Novara Media

Oct 30 2024 500 ep. 64 mins 8.1k

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Novara FM: How Do We Liberate People From Bad Ideas? w/ adrienne maree brown

Oct 30 2024 59 mins

The left needs more people. Our progressive movements have to grow if we want to win, but the recent tendency towards cancel culture has not broadened our appeal – and nor has the contrarian response on the 'dirtbag left'. In adrienne maree brown's new book, Loving Corrections, one of America's most energetic progressive thinkers poses a crucial conundrum: how do we liberate peo

36: Should Being a Girlboss Earn Me a Break From Cleaning?

Oct 27 2024 54 mins

Ash and Moya wonder why women still shoulder the burden of housework, even when they're #leaningin to their careers. Plus, a listener who doesn't know how to deal with his cheating ex-partner. Email your missed connections and dilemmas to [email protected] Music by Matt Huxley.

Novara FM: The Age of Disaster Nationalism w/ Richard Seymour

Oct 23 2024 94 mins

Around the world, far-right movements are mobilising support by placing the blame for real catastrophes – Covid-19, the war in Ukraine, their own riots and insurrections – on entirely made-up enemies, among them Muslims, immigrants and feminists. This is what Richard Seymour, a writer, theorist and founding editor of Salvage magazine, calls 'disaster nationalism'. He joins Ri

Downstream: Insects Are Disappearing and We Should Be Very Worried w/ Dave Goulson

Oct 22 2024 110 mins

From pollinating crops to managing organic waste on a continental scale, insects are vital to life on Earth. They are also disappearing. Dave Goulson is an entomologist and ecologist whose books communicate the majesty of insects and arthropods – along with a grave warning about their demise. He talks to Aaron to Bastani talk about the critical lack of scientific expertise in g

35: Help! My scatty friends can't meet my standards

Oct 21 2024 60 mins

Are you a Black Cat? Or a #cleangirl? Do you have Main Character Energy? Moya has a big theory about the urge to give ourselves new labels. Plus, a listener hates that her friends and family can't meet her high standards. Email your missed connections and dilemmas to [email protected] Music by Matt Huxley.

Novara FM: Understanding Hezbollah, Israel's 'Best Enemy' w/ Elia Ayoub

Oct 17 2024 79 mins

What does Israel hope to achieve this time, nearly 20 years after its last failed ground offensive in Lebanon? And how should we understand its adversary, a political party that also functions as a fighting force, a historical movement, and a regional power? Richard Hames is joined by Elia Ayoub, a Lebanese-Palestinian researcher and writer based in the UK, to sketch the political

34: How mean can you be to other people's kids?

Oct 14 2024 64 mins

Ash and Moya channel their inner Clint Eastwoods to lament the rise of trick or treating and consider how to interact with other people’s children. Plus, a listener dealing with confusing feelings after a difficult abortion. Email your missed connections and dilemmas to [email protected] Music by Matt Huxley.

ACFM Trip 46: Death

Oct 11 2024 111 mins

Of all the unseen forces that shape human society, could death be the most powerful? The ACFM crew take a leftwing look at mortality in this Trip, asking how capitalism has altered our approach to the inevitable. Jem, Nadia and Keir discuss how industrialised workers were taught to prepare for death, why powerful men are obsessed with their legacies, why we failed to ritualise or

Novara FM: When Does a Crowd Become a Mob? w/ Dan Hancox

Oct 10 2024 75 mins

The English language is full of pejoratives for large groups of people: mob mentality. Herd behaviour. Crowd contagion. Much of this apprehension stems from one of the most influential works of psychology ever written, Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. Unfortunately, Le Bon’s big idea – that crowds produce derangement and violence in even the most rati

33: What makes you embarrassed to be leftwing?

Oct 07 2024 51 mins

Moya and Ash turn the weapon on themselves with a Mystery Question about the lows of being on the left – haters and losers, pyrrhic victories, strategic balls-ups and the rest. Plus, a listener who's falling out of love just as their partner needs support. Email your missed connections and dilemmas to [email protected] Music by Matt Huxley.