Alumni library
Podcasts
Dr Lucy Worsley OBE (History of Art 1997), Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley. Lucy and a crack team of female detectives investigate the crimes of women from the 19th and 20th centuries from a contemporary, feminist perspective.
Listen to Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley now via BBC Sounds | Apple
Evelyn O'Rourke (Biomedical Science 2014), Past Medical History. Current medical student Evelyn talks to doctors about their lives and careers, starting with medical school and how it helped shape their futures. They explore the challenges they face in their careers and offer advice to current students and newly qualified doctors.
Listen to Past Medical History now via Apple | Spotify
Kamilah McInnis (Sociology 2013), If You Don’t Know. Kamilah produces, edits and mixes this podcast, presented by De-Graft Mensah, which brings listeners the Black voices, stories and biggest laughs that aren’t always heard in mainstream news.
Listen to If You Don’t Know now via BBC Sounds | Apple
KickBack – The Global Anticorruption Podcast. Housed in The Centre for the Study of Corruption, this podcast series features guests ranging from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists to former FBI agents.
Listen to KickBack – The Global Anticorruption Podcast now via Apple | Spotify
Linsay McCulloch (Film Studies 2018), What’s Wrong With This Picture. Linsay and her podcast partner Garry Mulholland explore the joy of strange cinema, analysing the best weird and wonderful films of the last century, from Britain to Hollywood, and beyond.
Listen to What's Wrong With This Picture now via Spotify
Persephone Deacon (English and Film Studies 2016) and Erin Emirali (Anthropology and History 2016), Goes Without Saying. This podcast focuses on conversations that are often left unsaid from societal expectations, the politics of TikTok trends and mental health.
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Dr Khaliden Nas (Film Studies 2011), Referential. This podcast focuses on serious conversations about frivolous topics and dives into conversations about identity, representation, Blackness, queerness (and so much more).
Listen to Referential on Apple Podcasts | Spotify
Books
Marina Mahathir (International Relations 1976), The Apple and the Tree: Life as Dr Mahathir's Daughter, Penguin Books. Marina is a Malaysian political activist and writer. Named 2010 UN Person of the Year, she is an AIDS advocacy worker and was President of the Malaysian AIDS Council for 12 years. In this book she details how she navigated her life as the daughter of the man who governed Malaysia for almost twenty-four years and how she struggled at times to find her own identity.
Find out more about The Apple and the Tree: Life as Dr Mahathir's Daughter
Clive Myrie (Law 1982), Everything is Everything, Hodder & Stoughton. In his deeply personal memoir, Clive reflects on how being black has affected his perspective on issues he's encountered in thirty years reporting some of the biggest stories of our time.
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Lindsey Dodd (EURO 1996), Feeling Memory: Remembering Wartime Childhoods in France, Columbia University Press. Historian Lindsey Dodd draws on the recorded oral narratives of a hundred people to examine the variety of experiences children had during World War II. Her book contributes to the understanding of children’s lives in war, and the use of memory in historical and oral history analysis.
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Cariad Lloyd (English 2001), You Are Not Alone, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. In You Are Not Alone, Cariad shares all that she has learned from her award-winning podcast Griefcast. She reflects on her own grief, the grief of others, and the psychology and science behind how our society deals with death and loss.
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Listen to Griefcast now via Apple | Spotify
Sheela Banerjee (AFRAS 1986), What’s in a Name?, Sceptre. Sheela blends history, memoir and politics as she unravels the personal histories of friends and family through their names. And while tracing their heritage across centuries and continents – from west London to British India, and from 1960s Jamaica to pre-Revolutionary Russia – Sheela also tells the story of 20th-century immigration to the UK.
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Lisa Fransson (Russian and Linguistics 1995),The Shape of Guilt, Epoque Press. In her native Swedish, Lisa is an award-winning children’s author. The Shape of Guilt is her first novel in English and explores the story of Robert Bunny, a toy bunny rabbit, as he observes the decline of a family he wants to become a part of.
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Lauren Leigh Kelly (Media Arts and Humanities, Visiting & Exchange 2003),Teaching with Hip Hop, Routledge Education. In her first book, Lauren provides a guide to supporting students’ critical development through popular texts.
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Bobbie Darbyshire (Sociology 1965), The Third Bus, Cinnamon Press. In this later in life coming-of-age story, Bobbie explores the story of Felix Walton who walks out of his 42-year marriage, making the move from London to Norwich in the process.
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Ann Cleeves OBE (English 1973), The Raging Storm, Pan Macmillan. Fierce winds, howling seas and deadly secrets await in the latest Detective Matthew Venn mystery from bestselling author and creator of Vera and Shetland Ann Cleeves..
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Sara Pascoe (English 2001), Weirdo, Fader. In her debut novel, award-winning comedian, writer and actor, Sara Pascoe tells the story of Sophie who gets the chance to create a new ending when Chris re-enters her life after she has just stopped thinking about him.
Mike Jempson (English 1966), No Cure, No pay, Boarding excepted, Masons Madhouses in Old Fishponds, Bristol Radical History Group. Before the NHS those who did not fit ‘the norm’ in society were consigned to workhouses or to private lunatic asylums. In The revealing tale of ‘Mason’s Madhouses’ in the Fishponds area of Bristol explains what life was like in such institutions.
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Dictionary of Corruption, Agenda Publishing. Published by an expert team in the Centre for the Study of Corruption at Sussex, which includes centre director Professor Elizabeth David-Barrett, Professor of Anti-Corruption Practice Robert Barrington and Sussex alumnae Georgia Garrod (MA Corruption and Governance 2020), and Becky Dobson-Phillips (Social Research Methods 2012). The book is a comprehensive resource for students, academics, practitioners and professionals which establishes a common interpretation of the language and terminology in the field of corruption and anti-corruption studies.
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Lena Marie Glaser (Contemporary European Studies 2013), Künstliche Konkurrenz, KI als Jobkiller und Chance, Leykam. In her latest book, Lena discusses Artificial Intelligence in the workplace and what questions we need to ask now.
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Dr Alice Kelly (English 2005), Commemorative Modernisms, Women Writers, Death and the First World War, Edinburgh University Press. Through a series of case studies focusing on nurse narratives, Commemorative Modernisms provides the first sustained study of women’s literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlie British and American literary modernism.
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Ian Gill (Economics 1964), Searching for Billie, Blacksmith Books. Journalist Ian Gill explores his mother’s extraordinary journey: from controversial adoption by an English postmaster in Changsha to popular radio broadcaster in wartime Shanghai, from tragedy in a Japanese internment camp to being decorated by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the United Nations.
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