Best Islington Podcasts (2024)

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Fullness in Christ - Colossians 1:1-14

3d ago

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Passage: Colossians 1:1-14 Preacher: Nigel BeynonBy Nigel Beynon

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The British Board of Film Classification – Who watches the watchers? 46:50

6h ago46:50

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Sex! Violence! Censorship! These days the British Board of Film Classification rarely makes headlines but it was on the cultural frontlines throughout the 20 th century, from Herbert Asquith and the dawn of British cinema to Mary Whitehouse and “video nasties”. Through the turbulent life of one institution, Ian takes Dorian through a century of mor…

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One Another - Encourage one another - 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

12d ago

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Passage: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28 Preacher: Nigel BeynonBy Nigel Beynon

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Emmanuel Macron – The centrist cannot hold 49:36

14d ago49:36

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Emmanuel Macron is one of the most fascinating and infuriating figures in 21st century politics. Seven years ago, the philosopher-statesman shredded France’s status quo by seizing the presidency at the helm of a brand new centrist party. But his achievements, at home and abroad, have not lived up to his grand visions and his summer election gamble …

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One Another - Forgive one another - Matthew 18:21-35

19d ago

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Passage: Matthew 18:21-35 Preacher: Nigel BeynonBy Nigel Beynon

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One Another - Humility - Philippians 2:1-11

26d ago

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Passage: Philippians 2:1-11 Preacher: Nigel BeynonBy Nigel Beynon

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When the darkness will not lift - Psalm 88

1M ago

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Passage: Psalm 88 Preacher: Madhush MathewsBy Madhush Mathews

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Gaslighting – No, you’re not imagining it 37:16

1M ago37:16

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Over the past eight years, the word “gaslighting” has transformed from an obscure term in psychiatric literature into a ubiquitous buzzword to describe the kind of deceit that makes you feel like you’re losing your mind. But are we using it correctly? What explains its sudden popularity? And is it entirely wise to import a psychological term into t…

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Kindness changes the world - Ruth 4

2M ago

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Passage: Ruth 4 Preacher: Paul WilliamsBy Paul Williams

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Kindness changes the world - Ruth 3

2M ago

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Passage: Ruth 3 Preacher: Paul WilliamsBy Paul Williams

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The Battle of Cable Street 40:03

2M ago40:03

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The Battle of Cable Street on 4 October 1936 has been described as “the greatest anti-fascist victory on British soil”. It is certainly the most mythologised, most recently inspiring massive anti-fascist protests in British cities. But what actually happened that day? Who exactly was doing the battling? And did this display of working-class solidar…

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Kindness changes the world - Ruth 2

2M ago

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Passage: Ruth 2 Preacher: Paul WilliamsBy Paul Williams

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Bonus edition: Far-Right Riots 47:19

2M ago47:19

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Racist violence has inflamed several British cities this past week. Should we call the events protests, riots or pogroms? Are the participants actual fascists or ordinary citizens with “legitimate concerns”? And how did the fiction of “two-tier policing” go from extremists to broadcasters in a couple of days? Ian and Dorian analyse how the language…

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Kindness changes the world - Ruth 1

2M ago

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Passage: Ruth 1 Preacher: Paul WilliamsBy Paul Williams

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Wise Weak - Proverbs 30:24-33

2M ago

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Passage: Proverbs 24-33 Preacher: Tchern Lenn PermalinkBy Tchern Lenn

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Origin Story Post-Election Special – Live in Islington 1:59:08

3M ago1:59:08

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Couldn’t make it to the Origin Story live show in London on Monday 15 July? Don’t worry, we’ve got audio for you. Listen up as Dorian and Ian take one last wallow in the glory of Election Night ’24… think about what might be in store for some of our favourite bad losers… see how the events of the campaign relate to the subjects of our past series… …

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Mark 10:32-45

3M ago

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Passage: Mark 10:32-45 Preacher: Nigel Beynon PermalinkBy Nigel Beynon

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Mark 10:17-31

3M ago

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Passage: Mark 10:17-31 Preacher: Jeremy Hobson PermalinkBy Jeremy Hobson

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The Rushdie Affair – Blasphemous Rumours 1:22:25

3M ago1:22:25

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The final episode of season five covers the Rushdie Affair. On 14 February 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie made The Satanic Verses the most famous novel in the world — for all the wrong reasons. The controversy had far-reaching implications for free speech, international relations and the political identity of British Mu…

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Pursue Unity - 1 Corinthians 16:1-24

3M ago

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Passage: 1 Corinthians 16:1-24 Preacher: Madhush Mathews PermalinkBy Madhush Mathews

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Keir Starmer – PM Dawn 1:22:23

3M ago1:22:23

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The season five finale coincides with the general election, so we’ve decided to get very topical indeed with the story of Labour leader and likely prime minister Keir Starmer. To his admirers, he’s the master strategist who took Labour from doom to Downing Street in a single term. To his foes, he’s a ruthless liar who will stop at nothing to crush …

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Pursue Unity - 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

3M ago

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Passage: 1 Corinthians 15:35-58 Preacher: Madhush Mathews PermalinkBy Madhush Mathews

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Anti-vaxxers – Herd impunity 1:22:08

4M ago1:22:08

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This episode tells the tale of the anti-vaxxers. The word has only been around since 2001 but inoculation has inspired opposition for as long as it has existed in the West. Dorian and Ian chart the life of vaccines and their opponents from the fight against smallpox in the eighteenth century to the vaccine scandals of the post-war decades. Find out…

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#35 KATE BRADBURY talks about her book ONE GARDEN AGAINST THE WORLD 1:01:07

4M ago1:01:07

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In this episode sponsored by Genus Garden Wear, Joff talks to Kate Bradbury about her new book ONE GARDEN AGAINST THE WORLD - in search of hope in a changing climate from Bloomsbury wildlife Kate is an award-winning writer specialising in wildlife gardening and the author of The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Wildlife Gardening for Everyone and Everything…

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Pursue Unity - 1 Corinthians 15:1-34

4M ago

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Passage: 1 Corinthians 15:1-34 Preacher: Madhush Mathews PermalinkBy Madhush Mathews

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Genocide – Part Two – The search for justice 1:09:27

4M ago1:09:27

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The war in Gaza has led to accusations of genocide but that word operates on two levels. It’s both a strict legal term that has to be adjudicated by the International Criminal Court and an informal expression of moral outrage. The definition has been contested ever since the word was invented by the lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, in the furnace of …

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Pursue Unity - 1 Corinthians 14:26-40

4M ago

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Passage: 1 Corinthians 14:26-40 Preacher: Madhush Mathews PermalinkBy Madhush Mathews

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Genocide – Part One – The ultimate crime 1:02:21

4M ago1:02:21

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The war in Gaza has led to accusations of genocide but that word operates on two levels. It’s both a strict legal term that has to be adjudicated by the International Criminal Court and an informal expression of moral outrage. The definition has been contested ever since the word was invented by the lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, in the furnace of …

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John Stuart Mill & Harriet Taylor Mill – Part Two – Love, bravery and feminism 1:18:07

4M ago1:18:07

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Back for season five, Origin Story continues to explore the misunderstood ideas and people that shape our politics today. With Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey. In this two-parter Ian gets seriously into the research by mining his own book for episode ideas and comes up smiling with this tale of love, bravery and feminism. John Stuart Mill and Harriet T…

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Pursue Unity - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

4M ago

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Passage: 1 Corinthians 13:-1-13 Preacher: Jeremy Hobson PermalinkBy Jeremy Hobson

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John Stuart Mill & Harriet Taylor Mill – Part One – Liberalism's original power couple 58:19

5M ago58:19

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Back for season five, Origin Story continues to explore the misunderstood ideas and people that shape our politics today. With Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey. In this two-parter Ian gets seriously into the research by mining his own book for episode ideas and comes up smiling with this tale of love, bravery and feminism. John Stuart Mill and Harriet T…

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Pursue Unity - 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

5M ago

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Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:1-31 Preacher: Madhush Mathews PermalinkBy Madhush Mathews

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George Orwell Part 2 – From Broadcasting House to Airstrip One 55:45

5M ago55:45

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Back for season five, Origin Story continues to explore the misunderstood ideas and people that shape our politics today. With Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey. In part two of George Orwell, Dorian picks up the story in 1941, with Orwell taking a job at the BBC. The war grinds on, and so does George, until his anti-Stalinist fairy tale Animal Farm chang…

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George Orwell Part 1 – From Eton to Barcelona 1:07:12

5M ago1:07:12

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Back for season five, Origin Story continues to explore the misunderstood ideas and people that shape our politics today. With Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey. In this opening two-parter Dorian bows to the inevitable and tells the story of the subject of his book, The Ministry of Truth. When George Orwell died on 21 January 1950, at the age of 46, the …

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Pursue Unity - 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

5M ago

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Passage: 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 Preacher: Madhush Mathews PermalinkBy Madhush Mathews

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Clapton: Mambow 26:42

5M ago26:42

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We finally made it to Mambow! This low key Clapton eatery may look unassuming from the outside, but step through the door and you are met with a smiling host, the smell of all the Malaysian goodies they are cooking up in the open kitchen, and pounding naughties techno. This restaurant serves Malaysian small plates that are tasty and interesting. We…

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Marylebone: St. JOHN 15:39

5M ago15:39

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London is home to a number of restaurants institutions, and St. JOHN is certainly one of them. Considered to be one of the biggest influences on the modern London food scene of the last 25 years, we felt a little embarrassed that we had not been yet. Fortunately that is now changed. Famed for its nose-to-tail approach with meat, wine tablecloths, a…

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Pursue Unity - 1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1

6M ago

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Passage: 1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1 Preacher: Jeremy Hobson PermalinkBy Jeremy Hobson

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Kent: Wineries 24:43

6M ago24:43

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This week's, somewhat belated, episode talks about our trip down to Kent and to 3 wineries in a single day! Our day trip from London consisted or a morning train, quite a few cabs, wines at Woodchurch Vineyard, Chapel Down Vineyard & Balfour Vineyard, and then a late afternoon train back to London. If you love wine, particularly the sparkling varie…

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10 Downing Street – The makeshift mansion 37:46

6M ago37:46

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We’ve covered ideas, phrases, people and historical events. Now Origin Story profiles its first building: Number 10 Downing Street. Following Dorian’s bonus episode about the birth of end of the world fiction, based on his new book Everything Must Go, Ian goes deep on a topic from his bestselling book How Westminster Works and Why It Doesn’t. He ex…

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North & East London: Date spots 21:28

6M ago21:28

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The London dating scene is hard. There are lots of people to choose from, and lots of places to go on those early dates. In this episode we aim to take some of the pain out of choosing date locations. We talk through a selection of places that we think would be great if you are looking for chilled drinks, nice cocktails, relaxed food that doesn't b…

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The Illuminati – Top of the Plots 42:36

6M ago42:36

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• Join Ian and Dorian for Origin Story Live in London on Tue 7 May. They’ll be looking at how the Conservative Party got addicted to conspiracy theory, and more. This time: The Illuminati were a group of Enlightenment idealists who existed for just a few years in 1780s Bavaria. Or were they? The Illuminati have since been blamed for everything from…

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Pursue Unity - 1 Corinthians 9:1-27

6M ago

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Passage: 1 Corinthians 9:1-27 Preacher: Jeremy Hobson PermalinkBy Jeremy Hobson

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Apocalypse How? Dorian on the birth of end of the world fiction 38:03

6M ago38:03

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For 1800 years, Western conceptions of the end of the world were dominated by the Book of Revelation: Armageddon, the Millennium, Judgement Day. But in 1816, political upheaval, Enlightenment science and the Romantic imagination converged to give birth to a radical idea: the end of the world without God. When Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Shel…

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Islington: Tofu Vegan 17:47

6M ago17:47

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This week we talk through a recent meal at Tofu Vegan, a restaurant located in both Islington and in Spitalfields, that does a fantastic array of totally Vegan Chinese dishes. From mouth watering dumplings, to crispy tofu, to sweet and crispy fried mushrooms, this spot has you covered. We also talk about some of the places we think are great for ea…

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Pursue Unity - 1 Corinthians 8:1-13

6M ago

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Passage: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Preacher: Jeremy Hobson PermalinkBy Jeremy Hobson

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Borough: Kolae 21:56

6M ago21:56

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After the restaurant we initially planned to review flooded, we changed plans and headed to Kolae. This Thai restaurant serves dishes from the Southern provinces, and everything we tried was stunning. It is a sister restaurant to Som Saa, another top notch Thai establishment, so we weren't surprised. For details on everything we discuss in this epi…

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Peckham: Kokum 24:03

7M ago24:03

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We are back from our holiday and straight back into exploring what London's food and drink scene has to offer. This week we went to Peckham to eat at Kokum, a new Indian restaurant that has been on our radar for a while. This place serves fantastic food, delivering classic dishes as well as more modern and inventive options. We loved it! We also ta…