Best Robert Smythe Podcasts (2024)

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Samantha Harvey: 'This is what fiction can do' 34:26

6h ago34:26

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The weather may be up the spout but it's still summer, so it's time for another batch of Fictionable podcasts. We'll be hearing from Susan Muaddi Darraj, Carolina Bruck, Patrick Cash and Jack Klausner in this summer season. But Summer opens with Samantha Harvey and her mighty short story Bona Fide Nihon-kitsch. If you haven't read it already, you m…

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Jakub Żulczyk: 'We're all two inches tall' 19:51

1M ago19:51

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In this Spring series of podcasts we've heard from Jenny Erpenbeck, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz. We bring it to a close with Jakub Żulczyk and his story Many Years of Hardships, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff. Żulczyk became a bestseller with hard-hitting thrillers such as The Institute and Blinded by the Light…

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Rose Rahtz: 'What if you did have magical powers in a toddler?' 24:27

1M ago24:27

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This spring we've already heard from Jenny Erpenbeck, Grahame Williams and Lauren Caroline Smith. This time we welcome Rose Rahtz and her short story Where Hast Thou Been, Sister? Rahtz tells us how the story started as a response to the opening of Macbeth, where there is a roll of thunder and Shakespeare's First Witch asks, "Where hast thou been, …

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Lauren Caroline Smith: 'There is something countercultural in Christianity' 20:38

2M ago20:38

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In this Spring series of podcasts we've already heard from Jenny Erpenbeck and Grahame Williams. Now it's time for Lauren Caroline Smith and her short story The Placing of Hands. Smith looks back on her teenage years, when being a committed Christian made her something of an oddity, and reflects on what it’s like to be a person of faith within a pr…

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Grahame Williams: 'Random acts of violence could happen at any time' 19:26

2M ago19:26

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Last time we heard from Jenny Erpenbeck, who told us that before her latest novel Kairos she'd "never written a love story". This time we welcome Grahame Williams and his short story Making It Happen. Like the industrialist Sir John Harvey-Jones, an inspirational figure in Making It Happen, Williams says he's not much of a planner: "If there's a sp…

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Jenny Erpenbeck: 'What you write down can be made to hide something' 25:18

2M ago25:18

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Spring has finally sprung and with it another series of Fictionable podcasts. Over the next few weeks we'll be hearing from Jakub Żulczyk, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz. But we launch into Spring with Jenny Erpenbeck and her haunting short story Sloughing Off One Skin. When we spoke down the line from Berlin, Erpenbeck bega…

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Liam Hogan: 'I want to be entertained' 25:20

4M ago25:20

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We've already heard from Linda Mannheim, Richard Smyth, Ariel Marken Jack. and Robert Neuwirth in this Winter series of podcasts. Now we bring it to a close with Liam Hogan and his short story Backstory. Hogan tells us how it all came from his suspicion of heroes. "They often have it far too easy," he explains. "If you have someone with supreme ski…

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Robert Neuwirth: 'I wanted it to be plausible as a machine thinking' 30:18

4M ago30:18

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In this Winter series of podcasts we've heard from Linda Mannheim, Richard Smyth and Ariel Marken Jack. This time we welcome Robert Neuwirth and his short story The Disambiguation. Neuwirth tells us how his story started from a couple of one-liners that were driving him crazy and wound up stuffed full of computer code. We anthropomorphise the machi…

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Ariel Marken Jack: 'The way I fight back is through my writing' 34:47

5M ago34:47

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We've already heard from Linda Mannheim and Richard Smyth in this Winter series, and now it's time for Ariel Marken Jack and their story The Bread Boy. Marken Jack tells us how their writing began in isolation, flat on their back with chronic fatigue syndrome. This debilitating illness is giving rise to writing they call "the most 21st-century form…

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Richard Smyth: 'We all need an Otherland' 32:58

5M ago32:58

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Last week we heard from Linda Mannheim, who told us that the only way she can go back to the neighbourhood where she grew up is in fiction. This time we welcome Richard Smyth and his short story Karóly Bálint's Metaphor. Smyth explains how his story isn’t exactly set in Budapest and reflects on how the bleakness of the steppe echoes the stereotypic…

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5.7 Emotional Immaturity 1:54:51

5M ago1:54:51

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Hello and welcome to A Team Podcast. In this conversation, we discuss bakery news, the complexities of maturity, transactional relationships, Cynicism vs realism, and cat cults. Thanks for listening. ISKA World Private Schools and Public School Achievement What is the difference between naive cynicism and naive realism? - Psychology & Neuroscience …

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Linda Mannheim: 'What is a happy ending?' 24:06

5M ago24:06

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In this Winter series of podcasts, we'll be hearing from Richard Smyth, Ariel Marken Jack, Robert Neuwirth and Liam Hogan. We start off with Linda Mannheim, who joined us down the line from Berlin. Mannheim explains how the central character in her story Those Last Days appeared to her "out of the blue" and how she found her fiction inexorably draw…

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5.6 Myk Bilokonsky, Guest 1:59:21

6M ago1:59:21

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Hi, welcome to A Team Podcast. Today we have a special guest, Myk Bilokonsky. The team gets deep in discussion with Myk about Autistic Identity Trauma, Shamanism, attachment wounds, neuroqueer identity, and Bartleby who would prefer not to. Thanks for listening. Public Neurodiversity Support Center · Myk's Digital Garden Occupational therapist - Wi…

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5.5 Self Regulation 1:55:16

6M ago1:55:16

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In this episode, we discuss childhood camping trauma, disability porn, rage bait, self-protective mechanisms, and Wild Horse. Prosopagnosia | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Letterkenny (TV series) - Wikipedia https://compostingconsciousness.podia.com/ Treating the Effects of Childhood Trauma Recreational fishing - Wikipedia…

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5.4 Learning Environments 2:13:16

7M ago2:13:16

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In this conversation, we discuss learning environments for autistic people, multiple intelligences, energetic boundaries, self-forgiveness, and a penguin in a box. Doodling Doodling 101: What is Doodle Art? • Teaching and learning styles 7 types of learning styles and how you can to teach them Connect for Success: Matching Teaching and Learning Sty…

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01 – Ch. I: The Pyramids 9:57

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02 – Ch. II: The Sphinx 9:06

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03 – Ch. III: Sakkara 8:12

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04 – Ch. IV: Abydos 7:41

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05 – Ch. V: The Nile 5:18

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06 – Ch. VI: Denderah 12:12

7M ago12:12

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07 – Ch. VII: Karnak, pt. 1 11:57

7M ago11:57

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08 – Ch. VII: Karnak, pt. 2 8:55

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09 – Ch. VIII: Luxor 14:39

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10 – Ch. IX: Collosi of Memnon 11:11

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11 – Ch. X: Medinet-Abu 10:00

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5.3 Creative Practice 1:12:55

7M ago1:12:55

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In this conversation, Tango, Michael, and Julie discuss the intersection of creativity and technology, Standpoint theory, pattern recognition, smelling colors, and Cephalopods. Dysregulation Dysregulation: Definition, Symptoms, Traits, Causes, Treatment Dissociated Dissociation: Causes, Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Treatment Rumination The Complete Beg…

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12 – Ch. XI: The Ramesseum 13:04

7M ago13:04

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13 – Ch. XII: Deir-el-Bahari 15:31

7M ago15:31

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14 – Ch. XIII: The Tombs of the Kings 6:01

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15 – Ch. XIV: Edfu, pt. 1 10:20

7M ago10:20

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16 – Ch. XIV: Edfu, pt. 2 9:24

7M ago9:24

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17 – Ch. XV: Kom Ombos 12:30

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18 – Ch. XVI: Philae 12:11

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19 – Ch. XVII: “Pharoah’s Bed”, pt. 1 9:51

7M ago9:51

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20 – Ch. XVII: “Pharoah’s Bed”, pt. 2 11:14

7M ago11:14

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21 – Ch. XVIII: Old Cairo, pt. 1 11:15

7M ago11:15

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22 – Ch. XVIII: Old Cairo, pt. 2 11:35

7M ago11:35

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23 – Ch. XVIII: Old Cairo, pt. 3 11:34

7M ago11:34

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5.2 Speaking of Science 2:08:49

8M ago2:08:49

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4.13 Speaking of Science Astrology and Quantum Mechanics, role-playing games, Michael's unreadable book, yoga, and deep-fried dollars. Quantum mechanics - Wikipedia https://www.brucelipton.com/ https://www.brucelipton.com/what-the-cosmic-joke/ Lithium in the Natural Waters of the South East of Ireland Caliban and the Witch - Wikipedia Devon Price -…

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5.1 - 4:20 The gang gets high 1:55:49

8M ago1:55:49

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In this conversation, the team celebrates 4:20 and discusses legalizing marijuana (cannabis), the personal meaning of the term disability, the same foods, tarot, and wisdom from growing old. Artemis and Daniel the cats Artemis - Wikipedia Dear Daniel | Hello Kitty Wiki | Fandom Link between gut and autism Autism spectrum disorder and digestive symp…

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Catriona Bolt: 'Everyone in the story associates mushrooms with death' 23:24

9M ago23:24

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We've already heard from M John Harrison, Irena Karpa, Seán Padraic Birnie and Shauna Mackay on the Fictionable podcast. Now we bring this autumn series to a close with Catriona Bolt and her mycological short story Bloom. Bolt tells us how she fell in love with mushrooms despite, or perhaps because of, their double nature. These mysterious organism…

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Shauna Mackay: 'It's listening to the characters and letting them take the lead' 14:42

9M ago14:42

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In this autumn series of podcasts we've heard from M John Harrison, Irena Karpa and Seán Padraic Birnie. This week we welcome Shauna Mackay to discuss her short story Matching up the Pattern at the Join. Mackay tells us how her short stories are driven by voice, by characters she conjures up and then follows on the page: "I sound like a witch now."…

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Seán Padraic Birnie: 'I was quite depressed and pissed off with work' 22:57

9M ago22:57

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This autumn we've already heard from M John Harrison, Irena Karpa and her band, Qarpa. This week we have an appointment with Seán Padraic Birnie and his story The Medical Room. Birnie tells us how he was fuelled by frustration at work and struggles with chronic fatigue syndrome. "It made me laugh, I think," he says, "but I wasn't sure it would make…

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Irena Karpa: 'Literature must entertain, especially in dark times' 31:19

9M ago31:19

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After hearing last week from M John Harrison, who discussed how he makes fiction from fragments of reality, this week we turn it up to eleven as we welcome Irena Karpa. Fuelled by the latest track from her band, Qarpa, she reads from Kate Tsurkan's translation of her short story, Fellow Traveler, and gives us the inside track on that journey. Karpa…

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M John Harrison: 'How do you know who’s alive and who’s the ghost?' 30:10

10M ago30:10

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Over the next few weeks, we'll be hearing from Irena Karpa, Seán Padraic Birnie, Shauna Mackay and Catriona Bolt. But we launch this autumn podcast series with M John Harrison and his haunting short story, I Can't Tell. Harrison tells us how he constructs his stories from fragments of real life, filed in notebooks and then reassembled into uncanny …

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Sabba Khan: 'The terraced house is a big character in this story' 20:55

11M ago20:55

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This summer we've been hearing a little more from our amazing authors in an expanded series of podcasts. Joyce Carol Oates confessed she feels "like a fourteen-year-old girl" while Fiona Mozley admitted to an "awkward personality". José Falero – voiced by Maria Jacqueline Evans – argued that the 21st century's obscene inequalities can only be addre…

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Donal McLaughlin: 'I've got that Derry voice in my head' 22:54

11M ago22:54

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In this summer's new, expanded podcast we've already heard from Joyce Carol Oates, Fiona Mozley and José Falero – translated and interpreted by Maria Jacqueline Evans. This time we're heading north to catch up with Donal McLaughlin and his story runaway. McLaughlin has been writing short stories about his main character, Liam O'Donnell, for thirty …

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José Falero: 'If people started robbing cars en masse, that would be a political event' 23:28

11M ago23:28

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We've heard already this summer from Joyce Carol Oates and Fiona Mozley, but now the translator Maria Jacqueline Evans turns interpreter as we talk – via the magic of email – to José Falero. He tells us why he wanted to look at the violence of a flash kidnapping from the inside in his short story Flash of Dignity, and what drives his characters to …

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Fiona Mozley: 'Fiction really is a conversation' 17:21

12M ago17:21

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After hearing last week how Joyce Carol Oates is firmly focused on the future, this week we’re focusing on Fiona Mozley and her mighty story Cadair Idris. She tells us how this trip up the mountain began on a family holiday and explores how characters suffering from mental illness pose a particular challenge for writers of fiction. As the kind of a…

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