Episode Appearances
This Podcast Will Kill You · Dec 16, 2025
Ep 196 Health Myths: Fact or fiction?
“19th century novelist whose 'Middlemarch' featured character developing typhoid from damp conditions”
Health Myths and Old Wives' TalesWet Hair and Cold Weather IllnessBeta-Carotene and Night Vision
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The New Yorker Radio Hour · Nov 28, 2025
Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster
“19th-century novelist cited by McEwan as exemplar of combining philosophical depth with compelling narrative in works like Middlemarch.”
Speculative fiction and climate change narrativesLiterary fiction's role in understanding modernity and human natureNuclear war scenarios and geopolitical conflict
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