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The English-language edition of Le Monde diplomatique, for which I produce a monthly current affairs podcast featuring an in-depth interview with one of that month’s contributors, has just relaunched its website, and very smart it is too!
I’m delighted to say that there is a podcast page, where all the podcasts are archived (click on the […]

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 Neil Gregor: Haunted City - Nuremberg and the Nazi Past [23:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Neil Gregor: Haunted City - Nuremberg and the Nazi Past
“By the end of the war, Nuremberg had a reputation second to none as a Nazi town.”
In this week’s podcast I talk to historian Neil Gregor about Germany’s often difficult process of coming to terms with the second world war in the decades that followed its […]

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In Le Monde diplomatique’s February podcast, I talk to Middle East expert and deputy director of the French edition of the paper, Alain Gresh.

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 Rodge Glass: Alastair Gray - A Secretary's Biography [23:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Rodge Glass - Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography
In this week’s podcast, Rodge Glass tells me how, after his first disastrous meeting with Alasdair Gray in a bar in Glasgow, he later went on to be the writer’s student, amanuensis and eventually biographer.
Rodge recalls how Gray (a self-described “fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glasgow pedestrian”, who […]

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