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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For the latest episode of The Orwellians, I spoke to @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social about Orwell and Tolkien's near-contemporaneous visions of tyranny. DJ Taylor's latest book is "The King Under the Mountain: In Search of JRR Tolkien. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf6z...

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D.J. Taylor - Tolkien and Orwell, Two Visions of Tyranny

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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For the latest episode of The Orwellians podcast, I spoke to @jobywarrick.bsky.social about his new book "The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist" www.youtube.com/watch?v=43xE...

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Joby Warrick - The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist

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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For the latest episode of the Orwellians, I spoke to Victor Sebestyen about his magnificent new history, Weimar Germany: Death of a Democracy www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJW3...

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Victor Sebestyen - Weimar Germany: Death of a Democracy

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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For the latest episode of the Orwellians, I spoke to Victor Sebestyen about his magnificent new history, Weimar Germany: Death of a Democracy www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJW3...

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Victor Sebestyen - Weimar Germany: Death of a Democracy

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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

For the latest ep. of the podcast, I spoke to @drichterova.bsky.social about her book "Watching the Jackals". It's about communist Czechoslovakia's anxious dealings with unpredictable Palestinian militants. Full-on Cold War spy feels from behind the Iron Curtain! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Allt...

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Daniela Richterova - Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists

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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

For the latest episode of The Orwellians, I spoke to Marc Bennetts about his new book, The Descent: Witnessing Russia's Spiral Into Madness Under Putin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zThp...

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Marc Bennetts - The Descent: Witnessing Russia's Spiral Into Madness Under Putin

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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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Daniela Richterova - Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists

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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

For the latest episode of The Orwellians podcast, I spoke to @drichterova.bsky.social @kcsi.uk about her book Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Allt...

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Daniela Richterova - Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists

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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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Daniela Richterova - Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists

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Howard Amos @howardamos.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Enjoyed going on the Orwellians podcast to to talk to @rolandebrown.bsky.social about Russia Starts Here. You can listen on Apple (podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/h...) or watch on YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=HXEP...)

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Howard Amos - Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire

Podcast Episode · The Orwellians · June 4 · 1h 15m

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Lucy Ash @lucyaash.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I spoke with @rolandebrown.bsky.social about why Putin insists Ukraine belongs to Russia’s so-called “spiritual space,” and why his pliant Patriarch,Kirill, blames the war on European gay pride parades preaching that Russians killed fighting for “Holy Rus” are going to heaven. youtu.be/DYNaLOM-Wfs

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Lucy Ash - The Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church From Pagans to Putin

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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

For the latest episode of The Orwellians, I spoke to Marc Bennetts about his new book, The Descent: Witnessing Russia's Spiral Into Madness Under Putin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zThp...

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Marc Bennetts - The Descent: Witnessing Russia's Spiral Into Madness Under Putin

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University of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

In a new interview, author Filip Kovacevic of KGB Literati reveals how Soviet spies turned storytellers to spread propaganda & recruit the next generation of agents. Watch the podcast, here: bit.ly/475YZic #LiteraryStudies #RussianLiterature @chekistmonitor.bsky.social @rolandebrown.bsky.social

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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

My interview with Lena Wolf, the London-based author of the graphic novel, May the Universe Be Your Home: Growing Up German in Kazakhstan. The book tells the story of a family of Soviet Germans cruelly exiled from Ukraine to Kazakhstan by Stalin in 1941. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XcH...

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Lena Wolf - May the Universe Be Your Home

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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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Lena Wolf - May the Universe Be Your Home

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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

"They know Putin’s invocation of ancient Russian greatness was always baloney, a cover for survival instincts that kicked in at the first sight of real democracy in Ukraine." observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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The journalists enlisted in Putin’s information war

Two exiled reporters reveal how their former colleagues became the president’s willing propagandists

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Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

“The spooky corners of genre fiction have long proved meeting places of Anglo-American culture,” writes @rolandebrown.bsky.social. “The gothic connection is hardly surprising. Britain and America are bound not only by kinship, but in collective death and bloodshed.” newlinesmag.com/argument/bat...

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Batman vs. the British Empire (or, The Alfred Mystique)

From Batman’s reliance on his English butler Alfred to Gotham City’s origin in a legend from medieval Nottinghamshire, the Batman mythos offers a window into the bloody, gothic substrate of the Anglo-...

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Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The Batman mythos offers a window into the bloody, gothic substrate of the Anglo-American relationship and the American appetite for British advice and encouragement. @rolandebrown.bsky.social plumbs the depths in this highly original @newlinesmag.bsky.social essay. newlinesmag.com/argument/bat...

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