http://podularity.com Authors and books. In a pod. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:24:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2007-2010 podulari@podularity.com (George Miller) podulari@podularity.com (George Miller) Books 1440 http://podularity.com/wp-content/images/podularity_logo.jpg http://podularity.com 144 144 The on-line books programme Podularity is a regular on-line books programme that features interviews with writers in a wide variety of genres. Join host, George Miller, in conversation with novelists, poets and authors of non-fiction. Think of it as an on-going literary festival on-line. literature, books, writing, authors George Miller George Miller podulari@podularity.com no no http://podularity.com/2011/12/07/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-greece-in-chaos/ http://podularity.com/2011/12/07/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-greece-in-chaos/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:30:42 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/12/07/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-greece-in-chaos/ http://podularity.com/2011/12/07/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-greece-in-chaos/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/11/09/following-the-footsteps-of-the-psyche-an-interview-with-carol-gilligan/ http://podularity.com/2011/11/09/following-the-footsteps-of-the-psyche-an-interview-with-carol-gilligan/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:45:45 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/11/09/following-the-footsteps-of-the-psyche-an-interview-with-carol-gilligan/ 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+0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/10/06/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-obama-the-deal-maker-not-world-shaker/ http://podularity.com/2011/10/06/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-obama-the-deal-maker-not-world-shaker/feed/ 3 http://podularity.com/2011/09/22/roger-luckhurst-on-dracula/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/22/roger-luckhurst-on-dracula/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:47:47 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/09/22/roger-luckhurst-on-dracula/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/22/roger-luckhurst-on-dracula/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/09/15/the-oxford-textbook-of-medicine/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/15/the-oxford-textbook-of-medicine/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:04:31 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/09/15/the-oxford-textbook-of-medicine/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/15/the-oxford-textbook-of-medicine/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/09/11/is-that-a-fish-in-your-ear/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/11/is-that-a-fish-in-your-ear/#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:25:27 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/09/11/is-that-a-fish-in-your-ear/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/11/is-that-a-fish-in-your-ear/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/09/10/robert-douglas-fairhurst-on-becoming-dickens/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/10/robert-douglas-fairhurst-on-becoming-dickens/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:45:09 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/09/10/robert-douglas-fairhurst-on-becoming-dickens/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/10/robert-douglas-fairhurst-on-becoming-dickens/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/09/08/martin-kemp-christ-to-coke-how-image-becomes-icon/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/08/martin-kemp-christ-to-coke-how-image-becomes-icon/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:10:49 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/09/08/martin-kemp-christ-to-coke-how-image-becomes-icon/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/08/martin-kemp-christ-to-coke-how-image-becomes-icon/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/09/05/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-the-rise-of-europes-far-right/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/05/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-the-rise-of-europes-far-right/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 22:27:43 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/09/05/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-the-rise-of-europes-far-right/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/05/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-the-rise-of-europes-far-right/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/09/02/the-concise-oxford-english-dictionary-a-short-history/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/02/the-concise-oxford-english-dictionary-a-short-history/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:13:31 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/09/02/the-concise-oxford-english-dictionary-a-short-history/ http://podularity.com/2011/09/02/the-concise-oxford-english-dictionary-a-short-history/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/09/02/polity-podcasts-sylvia-walby-the-future-of-feminism/ 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http://podularity.com/2011/07/28/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-the-tale-of-a-spark-plug/ http://podularity.com/2011/07/28/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-the-tale-of-a-spark-plug/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/07/10/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-when-international-law-is-found-wanting/ http://podularity.com/2011/07/10/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-when-international-law-is-found-wanting/#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:46:22 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/07/10/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-when-international-law-is-found-wanting/ http://podularity.com/2011/07/10/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-when-international-law-is-found-wanting/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/06/04/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-2011-a-year-of-awakening-for-the-uk/ http://podularity.com/2011/06/04/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-2011-a-year-of-awakening-for-the-uk/#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2011 17:43:45 +0000 podmeister 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http://podularity.com/2011/04/19/what-is-the-oed-the-editor-explains/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:46:52 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/04/19/what-is-the-oed-the-editor-explains/ http://podularity.com/2011/04/19/what-is-the-oed-the-editor-explains/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/04/17/kat-banyard-on-the-equality-illusion/ http://podularity.com/2011/04/17/kat-banyard-on-the-equality-illusion/#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:25:21 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/04/17/kat-banyard-on-the-equality-illusion/ http://podularity.com/2011/04/17/kat-banyard-on-the-equality-illusion/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/03/17/tales-from-facebook-ii/ http://podularity.com/2011/03/17/tales-from-facebook-ii/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:06:46 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/03/17/tales-from-facebook-ii/ http://podularity.com/2011/03/17/tales-from-facebook-ii/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/03/16/tales-from-facebook/ http://podularity.com/2011/03/16/tales-from-facebook/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:16:47 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/03/16/tales-from-facebook/ http://podularity.com/2011/03/16/tales-from-facebook/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/03/04/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-gilbert-achcar-on-the-muslim-brotherhood/ http://podularity.com/2011/03/04/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-gilbert-achcar-on-the-muslim-brotherhood/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:56:13 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/03/04/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-gilbert-achcar-on-the-muslim-brotherhood/ http://podularity.com/2011/03/04/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-gilbert-achcar-on-the-muslim-brotherhood/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/01/18/discoveries-sarah-bakewell-on-irmgard-keun/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/18/discoveries-sarah-bakewell-on-irmgard-keun/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:40:04 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/01/18/discoveries-sarah-bakewell-on-irmgard-keun/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/18/discoveries-sarah-bakewell-on-irmgard-keun/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/01/17/46-elephants-on-the-edge/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/17/46-elephants-on-the-edge/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:43:42 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/01/17/46-elephants-on-the-edge/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/17/46-elephants-on-the-edge/feed/ 2 0:19:40   “Elephants are not treated much differently now than they were in the mid-eighteenth century: they are objects of awe and conservation, yet legally hunted, made captive, abused, and forced to labor for human gain. What then has research and[...]   “Elephants are not treated much differently now than they were in the mid-eighteenth century: they are objects of awe and conservation, yet legally hunted, made captive, abused, and forced to labor for human gain. What then has research and learning served?” In Elephants on the Edge, Gay Bradshaw makes an eloquent but always scientifically reasoned plea on behalf of the elephant, “for if we fail to act on what we know, we will lose them, and more”. It’s not just a call for better conservation measures and an end to the culling of an animal listed as “endangered” on the International Union of the Conservation of Nature Red List in 2008. It’s an argument for expanding our notion of moral community to include animals, not least the sociable, communicative, intelligent elephant. “This book”, one reviewer wrote, “opens the door into the soul of the elephant” and it is a remarkable world which we glimpse through that door. The book has also been highly praised by writers as diverse as Peter Singer, Desmond Tutu, J.M. Coetzee and Tim Flannery. Listen to the podcast by clicking on the link above and visit the website of the Kerulos Center in Oregon, which Gay directs, to learn about some of the inspiring projects they are running. IUCN Assessment, 2008 podcasts George Miller no no http://podularity.com/2011/01/12/whose-crisis-whose-future/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/12/whose-crisis-whose-future/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:01:37 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/01/12/whose-crisis-whose-future/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/12/whose-crisis-whose-future/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/01/06/one-minute-word-histories-no3-twitterati/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/06/one-minute-word-histories-no3-twitterati/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:11:37 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/01/06/one-minute-word-histories-no3-twitterati/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/06/one-minute-word-histories-no3-twitterati/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/01/05/one-minute-word-histories-no2-twitterati/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/05/one-minute-word-histories-no2-twitterati/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:37:00 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/01/05/one-minute-word-histories-no2-twitterati/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/05/one-minute-word-histories-no2-twitterati/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/01/05/daljit-nagra-on-the-whoosh-of-poetry/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/05/daljit-nagra-on-the-whoosh-of-poetry/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:31:33 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/01/05/daljit-nagra-on-the-whoosh-of-poetry/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/05/daljit-nagra-on-the-whoosh-of-poetry/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/01/04/one-minute-word-histories-no1-avatar/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/04/one-minute-word-histories-no1-avatar/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:16:42 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/01/04/one-minute-word-histories-no1-avatar/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/04/one-minute-word-histories-no1-avatar/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2011/01/02/6-books-of-the-year-catherine-arnold/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/02/6-books-of-the-year-catherine-arnold/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:55:04 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2011/01/02/6-books-of-the-year-catherine-arnold/ http://podularity.com/2011/01/02/6-books-of-the-year-catherine-arnold/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/12/21/5-books-of-the-year-francis-spufford/ http://podularity.com/2010/12/21/5-books-of-the-year-francis-spufford/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:31:36 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/12/21/5-books-of-the-year-francis-spufford/ http://podularity.com/2010/12/21/5-books-of-the-year-francis-spufford/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/12/14/4-books-of-the-year-andrew-mcconnell-stott/ http://podularity.com/2010/12/14/4-books-of-the-year-andrew-mcconnell-stott/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:20:17 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/12/14/4-books-of-the-year-andrew-mcconnell-stott/ http://podularity.com/2010/12/14/4-books-of-the-year-andrew-mcconnell-stott/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/12/10/3-books-of-the-year-louise-foxcroft/ http://podularity.com/2010/12/10/3-books-of-the-year-louise-foxcroft/#comments Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:39:50 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/12/10/3-books-of-the-year-louise-foxcroft/ http://podularity.com/2010/12/10/3-books-of-the-year-louise-foxcroft/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/12/06/2-books-of-the-year-elizabeth-knowles/ http://podularity.com/2010/12/06/2-books-of-the-year-elizabeth-knowles/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:56:45 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/12/06/2-books-of-the-year-elizabeth-knowles/ http://podularity.com/2010/12/06/2-books-of-the-year-elizabeth-knowles/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/12/03/1-books-of-the-year-elizabeth-speller/ http://podularity.com/2010/12/03/1-books-of-the-year-elizabeth-speller/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:58:50 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/12/03/1-books-of-the-year-elizabeth-speller/ http://podularity.com/2010/12/03/1-books-of-the-year-elizabeth-speller/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/11/29/tolstoys-bedtime-story/ http://podularity.com/2010/11/29/tolstoys-bedtime-story/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:03:32 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/11/29/tolstoys-bedtime-story/ http://podularity.com/2010/11/29/tolstoys-bedtime-story/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/11/19/45-bloody-borderlands/ http://podularity.com/2010/11/19/45-bloody-borderlands/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:18:56 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/11/19/45-bloody-borderlands/ http://podularity.com/2010/11/19/45-bloody-borderlands/feed/ 0 0:40:34 Amexica is the name journalist Ed Vulliamy has coined for the 2,000-mile-long borderland between the US and Mexico. It’s a land that has fascinated him for the past thirty years – “repelled and compelled”, as he puts it in t[...] Amexica is the name journalist Ed Vulliamy has coined for the 2,000-mile-long borderland between the US and Mexico. It’s a land that has fascinated him for the past thirty years – “repelled and compelled”, as he puts it in the interview. “Charismatic,complex, irresistible” is how he describes it in his new book, Amexica, which he discusses with me in this podcast. The US-Mexican border is the busiest such crossing in the world – a million people use it every day. And some of them are engaged in the trafficking – of people, arms, drugs, and dirty money- which gives this land its often brutally violent character. In the interview we talk about that violence, where it comes from, the ways in which it mirrors developments in the global economy and – perhaps most worryingly – the fact that “children are growing up along the border with this as their world”. podcasts George Miller no no http://podularity.com/2010/11/18/exploring-word-histories/ http://podularity.com/2010/11/18/exploring-word-histories/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:45:52 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/11/18/exploring-word-histories/ http://podularity.com/2010/11/18/exploring-word-histories/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/11/17/the-fine-art-of-political-phrase-making/ http://podularity.com/2010/11/17/the-fine-art-of-political-phrase-making/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:38:52 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/11/17/the-fine-art-of-political-phrase-making/ http://podularity.com/2010/11/17/the-fine-art-of-political-phrase-making/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/09/23/robert-douglas-fairhurst-on-henry-mayhew/ http://podularity.com/2010/09/23/robert-douglas-fairhurst-on-henry-mayhew/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:33:43 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/09/23/robert-douglas-fairhurst-on-henry-mayhew/ http://podularity.com/2010/09/23/robert-douglas-fairhurst-on-henry-mayhew/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/09/19/francis-spufford-on-red-plenty/ http://podularity.com/2010/09/19/francis-spufford-on-red-plenty/#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:22:15 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/09/19/francis-spufford-on-red-plenty/ http://podularity.com/2010/09/19/francis-spufford-on-red-plenty/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/09/08/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-vicken-cheterian/ http://podularity.com/2010/09/08/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-vicken-cheterian/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:51:16 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/09/08/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-vicken-cheterian/ http://podularity.com/2010/09/08/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-vicken-cheterian/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/09/05/alex-callinicos-on-bonfire-of-illusions/ http://podularity.com/2010/09/05/alex-callinicos-on-bonfire-of-illusions/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:38:30 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/09/05/alex-callinicos-on-bonfire-of-illusions/ http://podularity.com/2010/09/05/alex-callinicos-on-bonfire-of-illusions/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/09/03/hilary-mantel-interview-revisited/ http://podularity.com/2010/09/03/hilary-mantel-interview-revisited/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:05:29 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/09/03/hilary-mantel-interview-revisited/ http://podularity.com/2010/09/03/hilary-mantel-interview-revisited/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/08/18/summer-reading-choices-john-grindrod/ http://podularity.com/2010/08/18/summer-reading-choices-john-grindrod/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:42:03 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/08/18/summer-reading-choices-john-grindrod/ http://podularity.com/2010/08/18/summer-reading-choices-john-grindrod/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/08/15/summer-reading-choices-maria-mccann/ http://podularity.com/2010/08/15/summer-reading-choices-maria-mccann/#comments Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:02:47 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/08/15/summer-reading-choices-maria-mccann/ http://podularity.com/2010/08/15/summer-reading-choices-maria-mccann/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/08/13/summer-reading-choices-marcus-chown/ http://podularity.com/2010/08/13/summer-reading-choices-marcus-chown/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:03:19 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/08/13/summer-reading-choices-marcus-chown/ http://podularity.com/2010/08/13/summer-reading-choices-marcus-chown/feed/ 0 http://podularity.com/2010/08/10/summer-reading-choices-graham-farmelo/ http://podularity.com/2010/08/10/summer-reading-choices-graham-farmelo/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:53:41 +0000 podmeister http://podularity.com/2010/08/10/summer-reading-choices-graham-farmelo/ http://podularity.com/2010/08/10/summer-reading-choices-graham-farmelo/feed/ 0