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DARK SECRETS: Dorian lynskey - The Real Truth

Review: A Thorough Account of Socialism's History

On Origin Story, podcasters Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt cover everything from Karl Marx to the British Labour Party.

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The Danish drama is piercing in its ordinariness. In the real world, the climate crisis worsens and authoritarians take charge as we calmly look away, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Listen closely to the Kneecap furore. You’ll hear hypocrisy from all sides

The band’s rightwing critics are now cancel culture advocates, while defenders demand limitless free speech, says writer and podcaster Dorian Lynskey

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The week in audio: Origin Story: Russell Brand – Confidence Man; Lost Notes: Groupies; The Lion, the Witch and the Wonder – review

Brand’s strange journey from darling of the left to cancelled crank makes for an informed podcast, while a power imbalance impairs rock groupies’ tales. Plus, writer Katherine Rundell on the power of children’s fiction

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Everything Must Go by Dorian Lynskey review – why is it always apocalypse now?

This entertaining study of our obsession with Armageddon and its energising impact on the arts shows that every generation believes it will witness the world’s end

The Guardian - UK

Everything Must Go by Dorian Lynskey review – apocalypse now

A history of our obsession with the end of days – and the culture it has inspired

The Guardian - UK

Five Great Reads: shifting ground in North Korea, heartbreak advice from a centenarian and is Nick Cave conservative?

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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Kanye West has shown us exactly who he is – and yet the public are still listening

Despite his antisemitic rants, the rapper now known as Ye is finishing the year in Spotify UK’s top five most-streamed artists, says podcaster and author Dorian Lynskey

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The week in audio: Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Game; Origin Story; Operation Morning Light; The Feud – review

There’s lots to learn on this week’s best podcasts, from the meaning of Grand Theft Auto and Ayn Rand to the trouble with Christ Church College, Oxford

The Guardian - UK

RIP the iPod. I resisted you at first, but for 20 years, you were my musical life

It held my favourite mainstream tracks – and the obscure ones. But it couldn’t hold off the march of time, and Spotify, says freelance writer Dorian Lynskey

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