Blackwell Podcasts
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Welcome to the Blackwell podcast page for Culture, the home of our complete Culture podcast backlist.
Podcast 61 - Martin Kemp � Christ to Coke
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Martin Kemp is Emeritus Research Professor in the history of art at Oxford University. In his new book, Christ to Coke, he goes beyond the confines of the art gallery to explore the processes by which an image turns into an icon.
In this interview he explains how images as diverse as the face of Christ and the double helix have made this journey and reflects on characteristics that all his chosen examples share.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
Podcast 59 - David Bellos � Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
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'Translation makes the world go round' is David Bellos's bold claim in this entertaining exploration of how it works and why it matters. As he points out, fields as diverse as international trade, diplomacy and spying would grind to a halt if it were not for translation. Yet popular misunderstandings of what translation is abound. Listen to the interview and hear one of the world's most distinguished practitioners of the art talk about what makes an ideal translator.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
Podcast 58 - Pen Vogler � Penguin Great Food Series
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While looking through old cookery books in the British Library, Pen Vogler came up with the idea for this series of twenty beautifully presented volumes which represent some of the finest food writing through the ages from Mrs Beeton and Samuel Pepys to Elizabeth David and Claudia Roden. In this interview she tells us how she made her choices and reveals how she tackled some of the more unusual historical recipes!
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 Ian Jack - The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain
Renowned journalist Ian Jack joins us to survey his writings of the past twenty years, selected in The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain. We talk about the changing nature of journalism over these two decades as well as our changing country.
DOWNLOAD SEGMENT | The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 Simon Garfield - Just My Type
Simon Garfield tells us how he became a victim of typomania, an obsession with the quirky world of typography. If you listen to this interview and read his new book, Just My Type, there's a good chance you'll fall victim to the condition too.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 David Crystal - A Little Book of Language
David Crystal is an academic, linguist and author. In his latest book, A Little Book of Language, Crystal presents a lively and charming history of language, revealing its myriad of intricacies, quirks and origins. Aimed primarily at a younger audience, the book uses diagrams and quizzes, as well as Crystal's entertaining style, to reveal the story of language past, and what yet may be to come...
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 Philip Ball - The Music Instinct
Philip Ball is a freelance science writer and author. He he written numerous bestsellers including Critical Mass and Elegant Solutions. With The Music Instinct, Ball turns his attention to the psychology of music, providing a comprehensive, accessible account of humans' obsession with music; piecing together the puzzle of how our minds understand and respond to it.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 John Grindrod - Shouting at the Telly
Listen to John Grindrod discuss his hilarious new book Shouting at the Telly. The book features funny and heartfelt rants and raves from a host of comedians, writers and viewers on everything the box has to offer: from soaps to sitcoms, sci-fi to reality shows, HBO to QVC.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 Matthew Rice - Rice's Architectural Primer
Acclaimed illustrator and architectural enthusiast Matthew Rice presents an illustrated introduction to British buildings in Rice's Architectural Primer.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 Henry Hitchings - The Secret Life of Words
Henry Hitchings fields questions on The Secret Life of Words which looks at the origin of words in the English language.
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 Alex Ross - The Rest is Noise
Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, speaks about the links between music and history in his book The Rest is Noise.
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