@mariamargaronis.bsky.social
Writing & Radio. Greek geek. Preference for unanswerable questions.
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Our doc with @pirateradiomap.bsky.social just aired on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social—the life and adventures of Leo Sarkisian, intrepid music collector, creator of @voiceofamerica.bsky.social’s Music Time in Africa, proud Armenian, “diplomat.” Catch it online now.
It is actually King Charles’ birthday today too!
14.06.2025 21:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well said David.
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This astonishing thing from @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social stitches together past and present, memory, forgetting and responsibility, through deep investigation and true personal struggle. Listen to the end.
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“I also think that Russia wants to make a deal because in a certain different way – a different way that only I know – they have no choice either.”
What is this “different way” that supposedly only Trump knows? Answers on a postcard please.
Alex, you’ve really made it now!
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Out now! Literary Review's March 2025 issue, featuring
Peter Marshall on the Peasants' War
Jonathan Sumption on free speech
@mariamargaronis.bsky.social on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Owen Matthews on the Baltic
Stephen Smith on Gilbert & George
and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk
“Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.”
“To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace.”
Tacitus quoting Calgacus.
I ❤️ Vermont.
01.03.2025 22:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Feels weirdly like 1914
28.02.2025 18:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is that I trireme that I see before me?
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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”
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More than 300 FAA employees have been dismissed.
17.02.2025 16:45 — 👍 1689 🔁 280 💬 67 📌 34I always listen to the World Service for news in the morning.
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Happy World Radio Day!!
@mariamargaronis.bsky.social and made you a present!
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Tomorrow is #WorldRadioDay, time for your annual paean to the power of community radio from @pirateradiomap.bsky.social and me. Making this was inspiring; hope listening is too. Stutwiniitscw to #Nuxalk Radio; way!
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03.02.2025 09:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Necessary reading.
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A young boy named Milo meets Tock, the watchdog (a large dog with a large clock in his midsection), on the cover of The Phantom Tollbooth paperback.
Rest In Peace, Jules Feiffer. Died just shy of his 96th birthday, but he was still as vital as ever, plugging away on his next book. The way 2025's been going, I'm not surprised we lost our greatest living cartoonist less than a month into it.
21.01.2025 21:54 — 👍 4681 🔁 518 💬 148 📌 77This is my favourite thread here.
21.01.2025 08:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They migrated “illegally” to the United States?
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If you read one thing today…true and therefore bracing. Happy MLK Day, my fellow earthlings.
20.01.2025 08:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There are groups that read it aloud continuously every year but I don’t think they record it.
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www.mobydickbigread.com
A winter delight: the White Whale entire read chapter by chapter by different landlubbers.
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A young Afghan woman goes about her daily life under iron restrictions, sending her thoughts and feelings to producer Monica Whitlock by secret WhatsApp messages. Must listen.
