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The Delingpod: The James Delingpole Podcast

Miriam Elia

The Delingpod: The James Delingpole Podcast

James Delingpole

Society & Culture

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Miriam Elia is the Royal College of Art trained illustrator and writer of the hilarious Ladybird spoof series which includes We Do Lockdown, We Go To The Gallery and We See The Sights. You can purchase her books, cards, prints and ceramics at Dungbeetlebooks.com. Elia talks to James about her (successful) legal battle with Penguin books, fighting the lockdown, Judaism, the history of Baal worship and much more besides. You're gonna love this one! / / / / / / Support James monthly at: subscribestar.com/jamesdelingpoleSupport James’ Writing at: substack.com/jamesdelingpoleBuy James a Coffee at: buymeacoffee.com/jamesdelingpoleEarn interest on Gold: https://monetary-metals.com/delingpole/

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Delim pod with me, James Delim pod, and I know I always say I'm excited

0:18.6

about this week's special guest, but I really am kind of extra excited about this one,

0:24.5

Miriam, Miriam, normally by the way, I proceed the introduction with a word from our sponsor,

0:32.4

Hunter and Gather. I've been mentioning them at the beginning of every podcast, and what

0:38.9

I hadn't twigged was they only wanted to sponsor me for every other podcast, so I've

0:43.3

been giving them a bit of extra bikes, because I'm so disorganized. Anyway, if anyone

0:47.5

else wants to sponsor me as well, they can, because I'm obviously worth sponsoring, and

0:53.4

this podcast has a huge reach. But anyway, Miriam, Elliot, I'm really excited. I met you.

1:00.8

We met. Hi, Miriam. Hi. We met people not at that pub that we go to after events at the

1:09.4

Emmanuel Centre, and I met you and two of your friends. It was like my Jewish fan club,

1:17.4

wasn't it? You are my Jewish fan club. What are your lovely friends called?

1:24.2

I'm Tanya, but I don't know if she's Jewish, and some is actually Buddhist, but I do know.

1:31.2

So you are, you are basically my Jewish fan club. Yeah.

1:37.0

And we talked, so we talked about all these weird, amazing, esoteric things,

1:43.7

which were just right up my alley, and I think actually it can be right up the alley of 99.9%

1:50.3

of the people who follow the delying pod. But you are a woman of many parts,

1:57.9

because before we go on the really crazy shit stuff that you're into, I wanted to give a plug

2:06.6

to these wonderful books that you produced, which are kind of part of the ladybird. Nothing to do

2:17.1

with ladybird, but they're called dung beetle books. So dung beetle is a completely different

2:23.0

concept to ladybird, so there's no connection. But there was that other series, wasn't there,

2:28.8

where they bought up the rights of the ladybird pictures and recaptioned them.

2:34.8

They basically, you've got to, you've got to, and then try to suppress the, so the first book that

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