Best Philip Banse Podcasts (2025)

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PDS 3.18 The Israel Gaza Problem Just Got Worse, Surprise Attack Kills Over 400, Roberts Rebukes Trump & More 37:05

5h ago37:05

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Julian Barnes's essay Changing My Mind, Victor Hugo's artwork, Emma Donoghue's new book The Paris Express 42:25

10m ago42:25

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Sculptor Antony Gormley and Professor of French literature, Catriona Seth discuss Victor Hugo's visual art with Tom Sutcliffe. Victor Hugo was a 19th century cultural colossus, known for monumental works such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables as well as his poems, plays and political writings. It's not so well known that throughout …

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Is Trump making the US more cyber vulnerable? 20:48

1h ago20:48

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When news came that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have paused US offensive cyber operations against Russia, it made headlines around the world. But experts say there’ something behind- the-scenes that the Trump team is doing that could do a lot more harm. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices…

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PDS 3.17 The Truth About Mark Rober Tesla Crash & Trump Accused of Going "Full Dictator" Over Biden Pardons 39:25

1d ago39:25

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Vikingur Olafsson's lockdown piano performance, how the pandemic changed The Arts, Liz Pichon's interactive world of The Mubbles 42:21

1d ago42:21

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Front Row's artist in residence, acclaimed Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson, reflects on five years since lockdown and we have another listen to his Front Row lockdown performance of the Adagio from Bach's Organ Sonata Number 4. How were the arts affected when the country locked down five years ago? Matthew Hemley of The Stage and Louisa Buck of…

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Can Mahmoud Khalil Be Deported? Keeping Property Ownership Anonymous, Suing Realtors For Overcharging Commission & Texas Wants to Rename the NY Strip 28:46

2h ago28:46

28:46

In this episode of The Weekly Docket, we dive into the legal implications of a green card holder’s controversial arrest. Plus, we explore a surprising discovery—a deer hunter stumbles upon a mammoth tusk in Texas, but can he legally keep it? In our real estate segment, we debunk a common misconception about county appraisal district records and exp…

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Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him reinvent the internet 10:12

1h ago10:12

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Billionaire Frank McCourt doesn’t want to buy TikTok for its algorithm and addictive videos. He wants its 170 million American users to help him fundamentally change the Internet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesBy Recorded Future News

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PDS 3.13 This Influencer Is Pathetic, Crazy Stepmom Scandal, & Huge US Government Shutdown and Tariff Updates 38:40

5d ago38:40

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Review: Edvard Munch portraits, Indian film Sister Midnight, Chekhov's The Seagull with Cate Blanchett 42:19

14m ago42:19

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Samira Ahmed and guest critics - the novelist and anthropologist Tahmima Anam and Ben Luke from the Art Newspaper - give their verdict on the week’s cultural releases. They’ve been to see Cate Blanchett in Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull at the Barbican Centre. The classic drama still features characters from Russian nobility – but it’s given a mo…

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Nasty NASDAQ, Of Euro-Bondage, Syria Seems to Be The Hardest Word 53:35

2h ago53:35

53:35

Tesla is tanking. On the NASDAQ, the Magnificent 7 have become merely the 7. The talk is all of quarterly earnings in Musk towers. But is this just a smokescreen for the fact that DeepSeek has DeepFound Silicon Valley in DeepDooDoo? Meanwhile, in Europe, the dream of rearmament is still alive and well. Two weeks in, we’ll have a report, direct from…

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PDS 3.12 Trump Education Cuts Are Worse Than Expected, USAID Staff Told to Burn Documents, MrBeast, Jay-Z, & 38:05

6d ago38:05

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Former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins performs, Torrey Peters' new book, centenary of Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay 42:19

23m ago42:19

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Songwriter and musician Edwyn Collins performs live from his latest album, Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation, a series of 11 optimistic and defiant tracks released two decades on from two devastating cerebral haemorrhages. American novelist Torrey Peters, whose book Detransition, Baby became a bestseller and was nominated for the Women's Prize for Fic…

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PDS 3.11 H3 Ethan Klein CPS Situation is Disgusting, Russia Ukraine 30-Day Ceasefire Agreement & Today's News 38:30

7d ago38:30

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The Leopard, Natasha Brown, Manchester International Festival, Elizabeth Fritsch 42:15

14h ago42:15

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As Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel The Leopard is dramatised for television, director Tom Shankland and film critic Peter Bradshaw discuss the power of this classic Italian novel. Natasha Brown's first novel, Assembly, saw her favourably compared to Virginia Woolf and won a Betty Trask award. Her eagerly-awaited second novel Universality has j…

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The TikTok ban, China, and national security 35:43

4d ago35:43

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Click Here host Dina Temple-Raston speaks with 1A's Jenn White about the latest on the TikTok ban, what’s next in the possible sale of its American arm, and whether the app is really a threat to national security. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesBy Recorded Future News

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PDS 3.10 Trump ICE Scandal is Worse Than You Think, the Druski Diddy Allegations Are Crazy, & Today’s News 27:39

8d ago27:39

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Jack Thorne and Philip Barantini on Adolescence, Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi 42:20

1d ago42:20

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Adolescence – the new Netflix series starring Stephen Graham – explores every parent’s worst nightmare: a teenage son accused of a knife-crime. Co-writers and directors Jack Thorne and Philip Barantini join us to explain how the “single-shot” filming technique sheds light on the way toxic masculinity spreads online among young people. Fantasy ficti…

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Mic Drop: Aidan Raney's secret mission. 13:07

5d ago13:07

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Aidan Raney does threat analysis for Farnsworth Intelligence, a company he founded. When one of his clients got caught up in a North Korean IT worker scheme, Aidan set out on a little mission: to infiltrate one of these operations and understand how it worked. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices…

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PDS 3.6 Gavin Newsom Trans Scandal Exposes a Growing Democrat Civil War, Target DEI Boycott, & Today’s News 31:39

12d ago31:39

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Texas’ Bold Legal Moves: Trans ID Law, THC Ban, Border Crossing Stats, Notary Rules & Small Estate Affidavits 22:14

6d ago22:14

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This week on The Weekly Docket, we dive into Texas’ latest legal shakeups, including a proposed law making it a felony to misrepresent gender identity and a potential statewide ban on hemp-derived THC products. We also answer key legal questions about the difference between notary acknowledgments and jurats, as well as when to use a small estate af…

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Review: film Mickey 17, David Szalay’s novel Flesh, Get Millie Black TV series 42:27

6d ago42:27

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In Front Row's Thursday review, Ellah Wakatama and Rhianna Dhillon give their take on Bong Joon Ho's new film Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattison, David Szalay's new novel Flesh, and Get Millie Black, Channel 4's Jamaica-set crime drama from Marlon James. Plus we hear from Sophie Elmhirst, whose Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Sh…

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Special Edition: Zelensky Takes A Direct Strike, The Steel Porcupine, RIP Collingwood 1:09:31

6d ago1:09:31

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As the world blows up, again, Andrew Collingwood has a dread cold. Gavin Haynes fills in as best he can, with a soft Newcastle brogue. We cover everything - from the rumble in the White House to the cultural amnesia coming up the pike. *** You can get paywalled episodes of Multipolarity on Patreon. https://www.Patreon.com/multipolarity It's cheap a…

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PDS 3.5 WOW! Leaked Video Exposes Child “Gladiator Fights”, Andrew Tate’s Florida Problem, & Trump's Speech 39:08

13d ago39:08

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Jessica Lange, Welsh National Opera's new joint leaders, artist Alison Watt 42:11

7d ago42:11

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Actor Jessica Lange discusses her latest film, an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize winning play Long Day's Journey Into Night, in which she plays Mary Tyrone, a woman with a morphine addiction at the centre of a dysfunctional family, and a role for which she previously won a Tony Award on Broadway. Welsh National Opera's new joint CEOs…

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PDS 3.4 Trump's Trade War is Worse Than You Think, Jon Stewart vs Elon Musk, Hasan "Uncancelled" & More News 33:12

14d ago33:12

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Raoul Peck on photographer Ernest Cole, the death of Bill Dare, 14th-century art in Siena, Colum McCann's novel Twist 42:32

8d ago42:32

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A new exhibition at London's National Gallery hopes to shed light on artists in 14th Century Siena, who have often been overshadowed by their Tuscan neighbours in Florence. Samira is joined in the studio by one of the curators, Imogen Tedbury, and by Maya Corry, a Renaissance expert from Oxford Brookes University to discuss the astonishing colours …

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Meet the “Kyles” — North Korea’s secret IT warriors 24:18

8d ago24:18

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North Korea has a secret army of workers applying for remote IT jobs around the world. They collect paychecks, sometimes steal company data, and answer to a boss who isn’t at company headquarters, he’s sitting in Pyongyang. We hear about one named Kyle. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices…

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PDS 3.3 Popular Female Streamers Attacked Live By Stalker, Hasan Banned, Trump Zelensky Fallout, & More News 35:53

15d ago35:53

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Daniel Evans as Edward II, Laura Carreira's film On Falling, last night's Oscar winners 42:05

9d ago42:05

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Sean Baker made Oscar history, becoming the first person to win four Academy Awards for directing, editing, writing and producing a single film, Anora. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh joins Samira to look at this year's Oscar winners and what they say about cinema today. The RSC's co-artistic director Daniel Evans discusses playing Christopher Marlowe's Edward…

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Alcohol 20:00

15d ago20:00

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In this episode of High Theory, Nina Studer tells us about alcohol. The restrictions and prohibitions, medical and moral discourses surrounding alcohol reveal a great deal about a given society in a particular historical moment. Nina uses alcohol as a lens to analyze the history of French colonization in North Africa. Who consumed alcohol, in what …

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Can Legal Assistants Practice Law? Musk’s $3K Attorney, Trademark Battles, Government Waste & Home Inspector Lawsuits 25:03

12d ago25:03

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In this episode of The Weekly Docket, hosts Phil Silberman and Austin Black discuss a new rule in Texas allowing licensed paralegal professionals to provide limited legal services—will this improve access to justice or lead to legal disasters? We also break down Elon Musk’s $3,000-per-hour attorney, Alex Spiro, and explore the risks of registering …

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Mic Drop: Anne Neuberger on AI: ‘We have to challenge ourselves to be first’ 13:58

19d ago13:58

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We sat down with former deputy national security advisor Anne Neuberger on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference to talk about everything from Chinese AI startups like DeepSeek to the competition for the future world order. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesBy Recorded Future News

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Premium Edition: Kaiser Friedrich IV and Trumpian Grand Strategy 14:57

12d ago14:57

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In Germany, there’s been an election. And The Reichstag is on fire - with a new cohort of AfD members . Will Keiser Merz see this as his opportunity to seize total control? After all, on Saturday, the incoming Chancellor decided that Germany can quote go it alone. Whatever that means. Is the real threat to European democracy about to come from besi…

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PDS 2.27 Andrew Tate Florida Situation is Crazy, Trans Troop Ban, Huge MrBeast $$$ News, & Meet Dr. Lin 34:13

19d ago34:13

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Review: Leigh Bowery exhibition, The Summer with Carmen film, Michael Amherst's novel The Boyhood of Cain 42:26

13d ago42:26

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Tom Sutcliffe and his guests the film critic Ryan Gilbey and art critic and author Charlotte Mullins review the week's latest cultural releases including Tate Modern’s exhibition on the unconventional artist and performer Leigh Bowery, the Greek film featuring gay romance, The Summer With Carmen and Michael Amherst’s first novel, The Boyhood of Cai…

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