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“Improving SimpleX w/ Evgeny from SimpleX and Daniel Keller from Flux” from Opt Out. Released: 0. Genre: Podcast.

“Gairloch” from The Patch by BBCR4. Released: 2015. Genre: Spoken Word. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00268lk

There’s no sharper way to assess the state of life in the early 21st century than through a lens of “enshitification,” a term this week’s guest coined. It’s described as the slow and steady worsening of each and every bit of our daily existence, and as Cory Doctorow has argued, particularly as it pertains to the work of technology companies that have captured our attention, our dollars, or b...

Kicking Back with The Cardiffians. There Now In A Minute.

Released On: 07 Nov 2015 Available for over a year Newcastle writer David Almond investigates the story of a wild child who was said to roam the Yorkshire Dales near Crackpot Hall in the 1930s – and makes a surprising discovery. Crackpot Hall is an ancient, ruined farmhouse near the village of Keld, which lies on the crossroads of the Pennine Way and the Coast to Coast Path in Swaledale. In...

Released On: 02 Jan 2000 Available for over a year In a special edition of the programme, James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to author Douglas Adams about his classic world-wide bestseller The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00fpvbm  

Released On: 03 Mar 2018 Available for over a year John Lloyd unearths the private papers of his friend and colleague Douglas Adams, and discovers more about the agonies he went through to write The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The papers, donated to St John’s College, Cambridge University, include note books, ramblings, rants about how hard it is to write, unfinished scenes and p...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most influential work of Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929). In 1899, during America’s Gilded Age, Veblen wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class as a reminder that all that glisters is not gold. He picked on traits of the waning landed class of Americans and showed how the new moneyed class was adopting these in ways that led to greater waste throughout society. He cal...

It’s 100 years since Sigmund Freud wrote The Ego and the Id, a book that reshaped the way we think about ourselves and the workings of our minds. David Baker explores the ego’s journey over the past century – from the inflated egos of dictators and the music of Hollywood films, to the mind-expanding love-ins of the hippy era and the greed is good ethos of neoliberalism. And, he asks, what ca...

It’s Ok To Be Angry About Capitalism is the title of the new book by the US politician Bernie Sanders. In it he castigates a system that he argues is fuelled by uncontrolled greed and rigged against ordinary people. He tells Tom Sutcliffe it’s time to reject an economic order and a political system that continues to benefit the super-rich, and fight for a democracy that recognises that economic ri...