Best Joe Hodgson Podcasts (2024)

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Anne Michaels & Stephen Dillane: Held 1:02:44

2h ago1:02:44

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Held is Anne Michaels’ long-awaited new novel – following on from the 1996 classic Fugitive Pieces and 2009’s The Winter Vault – exploring, in the words of Margaret Atwood, ‘war and its damages, passed through generations over a century’. Michaels shared an extended reading from Held with actor Stephen Dillane, who played Jakob Beer in the 2007 fil…

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Dean Atta & Michael Rosen: Person Unlimited 45:19

6d ago45:19

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Choirboy, drag act, grandson, mentor, poet, lover, activist, performer: Dean Atta has played many roles in his life. In his explosive, candid and courageous memoir Person Unlimited (Canongate) he describes a life lived in defiance of categories. Benjamin Zephaniah wrote of Atta’s work as being ‘As honest as truth itself. He follows no trend; he see…

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Episode 50 - Joe Elliott (Fretboard Biology, M.I, David Sanborn) 1:06:13

7d ago1:06:13

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Stoked to announce that my guest on episode 50 is none other than composer/educator/guitarist - Joe Elliott. Most of you may know of Joe because of his Fretboard Biology videos and website but he has also performed with some of the best musicians in the world and has been an active music educator for decades of his life. Formally with the Musicians…

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Kristin Hersh & Jennifer Hodgson: The Future of Songwriting 59:18

13d ago59:18

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In The Future of Songwriting, lead singer with Throwing Muses, solo artist and songwriter Kristin Hersh reflects on the status and future of her chosen genre over a long, hot Christmas in Australia. In a series of conversations, encounters and philosophical dialogues Hersh delivers a fierce, funny and existential meditation on the art of the song -…

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Saraid de Silva & Nina Mingya Powles: Amma 51:08

20d ago51:08

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In her debut novel Amma (Weatherglass), a multi-generational saga set in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and London, Saraid de Silva explores memory, trauma and displacement. She was in conversation with Nina Mingya Powles, author of Tiny Moons and Small Bodies of Water. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat…

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Episode 49 - Sarab Singh (Muna, Joji, Klvr Grl) 59:15

22d ago59:15

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In this weeks episode of the podcast I was lucky enough to speak with LA based composer/drummer - Sarab Singh. Sarab is an extremely talented drummer/musician who has worked with numerous artists over the years, including - Charlie XCX, Natasha Bedingfield, Sara Bareilles, Joji and a host of others. Currently Sarab is involved with Alt/Pop band Mun…

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Siblings: Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris & Nisha Ramayya 1:07:34

27d ago1:07:34

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Siblings (Monitor Books) is a unique round-table discussion / poetry collection, convened by Will Harris, between Harris, Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan and Nisha Ramayya. The four poets explore real and imaginary siblings, writing communities, and the wayward directions of the lyric mode – writing as makers and friends about the possibilities that po…

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Love’s Work: James Butler, Rebekah Howes & Rowan Williams 1:07:17

1M ago1:07:17

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When Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work was published shortly before the author’s death in 1995, Marina Warner wrote in the LRB: ‘This small book contains multitudes. It fits to the hand like one of those knobbed hoops that do concise duty for the rosary, each knob giving the mind pause to open up to vistas of meditation on mysteries and passion.’ To mark …

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Episode 48 - Rosh Roslin (Def Leppard, Maroon 5, Steve Vai) 1:16:20

1M ago1:16:20

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In episode 48 of the podcast I speak with LA based multi instrumentalist/musician, Rosh Roslin. Rosh is a guitarist, drummer, producer and tech who in addition to his own playing and touring responsibilities also programs amps and rigs for some of the biggest artists/bands in the world including artists like Bush, Papa Roach, Steve Vai, Melissa Eth…

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Veterans Stories & How They Evolve 56:43

1M ago56:43

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Join us live from the Mid America Veterans Museum as I host our museum curator, Marcia Higgins, and museum historian, Jim Higgins to talk about our ever evolving veterans stories. In this episode you will hear an in depth accounting of recently uncovered updates to the story of Joseph McNamee, World War II Marine which can only be described as sere…

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Harriet Baker & Lauren Elkin: Rural Hours 52:34

1M ago52:34

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1917: Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930: Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman's cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941: Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers' retreat, a refuge from war,…

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Lauren Oyler & Leo Robson: No Judgement 53:46

2M ago53:46

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Lauren Oyler is one of our rowdiest and sharpest literary critics, twice causing the LRB website to crash from too much traffic, and author of the novel Fake Accounts. No Judgement is her first collection of non-fiction; a series of interlinked essays connecting internet gossip, the attention economy, and the role of criticism. Oyler is in conversa…

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Episode 47 - Garrett Owen 1:03:55

2M ago1:03:55

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In todays episode (after recommendation from my pal Taylor Tatsch), I speak with Fort Worth, Texas based singer, songwriter - Garrett Owen. Garrett is an extremely talented musician who had a fascinating upbringing, toured all over his base city, written some amazing songs and even done an incredible cover of Nirvana's, 'Heart Shaped Box'. Listen h…

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Joe Dunthorne, Hanan Issa & Manon Steffan Ros: Wales in Words 56:55

2M ago56:55

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Three of Wales' best contemporary writers in an early St David's Day celebration of Wales in words. Novelist Joe Dunthorne, National Poet of Wales Hanan Issa and Carnegie prize-winning novelist and playwright Manon Steffan Ros explore the country's literary history, share its less-known treasures, and discuss the meaning of 'Welshness' today, in a …

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Fernanda Eberstadt & Olivia Laing: Bite Your Friends 57:58

2M ago57:58

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Fernanda Eberstadt’s Bite Your Friends is both a history of the body as a site of resistance to power, and a subversive memoir, drawing on a cast of outrageous heroes including Diogenes, Saint Perpetua, Pasolini, Pussy Riot and the political artist Piotr Pavlensky, who nailed his scrotum to the pavement of Red Square to protest Vladimir Putin’s tyr…

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Episode 46 - Paul Hodgson (The Parlotones, After Wonderland) 1:03:45

2M ago1:03:45

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In today's episode of the podcast I speak with South African guitarist/songwriter Paul Hodgson. Paul and his band 'The Parlotones' met back in 1998 and pretty quickly went on to become a multi-platinum and award winning band across numerous territories around the world. In fact they are still one of the biggest selling bands to ever come out of Sou…

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Clair Wills & Alice Spawls: Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets 1:06:25

2M ago1:06:25

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When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets is a detective story, memoir and cultural history of Ireland’s Mother and Baby homes. ‘Attending to the ways that the past ruptures and grows through the present’, writes Seán Hewitt, ‘this is a history shaken by int…

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Alexandra Harris & Laurence Scott: The Rising Down 53:45

3M ago53:45

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Alexandra Harris has previously cast her probing critical eye over poetic and artistic responses to English weather (in Weatherland), and English art of the 1930s and 40s (in Romantic Moderns); now, in The Rising Down (Faber & Faber) she turns it on the West Sussex landscape of her childhood, revealing the layers of buried lives beneath a familiar …

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Episode 45 - Sean Hurwitz (Smash Mouth, Nick Carter, Enrique Iglesias) 54:44

3M ago54:44

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In episode 45 of the podcast I speak with Los Angeles based guitarist/songwriter/producer - Sean Hurwitz of 'Smash Mouth'. Sean and I discuss some of the ups and downs of being a working musician, touring the world, performing alongside some of the biggest bands and an array of other band/music related topics. In addition to his guitar slinging dut…

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Adam Shatz & Kevin Okoth: The Rebel's Clinic 1:09:01

3M ago1:09:01

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Frantz Fanon was only 36 when he died in 1961, but his books and ideas – from White Skin, Black Masks to The Wretched of the Earth – have proved lastingly influential. Adam Shatz’s The Rebel’s Clinic is both a biography of Fanon and an in-depth study of his writing. Shatz, the US editor of the London Review of Books and the author of Writers & Miss…

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Rosemary Hill & Rowan Moore: Interwar 55:42

3M ago55:42

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At the time of his death in 2017, the architectural critic and historian Gavin Stamp (Private Eye’s ‘Piloti’) had nearly completed his monumental survey of British architecture between the world wars. His wife, the writer and historian Rosemary Hill, has edited the text for publication. Interwar: British Architecture 1919-1939 (Profile) is a refres…

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Episode 44 - Andrew Autin (Phase V, Mojeaux, Rock Show Nola) 59:38

3M ago59:38

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In episode 44 of the podcast I speak with fellow bandmate, renowned guitarist/keyboard player and Rock n Roll Kitchen owner - Andrew Autin. Andrew is an incredible guitarist/keyboardist/musician (and human) that not only leads the ever popular function band 'Mojeaux', as one of the top performing function bands in the State, but also performs all o…

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Jason Okundaye & Mendez: Revolutionary Acts 1:02:41

3M ago1:02:41

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In Revolutionary Acts (Faber), Jason Okundaye meets an elder generation of Black gay men and listens as they share intimate memories and reflect upon their lives. Through their conversations he traces these men's journeys and arrivals to South London through the seventies, eighties and nineties from the present day, seeking to reconcile the Black a…

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Aniefiok Ekpoudom & Gary Younge: Where We Come From 55:50

3M ago55:50

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Within the British music scene, recent years have borne witness to underground genres emerging from the inner cities, going on to become some of the most popular music in the nation. In Where We Come From, journalist Aniefiok Ekpoudom travels the country to explore the dawn, boom and subsequent blossoming of UK rap and grime. Taking us from the hea…

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Episode 43 - JP Mourao (Selena Gomez, Snoop Dogg) 1:12:32

4M ago1:12:32

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In todays' episode of the podcast (after recommendation from previous guest Grecco Burrato), I speak with Brazilian born, (now LA resident), JP Mourao. JP is a session guitarist, arranger, composer, producer and educator with credits that include Selena Gomez, Snoop Dog, Amanda Brecker, Macy Gray (among others) as well as a host of other artists an…

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Laleh Khalili & James Butler: The Corporeal Life of Seafaring 59:21

4M ago59:21

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Laleh Khalili’s new book The Corporeal Life of Seafaring (Mack) draws on her own experiences to describe with care and imagination the material and physical realities of contemporary commerce at sea, detailing (in the words of Steve Edwards) ‘the labouring bodies – hands, legs, and eyes; flesh and soul; suffering and solidarity – that make the worl…

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Fleur Adcock: Collected Poems 44:07

4M ago44:07

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Fleur Adcock’s sly, laconic poems have been delighting audiences since her 1964 debut The Eye of the Hurricane. Her Collected Poems draws together the work of sixty years; as Fiona Sampson writes, ‘Informality and immediacy are good ways to remake a world; and Adcock’s style has not dated in the half-century since her debut.’ Adcock was joined in c…

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Episode 42 - Riley Rogers (The Infamists) 56:04

4M ago56:04

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In episode 42 I do a lot of 'original band' talking with guitarist/vocalist Riley Rogers of Texas based band 'The Infamists'. Riley and his band have been pushing their mix of Bluesy guitar driven Rock n Roll for the twelve years or so now, and are making such waves on their local scene that recently an AI version of the band even tried to hijack t…

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Holly Pester & Nathalie Olah: The Lodgers 1:04:55

4M ago1:04:55

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Holly Pester discusses her debut novel, The Lodgers, with Nathalie Olah. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Rachael Allen & Lucy Mercer: God Complex 51:51

4M ago51:51

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‘Here is a wasteland / of parched aesthetics / patched up with modern tubes’ – Rachael Allen’s long-awaited second collection, God Complex, is a long narrative poem describing the breakdown of a relationship against a backdrop of environmental degradation and toxicity. In this episode, she reads from the collection and was joined in conversation wi…

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