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Some kind of pig is snuffling in the leaf mould. But what is it up to? Rose Rahtz reads the signs in Where Hast Thou Been, Sister?

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Annie’s been packed off to Christian camp, but will she convert? Lauren Caroline Smith shares the good news in The Placing of Hands.

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Quinton McCandless is born in 1968 with a smile on his face. Grahame Williams examines a life where nothing goes to plan in Making It Happen.

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Episode 294 - The Rise and Fall of Epirus

“Theodoros Doukas the leader of the Roman state of Epirus leads his people to ever greater heights in the 1220s. He captures Thessalonica and drives towards Constantinople itself. Doukas declares himself Emperor but does he have the resources necessary to reach the Hagia Sophia?”

https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/663e001a9823420012f58523

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Episode 294 - The Rise and Fall of Epirus

“Theodoros Doukas the leader of the Roman state of Epirus leads his people to ever greater heights in the 1220s. He captures Thessalonica and drives towards Constantinople itself. Doukas declares himself Emperor but does he have the resources necessary to reach the Hagia Sophia?”

https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/663e001a9823420012f58523

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Backstabbing, bluffing and playing dead: has AI learned to deceive? – podcast

“Dr Peter Park, an AI existential safety researcher at MIT and author of the research, tells Ian Sample about the different examples of deception he uncovered, and why they will be so difficult to tackle as long as AI remains a black box.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/may/14/backstabbing-bluffing-and-playing-dead-has-ai-learned-to-deceive-podcast

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Big Barrel is off to the dumpster to get some grub. Jakub Żulczyk draws a picture of decline in Many Years of Hardships, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff.

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Band of Brothers: the Jesuits

“Ignatius of Loyola’s movement begins modestly, but winds up having a global impact on education and philosophy.”

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It's a great day for a fun new podcast! Join Ronald McGillvray & yours truly as we discuss books by Gareth L. Powell, James Herbert, and Joe Scipione, plus Thanksgiving (the movie,) Helldivers 2, and so much more in this one-of-a-kind authorcast!

YouTube: https://youtu.be/pkc22_z_uXg?si=TFEb0uBl9Ir8a7iw

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Jenny Erpenbeck opens 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/sloughing-off-one-skin-jenny-erpenbeck-translated-by-michael-hofmann

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@bookstodon And on the @fictionable Jenny Erpenbeck talks about why writers are so suspicious of documents, the trouble with endings and the problem of arbitrary borders.

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/jenny-erpenbeck-podcast-sloughing-off-one-skin-go-went-gone-kairos-writing

She also talks about her International Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Kairos and recalls what it felt like in when the Wall came down.

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So here's a little taste of the marvellous from Jenny Erpenbeck, Jakub Żulczyk, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz for 2024.

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Portraits of Jenny Erpenbeck, Jakub Żulczyk, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz accompany brief readings from their short stories

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Episode 176: All the World’s a Playhouse

"In this episode, we look at how distant cultures were contributing to the growth of English and how Shakespeare’s acting company built a world-famous theater in the late 1500s."

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✨Brand New Episode – Rhetorical Fireworks ✨

It’s 403 BCE and representing the patricians, Appius Claudius fights with the tribunes of the plebs over the terms of military service in Rome's war with Veii.

Get ready for some rhetorical fireworks 💥🧨💥

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https://partialhistorians.com/2024/05/09/episode-150-rhetorical-fireworks/

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I released a ! Eternity and Time with Kit Tempest-Walters, on [ and other aspects of https://pod.fo/e/2393d5 @philosophy

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What do you do when a hero comes right at you? Liam Hogan goes a few rounds in Backstory.

Catch this exclusive short story and listen to Hogan explain why he doesn't believe in heroes at https://fictionable.world

Image: Wang Yan

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Does your laptop have a mind of its own? Robert Neuwirth shares a file that booted up on his screen and wrote itself to the hard drive in The Disambiguation.

Catch this exclusive short story and listen to Neuwirth explain why he filled it with computer code at https://fictionable.world

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It's Plain Reading's season finale! Join us for a discussion with and educator L. S. McKee—we're talking personas, relics, interdisciplinary , , and so much more!

https://plainreading.libsyn.com/epic-personas-and-writing-across-disciplines-l-s-mckee

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Steffanie Holmes is a blind author writing blind characters and I am in love. Here her talk about her books, her research and more. Free podcast.
Note: podcast host is a seeing eye dog handler, vision impaired from birth, talking to a legally blind author.
https://darkmatterzine.com/steffanie-holmes/
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