Neil McRobert
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8,757 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 14 Aug
Neil McRobert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It the book has gone from being a fantasy in my mind to being a quite astute examination of how society's cope in the fall, you know, but granted it was written in the seventies the first time in ninety nineteen ninety when he expanded it.
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But I think there are things in there that you particularly would find interesting.
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Totally.
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Yeah, you are right.
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So like, you know, a lot of these sophisticated societal things are tested in fiction.
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The flip side of it when it comes to apocalypse and I'm kinda banging my own drum a little bit here, 'cause I I wrote
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a paper on this years ago in another life.
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Where I I really try to get to grips with
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Why we love fictional apocalypse.
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Yeah.
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And the answer I sort of arrived at, and I spent like 7,000 very polysyllabic words to to come to what is actually quite a simple solution.
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I mean, that is the art of academia, right?
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I'm so excited to hear this.
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This is cool.
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I didn't know about this.
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But I came to the idea of this thing that I termed apocalyptic glee.
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Yeah.
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I think towards
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the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Two things happened.
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