It's hosted by the wonderful @annalouwalker.bsky.social with help from Jane Wright and @naomijoseph.com and made by the fantastic Eloise Stevens.​ Read more about the first ep here theconversation.com/jane-austens... and here are links to follow wherever you get your podcasts pod.link/1844385976

The team behind this project has been an absolute dream to work with:
🎙️ Senior producer and sound design – Eloise Stevens
🚉 Reporting and production – Jane Wright and @naomijoseph.com
📣 Socials and promotion – Alastair Tibbitt and Alice Mason
🎧 Executive producer – @waresgemma.bsky.social

What did you make of the 2025 #Oscars? At The Conversation we put together comprehensive coverage, so just in case you missed it - here's a quick round-up...

First of all here's what expert criminoligist Rachel Stuart made of the big winner on the night, Anora: theconversation.com/anora-a-refr...

Having researched depictions of Thailand on screen Andrew Russell was disappointed to find that White Lotus, which skewers the rich and highlights the worst tourist behaviour, reduced the country to all its worst stereotypes. theconversation.com/white-lotus-...

Lacking musical talent but want to serenade your intended with a song just for them? AI can help. @uniwestpress.bsky.social Hussein Boon writes about the practice of using song to express our more intimate feelings. theconversation.com/we-have-alwa...

Not a move to assert Denmark's hold on Greenland amid Trump's desire to buy it, @martinsunnqvist.bsky.social writes that the more interesting story behind the new royal coat of arms is that it marks the end of a 400-year-long conflict between Denmark and Sweden. theconversation.com/denmarks-new...

Have you been watching the new series of #severance? While Lumon's procedure isn't exactly real, "split brain" surgeries do exist, according to neuroscientists @rachaelelward.bsky.social and Lauren Ford.

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If one of your resolutions is to read more fiction this year but you're not sure where to start, this list of the best books of 2024, as picked by academics, is full of brilliant reads. @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-ten-best...

Watching Vengeance Most Fowl, @guildhallschool.bsky.social lecturer in voice Jenny Chantelle Tullett was surprised by the continuity of Wallace's voice. Stepping into Peter Sallis's boots, Ben Whitehead, she writes @theconversation.com, puts on a masterclass of vocal mimicry

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When @newcastleuni.bsky.social Gitte Hansen read the English translation of Murakami's new book, she spotted an interesting difference with the original. Japanese has several ways to say "I" while English only one, a small but fascinating issue of translation
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The Eras Tour ends Sunday and if you can't imagine a world without it, expert in social identities and events @annayahprosser.bsky.social and grief expert @katewoody.bsky.social (both Swifties) have great advice to get you through it. @uk.theconversation.com
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Netflix’s Joy: The Birth of IVF moved @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social. Having written about infertility, she found it a welcome depiction of many women’s struggle to get their health taken seriously. She was also happy to see Jane Purdy finally get her dues.

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Dune: Prophecy is full of murder, intrigue, politics and robots. It shows more of the Imperium than barren desert planet Arrakis. While veering at times from Herbert's vision, expert in science fiction @jfennellauthor.bsky.social was hooked @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/dune-prophec...

I finished Minor Detail by Adania Shibli in one sitting. Its striking economy in the first half and the crowded, almost stream of consciousness, which is also pretty pared-back, of the second half, is deeply affecting. The detail, the repetition, the pacing make for a harrowing but powerful read.

Tomorrow's @uk.theconversation.com Something Good is on Wicked and our review by musicals expert Julian Woolford, which references someone I would have never ever have associated with it. I was honestly shocked. To find out who, subscribe here
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Watched the first episode of Wolf Hall? Unwilling to accept her parents' marriage was incestuous, Princess Mary faces the wrath of her father, Henry VIII, with only the help of Cromwell. Tudor scholar Hazel Pierce wants you to know that wasn't really the case theconversation.com/wolf-hall-pr...

@uk.theconversation.com's arts newsletter, Something Good, has hit 10,000 subscribers! It's full of excellent recs from experts. If you want to know what a Tudor historian thinks of Wolf Hall or an expert in the gothic of the new Cure album, subscribe. theconversation.com/uk/newslette...

Robert Smith might say The Cure isn't goth but expert in gothic literature Neil Cocks begs to differ. In this @uk.theconversation.com article, he charts the influence of the aesthetic from their 'unholy trinity' albums to their new release, Songs of a Lost World.
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