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mbanerjeepalmer+listennotes 's Listen LaterConversations in Philosophy: 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' by Simone de Beauvoir Podcast: Close Readings (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' by Simone de BeauvoirPub date: 2025-09-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAt the heart of human existence is a tragic ambiguity: the fact that we experience ourselves both as subject and object, internal and external, at the same time, and can never fully inhabit either state. In her 1947 book, Simone de Beauvoir addresses the ethical implications of this uncertainty and the ‘agonising evidence of freedom’ it present...
2026-01-0715 min
Base to Base BiotechBase to Base biotech podcast 35: Gothenburg Tech Week, osteoarthritis and respiratory virus infectionsThis week, we have conversations with Malin Kjällström, Gothenburg Tech Week Press and partnerships lead; Eliot Forster the CEO of Levicept; and Christophe Demaison, CEO of ENA Respiratory.Gothenburg Tech WeekGothenburg Tech Week is western Sweden’s largest technology event, held annually across multiple venues in the city. The 2025 edition ran from October 14–16, with a programme that includes startup and investor matchmaking, thematic forums, and partner showcases.The event covers a wide range of topics, including AI, life sciences, and sustainable technologies. Sessions are hosted at The Yard, World of Volvo...
2025-11-1450 min
The BookshelfOctober Book Buzz: Andrew Pippos, Kiran Desai, Olga Ravn & MoreKate and Cassie are back in the studio, introducing a line-up of October releases that span continents, centuries, and genres, kicking off with an Australian story set in the world of print journalism in Andrew Pippos' The Transformations. Then, we head to India with Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a grand tale shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize. And finally, we travel back to 16th-century Denmark, where the spectre of witch trials looms large in Olga Ravn's The Wax Child.BOOKSAndrew Pippos, The Transformations — PicadorKiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Su...
2025-10-3054 min
The Life Sci FantasticBUSINESS OF BIOTECHIn this bonus episode, which concludes the first series of the ‘Life Sci Fantastic’, Eliot steps back from examining the science of biotech to look at the business of this rapidly developing industry. Eliot asks, what is driving those entrepreneurs to bring new treatments to patients, and what are the financial challenges in bringing these drugs to market? Answering those questions is Bill Hicks, who has brokered deals and helped numerous companies and individuals chart the legal and financial challenges in the industry. As co-chair of the...
2025-10-1714 minThe Life Sci FantasticUNDERSTANDING (AND TREATING) AGINGAcross the world, people can now expect to live longer. These advances are thanks to better sanitation, vaccination, access to food and healthcare. But aging inevitably involves decline in many of our biological functions, making people more susceptible to disease. What - if anything - can be done to address the underlying mechanisms of aging to both prevent and treat illness? Can aging be ‘cured’? That is the focus of cutting edge research being undertaken by a company called Juvenescence. Its CEO, Richard Marshall, is a highly distinguished doctor and scientist who is leading efforts to un...
2025-10-1723 minThe Life Sci FantasticFROM BENCH TO BEDSIDEIn an age of rapid technological development in medical science, how does a new treatment come about? What is the process by which it goes from the mind of the scientist at the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside? In this episode Eliot meets someone who has travelled that path. Simon Westbrook is the founder of Levicept - a company that has developed a breakthrough medicine for osteoarthritis. It’s a disease that affects about one in six people in the UK, and hundreds of millions around the world. Th...
2025-10-1723 minThe Life Sci FantasticCELLS UNDER THE MICROSCOPECells are the basic buildings blocks of living organisms and are the smallest unit of life that can exist on their own. But what differentiates a healthy cell by from one that is harmful to our bodies? In this episode Eliot finds out how new scientific developments are enabling cells to be used as a potentially powerful tool to fight disease. He meets Harpreet Singh who is the CEO of a company called Immatics based in Germany. Harpreet is an immunologist by training who has devoted his career to discovering in...
2025-10-1722 minThe Life Sci FantasticBUGS FOR DRUGS?In this episode Eliot explores the little understood world of microbes and bacteria that live inside all of us. Collectively they are called the microbiome, and its well-being is something that is vital to our health. New research is now opening up the possibility of using these bugs as drugs to address a range of diseases. To find out more Eliot meets two fascinating individuals, Trevor Lawley and Tim Sharpington, who run a company called Microbiotica that is on the cutting edge of this exciting new area of treatment. Host: Eliot For...
2025-10-1725 minThe Life Sci FantasticTREATING CANCERIn this episode Eliot continues to look at cancer, and how science is offering new and promising treatments for this all-too-common disease. There is a far greater understanding now of how cancer arises, how it progresses, and how new treatments can be used to turn cancer against itself. Dr Alise Reicin is a doctor and drug developer who is on the frontline of developing new medicines. In her conversation with Eliot, she talks about the challenges of turning a scientific idea into a transformative new drug and the hopes for th...
2025-10-1721 minThe Life Sci FantasticEXPLAINING CANCERCancer is sadly very common. In the UK, one in two adults will get cancer during the course of their lifetime. Despite being familiar to many, there are still big gaps in our understanding of why and how the disease occurs. But in recent years there have been considerable advances in our knowledge of cancer and its potential treatments. In this episode of the Life Sci Fantastic, Eliot speaks to Professor Sandra Strauss, an expert in bone and tissue cancers, who explains the disease and how modern science is generating ne...
2025-10-1725 minThe Life Sci FantasticWHAT IS GENE EDITING?What is gene editing, how can it be used, and should we be concerned about the science that can alter the basic building blocks of our biology? In this episode Eliot Forster is joined by Ness Bermingham, scientist, business leader, and presenter of the 'Between the Biotech Waves' podcast to explore an often misunderstood aspect of the science of our bodies. Eliot will hear how gene editing can address diseases like sickle cell anemia, that have defied effective treatments. Ness will explain the possibilities and hope for people whose lives have been...
2025-10-1722 minThe Life Sci FantasticWHAT ARE VACCINES?In this episode Eliot asks: what are vaccines, and how do they work? To answer this question, he speaks to Tony de Fougerelles, who was vital in developing the COVID-19 vaccine, and has spent decades hunting for new medicines and treatments for different illnesses. In this episode, he explains how new scientific developments are bringing effective treatments more rapidly than ever before. Tony also tells Eliot how years of illness as a child inspired him to get involved in helping others. Host: Eliot Forster
2025-10-1725 minThe Life Sci FantasticSeries One TrailerFind out about the Life Sciences - the science of our bodies and the breakthroughs that are changing our lives on this exciting new series.Presented by Eliot Forster, a scientist and entrepreneur, this series will explain and demystify the exciting developments that are bringing fresh treatments to some old and new diseases.
2025-10-1301 min
Conversations in Philosophy'The Ethics of Ambiguity' by Simone de BeauvoirAt the heart of human existence is a tragic ambiguity: the fact that we experience ourselves both as subject and object, internal and external, at the same time, and can never fully inhabit either state. In her 1947 book, Simone de Beauvoir addresses the ethical implications of this uncertainty and the ‘agonising evidence of freedom’ it presents, along with the opportunity it creates for continual self-definition. In this episode Jonathan and James discuss these arguments and Beauvoir’s warnings against trying to evade the responsibilities imposed upon us by this ambiguity. They also look at the ways in which Beauvoir develo...
2025-09-1514 min
Close ReadingsConversations in Philosophy: 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' by Simone de BeauvoirAt the heart of human existence is a tragic ambiguity: the fact that we experience ourselves both as subject and object, internal and external, at the same time, and can never fully inhabit either state. In her 1947 book, Simone de Beauvoir addresses the ethical implications of this uncertainty and the ‘agonising evidence of freedom’ it presents, along with the opportunity it creates for continual self-definition. In this episode Jonathan and James discuss these arguments and Beauvoir’s warnings against trying to evade the responsibilities imposed upon us by this ambiguity. They also look at the ways in which Beauvoir develo...
2025-09-1515 min
The BookshelfMystery in new fiction from Ben Okri, Sameer Pandya and Anjet DaanjeThe same question is at the heart of three very different international novels on The Bookshelf this week, “What really happened”…To a WWI soldier who has forgotten his name and identity in The Remembered Soldier by Dutch author Anjet Daanje?To a fortune teller for the elite class in Ben Okri’s Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken-hearted?When four high achieving American boys entered a cave, and one emerged terribly hurt, In Sameer Pandya’s Our Beautiful Boys?Keep scrolling for a full list of all books mentioned...
2025-07-0354 min
Indoor VoicesEpisode 107: Feminist modernists on reading, relevance, and resistance Jean Mills, Associate Professor and chairperson in the English Dept. at John Jay College, and Ria Banerjee, Professor of English and Honors Program Coordinator at Guttman Community College and the Graduate Center, discuss Dr. Banerjee's book Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot, and Woolf: Spatiality and Cultural Politics and related topics. Visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com for more.
2025-03-031h 12
The Mookse and the Gripes PodcastEpisode 99: Books We Think About All the TimeWe’re joined by the amazing poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert to discuss some of the books that we think about all the time. We each share three books that are always on our minds and discuss the many reasons some works become such and important part of who we are.Which ones would you pick?ShownotesBooks* Any Person Is the Only Self, by Elisa Gabbert* The Unreality of Memory, by Elisa Gabbert* The Word Pretty, by Elisa Gabbert* The Hurting Kind, by Ada Li...
2025-02-061h 48
One Bright BookEpisode #32: Mobility, by Lydia KieslingWelcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Frances, and Rebecca as they discuss MOBILITY by Lydia Kiesling, and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we will discuss WE DO NOT PART by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late February. Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some book...
2025-02-061h 13
The Life Sci FantasticTHE BUSINESS OF BIOTECHIn this bonus episode, which concludes the first series of
the ‘Life Sci Fantastic’, Eliot steps back from examining the science of biotech to look at the business of this rapidly developing industry. Eliot asks, what is driving those entrepreneurs to bring new treatments to patients, and what are the financial challenges in bringing these drugs to market?
Answering those questions is Bill Hicks, who has brokered
deals and helped numerous companies and individuals chart the legal and financial challenges in the industry. As co-chair of the life sciences practice at the US law firm Mintz, Bill has r...
2024-11-2814 minThe Life Sci FantasticUNDERSTANDING (AND TREATING) AGINGAcross the world, people can now expect to live longer. These advances are thanks to better sanitation, vaccination, access to food and healthcare. But aging inevitably involves decline in many of our biological functions, making people more susceptible to disease. What - if anything - can be done to address the underlying mechanisms of aging to both prevent and treat illness? Can aging be ‘cured’?
That is the focus of cutting edge research being undertaken by a company called Juvenescence. Its CEO, Richard Marshall, is a highly distinguished doctor and scientist who is leading effor...
2024-11-2122 minThe Life Sci FantasticFROM THE BENCH TO THE BEDSIDEIn an age of rapid technological development in medical science, how does a new treatment come about? What is the process by which it goes from the mind of the scientist at the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside? In this episode Eliot meets someone who has travelled that path.
Simon Westbrook is the founder of Levicept a company that has developed a breakthrough medicine for osteoarthritis. It’s a disease that affects about one
in six people in the UK, and hundreds of millions around the world. There has not been a breakthrough in its trea...
2024-11-1423 minThe Life Sci FantasticCELLS UNDER THE MICROSCOPECells are the basic buildings blocks of living organisms and are the smallest unit of life that can exist on their own. But what differentiates a healthy cell by from one that is harmful to our bodies?
In this episode Eliot finds out how new scientific developments are enabling cells to be used as a potentially powerful tool to fight disease. He meets Harpreet Singh who is the CEO of a company called Immatics based in Germany. Harpreet is an immunologist by training who has devoted his career to discovering
innovations in cell technology to aid good...
2024-11-0722 min
Grand Podcast AbyssTHE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Henry James's The BostoniansThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.comWelcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The 2024 syllabus can be found here. This episode, of which the first 15 minutes are free, concerns Henry James’s novel The Bostonians. First I make some impromptu comments on the Merchant Ivory film of the novel, film adaptations of fiction in general, and why James lends himself less well to cinema than E. M. Forster. Then I discuss James’s biography, along with his illustrious family, and the...
2024-11-0114 minThe Life Sci FantasticBUGS FOR DRUGS?In this episode Eliot explores the little understood world of microbes and bacteria that live inside all of us. Collectively they are called the microbiome, and its well-being is something that is vital to our health. New research is now opening up the possibility of using these
bugs as drugs to address a range of diseases.
To find out more Eliot meets two fascinating individuals, Trevor Lawley and Tim Sharpington, who run a company called Microbiotica that is on the cutting edge of this exciting new area of treatment.
2024-10-3125 min
The Reading CultureKeep Me Out of It: Eliot Schrefer on the Costs and Benefits of Self-Erasure“I think it caused me to get over some of the sort of narcissistic impulses in my writing and not make it about me and impressing, but instead about having the best reading experience I could imagine.” - Eliot SchreferAt a young age, Eliot Schrefer acknowledged that he was hiding himself. Growing up queer when he did meant concealing a key part of his identity for the sake of self-preservation. It was through books that he first learned to accept his queerness. That thread leads to one of his most well-known books, “Queer Ducks (and Other...
2024-10-2938 minThe Life Sci FantasticTREATING CANCERIn this episode Eliot continues to look at cancer, and how science is offering new and promising treatments for this all-too-common disease. There is a far greater understanding now of how cancer arises, how it progresses, and how new treatments can be used to turn cancer against itself.
Dr Alise Reicin is a doctor and drug developer who is on the frontline of developing new medicines. In her conversation with Eliot, she talks about the challenges of turning a scientific idea into a transformative new drug and the hopes for the future treatment of this cruel disease.
2024-10-2421 minThe Life Sci FantasticEXPLAINING CANCERCancer is sadly very common. In the UK, one in two adults will get cancer during the course of their lifetime. Despite being familiar to many, there are still big gaps in our understanding of why and how the disease occurs. But in recent years there have been considerable advances in our knowledge of cancer and its potential treatments. In this episode of the Life Sci Fantastic, Eliot speaks to Professor Sandra Strauss, an expert in bone and tissue cancers, who explains the disease and how modern science is generating new possibilities for patients.
2024-10-1725 minThe Life Sci FantasticWHAT IS GENE EDITING?What is gene editing, how can it be used, and should we be concerned about the science that can alter the basic building blocks of our biology?
In this episode Eliot Forster is joined by Ness Bermingham, scientist, business leader, and presenter of the 'Between the Biotech Waves' podcast to explore an often misunderstood aspect of the science of our bodies.
Eliot will hear how gene editing can address diseases like sickle cell anemia, that have defied effective treatments. Ness will explain the possibilites and hope for people whose lives have been blighted by diseases...
2024-10-1019 minThe Life Sci FantasticWHAT ARE VACCINES?In this episode Eliot asks: what are vaccines, and how do they work? To answer this question, he speaks to Tony de Fougerelles, who was vital in developing the COVID-19 vaccine. Tony has spent decades hunting for new medicines and treatments for different illnesses. In this episode, he explains how new scientific developments are bringing effective treatments more rapidly than ever before. Tony also tells Eliot how years of illness as a child inspired him to get involved in helping others.
2024-10-0321 minThe Life Sci FantasticIntroducing The Life Sci FantasticFind out about the Life Sciences - the science of our bodies and the breakthroughs that are changing our lives on this exciting new series.
2024-09-2501 min
Poems & WhiskeyWhat Puts the Rhythm On?INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRTerrel Hale is one of the real ones, guys. We talk about letting go of the illusion of power, about poetry communicating first without need for understanding, and the effects of the transformative nature of the creative act on the inner and outer world perspectives. Desire can often be a gateway to inspiration and vision, and managing your intensity is something...
2024-06-131h 10
BOOKmarkableEpisode 4: Conversation with Nena Rawdah of Cross & Crows bookstoreFiona Jackson shares her conversation with Nena Rawdah of East Vancouver's Cross & Crows bookstore and a few updates on her latest reads and whats on her next up TBR list.
Books mentioned on the show include:
All the works of Jane Austen
Shakespeare's play: Much Ado About Nothing, Othello and The Taming of the Shrew
Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem, "Pied Beauty"
Authors: E.M. Forster, George Eliot (pen name of Maryann Evans), David Chariandy, KJ Charles, Freja Marsk and Danny Ramadan
Broughtupsy by Christina Cooke
Glyph, Er...
2024-06-1059 min
The Literary Life Podcast"Best of" The Literary Life – "The Machine Stops" by E. M. ForsterThis week on The Literary Life, we bring you another episode in our "Best of" series with a throwback to one of our 2021 Summer of the Short Story shows. In this episode, Angelina, Cindy, and Thomas talk about E. M. Forster's short story "The Machine Stops." If you are interested in more E. M. Forster chat, you can go listen to our hosts discuss "The Celestial Omnibus" in Episode 17. Angelina points out how this story made her think of Dante. Thomas and Cindy share their personal reactions to reading "The Machine Stops." They marvel at how prescient Forster was to...
2024-05-071h 23The Literary Life PodcastE. M. Forster's "Howards End", Introduction and Ch. 1-7Welcome to a new series on The Literary Life Podcast with Angelina Stanford and husband Thomas Banks. This week they begin talking about E. M. Forster's book Howards End, giving some introductory information about Forster and also cover the first seven chapters of the book. Thomas shares some background on the Bloomsbury Group authors in contrast to their Victorian predecessors. Angelina highlights the literary tradition of naming books after houses and invites us to consider the importance of place in this story as we go forward. We hope you will join us for the sixth annual Literary...
2024-02-131h 23
The Mookse and the Gripes PodcastEpisode 72: Characters on HolidayBooks and holidays go together perfectly, and not just for those of us doing the reading. This week, we talk about our favorite stories where the characters are on vacation—a perfect recipe for exploring exotic settings, quenching vicarious wanderlust, romance, adventure, and plenty more!We also announce the winner our latest giveaway!Shownotes* Germinal, by Émile Zola, translated by Peter Collier* The Sin of Abbé Mouret, by Émile Zola, translated by Valerie Minogue* A Love Story, by Émile Zola, translated by Helen Constantine* January, by Sara Gallar...
2024-01-251h 28
Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women[Spanish] - Orlando by Virginia WoolfPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Orlando Author: Virginia Woolf Narrator: Neus Sendra Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 21, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: La novela más popular y escandalosa de Virginia Woolf. «Virginia Woolf es dios, nadie ha escrito mejor.» Milena Busquets 80 ANIVERSARIO DE VIRGINIA WOOLF Desde que se publicó en 1928, Orlando ha sido una de las novelas más populares de Virginia Woolf por su originalidad y espíritu transgresor. Cuenta las peripecias de un joven aristócrata inglés, apuesto, rico, seductor y amante de la liter...
2023-09-2105 min
Between the Biotech WavesEpisode 33: A Between the Biotech Waves conversation with Eliot Forster, xCEO of F-star TherapeuticsToday I am talking to Eliot Forster xCEO of F-star Therapeutics.Eliot was at helm of the company as they reversed merged into Springbank Pharmaceuticals & through the recently announced acquisition by Sino Biopharma, a transaction that generated a lot of interest given the very public interactions with CFIUS.Prior to F-star, Eliot was CEO of Immunocore, Creabilis and Solace Pharmaceuticals following his multiple roles at Pfizer which included head of development and operations, European Union. He was the founding chair of Medcity and is an honorary visiting professor of molecular and clinical cancer medicine at the University...
2023-07-191h 04
Grandes Infelices#15 VIRGINIA WOOLF | Grandes Infelices. Luces y sombras de grandes novelistasVirginia Woolf, una de las grandes revolucionarias de la literatura del siglo XX, es la autora elegida para cerrar la tercera temporada de GRANDES INFELICES, un podcast de Blackie Books, presentado y dirigido por el escritor Javier Peña (autor de “Agnes” e “Infelices”).
Darse un paseo por la vida de Woolf es hacerlo por buena parte de la cultura del siglo XX. Desde el grupo de Bloomsbury, que nació alrededor de sus hermanos y en el que estaban, entre otros, E.M. Forster o el economista John Maynard Keynes, hasta su papel de editora en Hogarth Press, donde publicó a T.S. Elio...
2023-06-2245 min
Bach & CoBach & CoPodcast over Bach, aflevering 44.
In deze aflevering van Bach & Co gaan we dieper in op de tijdsgeest en omstandigheden waarin Johann Sebastian Bach z’n vroege cantates componeerde.
In Geen dag zonder Bach zijn we inmiddels omgeschakeld naar een andere aanpak van dagelijkse cantateselectie. We kiezen voor de chronologische volgorde van ontstaan van zijn cantates, om in 2024 uit te komen in het jubileumjaar van 300 jaar Koraalcantates van Johann Sebastian Bach, als we dan uitkomen bij de tweede Leipziger cantatejaargang.
In deze aflevering cantates: BWV 150, BWV 18, BWV 199, BWV 54, en BWV 143.
Fragmenten van:
Johann Se...
2023-04-2400 min
Sølvbergets podcastKlassikeren: Ensomhetens brønn av Radclyffe HallNår vi snakker om skeiv litteratur, er det umulig å komme utenom Ensomhetens brønn av Radclyffe Hall. Romanen handler om kjærlighet mellom kvinner, og ble forbudt i Storbritannia ved utgivelsen i 1928, til tross for protester fra forfattere som Virginia Woolf, May Sinclair, T. S. Eliot og E. M. Forster.
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Innspilt på Sølvberget bibliotek og kulturhus i oktober 2022.
Medvirkende: Thale Dobbert, Tomas Gustafsson og Åsmund Ådnøy
2023-01-2625 min
On the Road with Penguin ClassicsMaurice with Diarmuid HesterE. M. Forster in Cambridge. The cultural historian Diarmuid Hester joins Henry to explore the streets and colleges of Cambridge before escaping to the greenwood to discuss Maurice by E. M. Forster, his novel of same-sex love that remained unpublished throughout his lifetime. Diarmuid and Henry visit King’s College, where Forster lived both as an undergraduate and an honorary fellow and they visit Madingley Hall and Madingley Dell. 2021 was the 50th anniversary of the first, posthumous publication of Maurice in 1971. Maurice by E. M. Forster (Penguin Classics edition)http...
2022-10-131h 10
The Urdu Ghazal PodcastIndiStories Episode 3Send us a textThis episode brings a story written by Mulk Raj Anand, a path-breaking writer. Born in Punjab in 1905, he broke many barriers, earning a doctorate in philosophy from Cambridge University in 1929. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, which included many bright minds of the 20th century like E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf. He was also a close friend of T.S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, George Orwell, and Picasso, and a founder member of the Progressive Writers Association. Anand published thirteen novels and nine collections of short stories. He s...
2022-05-0522 min
Penguin AudioAudiolibro: "Los años" de Virginia WoolfEsta es una muestra de "Los años". La versión completa tiene una duración total de 16 h 57 min. Encuentra este audiolibro completo en https://bit.ly/losaños_audiolibroNarrado por: Neus SendraLos Pargiter, una típica familia burguesa, recorren en este audiolibro un periodo de tiempo comprendido entre los últimos estertores de la era victoriana y los primeros años treinta. Y en el seno de su hogar se dramatizan las tensiones históricas, sociales e ideológicas de esa época de transición y niebla, cuando un mundo y una idea de l...
2022-02-2304 minThe Literary Life Podcast"The Machine Stops" by E. M. ForsterThis week on The Literary Life, we bring you another episode in our 2021 Summer Short Story series. This week Angelina, Cindy and Thomas talk about E. M. Forster's short story "The Machine Stops." If you are interested in more E. M. Forster chat, you can go listen to our hosts discuss "The Celestial Omnibus" in Episode 17. Angelina points out how this story made her think of Dante. Thomas and Cindy share their personal reactions to reading "The Machine Stops." They marvel at how prescient Forster was to imagine a world that comes so close to our current reality. They...
2021-07-131h 22
Growth Investor with GrowthCap‘s RJ LumbaA Top Biotech CEO in Cancer Treatments: F-star Therapeutics CEO Eliot ForsterEliot Forster is the Chief Executive Officer of F-star Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing next-generation immunotherapies to transform the lives of patients with cancer. To date, the company has built a comprehensive IP estate, with over 200 issued patents and more than 60 pending applications, many of which have blockbuster potential.
In this conversation, we discuss Eliot’s career as a corporate executive in big pharma as well as his transition to and leadership experience in venture and growth stage biotech. Before coming to F-star in 2018, he served as chief executive officer of Immunocore and prior to that...
2021-03-3022 minThe Literary Life Podcast"Silas Marner" by George Eliot, Ch. 16-EndOn this week's episode of The Literary Life Podcast, Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins and Thomas Banks wrap up their discussion of George Eliot's Silas Marner. In this episode, Angelina reveals her light bulb moment connecting this story with Shakespeare's play, The Winter's Tale. Thomas talks about the changes in Silas as he has integrated back into the community through his love for Eppie. Cindy points out the characteristics we see in Nancy as a woman who has been through suffering and come out more gracious on the other side. Don't forget to head over to HouseofHumaneLetters.com...
2021-03-091h 36The Literary Life Podcast"Silas Marner" by George Eliot, Ch. 10-15Welcome to this episode of The Literary Life Podcast, in which our hosts discuss George Eliot's book Silas Marner, chapters 10-15. Thomas kicks off the discussion by highlighting the character of Dolly Winthrop. Angelina talks about Silas Marner opening himself to grace in these chapters. She also points out the way that Eliot uses Godfrey's character to point out our own potential lack of moral courage. Cindy points out the problem of addiction for Molly in causing her to neglect her own baby. Angelina also talks about the Rumpelstiltskin parallels and other fairy tale elements in the book thus...
2021-03-021h 45
In the AtelierWorking Without WorkingWORKING WITHOUT WORKING: What really takes discipline? Not working. "Working without Working," appeared in slightly different form in Poets & Writers magazine and can be read in The Honorable Obscurity Handbook from Atelier26 Books. Mentioned in this episode: W.H. Auden; Saul Bellow; Joan Didion; E.M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel"; Annie Dillard; Dillard's "A Writing Life"; Ernest Hemingway; Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast"; Andre Dubus; Henry James; T.S. Eliot; Zadie Smith; Smith's "Changing My Mind" Music: "Possible Light" by Ziv Moran; "Spain" by Dan Pundak; "Fragments" by Borrtex; "Mindplay (instrumental)" by Roza; "The World Inside" by Rodello's Machine (All...
2020-10-1413 min
In the AtelierWorking Without WorkingWORKING WITHOUT WORKING: What really takes discipline? Not working. "Working without Working," appeared in slightly different form in Poets & Writers magazine and can be read in The Honorable Obscurity Handbook from Atelier26 Books. Mentioned in this episode: W.H. Auden; Saul Bellow; Joan Didion; E.M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel"; Annie Dillard; Dillard's "A Writing Life"; Ernest Hemingway; Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast"; Andre Dubus; Henry James; T.S. Eliot; Zadie Smith; Smith's "Changing My Mind" Music: "Possible Light" by Ziv Moran; "Spain" by Dan Pundak; "Fragments" by Borrtex; "Mindplay (instrumental)" by Roza; "The World Inside" by Rodello's Machine (All...
2020-10-1413 min
I dialoghi di Fondazione BassettiBuilding a biotech cluster: a meeting with Eliot Forster - Full version(In English)
On the 22nd of November 2018, the Bassetti Foundation had the pleasure and honour of hosting the "Building a biotech cluster: the MedCity experience" seminar, an audience with Eliot Forster.
The speaker is President of the MedCity project, whose aim is to promote the natural sciences in the London/Cambridge/Oxford "Golden Triangle".
The fruits of a collaboration between the Bassetti Foundation and the university of Pavia, the initiative was introduced by Professors Vittorio Bellotti and Francesco Svelto. During the presentation participants learned about the MedCity experience, founded in 2012 and of which Forster was one...
2020-04-291h 23
I dialoghi di Fondazione BassettiBuilding a biotech cluster: the MedCity experience - 3/3(In English) Part 3 / 3
On the 22nd of November 2018, the Bassetti Foundation had the pleasure and honour of hosting the "Building a biotech cluster: the MedCity experience" seminar, an audience with Eliot Forster.
The speaker is President of the MedCity project, whose aim is to promote the natural sciences in the London/Cambridge/Oxford "Golden Triangle".
The fruits of a collaboration between the Bassetti Foundation and the university of Pavia, the initiative was introduced by Professors Vittorio Bellotti and Francesco Svelto. During the presentation participants learned about the MedCity experience, founded in 2012 and of which Forster was...
2020-04-2928 min
I dialoghi di Fondazione BassettiBuilding a biotech cluster: the MedCity experience - 2/3(In English) Part 2 / 3
On the 22nd of November 2018, the Bassetti Foundation had the pleasure and honour of hosting the "Building a biotech cluster: the MedCity experience" seminar, an audience with Eliot Forster.
The speaker is President of the MedCity project, whose aim is to promote the natural sciences in the London/Cambridge/Oxford "Golden Triangle".
The fruits of a collaboration between the Bassetti Foundation and the university of Pavia, the initiative was introduced by Professors Vittorio Bellotti and Francesco Svelto. During the presentation participants learned about the MedCity experience, founded in 2012 and of which Forster was...
2020-04-2918 min
I dialoghi di Fondazione BassettiBuilding a biotech cluster: the MedCity experience - 1/3(In English) Part 1 / 3
On the 22nd of November 2018, the Bassetti Foundation had the pleasure and honour of hosting the "Building a biotech cluster: the MedCity experience" seminar, an audience with Eliot Forster.
The speaker is President of the MedCity project, whose aim is to promote the natural sciences in the London/Cambridge/Oxford "Golden Triangle".
The fruits of a collaboration between the Bassetti Foundation and the university of Pavia, the initiative was introduced by Professors Vittorio Bellotti and Francesco Svelto. During the presentation participants learned about the MedCity experience, founded in 2012 and of which Forster was...
2020-04-2936 min
Arts & IdeasWhat's so great about EM ForsterDeborah Levy and Laurence Scott talk to Shahidha Bari about the writer's work from his earliest novel Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) to his Essay Aspects of the Novel (1927). Recorded in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature at the British Library.Producer: Torquil MacLeodLaurence Scott is the author of The Four-Dimensional Human and Picnic, Comma, Lightning. He presented a Radio 3 Sunday Feature about Merchant Ivory which includes interviews about their film adpatations of EM Forster's work https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04003kn
Deborah Levy is the author of novels including Hot...
2020-03-2358 minIn the AtelierWorking Without WorkingWhat really takes discipline? Not working.
Mentioned in this episode: W.H. Auden; Saul Bellow; Joan Didion; E.M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel"; Annie Dillard; Dillard's "A Writing Life"; Ernest Hemingway; Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast"; Andre Dubus; Henry James; T.S. Eliot; Zadie Smith; Smith's "Changing My Mind"
Music: "Possible Light" by Ziv Moran; "Spain" by Dan Pundak; "Fragments" by Borrtex; "Mindplay (instrumental)" by Roza; "The World Inside" by Rodello's Machine
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2020-01-2213 min
Get Lost In A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Captivating.Genius and Ink by Virginia WoolfPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/37127to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Genius and Ink
Author: Virginia Woolf
Narrator: Olivia Dowd
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
Release date: 11-28-19
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 14 ratings
Genres: Essays
Publisher's Summary:
In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper’s defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars. The weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of re...
2019-11-287h 23
Tea or Books?Tea or Books? #78: 19th Century vs 20th Century and Two Unfinished Jane Austen NovelsSanditon, The Watsons, and a whistle-stop tour of the centuries – we’re back!
https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Tea-or-books-episode-78.mp3
In the first half of this episode, we take a suggestion from Elizabeth – do we prefer the nineteenth or twentieth century for literature? That’s an awful lot to cover, so we just look at British literature… and not very much of that tbh. But it’s fun!
In the second half, we look at Sanditon and The Watsons – two unfinished novels by Jane Austen – and pick which one is our favourite, and which we wish ha...
2019-11-1400 minTea or Books? – Stuck in a BookTea or Books? #78: 19th Century vs 20th Century and Two Unfinished Jane Austen NovelsSanditon, The Watsons, and a whistle-stop tour of the centuries – we’re back!
https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Tea-or-books-episode-78.mp3
In the first half of this episode, we take a suggestion from Elizabeth – do we prefer the nineteenth or twentieth century for literature? That’s an awful lot to cover, so we just look at British literature… and not very much of that tbh. But it’s fun!
In the second half, we look at Sanditon and The Watsons – two unfinished novels by Jane Austen – and pick which one is our favourite, and which we wish ha...
2019-11-1400 minTea or Books? – Stuck in a BookTea or Books? #68: Tact vs Attack, and North and South vs Pride and PrejudiceThe books we hate (and should we tell you?) and Elizabeth Gaskell vs Jane Austen.
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In the first half of this episode, we talk about the books we’ve hated – prepare for things to get contentious! – and then, perhaps belatedly, debate whether or not we should keep those opinions to ourselves. In the second half (thanks to a recommendation by Rebekah), we compare two nineteenth-century classics: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.
You can support the podcast at Patreon...
2019-01-2900 minTea or Books?Tea or Books? #68: Tact vs Attack, and North and South vs Pride and PrejudiceThe books we hate (and should we tell you?) and Elizabeth Gaskell vs Jane Austen.
https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Tea-or-Books-episode-68.mp3
In the first half of this episode, we talk about the books we’ve hated – prepare for things to get contentious! – and then, perhaps belatedly, debate whether or not we should keep those opinions to ourselves. In the second half (thanks to a recommendation by Rebekah), we compare two nineteenth-century classics: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.
You can support the podcast at Patreon...
2019-01-2900 min
You're Booked9. Andy MillerThis week we travel to the sunny Kent coast to meet writer, reader, podcaster and Brookner fanatic Andy Miller. Andy is the author of The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life and the co-host of the fantastic and highly informative Backlisted podcast. We were allowed VIP access to his exclusive reading shed where we discussed life-changing books, Dan Brown, Peanuts versus Proust and, of course, Anita Brookner.BOOKSAndy Miller - The Year of Reading DangerouslyAndy Miller - Tilting at WindmillsAndy Miller...
2018-12-311h 00
Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good ReadEpisode 59 - Learning About Horseshoe Crabs!Episode Fifty Nine Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine
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– Currently Reading –
Scribe of Siena – Melodie Winawer (CW)(audio)
Solemn Graves (Billy Boyle Mystery Series #13) – James R. Benn (CW)
The Odyssey – Homer, translated by Emily Wilson (CW)
The NY Times article discussing the new translation of The Odyssey by Emily Wilson can be found HERE.
– Just Read –
Scribe...
2018-09-1853 minBook Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good ReadEpisode 56 - Baby, It's Steamy Outside!Episode Fifty Six Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
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– Currently Reading/Listening –
The Prisoner in the Castle – Susan Elia MacNeal (CW)
Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting Pot – Edward Lee (EF)
All About Boats: The Evacuation of Manhattan Island on September 11, 2001 – edited by Mike Magee (CW)
The Stars Are Fire – Anita Shreve (EF)
Middlemarch – George Eliot (CW)
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Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan (CW)
The Masterpiece – Fiona Davis (EF)
– Biblio Adventures –
Emily went to RJ Julia’s Booksellers in Madi...
2018-08-0756 min
Humanities and Social Sciences – Pod AcademyPutting our genome to workThis podcast is drawn from a Progress Educational Trust (PET) event called Putting Your Genome to Work: For the NHS, for Industry, for the UK Post-Brexit
Chair: Sarah Norcross, Director of PET
Speakers:
Dr Eliot Forster, Chair of MedCity
Dr Edward HockingsFounding Director of Ethics and Genetics
Dr Athena Matakidou, Head of Clinical Genomics at AstraZeneca‘s Centre for Genomics Research, and Consultant in Medical Oncology at Cambridge University Hospitals
Dr Jayne Spink, Chief Executive of Genetic Alliance UK
We are at the beginning of a biomedic...
2018-06-2136 minPod AcademyPutting our genome to workThis podcast is drawn from a Progress Educational Trust (PET) event called Putting Your Genome to Work: For the NHS, for Industry, for the UK Post-Brexit
Chair: Sarah Norcross, Director of PET
Speakers:
Dr Eliot Forster, Chair of MedCity
Dr Edward HockingsFounding Director of Ethics and Genetics
Dr Athena Matakidou, Head of Clinical Genomics at AstraZeneca‘s Centre for Genomics Research, and Consultant in Medical Oncology at Cambridge University Hospitals
Dr Jayne Spink, Chief Executive of Genetic Alliance UK
We are at the beginning of a biomedic...
2018-06-2136 min
Academy of Ideas#BattleFest2017: Are science and medicine threatened by borders?Scientists and doctors have emerged as among the most vociferous critics of Brexit and Trump. The March for Science expressed the concerns of many researchers and clinicians on both sides of the Atlantic about the future of funding and about the movement of researchers and students across national borders. Many were also alarmed at the apparent lack of respect for expertise and evidence in public policy. But whose responsibility should it be to fund scientific research? How can science and medicine best be defended and pursued, in an uncertain world of shifting borders?
SPEAKERS
DR...
2018-05-181h 19
Saturday ReviewIsle of Dogs, The Inheritance, To Throw Away Unopened, Hope to NopeThe American auteur Wes Anderson's new stop motion animation feature film "Isle of Dogs" is set in a dystopian future Japan and features the voices of Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Greta Gerwig, Scarlet Johansson and Edward Norton - as dogs marooned in a garbage dump called Trash island. This is Anderson's second animation after his adaptation of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox, and tells the story of 12 year old run away Atari on a mission to save his dog, Spots, after a deadly dog flu virus spreads through the canine population. The Inheritance at London's Young Vic...
2018-03-3149 minBook Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good ReadNo Power, No Problem! Maurice Read Along ConversationEpisode Forty Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine
– Our 4th Giveaway –
The winner is Sally – entrant #42:
Stay with Me – Ayobami Adebayo
Sweetgirl – Travis Mulahauser
Love and Other Consolation Prizes – Jamie Ford
Saints for All Occasions – J. Courtney Sullivan
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– Currently Reading/Listening –
The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas (EF)
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather – Willa Cather, Andrew Jewell (CW)
Chicago Poems – Carl Sandburg (CW)
Tangeri...
2018-03-061h 28Academy of Ideas#BattleFest2017: Can biotech lead an economic revolution?Recording of the debate at the Battle of Ideas 2017 at The Barbican in London, in partnership with Immunocore.
The new Life Sciences Industrial Strategy claims that ‘in a country where productivity is a major challenge, public sector life sciences discovery activity… is dramatically more productive compared to other countries such as the USA or Germany’. What role will biotechnology play in the industries of tomorrow? Will it predominate as a durable, sizeable and job-creating sector, helping to turn around the UK’s flagging productivity, or does its value rest more in its place at the vanguard?
SPEAKERS...
2017-12-0759 min
PW RadioBill Goldstein on The World Broke in Two | Changes at NYTBR - PW Radio Show 239Author Bill Goldstein discusses his new book, 'The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature.' PW associate news editor John Maher looks at the recent and upcoming changes at the New York Times Book Review.
2017-08-1854 min
PW InsiderPW Radio 239: Bill Goldstein and Changes at the NYTBRAuthor Bill Goldstein discusses his new book, 'The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature.' PW associate news editor John Maher looks at the recent and upcoming changes at the New York Times Book Review.
2017-08-1854 min
The Book ReviewNew Books About ParentingJudith Newman discusses new parenting books, and Bill Goldstein talks about “The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature.”
Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our...
2017-08-1147 min
Mendelspod PodcastU.K. Life Science Update with Eliot Forster, MedCityGuest:Eliot Forster, Executive Chair, MedCity Bio and Contact Info Listen (2:54) Cashing in on illustrious life science tradition Listen (2:56) Culture of collaboration strong in the UK This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mendelspod.com/subscribe
2014-09-0825 min
PZ's PodcastEpisode 33 - "Mr." PriestThis podcast is about professional titles:
the more reduced in circumstances an institution,
the more high-flown its titles.
Did you know that until about 1970 Episcopal clergy were always called
'Mr." ? (They were never called 'Father', except in one parish, max two,
per city.) The later Cardinal Newman was 'Mr. Newman', and Edward Bouverie Pusey was 'Mr. Pusey'.
But don't take my word for it. Read W. M. Thackerey, read E.M. Forster. See 'Showboat', the 1936 version.
An interesting principle seems to be at work: when things are going great, the leader is just...
2011-02-1331 min