Best City On A Hill Gaming Podcasts (2024)

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A Throne of Leaves: A Kingmaker P2E Actual Play - Episode 8 - "Exasperated Ryan Sigh" 48:51

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This time... On City On A Hill... Welcome to a Throne of Leaves, a Kingmaker Pathfinder 2e Campaign Actual Play from City On A Hill. The party is shorthanded but they have levelled up and decide to take on a big fight anyway! How will it go? Stay tuned! Cameron - https://twitter.com/humarwhitill - https://twitter.com/CamPlusDeanna - https://twitter…

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Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, "The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century" (NYU Press, 2019/22) 1:28:14

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Today I talked to James Montgomery, one of the translators of The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, two volumes (NYU Press, 2019 and 2022). About the book: Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects …

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Ishita Tiwary, "Video Culture in India: The Analog Era" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:03:48

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Ishita Tiwary’s book Video Culture in India: The Analog Era (Oxford UP, 2024) is an unprecedented attempt in foregrounding the diverse media history of the analog video era in India. It reconstructs the evolution of analog video culture through interdisciplinary approaches, including oral histories, archival resources, and discarded tapes. At the s…

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John Thomas Maier, "The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction" (Routledge, 2024) 49:32

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John T. Maier's The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction (Routledge Press, 2024) defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how people with addictions should be treated. The author argues that, in addition to physical and intellectual disabilities, there are volitional disabilities - disabilities of the will - and that addiction is…

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Simon Heffer, "Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars" (Penguin, 2024) 1:02:33

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Simon Heffer's book Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars (Penguin, 2024) is an astonishingly ambitious overview of the political, social and cultural history of the country from 1919 to 1939. It explores and explains the politics of the period, and puts such moments of national turmoil as the General Strike of 1926 and the Abdication Crisis of 1…

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Faith, Business, and the Nature of Desire: Luke Burgis on René Girard and Mimetic Desire 1:05:49

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Why do we want what we want? Philosopher, theologian, and literary critic René Girard posits that we draw our desires largely from the people around us, a fact which has implications for everything from how we should plan our careers to the direction of foreign policy. Following a career spanning business, religious discernment, and academia, Luke …

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Frederick Klaits et al., "Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality" (Bloomsbury, 2022) 59:04

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In Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality (Bloomsbury, 2022), Frederick Klaits compares how members of one majority white and two African American churches in Buffalo, New York receive knowledge from God about their own and others' life circumstances. In the Pentecostal Christian faith, believers say that they acquire div…

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Saqib Khan, "Tribe-Class Linkages: The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura" (Routledge, 2024) 34:17

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Tribe-Class Linkages: The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura (Routledge, 2023) is a historical study of the development of agrarian class relations among the tribal population in Tripura. Tracing the evolution of Tripura and its agrarian relations from monarchy in the nineteenth century to democracy in the twentieth century, t…

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Peter Hill, "Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East" (Oneworld Academic, 2024) 39:25

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Today I talked to Peter Hill about his new book Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East (Oneworld Academic, 2024). In 1813, high in the Lebanese mountains, a thirteen-year-old boy watches a solar eclipse. Will it foretell a war, a plague, the death of a prince? Mikha’il Mishaqa’s lifelong search for truth star…

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American Muslim Women on Campus 25:12

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A conversation with award-winning academic Dr. Shabana Mir discussing her book Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity (UNC Press, 2016) Interviewer: Sofia Rehman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/ne…

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Life in a New Language, Part 3: African Migrants 31:45

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This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxford University Press. Life in a New Language examines the language learning and settlement experiences of 130 migrants to Australia from 34 different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin Americ…

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Warrant Officer Kyle Johnson explains how the Defence Force recovered and detonated an unexploded WWII ordnance at Stokes Hill Wharf after the bomb was found by workers yesterday afternoon 7:00

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Mum Kali Sachs, Pop David Sachs and 7-year-old Apryl Mitchell, who’s got Pfeiffer Syndrome say she’s heading to Melbourne in September for major surgery to improve her quality of life and they’re hoping ... 11:03

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Former Art Teacher at Casuarina Senior College Robin Yakinthou, who delivered the Cyclone Tracy twisted steel sculpture says it would be great to incorporate it in the Bundilla Beach monument 9:37

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Member for Barkly Steve Edgington says the sudden closure of the Westpac bank in Tennant Creek left residents in the lurch forcing them to do online banking or change banks, with the company now being ... 7:51

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Assistant Commissioner Mathew Hollamby says the death of a man in Yarrawonga is being treated as suspicious after the discovery of a body at an industrial facility yesterday, with the Major Crime and Crash ... 9:58

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City of Darwin Councillor Mick Palmer says the Council is forging ahead with its kinetic structure at Bundilla Beach for the 50th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy and is supporting a frangipani memorial at ... 9:55

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Member for Lingari Marion Scrymgour says she’s outraged by allegations of corruption levelled against her by Senator Lidia Thorpe relating to the misuse of COVID stimulus grants and is pursuing legal action ... 12:14

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AMA NT President Dr Robert Parker has welcomed the Federal Government’s plan to restrict the sales of vapes to pharmacies with plain-packaging and menthol or tobacco flavouring saying the industry is largely ... 10:27

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Today’s Primary Races in Colorado and New York, The Assault at a Los Angeles Synagogue, and the Release of Julian Assange From a U.K. Prison 43:05

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Andrew, Carl, and Tom discuss recent polls in Georgia and today’s primary races in Colorado where Lauren Boebert is favored to win and in New York where Jamaal Bowman faces a tough challenge. They also talk about the reaction to this weekend’s assault outside a Los Angeles synagogue, the change of leadership at the Washington Post, and the release …

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Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, "Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2024) 45:08

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In Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2024), Jerry Rafiki Jenkins examines four types of human monsters that frequently appear in Black American horror fiction--the monsters of White rage, respectability, not-ness, and serial killing. Arguing that such monsters represent specific ideologies of Amer…

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Donald Stoker, "Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 46:54

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In our interview, I spoke with Donald Stoker about the changes in American grand strategy over the past 250 years and the major themes from his new book: Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present (Cambridge UP, 2024). Across the full span of the nation’s history, Stoker challenges our understanding of the purpos…

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Thomas Hendriks, "Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession" (Duke UP, 2021) 1:06:34

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In this episode we are joined by Thomas Hendriks, an anthropologist studying capitalism and resource extraction in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hendriks' work is amongst the most innovative in the anthropological study of capitalism, drawing upon queer theory, feminist ethnography, and phenomenology to make sense of cutting down large trees in…

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Graham McNeill, "Horus Heresy - False Gods" (Games Workshop, 2014) 31:39

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For years, fans have been clamoring for novels about the Horus Heresy - the bloody civil war that set Space Marine against Space Marine and nearly spelled the end of mankind at the hands of the traitor Horus. False Gods takes the epic story onwards as Horus struggles to keep his armies in line and the seeds of his downfall are sown. Join us as we s…

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Shuchi Kapila, "Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024) 57:18

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Shuchi Kapila, Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024) Dr. Shuchi Kapila, Professor of English at Grinnell College, has a new book that explores the India/Pakistan Partition in 1947 through the lens of memory, generational conversation and inheritance. Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to…

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Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston, "The Political Development of American Debt Relief" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 58:27

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A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizing for debt relief. Throughout the nineteenth century, indebted citizens demanded government protection from their financial burdens, challenging readings of the Constitution that exalted property right…

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Edward A. Alpers and Thomas F. McDow, "A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles" (Duke UP, 2024) 1:20:51

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A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2024) is a guide for college and high school educators who are teaching Indian Ocean histories for the first time or who want to reinvigorate their courses. It can also serve those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi as well as those who want…

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Molly Giles, "Life Span" (WTAW Press, 2024) 24:33

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Molly Giles remembers when her father came back after WWII in 1945. Her memoir, Life Span (WTAW Press, 2024) opens when she is three years old, sitting in the front seat of a moving van as her father drives from San Francisco to their new home in Sausalito. Well-known editor and author of four story-collections and two novels, Giles referenced the …

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Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, "Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics" (U Arizona Press, 2024) 52:31

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Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics (U Arizona Press, 2024) by Dr. Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo offers new understandings of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives by looking at the genre’s growth in stories by and for young BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. Through a careful examination of the genre, Dr. Quintana-Vallejo analyses …

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Dual international athlete and NT sportswoman Bo de la Cruz recounts the moment she learnt she was being inducted into the Touch Football Australia Hall of Fame and says she’s the only Territorian to achieve ... 14:45

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FULL INTERVIEW- Ryan Silverfield with J&J on recruiting and more 23:18

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FULL INTERVIEW- Ryan Silverfield with J&J on recruiting and moreBy Audacy

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Bruce Dale reflects on the Priscilla Queen of the Desert which is celebrating its 30th anniversary saying it was an influential film showing the LGBTIQ+ community in a different light and the challenges ... 11:51

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NT Cricket CEO Gavin Dovey has announced that nine teams, up from six last year, are taking part in the T20 series, the marquee event in the NT, which is the only place where cricket is played year-round ... 9:01

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Member for Solomon Luke Gosling says has today released a Lowy Institute Analysis about the logic of AUKUS highlighting the importance of investment in nuclear-powered submarines and Northern Australia ... 17:18

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NT Electoral Commissioner Kirsten Kelly says Territorians should now enroll to vote and update their details ahead of the August election, with people to be informed of any changes to electoral boundaries ... 9:39

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Acting Superintendent Brendan Lindner says the NT’s road toll now stands at 30 so far this year and with 90 per cent of fatalities linked to alcohol and drugs, he believes addictions need to be addressed ... 10:15

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Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro says she’s not bothered about the latest polling results which have Labor narrowly ahead of the CLP on the primary vote and is staying focused on presenting the CLP’s ... 12:43

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Preparation Strategies for the Presidential Debate, the Primary Race Between New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman and George Latimer, and the Exchange Between Kasie Hunt and Trump Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt ... 43:04

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Andrew, Carl, and Tom discuss the candidates’ preparation strategies for this Thursday’s presidential debate and this morning’s controversial exchange between CNN host Kasie Hunt and Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt: Hunt cut off Leavitt’s camera when she brought up past statements by Dana Bash and Jake Tapper about Donald Trump.They al…

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Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024) 1:01:58

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A probing examination of the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in science and engineering that helps us better understand today's cultures of prediction. The ability to make reliable predictions based on robust and replicable methods is a defining feature of the scientific endeavor, allowing engineers to determine whether a building …

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Post-Positivism Revisited: A Discussion with Salman Sayyid 45:04

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This episode is the first of three special episodes in this season of Radio ReOrient in which we look back on the first principles of Critical Muslim Studies. In this episode, Hizer Mir talks to Salman Sayyid about post-positivism - what it means, what it offers, and how it relates to the project of decolonising. The discussion that we kick off her…

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Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller, "How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor" (Oxford UP, 2019) 1:05:29

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In How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor (Oxford UP, 2019), Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? For that matter, how do we li…

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Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 56:51

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Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by globalised elites and mass migration. Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Maki…

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Postscript: Unpacking the 2024 U.S. Presidential Debate, Conventions, and Polling 45:03

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The first presidential debate will be held on June 27th, 2024 and the Republicans are heading to Milwaukee (a city Donald Trump recently called “horrible” and crime-ridden). Lilly Goren and Susan Liebell had a wide ranging discussion including analysis of the upcoming debate, summer conventions, party platforms, and polling with three experts. Dr. …

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After Hours 22:26

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“Kafkaesque” is the word usually used to describe After Hours, Martin Scorsese’s 1985 comedy—a fair point, since there’s a scene in the film that dramatizes Kafka’s “Before the Law.” But the writer whose imagination this film really taps is Lewis Carroll: as in Alice in Wonderland, a naïve but likable young person chases a white rabbit to a differe…

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Living with Digital Surveillance in China 31:10

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How do Chinese citizens make sense of digital surveillance and live with it? What narratives do they come up with to deal with the daily and all-encompassing reality of life in China? What mental tactics do they apply to dissociate themselves from surveillance? Ariane Ollier-Malaterre explores these questions in her book Living with Digital Surveil…

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Anna Abraham, "The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths" (MIT Press, 2024) 1:09:54

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A nuanced, science-based understanding of the creative mind that dispels the pervasive myths we hold about the human brain—but also uncovers the truth at their cores. What is the relationship between creativity and madness? Creativity and intelligence? Do psychedelics truly enhance creativity? How should we understand the left and right hemispheres…

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Trish Kahle on the Labor History of Energy Systems 1:01:21

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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Trish Kahle, Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University-Qatar, about Kahle's new project, "Power Up: A Social History of American Electricity," which focuses especially on the labor history of both constructing and maintaining the electricity grid. They also talk about Kahle's forthcoming boo…

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A Drummer's Tale 41:13

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Charles Hayward is one of the most propulsive, resourceful and generative rock-plus drummers of the past half-century. An influential percussionist, keyboardist, songwriter, singer of songs, and forward thinker through sound, Charles spoke with Phantom Power about a 40thanniversary touring with a partly reformed and enlarged This Heat as This Is No…

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A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America 48:12

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The first podcast in this series was inspired by a documentary film made in 2014 called “Black Analysts Speak” as well as some of the findings in the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis published in 2023. It also considered the reasons why racism has persisted so long in America including perspectives from a psychoanalyt…

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Ann Powers, "Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell" (Dey Street Books, 2024) 51:46

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For decades, Joni Mitchell's life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has inspired countless musicians--from peers like James Taylor, to inheritors like Prince and Brandi Carlile--and authors, who have dissected her music and her life in their writing. At the same time, Mitchell has al…

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