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Podcasts
Dr Lucy Worsley OBE (History of Art 1997), Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley. Lucy and a crack team of female detectives investigate the crimes of women from the 19th and 20th centuries from a contemporary, feminist perspective.
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Evelyn O'Rourke (Biomedical Science 2014), Past Medical History. Current medical student Evelyn talks to doctors about their lives and careers, starting with medical school and how it helped shape their futures. They explore the challenges they face in their careers and offer advice to current students and newly qualified doctors.
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Kamilah McInnis (Sociology 2013), If You Don’t Know. Kamilah produces, edits and mixes this podcast, presented by De-Graft Mensah, which brings listeners the Black voices, stories and biggest laughs that aren’t always heard in mainstream news.
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KickBack – The Global Anticorruption Podcast. Housed in The Centre for the Study of Corruption, this podcast series features guests ranging from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists to former FBI agents.
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Linsay McCulloch (Film Studies 2018), What’s Wrong With This Picture. Linsay and her podcast partner Garry Mulholland explore the joy of strange cinema, analysing the best weird and wonderful films of the last century, from Britain to Hollywood, and beyond.
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Persephone Deacon (English and Film Studies 2016) and Erin Emirali (Anthropology and History 2016), Goes Without Saying. This podcast focuses on conversations that are often left unsaid from societal expectations, the politics of TikTok trends and mental health.
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Dr Khaliden Nas (Film Studies 2011), Referential. This podcast focuses on serious conversations about frivolous topics and dives into conversations about identity, representation, Blackness, queerness (and so much more).
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Books
Marina Mahathir (International Relations 1976), The Apple and the Tree: Life as Dr Mahathir's Daughter, Penguin Books. Marina is a Malaysian political activist and writer. Named 2010 UN Person of the Year, she is an AIDS advocacy worker and was President of the Malaysian AIDS Council for 12 years. In this book she details how she navigated her life as the daughter of the man who governed Malaysia for almost twenty-four years and how she struggled at times to find her own identity.
Clive Myrie (Law 1982), Everything is Everything, Hodder & Stoughton. In his deeply personal memoir, Clive reflects on how being black has affected his perspective on issues he's encountered in thirty years reporting some of the biggest stories of our time.
Lindsey Dodd (EURO 1996), Feeling Memory: Remembering Wartime Childhoods in France, Columbia University Press. Historian Lindsey Dodd draws on the recorded oral narratives of a hundred people to examine the variety of experiences children had during World War II. Her book contributes to the understanding of children’s lives in war, and the use of memory in historical and oral history analysis.
Cariad Lloyd (English 2001), You Are Not Alone, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. In You Are Not Alone, Cariad shares all that she has learned from her award-winning podcast Griefcast. She reflects on her own grief, the grief of others, and the psychology and science behind how our society deals with death and loss.
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Sheela Banerjee (AFRAS 1986), What’s in a Name?, Sceptre. Sheela blends history, memoir and politics as she unravels the personal histories of friends and family through their names. And while tracing their heritage across centuries and continents – from west London to British India, and from 1960s Jamaica to pre-Revolutionary Russia – Sheela also tells the story of 20th-century immigration to the UK.
Lisa Fransson (Russian and Linguistics 1995),The Shape of Guilt, Epoque Press. In her native Swedish, Lisa is an award-winning children’s author. The Shape of Guilt is her first novel in English and explores the story of Robert Bunny, a toy bunny rabbit, as he observes the decline of a family he wants to become a part of.
Ann Cleeves OBE (English 1973), The Raging Storm, Pan Macmillan. Fierce winds, howling seas and deadly secrets await in the latest Detective Matthew Venn mystery from bestselling author and creator of Vera and Shetland Ann Cleeves.
Sara Pascoe (English 2001), Weirdo, Fader. In her debut novel, award-winning comedian, writer and actor, Sara Pascoe tells the story of Sophie who gets the chance to create a new ending when Chris re-enters her life after she has just stopped thinking about him.
Dictionary of Corruption, Agenda Publishing. Published by an expert team in the Centre for the Study of Corruption at Sussex, which includes centre director Professor Elizabeth David-Barrett, Professor of Anti-Corruption Practice Robert Barrington and Sussex alumnae Georgia Garrod (MA Corruption and Governance 2020), and Becky Dobson-Phillips (Social Research Methods 2012). The book is a comprehensive resource for students, academics, practitioners and professionals which establishes a common interpretation of the language and terminology in the field of corruption and anti-corruption studies.
Lena Marie Glaser (Contemporary European Studies 2013), Künstliche Konkurrenz, KI als Jobkiller und Chance, Leykam. In her latest book, Lena discusses Artificial Intelligence in the workplace and what questions we need to ask now.
Mousumi Kanjilal (English 1993), The Inclusion Journey, Kogan Page. Mousumi is Co-Creator at Watch This Sp_ce, a multi-award-winning diversity and inclusion company. Watch This Sp_ce’s first book explains how to identify the actions that will make real impact, implement meaningful change, track and report on progress and build diversity and inclusion strategies that result in long-term growth.
Adele Walton (International Development 2017), Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World, Trapeze. After losing her sister to online harms, journalist Adele realised that our current digital world is failing us. Logging Off is a call for a radical reclamation of our digital world, for a more humane future that empowers us all.
Dr Camila Stockholm (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery 2010), What Your Doctor Eats, Ebury. In this book Dr Camila chronicles her personal health challenges as a general practitioner and how her quest for better health led her to recognise the impact that dietary choices have on overall wellbeing. What Your Doctor Eats distils the insights she gained, offering practical insights into healthier living.
Catherine Mayer (English 1978), TIME/LIFE, Renard Press. In this love letter to science fiction, Catherine tells the story of journalist Dorey Silver, who is catapulted into the future by Elo Ó hAllmhuráin, a world-famous tech magnate, when he demonstrates a time machine onstage at a Las Vegas convention. Stranded and desperate to get home to her dying partner, Dory is forced to re-examine the past.
Ross Montgomery (English and Film Studies 2005), I Am Rebel, Walker Books. Named as Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year, I Am Rebel tells the story of canine hero Rebel who embarks on a quest to save his master Tom who has gone to war.
Professor Dave Goulson, Insectarium, Bonnier Books UK. In Dave Goulson’s latest book he takes the reader on a tour of about 200 of the world’s most fabulous insects, with illustrations by Emily Carter.
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