Tag: thecultures

Listen to episode 330 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Finnish school kids’ meal bag vs. British school kids’ meal bag (Twitter)
• UK Government Communication Service blog post example

Listen to episode 329 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• The Progressive Case for Breaking Up the BBC – while increasing public funding for the good things it does!
• Things we’re watching and reading, including:
• A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
• It’s a Sin (Channel 4)
• Catch Me If You Can (Wikipedia)
• Kajillionaire
• Another Round

Listen to episode 328 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• The Lab-Leak Hypothesis by Nicholson Baker (New York Magazine)
• Did America Use Bioweapons in Korea? Nicholson Baker Tried to Find Out (New York Times book review)

Note: Adrian said the wrong episode number at the start, sorry!

Listen to episode 327 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent by Zeynep Tufekci (The Atlantic)

Note: Adrian said the wrong episode number at the start, sorry!

Listen to episode 326 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Jesse Singal’s tweet linking to Vice’s story on Penguin Random House staffers’ reaction to their publishing Jordan Peterson’s next book

Sorry for the poor audio quality on Adrian’s bits, he accidentally turned down the gain on his mic, and while we were able to boost the volume, that introduced a bunch of noise!

Listen to episode 325 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• A giant leap forward by DeepMind in AI protein-folding prediction
• How to start reading again

Sorry for the poor audio quality on Adrian’s bits, he accidentally turned down the gain on his mic, and while we were able to boost the volume, that introduced a bunch of noise!

Listen to episode 324 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• The rise and fall of Adobe Flash
• Flash Game History
• The ‘Screen Time’ debate

Listen to episode 323 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Look for music from the country
• Search on BBC Sounds (there’s a prog called World Music Road Trip and also sometimes stuff in From Our Own Correspondent)
• Also try documentaries, especially Storyville
• Find the best movie you’ve never seen from that country
• Internet search for recipes from there
• Look online for specialist ingredients
• Is there takeaway from there one could get?
• Can you do a few minutes of language learning via Duolingo etc? Just enough to say hello, goodbye, please and thank you?
• Who’s their most famous writer? Read a short story
• Have they ever had a movie up for best foreign picture Oscar, or best short or best documentary?
• Where would you stay? Pick a hotel. Have a look on Google Street View to see where you “are”
• Is there a board game (or video game!) from that country to try?
• What sights would you try to see if you were there? Can you find virtual tours online?
• What do people drink in a cafè or bar there?
• Can you learn to sing something that’s popular there or written there?
• Put the radio on all day from that country
• Change your Twitter/social media localisation to that country
• Is there a bath product/perfume/smell from there?

Listen to episode 322 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)
• Ghosts (BBC)
• The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)
• Upload (Amazon Prime)
• Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (Viki)
• After Life (BFI Player)

Listen to episode 321 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• BBC journalists told not to ‘virtue signal’ in social media crackdown (The Guardian)
• Official BBC social media guidance
• What Is The Internet Doing To Boomers’ Brains? (Huffpost)
• The creation of Boris Johnson by Tanya Gold (Unherd)