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The Niall Boylan Podcast (They Told Me To Shut Up)Immigration, Transgenderism, and Economic Realities With Neil MunroJoin us for a thought-provoking journey into the heart of some of today's most contentious issues as host Niall Boylan engages in a candid conversation with Neil Munro, editor and reporter at Breitbart News. In this episode, they delve deep into the complexities surrounding immigration, transgenderism, and their profound economic implications.From discussing the societal impact of government policies on transgenderism to unraveling the economic motivations behind immigration, Boylan and Munro fearlessly navigate through the nuances of these divisive topics. Munro sheds light on the intricate interplay between government agendas, corporate interests, and societal well-being, offering unique...
2025-11-2033 min
The Poetry SocietyTaking the Temperature with Jess Chandler, Niall Munro, Amy Acre, and Tristram Fane SaundersTaking the Temperature is a panel where brand-new and seasoned editors and publishers will discuss how independent poetry publishing is changing, with Tristram Fane Saunders (GRAVY and The Little Review), Niall Munro (ignitionpress), Jess Chandler (Prototype) and Amy Acre (Bad Betty) in the Library at Free Verse Poetry Book & Magazine Fair 2025.
The Poetry Society’s Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair celebrates the vitality of poetry in the UK – it’s an unrivalled opportunity to browse and buy the very best in contemporary poetry, and to meet publishers, organisations and poets.
2025-05-0159 min
Unlock Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaKalangadog Junction: A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Drama by Moya O'sheaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kalangadog Junction: A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Drama Author: Moya O'shea Narrator: Julie Gibbs, Niall Ashdown, Joanna Munro, John Duttine, Moya O'shea, Caroline Quentin, Brian Bowles, June Whitfield, Toby Longworth, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 25, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Hilarious comedy about a 1950s couple from Manchester trying to make it Down Under Dr Thomas Barrett and his wife Jane have a perfectly nice existence in 1950s Manchester, but dreams of a new life won’t let them rest. Leaving the security of th...
2024-01-2505 min
Profiting From DataProfiting From Data with Gary Collier and James Munro from Man Group and The Success of ArcticDBOn this episode, Gary Collier and James Munro of Man Group, one of the leading multi-asset investment groups globally, discuss the ideation and development of ArcticDB, an embedded, columnar datastore optimized for time-series data.
2023-05-2529 min
Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastEpisode 24: Eric White - bonus materialIn this extra mini-episode, which follows on from a longer interview with Dr Eric White, Eric gives us some insight into the Avant-Gardes and Speculative Technologies (or AGAST) project, which draws on his research to consider what kinds of powerful applications these modernist technologies might have today.
2023-04-2409 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastEpisode 24: Eric WhiteThis is the second instalment in an occasional series to feature research that colleagues are engaged with at Oxford Brookes University. This episode includes an interview with Dr Eric White, who is a Reader in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University. Eric specializes in avant-garde literature and is the author of two books: Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday (2020) and Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism (2013). He has also prepared critical editions of texts, including Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine (2020) and The Early Career of William Carlos Williams (2013). Eric is the principal investigator of...
2023-04-241h 20
Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary WestEpisode 1 Welcome!Send a textGary West brings you the first episode of his brand new podcast, including music from the Inveraray and District Pipe Band, James Duncan MacKenzie, Jock Duncan , Gordon Duncan and look out for a wildcard track from young Edinburgh singer/songwriter, Gus Harrower.Track 1James Duncan MacKenzie – Taigh Iain’ Iain’ Niall, Tracy and Barney’s Garden Party, Ian’s Last Munro (all James Duncan MacKenzie) from Fibhigwww.jamesduncanmackenzie.comTrack 2Inveraray and District, ‘Pointed Hornpipes’ (Kenny the Sparrowman (RS MacDonald), Dora Watt (George M MacIntyre) fro...
2023-03-3044 min
If Glasgow’s Walls Could TalkGlasgow on Film with Dr Emily Munro (National Library of Scotland's Moving Image Archive)In our first episode of Series 2 we welcome Dr Emily Munro, Curator and Learning Officer at the National Library of Scotland’s Moving Imagine Archive for an enlightening discussion about Glasgow on film. The Moving Image Archive is Scotland's national collection of moving image and is based in Kelvin Hall in the West End of Glasgow, where they care for 46,000 items. Dr Munro and Niall discuss film makers in and around Glasgow, and the great change that the city has seen over the last 100 years - but also some of the continuities. They also cha...
2023-03-1659 min
The 'Stay Awake Media' Podcast1063. FLASHBACK: "And Then There Were None" read by John Lothe"And Then There Were None" read by John Lothe
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Eric Frank Russell (January 6, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. Russell also wrote horror fiction for Weird Tales and non-fiction articles on Fortean topics. Up to 1955 several of his stories were published under pseudonyms, at least Duncan H. Munro and Niall(e) Wi...
2022-12-073h 19
The Book CaseElizabeth Strout Hears her Characters' VoicesElizabeth Strout is our guest this week, and our conversation couldn’t be more timely. First, her novel, Oh William! has just been short listed for the Booker Prize - perhaps the most prestigious award for a writer of literary fiction. And second, her latest novel in the Lucy Barton series has just been published - Lucy by the Sea. For those who love her writing, and we are among her greatest admirers, you know that Lucy by the Sea represents a continuation of the series that includes Oh William! The book allows us to see the chaos of the last ye...
2022-09-2240 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastEpisode 23: Dinah Roe talks to Niall MunroThis latest episode marks something of a departure for the Poetry Centre podcast. If you’re a regular or just occasional listener to this podcast, you’ll know that it normally features a poet in conversation about two or three of their poems. This episode is the first of a series in which Niall Munro talks with colleagues at Oxford Brookes University and showcases some of the very exciting research that they have been doing into poets and poetry. In this episode, Niall Munro talks with Dr Dinah Roe, Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature here at Oxford Brookes. Dinah is an expe...
2021-12-051h 05Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastEpisode 22: Leah Umansky talks to Niall MunroLeah Umansky is the author of two book-length collections, The Barbarous Century (2018), Domestic Uncertainties (Blazevox, 2012), and two chapbooks, Straight Away the Emptied World (Kattywompus Press, 2016), and the Mad Men-inspired Don Dreams and I Dream (Kattywompus Press, 2014). Her writing has been widely published in places like The New York Times, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day, USA Today, POETRY, Guernica, and American Poetry Review. She has been the host and curator of the New York City-based poetry series COUPLET since 2011, and is a graduate of the MFA Program in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. Leah has become well known for he...
2021-11-0248 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastEpisode 21: Christopher Kempf talks to Niall MunroIn this episode Niall Munro talks with Christopher Kempf about his new collection of poetry, What Though The Field Be Lost, published by Louisiana State University Press in 2021. Chris’s first poetry collection, Late in the Empire of Men, won the 2015 Levis Prize from Four Way Books and was reviewed widely, including in The New York Times. His scholarly book, Craft Class: The Workshop in American Culture, is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press. You can find out more about Chris on his website: christopherkempf.com What Though The Field Be Lost may be grounded in the Civil War battlefield of...
2021-06-2455 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastEpisode 20: celeste doaks talks to Niall Munroceleste doaks is a poet and journalist. She is the author of Cornrows and Cornfields, a collection of poems published in 2015 by Wrecking Ball Press. The book was listed as one of the Ten Best Books of 2015 by Beltway Quarterly Poetry. In 2017, she edited and contributed to the anthology Not Without Our Laughter: Poems of Humor, Joy, and Sexuality, published by Mason Jar Press. And in 2019 she published American Herstory, which was the winner of Backbone Press’s 2018 chapbook competition. The chapbook, which we talk about in the podcast, was named best chapbook by the Maryland Poet Laureate, Grace Cavalieri, an...
2021-04-1656 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastEpisode 19: Niall O'Gallagher talks to Niall MunroIn this episode, Niall Munro talks with the Gaelic poet Niall O’Gallagher. Niall studied and then taught at the University of Glasgow before going on to work as a journalist. As Niall mentions in the podcast, it was in his early days as a journalist that he began writing the poems that went into his first collection, Beatha Ùr (‘New Life’), published by Clàr in 2013. Three years later, he published Suain nan Trì Latha (‘Three Nights Dreaming’) in which - and again you’ll hear Niall discussing this - he made use of classical Gaelic forms to write modern love poe...
2021-03-2251 min
We Were On A Break (Series)Ep. 4 (Season 2): How To Become An International Thought Leader In The AML And Compliance Industry (Dev Odedra - The Laundry)How To Become An International Thought Leader In The AML And Compliance IndustryWelcome to the episode 4 of the 2nd season of “WE WERE ON A BREAK” - Ross Voice. The series where the host, Stephen Brent Sargeant (Compliance Consultant to Bitfinex) talks to industry professionals during the CoronaVirus (COVID-19) quarantine and gains industry insights and expertise. We were lucky enough to sit down and get expert insights from one of the most recognizable names in financial crime compliance. Dev Odedra shares almost 2 decades worth of experience working for the largest financial institutions and how he transitioned into beco...
2021-03-0855 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastEpisode 18: Ana Sampson talks to Niall MunroIn the podcast, Ana discusses how she got into editing anthologies, how she goes about putting her anthologies together and making tough decisions about which poems to keep in and leave out, and why she thinks her most recent anthologies featuring only women poets - She Is Fierce and She Will Soar, both published by Pan Macmillan - are particularly important. You can find out more about Ana's work on her website (anasampson.co.uk) and follow her on Twitter (@AnaBooks). Ana and Niall discuss three poems from She Will Soar: 'The Sea-Shore' by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, an excerpt from...
2020-12-031h 01Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastEpisode 17: Chris Beckett talks to Niall MunroIn this episode, the poet, editor and translator Chris Beckett talks to Niall Munro about his latest book, "Tenderfoot". Chris discusses growing up in Ethiopia and questions of privilege, perceptions of Ethiopia and a responsibility he feels to write about the place and its people. Chris also talks about how he portrays his nascent sexuality and how he reflects on Ethopia then and now after numerous trips back to the country in recent years. Chris has published two collections with Carcanet, “Ethiopia Boy” in 2013, a sequence of praise poems about his childhood crush Abebe, and “Tenderfoot” in July this year. He co-tr...
2020-11-2359 min
Countries That Don't Exist AnymoreDr Jacke Phillips: Aksumite EmpireAksum is of the greatest empires of all time, but why is it so little known about in the West? Would there have been Islam without Aksum's Christianity? Is the oldest complete and surviving Christian gospel in the world really Ethiopian?
We talk to globetrotting archaeologist Dr Jacke Philips about her Aksum obsession and answer listener questions.
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Axum book recommendations:
1. Niall Finneran, The Archaeology of E...
2020-10-0139 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastMaya C. Popa talks to Niall MunroMaya C. Popa is an American poet, researcher, editor, and teacher who has published two pamphlets: The Bees Have Been Canceled in 2017, and You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave in 2018. Most recently, her first full-length collection, American Faith, was published by Sarabande Books in 2019. The book was the runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong and the winner of the 2020 North American Book Award from the Poetry Society of Virginia. She is the recipient of awards from the Poetry Foundation, the Oxford Poetry Society, and Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, among others. Maya is...
2020-08-2252 min
TIA House TalksEpisode 5: Doyali Islam Reads at TIA HouseShow Notes
This reading was recorded during a TIA House event featuring Doyali Islam in September 2019. DOYALI ISLAM is a 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist, 2020 Ontario Trillium Book Award for Poetry finalist, and 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award finalist for heft (M&S, 2019), which CBC Books named as a best poetry book of 2019. Doyali has participated in CBC Books' Why I Write video series. She has discussed the value of silence on CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition; language, form, beauty, and empathy with Anne Michaels in CV2; and the relationship between poetry and the body on CBC Radio's The Next Chapter. Doyali spent a...
2020-07-291h 09Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastJennifer Wong talks to Niall MunroJennifer Wong was born and brought up in Hong Kong. She now lives in the UK and works as a writer, translator and teacher. She has published three collections: *Goldfish* (2013), Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl - a pamphlet with Bitter Melon Poetry (2019), and most recently Letters Home 回 家, published by Nine Arches Press in 2020, which was selected as a Wild Card Choice by the Poetry Book Society. In this podcast, Jennifer reads and discusses four poems: ‘of butterflies’, ‘Girls from my class’, ‘My father, who taught me how to fold serviette penguins’, and ‘Truths 2.0’. You can read the poems that Jennifer discusses a...
2020-07-2049 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastDoyali Islam talks to Niall MunroThis interview was recorded in late November 2019 when Doyali visited the UK, and in it Doyali discusses the tensions in her poetry, how her work deals with chronic illness, the innovative formal choices that she makes for her poems in her Griffin Prize-shortlisted collection heft, the link between poetry, art and healing, and how she represents her family in her writing. She discusses three poems, all of which you can read on the Podcasts page of the Poetry Centre website: ‘sagittarius {the archer}’, ‘bhater mondo’, and ‘flare’.
2020-06-0849 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastMariah Whelan talks to Niall MunroMariah is a poet, teacher and interdisciplinary researcher from Oxford. Her debut collection, a novel-in-sonnets called the love i do to you, was published in November 2019 by Eyewear. Poems from the novel were shortlisted for The Bridport Prize, The Melita Hume Prize and the manuscript won the AM Heath Prize. A second collection of poems the rafters are still burning which explores writing, constructions of whiteness and museum archives is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press in 2020.
2020-02-1746 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastPeter Bearder talks to Niall MunroPeter Bearder may be better known to many as Pete the Temp. A spoken word poet, comic, and musician, Peter has appeared on television and radio, at festivals around the UK, and internationally with the British Council. He has been the National Poetry Slam Champion and in 2018 was awarded the Golden Hammer Award for services to spoken word. His poetry has appeared in a collection called Numbered Boxes (Burning Eye Books, 2017). As well as recordings of Peter’s performances and his terrific selection of interviews with spoken word artists, his website also features his 2015 TEDx talk about why every school sh...
2019-10-2842 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastJames Arthur talks to Niall MunroIn the latest episode of the Poetry Centre Podcast, Niall Munro talks to James Arthur. James was born in Connecticut and grew up in Toronto. His poems have appeared in many magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and The Walrus. He has been awarded numerous scholarships and fellowships, such as the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to Northern Ireland, and a visiting fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford. He lives in Baltimore and teaches...
2019-05-0828 min
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, ReconciliationSusie Campbell speaks to Niall MunroSusie Campbell talks to Niall Munro about her experience as poet-in-residence during the Post-War seminar series 2017-18.
2018-08-0629 minPost-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, ReconciliationAlex Donnelly speaks to Niall MunroAlex Donnelly talks to Niall Munro about his work on the ecology of conflict, the interpretative role of academic research, and his interest in the 'lone voices' in poetry.
2018-07-3112 minPost-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, ReconciliationAnna Leese speaks to Niall MunroAnna Leese speaks to Niall Munro about her personal connections to commemorations of war and the performance of commemorative music. Soprano soloist Anna Leese performed in the European premiere of Anthony Ritchie's oratorio Gallipoli to the Somme at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, on Saturday 2 June 2018. This performance was part of the Remembrance Concert marking the culmination of the Mellon-Sawyer seminar series 2017-18 'Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation'. The concert featured the Parliament Choir, members of the City Choir Dunedin, and the Southbank Sinfonia, conducted by Simon Over.
2018-07-3111 minPost-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, ReconciliationRihab Azar speaks to Niall MunroMusician Rihab Azar talks to Niall Munro about her quest to find new ways of empowering and connecting communities through music and how music functions as a ‘resistance act’ in situations of (post-)conflict.
2018-06-1811 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastAn interview with Richard HarrisonWe were delighted to catch up with Canadian poet Richard Harrison recently, who was passing through Oxford en route to Italy where he was to launch a new Italian translation of his poetry. Whilst he was in town, Richard gave an inspiring reading at the Society Cafe, and beforehand sat down with the Director of the Poetry Centre, Niall Munro, to discuss his work. In this interview Niall and Richard talk about the structure of Richard’s award-winning book On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood and the editing process; his relationship with his father who died from...
2018-06-0435 minPost-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, ReconciliationCharles Gurrey speaks to Niall MunroSculptor and carver Charles Gurrey talks to Niall Munro about the importance of context, text and material in his design of commemorative sculptures.
2018-04-2416 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastShara Lessley talks to Niall MunroIn this first episode in a new podcast series, Shara Lessley discusses her poem ‘The Clinic Bomber’s Mother’. The poem comes from Shara’s new book, The Explosive Expert’s Wife, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. In this discussion, Shara first reads her poem and then talks about a number of issues related to it and the book as a whole, such as motherhood, perceptions of the Middle East by Americans and violence in the Middle East and in America, especially domestic terrorism. Shara Lessley is a writer and teacher. The author of Two-Headed Nightingale and The Explosive...
2018-04-0927 minPost-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, ReconciliationDaniel Libeskind speaks to Niall MunroArchitect Daniel Libeskind talks to Niall Munro about civic responsibility, the shock of memory and the role of the monument as a bridge between the past and the future.
2018-03-2810 minPost-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, ReconciliationTony Horwitz speaks to Niall MunroAuthor and journalist Tony Horwitz talks to Niall Munro about the sesquicentennial commemorations of the American Civil War, the complexity of reconstruction in the American South, and re-enactment as a way of connecting with the past.
2018-03-2810 min
Sounding BoredSounding Bored Episode 5: Radiohead and Oxford as a Music City with RonanIn the fifth installment of the podcast, the team welcome Ronan Munro, founder and editor of Oxford music magazine Nightshift and use a wider discussion of the city's musical impact to lead into analysis of Radiohead's ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool.
2016-05-2449 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastThe Abandoned HouseThis latest podcast features a dialogue between Terri Mullholland and Siân Thomas, inspired by Siân’s poem, ‘The Abandoned House’. Amongst other venues, Terri and Siân presented their dialogue at the Shifting Territories conference in May 2013. Together with their discussion, they also showed a number of photographs of the particular house in Sussex, which were taken by the photographer Caroline Pooley. These are also presented here. In this recording, Siân reads her poem, and then talks about how she discovered the house. The discussion touches upon various issues related to the poem and to Terri’s own research...
2014-06-3036 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastJo Shapcott - Shifting TerritoriesIn this episode Forward Prize and Costa Book Award-winner Jo Shapcott talks about her work. It was recorded at the Shifting Territories conference on 22 May 2013 at the Institute of English Studies in London. A conference designed to bring together postgraduate students and Early Career Researchers, as well as poets and academics, Shifting Territories considered the recent wave of new nature writing and poetry which has gone beyond traditional representations of landscape to venture into borderlands, edgelands and urban environments. Jo Shapcott provided the keynote poetry reading which opened the conference, offering a generous selection of her own work which related...
2013-11-2655 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastClaire Trévien - WhalesClaire Trévien was born in 1985 in Brittany. She is a poet and critic, who completed a PhD on French Revolutionary prints in 2012. Her début collection ‘The Shipwrecked House’ (Penned in the Margins, 2013) was longlisted for a Guardian First Book Award. Her writing has been published in a wide variety of literary magazines including ‘Under The Radar’, ‘Poetry Salzburg Review’, ‘Ink Sweat & Tears’, ‘The Warwick Review’, ‘Nth Position’, and ‘Fuselit’. She has published an e-chapbook of poetry with ‘Silkworms Ink’, ‘Patterns of Decay’, and a pamphlet, ‘Low-Tide Lottery’ with Salt Publishing. She is the editor of Sabotage Reviews, co-editor of Verse Kraken (http://versekraken.com...
2013-09-1029 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastTwo sonnets from Essex CoastalSteven Matthews was born and brought up in Colchester, Essex. Various of his poems have been published in magazines and journals including Stand, Versus, Kunapipi, Oxford Magazine, Poetry and Audience, and Moving Worlds.
2013-07-0330 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastAlan Buckley - VoicemailIn this episode Alan Buckley talks about the nature of poetic influence, the role that breath and the body play in producing poetry, and the responsibilities which a poet has towards the subject of his elegy. You can read the poem on the Podcasts section of the Poetry Centre website.
2013-04-0331 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastGill Learner - The Power of IceIn this episode, Gill talks about how she writes poetry and what she considers the role of the poet to be within society. You can read her poem ‘The Power of Ice’ on the Podcasts section of the Poetry Centre website.
2012-10-0817 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastSisters in Verse - keynote panel discussionThis episode features the keynote panel discussion from the Sisters in Verse symposium at Oxford University in association with the Poetry Centre, which took place on 9 March 2012. This event is one in a series organized by the Postgraduate Contemporary Women's Writing Network (http://pgcwwn.wordpress.com/). The discussion was chaired by Alex Pryce and the panelists were Kate Clanchy, Jane Yeh, and Sophie Mayer. You can read more about the the writers and see photos from the event on the Podcasts section of our website.
2012-07-1244 minOxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastTolstoy at Astapovo StationIn this first episode of our Oxford Poets series, Claire Cox reads and discusses her prize-winning poem 'Tolstoy at Astapovo Station'.
2012-05-0310 min