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Nudie Reads Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum [S2E28]
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war. Roman wisdom from the year 430, as the Empire was in decline. An influential little book called De Re Militaris was created to encourage ...
21 Apr 20229min
Nudie Reads The Count of Monte Cristo [S2E27]
The Count of Monte Cristo is a 19th century classic of adventure literature by Alexandre Dumas pere. It might as well have been titled "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold" or perhaps "How to escape pr...
17 Apr 202228min
Nudie Reads Whistler's Mother on Whistler's Mother [S2E26]
Whistler's Mother is the famous American portrait by genius artist James Whistler. His mother was an austere religious woman but she adored being painted. And she couldn't resist writing all about it ...
14 Apr 202211min
Nudie Reads Vanity Fair [S2E25]
Vanity Fair was a 19 month serial published by William Makepeace Thackeray from 1848 and has become a classic of English literature, not least for the incredible character of Becky Sharp to the world....
10 Apr 202248min
Nudie Reads Charles V Had A Diet of Worms [S2E24]
Martin Luther liked to run his mouth. He called Pope Leo X the Antichrist. Leo thought Luther was a big fat heretic. At the Diet of Worms in 1521, before Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, Luther defe...
7 Apr 202221min
Nudie Reads Bertha Muzzy aka BM Bower [S2E23]
Bertha Muzzy was a country gal of the American West. She wrote 57 bestsellers and as many hugely popular short stories all about the American West. Never heard of her? She wrote under the gender-neutr...
3 Apr 202240min
Nudie Reads Flying Saucers UFOs [S2E22]
25 July 1947 businessman pilot Kenneth Arnold spots 9 UFOs in Washington State USA and alerts the press. The news report is an error-filled joke but it changes the world and leads to "flying saucers" ...
31 Mar 202212min
Nudie Reads The Brothers Karamazov [S2E21]
Fyodor Dostoevsky's final novel is considered by many his greatest. From Dr Jordan Peterson to Bailey Sarian readers have loved this soap-opera murder mystery, with its deep philosophical themes of fr...
27 Mar 202245min
