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	<title>PODULARITY</title>
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		<copyright>&#xA9;George Miller </copyright>
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		<itunes:subtitle>The on-line books programme</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>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.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Summer Reading Choices: Philip Hoare</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/07/29/summer-reading-choices-philip-hoare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Hoare was born and brought up in Southampton, where he still lives. His books include Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2001), which W.G. Sebald praised for its &#8220;unique sense of time and place, and great depth of vision&#8221; and Leviathan or, The Whale which won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Reading Choices: Lucy Worsley</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/07/27/summer-reading-choices-lucy-worsley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By day, Lucy Worsley is Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, which looks after The Tower of London, Hampton Court, and Kensington Palace inter al.
By night, she is a TV presenter and writer, most recently author of Courtiers: The Secret History of Kensington Palace. You can listen to my interview with her by clicking here.
Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Reading Choices: Louise Foxcroft</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/07/25/summer-reading-choices-louise-foxcroft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Louise Foxcroft is the author of Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause, which won the Longman History Today prize for Book of the Year 2009.You can listen to my interview with Louise about this book by clicking here. 
Here are her holiday reading recommendations: 
In the early summer, ready to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Reading Choices: Jan Zalasiewicz</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/07/24/summer-reading-choices-jan-zalasiewicz/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/07/24/summer-reading-choices-jan-zalasiewicz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s holiday reading selector is Jan Zalasiewicz, who teaches geology at Leicester University. He was a guest on the very first Blackwell Online podcast, in which he told me about his book The World after Us. You can listen to the interview here. I&#8217;m hoping to interview him again this autumn when his new book, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Reading Choices: Elizabeth Speller</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/07/23/summer-reading-choices-elizabeth-speller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s guest selector of summer reading is Elizabeth Speller, author most recently of a highly praised debut novel, The Return of Captain John Emmett. She is also the author of several works of non-fiction - including a memoir, Sunlight on the Garden - and a prize-winning poet. Here are her choices:
Dragging a hefty suitcase of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Reading Choices: Michael Bywater</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/07/22/summer-reading-choices-michael-bywater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our next guest recommender of Summer Reading is Michael Bywater, author (of Lost Worlds and Big Babies, inter al.), broadcaster, and - as you will see when you read on - now writing for the stage&#8230;
This summer I&#8217;m too too utterly utterly up to my ears in queers, dears.  Specifically the (slightly illusory) late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Reading Choices: Helen Rappaport</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/07/21/summer-reading-choices-helen-rappaport/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/07/21/summer-reading-choices-helen-rappaport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a short series of summer reading recommendations from some of the authors I have interviewed in recent months. New posts will appear as they arrive.
Our first guest is historian Helen Rappaport. Helen studied Russian before becoming an actress, but in recent years she has developed a successful second career as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel and the NGOs- Le Monde diplomatique podcast July 2010</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/07/08/israel-and-aid-le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-july-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/07/08/israel-and-aid-le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-july-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this month&#8217;s podcast for Le Monde diplomatique, I interview Eyal Weizman about the article he co-authored with Thomas Keenan, entitled &#8220;NGOs are &#8216;the enemy within&#8217;&#8221;, which looks at how Israel has stepped up the pressure on human rights organizations and NGOs, particularly in the aftermath of their assault on Gaza at the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antonio Forcellino on Michelangelo</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/07/01/antonio-forcellino-on-michelangelo/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/07/01/antonio-forcellino-on-michelangelo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>city-pick Amsterdam</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/06/10/city-pick-amsterdam/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/06/10/city-pick-amsterdam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest volume in the city-pick series - on Amsterdam - has just been published. When their Berlin book came out, Podularity carried an interview with the book&#8217;s editor, Heather Reyes.
This time, we go one better and present an audio diary which I compiled on location in Amsterdam with Dutch poet and critic, Victor Schiferli, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Le Monde diplomatique podcast - James K. Galbraith</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/06/09/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-james-k-galbraith/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/06/09/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-james-k-galbraith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I spoke to leading US economist James K. Galbraith on the phone from Athens for this month&#8217;s Le Monde diplomatique podcast. James is professor of government/business relations at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. He&#8217;s the author of six books, including The Predator State: How Conservatives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Le Monde diplomatique podcast - &#8220;Blame the Grand Mufti&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/05/11/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-blame-the-grand-mufti/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/05/11/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-blame-the-grand-mufti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 09:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a gap of a couple of months, the Le Monde diplomatique podcast is back. This month I talk to Gilbert Achcar, a Lebanese academic who is professor of development studies and international relations at SOAS in London and author most recently of The Arabs and the Holocaust: the Arab-Israeli War of Narratives, published this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Podularity videos</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/05/05/latest-podularity-videos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 14:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>In search of happiness</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/04/24/in-search-of-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met François Lelord in London recently to discuss his international bestseller - just released in English - Hector and the Search for Happiness (Gallic Books). 
François is a psychiatrist by training, so it&#8217;s no coincidence that the hero in his first venture into fiction is a Candide-like young practitioner of that profession who becomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>44. Dancing on the heads of snakes</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/04/11/44-dancing-on-the-heads-of-snakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Dancing on the heads of snakes&#8221; is how President Ali Abdullah Salih of Yemen describes the near impossibility of governing his country. He should know; he&#8217;s managed to cling on to power by keeping up the dance for the past three decades.
The challenge is certainly considerable: Yemen has been a united country for only 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>"Dancing on the heads of snakes" is how President Ali Abdullah Salih of Yemen describes the near impossibility of governing his country. He should know; ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>"Dancing on the heads of snakes" is how President Ali Abdullah Salih of Yemen describes the near impossibility of governing his country. He should know; he's managed to cling on to power by keeping up the dance for the past three decades.

The challenge is certainly considerable: Yemen has been a united country for only 20 years and it's far from certain that it will remain one. Tribalism make governance a tricky business at the best of times as does poverty: around 40% of its rapidly growing population live on $2 a day. The country's oil and water supplies are both dwindling at an alarming rate. It's relations with its northern neighbour, Saudi Arabia, are strained.

And since the failed suicide bomb attempt on a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, Yemen is once again in the full glare of international attention as Al-Qaeda's home base on the Arabian peninsula.

British journalist Victoria Clark, who was born in the city of Aden in the south of Yemen when it was still a British colony,nbsp; returned to the country in order to try to get to grips with Yemen's complexities.

As she says in the introduction to her book, "Yemen manages to challenge and scramble the logical progressions and neat narratives that westerners prefer to deal in". Her book avoids those pitfalls, succeeding in doing justice to the country's troubled past in prose that has all the immediacy and pace of high-quality reportage.

In our interview, she tells me about the challenges of enabling western readers to understand the situation in Yemen, and why it is so important that we should do so.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Michelangelo: A Tormented Life</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/04/06/michelangelo-a-tormented-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The return of The Return of Captain John Emmett</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/04/06/the-return-of-the-return-of-captain-john-emmett/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/04/06/the-return-of-the-return-of-captain-john-emmett/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>43. In praise of Germany</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/03/27/in-praise-of-germany/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/03/27/in-praise-of-germany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s podcast, I talk to Simon Winder about the challenges of making a book on German history entertaining. It&#8217;s a challenge he rose to magnificently in his quirky new book, Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern.
He takes the reader along the highways and down many of the byways of German [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>15:41</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>In this week's podcast, I talk to Simon Winder about the challenges of making a book on German history entertaining. It's a challenge he rose ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>In this week's podcast, I talk to Simon Winder about the challenges of making a book on German history entertaining. It's a challenge he rose to magnificently in his quirky new book, Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern.

He takes the reader along the highways and down many of the byways of German history to reveal aspects of the country's past which are rarely encountered. It would be a flinty soul who read this book and didn't at least feel the first stirrings of a desire to holiday in Germany for the first time.

Click on the link above to listen to the podcast and hear Simon's views on German cuisine and his tips for where to discover the delights of the "real" Germany.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:keywords>history,and,politics,,podcasts</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>George Miller</itunes:author>
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		<title>42. The Return of Captain John Emmett</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/03/22/42-the-return-of-captain-john-emmett/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/03/22/42-the-return-of-captain-john-emmett/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To record this week&#8217;s podcast, I travelled to the Cotswolds to visit my guest (and friend), Elizabeth Speller. Elizabeth has recently bought a splendid shepherd&#8217;s hut on wheels which she is using as a retreat to write in. Although this book wasn&#8217;t written there, its sequel, currently a work in progress, will be.
You can see [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>23:12</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>To record this week's podcast, I travelled to the Cotswolds to visit my guest (and friend), Elizabeth Speller. Elizabeth has recently bought a splendid shepherd's ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>To record this week's podcast, I travelled to the Cotswolds to visit my guest (and friend), Elizabeth Speller. Elizabeth has recently bought a splendid shepherd's hut on wheels which she is using as a retreat to write in. Although this book wasn't written there, its sequel, currently a work in progress, will be.

You can see the hut - which is enough to arouse the envy of anyone with writerly ambitions - in the video we recorded, which will be on this site shortly.

In the mean time, click on the link above to listen to our audio podcast in which we talk about making the transition from non-fiction to fiction, the challenges of setting a novel in the past, and the ways in which the reverberations of the First World War continued to be felt in the years that followed armistice.

The novel has been getting terrific reviews: The Times, for example, said:
 "Spellerrsquo;s writing is gorgeous, her research immaculate and very lightly worn. Sheer bliss."
And the Independent said:
"Covering death, poetry, a bitter regimental feud and a hidden love affair, it's set to be the new Birdsong - only better."
Click on the book cover above to find out more about it.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:keywords>historical,fiction,,literature,,podcasts</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>George Miller</itunes:author>
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		<title>41. It&#8217;s only a movie (and a book)</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/03/01/41-its-only-a-movie-and-a-book/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/03/01/41-its-only-a-movie-and-a-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Monday I met film critic Mark Kermode at the Watershed in Bristol before his event there which formed part of his countrywide tour to present his new book, It&#8217;s Only a Movie. He was remarkably bright and engaged, considering he had been at the BAFTAs the night before and had already done 37 interviews [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>00:01:01</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>Last Monday I met film critic Mark Kermode at the Watershed in Bristol before his event there which formed part of his countrywide tour to ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Last Monday I met film critic Mark Kermode at the Watershed in Bristol before his event there which formed part of his countrywide tour to present his new book, It's Only a Movie. He was remarkably bright and engaged, considering he had been at the BAFTAs the night before and had already done 37 interviews (sic) that morning.

Later, he would delight his audience with nearly two hours of anecdotes from his career and opinions on the films he loves and loathes. But before he took to the stage, I talked to him about his career - what his earliest film memories are, why The Exorcist is his favourite film, and what overlooked gems he thinks we should all be seeking out.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:keywords>biography,and,memoir,,film,,podcasts</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>George Miller</itunes:author>
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		<title>Nicola Upson interview</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/02/23/nicola-upson-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/02/23/nicola-upson-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My interview with Nicola Upson, recorded last autumn in Heffers in Cambridge, is currently on the Bookhugger home page. In it I talk to Nicola about her second Josephine Tey mystery, set in 1930s Cornwall. Click on the image below to listen.

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		<title>Three questions for&#8230; Simon Winder</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/02/19/three-questions-for-simon-winder/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/02/19/three-questions-for-simon-winder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon Winder has just published a personal and highly entertaining history of Germany and the Germans. In his preface to Germania, he writes:
 &#8220;[this] is an attempt to tell the story of the Germans starting from their notional origins in the sort of forests enjoyed by gnomes and heroes and ending at the time of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>40. Charles Dickens - a writer&#8217;s life</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/02/12/40-charles-dickens-a-writers-life/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/02/12/40-charles-dickens-a-writers-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We mark the birthday of Charles Dickens earlier this week with a special extended edition of my interview with his biographer Michael Slater from the end of last year, which originally appeared on Blackwell Online.
John Bowen, reviewing the book in the Times Literary Supplement, said:
&#8220;[it] immediately takes its place as the most authoritative, fair-minded and [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>36:36</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>We mark the birthday of Charles Dickens earlier this week with a special extended edition of my interview with his biographer Michael Slater from the ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>We mark the birthday of Charles Dickens earlier this week with a special extended edition of my interview with his biographer Michael Slater from the end of last year, which originally appeared on Blackwell Online.

John Bowen, reviewing the book in the Times Literary Supplement, said:
"[it] immediately takes its place as the most authoritative, fair-minded and navigable of modern biographies. Slater, the most distinguished of modern Dickens scholars, is a master of detail and a stickler for dates (there are a dozen or so on the first page) and the book gives a vivid sense of the day-to-day, week-by-week bustle and productivity of Dickensrsquo;s life, its polymorphous inventiveness, its relentless juggling."
In this extended version of the interview, you can hear how Michael Slater first became interested in Dickens, what persuaded him to take on the monumental task, and which aspects of Dickens personality and writing have fascinated him most. Click on the link above to listen to the podcast.</itunes:summary>
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		<itunes:author>George Miller</itunes:author>
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		<title>Le Monde diplomatique podcast - Barbara Ehrenreich</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/02/09/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-barbara-ehrenreich/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/02/09/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-barbara-ehrenreich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this month&#8217;s edition of Le Monde diplomatique I have a piece about US journalist and campaigner Barbara Ehrenreich and her latest book, called Smile or Die in the UK and Brightsided in the US.
I interviewed Barbara on a snowy evening in Bristol last month before she appeared at the Festival of Ideas to explore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Rebecca Carter</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/02/05/books-of-the-decade-rebecca-carter/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/02/05/books-of-the-decade-rebecca-carter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Carter is an editor of fiction and non-fiction at the Random House imprint Harvill Secker, a list that aims to continue the tradition, once announced in an advertisement for Secker, of publishing &#8220;international quality literature with a wayward streak&#8221;. She has a particular love of unusual narrative history, and novels that explore hidden corners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Luke Brown</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/02/04/books-of-the-decade-luke-brown/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/02/04/books-of-the-decade-luke-brown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although we are now in a new decade, we haven&#8217;t yet reached Chinese new year. I am taking comfort from this fact, since  I am still putting up Books of the (past) Decade choices. And of course the books that were worth reading in 2009 are still worth reading in 2010.
Enough self-exculpation. I promise that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Le Monde diplomatique podcast - Obama and &#8220;smart power&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/01/14/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-obama-and-smart-power/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/01/14/le-monde-diplomatique-podcast-obama-and-smart-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My guest in this first Le Monde diplomatique podcast of 2010 is Michael Klare, professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts.
In his article in the January edition of the paper, &#8220;US turns persuader not policeman&#8221;, Professor Klare asks whether disappointment with the first year of Obama&#8217;s foreign policy is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>39. On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/01/13/39-on-monsters-an-unnatural-history-of-our-worst-fears/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/01/13/39-on-monsters-an-unnatural-history-of-our-worst-fears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first became aware of Stephen Asma&#8217;s book on the fine Washington Post Book World podcast (which sadly is no more). The Post also chose the book as one of its top non-fiction titles of the year for 2009, calling it &#8220;a safari through the many manifestations of our idea of the monstrous&#8221;. Their reviewer [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>19:47</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>I first became aware of Stephen Asma's book on the fine Washington Post Book World podcast (which sadly is no more). The Post also chose ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>I first became aware of Stephen Asma's book on the fine Washington Post Book World podcast (which sadly is no more). The Post also chose the book as one of its top non-fiction titles of the year for 2009, calling it "a safari through the many manifestations of our idea of the monstrous". Their reviewer went on: "I have seldom read a book that so satisfyingly achieves such an ambitious goal."

And indeed the book is much more than a mere freakish parade of monsters (though that is a part of its pleasure) - it is rather an investigation of the meaning of monsters. Why do all societies have their monsters? What do they help us cope with? How has the significance of monsters changed as societies have gone from polytheism to monotheism and on through the Enlightenment? And which of our current fears will our future monsters embody?

Asma is clearly something of a polymath - not only did he produce many of the illustrations in the book himself, he also combines his academic career at Columbia College in Chicago, where he specializes in the philosophy and history of science, with playing music professionally (you can sample it here). And he has made his own entertainingly creepy trailer for On Monsters, which you can seenbsp;here.

Click on the link above to listen to the podcast, or subscribe to Podularity on iTunes using the link in the right hand column above - it's quick, free and easy.</itunes:summary>
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		<itunes:author>George Miller</itunes:author>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Michael Bywater</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/01/13/books-of-the-decade-michael-bywater/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/01/13/books-of-the-decade-michael-bywater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Bywater is an author and broadcaster whose recent books include Lost Worlds (Granta, 2004), Big Babies (Granta, 2006), and - with Kathleen Burk - Is This Bottle Corked?: The Secret Life of Wine. He writes regularly for the Independent, the Daily Telegraph,  Sunday Times and numerous other publications. He is a regular broadcaster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>38. Poland - a country in the moon</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/01/10/poland-a-country-in-the-moon/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/01/10/poland-a-country-in-the-moon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My guest on this week&#8217;s programme is Michael Moran, author of A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland.
Michael first visited Poland in the early 1990s after the collapse of Communism as leader of an ill-assorted crew of British teachers charged with introducing the Poles to the delights of market [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>My guest on this week's programme is Michael Moran, author of A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland.

Michael first ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>My guest on this week's programme is Michael Moran, author of A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland.

Michael first visited Poland in the early 1990s after the collapse of Communism as leader of an ill-assorted crew of British teachers charged with introducing the Poles to the delights of market capitalism. As a pianist, he was attracted by the music of Chopin, but confesses that he knew little about the country. He little suspected that he would fall in love with the country and end up making it his home.

A Country in the Moon - the description is Edmund Burke's and dates from 1795, but might still stand for a country which is very little known and all too often reduced to clicheacute; in the West - achieves something very rare for a travel book: it manages to be genuinely funny and entertaining, and also deeply thought-provoking about the many terrible chapters in Poland's history.

The book has been widely praised; the Guardian called it "the best contemporary travel book on Poland, reminiscent in its finest moments of Patrick Leigh Fermorrsquo;s masterful Time of Gifts" and said "No thinking traveller interested in Poland should overlook this essential book". The Observer admired how itnbsp; "triumphantly balanc[ed] humour with scholarship", while the Spectator called it "well-researched and hugely entertaining...nbsp; a three-star feast".

Click on the podcast player above to find out what Michael finds so attractive about Poland - and what it is like to tour the country in a venerable old Rolls-Royce.</itunes:summary>
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		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/01/09/books-of-the-decade-andrew-kahn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Kahn is University Lecturer in Russian at the University of Oxford and Tutor and Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He has degrees from Harvard and Oxford in Russian and Classics. His scholarly research draws on his wide-ranging interests in European literature, most especially Greek, Latin and French.
In addition to writing about Pushkin, whom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Andrew Kelly</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/01/08/books-of-the-decade-andrew-kelly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Kelly is the Director of the Bristol Festival of Ideas and other projects. He is the author and editor of 12 books including Filming All Quiet on the Western Front, Cinema and the Great War, Queen Square: biography of a place, Brunel: in love with the impossible.
 Of the many hundreds of books I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>37. Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/01/06/37-hilary-mantel-wolf-hall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m delighted to say that the first Podularity podcast of 2010 is devoted to an in-depth interview with 2009 Booker prize winner, Hilary Mantel in which she talks about her remarkable novel, Wolf Hall. As far as I can tell, this is the most extensive interview about the book available anywhere on the web.
Here&#8217;s Hilary [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>I'm delighted to say that the first Podularity podcast of 2010 is devoted to an in-depth interview with 2009 Booker prize winner, Hilary Mantel in ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>I'm delighted to say that the first Podularity podcast of 2010 is devoted to an in-depth interview with 2009 Booker prize winner, Hilary Mantel in which she talks about her remarkable novel, Wolf Hall. As far as I can tell, this is the most extensive interview about the book available anywhere on the web.

Here's Hilary Mantel on her decision to write about Thomas Cromwell:
"Very much I wanted to write about Cromwell. There isn't any other figure I would have picked; he was the main attraction because I was really interested in the path he took from very humble origins, to the Councils of State, to be the king's right-hand man, to be an earl. Other people rise from a humble background but they invariably come through the Church.

"Cromwell didn't take that path. He very much created the conditions in which he could succeed, but by doing so [also created] a huge backwash of resentment and ill-will, which I suppose in his own mind must have seemed indefeasible at times.

"He had the example before him of his patron and mentor, Cardinal Wolesey, and his fall from power. And so you might say that he must have known all along that he was bound not to succeed. And you know that saying, 'all political careers end in failure sooner or later'. But he obviously thought the game was worth the candle, and with the odds stacked against him, he persevered.

"And if he had been able to do even a fraction of what he would have liked to do, the country would have been a very different place."
To hear more about Thomas Cromwell and Hilary Mantel's extraordinarily accomplished novel about him, click on the podcast player at the top of this post. Or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes using the right-hand column above.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Three questions for&#8230; Mary Beard</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/01/05/three-questions-for-mary-beard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Beard is no stranger to Podularity. In fact, she may have appeared on it more times than any other author. This however is her Podularity video debut.
Last autumn, after recording an audio interview with Mary about her book-of-the-blog, It&#8217;s a Don&#8217;s Life, I asked her to take part in my &#8220;Three Questions for&#8221; series [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Roland Chambers</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/01/04/books-of-the-decade-roland-chambers/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2010/01/04/books-of-the-decade-roland-chambers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roland Chambers studied film and literature in Poland and at New York University before returning to England in 1998. His first biography, The Last Englishman, won a Jerwood award from the Royal Society of Literature, and draws on his experience both as a children&#8217;s author and as a private investigator specializing in Russian politics and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Where is everybody?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2010/01/04/where-is-everybody/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an intriguing question to start the new year with.
Last autumn I interviewed Marcus Chown about his latest popular science title, We Need to Talk about Kelvin. At the end of the interview (which you can find here), we made this short video in which Marcus tackled a question famously posed by the Italian physicist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Roger Luckhurst</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2009/12/19/books-of-the-decade-roger-luckhurst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Luckhurst is professor of modern and contemporary literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. His many publications include a study of J.G. Ballard&#8217;s fiction, editions of Henry James&#8217; The Portrait of a Lady and Robert Louis Stevenson&#8217;s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for Oxford World&#8217;s Classics, and many works on Victorian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding the 5,000</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2009/12/15/feeding-the-5000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday 16th December 2009, Trafalgar Square will host a free feast of biblical proportions: a modern day Feeding the 5000. In this short film, Tristram Stuart, author of Waste, explains the problem – and outlines some solutions.




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		<title>Books of the Decade - Peter Sillem</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2009/12/15/books-of-the-decade-peter-sillem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Peter Sillem is Editor-in-Chief Non-Fiction at S. Fischer Verlag, a German publishing house founded in 1886. He is the author of a book on melancholia in Early Modern Europe and lives in Frankfurt with his wife and two young children.
To see which titles Peter has chosen as his Books of the Decade, click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Keith Kahn-Harris</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2009/12/12/books-of-the-decade-keith-kahn-harris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Kahn-Harris works as a sociologist, researcher, writer and music critic. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society at Birkbeck College, an associate lecturer for the Open University and the convenor of New Jewish Thought.
He has written on a variety of topics, including Judaism, music scenes, heavy metal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Mark Vernon</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2009/12/11/books-of-the-decade-mark-vernon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Vernon is a writer, broadcaster and journalist.  His academic interests led him from physics to philosophy via theology (he began his professional life as a priest in the Church of England). He went freelance ten years ago and now writes regularly for the Guardian, The Philosophers&#8217; Magazine, TLS, Financial Times and New Statesman, alongside [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Beckett studied modern history at Oxford University and journalism at the University of California in Berkeley. For his first, widely praised book, Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile&#8217;s Hidden History (2002), he was nominated as Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.
In 2009 he published a major new history of the political landscape of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Tony Bruce</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2009/12/04/books-of-the-decade-tony-bruce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Bruce has spent pretty much his entire working life in books. First at Stockbridge Bookshop in Edinburgh (still going strong), followed by a stint at the epicentre of bookselling at Waterstones, Charing Cross Road (sadly no longer) before becoming manager of Waterstones at Goldsmiths College.
Having had enough of bookselling he moved to Routledge in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Katy Derbyshire</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2009/12/03/books-of-the-decade-katy-derbyshire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katy Derbyshire is a translator and co-editor of city-lit Berlin (with Heather Reyes, who recently featured in Podularity podcast 36). She writes biased and unprofessional reports on German books, translation issues and life in Berlin at her blog, love german books.
Katy fell in love with German literature despite studying it at university, and was lured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Steve Lake</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2009/12/02/books-of-the-decade-steve-lake/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Lake is a producer for the Munich-based jazz and classical music record label, ECM, which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year, and co-author (with Paul Griffiths) of a book about the company, Horizons Touched (Granta, 2007). He has written about music for many international magazines and newspapers, and about literature for Germany&#8217;s Akzente. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three questions for&#8230; Robert Rowland Smith</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2009/12/01/three-questions-for-robert-rowland-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second in an occasional series in which I ask an interviewee three questions - no tricks or traps, but no forewarning either.
This time my guest is writer, Robert Rowland Smith, who has just published a book entitled Breakfast with Socrates: The Philosophy of Everyday Life. I rather like the exclamation mark and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Christopher Potter</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2009/12/01/books-of-the-decade-christopher-potter/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2009/12/01/books-of-the-decade-christopher-potter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Christopher Potter, after a distinguished career in publishing of over two decades, published his own first book this year: You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe, which the Sunday Times called &#8220;wonderful stuff, the most thoughtful pop science book of the last few years&#8221; and which New Scientist praised for its &#8220;crisp, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Kirsten Ellis</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2009/11/27/books-of-the-decade-kirsten-ellis/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2009/11/27/books-of-the-decade-kirsten-ellis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our series in which writers and publishers choose their favourite books of the past ten years, today&#8217;s guest is Kirsten Ellis.
Kirsten is the author of Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope (Harper Collins). She is currently writing an historical novel and completing her MPhil/PhD in Creative Writing and teaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Louise Foxcroft</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2009/11/25/books-of-the-decade-louise-foxcroft/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2009/11/25/books-of-the-decade-louise-foxcroft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Louise Foxcroft is a historian of medicine and the author of The Making of Addiction: Opiate Use and Abuse in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Ashgate, 2007) and Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause (Granta, 2009).
Mary Crockett in the Scotsman called Hot Flushes a &#8220;gripping study of western attitudes to women of a certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books of the Decade - Elizabeth Speller</title>
		<link>http://podularity.com/2009/11/20/books-of-the-decade-elizabeth-speller/</link>
		<comments>http://podularity.com/2009/11/20/books-of-the-decade-elizabeth-speller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoosh! There goes the first decade of the no-longer-quite-so-new millennium.  To mark the decade&#8217;s end, we&#8217;re launching a new series in which writers, editors and publishers are given the agonizing challenge of choosing just three favourite books from the more than two million published in English in the past ten years.
Over the next few weeks [...]]]></description>
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