Melvyn Bragg examines the effect of Irish politics on the work of the poet W.B. Yeats.
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Yeats and Irish Politics
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How to Fail: Alain De Botton
This week on How To Fail, we are doing something slightly different. I know, I know, we don’t like change, but sometimes IT’S GOOD FOR US. It’s especially good for us when it comes in the form of Alain de Botton, one of the most intelligent, eloquent and thoughtful people on the planet.
And because it’s Alain de Botton, modern philosopher, founder of The School of Life and bestselling authors of life-changing books such as Essays In Love, I decided to allow him a little leeway. Instead of choosing personal failures, Alain wanted to talk about three philosophical ‘failure concepts’ and I’m so glad he did, because it led to one of the most fascinating and enlightening discussions I’ve ever had on the topic.
We discuss the idea that we can be good people and yet fail, and the concept (which I’m forever banging on about) that failure is the norm, and that we should find contentment in the average rather than constantly expecting the exceptional. He also has brilliant insights into why romantic break-ups are not, in and of themselves, tragic, because each relationship teaches you something you need to know, and when the time is right, it is ok to move on. Along the way, I also ask him about X Factor, so fear not, I’m there to pepper his brilliance with my usual lowbrow content, as per.
It was such a delight to meet Alain. An hour in his company left my brain fizzing with new (and reassuring) ideas, and I hope it has the same effect on you.
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Beyond Today: Has Trump revived Islamic State?
President Trump’s order to pull US troops out of northern Syria last week was a little like pushing over a domino: it meant that Turkey could start an offensive against the Syrian Kurds who live in that region and who they see as a terrorist threat; it meant that the Kurds, who have been a crucial ally of the West in the fight against the Islamic State terror group, had to refocus on defending their own people against the Turkish onslaught, and it has plunged an already volatile part of the world into further chaos.
IS thrives on chaos. So, could the increasing unrest in the region allow the group to re-emerge? Quentin Sommerville, the BBC’s Middle East correspondent, joins us to discuss.
Presenter: Tina Daheley Producer: Harriet Noble Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07r3spf
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a16z Podcast: The Politics of Technology
with Tony Blair (@InstituteGC), Scott Kupor (@skupor), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90)
If the current pace of tech change is the 21st-century equivalent of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution — with its tremendous economic growth and lifestyle change — it means that even though it’s fundamentally empowering and enabling, there’s also lots of fears and misconceptions as well. That’s why, argues former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair (who now has an eponymous Institute for Global Change), we need to make sure that the changemakers — i.e., technologists, entrepreneurs, and quite frankly, any company that wields power — are in a structured dialogue with politicians. After all, the politician’s task, observes Blair, is “to be able to articulate to the people those changes and fit them into a policy framework that makes sense”.
The concern is that if politicians don’t understand new technologies, then "they’ll fear it; and if they fear it, they’ll try and stop it" — and that’s how we end up with pessimism and bad policy. Yet bad regulations often come from even the very best of intentions: Take for example the case of Dodd-Frank in the U.S., or more recently, GDPR in Europe — which, ironically (but not surprisingly) served to entrench incumbent and large company inter…
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Tristram Shandy
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne’s comic novel Tristram Shandy.
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Transformation of online payments | Click. by Booking.com
In our seventh episode of the Click. Podcast we explore the potential impact of new payment solutions and technologies on the hospitality industry- featuring insights from Brian Dammeir, Head of Product at Adyen and Morten Larsen, Head of Product Marketing at Booking.com #Clickbybooking
https://click.booking.com/podcasts/2019/04/18/podcast-7-transformation-of-online-payments/
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Jon Day reviews ‘Secret Pigeon Service’ by Gordon Corera · LRB 4 April 2019
There are 290 species of pigeon in the world, but only one has adapted to live in cities. Feral pigeons are synanthropes: they thrive in human environments where they can skim a living off our excess, nesting in the nooks and crannies of tall buildings that mimic the cliff faces on which . . .
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Benedict Evans on where the tech industry is taking us next - AEI
On this episode, Andreessen Horowitz’s Benedict Evans discusses why we respond the way we do to technological change and where the tech industry is taking us next.
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Loose Rounds Season Finale - Live from AUSA 2018 - Nammo
What would the Nammo booth have looked like at a trade show 700 years ago? What does the future of ammunition look like? Listen as Nammo SVP Communication…
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/no/nammo/news/loose-rounds-season-finale-live-from-ausa-2018-337140
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New Nice | Radiolab | WNYC Studios
Brian Hare tells us the story of Dmitri Belyaev, a geneticist and clandestine Darwinian who lived in Stalinist Russia and studied the domestication of the silver fox.
Through generat…
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