushed and mum of two to chat about feigning interest in your kids past times. Gemma lets off steam about the theft of her kettle and Margaret reveals who her new mega-famous best friend will be.... …

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Landback in Eurasia, 622 CE [PREVIEW] 21:12

1y ago21:12

21:12

How does an Indigenous-led movement rebuild in the wake of imperial decline? With the spectacular collapse of both Sassanian Persia and Byzantime Rome in 622 CE, a certain revolutionary communal movement led by masses of nomadic herders, merchants, and farmers, provides us with one of the greatest and earliest examples, albeit one poorly attested i…

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S5 Ep71: Happy High Status - with Viv Groskop 44:09

1y ago44:09

44:09

Comedian, Author, and mum of three Viv Groskop ( How to own the room book and podcast , BBC radio 4 plays, Guardian Journalist )joins Hatty and Gemma on the eve of the launch of her latest Book Happy High Status . Viv explains what Happy high status is and how we can all learn to turn it on . We also have a new feature with a voice note from a list…

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Traces of Japanese matriliny in the Rainy Night Critique of Ranks (by 1021) 3:04:18

1y ago3:04:18

3:04:18

Kinship in Heian Japan (roughly 800–1200 CE) was matrilocal, which means it was men who moved in with their wives’ families and lived largely under their control. Although already thoroughly patriarchal in most respects, these last vestiges of what Engels calls Mother Right create fascinating tensions in a society where the world-historic defeat of…

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S5 Ep70: All Class no guilt with Athena Kugblenu 35:41

1+ y ago35:41

35:41

Comedian Athena Kubblenu ( Mock the week, BBC Radio4, Comedy Central) joins Hatty and Gemma chats , all women work hard kid or no kids , the negative social narrative for kids, from having a dinner lady mum to BBC writer Athena flags up we need to rid the guilt and past attitude of 'thats not for me ' with humous and museum's are for all !…

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Kingless Reads: How To Master Secret Work, pt 2 (South Africa, 1980s) 44:56

1+ y ago44:56

44:56

Purely for purposes of historical and mythological interest, here is a reading of a pamphlet on underground work by the Communist Party of South Africa. https://manifestopress.bigcartel.com/product/how-to-master-secret-work https://ycl.bigcartel.com/product/anti-apartheid Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Kingless Reads: How to Master Secret Work, pt 1 (South Africa, 1980s) 59:02

1+ y ago59:02

59:02

Purely for purposes of historical and mythological interest, here is a reading of a pamphlet on underground work by the Communist Party of South Africa. https://manifestopress.bigcartel.com/product/how-to-master-secret-work https://ycl.bigcartel.com/product/anti-apartheid Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Ruling classes have always wanted us dead [PREVIEW]: Atraḫasīs (Babylon, 18th c. BCE); The Extinction Narrative (2young Badazz, 2021 CE) 24:12

1+ y ago24:12

24:12

Plague, famine, flood; nuclear holocaust, nuclear winter, global warming. Seen through a class lens, these existential threats to humanity are threats indeed, but they are ultimately threats directed by the capitalist ruling class at the rest of humanity: that if they are truly faced with losing their position, they will carry out the mass depopula…

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Collectivize the Buddha: Dharma talks w/ Marcus, pt 2 2:14:15

1+ y ago2:14:15

2:14:15

We continue our free flowing conversation about our respective journeys as sketchy gaijin wandering in and out of the capitalist puppet states of East Asia and searching for ways to build the revolutionary saṃgha. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S3 Ep71: Ep 71 Maybe baby (sitter) with Harriet Kemsley 41:20

1+ y ago41:20

41:20

Comedian Harriet Kemsley (Pointless, 8 out Ten Cats, Roast Battle, Live At the Apollo) joins Hatty and Gemma to talk about how she managed to do live gigs , tour her show, do Edinburgh fringe , TV ( Including Mastermind recently ) by Trusting ANOTHER HUMAN with her baby . You can follow and keep up to date wirth Harriet on IG @harrietkemsley You ca…

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Land of the Rising Tensions [PREVIEW] 40:14

1+ y ago40:14

40:14

A newsy update on the non-release of the Abe Shinzō autopsy; the apparently accidental crash of a Japanese SDF helicopter which left multiple high-ranking military and intelligence officers dead including the leader of arguably the most important division of Japan’s Western Command (and about whom I have an interesting discovery to share); and fina…

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A Host Questions a Host: Dharma talks w/ Marcus, pt 1 2:22:04

1+ y ago2:22:04

2:22:04

I interview Marcus of the podcast Return of the Repressed about his journey, partially with reference to Dōgen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Japan, 13th c.) and the Record of Linji (China, 9th c.), and featuring a song from the noh play “Xiwangmu,” or the Queen Mother of the West. On the Feast of Winding Water, block the flow with your hand an…

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S3 Ep70: Ep 70: Triumphing on TikTok with Alexis Strum- NEW SEASON 45:12

1+ y ago45:12

45:12

Von Funny Mummies

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LoFi Botanical Ramble: Gerald Horne, Race War! (2004); etc [PREVIEW] 43:42

1+ y ago43:42

43:42

We take a ramble through the diverse forest, plains, and mountainside biomes of a historic botanical garden here in Tokyo while discussing, among many other things, Gerald Horne’s fascinating first book on Imperial Japan and Black America, as well as that book’s perfidious falsification in Japanese translation, the rights to which were somehow give…

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Hammurabi’s COIN: Agushaya; The Cleaner; The Poor Man of Nippur; The Doctor; Sargon, Lord of the Lies (Akkad, 18th c. BCE seq) 2:27:23

1+ y ago2:27:23

2:27:23

In the 19th c., working backwards from Old Persian to Hittite to Amorite, modern scholars rediscovered the long-forgotten Semitic language Akkadian, and then an even older language, Sumerian. The logographic cuneiform script which was created to write Sumerian was adapted to write Akkadian, and a complex matrix of graphic and linguistic play was op…

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S5 Ep69: Treat your self like a baby- With Laura Smyth 37:15

1+ y ago37:15

37:15

Host Hatty Ashdown & Gemma Beagley are joined by standup (Live at the Apollo,Frankie Boyles new world order) and mum of 3 Laura Smyth. Laura has had quite the year since we last had her on the show, not just hilarious but wise Laura takes us through how she got into the mind set to face cancer treatment, dealing with the work / kid overwhelm ' You …

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Weebs of the Ages: Ivan Morris, Mishima, and aesthetic GLADIO in Japan’s fourth reich, part 1 w/ Prez [PREVIEW] 21:18

1+ y ago21:18

21:18

In this ongoing series, we savor the weebery of the greatest weebs of history, pondering the roles they play in various regimes of class struggle including whiteness, patriarchy, capital, and data counterinsurgency. This time, the President of the United States joins me from the Minyan to explore the life of Ivan Morris, a Swedish-Jewish man who gr…

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S5 Ep68: Lets get Topical with Three day Pj's and do you de Canter? - With Caroline Mabey 45:59

1+ y ago45:59

45:59

Join Host Hatty Ashdown & Gemma Beagley and wave good bye to slumpy January with our guest stand up and mum Caroline Mabey. As ever we chat all the important recent happenings, tik tok viral videos on how long is except able to wear your night wear in bed ? Marie Kondo had her third child and gives more joy to a cup of tea, what my guests do or don…

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The ‘Real Little Mermaid’ was Indigenous, w/ Šuŋgmánitu: The Lusíads (Portugal, 1572), Disney’s Little Mermaid (1989), Ponyo (2008) 2:30:16

1+ y ago2:30:16

2:30:16

The Rob Marshall–directed live-action Little Mermaid, which should be coming out this May, was buzzed up by a good old culture war psy-op of which the two sides were: 1. Errm, the real Little Mermaid was white! This is cultural appropriation of marginalized white settler bodies and spaces and voices!; 2. The Little Mermaid is a fictional character,…

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S5 Ep67: Lets get Topical - 'New Year New Tired me ' Hatty Ashdown and Gemma Beagley chat it out ! 40:33

1+ y ago40:33

40:33

Its a new year but Hatty Ashdown and Gemma Beagley are saying no to the faddy diet industry & turning off the adds but remanence about the flatulent 80's mum on the cabbage soup diet. They also try to convince themselves and each other how much they love going to the park and football matches on a cold Sunday morning . How do you find that extra ho…

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S5 Ep66: Lets get Topical with Leila Boris- Single mums, Christmas, Strictly & your kids first pet 50:15

1+ y ago50:15

50:15

Yay its back, Let's get Topical with Host Hatty Ashdown & Gemma Beagley are joined by Comedian, Refugee activist, single mum legend and dear friend Leila Boris . As we throttle towards Christmas Hatty get's to chat to Leila and Gemma about being single mums at Christmas , the turn taking, presents, Volunteering at Christmas, the joy of getting to m…

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Transcendental Settlerism vs Landback Enlightenment: Thoreau, Kunikida Doppo, Walt Whitman, Jairus Banaji, Arthur Rosenberg [PREVIEW] 53:33

2y ago53:33

53:33

We go long, looking at “progressive” settler idealism in Throeau and Walt Whitman, and a Japanese analogue, the romantic or naturalist novelist Kunikida Doppo. Connections are drawn to the mass appeal of fascism which comes in part from its partaking of the settler relation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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S5 Ep65: Lets (try) to Get Topical - Hatty Ashdown & Gemma Beagley 36:06

2y ago36:06

36:06

Put the kettle on , wring out the tea bag it’s a new one from your favourite straight talking Mums . This is a new short series where @hattyashdown and @gemma_beagley try to get topical , with old news , present news and what should’ve been in the news ! ‘People don’t know they’re born these days ‘ try being a kid of the 80-90’s for being cold ! We…

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w/ Prez: Fascism from Hispania to Manchuria 1:55:17

2y ago1:55:17

1:55:17

Prez of the Minyan is here to discuss the dialectical deep history of fascism, starting with some readings from the Japanese far right and ranging back to Anglo settler colonialism, Iberian conquistadors, crusaders, even Mongol absolutism and tanistry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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The Islamic Picaresque and the Birth of the Bourgeoisie: al-Jawbarī, Book of Charlatans (Damascus, 1210s) [PREVIEW] 37:10

2y ago37:10

37:10

The picaresque, a genre of satirical novel which is usually traced from Spain to Britain to America, where Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn would be the best-known examples, follows the adventures of hucksters, preachers, and charlatans on the underside of capitalist society—as opposed to those on the top of “respectable” society, who, these w…

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S5 Ep64: Work, saying No and time for celeb mums to be honest about the balance - with Kelly Convey 34:56

2y ago34:56

34:56

Host Hatty Ashdown is joined by stand up and mum Kelly Convey ( UniLAD, Comedy Central, BBC Three, Channel 4.) inbetween supporting Alan Carr on his UK tour) We got stuck right into an old natter about working with a baby, one in the oven, and the reality of the sacrifices and joys in comedy and parenthood. Kelly flagged up the uncomfortableness fo…

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Mythodology with Marcus 2:26:48

2y ago2:26:48

2:26:48

A free-rambling conversation with Marcus, the host of Return of the Repressed, a podcast on the psychology of mass movements both good and bad, an ordained Pure Land Buddhist monk, a painter of temple walls across China, an expert in natural farming, a new father, and a new resident of Japan. Topics include———Marcus’ travels around China and Europe…

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Imperial Liberalism Lost: Endō Shūsaku, “Mothers,” (Japan, 1969) [PREVIEW] 21:42

2y ago21:42

21:42

The author of Silence, the famous novel of Japan’s early-modern persecution of Christianity recently adapted to the screen by Martin Scorsese (and actually drawing in revealing ways on Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory), bares his soul and reveals some of the sources of his obsession with the late-medieval Japanese Christians in a short story…

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S5 Ep63: School Holidays Catch up - Edinburgh Fringe to All Inclusive hotels with the kids - Hatty Ashdown & Gemma Beagley 33:22

2y ago33:22

33:22

Summer Holidays? Host @hattyashdown & @gemma_beagley catch up on their Very different summer Holidays with the kids , from Edinburgh Fringe, Wet Zoo days to All inclusive Sunny breaks, what is the best way to do it ? And should you just save all your money and go down Asda and let them play on the peppa pig ride !! Out where you like it baby ! @aud…

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