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The Cluster F Theory Podcast51. Industrial Evolution - Jeff RosenthalJeff Rosenthal is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and community builder. He is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CIV, a back-and-build investment firm focused on critical industries. Prior to founding CIV, Jeff co-founded Summit, a leading business and thought leadership community. Jeff also co-owns Powder Mountain, the largest ski resort in North America. He sits on the board of the Ocean Conservancy and is a member of Conservation International’s Leadership Council. Jeff is the co-author of Make No Small Plans, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds a BA in International Business from Am...2025-06-1244 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast49. Digital Detox - Trine SyvertsenTrine Syvertsen is professor of media studies at the University of Oslo, working in the fields of media history, media policy, television and digital media. She co-edited The Digital Backlash and The Paradoxes of Disconnection and authored the influential Digital Detox, The Politics of Disconnecting. Faculty page: https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/trinesy/Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=42etQgUAAAAJ&hl=enThe Digital Backlash (Open Access) https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/digital-backlash-and-paradoxes-disconnectionDigital Detox: https://bookstore.emerald.com/digital-detox-pb-9781787693425.html...2025-05-2954 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast48. (Un)Kindness - Victoria SmithVictoria Smith is a feminist writer with a particular interest in motherhood and intersections of misogyny and ageism. She has written for Unherd, the Critic, the New Statesman and the Independent. She is the author of two books- Hags, on the demonisation of middle-aged women- which was shortlisted for the Nero Prize in 2023 - and her new book Unkind, on how ‘kindness culture’ entrenches sexism.(Un)kind publisher's page: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/victoria-smith/unkind/9780349127132/Hags publisher's page: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/victoria-smith/hags/9780349726960/Hags at the Nero Book Awar...2025-05-2236 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast39. Public/Publics- Merve EmreMerve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Merve is the author of a host of books including Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017) The Personality Brokers (Doubleday: New York, 2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, the Economist, NPR, CBC, and the Spectator, and informs the CNN/HBO Max documentary feature film Persona. She is the editor of Once and Future Feminist (Camb...2025-03-2050 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast38. Dance- Dame Arlene PhillipsDame Arlene Phillips is a world-renowned, award-winning choreographer and theatre director. From creating the revolutionary dance group Hot Gossip in the 1970’s to working with stars from film, TV and theatre, Arlene is a household name. Her work includes choreographing Hollywood films such as ‘Annie’, ‘Legend’ and ‘Monty Python's The Meaning of Life’, West End and Broadway musicals such as ‘Starlight Express’, ‘We Will Rock You’ and ‘Grease’, and iconic music videos including Duran Duran's ‘Wild Boys’, Tina Turner's ‘Private Dancer’, Whitney Houston's ‘How Will I Know’ and Freddie Mercury's ‘The Great Pretender’.She was made Dame Commander of the Order o...2025-03-1346 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 58: PsychopathyPatrick Bateman. Hannibal Lecter. Ted Bundy. The guy who used to live downstairs from me. Psychopaths, every one. Except defining psychopathy, let alone measuring it, turns out to be surprisingly controversial among psychologists and forensic scientists.In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart look at the latest attempts to define and model psychopathy, the evidence on the questionnaires used to measure it, and whether The Sopranos was right in saying that therapy only makes psychopaths worse.Our sponsor for the next month is GiveWell. They’re the org that helps you work ou...2024-12-0357 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 57: Collider biasAmong patients hospitalized for COVID, smokers had better outcomes. Among people with cardiovascular disease, those with obesity live longer. Among NBA basketballers, taller players don’t do any better. These are all facts. But the interpretation you might immediately draw is completely wrong.It turns out that these findings (and many more) might be due to the weird and under-discussed phenomenon of “collider bias”. Everyone who’s interested in scientific methods knows what a confounder is—but do they know what a collider is? In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart attempt to explain.We’re...2024-11-261h 00
The Studies ShowEpisode 55: Government science fundingIn a desperate attempt to be relevant given the US Election, Tom and Stuart dedicate this episode of The Studies Show to talking about government investment in science. How bad is it if politicians cut the science budget? Exactly how much do you get back for every pound or dollar spent on science—and how is that even calculated in the first place?The Studies Show is brought to you by Works in Progress magazine—a journal of science, history, and technology that discusses the secrets behind human progress. You can read their published essays at worksinprogress.co...2024-11-0552 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 54: Halloween special on psychic mediumsWoooOOOOOoooOOOOOoooo, it’s that time of year again! It’s Halloween, so it’s time for The Studies Show hosts to face their fears, and read the research from one of the weirdest areas of science, parapsychology.This time it’s all about psychic mediums. What does it mean to test whether someone can talk to the dead? Are we any better at doing it now than we were 100 years ago at the height of “spiritualism”? And what do the most recent results tell us about the existence of the afterlife?Happy Halloween! 🎃This week, The...2024-10-291h 09
Comedy of the WeekCall Jonathan Pie: The American DreamIn the first of two US election specials Pie (Tom Walker) is tackling the thorny issue of democracy and is quickly derailed. As he takes his usual balanced (not) approach to the US presidential candidates Jules (Lucy Pearman) dangles a juicy carrot. There’s a big gig in the offing; if only he can stop ranting about one of the candidates. Can you guess which one? Written and performed by Tom Walker.
Additional material by Daniel Abelson and Will FrankenJules …. Lucy Pearman.
Sam ….. Aqib Khan
Roger ….. Nick Revell
Callers ….. Rosie Holt, Ellile Dobing, Daniel Abelson, W...2024-10-2828 min
Call Jonathan PieAmerican Dream: Part 2Pie’s rival has mysteriously fallen ill and Pie is unleashed live across America. On air he battles Democrats and Republicans abroad whilst navigating the BBC's ridiculously stringent impartiality rules. Off-air the team must pull together to hide some dark secrets from Roger. Written and performed by Tom Walker.
Additional material by Daniel Abelson and Will FrankenJules …. Lucy Pearman.
Sam ….. Aqib Khan
Roger ….. Nick Revell
Callers ….. Maria Shehata, Will Franken, Benjamin Davis, Daniel Abelson, Willow Bennison and Ed Kear
Original Music ..... Jason Read
Voiceover ..... Bob Sinfield
Producer ….. Alison Vernon-Smith
Executive Producer ….. Julian Mayers
Production Co Ordinator …...2024-10-2536 min
Call Jonathan PieAmerican Dream: Part 1In the first of two US election specials Pie (Tom Walker) is tackling the thorny issue of democracy and is quickly derailed. As he takes his usual balanced (not) approach to the US presidential candidates Jules (Lucy Pearman) dangles a juicy carrot. There’s a big gig in the offing; if only he can stop ranting about one of the candidates. Can you guess which one? Written and performed by Tom Walker.
Additional material by Daniel Abelson and Will FrankenJules …. Lucy Pearman.
Sam ….. Aqib Khan
Roger ….. Nick Revell
Callers ….. Rosie Holt, Ellile Dobing, Daniel Abelson, Wi...2024-10-2535 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 53: The Stanford Prison ExperimentPhilip Zimbardo, the psychologist who’s best known for running the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971, died last week. That’s a good excuse to discuss his legacy: what did his famous experiment tell us about the power of the situation to make normal people commit evil and sadistic acts?In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart go back to the original report of one of the most famous psychology studies of all time, and then see how the experiment is looking after more than 50 years of discussion and debate (spoiler: not good).The...2024-10-221h 12
The Cluster F Theory Podcast37. End of Season 1Hello!We're going to take a break for a little while. In this episode, we discuss what the past 7 months have been like for us and what kinds of topics we'd like to cover in our next season.If you have only recently found us, we'd love it if you'd go back to the beginning and listen to earlier episodes. Also, feel free to share the podcast and subscribe to our Substack in order to be emailed with new episodes. Also, rate it and review it or whatever it is you're supposed to do with...2024-10-1722 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast36. Hypochondria - Caroline CramptonCaroline Crampton is a writer and a podcaster. She is the creator and host of the award-winning detective fiction podcast Shedunnit. She curates articles as editor-in-chief of The Browser, and she writes reviews and essays for publications like Time, Literary Hub and the Guardian. She writes non-fiction books about the world and how we live in it. Here most recent book A Body Made of Glass was serialised as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week, chosen by the Guardian as a literary highlight of 2024 and was one of Nature's 'top reads for summer.'Caroline Crampton: ht...2024-10-1045 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 52: Very old people and "Blue Zones"What’s the secret of living to 100? Well, it might be living in a “Blue Zone”: one of the handful of places around the world where there are apparently loads of centenarians. Except, as has been argued recently, Blue Zones might be a load of nonsense.In this epside of The Studies Show, relative spring chickens Tom and Stuart look at some of the recent controversies in demography. Is there a limit to the human lifespan? Did someone really live 122 years? And how could researchers not have noticed the glaring problems with the whole idea of Blue Zones...2024-10-081h 01
The Cluster F Theory Podcast33. Children's Online Rights - Beeban KidronBaroness Beeban Kidron OBE sits as a crossbench peer in the UK’s House of Lords.She is an advisor to the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, a Commissioner on the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, an expert advisor for the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, and Founder and Chair of 5Rights Foundation. Before taking up her seat in the House of Lords in 2012, Baroness Kidron spent 30 years as a film maker. Her credits include, the BAFTA award-winning 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', 'Bridget Jone...2024-09-1947 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast32. Ageist Sexism - Kathy LetteKathy Lette is the author of 17 novels, THE woman about town in London and one of the pioneering voices of contemporary feminism. She is well known for her one-liners, wise cracks and witticism and is as close to being the 21st century's Dorothy Parker as anyone else I know.She wrote her first book, Puberty Blues, when she was 17. The book addresses the sexism in teenage culture in 1970s Australia. Her most recent book, Revenge Club, addresses the sexism older women face and has been called 'erotic fan fiction for the peri-menopausal'. Kathy was educated...2024-09-1239 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast31. AI - Nick RhodesNick Rhodes is a composer, producer and founding member and keyboardist in Duran Duran. Apart from his work with Duran Duran, he's had several side projects with Arcadia, The Devils and TV Mania and has collaborated with various artists, including Blondie, Mark Ronson and the Dandy Warhols. He's a keen photographer and art collector. Nick's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_RhodesDuran Duran's 'Invisible' video made by AI:Duran Duran's official site: https://duranduran.com/Duran Duran's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/duranduran/Duran Duran's YouTube...2024-09-0545 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 48: AlcoholOkay, it’s time to finally answer the question: is drinking booze good or bad? Is there really a “J-curve”, such that it’s bad to drink zero alcohol, good to drink a little, and then bad to drink any more than that? What exactly is the “safe level” of alcohol consumption, and why do the meta-analyses on this topic all seem to tell us entirely different things?In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart get very badly intoxicated—with statistics.We’re sponsored by Works in Progress magazine. There’s no better place onlin...2024-09-0355 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast30. First Nations' Rights - Brenda L CroftThe artist and thinker Brenda L Croft is from the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples from the Victorian River region of the Northern Territory of Australia, and Anglo-Australian/German/Irish/Chinese heritage. She has been a key participant in the Australian First Nations and broader contemporary arts and cultural sectors as a multi-disciplinary creative practitioner—artist, arts administrator, consultant, curator, educator and researcher—since the mid-1980s. Brenda is a Professor of Indigenous Art History and Curatorship, Australian National University. In 2023—2024 Brenda is Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.Austra...2024-08-2950 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 47: The 25 year old brainEveryone knows your brain hasn’t finished maturing until you’re 25. That’s so well-known, in fact, that some countries (like Scotland) have built it into their criminal justice system, giving lower sentences to under-25s—even very violent ones—on account of their immature brains.But in this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart discuss what the evidence really says about when the brain matures—and the trickiness of linking important policy decisions to the science.The Studies Show is brought to you by Works in Progress magazine, who don’t just have their mag...2024-08-271h 03
The Cluster F Theory Podcast28. A Life In Design - Peter SavillePeter Saville is an English art director and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of Factory Records in 1978 and designed many record sleeves for their bands including Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures' and New Order's 'Power Corruption and Lies'. Outside of Factory he did work for artists such as Roxy Music, Wham!, OMD, Ultravox, Peter Gabriel, Suede and Pulp. He's worked with various fashion houses including Christian Dior, Stella McCartney and Calvin Klein. He was the Creative Director of the City of Manchester, designed the England football team home shirt and in 2020 was appointed Commander of the Order...2024-08-1541 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 46: The marshmallow testIt’s one of the best-known findings of psychology research: kids who can delay gratification by not eating a marshmallow will grow up healther, wiser, and more successful. But guess what? Later studies had trouble finding the same results. What do we actually know about delaying gratification?Get ready to control yourselves, because in this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart tell the story of yet another famous psychological study that turned out not to live up to the hype.The Studies Show is sponsored by Works in Progress magazine. If you’re look...2024-08-131h 12
The Cluster F Theory Podcast27. Symbiontics - Caroline A. JonesCaroline A Jones is Professor in the History, Theory, and Criticism section, Department of Architecture, MIT. She studies modern and contemporary art, focusing on its technological modes of production, distribution, and reception, and on its interface with science. She has also worked as a curator, including three exhibitions at MIT's List Visual Arts Center: Hans Haaken, Video Trajectories, and Sensorium. Her exhibitions and/or films have been shown at NY MoMA, SF MoMA, the Hirshhorn DC, and the Hara Museum Tokyo, among other venues. Publications include Machine in the Studio (1996/98), Picturing Science, Producing Art (co-editor, 1998...2024-08-0846 min
The Studies ShowFirst anniversary specialWe’ve now been making this podcast for a year(!). We thought we’d mark the occasion with a grossly self-indulgent look back through our favourite episodes - and our least favourites, too. We’ve still got a massive list of potential episode topics, but we always want more. Which topics would you like us to look into? Comments below are open to all.Thanks for listening. And remember: if you like The Studies Show, please tell a friend about it!Show notes* Study showing consistent results from multiple cognitive test batter...2024-08-061h 09
The Cluster F Theory Podcast26. Cultural Poisoning - Sarah DitumSarah Ditum is a journalist for The Sunday Times and has also written for The Guardian, New Statesman, Grazia and UnHerd. She writes columns and features about politics, culture and lifestyle including topics such as violence against women, gender identity and cancel culture. Her book Toxic: Women, Fame and The Noughties, about misogyny in celebrity culture during the 2000s, was published in 2023 and it was announced in spring '24 that one of the book's subjects, Paris Hilton, acquired the option rights in order to turn it into a documentary series.Sarah's Substack 'Tox Report': https://substack.com...2024-08-0157 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast25. The Emotional Aftermath of War Reporting - David ChaterDavid Chater is an award-winning British broadcast journalist who has worked in international television news for over 40 years. He has reported for Independent Television News, Sky News and Al Jazeera English from pretty much every conflict you can think of. He's reported on the Falklands War, the Yugoslavian Homeland Wars, the First Gulf War, the Second Gulf War, the Sri Lankan civil war, the war in Afghanistan, the second Chechen War. He's been in the middle of a Scud missile attack, a grad rocket attack was in the middle of Operation Shock and Awe in Baghdad and was shot...2024-07-2546 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast24. Stasis- Jason FaragoJason Farago is a critic at large for the New York Times, writing about culture and its place in the wider world.His writing has taken him from wartime Kyiv to the Olympic stadiums of Tokyo to dance parties in Johannesburg. He also is the co-creator of Close Read, a criticism series that delves into a single cultural work, detail by detail. Before joining the Times, he served as a US art critic for The Guardian and was a regular contributor to publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, the BBC, Art...2024-07-1853 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 44: AsteroidsLast week’s episode covered a man-made existential risk to humanity—nuclear war. But what about natural risks? Could there, right now, be a vast asteroid sailing through space that’ll collide with Earth, sending us go the way of the dinosaurs?In this rocky episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart look at the data on how often we should expect civilisation-destroying asteroids to hit Earth - and what if anything we can do about it if one is approaching.The Studies Show is brought to you by Works in Progress magazine, the best p...2024-07-1653 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast23. FGM - Nimco AliNimco Ali OBE is co-founder and CEO of The Five Foundation, a global partnership to end female genital mutilation. Nimco is an activist, author and a survivor of FGM. Her tireless work has put FGM front and centre in the feminist campaign to end violence against women and girls. Nimco was awarded an OBE for her trailblazing activism in 2019. In the past 10 years, Nimco was awarded Red Magazine’s Woman of the Year award, placed at No 6 on the Woman’s Hour Power List, named by The Sunday Times as one of Debrett’s 500 most influential people in Bri...2024-07-1155 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast22. World Building - Vid SimonitiVid Simoniti is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Art at the University of Liverpool, where he also directs the MA in Art, Philosophy and Cultural Institutions. Before joining the department at Liverpool in 2018, he was the inaugural Jeffrey Rubinoff Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, the University of Cambridge. Vid's academic work bridges philosophy, political thoughts and arts criticism. He's interested in how art can bring about social and political change and his most recent book Artists Remake the World offers his answer to that question. And as the title suggests, it's both a hopeful and an ambitious...2024-07-0447 min
Call Jonathan PieGeneral Election SpecialHaving endured weeks of impossibly restrictive BBC election guidelines, Jonathan Pie is looking forward to election day and an end to all the madness. But first he has to persuade an apathetic Sam that not 'all parties are the same' and to actually go out and vote. Written and performed by Tom WalkerCast:
Jonathan Pie ….. Tom Walker
Sam ….. Aqib Khan
Caller ….. Ellie DobingProducers …. Alison Vernon-Smith and Julian MayersA Yada-Yada Audio production for BBC Radio 42024-06-2614 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast20. Fear and Bravery - Tracy KingThank you for listening to The Cluster F Theory. If you don’t already subscribe at Substack, please sign up on our page in order to receive an email when new episodes are released. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it or review it wherever you listen and share it with your friends. Thank you!Tracy King is a writer, producer and consultant based in both Birmingham and London. She has written for publications such as the New Statesman, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The New European. Alongside her writing, she has produced various animations including Ti...2024-06-2052 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast19. Immediacy - Anna KornbluhThank you for listening to The Cluster F Theory. If you don’t already subscribe at Substack, please sign up on our page in order to receive an email when new episodes are released. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it or review it wherever you listen and share it with your friends. Thank you!Anna Kornbluh is a professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where she founded InterCcECT, the Inter Chicago Circle for Experimental Critical Theory. Her research and teaching interests center on the novel, film and cultural aesthetics in theoretical perspective, in...2024-06-1331 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast18. The Weather (not really) - Richard WisemanRichard Wiseman holds Britain’s only Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, and has published over 100 academic papers examining the psychology of magic and illusion, deception, luck and self-development. He has written several popular psychology books (including The Luck Factor and 59 Seconds) that have been published around the world.Richard has also created psychology-based YouTube videos that have attracted over 800 million views, he is one of the most followed psychologists on social media, and the Independent On Sunday chose him as one of the top 100 people who make Britain a better pl...2024-06-0643 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast17. Buffering - Tom McCarthyTom McCarthy is a novelist whose work has been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio. His first novel, Remainder, won the 2008 Believer Book Award. His third, C, was a 2010 Man Booker Prize finalist, as was his fourth, Satin Island, in 2015.Tom is also the author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature and of the essay collection Typewriters Bombs Jellyfish. He contributes regularly to publications such as the New York Times, the London Review of Books, Harper's and Art Forum. In 2013, he was awarded the inaugural Windham Campbell Prize...2024-05-3043 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 38: Lead and crimeMany Western countries, most notably the US, had a major decline in their crime rate in the 1990s. About 20 years earlier, the US had banned the use of lead in gasoline. Perhaps you wouldn’t think those two facts are related - but many researchers think this wasn’t a coincidence.After getting distracted and doing a whole episode on lead and IQ a couple of weeks ago, Tom and Stuart get to the subject they intended to cover: the lead-crime hypothesis. How strong is the evidence that the presence of lead in a child’s early enviro...2024-05-2856 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast16. Mortality - Richard BaconRichard Bacon has been a household name for over 25 years in the UK. As a tv presenter he's known for shows such as Blue Peter, Top of the Pops, The Big Breakfast and Good Morning Britain. As a radio presenter he's been on pretty much every channel you can think of. He's started his own production company, Yes Yes Media, creating and producing tv shows, including the very popular I Literally Just Told You.Richard' Twitter post as he was first admitted to hospital.Richard's Instagram post and photo thanking the NHS for saving his...2024-05-2346 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast15. Social Mediocrity - Katrin TiidenbergKatrin Tiidenberg is a Professor of Participatory Culture at the Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School at Tallinn University in Estonia. She has held fellowships at Durham University, Aarhus University and Microsoft Research New England. Katrin's research focuses on the hows and whys of people's online and social media practices with a particular emphasis on visuality, sex and political participation. Her research engages the most relevant issues of our day, identity, community, norms and power.How do we present ourselves online? What is normal? Who is in charge? And what happens to sex and...2024-05-1645 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 37: Lead and IQPetrol, pipes, paint: they made a whole generation duller. That’s if you believe the research on the effects of lead on IQ. By interfering with neurological development, the lead that we used to encounter routinely has left hundreds of millions of us with a tiny bit of brain damage.In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart look at the toxic effects of lead - from very obvious, high-dose lead poisoning to the more insidious, low-level effects that have apparently held millions of people back. How strong is the evidence for the effects of lo...2024-05-141h 04
The Cluster F Theory Podcast13. Parafiction - Carrie Lambert-BeattyProfessor Carrie Lambert-Beatty is a contemporary art historian. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard. She's the author of some of the most influential arts writing of the 21st century, including the award-winning book Being Watched, Yvonne Rainer in the 1960s and the essay, Make Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility (pdf). Carrie is also a co-editor at the illustrious arts theory journal October. Her current research is on 30 years of fiction presented as fact in contemporary art, asking what happens...2024-05-0244 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast12. Invisible Women - Caroline Criado PerezCaroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster, speaker and feminist campaigner. She successfully campaigned to put a woman on the British £10 note in 2013 and campaigned to put a statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square in 2018 thereby making Parliament Square a little bit less of a sausage fest. Her book 'INVISIBLE WOMEN: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men' was a Sunday Times #1 best seller, and won both the Financial Times Book of the Year Award and the Royal Society Science Book prize.Caroline’s Invisible Women Newsletter: Caroline’s web...2024-04-2544 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast11. Contingency- Hanneke van LaarhovenProfessor Hanneke van Laarhoven is professor of translational medical oncology at the University of Amsterdam and head of the Department of Medical Oncology of the Amsterdam University Medical Center. She is a world-renowned specialist on gastrointestinal cancer, but her interests reach far beyond the body, including psychology, AI, philosophy and theology. She is also known for helping develop the first large-scale databases collecting tumour and blood samples, archives which hopefully will one day provide a key to unlocking the mysteries still surrounding the disease today.Van Laarhoven calls herself a “staunch advocate of interdisciplinarity”. She certainly has the...2024-04-1843 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 34: Does depression exist?Several previous episodes of The Studies Show have covered depression and treatments for it, but none have really considered what depression is. It’s time to do that. It turns out that some scientists have made serious critiques of the standard way of thinking about depression, and argue that we need a revolution in the way we measure it.In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart take nothing for granted - they look into the idea of “latent variables”, read the studies critiquing the concept of a single, monolithic “depression”, and talk about what this all m...2024-04-161h 02
The Cluster F Theory Podcast10. Laughter - Sophie ScottProfessor Sophie Scott CBE is the Director of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, as well as the Head of their Speech Communications Group.Her research interests include the neural basis of vocal communication - how our brains process the information in speech and voices, and how our brains control the production of our voice. She is also interested in the expression of emotion in the voice, especially laughter.She is very active in the public communication of science and presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2017, has appeared on loads of...2024-04-1136 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 33: Probability (and Tom's new book)Everything is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World. That’s the new book—out on April 25 in the UK and May 7 in the US—by our very own Tom Chivers!In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart cover some of the historical sections of the book, and talk about where some of our basic ideas about probability come from (it turns out to be a weird combination of inveterate gamblers and Presbyterian ministers).The Studies Show is sponsored by Works in Progress Magazine - the best place online to find deep d...2024-04-091h 02
The Cluster F Theory Podcast9. War and Peace - What Is It Good For? - Philippa PerryPhilippa Perry- or to use her proper title, Philippa, Lady Perry - is an author, psychotherapist and artist. She has written several books including a graphic novel titled 'Couch Fiction: a Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy', the #1 Sunday Times Best Seller 'The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read...' And her current book called 'The Book You Want Everyone You Love To Read...' She has presented various documentaries on British tv and during Covid she co-hosted three seasons of Grayson's Art Club on Channel 4. Since 2021 she has been writing The Observer newspaper's ‘Ask Philippa’ column in whic...2024-04-0431 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast7. Negotiating the Long Term - Catherine AshtonCatherine Ashton, or The Right Honourable, The Baroness Ashton of Upholland, LG GCMG PC was created a life peer by Tony Blair in 1999.In the Blair government she was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Education and Skills, and in the Ministry of Justice. During Gordon Brown's government she became Leader of the House of Lords, Lord President of the Council, the British European Commissioner and the Commissioner for Trade in the European Commission.She was appointed a Privy Councillor in May 2006. She served as the High Representative of the...2024-04-0443 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 32: MicroplasticsMicroplastics are everywhere: there are teeny-tiny plastic particles in your drinking water, your food, your air - and perhaps even in your internal organs. How worried should you be?In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart look into the research on microplastics, covering all the reasons that the health effects of microscopic particles are not straightforward to study. They also look in detail at a scary new study that apparently found, according to one headline, that microplastics “could raise [your] risk of stroke and heart attack”.Russian serfs! Railroad tunnels! Silkworms! The Zika...2024-04-021h 00
The Studies ShowStudies Show Short 1: Emotional IntelligenceAs an extra way of thanking our paid subscribers, we’re going to post some shorter episodes in addition to the usual weekly hour-long ones.This first short episode (available to everyone for free; after this they’re paid-only) is about the idea of Emotional Intelligence. Does your “EQ” matter as much as your “IQ”? How can you even test that, anyway?To listen to future short episodes, as well as accessing all our paid-only stuff, you need to become a paid subscriber. Go to www.thestudiesshowpod.com/subscribe to see the options.Show notes2024-03-2922 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast6. Ritual- Andy NymanAndy Nyman is a multi-award winning actor, director, writer, author and magician. As an actor his credits include things such as playing Winston Churchill in ‘Peaky Blinders’, and Dan in the Oscar winning film 'Judy'. He starred in Charlie Brooker's 'Dead Set'. Has appeared on stage on Broadway and in the West End in shows such as ‘Fiddler on The Roof’, ‘Assassins’, ‘Hangmen’ and ‘Ghost Stories’, which he also wrote and directed. He is the co-creator and co-writer of several tv shows with illusionist Derren Brown, as well as co-writing and co-directing several of Derren Brown's stage shows...2024-03-2842 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast5. Living With Death - Francesca StavrakopoulouProfessor Francesca Stavrakopoulou is a biblical scholar and broadcaster. She is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at the University of Exeter in the UK. Her research is on ancient Israelite and Judahite religions, and portrayals of the religious past in the Hebrew Bible. Her most recent book deals with ancient constructs of God's body, it’s called ‘God: An Anatomy’. It won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for non-fiction; was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize; named a best book of the year in both the Economist and Sunday Times, and was serialised on BBC Radio 4's Boo...2024-03-2841 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast4. The Science of Happiness - Bruce HoodProfessor Bruce Hood is Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society at the University of Bristol in the UK. His research focuses on cognitive development in children, spatial representation and action, the origin of adult magical reasoning from children’s natural intuitions and for the past several years has been running a course at Bristol called the Science of Happiness. Apart from his academic work, he is very well-known for his public communication of science and has appeared on various radio and tv programmes in the UK, presented the Royal Institutions Christmas Lectures and has written several popular sc...2024-03-2844 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast3. War Games - Annabel DaouArtist Annabel Daou was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, she is now living in New York. Her work takes place at the intersection of writing, speech, and non-verbal modes of communication. Her paper- and tape-based constructions, sound pieces, and performances explore the language of power, intimacy, and self-encounter across time and space. Her works involve friends, acquaintances, and random strangers. She has asked people questions and given them imperatives. She has read people’s palms – and she's read the Declaration of Independence. There are few artists whose practice resonates more with me, makes me understand what I have long...2024-03-2837 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast2. Foreplay|Endgame - Joseph KoernerProfessor Joseph Koerner is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature at Harvard University, where he is also a senior fellow at the prestigious Society of Fellows.Koerner is one of the most renowned art historians and critics working today, and the world’s leading specialist on Northern Renaissance and 19th Century Art, in particular German and Netherlandish painting. He has written multiple books, amongst them volumes on Caspar David Friedrich, Albrecht Durer and recently Bosch and Brueghel. Koerner has also written and presented va...2024-03-2846 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast1. Eugenics Redux- Adam RutherfordAdam Rutherford is a scientist, writer, broadcaster and President of Humanists UK.He is a Lecturer in Biology and Society at University College London, where he teaches the history of eugenics, race science, genetics, and science communication. He is one of the UK's most well-known science communicators and in 2021 was awarded The Royal Society David Attenborough Award in recognition of his contribution to strengthening public confidence in science through radio, TV, films, talks and books, and in particular, for challenging racist pseudoscience.His BBC programmes include Start The Week, Inside Science and The...2024-03-2848 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 31: The trouble with meta-analysisWe all love to cite meta-analyses. They’re the review studies where scientists take every single piece of research ever published on a particular question, and then calculate the overall “true” effect across all of them. Putting together all those studies is a much better way to get to the truth… isn’t it?In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart give a intro to meta-analysis, and then talk about several major problems with the whole idea. Is meta-analysis—relied upon for making so many important scientific decisions, and cited in so many of our previous...2024-03-191h 09
The Studies ShowEpisode 30: The origin of lifeDon’t worry, it’s nothing important this week - only the origin of all life on planet Earth. No biggie. Sure, life evolved by natural selection, but to get evolution going, you need to have life in the first place. So where did it come from?Scientists have theories about “abiogenesis” - the moment around 3.5 billion years ago when, having never existed before, biology began. In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart look into the theories, and some of the recent studies where scientists have tried to recreate the conditions that might’ve sparked se...2024-03-1258 min
The Studies ShowMea Culpa 3Mistakes were made. By us. In this Mea Culpa episode we discuss several of them, big and small, from multiple previous episodes. If you’ve noticed us make a mistake on The Studies Show, please do get in touch on thestudiesshowpod@substack.com, and we’ll include it in a future Mea Culpa!Show notes* Eiko Fried’s research on the definition of depression (we’ll do a whole episode on this!)* The new BMJ meta-analysis on exercise and depression that came out literally one day after we discussed that topic on the s...2024-03-0124 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 28: Climate modelsRemember when the airwaves were full of people questioning the idea of man-made climate change? You don’t hear much from them any more - in large part becuase the evidence that our CO2 emissions are altering the climate has become so overwhelming.After a recap on how we know that carbon warms the climate, Tom and Stuart use this episode of The Studies Show to discuss climate predictions—er, I mean, projections—and how accurate they’ve been. They ask whether the media always gets it right when discussing climate (spoiler: no), and whether we should be optim...2024-02-271h 04
The Studies ShowEpisode 26: PsychotherapyWhat treatment works best for people with depression? Is it psychodynamic psychotherapy, in the Freudian tradition, with its emphasis on hidden, unconscious desires? Or is it Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, based on more contemporary (and less, y’know, made up) ways of thinking about psychology? How do you even do a good study on something as complicated as psychological therapy, anyway?In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom (ego) and Stuart (superego) talk about two recent reviews that summarise all the evidence on which kind of therapy works best - and find some results that surprise them bo...2024-02-061h 07
The Studies ShowEpisode 24: PersonalityWhy do some people love parties and others prefer to stay at home with a book? Why do some people worry endlessly about all the bad things that might happen, while others breeze through life with supreme confidence? Why is Stuart such a nice guy and Tom far less so?In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart discuss personality and the personality tests that are supposed to measure it. They discuss whether it might be the Big Five or the Big Six, what measuring personality is good for, and whether “Grit” is even a thin...2024-01-161h 03
The Studies ShowEpisode 22: Review of 2023We admit it: The Studies Show tends to be quite negative. We’re always complaining about low-quality studies, faulty reasoning, and bad science.Not this time! In this end-of-year special, Tom and Stuart discuss the good science news from the past year, covering all the coolest technologies and most life-saving medical advances from 2023.See you in 2024 - oh, and pre-order Tom’s book on Bayes!CreditsThe Studies Show is produced by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada Productions. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this...2023-12-2950 min
The Studies ShowMea Culpa 2Here’s another brief episode covering the errors we’ve made in our last few episodes, from the very minor to the somewhat more serious.We’re grateful to listeners who pointed these out - please keep doing so! If you’ve noticed an error on The Studies Show, let us know and we’ll correct it on a future episode like this. Contact details are on the About page.Show notes* UNSCEAR numbers on birth defects caused by Chernobyl* Adjusting for publication bias makes the effect of cash transfers on mental hea...2023-11-1814 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 15: Halloween special on parapsychologyWelcome to a very spooky episode of The Studies Show, on the topic of parapsychology. Tom and Stuart discuss telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and more, and look at some of the most recent attempts by scientists to show that these weird—and did we mention spooky?—psychic phenomena are real. Can it really be the case that studies claiming the existence of psychic powers get published in mainstream scientific journals? What does this mean for how seriously we take scientific journals? And is Stuart right that a parapsychology study published earlier this year might be the best psychology stud...2023-10-311h 01
The Studies ShowEpisode 13: Football and dementiaWe’ve all heard of football players (that’s “soccer players” for US listeners) tearing their hamstrings, spraining their ankles, and injuring their knees. But could all that heading of the football, whether or not it causes a concussion, be having a subtler but much more damaging long-term effect on the player’s brain?In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart—the latter of whom, as you’ll discover, is not a massive fan of sport in general—discuss research on whether playing the nation’s favourite sport might lead to dementia in later life. If it does...2023-10-1059 min
Coburg Up LateVICTOR RUIZ (São Paulo, BRA) | Episode 035 - Coburg Up LatePeak Time Techno
04 JULY 2023 | 01h 02m
In this absolute whopper of a season finale, Brazilian techno mega-star Victor Ruiz gives my neighbours something to complain about with a priceless cache of “bass-face-generators” (plus an exclusive NEVER-to-be-released original) whilst we muse over charity, spirituality and the good ol' Aussie mango!
Tracklist:
07:49 VICTOR RUIZ - Veritas (Original Mix)
13:11 LISA MAY - Yada Yada (Original Mix)
17:33 THOMAS SCHUMACHER - Stella (Original Mix)
20:18 TOMAS OTERO - High Voltage (Original Mix)
24:06 BALTHAZAR & JACKROCK - Solar Deity (Original Mix)
29:23 FRANKYEFFE - Snare (Julian Jeweil Remix)
32:01 CHRISTIAN SMITH - One Giant Consciousness (Original Mix)
36:43 ENRICO SANGIULIANO - Sy...2023-10-091h 02
The Studies ShowEpisode 11: The AI apocalypse debateIs artificial intelligence going to lead to the extinction of humanity? What would that even look like? Everyone’s got an opinion: mostly either “that sounds absolutely ridiculous” or “that sounds absolutely terrifying”.In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart do something slightly different. Stuart plays the role of an AI apocalypse sceptic, and grills Tom on all the arguments about the coming AI apocalypse. Happily, Tom has already written a whole book on the subject, so he knows all the answers.The Studies Show is sponsored by Works in Progress magazine...2023-09-191h 10
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4Dom Joly Breaks the NewsThe third of our satirical specials this summer. In a topical mash-up of prank calls, interviews and features, Dom Joly offers his mischievously surreal take on the people and stories that are hitting the week's headlines. As Dom attempts to get to the bottom of the biggest stories of the week, he challenges experts and makes calls to the wrong people about the wrong thing, often at the wrong time. Best known for Trigger Happy TV which reinvented the hidden camera format, Dom actually has a degree in politics and is a former diplomat. He once stood against Alan...2023-09-0827 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 9: The placebo effectIf you give someone a sugar pill but convince them it’s a real medicine, they might get better because of the power of belief. That’s the standard story, anyway. But as Tom and Stuart find in this episode, the more you dig into the science on placebo effects, the more you begin to doubt that the placebo effect is some innate bodily healing process that responds to beliefs. Instead, it might all just be due to mistakes and biases in the studies. Do we need to completely change the way we think about placebos?2023-09-0558 min
The Studies ShowMea Culpa 1On The Studies Show, we’re all about trying to get it right. But sometimes we get it wrong. Every so often, we’ll do a feedback/corrections/clarifications episode where we go back and try to correct any errors in the last few episodes, and reply to your more general feedback. This is the first one of those, covering Episodes 1-8. Our thanks go to everyone who pointed out our mistakes. Please keep the feedback coming!Show notes* Retatrutide phase 2 trial; semaglutide vs. tirzepatide cost-effectiveness study* The IARC’s useful, detail...2023-09-0237 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 8: Growth mindsetIn any given school, you’re never more than 6ft away from a poster about “growth mindset”. It’s the massively-popular idea that if you believe that people can change, you’ll put more effort into a task (like studying) and end up doing better at it. On the other hand, if you have a “fixed mindset” and think talent is innate and unchangeable, you won’t put in the effort and you’ll fail to reach your potential.In this episode, Tom and Stuart talk about how the claims about the power of growth mindset have changed over the y...2023-08-291h 05
The Studies ShowEpisode 7: The LK-99 superconductor, and other physics false dawnsIf you were anywhere near social media at the start of August, you’ll have seen endless claims of a massive, world-changing breakthrough in physics: the LK-99 room-temperature superconductor.In this episode, Tom and Stuart—neither of them anything approaching a physicist, so caveat emptor—discuss what a superconductor is, why it would be exciting (or not) for it to work at room temperature, and ask why people online got so excited over claims that one had been discovered… when it actually hadn’t. The Studies Show is sponsored by the i, the UK’s best daily...2023-08-221h 06
The Studies ShowEpisode 6: Ultra-processed foodsWe’ve apparently found the culprit for the obesity epidemic, and it’s “ultra-processed foods”. They’re the plastic-wrapped, industrially-produced foods with long lists of ingredients that apparently make up 60% of the average UK diet.In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart tuck in to some “hyper-palatable” research on nutrition and health, discuss the main randomised trial in this area, and try (and immediately fail) to read out the whole definition of “ultra-processed foods” in one breath.The Studies Show is brought to you by the i, the UK’s best daily newspaper. You...2023-08-1554 min
Call Jonathan Pie9: NHSIt’s Pie’s birthday and he’s really rather depressed about it. Until that is Roger shows up with egg on his face. Literally. The show's topic is the state of the NHS but Pie seems obsessed with old age and death. When he is forced to reflect on his experiences of lockdown we discover that he had a more miserable time than most. Later he finally gets the chance to interview a junior health minister. Can he step up?Jonathan Pie ..... Tom Walker
Jules ..... Lucy Pearman
Sam ..... Aqib Khan
Roger ..... Nick Revell
Agent ..... Daniel Abelson
Minister...2023-08-0439 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 4: Psychedelics and psychotherapyYou’ve surely seen the hyped news stories. Psychedelic drugs are no longer just for hippies and attendees at raves: they’re the new frontier of mental health treatment, revolutionising how we think about conditions like depression and PTSD and showing major promise in clinical trials.In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart look into psychedelics and mental illness. They start by talking about why scientists think psychedelics might be relevant here - and it’s to do with the theory of the “Bayesian Brain”. Then they get into the studies, and point to some serio...2023-08-0456 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 3: Aspartame and the stupid list of things that cause cancerThe WHO’s cancer-research arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has decided that the commonly-used sweetener aspartame “possibly causes cancer”. It’s been added to a long list of chemicals, activities, and occupations that are in some way carcinogenic. Apparently.But the list is really stupid. In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart ask about the point of this list, when after all, the dose makes the poison. Is working a night shift as much of a cancer risk as using aloe vera skin cream? Does it even make sense to ask that...2023-08-0154 minCall Jonathan Pie8: DrugsPie is doing a phone-in show about drugs policy in the UK, a subject he knows absolutely nothing about. He enlists the help of Sam to guide him through the country’s drug culture. When Pie’s narcissistic coke-fuelled agent pops in, things take a turn for the bizarre and he ends the evening knowing a lot more about drugs than he did at the start. Jonathan Pie ..... Tom Walker
Jules ..... Lucy Pearman
Sam ..... Aqib Khan
Roger ..... Nick Revell
Agent ..... Daniel Abelson
Voiceovers ..... Bob Sinfield and Rob Curling
Callers ... Daniel Abelson, Ed Kear, Nick Revell, Thanyia Moore and Jonathan Tafle...2023-07-2837 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 2: Breastfeeding - what the science actually saysEvery so often a new study appears that claims that breastfed children are smarter, healthier, or otherwise better off later in life than those who were fed baby formula.In this episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart look into one recent such study, and ask what the research in general tells us about the apparently-dramatic effects of breastfeeding. Should you feel terribly guilty if you can’t, or choose not to, breastfeed your baby? Or is this an example of weak evidence being blown out of proportion?The Studies Show is sponsored by...2023-07-2851 min
The Studies ShowEpisode 1: Why is Ozempic so controversial?In this first episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart discuss the new wave of weight loss drugs (like semaglutide), and the weird, often irrational arguments that people make against them.“New, effective drugs will help people lose lots of weight and this is a good thing” doesn’t sound like it should be a controversial statement, but as this episode shows, it really is.The Studies Show is sponsored by Works in Progress magazine, the best place to find insightful essays on science, technology, and human progress. We’re very grateful for their su...2023-07-2453 minCall Jonathan Pie6: WomenWhen Roger warns Pie that he must widen his demographic, Pie decides to dedicate an entire show to “women’s issues”. Pie’s combative and contrary style does not suit the topic and Pie is taught a lesson or two by the female callers. Jules also gets involved by threatening Pie with quite serious bodily harm if he doesn’t shut his “rancid instant-coffee stinking mouth”. Pie is dismayed as he never touches instant coffee.
Jonathan Pie ..... Tom Walker
Jules ..... Lucy Pearman
Sam ..... Aqib Khan
Roger ..... Nick Revell
Voiceovers ..... Bob Sinfield and Rob Curling
Callers ... Ellie Dobing, Sarah Gabriel, Thanyia Moore...2023-07-1434 minCall Jonathan Pie5: OnlinePie’s agent advises him to get on social media to help him garner a younger fanbase. Out of his comfort zone, Pie soon gains a troll…the mysterious Mr “O”. Who could that be? Meanwhile Roger asks Sam to help him clean up his work laptop because it’s full of evidence of Roger’s “extra-curricular activities”. The revelations about Roger are matched by what the team finds out about Jules. Probably too much information all round. Jonathan Pie ..... Tom Walker
Jules ..... Lucy Pearman
Sam ..... Aqib Khan
Roger ..... Nick Revell
Agent ..... Daniel Abelson
Special guest... James O'Brien
Voiceovers ..... B...2023-07-0736 minCall Jonathan Pie4: RaceAfter a night of riots in Sam’s home town, Pie makes a stupid remark and Sam takes umbrage. Pie takes to the airwaves to prove his non-racist credentials, but ends up looking like a slice of Gammon on the side of the road. Sam and Pie make up and soon Jules is thinking that she herself might be a bit racist because she didn’t like a film that Sam likes. It's all gets a bit silly really. Jonathan Pie ..... Tom Walker
Jules ..... Lucy Pearman
Sam ..... Aqib Khan
Roger ..... Nick Revell
Agent ..... Daniel Abelson
Voiceovers ..... Bob Sinfield and R...2023-06-3038 minCall Jonathan Pie3: BrexitMuch to Pie’s horror it has been decided that the opening show should be about Brexit. Pie has, quite frankly had it up to the back teeth with Brexit. He has a go at callers from both sides of the debate but Jules suspects something fishy and confronts Pie about his voting history. This does not go down well! Gauntlet thrown down, Pie takes to the airwaves to deliver an epic rant about Brexit that will end them all. He sincerely hopes.Jonathan Pie ..... Tom Walker
Jules ..... Lucy Pearman
Sam ..... Aqib Khan
Roger ..... Nick Revell
Agent ..... Daniel Abe...2023-06-2337 minCall Jonathan Pie2: MoneyIt’s Pie’s last night as guest host of the BBC’s flagship radio phone-in show. Pie is worried about money as he faces a moral and financial dilemma. He hijacks the show and uses the platform to air his frank views on the privately educated elite. He causes quite a stir, much to Roger’s (Pie’s boss’s) delight. Jules’s day however is about to get a lot worse.Jonathan Pie ..... Tom Walker
Jules ..... Lucy Pearman
Sam ..... Aqib Khan
Roger ..... Nick Revell
Agent ..... Daniel Abelson
Voiceovers ..... Bob Sinfield and Rob Curling
Callers ... .Daniel Abelson, Adam Byron, Bryony...2023-06-1636 minCall Jonathan Pie1: The BBCJonathan Pie (Tom Walker) is roped in last minute to host BBC radio's most popular phone-in show. Basically there's no one else available. Out of his depth and up to his neck in it, Pie manages to just about hold it together. He muses on the state of the BBC and in one breath is singing its praises and in the next he tears into it with his usual gusto. Jonathan Pie ..... Tom Walker
Jules ..... Lucy Pearman
Sam ..... Aqib Khan
Roger ..... Nick Revell
Agent ..... Daniel Abelson
Voiceovers ..... Bob Sinfield and Rob Curling
Callers ... .Daniel Abelson, Adam Byron...2023-06-0933 min
Slipped Disc BackchatWhere's the theatre gone?Rainer and Norman on this weeks news and reviews from the pages of Slippedisc.com. Including a discussion on where the theatre has gone in classical performances, political appointments in Viienna and should Kylian Mbappé have kept to playing the flute rather than scoring a hat trick int he World Cup final? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-12-2431 minSlipped Disc BackchatThe demise of music magazines and string quartetsRainer and Norman on the demise of classical music magazines, string quartets and an American tenor - and more classical music news from the pages of Slippedisc.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-12-1934 minSlipped Disc BackchatStanding Os, Handmade Pianos and Sinatra's OboeMore informal chat around the classical music news from the pages of Slippedisc.com as Rainer and Norman discuss whether the standing ovation is overrated, booing at buildings, has Steinway had its day, and reflect on the work of Sinatra's oboist Gene 'Cip' Cipriano. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-12-1133 minSlipped Disc BackchatBooing at the Opera and the best World Cup national anthemsMore news, reviews and our thoughts from the pages webpages of www.slipedisc.com on the weeks classical music stories. Is it ever Ok to boo at the opera? The European Union Youth Orchestra moves home again and we bemoan another Brexit loss to UK culture,, was it OK to show Seiji Ozawa conducting Beethoven‘s Egmont overture from a wheelchair and can anyone beat the Welsh football team's anthem? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-12-0329 minSlipped Disc BackchatVacuum cleaners and the Royal Philharmonic, moonlighting pianists and where are all the female conductors?Rainer and Norman flick though the pages of Slippedisc.com to look into some of the classical music news from this week, including; gender parity in orchestras, has the BBC lost interest in young musicians and how the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ended up playing household objects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-11-2731 minSlipped Disc BackchatLost Scores and Found Bottles and Violins, Grammys and Happy BarenbirthdayThis weeks news, view and reviews from the pages of Slippedisc.com with Rainer and Norman including 70 lost violins found in a cupboard, Sibelius's lost bottle, the Classical Grammy awards and we share our Daniel Barenboim anecdotes to celebrate his 80th birthday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-11-2032 minSlipped Disc BackchatGod, who made the icing. Bake me another fine cake.More classical music inspired informal and irreverent chat from the pages of Slipped Disc, in which Rainer and Norman pick over the fall out of the Arts Council cuts. Norman reveals his worst night at the ENO. Who booed a 12year old the Royal Opera House? And what exactly are the words to Land of Hope and Glory? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-11-1232 minSlipped Disc BackchatNovember 6thWelcome to the first Slipped Disc Backchat podcast with Rainer and Norman in which we pick out some of the stories that have caught our eye this week. On the show we look ahead to Arts Council funding cuts, we share our Alfred Brendel stories, we look forward to sing-a-long-a Dirty Dancing at the Fairfield Hall Croydon, sympathize with the Sinfonietta Shizuoka and much more irreverent chat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-11-0536 minSlipped Disc BackchatSlipped Disc TrailerRainer and Norman say a quick hello to introduce you to the Slipped Disc Backchat Podcast coming soon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-10-2805 min
Working Class Heroes RadioA Year of Working Class Heroes: Reflections on Building Independent MediaApril 23rd 2021 marks one year of our series, Coronavirus and Class Struggle, on famed Lefty community radio station, NYC's WBAI 99.5 FM.
A few members of the Working Class Heroes Collective, Khadija Mehter, Lea Ramirez, and Julian Guerrero, reflect on one year of producing 32 episodes of interviews, reporting, and discussions on working-class struggles based in New York City. They discuss what they learned, how important support for independent media is needed to report on ongoing struggles, and what lies ahead for the Working Class Heroes Collective.
Musical credit:
Busta Rhymes - Slow Flow
Sault - Wildfires
Anderson .Paak - Yada Yada
...2021-04-231h 04
Off My ShelfEpisode 36 - ClerksIn this episode Julian Spillane and I get deep as we talk everything Clerks as we discuss the whole…series so far. Clerks, Clerks 2, and Clerks Unsensored.
Clerks
Release: 1994
Director: Kevin Smith
Stars: Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith
Clerks 2
Release: 2006
Director: Kevin Smith
Stars: Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith
Clerks Unsensored
Release: 2000 – 2001
Creators: David Mandel, Scott Mosier, Kevin Smith
Stars: Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Alec Baldwin
Star Trek Timeline
So...2020-01-271h 11
Hack the Process: Mindful Meaningful Progress on Your Plans2018-03-27 Process Hacker News from Hack the Process PodcastWelcome to the Process Hacker News, your weekly roundup of useful news and updates from Process Hackers who have been guests on Hack the Process with M. David Green. This week we’ve got scaling businesses, political imprisonment, self-righteous ideals, and more. Enjoy!
For all the links, visit the show notes at http://www.hacktheprocess.com/process-hacker-news-for-march-27-2018/
Events
On March 29, join Tara Hunt at the 4th Toronto LinkedIn Meetup where she is a featured a speaker. Tara has also announced that her husband, digital audience specialist Carlos Pacheco, is joining the Truly Social team.
Media
Meet Sameh Sabet, the wa...2018-03-2704 minHack the Process: Mindful Meaningful Progress on Your Plans2018-03-27 Process Hacker News from Hack the Process PodcastWelcome to the Process Hacker News, your weekly roundup of useful news and updates from Process Hackers who have been guests on Hack the Process with M. David Green. This week we’ve got scaling businesses, political imprisonment, self-righteous ideals, and more. Enjoy!
For all the links, visit the show notes at http://www.hacktheprocess.com/process-hacker-news-for-march-27-2018/
Events
On March 29, join Tara Hunt at the 4th Toronto LinkedIn Meetup where she is a featured a speaker. Tara has also announced that her husband, digital audience specialist Carlos Pacheco, is joining the Truly Social team.
Media
Meet Sameh Sabet, the wa...2018-03-2700 min