Bedste New Culture-podcasts (2025)

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Mackenzie Crook on talking to ghosts and playing skinny weirdos 32:17

1d ago32:17

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Tom Gatti is joined by BAFTA award winning writer, director, and actor, Mackenzie Crook to discuss his acting career from The Office to Detectorists, as well as Crook's new book 'If Nick Drake Came to My House'. This conversation was recorded at the recent winter edition of the Cambridge Literary Festival. To find out more about the festival, or to…

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Andrew S. Latham, "Hey! Listen!: Hypertext Rhetoric and The Legend of Zelda" (McFarland, 2024) 39:25

2d ago39:25

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How does analyzing video games as hypertexts expand the landscape of research for video game rhetoricians and games studies scholars? This is the first book to focus on how hypertext rhetoric impacts the five canons of rhetoric, and to apply that hypertext rhetoric to the study of video games. It also explores how ludonarrative agency is seized by …

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HALF Of UK Mosques Run By EXTREMIST Muslim Sect. Witchcraft Abuse Now In Britain. 37:05

4d ago37:05

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Sharia law must be BANNED in BritainHALF of UK Mosques are run by EXTREMIST Muslim sectUK police trained to detect witchcraft child abuse ritualsOn today's #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt & Connor Tomlinson are joined by NCF Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-MankooAf New Culture Forum

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We Wish You A Turtle Christmas 58:49

6d ago58:49

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Wrap rap! This week, Nick, Cuz, and the Gorehound waste their 250th episode talking about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Christmas special, We Wish You A Turtle Christmas. From 1994 - we are celebrating it's 30th anniversary (which was totally completely planned - yep....) - this turd gives other turds bad names. Give a listen!…

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Sujatha Fernandes, "Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life" (Duke, UP 2020) 45:04

3d ago45:04

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Cuban resourcefulness is on full display in Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life (Duke 2020), as sociologist Sujatha Fernandes presents an array of strategies not just for survival but for the invention of expressive practices and community-building spaces. Enduring years of Special Period economics and a transition away from Fidel Castro…

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Nick Yablon, "Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule" (U Chicago Press, 2019) 1:03:08

7d ago1:03:08

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In Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule (University of Chicago Press, 2019), Nick Yablon traces the birth of the time capsule in the United States. Starting with the Gilded Age, Yablon explores the way Americans from diverse backgrounds constructed memories of their present through the creation of time capsules. Examinin…

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The world in 2025 30:16

8d ago30:16

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Trump round 2, instability in Europe, and power struggles in the Middle East. Hannah Barnes is joined by Katie Stallard and Wolfgang Münchau to take a look at the world in 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2024 in Review - Britain in Crisis: Islam, Southport & the Betrayal of the British People. 43:24

10d ago43:24

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2024 in Review - Britain in Crisis: Islam, Southport & the Betrayal of the British People.To round up the year, the NCF Newspeak panel review the highs and lows of 2024.Af New Culture Forum

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James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024) 56:07

10d ago56:07

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Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans (U Hawaii Press, 2024) examines three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who challenged Japanese gender and sexual norms in the 1970s and 1980s. These spheres encompassed activists in the ūman ribu (women’s lib…

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Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024) 1:33:04

13d ago1:33:04

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In popular memory the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol’s decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war. But as Dr. Lisa Jacobson reveals in Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition (University of California Press, 2024), alcohol’s respectability and mass market success were neither sudde…

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Johny Brown, "Corpse Flower" (Skill, 2024) 40:49

13d ago40:49

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From the frontman of Band of Holy Joy, Johny Brown, Corpse Flower (Skill, 2024), is a long-form prose poem that shares Brown's journey through one of the most challenging times in his life. Released as a multimedia project, Corpse Flower includes not only Brown's book but the music and reading that goes along with it. Moving from dark to light and …

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Randy Fertel, "Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump" (Spring, 2024) 44:00

14d ago44:00

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Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump (Spring, 2024) is Randy Fertel’s third book, his second on improvisation. Creating something impromptu and without effort challenges our assumption that everything of value depends upon long study, tradition, and hard work. Improvisation comes to disrupt all that. The gesture all improvis…

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Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024) 50:10

14d ago50:10

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As writers, musicians, online content creators, and other independent workers fight for better labor terms, romance authors offer a powerful example—and a cautionary tale—about self-organization and mutual aid in the digital economy. In Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success (Princeton Univ…

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Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024) 1:09:57

14d ago1:09:57

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Detroit has an essential relationship to genre in American literature and popular culture. The contemporary formations of the suburban sitcom, the post-apocalyptic genre, the sci-fi dystopia, crime fiction, the superhero genre, and contemporary horror would not exist in the way they do today without the aesthetic material and racial history of Detr…

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Politics 2024: The good, the bad, and the ugly 21:39

15d ago21:39

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Biggest gaffe? Dampest squib? Best political trolling? Hannah Barnes is joined by Andrew Marr and Freddie Hayward to go through the highs and the lows of UK politics in 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Rupert Lowe, Reform MP: Boris Is DELUDED. I Welcome Elon Musk. This Is OUR Country. We Built It. 1:00:13

16d ago1:00:13

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Rupert Lowe, Reform MP: Boris is DELUDED. I Welcome Elon Musk. This is OUR Country. We Built It.On today's #NCFWhittle we speak with Reform MP Rupert Lowe, arguably the most impressive Member of Parliament currently serving. He and Peter Whittle have a wide ranging discussion covering immigration, Labour and Britain's economic challenges.…

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Jeremy Dauber, "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond" (Algonquin Books, 2024) 1:11:22

16d ago1:11:22

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From the acclaimed author of American Comics comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, and, ultimately, culture—from the taut, terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe to the grisly, lingering films of Jordan Peele America is held captive by horror stories. They flicker on the…

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Scott Huver, "Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210" (Post Hill Press, 2024) 52:30

16d ago52:30

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Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210 (Post Hill Press, 2024) explores the city’s true crime history, delving deep inside cases that made headlines, scandals that engulfed Hollywood legends, and more strange-but-true tales that could only happen in the 90210. Beverly Hills Noir chronicles an assortment of jaw-dropping true crime storie…

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The BEST & WORST Of 2024. Who Will Win? Trump V Musk, Khan V Starmer, Farage V Lowe & More! 1:00:07

17d ago1:00:07

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The New Culture Forum Christmas Special! We've mashed up NCF Newspeak & NCF Deprogrammed, bringing your favourite panelists together for a highly amusing review of the BEST & WORST of 2024Who are the year's heroes & villains? What were the triumphs & tragedies of 2024? It's a battle of the Titans. Who will win?Trump v Musk, Khan v Starmer, Farage v…

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Julien Mailland, "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry" (MIT Press, 2024) 40:39

17d ago40:39

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A guide to the fascinating legal history of the videogame industry, written for nonlawyers. Why did a judge recall FIFA 15, a nonviolent soccer game, from French shelves in 2014? Why was Vodka Drunkenski, a character in Nintendo-Japan’s Punch-Out!, renamed Soda Popinski in the US and then in Western Europe, where the pun made no sense? Why was a Du…

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What Musk's money could do for Reform UK 19:21

18d ago19:21

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It's the last listener questions episode of 2024! Hannah Barnes is joined by Rachel Cunliffe and George Eaton to discuss Elon Musk's support and intentions for Reform UK. The team also consider how Children Not In School register could help increase children's safety and wellbeing, especially considering up to 300,000 children may have been missing…

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Martin Daubney Every Syrian Refugee Must Go Home. Deportations, Islam & Cousin Marriage 33:06

19d ago33:06

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Martin Daubney: Every Syrian "Refugee" Must Go Home. Deportations, Islam & Cousin MarriageOn today's #NCFDeprogrammed, GB News's @MartinDaubney says every Syrian refugee must go home.He joined @Harry_pitt & @Con_Tomlinson to discuss deportations, Islam & cousin marriage.Af New Culture Forum

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Emily Thornberry: I won't be on the welcome committee for Trump 27:45

19d ago27:45

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The team discuss two big political stories of the week; WASPI women and Prince Andrew's friendship with the alleged Chinese spy. And the New Statesman's policy correspondent Harry Clarke-Ezzidio sits down with Emily Thornberry, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Submit a question for a future episode: You Ask Us Hosted on Acast. See aca…

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Torsten Bell: Is Britain's decline reversible? 34:40

20d ago34:40

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This conversation was recorded at the Cambridge Literary Festival. To watch an extended version or to find out more about Cambridge Literary Festival please head to cambridgeliteraryfestival.com - The New Statesman’s business editor Will Dunn sat down with Torsten Bell, Labour MP for Swansea West, and former chief executive of the Resolution Founda…

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How Paddington became the spokesbear for Britain 29:30

22d ago29:30

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First conceived in 1956 by Michael Bond, the marmalade-loving immigrant from Peru has become an iconic British cultural figure – treasured for his chaotic nature, impeccable manners, and proximity to royalty. So, how did Paddington become the spokesbear for Britain, crossing political divides in the country, and one of the most commercially success…

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We're MAD To Give Our Children Smart Phones. It's CHILD ABUSE. Juliet Samuel 29:49

23d ago29:49

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On today's #NCFWhittle, Times journalist Juliet Samuel returns to discuss the greatest epidemic of modern times: "phone dope". She explains why smart phones are more addictive than alcohol and tobacco and why society is descending into cognitive decline through its over reliance on these dopamine-based gadgets.…

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Matthew S. Smith, "EverQuest" (Boss Fight Books, 2024) 38:29

23d ago38:29

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“You’re in our world now.” This bold tagline led Sony’s 1999 ad blitz for EverQuest (Boss Fight Books, 2024), the year’s most anticipated massively multiplayer game. Though just five words long, it challenged players to live in a virtual world beyond anything they’d experienced before—and delivered. The game that proved the MMORPG’s potential, Ever…

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Cousin Marriage MUST Be Banned! Puberty Blockers To Be Banned INDEFINITELY! Lee Anderson On Men. 39:07

23d ago39:07

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Cousin Marriage MUST Be Banned! Puberty Blockers to Be Banned INDEFINITELY! Lee Anderson on Men.On today's #NCFNewspeak, Peter Whittle, Dr. Philip Kiszely & Amy Gallagher discuss:* Muslim MP promotes INCEST. Cousin marriage must be BANNED* Puberty Blockers to be banned indefinitely* Lee Anderson on Male vs Female pain & suffering…

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Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman, "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie®" (MIT Press, 2024) 35:27

24d ago35:27

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The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 1980s whose fate was shaped by Mattel, Atari, and countless others who invented the gaming industry. Astrosmash, Snafu, Star Strike, Utopia—do these names sound familiar to you? No? Maybe? They were all videogames created for the Intellivision videogam…

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A. L. McClanan, "Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art" (Reaktion, 2024) 46:28

24d ago46:28

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A. L. McClanan's Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art (Reaktion, 2024) is a fascinating exploration of the mythical creature's many depictions in human culture. Drawing on a wealth of historical and literary sources, this book shows how the griffin has captured the imagination of people for over 5,000 years, representing power…

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France's centre has collapsed, is the UK's next? 16:30

25d ago16:30

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The team answer listener questions on the appointment of Heidi Alexander to transport secretary and whether the UK's mainstream centrist politics are at risk from the far-right. Hannah Barnes is joined by Andrew Marr and George Eaton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Barbara A. Biesecker, "Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State" (Penn State Press, 2024) 48:39

25d ago48:39

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By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and for nearly fifteen years World War II was ubiquitous across US popular and political culture. In Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State (Penn State University Pr…

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Starmer BLASTS Kemi On Immigration. Could Starmer Force Farage To Become More Right Wing Nick Dixon 34:09

26d ago34:09

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Will Kemi Destroy the Tories? Starmer is making mincemeat out of Kemi Badenoch on immigration, with Labour appearing more right-wing than the ToriesCould Starmer force Farage to adopt a harder stance too?Comedian and GB News presenter Nick Dixon joins hosts Harrison Pitt & Connor Tomlinson on this week's #NCFDeprogrammed.…

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Will Starmer engage with HTS? 17:03

26d ago17:03

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Will his history as a human rights lawyer play a part? Will Shamima Begum be able to return? And why have all Syrian asylum claims been suspended? Hannah Barnes is joined by Andrew Marr and George Eaton to discuss Britain's reaction to the collapse of the Syrian regime and also Britain's trade talks with the EU. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva…

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Leah Kardos, "Kate Bush's Hounds of Love" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 1:02:10

27d ago1:02:10

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Hounds Of Love invites you to not only listen, but to cross the boundaries of sensory experience into realms of imagination and possibility. Side A spawned four Top 40 hit singles in the UK, 'Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)', 'Cloudbusting', 'Hounds of Love' and 'The Big Sky', some of the best-loved and most enduring compositions in Bush's c…

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What happens when a tyrant flees 31:47

27d ago31:47

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On Sunday Morning the sound of gunfire filled the air in Damascus. The noise, not of fighting, but celebrations. President Bashar al-Assad and his family had fled to Russia. A family which ruled for more than 50 years, brought down by a rebel offensive which had begun less than two weeks earlier. Kate Lamble is joined by Rajan Menon, Marcel Dirsus,…

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The politics of faith: Britain's changing relationship with Christianity 35:26

29d ago35:26

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Is the Church experiencing an existential crisis? And what is the role of Christianity in modern Britain? Tom Gatti is joined by Pippa Bailey, David Sexton, and Madeleine Davies. Read: Conclave: this papal power struggle is high entertainment Read: The race for Lambeth Palace Read: The rise of cultural Christianity Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr…

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How Islamists Influence & Infiltrate The British Government. Disturbing New Investigative Report 43:09

30d ago43:09

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On today's #NCFWhittle:How Islamists influence & infiltrate the UK GovernmentWe speak with ConnorTomlinson, co-host of our show #NCFDeprogrammed & author of a disturbing new investigative report into how our political class is advancing the Islamist agenda.Af New Culture Forum

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Victoria Sturtevant, "It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy" (U Texas Press, 2024) 54:15

1M ago54:15

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Victoria Sturtevant's It’s All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy (University of Texas Press, 2024) is about how changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward women’s reproductive roles and rights. Some of the most groundbreaking…

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