word nerd
By Fathima Kinza
This one's for the uncommons and the old fashioned romantics. As much for the activists and the mystics, as it is for the nerds – lovers of language, poetry and prose, in literature and in film. Welcome to word nerd! Here we sink our teeth into the delicious words that make our world.
New episodes are released on Sundays
Intro and outro music: Vitamin String Quartet
New episodes are released on Sundays
Intro and outro music: Vitamin String Quartet
word nerdDec 03, 2023
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S2E11 Nothing Lost Is Ordinary
“..but to me my home was my soul” —Nashwa Rezeq, lived in al-Zahra, Gaza
Dec 03, 202305:47
S2E10 Intifada ..In The Mind
“They’re afraid of every loud sound and of darkness ” –Amani, 47 years old mother, Gaza city
Oct 22, 202307:15
S2E09 Purple, Not Black
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?” – Satchel Paige
Oct 01, 202303:18
S2E08 Cat Talk
Appeler un chat un chat.. to call a cat a cat!
Sep 17, 202305:09
S2E07 Sorrow For The Soul
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars; The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Aug 06, 202304:39
S2E06 Do Not Go
“Even if I now saw you
only once,
I would long for you
through worlds,
worlds.”
― Izumi Shikibu
only once,
I would long for you
through worlds,
worlds.”
― Izumi Shikibu
Jul 16, 202303:49
S2E05 Back To School – To Unlearn & Relearn
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
Jul 09, 202303:40
S2E04 At The Heart of Medicine
Where the science of medicine meets the art of it
Jul 03, 202305:28
S2E03 Putting Down Roots
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
― Robert Louis Stevenson
Jun 25, 202307:26
S2E02 The Courage To Be Kind? Yes Please
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. –Emily Dickinson
Nov 13, 202203:35
S2E01 To All Of Me & All Of You
“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.”
― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Nov 06, 202202:51
S1E14 Of Mullahs & Mirth!
Because laughter is the best remedy for any malady
Nov 05, 202204:43
S1E13 For The Bravehearts
There's STILL an apartheid in Palestine, Kashmiris are STILL in lockdown, Yemen is STILL starving, Syrian children STILL have PTSD, people are STILL trafficked in Libya, Afghans are STILL being persecuted, Malians are STILL malnourished, Venezuelans are STILL fleeing their homeland, Iraqis STILL live in fear, the Palestinians and the Lebanese are STILL being robbed of their future, Ethiopians are STILL dying from hunger, the Uyghur genocide is real and STILL ongoing ..and that's not the last of it, while our world leaders are STILL greedy. Can you fathom what it’s like to be subjected to such man-made terror?
Nov 05, 202205:43
S1E12 This Is Life
“Let everything happen to you,
beauty and terror”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
beauty and terror”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Nov 05, 202204:08
S1E11 Love Is In The Fair
Find out how to concoct a wicked love potion!
Mar 20, 202104:34
S1E10 Take Heart
Dil badast awar ke Hajj e akbar ast,
Az hazaaran Ka’ba ek dil behtar ast
—
The greater Hajj is finding your heart,
Better than a thousand Ka’bas is a heart
Az hazaaran Ka’ba ek dil behtar ast
—
The greater Hajj is finding your heart,
Better than a thousand Ka’bas is a heart
Feb 20, 202105:06
S1E09 Dear Listener
podcast like parchment 💕
Jan 23, 202103:45
S1E08 AID-ed
It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. – Elizabeth Taylor
Nov 28, 202007:32
S1E07 A Star Trek
The ordinary (and the tomfoolery) behind an otherworldly genius🤩, & how to leave the planet!
Nov 15, 202012:24
S1E06 A Little Dream
Chinna chinna aasai ..choti si asha
Oct 31, 202003:51
S1E05 Of Wistful Glances & Moonshine
Why does the Moon take cover behind the clouds so?
Oct 17, 202004:11
S1E04 Thou Art Our Need, Beloved
Because divinity demands devotion...
Oct 03, 202005:21
S1E03 When Memories Turn To Wisps
What's it like to take on life one blank space at a time?
Sep 19, 202006:33
S1E02 My Beautiful
A most endearing declaration of innocent love, amidst the Yorkshire moors! Hop on to find out
Sep 05, 202003:28
S1E01 Over The Rainbow
Join me on a trip over the rainbow and thereon to delightful Neverland 💛
Aug 24, 202003:09