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Lost Ladies of Lit

Amy Helmes & Kim Askew

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A book podcast hosted by writing partners Amy Helmes and Kim Askew. Guests include biographers, journalists, authors, and cultural historians discussing lost classics by women writers.
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A podcast by Lucy Underwood about history, researching history, and the joy of finding diamonds when we search the archives for the dust of past lives. I aim to tell lively stories by seeking out the voices of the past, encoded in the archives, and letting them speak. My research mostly focuses on Tudor and Stuart England. I’m a historian and writer. My historical writing has appeared in various scholarly journals and books, while my first novel, an Elizabethan adventure titled ’The Guest of ...
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Lady Lucy

Lady Lucy, the Audio Drama

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Lady Lucy is an audio drama inspired by Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" Sonnets, 127-154. Between running her brothel, fighting the Church, murdering her friends' abusive husbands, and pretending to be a poet, the last thing Lucy needed back in 1586 was a surprise visit from her former flame... Will Shakespeare. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ladylucypod/support
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Fresnan Lucy Brown interviews women in California's Central Valley about their lives, friendships, families, relationships, careers, accomplishments, memories of their communities, challenges they've overcome, people who've enriched their lives, and what makes the Central Valley so special.
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As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters from Egypt. Lady Duff-Gordon had tuberculosis, and went to Egypt for her health. This collection of her personal letters to her mother and her husband. By all accounts everyone loved her, and the letters are very personal in style and content. The letters are as much an introduction to her person as a record of her life on the Upper Nile.
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Do you have dreams of owning your own business or you just want to take a peak behind the curtain to see how other people have done it? Then join us as we sit down with some of the most inspiring and successful female entrepreneurs to discover how they built their businesses from the ground up.
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Lady Bird

The Drag Audio Production House

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In the years following her time in the White House, Lady Bird Johnson spent countless hours detailing her life experiences with historians for the LBJ Presidential Library. To bring her incredible story to life, host Jade Emerson unearthed those never-before-played audio files and interviewed historians, White House insiders and the people who knew and loved Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson. This intimate portrait begins deep in the woods in East Texas and follows her path as she transforms ...
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Sagely Speaking with Congresswoman Mary Bono is a thought-provoking podcast of interviews with experts from diverse fields…exploring a wide range of topics from the opioid and fentanyl epidemic, social issues, politics and policy to personal development, shedding light on important issues that impact our society.
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Norfolk Folklore Society

Norfolk Folklore Society

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The Norfolk Folklore Society podcast hosted by Siofra Connor & Stacia Briggs. We hope to entice folklore lovers, stone spotters, paranormal investigators, cryptozoologists, folk horror enthusiasts, ufologists, magic users and any other curious souls to join us on our strange journeys around Norfolk.
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The Ladies in Business podcast aims to help you grow your business by speaking to incredible women succeeding in their roles and finding out how they got to where they are today and share their success secrets with you. This podcast is about sharing the knowledge around to inspire, support and help other Ladies in Business to thrive and grow in any business, in any position. Each week Dimity interviews a new guest speaker. We are going to hear a bit of a background story from our guest and, ...
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Inspired by a true life story, Lady Audley's Secret is the story of a woman's overwhelming ambition and passion for social success. When the first book came out in 1862, Victorian readers were shocked and outraged by its portrayal of aspects like bigamy, insanity, yearning for social status and the will to commit murder to achieve one's goals. The novel belongs to a genre that became very popular during that era. Known as “sensation novels” they can probably be equated to today's pulp fictio ...
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GrassRoots - Women's Rugby from the Roots Up

Matt, Lou, Jodie, Dubs, Lucy and Mollie

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In the only podcast solely dedicated to the grassroots women's game, Jodie, Matt, Lou, Mollie, Goose and Joyce take a bi-monthly stroll through the chaos, joy and intrigue of club-level rugby. We celebrate the characters in the game, the essence and culture of rugby and shine a spotlight on the teams playing in various leagues around the country. Our very own legend Cherie (ChezSez) gives listeners a unique insight into her life in the sport and the mayhem of 70% off hour at Aldi. We will br ...
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iFlourish Radio

The Flourish Network, Inc.

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Our platform is designed to empower and inspire women both personally and professionally. Each episode within iFlourish Radio features amazing women that are passionate about seeing others succeed. Our desire is that every woman that connects with our organization realizes that she has special gifts and talents,vthat can only be performed by her. There is nothing more beautiful, than seeing someone realize their divine purpose. "Your purpose is your life song, so sing loudly and FLOURISH! " ...
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Audio portraits of glorious, devoted, hairy, guilt-riddled, funny, exasperated REAL mothers and their work/child balance. How they make it work. How they F it up. Plus some parenting hacks for good measure. Episodes include a Welsh PT mother, a horse-loving Swedish mother, a Nigella-esque sex guru mother, a non-judgy vegan mother, a potentially paralympian blind mother and more...
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Send us a Text Message. Pack your steamer trunks! We’re traveling to 19th-century Bavaria this week by way of Ann Schlee’s 1980 historical novel Rhine Journey, newly republished by McNally Editions. This Booker-Prize nominated travel tale features vivid period details, sultry psychological thrills and a protagonist on the brink of a personal revolu…
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Send us a Text Message. Did you know that Noel Streatfeild’s 1936 children’s book Ballet Shoes is based on her earlier novel The Whicharts, a tawdrier and not-for-children “shadow twin” that was published five years prior? Find out why it’s our favorite of the two in this week’s episode with our guest, author and bookstagrammer Wendy-Marie Chabot. …
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Steve Adami’s journey from handcuffs to hope is remarkable. Steve turned his life around after spending time in prison, embracing sobriety and personal growth. These days, Steve is all about giving back. He's teamed up with the Salvation Army to tackle San Francisco's addiction challenges head-on through an innovative program called The Way Out. Th…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Long before an insatiable press laid siege to Catherine, Princess of Wales, Princess Diana, Meghan Markle and in-law to America’s “royal family,” Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Empress Elizabeth of Austria was the beautiful royal everyone wanted a piece of. Feeling like a prisoner in a gilded cage, “Sisi” …
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Lucy Pet Products COO and partner, Rick Rockhill, gives us such an inspiring perspective on the wonderful benefits of having a pet, emphasizing how they bring a sense of calm, stability, and can even help relieve anxiety. He also surprises us with insights into the health benefits of keeping something as tiny as a fish, demonstrating that no matter…
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Alban - first known Christian in Britain, executed by the Romans for hiding a priest. Recusants - shorthand for English Catholics who rejected the Protestant Reformation, and occasionally got executed for hiding priests. This episode is about fights over who owns history, school plays in the 1600s, and naming your kids after prisons.…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Reflecting back on four years of literary “lost ladies,” Amy celebrates our 200th episode with a quirky list of yearbook superlatives to help jog your memory about some of our favorite titles, including the books “Most Likely to Make You Eat Your Vegetables,” “Most Likely to Up Your Selfie Game,” and …
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On the latest episode of Sagely Speaking, Dr. Robert Dupont delves into the critical topic of recovery, emphasizing the profound lessons that can be learned from those who have navigated this challenging journey. He discusses the resilience and strength required to overcome adversity, and how hearing these stories can inspire and guide others on th…
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Elections in the 1600s: Elections by show of hands, votes for saltpans, and did women vote? I talk to Dr Simon Healy about how Members of Parliament were chosen in Tudor & Stuart England, why people stood for Parliament, who got to vote, where, and why, and how elections were run.By lau20
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Send us a Text Message. An Australian author — and the 1979 film adaptation of her work — capture Kim and Amy’s fancy this week on the show. Published in 1901 and written when author Miles Franklin was only eighteen years old, My Brilliant Career became an instant classic of Australian literature and still delights readers with its feisty heroine, …
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Paul Solotaroff, a no-holds barred investigative reporter from Rolling Stone Magazine who has been covering very serious and tough stories for decades. Famous for his persistence, Paul has been on the trail of social media companies and their role in making drugs very accessible to the children of America. His in-depth research has shown how these …
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Today’s podcast is the NFS’s own version of the General Election and, as such, we get to the heart of a very pressing issue: whether a dog-headed monk or a monk-headed dog would be more terrifying to meet down a dark alley? For many years, the dog-headed monk/monk-headed dog conundrum has been our very own personal litmus test…but for the first tim…
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Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, lived from 1586-1639. She was a writer and translator, was seen as eccentric, was a Catholic convert when it wasn't strictly legal - and may have been autistic. Her "Life", composed and preserved by her daughters, records her struggles to be an intellectual woman, a Catholic, and a mother - and their struggles to be d…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Things get weird on the show this week as Amy and Kim commune with some ladies of literature from beyond the veil… with a little bit of help from ChatGPT. Check out our “interview” with Restoration-era author and playwright Aphra Behn, then find out what happens when we play around with prompts for Vi…
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My guest is incredibly special to me, especially since he is my husband. Rear Admiral Stephen Oswald, USN (ret) is a distinguished former astronaut and Naval Aviator who embarked on a remarkable career that spanned various facets of aviation and space exploration. His journey began at the United States Naval Academy in 1973. Following his graduatio…
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Send us a Text Message. You may think you’ve never read anything by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, but if you’ve read any Thomas Mann, there’s a good chance you’ve seen her handiwork. Lowe-Porter was a writer and translator whose greatest (but largely unsung) success came in the form of translating 22 monumental works by the German literary giant. Her En…
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Ed Bisch, the relentless advocate and founder of Relatives Against Purdue Pharma (RAPP), talks about his 23 year struggle to make sure Purdue Pharma is held accountable for their irresponsible promotion and distribution of the highly addictive and potentially deadly drug OxyContin. Motivated by personal tragedy with the loss of his son, and driven …
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Writers Carson McCullers and W.H. Auden, literary editor George Davis, composer Benjamin Britten and burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee... once upon a time they all lived together in a house in Brooklyn Heights, an early 1940s version of the sitcom "Friends," only this one populated by an ever-changing mix…
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Our podcast guest, Chris Didier, a pilot for United Airlines and Executive Board Member for Stop the Void shares the heart-wrenching story of losing his 17-year-old son to a single pill laced with fentanyl. Chris talks about this tragic incident and how it underscores the critical need for parents to have open and honest conversations with their ch…
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Send us a Text Message. Guest Carrie Courogen, author of the acclaimed new bio "Miss May Does Not Exist," joins us to discuss comic genius Elaine May. Known for her groundbreaking work in comedy, screenwriting, directing, and acting, May rose to fame as part of the iconic comedy duo Nichols and May. Despite her significant contributions to films li…
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On this podcast episode, we are honored to host Katheryn Burgum, the First Lady of North Dakota, who is a powerful advocate for initiatives aimed at reducing the stigma surrounding drug addiction. Drawing from her own courageous journey of 15 years in recovery, she openly shares her experiences, breaking down barriers and fostering a more compassio…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Marcel Duchamp created one of the most influential works of art in the 20th century. Or did he? There are some who theorize that a woman — “proto-punk” poet and Dada-ist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven — is the true genius behind the groundbreaking “Fountain” urinal sculpture that rocked the art world in…
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In the atmospheric setting of England’s largest and most elaborate provincial medieval city hall, wonderful tales were woven about Norwich’s dark past. We joined forces with performer Laura Cannell to create a magical night filled with tales of ghosts and witchcraft, secret tunnels and dreadful murders linked to this distinctive building in the hea…
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Kim Humphrey, the Executive Director of Parents of Addicted Loved Ones (PAL). Kim's organization plays a crucial role in assisting parents who are navigating the challenging journey of having children with addiction issues and how they empower parents to lead by example. By fostering resilience and promoting healthy behaviors, Kim and his team help…
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Send us a Text Message. In this special catch-up episode, we take a breather to share updates and insights from our recent reads, including works by Sylvia Townsend Warner and Radclyffe Hall. Amy introduces a quirky new business idea inspired by silent disco and Shakespeare, and we invite listeners to text feedback using a new ‘text us’ feature. Pl…
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US Representative Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers has served in the House of Representatives for the past 20 years. During her tenure she has risen to hold the gavel on one of the most prestigious and powerful committees in the US Congress, the Energy and Commerce Committee. We spoke about her work combatting the opioid and fentanyl overdose e…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Inspired by Barbara Comyns, who lived with an unusual assortment of pets over the years, this bonus episode explores female authors who owned pet monkeys. Amy discusses Virginia Woolf and her Nazi-disarming marmoset Mitz, Nellie Bly’s fez-wearing travel companion, McGinty, and other primates who captu…
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On this episode of Sagely Speaking, I was glad to welcome Gil Kerlikowske to the pod. Gil served as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Obama for 5 years. After that service, he lead the Customs and Border Protection. It’s worth noting that he had a strong background in law enforement after leading the Seattle…
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Send us a Text Message. Barbara Comyns was recently called, “the best English novelist you’ve never heard of” and her unsettling gothic novels are equal parts enchanting and horrific. Joining us is Avril Horner, author of "Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence," who offers insight into Comyns' unique blend of dark humor and her empathetic portrayals o…
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Congressman Patrick Kennedy (ret.) calls Kevin the “Happy Warrior”. Kevin is a warrior when it comes to smart drug policy, and the sheer weight of his beliefs and his dedication to his convictions will win any debate. He strongly believes in drug abuse prevention first. oCRmmYfosdS08XNKxKRwBy Mary Bono
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Inspired by watching Caitlin Clark play in this year’s NCAA tournament, Amy is feeling uncharacteristically “sporty” in this week’s bonus episode. She’ll dive into the history of Ina Eloise Young, America’s first female sports editor at a daily newspaper whose coverage of the 1908 World Series so impr…
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In this very important episode, we welcome Dr. Bertha Madras who has been at the forefront of discussions around drug policy for decades. Among the many areas she focuses on, we discussed her research into psychedelic drug therapies and her very concerned viewpoint. With billions of dollars pouring into this emerging field, Dr. Madras sheds light o…
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Two IVF warriors, Yaelle and Lucy, have come together to share their IVF Tales! Yaelle talks about seeking specialist advice, once ready to conceive due to both her and her husband being 40, and being told they would have a 7% chance of conceiving naturally. After this, they both had tests done and took the option of TTC for 3 months- they fell pre…
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Send us a Text Message. Dying by suicide shortly after her novel, Love and Silence, was rejected for publication in 1963, Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat gained brief recognition when the book was finally published four years after her death. Discovering the novel in a Cairo market some 30 years later launched acclaimed Egyptian writer Iman Mersal…
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Emmitt Smith, the three time Super Bowl champion and football legend emphasizes the importance of mental toughness and physical resilience in the sport. Smith, who famously played through injuries with minimal medication, warns about the dangers of relying on opioids for pain management. He talks about his role as a speaker at college campuses, edu…
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Greg Totten, CEO of the California District Attorneys Association, is an influential figure at the forefront of the multifaceted challenges facing California, including homelessness, rampant retail theft, and the alarming rise of fentanyl addiction. He is leading the efforts on a California measure called, The Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Have you ever wanted to hit the “pause” button on your life and simply start over? In 2022, Anne Boyd Rioux did just that, making the bold and audacious decision to leave her job as a tenured English professor, sell all her earthly possessions and embark on a European adventure. In this episode, Anne …
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Send us a Text Message. An eyewitness to monumental moments in the 20th century, author Kay Boyle hung out with Left Bank artists and literary giants, chronicled the ravages of WWII, was blacklisted in the 1950s and was jailed for her Haight-Ashbury activism in the late 1960s. An intrepid modernist committed to a “Revolution of the Word,” this two-…
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On this episode, I had the privilege of hosting a seasoned expert, a 32-year veteran of the DEA, whose insights shed light on the intricate dynamics of the drug trade. Our conversation delved into the complex interplay between supply and demand, touching upon the operations of drug cartels and the influence of global players like China. We explored…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. In this episode Amy explores the history of the 19th-century dance craze that made political leaders nervous, religious leaders aghast, dance instructors insecure and the masses primed for revolt! From Johann Strauss Jr.'s "pop star" status to popular representations in film, we're covering everything…
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If you're an employer you really need to tune in to this week’s show. Lorraine Martin talks about her leadership at the National Safety Council, and how the NSC serves as a vital conduit for workplace safety information. She offers comprehensive guidelines for general safety practices and talks about the concerning rise in drug overdoses in workpla…
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Send us a Text Message. In this week’s episode Kim and Amy discuss the life and work of “Speranza,” a.k.a Lady Jane Wilde, a.k.a. Oscar Wilde’s mom! An outspoken, rabble-rousing poet who championed Irish independence, she stirred up members of the Young Ireland movement while writing for Dublin’s radical newspaper “The Nation” in the 1840s. Oscar m…
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Michael Braun sheds light on the intricate network behind the Mexican cartels' dominance in supplying fentanyl, emphasizing their dependence on chemical companies in China for production. He underscores the financial motivations driving this collaboration and raising questions about China's role in facilitating such operations and the potential mot…
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Send us a Text Message. In our first-ever "Game Show Edition" of the podcast, McNally Editions editor Lucy Scholes joins us for a lightning-round quiz pitting quotations from Elizabeth Taylor the actress vs. Elizabeth Taylor the author! Test your knowledge and join in the fun! For the full forty-minute episode in which we discuss the author Taylor'…
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Introducing a new series from The Drag: "Forsaken." "Forsaken" is a series that explores the systems that both enhance and oppress the lives of the more than 29 million people living in Texas. Each episode will address issues that Texans face each day – the good and the bad. We’ll explore the criminal justice system, Texas politics, civil rights, s…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. FULL LENGTH EDITION!!! In our first-ever "Game Show Edition" of the podcast, McNally Editions editor Lucy Scholes joins us to talk about the TWO Elizabeth Taylors! Lucy collaborated with Pushkin Press Classics on the short story collection A Different Sound, in which midcentury British novelist and sh…
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A proven thought leader and Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, Dr. Keith Humphreys emphasizes the crucial role of law enforcement and health care workers joining together to solve our Nation's drug problem. He also talks about his leadership as a former drug policy advisor at the White House in expanding public access to naloxone, the …
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Join the Norfolk Folklore Society as we introduce author, illustrator and folklorist Helen JR Bruce who will be diving into the rich folklore and mythology surrounding Black Dogs. Cover illustration - Shuck Zine / Matt WillisBy Norfolk Folklore Society
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