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Ben Sixsmith

● MY WORK DEMANDS THAT I SPEND a lot of time alone — and my social life is hardly Beau Brummellian — so I listen to a lot of podcasts. A problem with asking for recommendations is that as surely as a Pole recommends pierogi, a 30- to 60-year-old British man recommends podcasts beginning with the words The Rest Is. It’s hardly surprising. The tremendous, largely deserved success of Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook’s The Rest Is History was bound to lead to imitators. One might as well lament the fact that autumn follows summer. I can’t even blame Goalhanger Podcasts, the production company behind The R is H, for the follow-up, The Rest Is Politics. Granted, the name is deadeningly dull marketing. “The rest is history” is a phrase.…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2024

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