Piano Lullaby for Baby - Relaxing Piano Notes, Quiet & Tranquil Moments, Soft Melodies for Sleeping

Just Close Your Eyes – Bedtime Lullaby

Journalist and podcast host Pandora Sykes chats to Nihal about her debut book ‘How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right? - a collection of essays which question the perceived wisdom of modern life. 

Pandora chooses objects which inspire her and talks to Nihal about her life-long love of books, why it is so important to shop less and she reads out some of her favourite quotes from when she was a teenager. #PenguinPodcast 

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Deutsch lernen (B2) | Die Fledermausärmel

The northern region’s surrounded forces are ignoring Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s deadline to disarm. More regions are being <a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/11/16/ethiopias-civil-war-is-spreading-outside-its-borders?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">drawn in</a>—and a conflagration across the Horn of Africa looms. Artificial-intelligence pilots have shown serious dogfighting skills, but for reasons both technical and ethical humans are <a href="https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/11/19/fighter-aircraft-will-soon-get-ai-pilots?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">still needed</a> in the cockpit. And the rise of mixed martial arts on <a href="https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/10/15/mixed-martial-arts-is-on-the-rise-in-britain-and-on-the-right?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">both sides of the Atlantic</a>.For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Tigray area: Ethiopia’s deadly standoff

In this special edition, Nihal Arthanayake chooses some of the best bits from previous episodes which include  the likes of Sir Paul McCartney on doubting his own talent, the surprising music choice of Elif Shafak and why Howard Jacobson was insulted by Kylie Minogue. #PenguinPodcast

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'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell - Read by Peter Capaldi

A stunning, shattering debut novel about two Black artists falling in and out of love - available for pre-order now

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a dancer - trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.

At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential debut of recent years.

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Comment, à chaque époque, les jeunes se sont-ils emparés des mots pour se tailler une place dans le monde des adultes ? En nous confiant leur lien intime avec le langage, entre violence et aisance, les jeunes que l’on écoute nous montrent combien la bataille avec le langage est un enjeu intemporel. En entremêlant les voix des jeunes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, il apparait plus clairement encore combien, plus que le temps, c’est surtout l’espace social qui détermine l’aisance avec laquelle on manie la langue. Saurez-vous dater les extraits qui composent ce dernier épisode ?

Tout fout le camp
Pourquoi a-t-on toujours l’impression que les gens parlaient mieux avant ? Et pourquoi ce sont toujours les jeunes qui « parlent mal » ? Des blousons noirs aux rappers, de « astap » à « wesh gros », une histoire ludique du langage des jeunes pour savoir, si, vraiment, tout fout le camp.
Lauréate de la bourse INALAB 2019, Manon Prigent s’appuie sur les trésors des archives audiovisuelles de l’INA pour tendre son micro aux principaux intéressés, les jeunes d’aujourd’hui, avec le renfort de quelques spécialistes du langage.
Une coproduction INA-ARTE Radio. Ce projet est lauréat de la bourse INALAB 2019.

Manon Prigent
Après une formation en lettres et en arts visuels, puis un passage dans diverses institutions d’art contemporain, Manon Prigent s’initie en 2018 à la prise de son et à la réalisation de documentaires. Elle entame alors ses premières collaborations avec ARTE Radio et France Culture.

Avec : Aliocha, Ben Mohammed, Léana, Manel, Mourad, Sana, Toumany, Yanis.

Archives INA : extraits des émissions Radioscopie, Nuits Magnétiques, Les Chemins de la connaissance, Mercredi Jeunesse, Inter Actualités… 

Remerciements : Anne-Lise Alexis, Judith Chalier, Lila Loupias, Pauline Maucort, Romain Poulet, Mathias Théry, Elsa Vettier. Merci également au Centre d’animation Louis Lumière (Paris), à la Médiathèque Assia Djebbar (Paris) et au Lycée Eugène Delacroix (Drancy)

Enregistrements : février—juin 2020 - Prises de son, texte, montage : Manon Prigent - Réalisation, mixage et musique originale : Charlie Marcelet - Archives INA : 1938—2008 - Illustration : Alice Meteignier - Production : INA & ARTE Radio

Tout fout le camp (4/4) : Jeunes de toutes les époques, unissez-vous !

Author and playwright Ali Smith chats to Nihal about her 2014 multi award-winning novel ‘How to be Both’ which has been made into a brand new audiobook.

Ali reveals how she takes herself out of her comfort zone, why we should give books a chance when reading them and her love of silent film #PenguinPodcast

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Stock-trading is shifting to the continent; businesses are bound up in <a href="https://www.economist.com/britain/2021/01/30/absurdities-on-the-border-between-great-britain-and-northern-ireland?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">red tape</a>; border issues are still simmering. There is far more than mere “teething problems” as Britain and Europe adjust to their new relationship. Our correspondent looks at the <a href="https://www.economist.com/international/2021/01/30/why-do-some-people-risk-their-lives-for-fun?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">slippery nature</a> of risk by speaking with wing-suited daredevils. And in Kenya the flower-industry bounce-back is <a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2021/02/13/kenyas-floral-exports-are-blooming-once-more?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blooming great news</a>.For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Exit-stage plight: Brexit’s costs come due

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