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Best of the SpectatorSpectator Out Loud: John Power, Nick Carter, Elisabeth Dampier, Maggie Fergusson & Mark MasonOn this week’s Spectator Out Loud: John Power argues the Oxford Union has a ‘lynch-mob mindset’; Elisabeth Dampier explains why she would never date a German; Nick Carter makes the case for licensing MDMA to treat veterans with PTSD; Maggie Fergusson reviews Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island by Mike Pitts; and, Mark Mason provides his notes on guided walks. Mark will also be hosting a guided walk for the Spectator, for tickets go to www.spectator.co.uk/events.Produced and presented by Patrick Gibbons.
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2025-09-2225 min
Spectator Out LoudJohn Power, Nick Carter, Elisabeth Dampier, Maggie Fergusson & Mark MasonOn this week’s Spectator Out Loud: John Power argues the Oxford Union has a ‘lynch-mob mindset’; Elisabeth Dampier explains why she would never date a German; Nick Carter makes the case for licensing MDMA to treat veterans with PTSD; Maggie Fergusson reviews Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island by Mike Pitts; and, Mark Mason provides his notes on guided walks. Mark will also be hosting a guided walk for the Spectator, for tickets go to www.spectator.co.uk/eventsProduced and presented by Patrick Gibbons.Become...
2025-09-1925 min
Spiderum OfficialLỜI NGUYỀN CỦA THIÊN TÀI | kemdota | Quan ĐiểmLời nguyền của thiên tài | kemdota | Quan ĐiểmVideo này được chuyển thể từ bài viết gốc trên nền tảng mạng xã hội chia sẻ tri thức Spiderum 🤓📝 Bài viết gốc: The curse of genius🌐 Link bài viết: https://spiderum.com/bai-dang/Loi-ngu...🌐 Link bài viết gốc: https://www.economist.com/1843/2019/0...✍️ Tác giả: Maggie Fergusson🎤 Dẫn video: Việt Anh🧑🏻💻 Video editor: Pinkdot ft. Nguyễn Sơn🕵🏻 Hiệu đính: Hoàng Hiếu______________📖 Ghé thăm nhà sách Spiderum với các đầu sách độc quyền:Shopee: https://bit.ly/4hyI...
2025-03-1229 min
Plumfield MomsOur Reading Life: July 2024Welcome to our July 2024 episode of Our Reading Life where we chat with our dear friends, Tanya Arnold and Sarah Kim from Biblioguides about our reading lives. We are so glad that you are here!
Tanya’s References
Let’s Play Math by Denise Gaskins
The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
Sarah Kim’s References
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Glowrushes by Robert Piumini
One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Sara Masarik’s References
Lepunia: Kingdom of the Gallopers by Kevin T. Ford
The Green Ember Series by S. D. Smith
The Last Booksh...
2024-07-211h 06
The Wise and the WhereforesA ‘Family Matters’ webinar with Brendan Walsh, Editor of The TabletIn October 2023 we began a series of articles on Family Matters, the first of which was by our very own Editor, Brendan Walsh. Brendan wrote movingly and candidly about his experience of first-time fatherhood in his early 60s. Other articles followed covering themes of adoption, welcoming strangers into your family, the death of a child, being a mother with cancer, an unconventional upbringing, and grandfathers. Three online webinars accompany this series, the first of which was on 8 November with Brendan Walsh and Carina Murphy, who was diagnosed with cancer five years ago when her children were five and nine years...
2023-11-161h 03
Tone up a Lot of Full Audiobooks in Self Development, Health & WellnessAlways Take Notes: Advice from some of the world's greatest writers - Rachel LloydListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: Always Take Notes: Advice from some of the world's greatest writersAuthor: Rachel LloydNarrator: Rachel Lloyd, Simon AkamFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8:00:05Language: EnglishRelease date: 10-12-2023Publisher: Bonnier Publishing AudioGenres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Language Instruction, Language ArtsSummary:'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Write It All Down
'Fascinating and useful' - Joe Moran, author of First You Write A Sentence
Bestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to...
2023-10-128h 00
Devocionales Esperanza Tolcayuca24 Febrero 2023 devocional (pan diario)NUNCA SOLO
Mejores son dos que uno [...]. Porque
si cayeren, el uno levantará a su compañero...
(vv. 9-10).
Puede ser una aflicción más desgarradora que el hambre, una enfermedad o la falta de un techo», escribió Maggie Fergusson en una revista.
2023-02-2403 min
The Wise and the WhereforesA Tablet Webinar: The impact of Catholic education in civil society and the wider realmA panel discussion in conjunction with The University of Notre Dame in Australia, on Christ-Centred Leadership Frameworks in Catholic Education led by Maggie Fergusson, the Literary Editor of The Tablet.
Maggie’s distinguished guests were: Renee Kohler-Ryan, National Head of the School of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia; Jenny Sinclair, the founder director of Together for the Common Good; Paul Stubbings, a Catholic Head Teacher of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in West London and Raymond Friel, CEO, Caritas Social Action Network.
2022-03-2459 min
Always Take Notes#129: Maggie Fergusson, author and journalistRachel and Simon speak with the author and journalist Maggie Fergusson. After studying history at university, Maggie briefly worked in finance before joining Harper's & Queen magazine (now known as Harper's Bazaar.) As a freelance writer, she was sent by the Times to interview the Scottish poet George Mackay Brown in 1992, and it proved the beginning of a friendship that would culminate with a prizewinning biography published in 2006. Maggie became Secretary of the Royal Society in Literature in 1989; she continues to work at the RSL as the Literary Adviser and edits their annual magazine. We spoke to Maggie about her...
2022-03-081h 06
O CrânioÁudio Drama 06 | O Enforcado Desconhecido, de Philip K. DickNo poste, um corpo pendurado. E ninguém parece notar.Uma adaptação do conto"O enforcado desconhecido", de Philip K. Dick, originalmente publicado em 1953. O conto integra o livro Sonhos elétricos (Aleph, 2018, tradução de Daniel Lühmann).Elenco por ordem de aparição: Orson Welles: André Uebe Ed Loyce: Henrique Ranieri Cristovão Marisa Ultrabo: Angela Nakamura Monsenhor no rádio: Ricardo Augusto Leitor do I Ching no rádio: Henrique Ranieri Cristovão Don Fergusson: André Marquês Jack: Guilherme Lincoln Beserra Motorista pistola: Henrique Ranieri Cristovão Jenkins: Thi...
2022-03-0154 min
A Good ReadKaffe Fassett and Andy SummersKaffe Fassett is perhaps best known for his colourful knitwear designs but he is also a quilt maker, painter and ceramicist. His choice of book is Kandahar Cockney: A Tale of Two Worlds by former foreign correspondent James Fergusson. It's the story of Mir an interpreter Fergusson meets and hires while on assignment in Afghanistan in the late 1990s as the country fell to the Taliban for the first time. Fergusson assists Mir in escaping to Britain and claiming asylum where he becomes the eponymous 'Kandahar Cockney' trying to navigate a new life in the East End of London...
2021-11-2328 min
A Bookish AffairEpisode 19: Welcome to Crossover CountryGreetings, all you bourbon-making billionaires and smartypants spies! In this episode, we'll wave our arms around a lot, but you won't be able to see us, so we'll also talk about our favorite crossover books -- mystery, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, and YA that brings the true love, the drama, and maybe the warm fuzzies. Plus, Shannon reveals her Muppet heritage, Shandy reminisces about the best author hug ever, and we both grapple with a beloved yet problematic novel from our pasts. For readalikes, book lists, and antiracism resources, to learn more about attending a virtual book c...
2020-10-271h 00
Slightly FoxedOrkney’s ProsperoGail, Hazel and host Philippa are transported to Orkney as they explore the life and works of the poet and novelist George Mackay Brown OBE. Together with his biographer Maggie Fergusson and Colin Waters of the Scottish Poetry Library, they bring to light a writer who was at once a solitary soul and a raconteur, a lover and a drinker, a member of the Edinburgh literati yet fame-shy. From the oft-recited ‘Hamnavoe’ to the Booker-nominated ‘Beside the Ocean of Time’ Mackay Brown’s work sings of his island roots, interweaving life and social history with myth and legend. In this month’s tr...
2019-09-1539 min
Sisterly History Mysteries7- The Radium GirlsIn this episode, Megan talks us through what happens when you ingest tiny amounts of radioactive material repeatedly over a long period of time, and a couple of court cases that helped pave the way for workplace safety regulations as we know them. We’re talking about the Radium Girls.
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2019-08-2751 min
Slightly FoxedA Window on the WorldGail, Steph and Anna go behind the scenes with booksellers Brett Wolstencroft of Daunt Books and Kathleen Smith of Topping & Co. Bath to talk about the reality and romance of life running two of the country’s finest bookshops. Andrew Hawkins recounts the tale of a London publisher who tried his hand at repping and ended up in a spot of bother with a drunken poet in Fife, and there’s the usual round-up of recommended reading and news from Hoxton Square.
The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are menti...
2019-05-1538 min
Slightly FoxedViewing Is EssentialGail, Hazel and Jennie talk to the artist and illustrator (and master of pastiche) David Eccles about the craft of marrying image and text. The actress Petra Markham takes to the airwaves with Posy Simmonds, and the printmaker Angie Lewin recalls her experience of being commissioned for a Slightly Foxed cover.
Books Mentioned
Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler
Richard Kennedy, A Boy at the Hogarth Press & A Parcel of Time
Gwen Raverat, Period Piece
E. H. Shepard, Drawn from Memory and Drawn from Life
A. A...
2019-02-1531 min
WCCM AudioAll The Lonely People By Maggie FergussonALL THE LONELY PEOPLE by Maggie Fergusson
Earlier this year, the government appointed a Minister for Loneliness: a response to what has been called an ‘invisible epidemic’. Why are so many of us - of all ages and backgrounds - afflicted by loneliness? What does it feel like to be very lonely? And is there a cure?
MAGGIE FERGUSSON is Literary Editor of The Tablet and a freelance writer. In the spring, she published a long piece on loneliness in the Economist magazine 1843.
This resource is provided free. If you would like to support our mission to communicate and nurture medi...
2018-10-2030 min
Strange CountryRadium GirlsRadium was beautiful to Marie Curie even though it killed her, and radium made the teens and young women employed at United States Radium Corp. shine in the night. They put their radium coated paintbrushes in their mouths like they'd been trained, and ingested the deadly substance. Strange Country Co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about the ramifications, the workers' struggle and their plans to open a different type of food truck in ep. 34. Theme music: Resting Place by A Cast of Thousands Cite Your Sources: "All Radium Plants in Federal Inquiry." The New Y...
2018-03-291h 03
Cook Memorial Public Library PodcastEp. 34: Meet the Bookies – Andrea
Andrea, Manager of Popular Services, talks to us about Cook Library’s new books, movies and music recommendation service and some of her personal recommendations for individuals and book clubs.
Authors and series mentioned in the episode:
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Reverend Clare Fergusson mysteries by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Ruth Galloway mysteries by Elly Griffiths
Book Club recommendations:
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shotakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson
Inherit the Bones by Emily Littlejohn
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2017-04-2000 min
The 1843 podcastHow to have a good deathAs we live longer, death gets pushed further to the fringes of our lives. In this podcast, Maggie Fergusson discusses how our relationship with death is changing, the question of assisted dying, and how she might face her own end
2016-02-1615 min
Spring 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoLiterary Festival 2015: An Eye for LifeContributor(s): Marion Coutts, Ali Smith | Ali Smith's How to be Both, in which the lives of a 15th-century fresco painter and a 21st-century Cambridge schoolgirl mysteriously intertwine, was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize, and won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize. Marion Coutts's fierce, shocking and beautiful memoir, The Iceberg, tracing the two years between her husband's diagnosis with and death from a brain tumour, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Both have been picked extensively as books of the year. Meeting one another for the first time, they talk about how to look beneath the surface of life, how t...
2015-02-241h 12
2012 Edinburgh International Book FestivalMichael Morpurgo at Edinburgh International Book FestivalHe's a master storyteller who has left an indelible mark on countless children who’ve grown up with his stories. Now, the astonishing success of War Horse on stage and screen has made Michael Morpurgo a household name. Maggie Fergusson has written an intriguing biography of the writer, War Child, War Horse, which is interspersed with seven autobiographical short stories written by Morpurgo himself. In this event, recorded live at the 2012 Edinburgh International Book Festival, the two writers got together to tell us about their unique collaboration, chaired by Lindsay Fraser.
2012-11-1200 min
Edinburgh International Book FestivalMaggie Fergusson & Michael Morpurgo (2012 event)
He's a master storyteller who has left an indelible mark on countless children who’ve grown up with his stories. Now, the astonishing success of War Horse on stage and screen has made Michael Morpurgo a household name. Maggie Fergusson has written an intriguing biography of the writer, War Child, War Horse, which is interspersed with seven autobiographical short stories written by Morpurgo himself. In this event, recorded live at the 2012 Edinburgh International Book Festival, the two writers got together to tell us about their unique collaboration, chaired by Lindsay Fraser.
2012-10-2200 min
Front Row: Archive 2012Michael Morpurgo; Ridley Scott's Prometheus reviewedWith Mark Lawson.Director Ridley Scott returns to science fiction with Prometheus, starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender. It follows a group of scientists who travel to a distant world, where they encounter a threat to human existence. How does it compare to Scott's earlier blockbuster, Alien? Naomi Alderman gives her verdict.Michael Morpurgo and his biographer Maggie Fergusson discuss how they have collaborated on his life story, From War Child to War Horse. In seven chapters she describes how the unbookish boy who wanted to be an army officer became a best-selling children's author...
2012-05-3128 min