Dan Jones - WHAT THE MIDDLE AGES HAS DONE FOR THE MODERN WORLD

Dan Jones - WHAT THE MIDDLE AGES HAS DONE FOR THE MODERN WORLD

Did you know that Edward III’s last parliament invented impeachment? That cancel culture in universities actually began at Oxford and in Paris in the 14th Century? That Edward II’s parties would have made Diddy’s freak-offs look like kindergarten parties by comparison? And then there’s the Magna Carta, which supposedly limited the power of the monarchy and established the principle that everyone, including the king, is subject to the law. In this episode – recorded live at the 2025 conference – bestselling British historian Dan Jones, author of such books as The Plantagenets, The Templars, and Henry V, and host of the podcast This Is History, brings us in riveting fashion into the weirdly prescient now of the Middle Ages. Photo credit: Ray J. Gadd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Louise Dennys: Stories from a Publishing Legend

Louise Dennys: Stories from a Publishing Legend

In this episode of Beyond the Page, host John Burnham Schwartz talks with editor and Canadian publishing titan Louise Dennys about her extraordinary career working side by side with writers including ...

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Aleksandra Crapanzano on Her Dual Passions For Cooking and Writing

Aleksandra Crapanzano on Her Dual Passions For Cooking and Writing

In this episode of Beyond the Page, Anne Taylor Fleming talks with award-winning food writer Aleksandra Crapanzano about her delightful and accessible new cookbook GATEAU: The Surprising Simplicity of...

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Jennifer Egan: There's No Way Out From the Collective Consciousness

Jennifer Egan: There's No Way Out From the Collective Consciousness

Welcome to Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. Over the past 25 years, SVWC has become the gold standard of American literary festivals, bringing together contemporary wri...

21 Marras 202235min

Being American in the World We've Made: Ben Rhodes in Conversation with Ayad Akhtar

Being American in the World We've Made: Ben Rhodes in Conversation with Ayad Akhtar

In this episode of Beyond the Page, BEN RHODES, Barack Obama’s former Deputy National Security Advisor, sits down at the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwri...

21 Loka 202229min

Rebecca Donner on “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days”

Rebecca Donner on “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days”

In this episode of Beyond the Page, host John Burnham Schwartz talks with Rebecca Donner, winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography for “All the Frequent Troubles of our Days...

2 Heinä 202236min

The Last Days of Roger Federer – And Other Endings

The Last Days of Roger Federer – And Other Endings

When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? As our bodies decay, how – and why – do we keep going? In this episode, John Burnham Schwartz sits down with the ever-o...

17 Touko 202237min

Behind the Scenes: Programming the 2022 Sun Valley Writers' Conference

Behind the Scenes: Programming the 2022 Sun Valley Writers' Conference

In this episode of Beyond the Page, we offer something fun and different, a lively conversation between SVWC Literary Director John Burnham Schwartz and Associate Director Anne Taylor Fleming about th...

5 Touko 202242min

Susan Orlean Is a Really Serious Chicken Lady

Susan Orlean Is a Really Serious Chicken Lady

On this episode, John Burnham Schwartz talks with SUSAN ORLEAN, whose New Yorker articles across the last 30 years, along with books such as The Orchard Thief, The Library Book, her biography of the m...

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