Best Stephen Rowan Podcasts (2024)

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Sarah Perry & Helen Macdonald: Enlightenment 55:36

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At a Bethesda Baptist chapel two worshippers, separated in age by three decades, are drawn together by common interests, driven apart by divergent loves, before being reunited by the mysteries surrounding their small town. Francis Spufford describes Enlightenment (Jonathan Cape) as ‘a book in which everything is kindled into light by Sarah Perry’s …

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

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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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The Mystery, Romance & Power of Welsh Christianity - Fr. Jacob Siemens

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Orthodox priest Fr. Jacob Siemens who has lived in Cardiff, Wales, for some 20 years, talked with me about Orthodox Christianity in Wales, both in the ancient Church and in the modern period.And of course we also talked about King Arthur. And the dragon.By Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

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

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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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Welsh Orthodox Saints - Tad Deiniol

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During his pilgrimage in Wales, Fr. Andrew met the remarkable Tad (Father) Deiniol, pastor of All Saints of Wales Orthodox Church in Blaenau Ffestiniog and the only Welsh-speaking Orthodox priest in the country.During the interview, he told Fr. Andrew the story of how he became an Orthodox Christian and also many details of Orthodox saints of Wales…

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

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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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Orthodoxy and Wales - Rowan Williams

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Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Anglican communion, sits down with Fr. Andrew at Ss. Theodore and Teilo Orthodox Church in Cardiff, Wales, to discuss his 60-year relationship with the Orthodox Church, including major figures such as Metr. Kallistos Ware and Archim. Barnabas (Burton). He also gives some pointers for p…

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Harriet Baker & Lauren Elkin: Rural Hours 52:34

2M 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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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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The Orthodox Clergy Crisis - Matthew Namee

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Matthew Namee, Executive Director of the Orthodox Studies Institutes, shares a new study tracking the disturbing reality of the major deficit in Orthodox clergy being ordained in the United States. How did we get here? What are the contributing factors? How do the Orthodox compare against non-Orthodox churches? What are the ramifications of the sho…

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Maqluba: the upside down dish that is life on the West Bank 45:59

3M ago45:59

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Send us a Text Message. Life on the West Bank is upside down for Palestinians. They have little of rights on their land that they have lived on for centuries. The towns that they do live in cannot grow because they are being strangled by encroaching Israeli settlements. East Jerusalem, internationally designated as the Palestinian capital - is not.…

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

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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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Early American Orthodoxy: Incredible Stories - Matthew Namee

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What was it like to hang around with St. Raphael of Brooklyn? Did you know St. Tikhon had a brother who was in love with an opera singer? What about the mysterious Bulgarian monk who tried to convert the leader of the Mormons and became a ghost story in the Old West?In this video from Fr. Andrew's YouTube channel, he interviews Matthew Namee, Execu…

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

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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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"Even If what stays of Gaza is rubble. The rubble will be my home" 28:49

3M ago28:49

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Send us a Text Message. This episode is extraordinary not just because Tareq - a young man from Gaza - has an extraordinary story to tell, but because as he tells it , one can hear each stage of his life unfiltered. He is able to express what Tareq the child felt long before his adult self understood the years' long blockade -seige- under which his…

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Rosemary Hill & Rowan Moore: Interwar 55:42

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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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The Meaning Crisis and the Gospel - Jonathan Pageau

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In this conversation from Fr. Andrew's YouTube channel, he welcomes Jonathan Pageau to discuss the Meaning Crisis and how the gospel of Jesus Christ responds to it. What is this crisis? Where did it come from? How is it affecting us and our world? And how does the gospel make sense of the crisis and heal us from it?…

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

4M 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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A Thirst for the Absolute: St. Sophrony of Essex

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Fr. Andrew interviews two of the nuns of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Essex, England, who share with him the life and teachings of St. Sophrony (Sakharov), who founded the monastery. The interview was conducted on-site in the personal study of St. Sophrony at the monastery.By Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

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

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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

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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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S4 Episode 6: Entrepreneur & Philanthropist Stephen Harbaugh 34:23

4M ago34:23

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Entrepreneur and philanthropist Stephen Harbaugh brings his infectious energy to Entrepreneurship At Rowan with host Aidan Tahmazian. Harbaugh discusses the role of family and how he emphasizes that on the job. Elsewhere, he offers advice to students on how to succeed including the importance of overcoming fear.…

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S4 Episode 5: Christopher Greco of Ginsy Home Solutions 23:31

4M ago23:31

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Host Aiden Tahmazian interviews Christopher Greco, President of Brands and Marketing at Ginsy Home Solutions. Greco, who is a part of the Rowan Entrepreneurship Advisory Council, talks about his goals and how traveling the world helped his understanding of manufacturing. Also, he provides an important life lesson to students and talks about being a…

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S4 Episode 4: Real Estate Investor Michael Parlante 25:26

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Michael Parlante is a versatile entrepreneur. He dabbles in real estate and orthodontics. A new episode of Entrepreneurship At Rowan catches up with Parlante, who talks about his path through college and what he learned after graduating from college. Also, he explains the process of failing in business and why it isn't necessarily a bad thing.…

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