Episodes

Mar 13, 2025
Mar 13, 2025
57 min
Kath Wilson on journalism, sustainability, crocodiles and “fashion,” kangaroos, agriculture, fire, indigenous knowledge, tinkering, activism, and animal sentience
You can read about her work here:
https://www.katherinewilson.com.au/

Mar 5, 2025
Mar 5, 2025
35 min
Atossa Abrahamian on citizenship, passports, Switzerland, Iran, the orange combover, and journalism
You can read about her work here:
https://www.atossaaraxia.com/

Mar 4, 2025
Mar 4, 2025
1hr 4 min
Gerard Hanlon on the military, Ukraine, management, the professions, and students from pathbreaking backgrounds
You can read about his work here:
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sbm/staff/academic/profiles/hanlong.html

Feb 28, 2025
Feb 28, 2025
53 min
Dennis Broe on Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders” et al.), the Los Angeles fires, and neoliberalism. Toby on Mexico
You can watch Dennis’ “LA is Burning” talk here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4oHeJboBXw
and Karen Bass discourteously, if tellingly, doorstepped by Sky News here:

Feb 28, 2025
Feb 28, 2025
1hr 18 min
Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon, and Steve Macek on Jeff Bezos, Silicon Valley, the bourgeois media, the Democratic Party, the orange combover and the manchild's assault on scientific inquiry
You can read about their work here
https://education.ucsc.edu/people/lecturers.php?uid=nhigdon
https://faculty.fordham.edu/andersen/
https://www.northcentralcollege.edu/profile/shmacek

Feb 26, 2025
Feb 26, 2025
50 min
Thomas Scanlon on life in California versus London, the ancient Mediterranean world and the US, classics, sports, violence, gender, and empires
You can read about his work here: https://ucriverside.academia.edu/TScanlon

Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
54 min
Sharika Thiranagama on war, difference, and Sri Lanka
You can read about her work here:
https://anthropology.stanford.edu/people/sharika-thiranagama

Feb 7, 2025
Feb 7, 2025
1hr 4 min
Joe Maguire on Ireland, sports, Elias, sociology, and Marxism
You can read about his work here:
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/sport-exercise-health-sciences/people/joseph-maguire/

Jan 31, 2025
Jan 31, 2025
54 min
Jennifer Smith Maguire on sociology, consumption, wine, fitness, and intermediation.
You can read about her work here:
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/jennifer-smith-maguire
Smith Maguire, J. 2021. Towards a sociology from wine and vina aperta. Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 6(2), 10: 1-12. [Open Access]
Smith Maguire, J., Bridgeman, N-M., Marco-Thyse, S. & Erasmus, C. 2022. Wine farmworkers, provenance stories and ethical value claims. Journal of Wine Research. 33(4): 214-234. [Open Access here]
Smith Maguire, J., Ocejo, R. & DeSoucey, M. 2023. Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness. Journal of Consumer Culture. 23(3): 597-616. [Open Access here]
Lever, J., Smith Maguire, J. & Kapek-Goodridge, A. (Eds). 2024. Towards an Eliasian Understanding of Food in the 21st Century: Established Foundations and New Directions. Palgrave.

Jan 9, 2025
Jan 9, 2025
1hr 8 sec
Dennis Broe on his new novel, The Dark Ages, Hollywood, and LA yesterday and today
You can read (all) about it here:
https://books.apple.com/es/book/the-dark-ages/id6739433342

