Alastair Benn
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1 month ago |
engelsbergideas.com | Alastair Benn
A smart dinner party is under way. Six guests arranged around the table are all wearing open-necked shirts, some of them with garish vertical stripes. They are enjoying generous glasses of wine. The dining room is enormous and lined with bare brickwork and minimal fittings, a little abstract art in the corner.
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2 months ago |
audioboom.com | Alastair Benn |David Omand |Paul Lay
Are we living through a golden age of espionage drama? And what do spy stories tell us about the true nature of the secret world? EI's Alastair Benn is joined by David Omand, ex-head of GCHQ, the British government’s world-renowned cyber agency, and author of How Spies Think, Pauline Blistène, an expert on intelligence affairs and spy fiction, and Senior Editor Paul Lay to discuss the enduring popularity and legacy of the spy in fiction.
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2 months ago |
audioboom.com | Alastair Benn |James Marriott |Paul Lay
Is the era of mass literacy over? And what might a post-literate society look like? EI's Alastair Benn is joined by Times columnist James Marriott and Senior Editor Paul Lay to discuss the promise and peril of a culture defined by the audiovisual. Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit. EI Talks... is hosted by Paul Lay and Alastair Benn, and produced by Caitlin Brown. The sound engineer is Gareth Jones.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
engelsbergideas.com | Alastair Benn
It’s a cold winter morning in New York, ‘every artery of the city… snow-packed’. A corduroyed, scraggy young man, guitar in hand, bobs through Greenwich Village. The street is peopled with ‘salesmen in rabbit fur earmuffs hawking gimmicks, chestnut vendors’.
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Jan 14, 2025 |
engelsbergideas.com | Alastair Benn
In 2017, podcasts were still niche. A podcast, Michelle Dean wrote in March of that year, ‘needs to be an accretion of minutiae that satisfies the listener in his or her own obsession. The host and listener are like children counting marbles, things that have little or no value to others but that seem priceless to those engaged in the counting’. She continues: ‘Podcasts have devised new and entertaining ways to keep us informed.
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