Two teachers from very different cultural backgrounds share their thoughts on the power and impact of words in shaping our identities, beliefs and experiences. Each episode focuses on a different word and through a range of readings, poems and texts the pair explore how these words have had an impact on their thoughts, emotions and actions.
Rama and Tony explore the concept of 'Home' discussing nationalities, Feng Shui, Stoic perspectives, and cultural differences in home ownership.
12 Nov 2024
15. Words That Make Us: Sickness
Season 2, episode 15:
In this episode of the "Words That Make Us" podcast, Rama and Tony discuss the topic of “Sickness”. This promises to be an episode of fun discussions, varied readings of pain and hilarity, and a few statistics to boot! They discuss questions such as: why do men not go to the doctor’s? Can prayer really relieve pain? What poems, depressing and funny alike, have they found for you? And what are some funny stories doctors have told about patients? Also, what would Marcus Aurelius say about sickness if he was alive today?
Men don’t go to the doctor
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1121551/
Dr Gabor Mate on addiction
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23606-what-ails-us
Tulips by Sylvia Plath
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49013/tulips-56d22ab68fdd0
Sick by Shel Silverstein
https://poets.org/poem/sick
Funny stories by doctors:
https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-doctor-patient-stories/
Stoic response to sickness - an AI Marcus Aurelius response
https://www.stoicsimple.com/stoic-advice-on-health-problems-illness-ask-marcus-aurelius/#:~:text=Instead%20of%20dwelling%20on%20your,the%20natural%20order%20of%20things.
On Pain by Gibran Khalil Gibran
https://poets.org/poem/pain-1
Assisted suicide In Germany
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1000135?form=fpf
https://www.dw.com/en/assisted-suicide-germany-weighs-autonomy-and-ethics/a-66111477
In sickness and in health
https://www.structuralheartjournal.org/article/S2474-8706(24)00034-4/fulltext
https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.801752.de/diw_sp1110.pdf
Walking Around by Pablo Neruda
https://allpoetry.com/Walking-Around
If you have any ideas, suggestions or feedback, please send us an email at: wordsthatmakeus@gmail.com
29 Oct 2024
14. Words That Make Us: Cake
In this episode of the "Words That Make Us" podcast, Rama and Tony discuss the topic of “Cake”. Listen to them as they discuss their cake eating and baking preferences all while discussing “Let them eat cake!” and why baking shows became so popular. Would you call the sweet little baked goodness Jaffa cake or biscuits? Why does it matter? And of course, here is some poetry in there for you!
No one said “Let them eat cake”!
https://www.britannica.com/story/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake
Betty Crocker cake mix story
https://cantrell.medium.com/the-myth-of-the-instant-cake-mix-a45aaac8b302
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/something-eggstra/
Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen
https://www.uv.mx/personal/jomartinez/files/2011/08/Chocolate-Cake.pdf
The most difficult cakes to make:
https://www.findcourses.co.uk/inspiration/hobby-fun-leisure-articles/how-to-make-the-worlds-most-difficult-cakes-17573
Simnel cake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simnel_cake
The Jaffa Cake Story
https://www.kerseys.co.uk/jaffa-cakes-cakes-biscuits/#:~:text=During%20the%20court%20battle%20between,recognised%20as%20chocolate%20covered%20cakes.
Cake idioms
https://www.ihpalermo.com/Cake-Biscuit-Idioms
Sister’s cake By Eugene Field
https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/sisters_cake_605
Cake by Roger Mcgough
https://allpoetry.com/poem/14373247-Cake-by-Roger-McGough
If you have any ideas, suggestions or feedback, please send us an email at: wordsthatmakeus@gmail.com
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