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Oct 28, 2026

Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
0:01
Part 1 of Karl Marx, an Essay by Harold J. Lasky Carl Marx, an essay, by Harold J. Lasky.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
0:21
London, The Fabian Society, 25 Tothill Street, Westminster, SW 1, and Allen & Unwin Ltd., 40 Museum Street, London, WC 1.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
0:34
One shilling.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
0:36
To H. G.
Alan SistoHOST
7:01
Her name is Susan Dagnall.
Alan SistoHOST
7:03
She was an Oxford graduate working at Allen & Unwin.
Alan SistoHOST
7:06
And I believe there's a letter or two in Tolkien's letters written to her as well.
Alan SistoHOST
7:10
Now, by the winter of 1932, there's a typescript that Lewis had read, though it seems to have stopped shortly before Smaug dies.
Barry EatonGUEST
3:48
It's always fascinated me.
Barry EatonGUEST
3:50
And back in 2011, I published my – well, I had my first book published by a company out here called Allen & Unwin – And then it went off into America and it's finally become a bestseller.
Barry EatonGUEST
4:02
So there's a lot of people out there really interested in what happens after we so-called die.
Barry EatonGUEST
4:08
And I was given messages that we need to take the fear out of death because there's no such thing as death.
Riley KnightHOST
35:35
Maybe it is sometimes, but look, what do you want from me? Bloody 450 hours in the archives, right? 450 hours, that's enough time for you to become a commercial pilot twice.
Riley KnightHOST
35:49
And still have enough time left over for a full playthrough of The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, all right? So, you know, if some of these stories slip through the cracks, what do you want from me? Anyway, anyway, at the end of this whole process, choosing these stories, researching them, making sure that they're in the best shape they could be with the help of my wonderful team at Allen & Unwin, the editors and the proofreaders and the typesetters and the publishing and all of these people, right? Here it is, the most interesting people you've never heard of.
Riley KnightHOST
36:18
Well, that most of you have heard of, that some of you have.
Riley KnightHOST
36:24
I mean, the title's long enough as it is, right? We couldn't cover every contingency.
speaker_2NARRATOR
0:47
Carl Marx, an essay, by Harold J. Lasky.
speaker_2NARRATOR
0:51
London, The Fabian Society, 25 Tothill Street, Westminster, SW 1, and Allen & Unwin Ltd., 40 Museum Street, London, WC 1.
speaker_2NARRATOR
1:04
One shilling.
speaker_2NARRATOR
1:07
To H. G.
Harold PeacockGUEST
54:51
That's Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, and the website historyoutthere.com.
Danny HoylandHOST
54:58
Lovely having you on the program, Harold H. Ha! This is so interesting from Allen & Unwin.
Danny HoylandHOST
55:05
It's Australia's Bush Legends written by Professor Graeme Sewell.
Danny HoylandHOST
55:10
From bushrangers and river pioneers to red dogs and outback eccentric, Graeme has gathered the stories of larger than life characters that capture the spirit and the human-- and the humor of Australia's past.
Graham SealGUEST
59:31
Well, they did, they did find the grave again, but, um, there's a bit of a controversy about whether it was really Lasseter or not.
Graham SealGUEST
59:37
But, um, Bob himself was a great yarn spinner of the Northern Territory and, um, he died and he made no, uh, sort of bones about the fact that he could spin a yarn and whatever, whatever he said should be taken with many, many grains of salt.
Danny HoylandHOST
59:50
Uh, Bush Yarns, Allen & Unwin, who's, uh-- they, um, produced the book.
Danny HoylandHOST
59:56
Uh, it's called Australian Bush Legends and there's a bit of praise for you, Graeme.
Laurie BellHOST
7:40
Yeah.
Veronica StrachanHOST
7:40
So one is the Faber Writing Academy, which is part of Allen & Unwin.
Laurie BellHOST
7:44
Mm-hmm.
Veronica StrachanHOST
7:45
Uh, and each year they award scholarship places, uh, in their prestigious and selective long courses.
Ian LivingstoneGUEST
30:59
And so she was sent away by the Penguin hierarchy and said, "I'm sorry, it's, it's, it's not gonna happen." By this time, Steve and I were really excited by the prospect and had spent quite a lot of time.
Ian LivingstoneGUEST
31:14
So we sent the idea off to Allen & Unwin to, to suggest a you-are-Gandalf synopsis for Lord of the Rings.
Ian LivingstoneGUEST
31:24
And but luckily they sent us a rejection letter, which is just as well, because otherwise we wouldn't have owned the IP.
Tim LongoHOST
31:30
Right.
Adam HawseHOST
30:31
Well, Peter Boll, he's an Australian middle distance runner, Olympic finalist, Commonwealth Games silver medalist, national record holder, and he's now also a children's book author.
Adam HawseHOST
30:40
His book, Yalla Let's Go, it's out now, published by Allen & Unwin, and I'm delighted to say I have Peter on the line with me.
Adam HawseHOST
30:47
Hello, Peter.
Adam HawseHOST
30:47
Great to have you on the show.
Liv DowningGUEST
19:05
And so that's how that came about.
Liv DowningGUEST
19:07
And the second book, so You Belong, the one we're talking about, That came about as a result of an email from Susanna, my publisher at Allen & Unwin, when she was reflecting on the pain in the world.
Liv DowningGUEST
19:19
It was the beginning of a year, a new year, maybe two years ago, and there'd been a couple of wars that were happening.
Liv DowningGUEST
19:26
There were bushfires.

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