Podcast Podcasts From The Pub terbaik (2024)

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Episode 4: The genetic revolution: implications and applications for improving the health of the public 42:39

3M ago42:39

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In this month’s episode, our experts dive into the exciting world of genetics, exploring the latest technological breakthroughs and innovations. They discuss not only the value of these advancements but also the ethical considerations surrounding them, particularly in how they can enhance the health of the public. Dr Adam Rutherford, bestselling au…

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Episode 3: Redefining the Classroom: Nurturing Mental Health Through Nature, Arts, and Understanding 39:34

5M ago39:34

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"It's not our children who are disordered, it's the environment in which we're expecting them to operate." In this month’s episode, our experts explore the pressing issue of children's mental health in the UK. With one in five young individuals facing probable mental health disorders, the urgency for effective support systems is undeniable. Joining…

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Back to High School: Beloved 45:22

6M ago45:22

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Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel "Beloved" takes place in Cincinnati after the Civil War and is loosely based on the life of Margaret Garner, an enslaved woman who escaped Kentucky in 1856 with her extended family. Subject to capture under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Garner was so determined to protect her children from being returned to slavery that…

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Episode 2: AI for Good - Tech and Ethics in Humanitarian Crises 39:12

6M ago39:12

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"Is technology the magic bullet for humanitarian aid, or does it come with its own set of ethical dilemmas?" In this episode, hosts Dr Xand van Tulleken and Dr Rochelle Burgess delve into the complex world of humanitarian crises and the transformative role of technology in emergency responses. With the expertise of Professor Maria Kett, an anthropo…

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Episode 1: Injecting Innovation - Creative Ways to boost vaccination rates 38:58

7M ago38:58

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Join hosts Doctor Xand van Tulleken and Dr Rochelle Burgess for Season 4, Episode 1 of Public Health Disrupted with Prof Helen Bedford and Doctor Ranj Singh. "It's about building knowledge with communities and allowing people to ask questions without negative labelling." Why are vaccination rates declining, and how can we rebuild trust? Vaccine rat…

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Episode 5. Unravelling Health Disparities: The Racial Divide 35:14

1y ago35:14

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“It’s the indirect act of racism that is leading to poorer outcomes for racialised groups.” How does racism impact people’s health? And how big is this problem? We're three years on from George Floyd's murder, which launched a wave of global protests under the banner never again. This, of course, has not been the case. We're also three years since …

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Episode 4: The change-up, demystifying the menopause 40:44

1y ago40:44

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Join hosts Doctor Xand van Tulleken and Dr Rochelle Burgess for Season 3, Episode 4 of Public Health Disrupted with Prof Joyce Harper and Rachel Lankester. “We’re more valuable to our communities post-menopause as leaders than as breeders.” How does our society value menopausal women? The lack of public awareness around this natural phase in a wome…

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Back to High School: Johnny Got His Gun 41:17

1y ago41:17

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“Johnny Got His Gun” is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist Dalton Trumbo and published in September 1939. There have been radio, stage and screen adaptations of the novel, including Trumbo’s own 1971 film, and Metallica recorded a song – titled One – based on the book. In March of 1940, the book was serialized in the Daily Worke…

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Episode 3: Sex by numbers 39:15

1y ago39:15

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“A remarkable number of claims you see in newspapers and magazines about sex are essentially made up.” What does the average British person think about sex? For over 40 years the Natsal surveys have been recording sexual data, capturing striking changes in our behaviour and sexual lifestyles across the decades. They have been pivotal in the populat…

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Episode 2: Ultra-Processed People 37:53

1+ y ago37:53

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“It’s really not our fault that we struggle with our health, we have to look to the system around us and hold them accountable.” In our fast-paced world, convenience is king where food is concerned and many of us are now fuelling our bodies with an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food. In today’s episode, we’re taking a clos…

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Episode 1: Living on the edge - health inequalities and rising costs 40:52

1+ y ago40:52

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EPISODE DESCRIPTION “The way to get economic growth in a sustainable way is to improve the income of the bottom 60% of the population.” How does the cost-of-living crisis affect the health of the public? What impact does financial stress have on our physical and mental wellbeing? This episode aims to reshape the narrative and create a clearer under…

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Back to High School: Things Fall Apart 40:20

1+ y ago40:20

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For this episode we read the 1958 novel by debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. The novel became the first work published in Heinemann's African Writers Series in the UK, starting in 1962. “Things Fall Apart” is the first book in Achebe’s trilogy about African history, and has been read by high schoolers for generations as the archetypal m…

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Back to High School: Pride & Prejudice 42:55

1+ y ago42:55

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For season four we're going back to school with books we read - or didn't read - in high school. We started with "Pride & Prejudice," by Jane Austen. Reminder: this is a spoiler-filled podcast. So if you’re not into that kind of thing, read the text first and come back later. Episode Links This episode's book - "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen …

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Holmes Trio: A Study in Scarlet, Mycroff Holmes & A Study in Scarlet Women 36:11

2y ago36:11

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For this episode we read three Holmes stories. The first is Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 original “A Study in Scarlet,” the first Sherlock Holmes work. The second is is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse’s 2015 “Mycroft Holmes,” and the third is “A Study in Scarlet Women,” by Sherry Thomas. Reminder: this is a spoiler-filled podcast. So if you’re…

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Episode 6: Fat Chance: how the body positivity movement can be used to influence societal change 41:02

2y ago41:02

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“The ways in which we talk about our bodies, the metaphors we use to understand our bodies in the world around us radically shape our health and the way we approach health.” What is meant by the obesity crisis and where does the power lie to address the social determinants and intricacies that impact it? With a growing epidemic of chronic illness, …

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Episode 5: The power of conversation: redefining the binary around social media and young people's mental health 35:38

2y ago35:38

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“There’s much more room for nuance in the conversation than it feels like we have now.” Social media is a huge part of our lives, but growing fears are fuelling debate that it is bad for children and young people. What should the conversation around social media be and what questions should we be asking? Exploring the binary complexities of social …

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Beowulf & The Mere Wife 43:57

2y ago43:57

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For this episode we read both Maria Headley’s translation of the Old English epic poem "Beowulf" and “The Mere Wife,” Headley's 2015 retelling of Beowulf, which is set in present-day New York. Reminder: this is a spoiler-filled podcast. So if you’re not into that kind of thing, read the texts first and come back later. Episode Links "Beowulf: a New…

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Episode 4: Dignity, decency and dying 40:56

2y ago40:56

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“Death is something that affects us all and by not talking about it we make it harder.” Death is not infinitely deferrable, yet the successes of traditional modern Western medicine in increasing life expectancy have hugely impacted the human psyche of immortality. Where can people go to understand death, where is the narrative? Can we prioritise pu…

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Episode 3: The Elephant in the Planning Room 33:58

2y ago33:58

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“It is imperative that we learn to create homes that truly support and sustain us.” Interior and external environments affect our health and wellbeing in ways that we are only now beginning to truly understand: from the impact of the urban spaces that are fundamentally unhealthy due to air pollution and noise, to acknowledging the changes that colo…

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King Lear & Fool 32:20

2y ago32:20

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For this episode we read both the play "King Lear," written by William Shakespeare, and the 2009 book “Fool,” by Christopher Moore. King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s tragic plays, and is based on a legendary 8th Century BCE king of Britain (which would have been around the founding of Rome), as recounted in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s pseudohistorical 1…

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Episode 2: Singing the praises of communities 34:40

2+ y ago34:40

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Summary Grammy-award winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre joins chair of the UK’s largest COVID-19 social study and UCL professor Dr Daisy Fancourt to talk about the power of community. They explore how people bound by common experiences can improve their health through non-clinical methods, looking at how singing and music can form a part …

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Room with a View & Sex and Vanity 34:53

2+ y ago34:53

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For this episode we read both the 1908 novel “A Room with a View,” by E.M. Forster, and Kevin Kwan’s 2020 novel “Sex and Vanity.” As foundational texts go, "A Room with a View" is an Edwardian era novel – there are trains, and horses and carriages – setting it later than our recent foundational texts. Reminder: this is a spoiler-filled podcast. So …

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Ep.1 Mission-oriented Public Health 32:49

2+ y ago32:49

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Summary Author, chair of WHO Council on economics, and UCL professor Mariana Mazzucato joins renegade economist, creator of the “Doughnut” model of social and planetary boundaries, and Oxford Senior Associate Kate Raworth to share their considerable expertise on the relationship between public health and the economy; and why taking a mission-orient…

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Jane Eyre / The Eyre Affair - part 2 39:40

2+ y ago39:40

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The Eyre Affair, by English author Jasper Fforde, was first published in 2001. It takes place in an alternative 1985, where literary detective Thursday Next pursues a master criminal through the world of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre. Reminder: this is a spoiler-filled podcast. So if you’re not into that kind of thing, read the book first…

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Jane Eyre / The Eyre Affair - part 1 47:40

2+ y ago47:40

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For December we read the 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre.” Originally published under the pen name Currer Bell, as “Jane Eyre: An Autobiography,” the novel follows the experiences of the eponymous heroine, including her growth into adulthood and love for the brooding Mr. Rochester. In January, we're reading “The Eyre Affair” by Jasper Ff…

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The Chosen and the Beautiful / The Great Gatsby 45:10

2+ y ago45:10

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This month we read Nghi Vo’s “The Chosen and the Beautiful,” a retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic, “The Great Gatsby,” told from the perspective of Jordan Baker, a side character in Fitzgerald’s novel. The Jazz Age Nghi Vo creates is both brighter and darker – it's magical and queer, and Jay Gatsby has literally sold his soul to the de…

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The Ballad of Black Tom / The Horror at Red Hook 47:36

3y ago47:36

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Victor LaValle’s 2016 fantasy-horror novella “The Ballad of Black Tom,” which revisits H.P. Lovecraft’s 1925 short story “The Horror at Red Hook,” is an excellent example of an author not only building upon but surpassing the foundations of a literary genre. Reminder: this is a spoiler-filled podcast. So if you’re not into that kind of thing, read …

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The Anatomy of Desire by L.R. Dorn 39:22

3y ago39:22

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This is the first episode of our third season, and “The Anatomy of Desire” is the perfect book to introduce our fall reading theme and schedule. In season two we tackled a variety of western classics and foundational texts. With this book we’re beginning to explore the work built on those foundations. Published in May, 2021, “The Anatomy of Desire”…

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The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett 32:15

3y ago32:15

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This week on the podcast we’re talking about the “The Wee Free Men,” a 2003 fantasy novel that takes places in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld universe. "The Wee Free Men” is the first Discworld book that features Tiffany Aching, and the first truly YA book in the series. Reminder: this is a spoiler-filled podcast. So if you’re not into that kind of th…

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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 34:30

3y ago34:30

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This week we break down the roots of the hard boiled detective novel with Raymond Chandler's iconic 1939 crime novel, "The Big Sleep." Episode Links “The Big Sleep,” by Raymond Chandler Reading Pete – “Shock Value” by Jason Zinoman Jennie - “Antonio” by Beatriz Bracher Megan – “One by One” by Ruth Ware, “Crying in H Mart: A Memoir” by Michelle Zaun…

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An American Tragedy, pt.3, by Theodore Dreiser 26:39

3y ago26:39

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On the Facebook group, reader Kristen said, “One sign of a good book to me is how much I remember and still think about months later, and this [An American Tragedy] was one of those books.” So we took a deep dive into that question on this week's episode.... Episode Links “An American Tragedy,” by Theodore Dreiser Reading Pete - “Blindsight” by Pet…

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An American Tragedy, pt.2, by Theodore Dreiser 31:55

3y ago31:55

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How to Try to Get Away with Murder This episode comes with a content warning! This section of “An American Tragedy” (and our podcast discussion) deals with unprotected sex and the search for abortion after unplanned pregnancy in the 1920s. There is also discussion of a pre-planned murder. So if that isn’t something that would be healthy for you to …

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Episode 6: What have we learned about public health? 35:04

3y ago35:04

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For this final episode, we’re reflecting on what we’ve learned about public health over the past six months. Hosts Xand and Rochelle explore the episodes we’ve recorded so far that show what needs disrupting in public health, and look back at what our wonderful guests have been doing to shake up the system. Featuring clips from interviews with Prof…

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An American Tragedy, pt.1, by Theodore Dreiser 35:16

3y ago35:16

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This week on the podcast we’re reading part 1 of “An American Tragedy,” by Theodore Dreiser. Originally published in 1925, Dreiser based his novel on a notorious murder of a young woman named Grace Brown, and the subsequent trial of her boyfriend. The novel has just been republished in a new edition. The next two episodes will cover parts two and t…

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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 32:43

3+ y ago32:43

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Neither Pete or Megan have actually read any of Agatha Christie's murder mysteries, so we took a deep dive into her 1939 best selling, endlessly genre-shaping, "And Then There Were None." We weren't surprised by both the overt and casual racism and sexism in the book, but we were surprised to discover that Christie's psychological thriller writing …

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Episode 5: How can arts and creativity tackle health inequalities? 29:49

3+ y ago29:49

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The arts and culture sectors are among the hardest hit by the pandemic and lockdown but what would a post-pandemic world look like without art? Is there potential for arts and culture to be a significant part of the post-pandemic recovery? In this month’s episode, we speak to widely exhibited artist Dr Harold Offeh and UCL Professor of Biology Prof…

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True Grit by Charles Portis 32:20

3+ y ago32:20

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Much to everyone's surprise, Jennie Megan and Pete all loved "True Grit." We’re taking April off to catch our collective breathe. We’ll be back May 3 with Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None," and will announce the rest of the spring schedule soon. If you would like to make a suggestion for future reading you can share your recommendations …

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The Candle in the Wind: The Once and Future King, Part 4 40:34

3+ y ago40:34

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We had very different reactions to the final volume of this book, but none of us got what we were expecting when we set out to read "The Once and Future King." Links "The Candle in the Wind: Book 4 of The Once and Future King" by T.H. White King Arthur Book List - https://libcat.arlingtonva.us/MyAccount/MyList/29971 Pete – Recommends Digital Magazi…

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Episode 4: How is law good for your health? 35:18

3+ y ago35:18

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In this month’s episode, we speak to Sir Keir Starmer - Leader of the Labour Party and former human rights lawyer – and Professor Dame Hazel Genn - Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and UCL Vice Provost Advancement & International - to explore the intersections of law and public health, and how law and legal services can help to mitigate health ineq…

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The Ill Made Knight: The Once and Future King, Part 3 39:49

3+ y ago39:49

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In volume 3 we get Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table. We get Arthur and Guinevere, and Lancelot and the love triangle. In this episode Jennie, Megan and Pete talk about pride and sin, and where to find Arthurian retellings in modern literature. Links "The Ill Made Knight: Book 3 of The Once and Future King" by T.H. White Pete – “Up All Nig…

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Episode 3: People and Power 33:02

3+ y ago33:02

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In public health, we often refer to 'hard to reach' groups, but are we doing enough to listen to them? This month, we speak to the co-founders of Five X More, and UCL academic Dr Carol Rivas, to explore the role of discrimination and structural disadvantage in the health inequalities experienced by different marginalised groups in the UK, and the i…

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The Queen of Air and Darkness: The Once and Future King, Part 2 34:25

3+ y ago34:25

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This section introduced new characters, and established important plot points, but it’s only about 100 pages long, and Jenny describes it as “whipplashy” because it jumps around from place to place. Is this the result of White's radical rewriting and editing between the original version in “The Witch in the Wood” and the omnibus version? If there a…

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The Sword in the Stone: The Once and Future King, Part 1 28:51

3+ y ago28:51

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Jennie takes us on a tour of medieval English history, as seen through T.H. White's creation of King Arthur's childhood, with many spoilers. Links: Megan - Audiobook of “A Promised Land” by Barak Obama Pete – "Tanking to the Top" by Yaron Weitzman Jennie – "A Criminal Magic" by Lee Kelly and "The Forgotten Kingdom" By Signe Pike…

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Episode 2: Stand-up for public health: how can comedy improve our health? 34:04

3+ y ago34:04

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In this month’s episode, we speak to award-winning comedian and author Laura Lexx and London-based Scottish comedian and UCL academic Dr Matt Winning, to explore how comedy and humour can be used to improve health for all. Laughter is good for your health - a good laugh can reduce stress. It can also be used as a tool to reduce the stigma of people…

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Rebecca: Classic of Gothic Horror 37:00

3+ y ago37:00

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Jennie, Pete, Megan and Alex explore what makes this classic of gothic horror so horrible. Standard warning for many spoilers and some bad puns. Links: Jennie – “The Twisted Ones” by T. Kingfisher Megan – “Me: Elton John Official Autobiography” - audiobook ready by Taron Egerton and “First Comes Like” by Alisha Rai Pete – Twin Peaks 2017…

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Dune, Part 3: It All Comes Together with a Big Bang! 31:34

3+ y ago31:34

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We wrap up the final part of Frank Herbert's "Dune," find out who is reading "Dune Messiah," and discuss the David Lynch film (because you really have to). Links: Megan is reading “Song of Wraiths and Ruins” by Roseanne A Brown and “I’ll Be the One” by Lyla Lee Jennie recommends attending the Library's Escapism Book Club, and is reading "Dune Messi…

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Dune, Part 2: Into the Desert 31:05

3+ y ago31:05

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This week Jennie, Megan and Pete travel across the sands of Dune, and explore Paul's version of the Hero's Journey. Links: Jennie - Listening to the Dirt Cheap podcast. Megan - Reading "Normal People" by Sally Rooney Pete - Reading Rural Noir by authors like Donald Ray Pollock, including "Devil all the Time," and "Winter's Bone"by Daniel Woodrell…

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Episode 1: What does climate change have to do with public health? 31:49

3+ y ago31:49

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Welcome to Episode 1 of Public Health Disrupted, the brand new podcast from UCL Health of the Public. This month, hosts Xand and Rochelle are joined by Dominique Palmer - dedicated climate activist, organiser within the UK Student Climate Network and one of Forbes 100 Top UK Environmentalists - and Prof Paul Ekins OBE - Professor of Resources and E…

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Dune, Part 1: Welcome Back! 28:50

3+ y ago28:50

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Welcome back! Over the next six weeks, or three episodes of the podcast, we’ll be reading - and librarianing the heck out of - the first book in Frank Herbert’s epic Sci-Fi series, Dune. We chose Dune in part because it’s getting a lot of buzz, first-reads, and rereads this year, due to the new feature film coming out in 2021. In part one of Dune, …

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We're Back! Season 2 (It's been a long 9 months) 12:18

3+ y ago12:18

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As you might have noticed, the podcast has been on hiatus for a while. Not only have we been busy running a library during a pandemic, but we ran into a lot of technology problems trying to produce a podcast while teleworking. But we worked through those issues, and now we’re ready to bring you the return of the Big Book Club Podcast! We’ve made ch…

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