Best Sparing Academy Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 27: The Trance Mix 1:30:37

9M ago1:30:37

1:30:37

Obviously there was a time when I was posting monthly trance mixes although I'm struggling to remember the last time I recorded a trance mix. I've included a selection of new tracks and a couple of my older Leolife tracks. The mix eases you in with some nice proggy vibes before some wild tech madness with plenty of euporhic moments throughout. Enjo…

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Episode 26: The House Mix 1:41:02

11M ago1:41:02

1:41:02

Something a bit different, influenced from a recent trip to Ibiza and whilst there was plenty of melodic music on offer. The sounds from Freddies (Pikes) and DC-10 have pushed me towards putting together a house / tech house mix with a sprinkle of disco. Finished off with some techno where I was very close to carrying on with some more! Hope you en…

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Episode 25: Let Me Take You On A Journey Mix 2023 1:02:13

12M ago1:02:13

1:02:13

Let's take you on an even longer journey! I've listened to a lot of music this past month and there are so many good tracks out that I've ended up recording my longest mix ever. We have a bit of everything here, easing in you nicely and then it's fasten your seatbelts time for a bumpy ride! Hope you enjoy :) 1. CamelVIP, Hansonic - Moksha - Origina…

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Episode 24: The Tea & Progressive Mix 1:37:15

1y ago1:37:15

1:37:15

Boil the kettle, make a cup of tea, sit back and enjoy the ride :) 1. Roger Martinez De Machtige - Trip - Alex O'Rion Remix 2. Gonzalo Sacc, Franco Leonardini - Inside The Mirrors - Original Mix 3. Fabreeka - Drifter - Ric Niels Remix 4. Gonzalo Sacc, Franco Leonardini -Shaft Of Light - Sebastian Busto Remix 5. NUFECTS, Jab Vix - Sordina - Sebastia…

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Episode 23: The Sundowner Mix 1:16:25

1y ago1:16:25

1:16:25

1. Paul A. George - Muscovy - Original Mix 2. 35Ave - Into The Space - Original Mix 3. Morrey - Don't Let Me Down - Original Mix 4. Dj Kid, Idd Aziz - Dibala - Sammi Ferrer & Chaleee Remix 5. Michael Ritter - Rufisque - Original Mix 6. Gonzalo Sacc, Franco Leonardini - Shaft Of Light - Original Mix 7. Lessovsky, Elizabeat - Tribe Vibe - Original Mi…

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Episode 22: The Can't Think Of A Name Mix 1:27:05

1+ y ago1:27:05

1:27:05

New mix time :) A selection of new tracks from great artists, a bit of indie dance, progressive, melodic house & techno. Enjoy! 1. Joseph Ray - Blue Nights - Original Mix 2. ROWA, Sanoi - Sapian Rage - Extended Mix 3. Trilucid - Take Me Higher - Extended Mix 4. Smash TV, Just Her - All I See Is Us - Original Mix 5. MANDU - Space Traveller - Origina…

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Episode 21: Down The Rabbit Hole Mix 2:53:41

1+ y ago2:53:41

2:53:41

1. Hobin Rude - 33rd (Original Mix) 2. Clyve Mirage - in a Cloud (Original Mix) 3. Mango, Nomas - Aremis (Original Mix) 4. STEREO MUNK, Echo Daft, Dublew - Embers (Callecat Remix) 5. Mike Rish - Tunnel People (Original Mix) 6. VovaWave - The Rabbit Hole (Original Mix) 7. Darin Epsilon - Ifrit (Original Mix) 8. Marcan Liav - Oucha (Nick Warren X Nic…

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Episode 20: Filthy Goodness Mix 1:07:34

2y ago1:07:34

1:07:34

A shorter mix than usual, no messing about straight into it with some peak time tracks. Some filthy punchy baselines and lots of goodness on top with some banging techno to finish. Enjoy :) 1. Gogol - Volume (Extended Mix) 2. Two-Gun - Sirius C (Extended Mix) 3. Wailey - One Shot (Original Mix) 4. Olivier Giacomotto, Lady Vale - Time feat. Lady Val…

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Episode 19: The Autumn Mix 2022 1:25:45

2y ago1:25:45

1:25:45

I'm back, it's been a while! Not sure why it's taken me so long to do another mix, the summer was very busy but fun with plenty of festivals! Here's some really cool tracks I've discovered recently and I've mixed them all together for you. Enjoy :) 1. Airbas, The Uglytakeone - Encanto (Original Mix) 2 Niko Garcia - Adansonia (Ilias Katelanos Remix)…

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Episode 18: Stephen Glide - This Is Progressive Mix 2:26:14

2y ago2:26:14

2:26:14

I love playing a variance of styles in my mixes, although I often includes quite a few progressive tracks and in the past I've uploaded progressive only mixes so you can probably tell my favourite sounds tend to be progressive :) Some really nice tracks to get us in the groove to start with and the energy builds into some peak time tracks with some…

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Episode 17: Warm Up Festival Artists 2022 Mix (Unofficial) 4:07:00

2+ y ago4:07:00

4:07:00

It's taken me a bit longer to post this next mix, mainly due to finding the time to record it! It's an extended mix of more than 4 hours of music from artists that feature on the Warm Up Festival 2022 line up. This is an unofficial mix, I'm purely a fan of Warm Up, the festival in 2021 was amazing and I'm sure this year will be even better. I wante…

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Episode 16: Tribal Flavours Mix 1:07:29

2+ y ago1:07:29

1:07:29

A little bit different this month some nice tribal, soulful, deep and groovy afro beats. Hope you all enjoy :) 1. Namito - Mad Heart (Original Mix) 2. Jonny Miller, Kid Fonque - Afrika Is The Future! (Masšh Remix) 3. Josh Milan, Djeff - Difficult (Sparrow & Barbossa Remix) 4. Simo Moumen - Samsara (Original Mix) 5. Jim Rider - Rascals (Original Mix…

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Episode 15: A Winter's Tale Mix 1:29:23

2+ y ago1:29:23

1:29:23

Back for the first mix of 2022, some nice progressive tracks with a Techy edge and lots of nice grooves. I was really in full swing towards the end and could've carried on for much longer! Hope you enjoy the mix. 1. Ilias Katelanos - Absence (Original Mix) 2. Pritam J - Serene Minds (Erich Von Kollar Frozen Remix) 3. Gux Jimenez, Juan Pablo Torrez …

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Episode 14: The End Of Year Mix 2021 3:05:13

2+ y ago3:05:13

3:05:13

Many thanks for everyone listening this past year, May's episode 'Let Me Take You On A Journey Mix' has been the most poplar episode by downloads for 2021. Over the last 12 months all the episodes combined amounts to 227 tracks and this mix is essentially my favourite tracks from all the previous episodes. There were so many tracks I liked, I was a…

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The 1966 Aberfan disaster 22:30

2+ y ago22:30

22:30

In this podcast, Professor Houston talks about the psychological impact on those affected by the Aberfan disaster of 1966. The podcast expands on an interview Prof Houston gave to BBC Wales as part of a series of podcasts recently produced about the disaster. It is strongly advised that you listen to podcast 7 of the BBC series prior to listening t…

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Episode 13: The Spicy Mix 1:30:49

3y ago1:30:49

1:30:49

Apologies a bit late this month! With the winter nights drawing in here in the UK, it's getting colder so this mix will hopefully warm you up! Some spicy tracks in this mix, I've tried to squeeze lots in with a mix of progressive, techno & house. Some real bangers in here, enjoy! 1. Forty Cats - Props (Original Mix) 2. Ezequiel Arias - Arcadia (Ori…

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Episode 12: Tranquillity Mix 1:31:18

3y ago1:31:18

1:31:18

Something a little deeper this month, some really cool tracks including a few from the Pippi Ciez album. Check out his album called Multiple Of Three which is out now on All Day I Dream 1. Ranta - Vilaya (Original Mix) 2. Lucefora - Magical Journey (Original Mix) 3. Lucefora - Ātman (Original Mix) 4. MSM.DE94, Kotonova - Nightfields (Original Mix) …

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Episode 11: Last Days Of Summer Mix 1:30:50

3y ago1:30:50

1:30:50

1. PressStartButton - Beni (Original Mix) 2. Ilias Katelanos - Absence (Original Mix) 3. Nursultan Kun - Luvway (Erich Von Kollar Remix) 4. Pole Folder - Mara (GMJ & Matter Main Mix) 5. Lavonz - Stay With Me Tonight (Emi CA Remix) 6. Rick Pier O'Neil, Stiven Rivic, Michael & Levan - The Sinner (Trilucid Remix) 7. Moussa Clarke, Sian Evans - Vis…

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Episode 10: Nightfall Mix 1:10:00

3y ago1:10:00

1:10:00

Picture yourself back at a festival, sunny evening, cold beverage in hand, with friends & stomping to some twisted techy beats as the nightfalls. Inspired from recent visits to festivals and raves in the woods, check out these peak time goodies. Enjoy the mix :) 1. Franky Wah, AETHO - Should Have Seen It Coming feat. AETHO (Extended Mix) 2. Sultan …

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Episode 9: Freedom Mix 1:18:20

3y ago1:18:20

1:18:20

Shorter mix than the last few. However, no messing about going straight in with some heavy hitters and big baselines. Bringing you back down to earth at the end with a couple of houses numbers! Enjoy :) 1. Martin Landsky - I'm a Bitch (Basement Dub) 2. Alexey Union, Cherry (UA) - Zodiac (Dub Mix) 3. Space Food - System (Original Mix) 4. Kinky - Sou…

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Devolved psychiatries - Professor Rab Houston 28:59

3y ago28:59

28:59

Devolved psychiatries - Professor Rab Houston by Professor Rab HoustonBy Professor Rab Houston

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Episode 8: Summer Vibes 2:52:38

3y ago2:52:38

2:52:38

Thank you for downloading/ playing previous episodes. Another extended mix here for you which I really enjoy doing! The first half are some cool early grooves moving into some peak time progressive and melodic techno. Starting from 109bpm working my way through to 126bpm. Hope you enjoy it and to keep up to date by following me on insta @stephengli…

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Episode 7: Let Me Take You On A Journey Mix 1:57:48

3+ y ago1:57:48

1:57:48

Slightly longer mix than normal, I could have carried on even longer to be honest. Some great tracks here, nice deep proggy emotive vibes to start with, into some housey/ darker tech vibes, crawling back to some big fluffy prog and finishing with some cooler housey sounds. A proper journey! Hope you like it :) 1. Mariano Montori - Concept (VieL Rem…

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Professor John Crichton 47:29

4+ y ago47:29

47:29

Prof John Crichton - Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland.What is a forensic psychiatrist? Far from the media stereotypes forensic psychiatrists are not so different to other doctors but working at the most extremes of human experience. Any one of us may have a mental health problem. Very rare…

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Prisoners or Patients? Criminal Insanity in Victorian Scotland 48:28

5y ago48:28

48:28

This is a 50 minute audio file of a talk I delivered at the National Records of Scotland on 7 August 2019, in connection with my hugely successful exhibition that they kindly hosted: ‘Prisoners or Patients? Criminal Insanity in Victorian Scotland’. It explains the records I used and the development of the criminal justice system’s attempts to deal …

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Professor Rory O'Connor 41:08

5+ y ago41:08

41:08

Professor Rory O’Connor, Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, University of GlasgowSuicide and self-harm are major public health concerns with complex aetiologies which encompass a multifaceted array of risk and protective factors. There is growing recognition that we need to move beyond psychiatric categories to further our understanding of the…

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Chris Williams 55:03

5+ y ago55:03

55:03

In this podcast Professor Chris Williams, a researcher and teacher in the area of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) introduces CBT as a self-help form of therapy. It gives people the tools help themselves. Although correctly described as a form of psychotherapy, another way of conceptualising CBT is as a form of adult learning. That perspective c…

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Michael Brown 51:56

5+ y ago51:56

51:56

Chief Inspector Michael Brown: ‘Police, policing, and mental health in the UK’.Police services all over the world are essential as a de facto mental health service, especially around crisis care. All have struggled with untoward incidents involving the use of force, or deaths following police contact, which have framed – perhaps distorted - discuss…

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Dr Fionnuala Williams 48:54

6y ago48:54

48:54

People with learning disability were understood and treated very differently in the past from the present. While attempts were always made to help them, this was against a background of pessimism about their prospects. Much progress has been made in the past half century in positive attitudes towards this group, with closures of the large instituti…

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Dr Ruth Allen 39:45

6+ y ago39:45

39:45

Social workers and care in the communitySocial workers have a crucial part to play in improving mental health services and mental health outcomes for citizens. They bring a distinctive social and rights-based perspective to their work. Their advanced relationship-based skills, and their focus on personalisation and recovery, can support people to m…

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof. Chris Frith 25:55

6+ y ago25:55

25:55

In the podcast I talk about my research on the biological basis of schizophrenia using brain imaging and my attempts to understand symptoms such as hallucinations in terms of brain based cognitive processes. I describe what schizophrenia is like from the point of view of clinicians and from the point of view of patients. I suggest that the experien…

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof. Uta Frith 25:01

6+ y ago25:01

25:01

Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder with a prevalence of about one in 100 births. Although we assume that this disorder has always been with us, and Rab Houston and I identified a case from the 18th century, it was not given a label until the 1940s. Hans Asperger, a Viennese pediatrician, and Leo Kanner, an American child psychiatrist, both us…

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof Douglas Blackwood 33:04

6+ y ago33:04

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Symptoms of schizophrenia develop in more than 1:200 people, in all cultures, while 2- 4% of the population may experience major depression at some time in their life. Mild and moderate depression are, of course, much more common. Sometimes illnesses run in families and show higher concordance among identical compared to non-identical twins suggest…

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof Nancy A. Pachana 28:44

6+ y ago28:44

28:44

People in both the developed and the developing world are living longer, and in better health, than in any prior point in history. However, mental health professionals, especially psychologists, need to prepare for this upcoming increase in older persons – whom they will encounter in all areas of practice. There is an urgent need for practitioners …

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Dr Calum Munro 36:54

6+ y ago36:54

36:54

Eating Disorders are understandable as a way of coping with uncomfortable feelings. A temporary sense of reward or emotional detachment can occur due to maladaptive eating. The disorders are driven by fears about being unacceptable. Beliefs about people with eating disorders being selfish or overly concerned about beauty, still seem to arise. In re…

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof. Danny Smith 37:16

6+ y ago37:16

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Bipolar disorder is a complex psychiatric disorder of mood and behaviour that has been recognised for thousands of years. It probably affects about 1 in 50 individuals worldwide and is characterised by episodes of depression alternating with episodes of mania. In this podcast we discuss the presentation, diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder.…

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof. Alex Baldacchino 53:55

6+ y ago53:55

53:55

In this podcast, Professor Rab Houston speaks to Alexander Baldacchino, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Addictions, University of St Andrews and Clinical Lead and Consultant in Addiction Psychiatry with NHS Fife. This podcast will hopefully provide the right incentive for listeners to understand better the finer details pertinent to the topic…

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Mental Health Nursing, Gerry Hastie 32:39

6+ y ago32:39

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Gerry Hastie trained between 1993-96, when nurse training programmes were changing from being delivered by the Local Health Authority to Higher Education. He has always been a mental health nurse and has worked in care home settings, long term in-patient care settings, acute admissions, addictions and the community.In this podcast he illustrates hi…

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Dr Miles Mack RCGP 37:20

6+ y ago37:20

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In the first podcast of our new series, Professor Rab Houston is in conversation with Dr Miles Mack, Past chair of RCGP Scotland and a GP partner in Dingwall, Scotland. General Practice is the backbone of the British NHS and GPs provide a vital role in providing medical health care to patients registered to their practices. They provide continuity …

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Colonial Psychiatry 4 - How and why? Practising psychiatry in colonial Africa 12:32

6+ y ago12:32

12:32

I argued in the last podcast that medical theories in colonial Africa had a strong racial element to them, which buttressed colonialism. In this final podcast of my mini-series I’m going to explore how these ideas related to the actual practice of psychiatry in colonial Africa. I broaden my perspective to include not only Malawi, but also Natal and…

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Colonial Psychiatry 3 - How and why?: Ethno-psychiatry and racism 10:57

6+ y ago10:57

10:57

If you have listened to my series of podcasts on the history of psychiatry in Britain and Ireland you will know that psychiatric relationships are at least partly about power and about the assumptions medical practitioners made concerning those they treated. In the old world, class and sex were important differentiators. In a colonial setting there…

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Colonial Psychiatry 2 - Colonial psychiatry over time and space 18:19

6+ y ago18:19

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At the end of the last podcast I explained what was special about colonial psychiatry from the 1880s to the 1960s, compared with mental medicine in the United Kingdom. 1) Continuing medical pluralism2) Limited institutionalization of patients and professionalization of services3) Persistently low resources4) Attempts to introduce European-style pra…

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Colonial Psychiatry 1 - What and where?: colonial psychiatry’s origins and characteristics 12:19

6+ y ago12:19

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I have been asked by the Scotland Malawi Mental Health Project to prepare a short series of podcasts to act as a component of the training programme for psychiatrists at the College of Medicine in Malawi. Like much of the less developed world, Malawi has limited resources for specialist psychiatric care: the ratio of psychiatrists per head of popul…

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22 Shell Shock 9:25

6+ y ago9:25

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We are now acutely aware of the effect which viewing or participating in traumatic events can have on people. This last ‘document’ (actually a set of film clips) is about such outcomes. It has no words by the mentally troubled, but it does have the other components that lay and professional alike use to identify mental state: body language, appeara…

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Extract 21.1 - Living With Madness 2: An Insane Murderer 4:06

6+ y ago4:06

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This extract accompanies Podcast 21 - Living With Madness 2: An Insane MurdererIMAGE: Wellcome Library, London, L0040923. John Totterdale throwing his wife down stairs. Copperplate, 18th Century. From: The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches ... Containing ... narratives ... of the various executions and oth…

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21 - Living With Madness 2: An Insane Murderer 9:37

6+ y ago9:37

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We encountered a coroner’s inquest a few weeks back, presiding over the tragic suicide of an anonymous man. An inquest could deliver a verdict on the cause of death and, if they named a third party, their verdict could serve as an indictment at an assize court. The Old Bailey was the assize for the City of London. This document illustrates how insa…

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Extract 20.1 - Living with madness 1: an apprentice in danger, 1738 2:03

6+ y ago2:03

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This extract accompanies Podcast 20 - Living with madness 1: an apprentice in danger, 1738IMAGE: ‘Fashion Before Ease, or A Good Constitution Sacrificed for a Fantastic Form', pub. by Hannah Humphrey, 1793. Credit: George Moutard Woodward / Bridgeman Art Library / Universal Images Group, Rights Managed / For Education Use OnlyNOTE: The young man in…

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20. Living with madness 1: an apprentice in danger, 1738 9:22

6+ y ago9:22

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Most people with mental disorders are more of a liability to themselves than to others. The same cannot be said of this podcast and the next one, where the threat or reality of physical harm at the hands of a mad person seems to have been very real. Early modern apprentices were different from modern ones because they lived as well as worked with t…

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Extract 19.1 - Fighting back. A ballad about William Frederick Windham, 1862 4:17

7y ago4:17

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This extract accompanies Podcast 19 - Fighting back. A ballad about William Frederick Windham, 1862.IMAGE: Broadsheet Ballad: ‘Poor Windham’. Bodleian Library, Oxford. Harding B 11(3115). SOURCE: Bodleian Library, Oxford. Harding B 11(3115). Voice Credit: Oli SavageBy Professor Rab Houston

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19. Fighting back. A ballad about William Frederick Windham, 1862 14:08

7y ago14:08

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This series is entitled ‘the voice of the mad’, but sometimes mentally disordered people needed advocates to speak up for them. Normally that would mean a family member or someone in authority such as a local clergyman or Justice of the Peace. You might remember the young Derbyshire woman, Alice Hill, from an earlier podcast. But sometimes those al…

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