Podcasts

Ongoing podcast!  Ex Urbe Ad Astra

Teaming up with my good friend and fellow author & history-lover Jo Walton, we talk with fellow writers, historians, researchers, editors, & other friends about the craft of writing, history, food, gelato, and other topics, with some episodes of just me and Jo having the kinds of intense writing or history discussions we enjoy.

Listen for free on Libsyn, on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, and on YouTube, or support me on Patreon get new episodes early. 

Sample Episode: Speculative Resistance with Malka Older

Ongoing podcast with Fix the News! A Short History of Saving The World

 

Every generation thinks it’s living through the end of the world.
Angus Hervey and historian Ada Palmer explore the moments humanity faced destruction – and the ideas, technologies and unlikely people that helped pull us through. Part conversation, part historical detective work, the series reveals history not as a timeline of collapse, but as an ongoing story of human ingenuity, adaptation, and resilience.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, on Overcast, on Pocket Casts, and many others.
First Episode: How the World Survives Information Revolutions: Fake news, censorship & what history teaches us about echo chambers

Lecture series on censorship through The University of Chicago

“Our filmed public dialogue series brings together scholars of print revolutions past and present with practitioners working on the frontiers of today’s information revolution. These are not formal presentations, but freeform discussions in which experts bounce ideas off each other, discovering rich parallels between our work and sharing them in real time. Filmed from October through November 2018, the eight dialogues bring together historians, editors, novelists, poets, and activists.”

Beforecast: History Deep Dive with Ada Palmer

Upcoming podcast: Beforecast

A podcast about the past that explains the present. In Beforecast, Ada takes the figures we think we know and shows us who they actually were — and why it matters now.

Beforecast with historian Ada Palmer · Season One: The Real Machiavelli
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