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MNMT 462 : Aerae

Published March 25, 2025 by Warren Ellis

This is a monster, from the MONUMENT podcast, and I wanted to save it.

Fresh off the release of her excellent debut album ‘Percussive reverie’, we welcome Aerae for MNMT 462. Aerae’s music is shaped by the organic and unpredictable forces of the natural world. In the hands of the rising French artist, techno, downtempo and drum & bass are molded into unrecognizable forms, where evolving textures lock into enveloping and ritualistic grooves.

Tune in now for a deep trip diving into the psychedelic pulse of Aerae’s sound. As the mix descends into the abyss of sonic sorcery and tribalistic hypnotism, you just might lose yourself, or your grip on reality – but for a mix this good it’s a price worth paying.

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The President’s Inbox

Published March 7, 2025 by Warren Ellis

Tuesday Feb 25, 2025

Trump’s Peace Plan for Ukraine, With Liana Fix and Charles A. Kupchan

Tuesday Feb 25, 2025

Tuesday Feb 25, 2025

Liana Fix, CFR fellow for Europe, and Charles A. Kupchan, CFR senior fellow and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, sit down with James M. Lindsay on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to discuss Trump’s evolving policy toward Ukraine.

Politics podcast I recently discovered.

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IN OUR TIME: Nizami Ganjavi

Published March 5, 2025 by Warren Ellis

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025l1q

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest romantic poets in Persian literature. Nizami Ganjavi (c1141–1209) is was born in the city of Ganja in what is now Azerbaijan and his popularity soon spread throughout the Persian-speaking lands and beyond. Nizami is best known for his Khamsa, a set of five epic poems that contains a famous retelling of the tragic love story of King Khosrow II (c570-628) and the Christian princess Shirin (unknown-628) and the legend of Layla and Majnun. Not only did he write romances: his poetry also displays a dazzling knowledge of philosophy, astronomy, botany and the life of Alexander the Great.

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UNCANNY LANDSCAPES: Elizabeth Bennett

Published March 5, 2025 by Warren Ellis

An interview with Elizabeth Bennett about her new book, Performing Folk Songs: Affect, Landscape, Repertoire.

New word for me herein: autoethnography.

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EERIE ESSEX: Eerie Essexentrics

Published March 2, 2025 by Warren Ellis

Essex is a county full of colourful characters, and we have a fine selection of eccentric folk to share with you this month…

Lifelong Essex man here.

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New Music Show: Return To Venice

Published February 17, 2025 by Warren Ellis

Kate Molleson returns to Venice, with more music from last year’s Biennale Musica, as well as music from the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. Plus music by Olga Neuwirth and Richard Baker, performed by the UPROAR Ensemble in Merthyr Tydfil last year. And the latest in new releases.

Opens with a marvellous piece by Charlemagne Palestine.

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In Our Time: The Antikythera Mechanism

Published February 17, 2025 by Warren Ellis

The Antikythera Mechanism

In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2,000-year-old Greek astronomical computer, one of the most important discoveries in marine archaeology.

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2000-year-old device which transformed our understanding of astronomy in ancient Greece. In 1900 a group of sponge divers found the wreck of a ship off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. Among the items salvaged was a corroded bronze object, the purpose of which was not at first clear. It turned out to be one of the most important discoveries in marine archaeology. Over time, researchers worked out that it was some kind of astronomical analogue computer, the only one to survive from this period as bronze objects were so often melted down for other uses. In recent decades, detailed examination of the Antikythera Mechanism using the latest scientific techniques indicates that it is a particularly intricate tool for showing the positions of planets, the sun and moon, with a complexity and precision not surpassed for over a thousand years.

And now I finally know how to pronounce the word Antikythera!

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In Our Time: Italo Calvino

Published February 15, 2025 by Warren Ellis

Italo Calvino

In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics and If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller and collector and translator of Italian fables.

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Italian author of Invisible Cities, If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller, Cosmicomics and other celebrated novels, fables and short stories of the 20th Century. Calvino (1923 -1985) had a passionate belief that writing and art could make life better for everyone. Despite his parents being scientists, who dearly wanted him to be a scientist too, and his time fighting with the Partisans in Liguria in WWII during which his parents were held hostage by the Nazis, Calvino turned away from realism in his writing. Ideally, he said, he would have liked to be alive in the Enlightenment. He moved towards the fantastical, drawing on his childhood reading while collecting a huge number of the fables of Italy and translating them from dialect into Italian to enrich the shared culture of his fellow citizens. His fresh perspective on the novel continues to inspire writers and delight readers in Italian and in translations around the world.

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