Riley's Commie Book Club: Steal as Much as You Can by Nathalie Olah

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4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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This month's CBC features Riley in conversation with Nathalie Olah, the author of 'Steal as Much as You Can: How to win the culture wars in an age of austerity' forthcoming from Repeater Books. It's a work that tackles the supposed “golden age” of the New Labour era and the subsequent lost decade of austerity, exploring the myths and realities of life for young people working in the arts, media and culture industries today. Get the book from the publisher here (available on October 12): https://repeaterbooks.com/product/steal-as-much-as-you-can-how-to-win-the-culture-wars-in-an-age-of-austerity/ Bear in mind that there are many, many more CBC episodes on Patreon, which you can sign up to here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *LIVE SHOW ALERT* Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton this September? That’s right, your favourite podcast lads. Buy a ticket here: http://theworldtransformed.org If you want to buy one of our recent special-edition phone-cops shirt, shoot us an email at trashfuturepodcast[at]gmail[dot]com and we can post it to you. (£20 for non-patrons, £15 for patrons) Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is available here: https://teespring.com/what-if-phone-cops#pid=659&cid=102968&sid=front

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the show within a show that you all know and love, or at least that many of you know and tolerate.
0:21.8	It is another edition of Riley's Cami Book Club. You may have noticed that last month was not on the main
0:28.4	feed. That's because now that book club has been made free due to your many generous patrons,
0:35.3	what we're going to doing is we're releasing it free on just the Patreon
0:39.2	feed. So if you go to the Patreon feed, it's there, it's free, it's for you. But we're releasing
0:44.2	this one on the main feed, A, so we can tell you that, and B, so we can introduce you to our
0:49.7	fabulous guest this month's book club, Natalie Ola, who has written, Steal as Much as You Can,
0:56.6	which is out now on Repeater. Natalie, how you doing? I'm doing well, thanks. How are you?
1:01.3	Well, I'm never quite prepared for another person to be here with Book Club, because usually
1:07.9	it's me sitting with a book for a while trying to make an hours worth of talking
1:11.7	notes.
1:13.1	But I'm here to help you.
1:14.5	Yeah, thank goodness.
1:16.3	It is, it's half the work, everyone, but it still costs the same, which is free.
1:21.9	Anyway, so steal as much as you can, as far as I can tell, is sort of two books. It's 80% explaining
1:32.1	why the UK's cultural spaces are dominated by the upper class, why this is happening
1:38.0	specifically in the post-financial crisis and austerity era, how the ground was laid for this
1:42.9	by the neoliberal project in Blair,
1:45.4	and what aspiring young creatives can do about it, which is kind of the last 20%.
1:49.3	How would you consider this breakdown?
1:52.1	I think that's a fair summary. I sort of wanted to cover off both bases. I think when I set
1:59.5	out to write this, I wanted to
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