Episode 539: Lee Scrivner on Casinolabs

Red Heifers, Holocausts, Israel & Iran  

Tim joins Pete to talk about the recent violence in Palestine. They discuss its history, the propaganda surrounding the war, social media's response, as well as brewing dissent in the US state department. 

Nora Krug and Timothy Snyder have published On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Graphic Edition with Ten Speed Press, 2021. The book contains the slightly updated text from Professor Snyder’s best-selling 2017 edition but now gorgeously illustrated with Profess ...  Show more

With Day of the Dead, Halloween and All Souls Day being marked in different countries around the world - Shahidha Bari's guests discuss the belief in ghosts and the search for meaning in mysticism. They are:Dr Chris Harding is a cultural historian of Japan, India and East-West co ...  Show more

Dan Flores is a writer and historian specializing in the cultural and environmental study of the American West. His most recent book is “Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Comedian and poet Tim Key on writing and starring in The Ballad of Wallis Island which has become one of the surprise film hits of the year.Novelists Saima Mir and Marcia Hutchinson on setting their stories in Bradford.Playwright Ntombizodwa Nyoni on reimagining the 5th Pan Afric ...  Show more