Eternal Youth
By Nicholas Barrett
To understand a person you have to know what was happening in the world when they were twenty.
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James Baldwin buries his father
In 1943, James Baldwin buries is father and meets his hero.Music by Timbah Bibliography:Native Son by Richard WrightNotes of a Native Son by James BaldwinTalking at the Gates a Life of James B… -
Lyndon Johnson and the janitor
Did Lyndon Johnson really care about civil rights or was he motivated by party unity and cold political calculation?Music by TimbahBibliography: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro -
Hannah Arendt and the little magician
In 1926 Hannah Arendt says goodbye to the most exciting philosopher in Germany.Music by Timbah. Hosted on Acast. See -
Ayn Rand and the supercommunist
In 1925 Ayn Rand plots her escape from Leningrad while Stalin and Trotsky plot against each other. Music by Timbah Hosted on Acast. See -
Nabokov and the revolution
In 1919, the 20-year-old Vladimir Nabokov has fled from revolutionary Petrograd and decamped to the Crimea where he writes poetry, catalogues butterflies, plays chess and waits for Lenin's Red Army to arrive. Bibliography:Spe… -
Orwell the cop
In 1923, there is no such thing as George Orwell, but a policeman called Eric Blair is collecting stories. Music:Paws by TimbahBibliography:Shooting an Elephant by Geroge OrwellBurmese Days by Ger… -
Freud and the long depression
In 1874 the Austrian economy was on its keens and a young Sigmund Freud met Franz Brentano, "an ideal human being".Written and read by Nicholas BarrettMusic: Paws by TimbahBibliography: The A… -
Nietzsche disappoints his mother
In 1864 Nietzsche went to Bonn, where he tried and failed to study theology.Written and read by Nicholas BarrettMusic: Friends From the Afterlife by Heston Mimms. Hosted …
