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Scrooge: A Christmas Carol PodcastA Christmas Carol Deep Dive: Marley's Ghost (Part 2)Join Collin as he breaks down Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with the help of a LibriVox audiobook. This episode covers the second half of the book's first stave, which involves the haunting of Marley's ghost. Each month, a new episode of A Christmas Carol Deep Dive will drop, until we have gotten through the whole book. Find out about the historical context, cultural references, inspiration for adaptations, and much more. Sources and additional links:LibriVox Audiobook:https://librivox.org/a-christmas-carol-by-charles-dickens-4/The Sketch Book of Geof...2025-03-0543 min
Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥CHRISTMAS IS COMING !!! ☃️🎩⛓️🎄👻Welcome to CHRISTMAS at Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥The very first of our special Festive will go live shortly ...And If you’re new to this series, there are some incredible episodes already waiting for you to listen to. Interviews with leading actors, academics, writers, historians, and descendants of the great man him self!Guests such as: Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Armando Iannucci, Rosie Holt, John Mullan, Lucinda Hawksley, Robert Douglas Fairhurst, Andrew Davies & Alice Loxton … and many many more!I hope you have as much fu...2024-11-3000 min
The Neurology LoungeEpisode 12. Multiple Sclerosis with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - Author of Metamorphosis: A Life in PiecesIn this episode I explore the patient perspective of multiple sclerosis with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, a Professor of English Literature and a Fellow of Maudlyn College, Oxford. He narrated his experience of the symptoms of MS in his memoir titled Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces. We also reviewed the investigations and treatments he underwent, including the cutting-edge stem cell transplantation. He also discusses the physical and emotional burdens of the disease, and how he has adapted to live a fully functional life. Apart from Metamorphosis, his other books include Becoming Dickens (2011), which was awarded...2024-08-041h 01
An Intro to Anthro with 2 HumansEpisode 51: Many the Moochers, The Co-Dependent Relationship between Parasites and HumansThe Two Humans host a plethora of lice, fleas, and worms as they scratch, pick, and dig into the history of parasites and humans.
Episode 51: Many the Moochers, The Co-Dependent Relationship between Parasites and Humans
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Secret Life of BooksAlice in Wonderland: rabbit-holes, mad mathematics and the elephant in the roomAlice in Wonderland is one of the most widely translated and quoted books in the world, and yet it is - quite literally - nonsense. How was it ushered into the world and why did it travel quite so far? Lewis Carroll, or Charles Dodgson to his mum and dad, was born in the north of England in 1832. Somehow, the unique circumstances of his life - a wild imagination, hatred of Victorian morality, appalling board school, love of mathematics and photography, debilitating stutter and a not entirely reassuring interest in children - came together in a c...2024-05-2159 min
Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥NEW EPISODES FOR 2024 !!! 🔥A new series of Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥 will launch on Friday 5th April ...The first episode takes place deep inside London’s Royal National Theatre, mid-rehearsal, for London Tide - an exciting new adaptation of Our Mutual Friend, co-written by Ben Power and PJ Harvey.Previous series guests include: Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Armando Iannucci, Lucinda Hawksley, Andrew Davies, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Alice Loxton, John Mullan and many many more …Support the showIf you like to make a donation to support the costs of produ...2024-03-2301 minCharles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥NEW EPISODES FOR 2024 !!! 🔥A new series of Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥 will launch on Friday 5th April ...The first episode takes place deep inside London’s Royal National Theatre, mid-rehearsal, for London Tide … an exciting new adaptation of Our Mutual Friend, co-written by Ben Power and PJ Harvey.Previous series guests: Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Armando Iannucci, Lucinda Hawksley, Andrew Davies, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Alice Loxton, John Mullan and many many more …Support the showIf you like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees...2024-03-2301 min
In Our TimeAlice's Adventures in WonderlandMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's book which first appeared in print in 1865 with illustrations by John Tenniel. It has since become one of the best known works in English, captivating readers who follow young Alice as she chases a white rabbit, pink eyed, in a waistcoat with pocket watch, down a rabbit hole that becomes a well and into wonderland. There she meets the Cheshire Cat, the Hatter, the March Hare, the Mock Turtle and more, all the while growing smaller and larger, finally outgrowing everyone at the trial of Who Stole the Tarts from the Queen...2024-03-1449 min
In Our Time: CultureAlice's Adventures in WonderlandMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's book which first appeared in print in 1865 with illustrations by John Tenniel. It has since become one of the best known works in English, captivating readers who follow young Alice as she chases a white rabbit, pink eyed, in a waistcoat with pocket watch, down a rabbit hole that becomes a well and into wonderland. There she meets the Cheshire Cat, the Hatter, the March Hare, the Mock Turtle and more, all the while growing smaller and larger, finally outgrowing everyone at the trial of Who Stole the Tarts from the Queen...2024-03-1449 minCharles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥"CHRISTMAS IS COMING" !Welcome to Christmas at Charles Dickens a Brain on Fire!At midnight tonight - London time - the very first of our special Christmas episodes will go live. And If you’re new to this series, there are some incredible episodes already waiting for you to listen to. Interviews with leading actors, academics, writers, historians, and descendants of the great man him self!Guests such as: Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Armando Iannucci, Rosie Holt, John Mullan, Lucinda Hawksley, Robert Douglas Fairhurst, Andrew Davies & Alice Loxton … and many many more!I hope you...2023-12-1700 minAn Intro to Anthro with 2 HumansEpisode 5: It’s Not You, It’s Me, the Complicated Relationship Between Rats and HumansDogs may be humans' best friends, but rats may be our oldest roommates. In this episode, The Two Humans get squeamish when they have a heart-to-heart about the world's other ubiquitous mammal. And by the way, most rats won't sit on your head and make you French food.
Episode 5 - It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Complicated Relationship between Rats and Humans
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Inside A Mountain: walking real and imaginary landscape with Charlie Lee-PotterSERIES 2: EPISODE 3: How to read a life: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and his memoir Metamorphosis: A Life in PiecesThis episode takes a walk, but a very short one. That's because my companion is Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, professor of English at Magdalen College, Oxford, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2017. The disease has wrecked his capacity to walk more than a few hundred metres - and wonky, clumsy metres at that. But Robert has substituted physical walks with imaginative ones, scanning his mind for ways of reading himself through literature. His powerful, funny and frank memoir Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces is a sparkling demonstration of the places our minds can take us when our feet can't.
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Between Lewis & LovecraftLate for a very Chill Date"Alice in Wonderland" is one of the most-loved children's books of all time, Hannah and Tyler try very hard to talk about it, but find themselves wandering onto new topics, cause this a chill episode!
Hannah read: "The Mystery of Lewis Carroll" by Jenny Wolff
Tyler read: "The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland" by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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The Book ClubRobert Douglas-Fairhurst: MetamorphosisMy guest on this week’s Book Club is Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. In his new book Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces, Robert describes how being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis plunged him from his comfortable life as an English literature professor at Oxford into a frightening and disorienting new world; and how literature itself helped him learn to navigate around it.2023-02-2234 min
Listen, Relax and Enjoy the Wonders of Full AudiobookMetamorphosis: A Life in Pieces Audiobook by Robert Douglas-FairhurstListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 590657
Title: Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces
Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Narrator: Peter Caulfield
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:07:56
Language: English
Release date: 02-16-23
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, History & Culture
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'We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time: we defuse an argument with a joke; we swerve to prevent a traffic accident. But sometimes we are unlucky enough to be on the trapdoor when the lever is pulled. My own trapdoor was hidden...2023-02-177h 07
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMetamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-FairhurstPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Narrator: Peter Caulfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time: we defuse an argument with a joke; we swerve to prevent a traffic accident. But sometimes we are unlucky enough to be on the trapdoor when the lever is pulled. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting room of an Oxford neurologist...2023-02-1605 min
Listen to Trending Full trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsMetamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-FairhurstPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Narrator: Peter Caulfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time: we defuse an argument with a joke; we swerve to prevent a traffic accident. But sometimes we are unlucky enough to be on the trapdoor when the lever is pulled. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting room of an Oxford neurologist.' When...2023-02-1605 minBetween Lewis & LovecraftLewis Carroll (Alice In Wonderland)"Alice in Wonderland" is one of the most-loved children's books of all time, but how much do you know about its creator, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll)?
As it turns out, a big part of Carroll's life is so embroiled in controversy that Tyler didn't even have to make up a conspiracy theory about the author.
Hannah read: "The Mystery of Lewis Carroll" by Jenny Wolff
Tyler read: "The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland" by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Thank you to Jake Bassen for our t...2023-01-301h 20
Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥A CHRISTMAS CAROL & Other Christmas Books📚: with Robert Douglas FairhurstDominic is joined again by the inimitable Robert Douglas Fairhurst who returns to this series to explore Dickens' five iconic Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life & The Haunted Man ...Robert's latest book Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces is available to order hereHappy Christmas! Higher Listenings: Joy for EducatorsA new podcast from Top Hat delivering ideas, relief, and joy to the future of teaching.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show2022-12-1257 min
Always Take Notes#146: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, academic and authorSimon and Rachel speak with the academic and author Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. After undergraduate studies and a PhD at Cambridge, Robert moved to Oxford in 2002, where he is a professor of English Literature and a fellow of Magdalen College. His previous books include "Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist", which won the Duff Cooper Prize for biography in 2011; "The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland" in 2015, which was shortlisted for the Costa Prize, and most recently "The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World" (2021). Robert has edited editions of Charles Dickens...2022-11-0156 min
dunc tankRobert Douglas-Fairhurst - Charles DickensRobert Douglas-Fairhurst is a professor of English at Oxford University, and the author of numerous books, including most recently, "The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World."
2022-03-2833 minCharles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥The Turning Point: with Robert Douglas-FairhurstDominic is joined by Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst to discuss his extraordinary biography of Dickens The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World ...The year is 1851 and London's Hyde Park is centre stage with the opening of The Great Exhibition. It is also the year that Dickens sits down to write his masterpiece: Bleak House ...Thank you for listening! To support this series please follow the link belowHigher Listenings: Joy for EducatorsA new podcast from Top Hat delivering ideas, relief, and joy to the future of teaching....2022-03-2555 min