Category: podcast
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380 Dean Jobb: Casting a light on a serial killer from the Victorian era
in podcastAbout Dean Jobb Dean Jobb is an award-winning author and journalist and a professor at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program. He specializes in true crime stories. You can find Dean Jobb on Twitter. The Case of the Murderous…
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379 Kate Moore: How a woman dared to have her own thoughts
in podcastAbout Kate Moore Kate Moore is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Radium Girls, which won the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Best History, was voted U.S. librarians’ favourite nonfiction book of 2017, and was named a Notable Nonfiction Book of 2018 by the American Library Association. A British writer…
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378 Hans Greimel: Carlos Ghosn and news from the auto world
in podcastAbout Hans Greimel Asia Editor, based in Tokyo, overseeing coverage from Japan, China and South Korea for Automotive News. You can follow Hans on Twitter. Collision Course: Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars That Upended an Auto Empire In Japan it’s called the “Ghosn Shock”—the stunning arrest of Carlos Ghosn, the jet-setting CEO who saved…
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377 Laurence Bergreen: The Beginning of the British Empire
in podcastAbout Laurence Bergreen Laurence Bergreen is an award-winning biographer, historian, and chronicler of exploration. His books have been translated into over 25 languages worldwide. In May 2017, Roaring Brook Press, a division of Macmillan, published his first Young Adult book, Magellan: Over the Edge of the World, an adaptation of his international bestseller. His most…
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376 Kathy Reichs: Forensic Anthropologists, Novelist and TV Producer
in podcastAbout Kathy Reichs Kathy Reichs is a crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic. She is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; as of 2016 she is on indefinite leave. She is also affiliated with the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec.…
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375 Egill Bjarnason: How Iceland Changed the World
in podcastAbout Egill Bjarnason Egill Bjarnason is an Icelandic journalist, based in Reykjavík. His work has appeared in New York Times, National Geographic, Associated Press, Al Jazeera Online, AJ+, Lonely Planet and Hakai Magazine. As a Fulbright Foreign Student grantee, he earned a Master’s degree in social documentation at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where…