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A Book - A Place: Geneva

A Book - A Place: Geneva

Von: Robin Pomeroy
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Part history podcast, part travel guide, always a great story.

A Book - A Place: Geneva takes you to unexpected places in an often city that has a unique place in history.

Frankenstein and comic books were born here. Revolutionaries plotted. An enlightenment superstar had good reason to have houses in and just outside Geneva. And science fiction fans became real scientists at the home of the world's greatest experiment.

Whether you're a visitor, a newcomer, or a long-time resident, this podcast will take you to corners of the city where history was (and is still being) made.Robin Pomeroy 2024 Kunst Reiseliteratur & Erläuterungen Sozialwissenschaften Welt
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  • Have you heard our sister podcast Pick of the Pods?

    Have you heard our sister podcast Pick of the Pods?
    Aug 26 2026
    Hello to all listeners of A Book - A Place: Geneva.

    I know what you are thinking, when is the second season coming? Well I have good news and bad news.

    The bad is, although I would love to make Season 2, and have plenty of books pilling up, I just don’t have the time right now - but never say never.

    The good news is that I have been making another podcast you might like. It’s called Pick of the Pods and featured interviews with the people making some of the best podcasts out there. We have already had podcasts from Bloomberg, Reuters, the Financial Times and Goalhanger - the people who make The Rest Is… podcasts.

    Subscribe to Pick of the Pods wherever you are listening to this and let me know what you think. And as soon as I have some even better news about A Book - A Place, you’ll be the first to know.

    Get Pick of the Pods on any podcast app: https://pod.link/1891273310, watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQu6D1uClH0i-nR9YppCSgzhElMbfPcv7. And get the weekly Pick of the Pods newsletter - a weekly recommendation of the one podcast you should be listening to right now: https://pickofthepods.substack.com/.

    Part book club, part travel guide, part history podcast, A Book - A Place: Geneva takes you to the places behind the stories that made the city.
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    1 Min.
  • Ep. 5 Angels and Demons and CERN

    Ep. 5 Angels and Demons and CERN
    Sep 13 2025
    A scientist at CERN, the research centre that straddles the French and Swiss border, is murdered in grisly and mysterious circumstances, launching a race against the clock to prevent a much bigger crime. As in The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown constructs a pacy thriller that touches on history, theology and God. The book is Angels and Demons.

    As Dan Brown publishes the next installment of the adventures of 'symbologist' Robert Langdon in The Secret of Secrets, this podcast goes back to where the story began - Geneva. The place is CERN.

    In the podcast we meet a young scientist inspired to work at CERN when she read the novel, and discover a book of short stories based on the real science that searches for the secrets of the universe.

    Episode page: https://bit.ly/4n1ByfX

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    Part book club, part travel guide, part history podcast, A Book - A Place: Geneva takes you to the places behind the stories that made the city.
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    1 Std. und 5 Min.
  • Ep. 4 Conrad, Lenin and revolutionary Geneva

    Ep. 4 Conrad, Lenin and revolutionary Geneva
    Aug 29 2025
    Best know for Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad set his spy thriller Under Western Eyes in Geneva, not only because it was a city in which he had lived, but because at that time, in the early 20th century, it was a hotbed of revolutionary Russian emigrés plotting the downfall of the monarchy and the imposition of communism.

    This episode takes you to the Geneva library where Vladimir Lenin studied and wrote, leaving his own annotations in books - including a biography of Jesus, a historical figure that the father of the Russian revolution saw as a social radical.

    For all books and places mentioned in the podcast, visit abookaplace.com

    Part book club, part travel guide, part history podcast, A Book - A Place: Geneva takes you to the places behind the stories that made the city.
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    59 Min.
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