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Jack Aldane
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The Booking Club LIVE, with David Edmonds
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12/15/21 • 34 min
The Booking Club's first live, in-restaurant event brings former BBC Radio voice, philosopher and author David Edmonds to the mic with Jack Aldane to talk about his favourite restaurant Paradise, in Hampstead, and his new book The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle. Listen and download to the full audio here.
About the book:
On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick’s, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while Nelböck himself argued in court that his onetime teacher had promoted a treacherous Jewish philosophy. David Edmonds traces the rise and fall of the Vienna Circle—an influential group of brilliant thinkers led by Schlick—and of a philosophical movement that sought to do away with metaphysics and pseudoscience in a city darkened by fascism, anti-Semitism, and unreason. (Princeton University Press).
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The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading, with Sam Leith
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08/30/24 • 45 min
The stories we read as children are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond our childhoods, they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties. They reveal our past – collective and individual, remembered and imagined – and invite us to dream up different futures.
In a pioneering history of the children’s literary canon, The Haunted Wood reveals the magic of childhood reading, from the ancient tales of Aesop, through the Victorian and Edwardian golden age to new classics.
Excavating the complex lives of our most beloved writers, Sam Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre and celebrates the power of books to inspire and console entire generations.
Sam met Jack at Pizza Express in Euston, London
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End of Year Announcement 2020
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12/19/20 • 2 min
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Chaucer: A European Life, with Marion Turner
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09/15/20 • 45 min
Marion Turner is Associate Professor of English at Jesus College, University of Oxford. Her latest book, shortlisted for the 2020 Wolfson History Prize, and Winner of the 2020 Rose Mary Crawshay Award, is 'Chaucer: A European Life' (Princeton University Press).
This groundbreaking biography recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant’s son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets. Turner is Chaucer's first female biographer.
She chose to meet Jack Aldane at Gee's Restaurant in Oxford.
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The Value of a Whale, with Adrienne Buller
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09/30/22 • 31 min
Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing the course of the climate and nature crises, despite a growing number of pledges, policies and summits, little ever seems to change. Nature is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate. We remain on course for a catastrophic 3°C of warming. What's holding us back?
In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the 'solutions' being proposed really solutions? Tracing the intricate connections between financial power, economic injustice and ecological crisis, she exposes the myopic economism and market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all life can flourish.
The book examines what is wrong with mainstream climate and environmental governance, from carbon pricing and offset markets to 'green growth', the commodification of nature and the growing influence of the finance industry on environmental policy. In doing so, it exposes the self-defeating logic of a response to these challenges based on creating new opportunities for profit, and a refusal to grapple with the inequalities and injustices that have created them. Both honest and optimistic, The Value of a Whale asks us - in the face of crisis - what we really value (Manchester University Press).
Adrienne and Jack meet at Big Jo on Hornsey Road in North London.
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05/08/24 • 46 min
For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and money. In The Status Game, bestselling author Will Storr radically turns this thinking on its head by arguing that it is our irrepressible craving for status that ultimately defines who we are.
From the era of the hunter-gatherer to today, when we exist as workers in the globalised economy and citizens of online worlds, the need for status has always been wired into us. A wealth of research shows that how much of it we possess dramatically affects not only our happiness and wellbeing but also our physical health – and without sufficient status, we become more ill, and live shorter lives. It’s an unconscious obsession that drives the best and worst of us: our innovation, arts and civilisation as well as our murders, wars and genocides.
But why is status such an all-consuming prize? What happens if it’s taken away from us? And how can our unquenchable thirst for it explain cults, moral panics, conspiracy theories, the rise of social media and the ‘culture wars’ of today?
On a breathtaking journey through time and culture, The Status Game offers a sweeping rethink of human psychology that will change how you see others – and how you see yourself (Harper Collins).
Jack met Will at Parrillan in Borough Yards, London.
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🎄❄️🎅 MERRY CHRISTMAS! A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain, with Pen Vogler
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05/08/24 • 45 min
In times of plenty, we stuff ourselves. When the food runs out, we're stuffed too. How have people in the British Isles shared the riches from our fields, dairies, kitchens and seas, as well as those from around the world? And when the cupboard is bare, who steps up to the plate to feed the nation's hungry children, soldiers at war or families in crisis?
Stuffed tells the stories of the food and drink at the centre of social upheavals from prehistory to the present: the medieval inns boosted by the plague; the Enclosures that finished off the celebratory roast goose; the Victorian chemist searching for unadulterated mustard; the post-war supermarkets luring customers with strawberries. Drawing on cookbooks, literature and social records, Pen Vogler reveals how these turning points have led to today's extremes of plenty and want: roast beef and food banks; allotment, fresh vegetables and ultra-processed fillers.
It is a tale of feast and famine, and of the traditions, the ideas and the laws which have fed - or starved - the nation, but also of the yeasty magic of bread and ale, the thrill of sugary treats, the pies and puddings that punctuate the year, and why the British would give anything - even North America - for a nice cup of tea.
Pen met Jack Aldane at Brunswick House in Vauxhall, London.
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War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age, with Tom Holland
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10/05/23 • 48 min
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with Rubicon, and continued with Dynasty, now arrives at the period which marks the apogee of the pax Romana. It provides a portrait of the ancient world's ultimate superpower at war and at peace; from the gilded capital to the barbarous realms beyond the frontier; from emperors to slaves.
The narrative features many of the most celebrated episodes in Roman history: the destruction of Jerusalem and Pompeii; the building of the Colosseum and Hadrian's Wall; the conquests of Trajan and the spread of Christianity.
Pax gives a portrait of Rome, the great white shark of the ancient world, the Siberian tiger, at the very pinnacle of her greatness.(Little, Brown Book Group).
Tom met Jack Aldane at Noble Rot in Bloomsbury, London.
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How Satirical Cartoons Survive, with Martin Rowson
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07/27/19 • 29 min
Martin Rowson is a British editorial cartoonist and writer. His genre is political satire. His style is to consistently launch a merciless assault on unchecked power using scatological humour and by reducing his subjects to animal and inanimate states. Martin's cartoons appear in The Guardian and the Daily Mirror. He is chair of the British Cartoonists' Association.
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Who should feature in 2024? Let us know!
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10/31/23 • 4 min
Episode from Jack thanking you for listening to The Booking Club and asking you to write in with your recommendations of books, authors, restaurants for us to feature on the series in 2024.
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How many episodes does The Booking Club have?
The Booking Club currently has 81 episodes available.
What topics does The Booking Club cover?
The podcast is about News, History, Podcasts, Books, Economics, Philosophy, Authors and Politics.
What is the most popular episode on The Booking Club?
The episode title 'The Booking Club LIVE, with David Edmonds' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Booking Club?
The average episode length on The Booking Club is 36 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Booking Club released?
Episodes of The Booking Club are typically released every 29 days, 23 hours.
When was the first episode of The Booking Club?
The first episode of The Booking Club was released on Sep 11, 2018.
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