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Joining John and Andy this week are Natasha McEnroe, the Keeper of Medicine at the Science Museum in London, and novelist Lissa Evans, Backlisted's old friend and the show's Original Guest, both of whom are Betty MacDonald superfans. The Plague and I (1948) is the author's unflinching and hilarious memoir of the nine months she spent as a patient at a TB sanatorium in the Pacific North West of America. We discuss this book and the eventful life of its million-selling author (The Egg and I, Anybody Can Do Anything, Onions in the Stew), are exposed to a selection of TB-related public information films and music, and there is even a 'communicable disease in literature' quiz. Also in this episode Andy is grabbed by Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper (1943) by Donald Henderson, reputedly Raymond Chandler's favourite crime novel; while John has been enjoying Olivette Otele's recently published history African Europeans, which traces a long African European heritage via the lives of individuals both ordinary and extraordinary.

Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)
08:16 - Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper by Donald Henderson
15:49 - African Europeans by Olivette Otele
20:37 - The Plague And I by Betty Macdonald

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The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald

Returning to Backlisted this week are literary agents Becky Brown and Norah Perkins, joint custodians of the Curtis Brown Heritage list of literary estates and previously our guests on episode #109, Excellent Women by Barbara Pym. This time we are discussing the work of crime novelist Dorothy B. Hughes and in particular her suspenseful and subversive novel In a Lonely Place (1947), freely adapted as a classic film noir by director Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. Also in this episode Norah and Becky pitch titles by Kay Dick, Stella Gibbons and R.C. Sherriff to Andy, John and Nicky. Make sure you have a pen and paper to hand...

Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)
15:00 - Starlight by Stella Gibbons
19:10 - The Fortnight In September
26:56 - In A Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes

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In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes

From the Literature education podcast series "Acting It Out" developed and produced by Diane Havens and Robert Jadah. This is a clip from the Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning episode. Robert Jadah's narration of Robert Browning's first letter to Elizabeth Barrett.

Robert Browning Letter to Elizabeth narrated by Robert Jadah

An old guitar idea I finally turned into a full song.  Vocals and lyrics by CP Roscoe Martin.  You can find him on Bandlab.  Song and all instrumentation by me.

What's in the Bag

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Ambient track to sit back and dream with.  Trying to evoke that feeling of travelling, exploring and seeing the world.

Going Walkabout

JUNE 2014 - June is Audiobook Month - get this and other audiobooks for 50% off @ www.posthypnoticpress.com 

Profoundly original, bestselling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours.

AUDIOFILE REVIEW: "[Gabor Maté's] nuanced understanding of pleasure seeking and pain avoidance inspires empathy for a wide range of addictions—from cocaine and alcohol to destructive patterns of shopping, eating, and sexual behavior. Along with his authentic-sounding dialogue Daniel Mate’s performance is notable for its emotional resonance with the author’s patients and their journeys. ... His engagement with the author’s writing makes this a moving invitation to the complex world of addictions." T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2011, Nov. 2011

Audio Book: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Gabor Maté

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Since its original landmark publication in 1980, Howard Zinn’s  A People’s History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools–with its emphasis on great men in high places–to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. In this recording you’ll hear from Zinn reading from his introduction to the book, and you’ll hear Matt Damon,  an American actor and Academy Award-winning screenwriter for his work on Good Will Hunting, read passages that span the Summer of 1966, the 1967 Urban Riots in Newark and Detroit, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, to name a few highlights.

Matt Damon reads Howard Zinn

Want to give the children in your life the gift that keeps on giving? Give them the gift of failure. Jessica Lahey, New York Times columnist and Atlantic Magazine contributor tells you how to teach children responsibility, organization, manners, restraint, and foresight. Lahey offers encouragement and targeted advice. It’s easier than you might think!

The Gift of Failure

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"In When the Body Says No," Gabor Maté writes: “People have always understood intuitively that mind and body are not separable. Modernity has brought with it an unfortunate dissociation, a split between what we know with our whole being and what our thinking mind accepts as truth.” The mind and body are not just connected, but inseparably intertwined, and, Maté believes, certain chronic diseases - ALS, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, breast cancer - are at least in part “an expression of an internal disharmony” brought on by the effects of stress.
	The significance of the mind-body connection is not new, but modern medicine has a tendency to split the two. However, in recent years an entire field of research, psychoneuroimmunology, has begun to explore “how the mind. . . profoundly interacts with the body’s nervous system and how both of them, in turn, form an essential link with our immune defenses.” And it is not such a stretch to see the connection between organic disease and “stress,” a relentless pressure that can twist around the immune system’s protective powers into a “suicidal assault”: what Maté calls “a civil war inside the body”. 
	It is how Maté defines stress that is so different from mainstream interpretations as to be practically revolutionary. Probing deeply into the life histories and psyches of many patients he has treated during his years as a palliative care physician, he emerges with nothing short of a revelation. 
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When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, by Gabor Maté

Jan-Werner Müller's "What Is Populism?" - democracy depends on a shared understanding of what democracy is, and an understanding of what isn't democracy.

"Populism is not just antiliberal, it is antidemocratic—the permanent shadow of representative politics. That's Jan-Werner Müller's argument in this brilliant book. There is no better guide to the populist passions of the present."—Ivan Krastev, International New York Times

"The most useful work to comprehend Trump's appeal is What Is Populism? (2016) by Princeton University political scientist Jan-Werner Müller. In this essential [audio] book, Müller defines populism's most salient characteristics—anti-elitism, anti-pluralism, exclusivity—and explains Trump and other populists through that framework. It is a quick read , and worth every page."—The Washington Post

Download the audio book today! http://bit.ly/populism101

Audio Book: What Is Populism?, Jan-Werner Müller, narrated by Simon Vance (1)

David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book is now available in audio! This study of "Whiteness" provides an original examination of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. Roediger argues that white racism cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage. Instead, Roediger argues that white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.

In a new preface, Roediger reflects on the reception, influence, and critical response to The Wages of Whiteness, while Kathleen Cleaver’s insightful introduction hails the importance of a work that has become a classic. The sample offered here is from Cleaver's introduction, narrated by Bahni Turpin. The book is narrated by Patrick Lawlor.

Audiobook: The Wages of Whiteness, David Roediger, intro by Kathleen Cleaver

This parenting classic on one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time--peers replacing parents in the lives of children--is now more relevant than ever. This sample is from the original edition. The latest edition includes new material on how social media and video game culture are affecting our children, and what parents can do, and is available only through our site (www.posthypnoticpress.com).
 
In Hold On to Your Kids, Dr. Neufeld and Dr. Maté explore the phenomenon of peer orientation: the troubling tendency of children and youth to look to their peers for direction--for a sense of right and wrong, for values, identity and codes of behaviour. But peer orientation undermines family cohesion, poisons the school atmosphere, and fosters an aggressively hostile and sexualized youth culture. It provides a powerful explanation for schoolyard bullying and youth violence; it is an escalating trend that has never been adequately described or contested until Hold On to Your Kids. Once understood, it becomes self-evident--as do the solutions.

Daniel Maté’s warm and sensitive narration, gift with dialogue, and engagement with the authors writing make this an enjoyable and informative listen.

Audio Book: Hold On To Your Kids, Gabor Maté & Gordon Neufeld

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Audiobook: The Wages of Whiteness, David Roediger, intro by Kathleen Cleaver

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