Tom Crewe: Wrestling Days

The transformations of European politics over the past twenty years, including Britain’s vote to leave the EU and the rise of post-Soviet strongmen, are often explained as part of a ‘wave’ of populism. But as Jan-Werner Müller argues, populism is best understood as a form of poli ...  Show more

What kind of satirist was Jane Austen? Her earliest writings follow firmly in the footsteps of ‘Tristram Shandy’ in their deployment of heightened sentiment as a tool for satirising romantic novelistic conventions. But her mature fiction goes far beyond this, taking the fashion f ...  Show more

On this episode of Our American Stories, oftentimes when the topic of professional wrestling (think Hulk Hogan) comes up, it’s almost guaranteed that someone will scoff and say that it’s “fake.” Here’s Riley Evans, sports writer and CEO of RealPodcasting.com, to tell the real sto ...  Show more

This week on That Peter Crouch Podcast, Crouchy, Chris and Statman Dave sit down with global superstar Jason Sudeikis, star of Apple TV's Ted Lasso, as they discuss all things football (NOT soccer) related. Jason talks about why he thinks the show has been such such a runaway suc ...  Show more

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WARNING: this episode contains references to murder and suicide. In professional wrestling, you don’t know where fantasy ends and reality starts. But Chris Benoit was a method actor. He liked realness. And after years of drugs and injuries, that had deadly consequences. If you’ve ...  Show more