This Week On Entale — 30th October

Exciting news from Entale — we’re crowdfunding! We’re planning to build more features, produce original content and build out an Android app. As a community member you have first access to the round, find out more here.

The Guardian Audio Long Reads: An Inherently Unstable Democracy

This week The Guardian’s Audio Long Reads discusses the paradoxical history behind the development of democracy, and how giving power to the people creates its own political problems. In this chapter, professor and author James Miller explores the roots of democratic idealisation, dating all the way back to the French Revolution.

Listen Here: An Inherently Unstable Democracy (6 mins)

Learning To Adult Slowly: Diversity In Modern Culture

Learning To Adult Slowly is a new show where guests join musician and columnist Professor Green to talk about unspoken topics affecting men today. In this chapter, Scroobius Pip, Jordan Stephens and Alex Holmes chat about discrimination on Grindr and why progressive artists such as Brockhampton are pushing the boundaries of hip-hop.

Listen Here: Diversity In Modern Culture (10 mins)

Metro Book Chat: Liane On The Writing Experience

Liane Moriarty, the author behind the best-selling Big Little Lies novel, joins the Metro Book Chat crew to discuss her latest book, Nine Perfect Strangers. In this chapter, Liane explains the best advice she’s ever been given and lists the biggest inspirations behind her work.

Listen Here: Liane On The Writing Experience (4 mins)