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Cinema Spectator
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Isaac, Cameron and Juzo discuss the classic romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally (1989), directed by Rob Reiner. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan have an infectious chemistry with each other, and the film is cleverly written by Nora Ephron. We also discuss a few new releases like 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and Send Help, so feel free to skip to 56 minutes if you're only interested in When Harry Met Sally. Enjoy! Cinema Spectator is a movie podcast hosted by Isaac Ransom, Juzo Greenwood, and Cameron Tuttle. The show is executive produced by Darrin O’Neill and...
2026-02-03
1h 38
BookOdyssey
Lightbringers and Rainmakers by Felix Gilman
This novella by Felix Gilman follows the journey of Harry Ransom, a charismatic traveling inventor and "Lightbringer" who navigates a surreal frontier war zone. Through a series of epistolary letters to his sisters and acquaintances, Ransom recounts how he lost his equipment during a military raid and fled to the drought-stricken town of Disorder. There, he enters a tense partnership with a suspicious rainmaker named Flood to negotiate with the mysterious Hill Folk on a peak known as Big Witch. The narrative explores themes of scientific ambition, the reliability of memory, and the clash between industrial forces and ancient...
2026-01-22
28 min
Ransom Note
Autumns - The Ransom Note Mix
Post-punk provocateur Autumns has been catapulting angular weapons over the ramparts since 2014… Carving out a fierce reputation across labels like Downwards, Opal Tapes, iDEAL Recordings and DKA Records. Christian Donaghey’s relentless live show has seen him tour worldwide alongside Veronica Vasicka, Silent Servant, and Wire, delivering workouts that pummel those lower frequencies into submission. Now, as he joins Ransom Note with the ferocious EP ‘Through the Construction of Grace’ EP, the “lanky, ginger man from Derry” offers up a mix that captures his intuitive approach to music-making. Recorded in his bedroom, it’s a journey through the sounds that have shaped Au...
2025-11-21
1h 02
Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
Tara Ward: Mobland, Etoile, Ransom Canyon
Mobland Power is up for grabs as two warring crime families clash in a battle that threatens to topple empires and ruin lives. In the crossfire stands Harry Da Souza, a street-smart 'fixer' who knows too well where loyalties lie when opposing forces collide (Prime Video). Etoile In an ambitious gambit to save their storied institutions, two world-renowned ballet companies in New York City and Paris swap their most talented stars. From the Executive Producers of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel comes a bold new series celebrating the beauty, humor, and unpredictability of a...
2025-04-26
04 min
Encouraging Christians
The Ransom
Jesus paid for you. You were a slave in the Sin Slave Market. Maybe you still are! Have you been born again? Have you been redeemed by the blood of Jesus? Please reach out to us at encouragingchristians@gmail.com to learn how to be saved. If you need to be disciples as a believer, reach out to us through email. We want to help you!
2025-04-19
06 min
Born To Watch - A Movie Podcast
Dirty Harry (1971)
Dirty Harry (1971) is a film that not only redefined the crime thriller genre but also cemented Clint Eastwood’s place as one of cinema’s most iconic leading men. In this week’s episode of Born to Watch, Whitey and Gow are joined by special guest Will the Worky to discuss this gritty masterpiece that follows the relentless pursuit of justice by Inspector Harry Callahan. With its unforgettable storytelling, striking cinematography, and the moral dilemmas it raises, Dirty Harry is more than just a film—it’s a cultural landmark. In this Dirty Harry Movie Review, we’ll break down why thi...
2025-01-28
1h 40
My Blog » lowe13
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Link To Download : https://recomendedbook.com/?book=0292721447 To Read or Download On the Dirty Plate Trail: Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series) by Sanora Babb Available versions: EPUB, PDF, MOBI, DOC, Kindle, Audiobook, etc. Reading On the Dirty Plate Trail: Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center […]
2024-10-05
00 min
Dead End Hip Hop
Ransom & Harry Fraud - Lavish Misery Album Review
A review of Ransom and Harry Fraud's 'Lavish Misery' album. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2024-03-29
08 min
Dead End Hip Hop
Ransom & Harry Fraud - Lavish Misery Album Review
A review of Ransom and Harry Fraud's 'Lavish Misery' album. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-03-29
10 min
Big Ideas TXST
Episode 45: Edward Curtis’ “The North American Indian” with David Coleman
Texas State University’s David Coleman, director of The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, joins the Big Ideas TXST podcast to discuss the legacy of Edward Curtis and his photography collection, “The North American Indian.”In 1906 Curtis received a grant from financier J.P. Morgan to record, through photography and the written word, all Native American tribes who retained some degree of their “primitive” lifestyle. Native Americans were almost wholly confined to reservations by this time, and they were subjected to federal programs that forced their assimilation to Western ways. Curtis felt passionately that their cultures should be...
2023-11-06
31 min
Revenant Alien
Ramble Room - Elliot Schiff
Elliot Schiff is a voice actor, a husband, a father, and a good friend. Every time we chat, I come away encouraged, enlightened, and inspired. He has that amazing gift of being able to make whoever he's talking to feel like the most important person in the world, and he's got one of the brightest outlooks and kindest spirits of anyone I've ever met. Sit back, relax, and enjoy another round in the Ramble Room! Topics covered Elliot’s recent work: Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, Watcher of Realms, audio description for Succession, The Wh...
2023-09-22
57 min
The Peak Daily
Ransom 💰— Public inquiry on electoral interference. Searching for UFOs. And Indigo refuses to pay ransom.
A parliamentary committee voted to call on the Prime Minister to open an independent public inquiry into foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections.The Chief Science Advisor of Canada wants to get to the bottom of this UFO business.If you’ve been waiting to order a copy of Prince Harry’s memoir or various home goods of questionable usefulness from Indigo, you’re gonna have to keep waiting.Celebrating something? Let us know here: https://thepeak.typeform.com/to/MNdYA3TO
2023-03-03
09 min
Revenant Alien
RRA #21 - What We Are
How many of us really live out what we truly are? How many of us even know? Can you even know? How? From where? Let’s ramble away and see if we can't figure a few things out… Welcome to the Ramblings of a Revenant Alien podcast. Sit back, take a sip’a somethin’ bold, and enjoy yourself. To a Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church, by Robert Burns: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/louse-seeing-one-ladys-bonnet-church/ Harry Pott...
2022-12-16
35 min
Strange Familiars
The Victorian Blood Book
We present the story of Durenstein aka The Victorian Blood Book, a strange scrapbook of religious and natural imagery, hand-written poetry, and other ornaments – every page dripping with red India ink “blood”. We also talk about potentially poison books.If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliarsIf you would prefer a one-time payment to help us out, here is a PayPal.me link - you can change the number 25 in the URL to any a...
2022-09-01
1h 07
The Austin Daily Drop
Austin Daily Drop - Thursday August 4, 2022
Wildfires near Austin continue burning: the Big Sky fire near Fredericksburg has burned nearly 1,500 acres and is 60% contained, the Smoke Rider fire near Dripping Springs burns on as well, now having consumed 1,200 acres and several homes with 70% containment, and a third wildfire has forced evacuations near Wimberley. Austin Fire is pleading with local smokers to keep their lit butts inside their cars. Following the lead of several other Texas cities including Austin, San Marcos city officials announce that their police department will not investigate violations of new abortion bans in Texas.
2022-08-05
07 min
The Austin Daily Drop
Austin Daily Drop - Tuesday June 28, 2022
In the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade, several companies with presences in Austin have announced that they'll cover travel costs for employees seeking abortion care. Travis County DA Jose Garza has announced that his office will not prosecute abortion-related cases, and Austin City Council Member Chito Vela is spearheading a resolution discouraging Austin police from investigating allegations concerning abortion. The decision has also prompted an increase of interest in vasectomies and tubal ligation procedures. A city-commissioned consumer advocate team is warning that proposed utility price hikes from Austin Energy will present...
2022-06-28
07 min
Quotomania
Quotomania 258: Anne Sexton
Today’s Quotation is care of Anne Sexton. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts, on November 9, 1928. She attended boarding school at Rogers Hall Lowell, Massachusetts, where she first started writing poetry. She attended Garland Junior College for one year and married Alfred Muller Sexton II at age nineteen. Sexton and her husband spent time in San Francisco before moving back to Massachusetts for the birth of their first daughter, Linda Gray Sexton, in 1953. After he...
2022-06-16
01 min
The Austin Daily Drop
Austin Daily Drop - Friday June 10, 2022
For the first time since new three-level, CDC-managed measurement metrics were adopted for Travis County, our COVID risk assessment has been raised from Low to Medium level. Austin U.S. Representative Chip Roy presented what the Statesman calls a "dystopian" critique of attempts to apply restrictions to gun access during another hearing Thursday that featured survivors of the Uvalde shooting - one Democratic lawmaker pointed out that Roy's pretext for protecting gun rights involves owners turning them on American troops. Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school police department head who...
2022-06-10
09 min
Nigel Beale's Biblio File Podcast
Stephen Enniss on special collections, value, Martin Amis and Andrew Wylie
Stephen Enniss is director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin. Previous posts include Head Librarian at the Folger Shakespeare Library and Director of Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library where he made a series of impressive acquisitions including the archives of Seamus Heaney, Salman Rushdie and Ted Hughes. Since taking over at the Ransom Center in 2013, Stephen has overseen the acquisition of the archives of Ian McEwan, J.M. Coetzee, Kazuo Ishiguro, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Michael Ondaatje, among others. We met via Zoom to discuss his role as director of a...
2022-05-24
1h 00
The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale
Stephen Enniss on special collections libraries, value, Martin Amis and Andrew Wylie
Stephen Enniss is director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin. Previous posts include Head Librarian at the Folger Shakespeare Library and Director of Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library where he made a series of impressive acquisitions including the archives of Seamus Heaney, Salman Rushdie and Ted Hughes. Since taking over at the Ransom Center in 2013, Stephen has overseen the acquisition of the archives of Ian McEwan, J.M. Coetzee, Kazuo Ishiguro, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Michael Ondaatje, among others. We met via Zoom to discuss his role as d...
2022-05-24
1h 00
The Breakdown with Robbie
Producer: Tom Kirdahy
Tom Kiradhy is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer whose projects have spanned Broadway, off-Broadway, the West End, and national and international tours. He most recently produced the Broadway production of the epic two-part play THE INHERITANCE (4 Tony Awards including Best Play), the smash-hit HADESTOWN (8 Tony Awards including Best Musical), the off-Broadway revival of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS starring Tammy Blanchard, Jonathan Groff, and Christian Borle (Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Best Revival of a Musical), Terrence McNally’s FRANKIE & JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE starring Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon (2 Tony nominations including Be...
2022-05-02
54 min
The Austin Daily Drop
Austin Daily Drop - Monday April 4, 2022
A sizeable crowd rallied at the Texas State Capitol on Saturday to observe Transgender Visibility Day. Austin Mayor Steve Adler has tested positive for COVID-19 and is isolating - meanwhile an inquiry into Mayor Adler's real estate holdings has been dismissed by the City's Ethics Review Commission. Texas teachers, in the midst of a staffing and retention crisis, report that they have recently been required to take a long and rigorous training regimen under threat of termination, but without compensation. Neighboring New Mexico has become the 18th state to legalize recreational marijuana...
2022-04-04
08 min
Author's Afterword
52: Edward Carey (B: A Year In Plague And Pencils; The Swallowed Man)
Charlie and Edward Carey (B: A Year in Plague and Pencils; The Swallowed Man) discuss his epic drawing project wherein he undertook to create a sketch each day of the pandemic, the various individuals whose lives became a part of the wider picture, and finish on a completely different but relevant subject - the literary and social history of Pinocchio. Some podcast apps do not show description links properly unless the listener subscribes to the podcast. If you can't click the links below and don't wish to subscribe, copy and paste the following address into your browser...
2022-01-10
41 min
Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast
Álvaro Santana-Acuña, "Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic" (Columbia UP, 2020)
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a revered classic today fifty five years after it was first published in 1967. Today I talked to Alvaro Santana Acuña a sociologist and historian who describes the ingredients that went into manufacturing the success of this book. In Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic (Columbia UP, 2020), Alvaro Santana-Acuña first deconstructs the “fake news” surrounding García Márquez and then describes the cultural brokers, the literary cognoscenti of the Boom, the gatekeepers, the Spanish publishing industry and the Casa de las Americas wh...
2021-12-03
45 min
New Books in Latin American Studies
Álvaro Santana-Acuña, "Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic" (Columbia UP, 2020)
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a revered classic today fifty five years after it was first published in 1967. Today I talked to Alvaro Santana Acuña a sociologist and historian who describes the ingredients that went into manufacturing the success of this book. In Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic (Columbia UP, 2020), Alvaro Santana-Acuña first deconstructs the “fake news” surrounding García Márquez and then describes the cultural brokers, the literary cognoscenti of the Boom, the gatekeepers, the Spanish publishing industry and the Casa de las Americas wh...
2021-12-03
48 min
Til The Podcast Drops
#021 - 2+1 Savages (Oochie Wally) | Kanye Drink Champs, Stem Player, RAG, Rin, Curren$y, Willie The Kid, Don Toliver, Ransom, Rome Streetz, RTJ, Tommy Genesis, Megan Thee Stallion, Westside Gunn
Erst sind wir überraschend zu zweit, dann überraschend zu dritt. 21. Unchecked schwadronieren Raoul und Maurice erstmal über Kanye bei Drink Champs, dem Pay-Per-View Sunday Service, Stem Player und alternative Versionen von Donda Songs. Dann finden sie über Rin und RAG wieder in den Flow. Highlight chopped and screwed Big Pimpin in der Tanzaufführung. Echte Queensbridge Soldiers. Wo simmer denn? Wer nennt sonst 2Malle und Skills en Masse innerhalb von 5 Sekunden? Wann macht Casper sein Something for The Hotties? It's a blessing. Real, Trap, Shit. Damn Son, where'd you find this? Gewohnte Kost also von uns, wie ein Jay E...
2021-11-21
2h 14
Clever with Amy Devers
Clever Confidential Ep. 3: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Murders at Taliesin
On the afternoon of August 14th, 1915, fire ripped through Taliesin, the Spring Green, Wisconsin home of the world’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. When the smoke cleared seven people would be dead, murdered with an axe at the hands of Julian Carlton, a servant of Wright’s. But why? The motive remains a mystery to this day. But there are so many other questions. Why does seemingly everyone know Frank Lloyd Wright but strangely, very few seem to know this much darker side of his story? In this episode we’ll investigate all of that as well as the...
2021-10-19
29 min
The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale
Stephen Enniss on the Relationship between Collectors and Rare Book Libraries
Dr. Stephen Enniss is Director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He has held previous appointments at the Folger Shakespeare Library and at Emory University's Rare Book Library. His research interests are in 20th century poetry, and he has written on Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Seamus Heaney, among others. He is the author of After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon (Gill and Macmillan, 2014). The Harry Ransom Center is one of the great rare book libraries of the world. Not only does it possess many of the greatest books a...
2021-08-27
39 min
Perfect Bound with Jennifer Yoffy
Louie Palu
Louie and I met in 2011. He was just back from Afghanistan with the most gorgeous silver portraits of soldiers he was embedded with. Six years later, we would publish those portraits as part of the deconstructed photobook, Front Towards Enemy. We had many adventures in between and even more since, including sitting 10 feet from Andrew McCarthy during a screening of Pretty in Pink. To know Louie is to adore him. He is one of the most sincere, loyal, stand-up people I know, and I'm thrilled you'll get to know him a little (by listening) too. Louie Palu is...
2021-08-19
48 min
Speaking of Shakespeare
SoS #15 | Aaron Pratt: Harry Ransom Center
This conversation is also available on YouTube under the search term, 'Speaking of Shakespeare.' Aaron Pratt studied the early modern period with a cadre of fine scholars first at Ohio State University and then at Yale University. He is currently the Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. Aaron describe the center and its holdings and also discussed his scholarly approaches to evaluating the public reception and impact of early books and manuscripts within the context of the times they appeared. He also speaks on early mo...
2021-08-15
1h 39
Til The Podcast Drops
#018 - Mit 176,4 kHz im EXIF Grind | Mach-Hommy, DMX, Knowledge the Pirate, Mike Dean, Peter Rosenberg, Ransom, Kali Uchis, Sons of Kemet
Wir gehen in eine kurze Sommerpause. Summer SZN approaching. Unsere Til The Podcast Playlist(s): "Told Virgil write "Playlist" on my Playlist" (Spotify) "Told Virgil write "Playlist" on my Playlist" (Tidal) "Cigarette Marina" Playlist (Best of Curren$y & Harry Fraud) (Spotify) TTPD Instagram TTPD Twitter TTPD RSS Feed für euren Podcatcher Til the Podcast Drops Selector (Playlists, Spotify, iTunes, Podimo, Deezer, you name it) Wir sprechen über: Mach-Hommy - Pray 4 Haiti (curated by Westside Gunn) DMX - E...
2021-06-27
1h 42
Bustles & Broadswords
Toupie Lowther
This week, we cover a gender non-conforming lesbian who was a fencer, a tennis player, WWI ambulance driving unit leader AND a key player in a 20s lesbian book scandal...the unpredictable Toupie Lowther. Show notes!Images:Toupie Lowther in breeches in The Sketch, 1900Toupie in a tennis outfit, c. 1900, Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum.Late 19th/early 20th century postcard of a woman fencing with the caption "just you try and break up with her" in French (and great pictures in this French blog post in general)Members of the H...
2021-06-26
50 min
Blank Kanvas Show
Kwame “Smoke” Brown Silences the Media | YG & Mozzy, Kodak Black, Benny & 38 Spesh, Mach-Hommy, Dark Lo & Harry Fraud Music Reviews | NBA Playoffs
This week the Don't Sleep on the Couch Podcast discusses the current state of the Joe Budden Podcast, Kwame Brown smokes the media, NBA play in tourney final results. Reviews YG & Mozzy, Kodak Black, Benny & 38 Spesh, Mach-Hommy, Dark Lo & Harry Fraud latest projects.MUSIC:🎧 REVIEW: New Single - Lloyd Banks & Ransom “Gluttony” (06:40)🎧 REVIEW: New Single - Lil’ Baby & Kirk Franklin “We Win” (11:04)🎧 REVIEW: YG & Mozzy - "Kommunity Service" (16:30)🎧 REVIEW: 38 Spesh & Benny the Butcher - "Trust the Sopranos" (21:32)🎧 REVIEW: Kodak Black "Haitian Boy Kodak" (28:00)🎧 REVIEW: Mach-Hommy- "Pray for Haiti" (30:20)
2021-05-25
1h 05
The Theatre History Podcast
Episode 73: Introducing the Theatre 2020 Collection with Dr. Eric Colleary
Learn how Dr. Eric Colleary and his colleagues at the Harry Ransom Center are documenting how the tumultuous events of 2020 affected theatre.
2021-04-26
22 min
Agaveculture. The Agave and sotol lessons and Mexican gastronomy. A+ work © Ana G. Valenzuela-Zapata
Fotografía y Periodismo #94. Joel Salcido: la identidad Mexicana y el Tequila en tiempos de Trump.
¿Es usted parte de la diáspora Mexicana en el mundo? Lo invito a escuchar la historia de Joel Salcido un periodista (perfectamente bilingüe) nacido en México y criado desde la infancia en los Estados Unidos de América. Es un fotógrafo y un testigo viviente de la cultura entre Texas y México. Desde el 2012 al 2017 se propuso rescatar las imágenes de las industrias tequileras para mostrarlas en los EUA y México, un trabajo y una ambición personal de búsqueda propia de identidad hasta convertirlas en un libro. Las fotografías de diversas ind...
2020-11-18
41 min
Photography Down The Line
Photography Down The Line with Roberta McGrath (recorded: 4 November 2020)
Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Roberta McGrath. Roberta McGrath writes on the history, theory and politics of photographic representation. She has worked as a lecturer and researcher at universities in the UK since the early 1980s. From 2004-15 she was Reader in Photographic Theory, History and Criticism at Edinburgh Napier University. In 2014, McGrath was awarded a research fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. She has published widely and contributed to journals including: Feminist Review, The History of Photography, The Journal of Visual Communication, Portfolio, Ten:8...
2020-11-06
43 min
With the Bark Off: Conversations on the American Presidency
“Trump seized history’s clock”: A Conversation with Bob Woodward
Since breaking the fateful story of Watergate in 1972, Bob Woodward has been at the top of his field, twice winning the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism and writing 18 best-selling books. Woodward’s latest book, “Rage,” his second on Donald Trump, features 18 exclusive interviews with President Trump himself. In this episode, he discusses the explosive new book and what it says about President Trump, the balance between journalism and history, and his nearly 50-year career covering nine presidents. This conversation was recorded on September 24, 2020, as part of a virtual program co-sponsored by the Harry Ransom Center and the Schoo...
2020-10-15
41 min
God's Word for Life
Episode 25 - Our Ransom Was Paid
Send us a textThis episode looks at Romans 7:21-8:2 and I Timothy 2:3-6. In these passages, we read how Paul discussed with both Timothy and the church at Rome how Jesus Christ came to Earth to give Himself as the sacrifice for our sins. Without the shedding of His blood and the giving of His life, none of us would know freedom from sin. We learn from this lesson that Jesus came to set us free from the bondage of sin.For those who use Word Aflame Curriculum, the Bible passage focused on in...
2020-10-12
21 min
The is a Sport Social Test
Harry Maguire in a spot of bother, Paul Pogba staying at Manchester United and further Chelsea reinforcements
Harry Maguire got in some heated holiday handbags in Mykonos. Should the Manchester United captain have known better, is he getting unfair stick and are the media giving ol' slabhead favourable treatment? Plus, Paul Pogba is staying at Old Trafford says his agent, Chelsea eye more top players to bring to Stamford Bridge, and Marley, Jim and Steve discuss the latest top flight transfer gossip.Football Social Daily is brought to you in association with KingCasino.com. Grab your royal ransom of 100% (up to £150) plus 50 free spins on site now: https://onlinecasino.kingcasino.com/Redirect.aspx?mid=505&sid=3733&cid=FootballSocialDailyPodcastCampaign&p...
2020-08-24
45 min
The is a Sport Social Test
Harry Maguire in a spot of bother, Paul Pogba staying at Manchester United and further Chelsea reinforcements
Harry Maguire got in some heated holiday handbags in Mykonos. Should the Manchester United captain have known better, is he getting unfair stick and are the media giving ol' slabhead favourable treatment? Plus, Paul Pogba is staying at Old Trafford says his agent, Chelsea eye more top players to bring to Stamford Bridge, and Marley, Jim and Steve discuss the latest top flight transfer gossip.Football Social Daily is brought to you in association with KingCasino.com. Grab your royal ransom of 100% (up to £150) plus 50 free spins on site now: https://onlinecasino.kingcasino.com/Redirect.aspx?mid=505&sid=3733&cid=FootballSocialDailyPodcastCampaign&p...
2020-08-24
47 min
Skylight Books Podcast Series
Jenn Shapland, "MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS" w/
While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named Annemarie—letters that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters’ language—but does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of McCullers’s life: she wades through the therapy transcripts; she stays at McCullers’s childhood home, where she lounges in her bathtub and eats delivery pizza; she relives McCullers...
2020-03-24
55 min
British Studies Lecture Series
Why Did Elizabethans and Jacobeans Read Shakespeare’s Plays?
Aaron Pratt HARRY RANSOM CENTER Before the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623 and the efforts of subsequent editors and critics, England’s printed playbooks were considered “riff raff,” connected more with the world of London’s popular theaters than with what we might think of as “capital-L” Literature. Or so we have been told. This […]
2020-03-02
00 min
British Studies Lecture Series
Why Did Elizabethans and Jacobeans Read Shakespeare’s Plays?
Aaron Pratt HARRY RANSOM CENTER Before the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623 and the efforts of subsequent editors and critics, England’s printed playbooks were considered “riff raff,” connected more with the world of London’s popular theaters than with what we might think of as “capital-L” Literature. Or so we have been told. This […]
2020-03-02
00 min
Surfing Through Cinema
4. Random thoughts and "Die Hard" Action Week 2/10/20
This week Hawaii Harry will discuss the classic action film "Die Hard" . He and Hunter also will discuss ransom topics, instagram accounts, personality types, and more! This podcast premieres at 5:00 A.M. (PST) every Monday with each having a specific theme 1st Monday: Studio Week: discussion of a specific movie studio and its history starting with the Pre-1910s Cinema 2nd Monday: Genre Week: Every month will be focused on a different genre of film starting Action films 3rd Monday: Star Wars Week: discussion of a Star Wars film in chronological order of events, not theatrical order 4th Monday: Disney...
2020-02-10
52 min
Cultural Press Podcasts
EP7 - Archivo personal de Gabriel García Márquez se expone en la Universidad de Texas | Conexión Artística en Cultural Press Podcast con Miguel Ángel Pérez
Desde Cultural Press Podcast esta es Conexión Artística Bienvenidos, soy Miguel Ángel Perez y me alegra estar de nuevo con ustedes En este episodio de Conexión Artística les hablo sobre la exposición del archivo personal del escritor Gabriel García Márquez en la Universidad de Texas, Estados Unidos. Con una selección de más de 200 objetos del archivo personal del reconocido escritor y ganador del premio Nobel de Literatura Gabriel Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), el Harry Ransom Center de la Universidad de Texas en Austin, most...
2020-02-06
11 min
Here Comes Some Wisdom
Episode 257 – Did Harry Sell His Damn Boat?
WJSV Broadcast Day from 1939 – Unhealthy Podcast Snacks – Brent’s Life Changes (Vinyl, Rowing & Nintendo) – River City Ransom (Online) – Brent Read a Bad Sci-Fi Book Outro Song: “Beg For It” by Chris Brown http://herecomessomewisdom.com/Episodes/Episode%20257.mp3
2020-02-02
00 min
Proles Pod
Harry Haywood - Black Bolshevik
In this epic crossover, we had Nathan and David from Marx Madness come on to discuss Black Bolshevik, one of the most important and interesting books ever written. We spent close to 3 hours talking about the remarkable life and theory of Harry Haywood. Link to the contest can be found here. If you haven't already, go to www.prolespod.com or you can help the show improve over at www.patreon.com/prolespod and in return can get access to our spicy discord, exclusive episodes, guest appearances, etc.! All kinds of great stuff. Please subscribe on yo...
2020-01-08
2h 47
New Books in the American West
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Recent debates over the building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico divide have raised logistical and ethical issues, leaving the historical record of border building uninvoked. A recent book, written by UT Austin professor Dr. C.J. Alvarez, offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990. Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide (UT Press, 2019) recounts the history of how both US and Mexican government agencies surveyed, organized, and operationalized land and water from 1848 until 2009. By centering the relationship between government agencies and b...
2020-01-03
1h 00
New Books in Mexican Studies
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Recent debates over the building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico divide have raised logistical and ethical issues, leaving the historical record of border building uninvoked. A recent book, written by UT Austin professor Dr. C.J. Alvarez, offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990. Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide (UT Press, 2019) recounts the history of how both US and Mexican government agencies surveyed, organized, and operationalized land and water from 1848 until 2009. By centering the relationship between government agencies and b...
2020-01-03
1h 00
New Books in Latino Studies
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Recent debates over the building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico divide have raised logistical and ethical issues, leaving the historical record of border building uninvoked. A recent book, written by UT Austin professor Dr. C.J. Alvarez, offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990. Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide (UT Press, 2019) recounts the history of how both US and Mexican government agencies surveyed, organized, and operationalized land and water from 1848 until 2009. By centering the relationship between government agencies and b...
2020-01-03
1h 00
New Books in Environmental Studies
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Recent debates over the building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico divide have raised logistical and ethical issues, leaving the historical record of border building uninvoked. A recent book, written by UT Austin professor Dr. C.J. Alvarez, offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990. Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide (UT Press, 2019) recounts the history of how both US and Mexican government agencies surveyed, organized, and operationalized land and water from 1848 until 2009. By centering the relationship between government agencies and b...
2020-01-03
1h 00
New Books in National Security
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Recent debates over the building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico divide have raised logistical and ethical issues, leaving the historical record of border building uninvoked. A recent book, written by UT Austin professor Dr. C.J. Alvarez, offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990. Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide (UT Press, 2019) recounts the history of how both US and Mexican government agencies surveyed, organized, and operationalized land and water from 1848 until 2009. By centering the relationship between government agencies and b...
2020-01-03
1h 00
New Books in Latin American Studies
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Recent debates over the building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico divide have raised logistical and ethical issues, leaving the historical record of border building uninvoked. A recent book, written by UT Austin professor Dr. C.J. Alvarez, offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990. Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide (UT Press, 2019) recounts the history of how both US and Mexican government agencies surveyed, organized, and operationalized land and water from 1848 until 2009. By centering the relationship between government agencies and b...
2020-01-03
1h 00
The Theatre History Podcast
Episode 44: Exploring the Performing Arts Collections at the Harry Ransom Center with Dr. Eric Colleary
The Harry Ransom Center, a world-renowned research library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, holds many treasures. Its performing arts collections are particularly fascinating, as Dr. Eric Colleary, the Cline Curator of Theater and Performing Arts at the center, tells us in this episode. Eric shares some of his favorite items in the collections and tells listeners how they can further explore the Harry Ransom Center.
2019-11-18
15 min
Around the World in 80s Movies
Who's Harry Crumb? | Paul Flaherty
John Candy plays Harry Crumb, the bumbling son who never quite lived up to the reputation of his sleuthing father and grandfather in his family's long-standing detective agency. Instead of running the company, he's been relegated to being a lowly trainee as their Tulsa office. Ineptitude is just what the CEO of the company, Eliot Draisen (Jeffrey Jones), in Los Angeles wants from an investigator for reasons of his own. Draisen flies out Crumb to Los Angeles to crack the case involving the kidnapping and ransom of Jennifer Downing, the beautiful heiress daughter of P.D. Downing (Barry Corbin) and h...
2019-11-15
13 min
Dirty Harry Minute
Minute 87 – Ransom Phone In
Pushover Mayor Is An AV Genius. Small Fry Villain With Ice Blue Eyes. Scales Of Justice Require A Harry Style ‘Bruiser’. Guests: Gerry Porter. Mandy Norbury. Shane Andrewartha. Glyn Francis. Tim Long.
2019-09-22
46 min
Dirty Harry Minute – Dirty Harry Minute
Minute 87 – Ransom Phone In
Pushover Mayor Is An AV Genius. Small Fry Villain With Ice Blue Eyes. Scales Of Justice Require A Harry Style ‘Bruiser’. Guests: Gerry Porter. Mandy Norbury. Shane Andrewartha. Glyn Francis. Tim Long.
2019-09-22
46 min
British Studies Lecture Series
Biographies: Research, Writing, and Reviews
Speakers – Bill Brands (HISTORY) Bat Sparrow (GOVERNMENT) Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa (HARRY RANSOM CENTER) Bill Brands and Bat Sparrow will discuss the difference between writing history and biography, and between writing the life of a living person and that of someone dead, perhaps long ago dead, as well as the attitudes of biographers toward their subjects. […]
2019-05-28
00 min
British Studies Lecture Series
Biographies: Research, Writing, and Reviews
Speakers – Bill Brands (HISTORY) Bat Sparrow (GOVERNMENT) Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa (HARRY RANSOM CENTER) Bill Brands and Bat Sparrow will discuss the difference between writing history and biography, and between writing the life of a living person and that of someone dead, perhaps long ago dead, as well as the attitudes of biographers toward their subjects. […]
2019-05-28
00 min
The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale
Ken Lopez on Vietnam, Book Collecting and Author Archives
Ken Lopez is a renowned antiquarian bookseller who deals in rare books, specializing in modern literary first editions. He regularly issues catalogs of modern literature and less regularly, of native American literature, the literature of the Vietnam war and the 1960s, and nature writing. He also has an established record of placing authors' archives in institutional collections. Ken is a former President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. He operates out of Hadley, Massachusetts, where I met him to talk about, among other things, collecting books about the Vietnam War, grunts, Tim O'Brien, Raymond Carver, Mario...
2019-05-27
1h 08
Concavity Show
Episode 45 - Discussing David Foster Wallace with Kyle Beachy
In Episode 45, we get to talk to Kyle Beachy, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Roosevelt U in Chicago, and author of the novel The Slide. In it, we discuss his extensive teaching of Wallace's work to creative writing students, his novel and writing on skateboarding, and get some great book recommendations from him (Kyle being one of the most well-read people Matt knows, which is saying a lot). Things we said we'd link to: Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace - https://kottke.org/09/03/growing-sentences-with-david-foster-wallace Kyle's "The Deep Seams...
2019-03-11
1h 46
The Forward
Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha is one of America's most treasured contemporary artists. Raised in Oklahoma, Ed and Lance discussed his desire to head west to California in the mid 50's, the support of his parents early on and his process for creating his paintings and photographs. An exhibit of Ed's works are on display at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin through early January.
2018-11-06
44 min
British Studies Lecture Series
Seamus Heaney & the London Origins of the Belfast Group
Speaker – Stephen Enniss, HARRY RANSOM CENTER In the early 1960s a talented group of Northern Irish poets emerged in Belfast, including the future Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. In the decades since, a popular myth has taken root about the Northern Irish Renaissance with some commentators linking the emergence of a new generation of poets […]
2018-11-02
00 min
British Studies Lecture Series
Seamus Heaney & the London Origins of the Belfast Group
Speaker – Stephen Enniss, HARRY RANSOM CENTER In the early 1960s a talented group of Northern Irish poets emerged in Belfast, including the future Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. In the decades since, a popular myth has taken root about the Northern Irish Renaissance with some commentators linking the emergence of a new generation of poets […]
2018-11-02
00 min
Uncommon
Holly Ransom - Born in perpetual motion
Holly Ransom is the CEO of Emergent, a Keynote speaker, Port Adelaide FC Director, the 2014 G20 Youth Chair, a fan of avocado with Vegemite and the youngest person to be named in Australia’s “100 Most Influential Women”. She has been featured on ABC’s Q&A, Channel 7 News & Channel 10’s The Project for her commentary on intergenerational economic and social issues. Holly specialises in disruptive strategy and building the capacity of leaders for change, which has seen her work with the likes of Microsoft, Virgin, INPEX, Europcar, KPMG, & the AIS, as well as government. She’s an experienced non-executive director who has show...
2018-08-21
54 min
The Sleeping Giant Podcast
A Very Harry Potter Podcast
‘Blah Wars’ - http://www.blahwars.comMaggie Ransom - http://www.instagram.com/maggie_ransom
2018-04-29
1h 34
Ransom Note
Harry James: The Wednesday Alternative Mix
Now here's a friendly, familiar face ready to welcome you on the most horrible day of the week. No it's not Monday but hump day and that's even worse... Harry James remains perhaps one of the most crucial figures in musical programming amidst the backbeat of London's clubbing and gig community. As the founder of SC&P he has helped champion a sound from within the murky basement of The Waiting Room and into beyond. Often ahead of the curve he has always held one ear firmly to the pulse of the city and has been influential in bringing through...
2018-04-04
1h 04
The Daily Texan Audio
Newscast: January 19th, 2018
This week on the Daily Texan Newscast we discuss campus closure on the first day of class, subsidies for on-campus mental health counseling sessions, and the Harry Ransom Center's purchase of Arthur Miller's estate. We're also joined by Senior City/State Reporter Chase Karacostas to talk about the funding of UT's China Center from a group known to spread Chinese government propaganda.
2018-01-19
04 min
The Daily Texan Audio
Newscast: January 19th, 2018
This week on the Daily Texan Newscast we discuss campus closure on the first day of class, subsidies for on-campus mental health counseling sessions, and the Harry Ransom Center's purchase of Arthur Miller's estate. We're also joined by Senior City/State Reporter Chase Karacostas to talk about the funding of UT's China Center from a group known to spread Chinese government propaganda.
2018-01-19
04 min
Rare Book School
Etherington, Don -"The Development of Conservation and Bookbinding at the HRC"
Lecture 200 (18 November 1985). Full title: "The Development of Conservation and Bookbinding at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center" Note: The audio for the Q&A portion is very quiet.
2018-01-18
52 min
Not so pedestrian adventures
A visit to the Harry Ransom Center
A visit to the Harry Ransom Center on UT campus. Current exhibit through December 31st features Mexican artists from 1920-1945.
2017-12-28
03 min
可南的艺术探索之旅
【弗里达】你看到了什么样的自己?
《两个弗里达》(1939), Frida Kahlo, 墨西哥城当代艺术博物馆 【右】身穿墨西哥服饰的弗里达手部细节:迭戈·里维拉画像(Diego) 【左】身穿欧洲服饰的弗里达手部细节:手术止血钳 《戴着荆棘项链和蜂鸟的自画像》(1940), 德州奥斯汀大学Harry Ransom Center 《迭戈和我》(1931), 旧金山当代艺术博物馆 《底特律流产》(1932), 墨西哥城 Museo Dolores Olmedo 《破裂的脊柱》(1944), 墨西哥城 Museo Dolores Olmedo 弗里达 里维拉 vs. 洪金宝 (长的真的很像...)
2017-12-16
00 min
The Irish in Canada Podcast
Podcast 3: Dr. Brad Kent
Brad Kent is Professor of British and Irish Literatures at Université Laval in Quebec City. In 2013-14 he was Visiting Professor at Trinity College Dublin in the School of English, and in the spring of 2018 he will be the C.P. Snow Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center, where he was the Hobby Fellow in the spring of 2009. His recent publications include George Bernard Shaw in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and The Selected Essays of Sean O'Faolain (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016). He is currently general editor of an eight-volume series of Shaw’s writings that will...
2017-12-01
00 min
Rare Book School
Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 12
Paper Session 12: Reappraising the Redundant: The Value of Copies in the Study of Textual Artifacts Session Organizer: Katherine Mintie (DePauw University) Moderator: David Whitesell (Curator, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia) Kristin Jensen (University of Virginia) “Discovering Unique Specimens in Print Collections: Lessons from Book Traces @ UVA” Jim Kuhn (Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin) “Portraits and Principles in Multiples” Adrienne Lundgren (Library of Congress) “Rewards of Redundancy: Recognizing the Research Value of Nineteenth-Century Photograph Manuals” Bryan Sinche (University of Hartford) “Redundancy is the Point: Nineteenth Century African American Literature in Motion” See the conference w...
2017-11-20
1h 35
李将军英语时间
李将军英语时间1016-赎金之城前言赏析 2017
点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Rise of Ransom CityBy Felix GilmanEDITOR’S FOREWORD BY ELMER MERRIAL CARSON It seems I have worked half my life on this account of Mr. Harry Ransom and his adventures. I have published more books in my life than I can now recall, I have founded two newspapers and run three into the ground, I have rewritten my own autobiography four times—one of the hazards of longevity—and it seems to me now that this book has cost me more labor than all the rest put toge...
2017-10-16
03 min
李将军英语时间
李将军英语时间1016-赎金之城前言赏析 2017
点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 The Rise of Ransom City By Felix Gilman EDITOR’S FOREWORD BY ELMER MERRIAL CARSON It seems I have worked half my life on this account of Mr. Harry Ransom and his adventures. I have published more books in my life than I can now recall, I have founded two newspapers and run three into the ground, I have rewritten my own autobiography four times—one of the hazards of longevity—and it seems to me now that this book has cost me more labor than all the rest put together. Ever since I first met him, Mr. Harry Ransom has made my life difficult. This...
2017-10-16
00 min
George Eastman Museum
Many Histories of Photography in One House
Part of the Focus 45 series. For the past three years, Ellen Handy has been conducting research at the Eastman Museum for her forthcoming book, Histories of Photography: An Introduction, which draws extensively on the museum's collections. Handy states, "The George Eastman Museum is the home of the history of photography—not only because it is the home of the man who did so much to create the photographic industry and medium many of us grew up with, or because it is the first and greatest museum dedicated to the camera arts—but also because it was here that Beaumont Newhall codi...
2017-10-02
47 min
Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode 480 — Alex Gilvarry
Brad Listi talks with Alex Gilvarry, author of the novel EASTMAN WAS HERE, available from Viking. It is the official September pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Gilvarry is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 nominee and he has received fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center and the Normal Mailer Center. Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. All episodes are free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2017-09-06
1h 19
Reading Glasses
Ep 7 - Mallory is Obsessed with Iceland and Interview with Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Show Notes This week, Brea and Mallory discuss the best places for book tourism, interview Icelandic crime author Yrsa Sigudardottir and debate spoilers. Use the hashtag #ReadingAroundTheWorld to participate in online discussion on Instagram and Twitter! Links - Goodreads Choice Awards https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2016 Overdrive https://www.overdrive.com/ Hoopla https://www.hoopladigital.com/ Library Playaways http://my.playaway.com/playaway/where-to-find/ L...
2017-07-20
34 min
Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector
Whatnots and Whatnot: Evelyn Waugh and Victorian Aesthetics of Ornamentation
Richard Oram, former associate director of Harry Ransom Center, delivers a talk titled “Whatnots and Whatnot: Evelyn Waugh and Victorian Aesthetics of Ornamentation.” This talk was included in the session titled “Waugh’s Life in Archives.” Part of “Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector,” a conference held at The Huntington May 5–6, 2017.
2017-05-06
00 min
Movie Addict Headquarters
Gone with the Wind 75th Anniversary Party!
Movie Addict HQ celebrates the 75th Anniversary of Gone with the Wind, one of the most successful films of all time. Film historian James Colt Harrison and Classic Film Guide founder Diana Saenger plan to join the festivities. Plus, Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne has been invited to call in. Listeners will also hear a clip from Cammie King Conlon's interview about playing Rhett and Scarlett's doomed daughter, Bonnie Blue Butler. Gone with the Wind, released in 1939, received 10 Oscars. It has been screened millions of times throughout the world. Fans of this beloved epic continue to celebrate the movie at...
2014-09-23
57 min
Views and Brews
V&B: The Great War and Its Legacy, 100 Years Later
Harry Ransom Center's recent exhibition "The World at War, 1914–1918." The exhibit marks the centenary of the start of World War I, and seeks to recover the deeply personal experience of the war.
2014-02-25
55 min
Listen to the Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Self-Improvement, Career Development
Who Kidnapped Excellence?: What Stops Us from Giving and Being Our Best by John Britt, Ed Jent, Harry Paul
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who Kidnapped Excellence?: What Stops Us from Giving and Being Our Best Author: John Britt, Ed Jent, Harry Paul Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 1, 2014 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: Most companies talk about excellence, but what does excellence really mean? What specific attitudes and practices lead to excellence? Drawing on years of study and decades of experience, authors Harry Paul, John Britt, and Ed Jent have zeroed in on five core qualities of excellence. In this entertaining and enlightening book, they...
2014-02-01
03 min
New Books in Science Fiction
Felix Gilman, “The Rise of Ransom City” (Tor, 2012)
I first learned about Felix Gilman‘s work from the influential academic blog Crooked Timber. I proceeded to read Thunderer, Gears of the City, and Half-Made World and found myself impressed by Gilman’s distinctive settings, themes, and voice. It should surprise no one, in my view, that Thunderer received a nomination for the 2009 Locus Award for Best First Novel and that it also garnered Gilman a nomination for the John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award in both 2009 and 2010. Thus, when I agreed to host New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy I immediately contacted him abou...
2013-01-08
1h 12
Texas Originals
Harry Huntt Ransom
The Gutenberg Bible, completed in 1454, is the first substantial book printed with movable type. Of the twenty-one complete copies in existence, one is on view to the public at The University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center. This book—and the center that houses it—are the proud legacy of Chancellor Harry Huntt Ransom, "The Great Acquisitor."
2012-08-04
01 min
Front Row: Archive 2012
Hattie Morahan and Dominic Rowan on booing at the theatre; John Lydon; literary letters
With Mark Lawson.Hattie Morahan and Dominic Rowan are currently starring in Ibsen's drama A Doll's House, and audiences have been booing Dominic's portrayal of the heroine's chauvinistic husband. The actors discuss handling negative audience reaction, which also happened when Dominic played an egotistical hunk in Penelope Skinner's play, The Village Bike. John Lydon, lead singer of the iconic 1970s punk band The Sex Pistols, says it would be a compliment if their song, God Save the Queen, was included in the Olympic opening ceremony. He explains why the song is not a vicious assault...
2012-07-17
28 min
Radio Incognitum
beautiful crissy: radiate
A midsummer night's mix from beautiful crissy, stepping out of the house for a bit. Mix genres including future bass, uk garage, deep house, electronica etc. peace~ 1. Sound Of Rum -- Give 2. Sound Of Rum -- Give - Cashmere Cat Remix 3. Ratcliffe -- Mindset 4. Pledge -- Close to U - Clueless Remix 5. Zarif -- Over - Breakage Remix 6. Marchmellow, Riskoteque -- I Need Ya 7. Harry Ransom -- Programme 8. John Tejada -- The Mess And The Magic 9. Stex -- Disco Robot - Oldskool Funky Mix 10. Franck Roger -- Devastated 11. Nick Garcia -- Smokin' Hot Mama - Chemars Remix 12. Pete Dafeet...
2011-07-21
00 min
Nigel Beale's Biblio File Podcast
Cathy Henderson and Richard Oram on the Alfred A. Knopf Archive
The Harry Ransom Center holds the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. archive, which includes books published under the Borzoi imprint and books from Alfred A. and Blanche Knopf’s personal library. The Ransom Center’s Associate Director for Exhibitions and Fleur Cowles Executive Curator Cathy Henderson, and Associate Director and Hobby Foundation Librarian, Richard Oram, collaborated on The House of Knopf, a book that contains collected documents from the Knopf, Inc. archive and is part of the Dictionary of Literary Biography series. It goes for a paltry $547 on ebay...so, instead of buying the book, I decided to travel down to A...
2011-07-11
38 min
The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale
Cathy Henderson and Richard Oram on the Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Archive
The Harry Ransom Center holds the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. archive, which includes books published under the Borzoi imprint and books from Alfred A. and Blanche Knopf's personal library. The Ransom Center's Associate Director for Exhibitions and Fleur Cowles Executive Curator Cathy Henderson, and Associate Director and Hobby Foundation Librarian, Richard Oram, collaborated on The House of Knopf, a book that contains collected documents from the Knopf, Inc. archive and is part of the Dictionary of Literary Biography series. It goes for a paltry $547 on ebay...so, instead of buying the book, I decided to travel down to Austin...
2011-07-11
38 min
Nameless
Chapter 10: Ransom Demands
Bryce makes his demands. He wants Harry, his money and his life. The detective knows this, and so does ‘Nameless’. It’s undoubtedly a trap, but not the obvious kind.
2009-03-15
11 min
Harry Ransom Center Podcast
Alan Furst Reading from The Spies of Warsaw
Author Alan Furst reads from his latest book, The Spies of Warsaw.
2008-08-11
13 min
Harry Ransom Center Podcast
Sebastian Barry Reading from The Secret Scripture
Irish novelist Sebastian Barry reads from The Secret Scripture, his new work that was recently chosen for the longlist for the Man Booker Prize.
2008-08-11
04 min
Harry Ransom Center Podcast
Photojournalism in War Zones
Documentary photographer and Journalism School Associate Professor Donna DeCesare discusses photojournalism and the legacies of violence in El Salvador's civil war with exhibitions intern Joey Kolker.
2008-04-21
13 min
Harry Ransom Center Podcast
A Conversation with the "Scrollmaster"
Jim Canary is a conservator at Indiana University's Lilly Library, but he also has the job of caring for Jack Kerouac's scroll manuscript of On the Road. While in Austin to install the scroll, Jim spoke with Molly Schwartzburg, curator of On the Road with the Beats. Canary discusses how he got the job of caring for this unique 120-foot document and why he thinks Kerouac's looking down and laughing at the attention given to the scroll now.
2008-03-29
21 min
Harry Ransom Center Podcast
The United States and the Salvadoran Civil War
Associate Professor of History Virginia Burnett speaks with exhibitions intern Joey Kolker about memory and human rights in El Salvador, 15 years after the signing of peace accords that ended the country's civil war. Burnett is a co-organizer of the April 2008 conference Image, Memory, and the Paradox of Peace.
2008-03-29
13 min