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After-show Podcast for Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale series. Host & Producer Donna Ibale invite guest panelists every week to discuss the latest episode and the political, cultural & religious implications of The Handmaid's Tale. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Do you love The Handmaid's Tale on HULU? So do we! Mayday is your source for all things Handmaid's Tale. Mayday breaks down every episode and keeps you up to date with the latest news and updates about the show! Plus interviews with the cast and crew, great Handmaid's Tale contests, giveaways and more! It's the podcast for Handmaid's Tale fans by Handmaid's Tale fans! Subscribe today! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themaydaypodcast/support
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Fake news, oppressive patriarchy, and an overall impending sense of doom: Join us as "Aunt" Kelly Anneken & Molly "Ofmitchell" Sanchez discuss this and more in Red All Over, a podcast that explores The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu, Alias Grace on Netflix, the works of Margaret Atwood and (weirdly) not current events. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Handmaid's Tale was not meant to be a field guide for the patriarchal oligarchy, but we can use it as a tool for resistance. Join Scarlett, Roxy, and Margery, as we break down new episodes of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale and explore its thematic implications on our current political climate.
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Award-winning audio producer John Scott Dryden brings you into a dystopian future, in which the birth rate has plummeted and the United States has become a theocracy called Gilead. Women who are capable of childbirth are pulled out of society and trained as handmaids, then assigned to men for the sole purpose of procreation. From the same source material as the critically acclaimed Hulu series, this six part series of “The Handmaid’s Tale” is audio fiction at its finest. Binge all episodes o ...
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This podcast collects many of the Podcastica network shows in a single place, for your convenience. We have in-depth, fun conversations about TV shows like House of the Dragon, Interview with the Vampire, Dead Boy Detectives, Echo, What If...?, Squid Games, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Loki, Ahsoka, The White Lotus, Yellowjackets, From, The Rings of Power, The Handmaid’s Tale, Andor, Poker Face, Extraordinary, Dead to Me, and more. For standalone versions of all of our podcasts, head on over ...
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Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology. David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and many others about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean, and why they matter. Ideas from the past, questions about the present, shaping the future. Brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books. New episo ...
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MSNBC’s Ali Velshi brings you “Velshi Banned Book Club,” an act of resistance against the book banning and censorship epidemic sweeping the nation. In each episode, a different author joins Ali to discuss why their work is being targeted and what is so crucial about the literature itself. “Velshi Banned Book Club” is a series rooted in literary and cultural analysis, in the notion that reading is resistance. Read along with Ali. Velshi Banned Book Club Season Two Reading List: "Small Acts of ...
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Join Fiona Williams, Haidee Ireland, Sana Qadar, and Natalie Hambly every week with SBS' award-winning The Handmaid's Tale companion podcast, Eyes on Gilead. There is a lot going on in this series and we think it helps to talk it out at the end of every episode. BEST COMPANION PODCAST - FINALIST - 2022 New York Festivals Radio Awards BEST ARTS & CULTURE PODCAST - BRONZE AWARD - 2020 Australian Podcast Awards BEST FANCAST - 2019 Australian Podcast Awards
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Welcome to "Nick and June, After the Fact: A Handmaid's Tale Podcast"! 🎧 We're here to unravel the intricacies of forbidden love and delve into the depths of a dystopian romance. Our goal is to dispel negative rumors, providing an informed perspective on the captivating love story between Nick and June. 💔❤️ Join us for engaging character analyses, where we navigate the complex dynamics of relationships in Gilead. We're here to dive deep into the themes and issues that make The Handmaid's Tal ...
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Katie Sabo, Lauren Weaver, and Sky Swartout

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Three friends get together each week to read and discuss dense and rewarding books. Katie Sabo, Jon Cox, and Sky Swartout spend each week talking through a book chapter by chapter. A great book club experience, this show offers a conversational and fun way to read along!
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The Handmaid's Tale takes place in a version of the United States that’s ruled by a religious authoritarian regime obsessed with making as many babies as possible. And now it's been adapted to a TV show that critics are literally raving about. The Red Center is a podcast from The Outline about that show. Each week, hosts Laura June and Rose Eveleth discuss the most recent episode of The Handmaid's Tale through the lens of a specific topic, like motherhood, race, politics, crime, or the book ...
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FDR's Wheelchair is a political podcast with hosts Dave Martin and Brandon Zigler, giving you commentary on current events with a laugh. Join us, you'll laugh, cry, maybe go into hiding, it'll be fun!
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Shrink The Box

Sony Music Entertainment

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Ever wondered why Frasier Crane is such a snob? How Tyrion Lannister’s bawdy humour saves him in Game of Thrones? What makes Schitts Creek’s Moira Rose a narcissist? ‘Shrink the Box’ is where actor comedian Ben Bailey Smith and psychotherapist Nemone Metaxas put their favourite fictional characters such Tommy from Peaky Blinders and Sydney from The Bear on the couch - to analyse why their behaviour causes them so much drama. Nemone and Ben explore why these characters make certain decisions, ...
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Unfollow the Revolution

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Unfollow the Revolution: an improvised newscast set in America’s dystopian future. Get to know the new (but eerily familiar) America, one interview at a time. It’s like Orwell’s 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Fox News had a baby: “America First” has become “America Only,” “Alternative facts” have become “Alternative freedoms,” and the president is a literal puppet controlled by a Russian. How bad can things get? Hilariously bad.
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This podcast is about Margaret Atwood’s most prevalent and relevant novel for our time, The Handmaid’s Tale. It covers issues that were and still at large in our world, issues such as equality and the deterioration of our environment. I will be discussing how she has done this, what inspired her to do this and how her novel will inspire change in others. To tune in, grab a warm drink, pop in your earphones and settle in!
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What Happens Next?

Monash University

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The Handmaid’s Tale. Brave New World. Mad Max. Fictional dystopias have never seemed so close to becoming reality. Is it too late to change our course? What Happens Next?, a podcast from Monash University, examines some of the biggest challenges facing our world and asks the experts, what will happen if we don't change? And what can we do to create a better future? Learn from leaders, listen to the people making a difference, and discover how you can help drive change.
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Moms Into Literary Freedom: MILF4Books

Courtney Green and Jennifer Mendoza

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Jennifer and Courtney are two moms who are fed up with literary censorship, impacting kindergarteners all the way up to college graduates! Groups like "Moms for Liberty" are masquerading as "advocates", while universities like Harvard are failing to protect academic freedom by participating in oppressive censorship in an attempt to silence diverse viewpoints. So, each week they discuss a banned or censored work and what has these bigots so scared. For exclusive content, you can become a MILF ...
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The Opera Glasses Podcast

Michael Jones, Elizabeth Bowman

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Hosted for Season one and two by Elizabeth Bowman, former Editor-in-Chief of Opera Canada. Season three will be hosted by Michael Jones, the new Editorial Director of Opera Canada. This is a place to hold discussions about the opera business that are tougher to editorialize in print and to expand on the current whims of the business.
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Welcome to Banned Together, the podcast that fearlessly ventures into the world of banned and censored literature. Books inspire conversation, let's see what comes up. We cover book details, social structures, human rights, racism, gossip, and any other thought provoking subjects that this literature inspires. Readers are leaders, and our mission is to not only be inspired, but evoke inspiration in others. We are a book club just a click away. Not only banned books, but the socially impactfu ...
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Cults I'd Join

Jesse and Ameran

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Ever see that oddly identical group of people all cramming into a sketchy van or disappearing into rural land, and think to yourself, "I'd like to see what goes on in there..."? Whether you'd put on the matching outfit and dive on in, or just opt to be a fly on the wall, Cults I'd Join takes you to the inside as hosts Ameran and Jesse discuss the pros and cons of each group, what makes them tick, and whether or not they'd join. Join a new cult with us for an hour or so at a time. It's all th ...
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NEON is a different way of sharing historical knowledge. NEON takes a pop culture phenomenon and turns it on its head by revealing lesser known facts, real-life events and history behind your favourite Netflix shows, movies or video games.From how the A-Team took inspiration from Vietnamese history and resistance leaders, to the Aryan purity and Harem breeding programs behind the Handmaid’s Tale. Even some of the most successful video games – Assassins Creed, God of War, and Fortnite – are s ...
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The Costume Plot

Sarah Timm, Jojo Siu

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A podcast about costume design and the performing arts from professional costume designers Jojo Siu and Sarah Timm! Join Jojo and Sarah as they analyze the costumes from your favorite film, TV, and theatre, and offer an inside look at the art and craft of costume design. Plus, look forward to bonus episodes where Jojo and Sarah interview industry professionals and find out why they chose their specific field in the arts. New episodes every other Friday.
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Hello there! We are your hosts, Laura Marie and Jessica Marie and this is A Court of Fandoms and Exploration: A Podcast. Every Monday, we discuss the epic highs and lows of YA literature, fantasy/sci-fi, and the tv shows (old and new) that made us the slightly-damaged young millennials we are today. Experience the life-altering realizations and unresolved trauma that only YA and sci-fi/fantasy can soothe as we explore the worlds of Sarah J. Maas in Prythian, Crescent City, and Erilea, and he ...
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Holding Hollywood accountable. We go beyond simply saying movies are good or bad; we discuss the business, the fandom, and representation on both sides of the camera, and why it matters.
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There are many books that people say are good, or even great, but how to know which ones you should read? Christian and Jonas will help you decide, as they discuss great literature, and decide whether it is actually any good.
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ACOFAE Podcast Presents: The Handmaid's Tale: As the United States ramps up Election season, ACOFAE reflects on the past - to 1985 specifically with Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. As ACOFAE's first speculative fiction novel, Laura Marie and Jessica Marie discuss the genre, the message, and the ending of this book that left Laura Marie speec…
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For the twelfth episode in our Great Political Fictions re-release, David discusses Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), her unforgettable dystopian vision of a future American patriarchy. Where is Gilead? When is Gilead? How did it happen? How can it be stopped? From puritanism and slavery to Iran and Romania, from demography and racism t…
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For our last episode in this series of historical counterfactuals, David talks to the historian Ben Jackson about what might have happened if the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum had gone the other way. How close was the vote and what could have swung it differently? Were the dark warnings about the consequences of independence likely to have …
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Reposted from The ‘Cast of Us, which you can find at: podcastica.com/podcast/the-cast-of-us — Woo hoo, it’s Wolverine & f*#$kin’ Deadpool!! Kirk and Jason were so looking forward to this movie, and our little nerdy comic book hearts were not disappointed. Listen in as we geek out about it, and share our thoughts on the state of superhero movies, on…
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Join us for a heartfelt episode of the Opera Glasses podcast as Elizabeth Bowman hosts her final show and introduces the new Editorial Director of Opera Canada, Michael Jones. With an impressive career spanning from Choirs Ontario to the Saskatchewan Arts Board, Michael shares how his first live opera experience with Britten's “Death in Venice” ign…
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For the last episode of this season, team STB gets real with those pesky inner monologues (as promised in the Carrie: Sex and the City episode). Plus, what's the connection between 80s comedy-thriller Lovejoy and The Matrix? We explore actors who have come back from obscurity with aplomb. We want to hear about any theories we might have missed, wha…
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Greetings, gaslit Elves, traitorous daughters, shrine destroying sons, and fiery rumblings from the deep! Join Anwen, Penny and special guest Veronica as they discuss Rings of Power season 2, episode 5, “Halls of Stone,” in which: King Durin gets his bling and puts Disa out of a job The Doors of Durin are revealed Mirdania gets more than she bargai…
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Our counterfactuals series moves forward to 1989: David talks to Lea Ypi about what might have happened if the Berlin Wall hadn’t fallen when it did. Was the night it came down really just one big accident? How long could the East German regime have lasted? And what does the fate of non-European communist states tell us about how it could have gone…
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We are starting Season 2 of the "Velshi Banned Book Club" with a very special featured book: Ali Velshi’s own “Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy.” Exploring more than a century of his family's history, the book illustrates Ali’s worldview, including his dedication to public service and his unwavering belief in…
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Good dystopian literature forces its readers to confront ideas of government, culture, community, and identity. This episode of the "Velshi Banned Book Club" will examine two of the most celebrated works of dystopian literature of all time: “The Giver” by Lois Lowry and “1984” by George Orwell. Both novels are staples in the American public educati…
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David talks to historian Margaret MacMillan, author of the prize-winning Peacemakers, about whether the 1919 Paris Peace Conference deserves its reputation as a missed opportunity and the harbinger of another war. Could the peace have been fairer to the Germans? Could the League of Nations have been given real teeth? Could the Bolsheviks have been …
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Oh hey ya'll, Cults I'd Join is back, and working hard on all your favorite things (Ie howling at the moon and talking about cults we may or may not join)... Welcome to The Ervillites, a group filled with polygamy, wildly inappropriate roles for children, murders all over the place, and a disappointingly low rating on both aesthetics, and quality o…
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In our final character episode of this season, we put Carrie from Sex and the City on the couch. Nemone looks at why Sex and the City hasn’t aged well, and Ben talks about diversity in the privileged, white world of the show. We get into Carrie’s shopping habit, low self-esteem, and why everyone in the show is SO obsessed with relationships, even t…
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Reposted from The ‘Cast of the Rings, which you can find and subscribe to at: podcastica.com/podcast/the-cast-of-the-rings-a-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-podcast ------------- Greetings mysterious hermits, Shepherds of the Forest, and reanimated King corpses! Join Anwen and Penny as we discuss Rings of Power season 2, episode 4, “Eldest”in …
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In this episode, Jeanna and Adriana dive into Octavia Butler's *Parable of the Sower*, a dystopian classic that feels eerily relevant to today's chaotic world. As they break down the powerful themes of survival, community, and resilience, the hosts also explore why this book has faced censorship and what it says about modern-day politics. With thei…
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ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Special Episode 018: Our newfriend, Abigail Owen! ACOFAE welcomes to the podcast Award-Winning Romantasy & Paranormal Romance author Abigail Owen to discuss her newest release The Games Gods Play! The Greek gods are alive and well in modern day California and they just can't resist toying with the mortals. Join Laura Marie,…
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Today’s episode is another big early twentieth-century counterfactual: David talks to the historian of Russia Edward Acton about how the Russian Revolution might have unfolded if the Left SRs and not the Bolsheviks had come out on top. Could Lenin have been sidelined? Might the Terror have been avoided? And what would it have meant to the wider wor…
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Reposted from The ‘Cast of the Rings, which you can find and subscribe to at: podcastica.com/podcast/the-cast-of-the-rings-a-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-podcast ------------- Greetings spider fighters, acrobatic elves, and deal making Dwarves! Join Anwen and Penny as we discuss Rings of Power season 2, episode 3, the Eagle and the Sceptre …
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We're back in the era of our formative youth, aka the Y2K era, to visit and dissect the costumes of Legally Blonde & 10 Things I Hate About You. Join us as we dive in to Trashy Lingerie, Shakespeare's inspiration, and a third thing (for comedy)! Alert: baby on board for much of this episode! She was a very thoughtful guest. Lots of opinions on plat…
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MSNBC's Ali Velshi brings you a second season of the “Velshi Banned Book Club.” Book banning is happening more and more. Removing literature from library shelves, school syllabi, and summer reading lists isn’t just blatant censorship; it is the tip of the sword that threatens American democracy itself. Featuring critically acclaimed and culturally …
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We return to our series on historical counterfactuals with the big one: how might WWI have been avoided? David talks to Chris Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers, the definitive history of the July crisis of 1914, to explore how it might have turned out differently. What would have happened if Franz Ferdinand had survived the assassination attempt in…
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Ben and Nemone put Jackson Lamb from Slow Horses on the couch. Gary Oldman’s version of Mick Herron’s character has become household name, and you can see why. A man with many layers, a million secrets, and a lightning rod for other’s emotions – perhaps he is the perfect Freudian analyst. Nemone gives us a crash course in transference and counter-t…
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JR Episodes are back! This week Courtney and Jennifer cover the adorable tear-jerker "Sam is My Sister" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter. Safe for little ears, Courtney reads the book and then joins Jennifer in a discussion on the outrageous "Abducter Bill" AKA SB 254 that not only makes gender-affirming care illegal, but allows the so-called "free" state …
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Reposted from The ‘Cast of the Rings, which you can find and subscribe to at: podcastica.com/podcast/the-cast-of-the-rings-a-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-podcast ------------- Greetings Ring bearers, bling wearers and Dwarves with Daddy issues! Join Anwen and Penny as we discuss Rings of Power season 2, episode 2 "Where the Stars are Strang…
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ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Clueless: "You're a virgin who can't drive." ACOFAE goes back to school with a heavy dose of nostalgia, plaid, and Paul Rudd. Though being a loose adaptation of Emma, Clueless takes Laura Marie and Jessica Marie all the way back to the 90's when you could argue your way from a C to a A-, call your friends in the hallways, a…
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Our Great Political Fictions re-release concludes with a musical: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s wildly popular and increasingly controversial Hamilton (2015). What does it get right and what does it get wrong about America’s founding fathers? How fair is it to judge a Broadway musical by the standards of academic history? And why does a product of the Obama…
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The penultimate episode in our Great Political Fictions re-release is about Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife (2008), which re-imagines the life of First Lady Laura Bush.One of the great novels about the intimacy of power and the accidents of politics, it sticks to the historical record while radically retelling it. What does the standard version l…
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Reposted from The ‘Cast of the Rings, which you can find and subscribe to at: podcastica.com/podcast/the-cast-of-the-rings-a-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-podcast — Greetings slimy slithery dark lords, insect crunching wanderers and bearded silver fox shipwrights! The time is finally upon us! Join Anwen and Penny as we discuss Rings of Power…
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Today’s Great Political Fiction is Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty (2004), which is set between Thatcher’s two dominant general election victories of 1983 and 1987. A novel about the intersection between gay life and Tory life, high politics and low conduct, beauty and betrayal, it explores the price of power and the risks of liberation. It …
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There's another episode of the Liberal Hand Maid's Tale! Shock troopers frighten an 87 year old in Texas because she wants Americans to vote, Darth Vader is so proud right now. Then there's a lesson in capital gains tax, I'll just leave that here. And then we go to Arlington where weirdos try to out scummy each other. I'll let you guess which campa…
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⏱ Jump to the Book vs. Movie Review at 50:00 A Swede, a Brit and a Belgian board a train. In case you're worried that this is going to turn into an off-color joke about stereotypes... you'd be half right! So tuck your knives before customs confiscates them and join us on the soul train for a special birthday Patreon episode: Agatha Christie's Murde…
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In today’s Great Political Fiction David explores Salman Rushdie’s 1981 masterpiece Midnight’s Children, the great novel about the life and death of Indian democracy. How can one boy stand in for the whole of India? How can a nation as diverse as India ever have a single politics? And how is a jar of pickle the answer to these questions? Plus, how …
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