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The Drama Mamas follow the rise of the internet age in Halt and Catch Fire.
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Mutiny Community is the officially unofficial podcast for Halt and Catch fire on AMC. Join us each Thursday after the show for a discussion of the episode including our thoughts and listener feedback.
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A podcast talking about the fourth and final season of the AMC show Halt and Catch Fire by a couple of tragic fans. FULL SEASON: https://itunes.apple.com/gh/podcast/talk-and-catch-fire-a-halt-and-catch-fire-podcast/id1273697505?mt=2 Images copyright AMC Networks.
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Wildlife is becoming extinct at an alarming rate and habitats are under strain. What can nature itself teach us about how to heal our planet and support biodiversity? In Unearthed, the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew invites you to explore how plant and fungal knowledge can be harnessed to change our world for the better. Series 3 “Unearthed: Nature needs us”, takes us on a journey from soil to sky, scaling the tangle of nature’s systems and interactions to help us tackle the twin crises of biodiv ...
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What can't we stop thinking about? What are we obsessing over this week? Join writer / filmmaker Christopher Cantwell (co-creator, showrunner, and Exec Producer of HALT AND CATCH FIRE, writer of IRON MAN and DOCTOR DOOM for Marvel Comics) and his wife of 10 years, poet Dr. Elizabeth Cantwell (Nights I Let the Tiger Get You, All The Emergency-Type Structures), as they explore topics ranging from missing persons to the desert to Captain Kirk to the JFK assassination. Point is, there are lots o ...
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We've signed up with fsociety for season two of Mr. Robot, USA Network's neurotic cyber psychothriller. 'Decoding Mr. Robot' will analyze and speculate over every snippet of code leaked from Evil Corp, each dispatch from fsociety, and all the secrets from Allsafe's servers.
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Darkest Night is a binaural audio drama that places you, the listener, at the center of a recovered memory that sounds as though it’s happening around you in real time. Each chapter delves into the last memories of the recently deceased, slowly revealing a horrifying master plan. Who is weaving this master conspiracy, and what is their ultimate goal? Subscribe now to find out, and wear headphones for the best, most terrifying results. Darkest Night is narrated by Lee Pace (The Hobbit Films, ...
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Travel through this week in TV with Consequence's televisual savants: Allison Shoemaker and Clint Worthington; along with a rotating cast of writers, critics, and exciting people. Don't touch that dial! We also do deeper dives into the boob tube with special segments and highlighted discussions.
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How can we regenerate nature successfully?
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In this episode of Unearthed: Nature needs us from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew we ask what it means to regenerate and restore degraded forests and landscapes, and why so many tree-planting projects in the past have failed. Mya-Rose Craig (AKA “Birdgirl”) hears from Kew’s scientists including Dr James Borrell, and Dr Kate Hardwick, who are leadin…
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As well as our beloved bees, pollinators include wasps, moths, hoverflies, butterflies, beetles, bats and birds. There are about 1,500 different insect species helping plants reproduce in the UK alone, and without them our world would be less colourful, less nutritious and less diverse. In this episode of Unearthed: Nature needs us from the Royal B…
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Seeds are the beginnings of life. From the food we can grow today, to the wondrous habitats they can create. They offer us a chance to capture, store and even design the landscapes of the future. In this episode of Unearthed: Nature needs us from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew find out how scientists around the globe are working against the clock t…
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There is still so much to learn about the mysterious realm of soil. From the microscopic organisms essential to life on Earth, to the complex and wonderful associations between plants and fungi, the ground beneath your feet is teeming with life. Dr Mya-Rose Craig explores soil in this episode of Unearthed: Nature needs us from the Royal Botanic Gar…
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Nature needs us! In series 3 of Unearthed, Dr Mya-Rose Craig begins the journey into what biodiversity loss means and why it matters to protect what we have left. We find out what might happen if we continue to ignore the impacts of climate change and habitat destruction in terms of its impacts on our lives, along with future life on the planet. We…
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Wildlife is becoming extinct at an alarming rate and habitats are under strain. What can nature itself teach us about how to heal our planet and support biodiversity? In Unearthed, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew invites you to explore how plant and fungal knowledge can be harnessed to change our world for the better. “Unearthed: Nature needs us”, t…
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To round off this series, we’re heading into our own kitchens and examining how our food choices can make for better health and a better world. Advolly Richmond is joined by plant scientists and top chefs to ask how the food industry can help challenge inequality and imbalances in our food systems, and how we can all make a difference, starting in …
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If you have a window box, veg patch or allotment, how does the way you are growing food change your relationship with it? In this episode of Unearthed, grower and forager Poppy Okocha hears how communities and farmers are producing food around the world, with the environment and changing climates in mind. Food educator, agriculturalist and cook Dee…
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With so many of our favourite foods facing extinction, including bananas, chocolate and coffee, what will be on our kitchen tables in the future? In this episode, James Wong looks at what actions we need to take today, to secure nutritious and disease-resilient food in the future. Hear from artists and designers Sharp and Sour on how they create in…
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This time, Poppy Okocha’s looking at our relationship with growing and producing foods around the world. She meets up with Jeremy Torz, one of the founders of Union Hand Roasted Coffee, to find out how one coffee brand is protecting producers and delicate environments in Ethiopia. Many livelihoods and traditions are being threatened by changing cli…
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“The Red List”: Biodiversity loss and food
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Advolly Richmond is exploring how food production methods and climate change today are exacerbating issues of biodiversity loss. As conditions change and human activity intervenes with environments, entire ecosystems are thrown out of balance, and the consequences for species are dire. We could be losing plants and species science hasn’t even named…
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James Wong takes a look at what you can do at home, versus what big business and supermarket giants are doing to make sure our food choices are transparent and production is fair and sustainable. He speaks with the Former Director at Sainsbury’s and Kew Trustee Judith Batchelar, as well as Anna Taylor of the Food Foundation. Our food habits are exp…
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The food we eat connects us to the wider world; to global history, cultures and traditions. But the practises we’ve ended up with today mean that our systems are failing and many of our favourite foods and farming practises are heading towards extinction. In this first episode, Advolly Richmond explores the history of our relationship with food and…
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Unearthed: Journeys Into The Future Of Food, From The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Coming on Thursday 6th October 2022
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The way we produce and consume food is having a devastating impact on our natural world. How can we avoid disaster, and feed the world well? Unearthed: Journeys into the future of food, from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, explores our contemporary relationship with food: what are we eating? What is it doing to our health and the health of the plan…
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Update Write in! We'll respond...eventually. Keep up with us on our website: TheDramaMamasPodcast.comBy The Drama Mamas
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In which we dive deep into the literary work FRANKENSTEIN and discuss how the Monster may in fact look exactly like Jon Hamm.By Christopher & Elizabeth Cantwell
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A very, VERY deep dive into the celestial oddity that is Captain Jim Kirk as he existed on television from 1966 to 1969. These are our theories as to what he is at his essence, and WHY he is irresistible as a human fascination.By Christopher & Elizabeth Cantwell
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We—meaning the two of us, and perhaps all of us—are repeatedly drawn to the allure of the desert. Why? What mysteries lie out in this most hostile terrain, and are there any answers?By Christopher & Elizabeth Cantwell
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Welcome to our first episode! We've spent the last year plus during the pandemic lockdown obsessing over stuff. Now you can obsess with us. This episode focuses on missing persons, but specifically, a couple of them that are endlessly fascinating to us. Featuring child prodigies who vanished.By Christopher Cantwell
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Dirt on our hands: Overcoming botany’s hidden legacy of inequality
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Dirt on our hands: Overcoming botany’s hidden legacy of inequality In this special episode of Unearthed, professional plant geek, author, and broadcaster James Wong explores the histories of inequality and personal experiences that lie behind a seemingly democratic and wholesome world of plants. From the colonial history of plant collections and ou…
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Welcome to the world of The Oyster. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp and Hellofresh. The Oyster is created by Alex Aldea and Adrienne Schaeffler. This episode was written by Alex Aldea, Adrienne Schaeffler, and Jordan Cobb. Cast: Logan Browning as Hannah Ori Giancarlo Esposito as Luca Devlet Carla Gugino as Christian Keith David as Policeman…
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The Disappearing Forests: Is ecocide a crime?
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Time is running out for the world’s forests, ecosystems and the life they support. The consequences for human life and climate could be catastrophic – unless we take action now. In this episode James Wong speaks to scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to understand how forest loss and timber trafficking presents massive problems for futur…
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Harm or Harmony: How safe are we from the foods we eat?
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4 years ago, 15 year-old Natasha Ednan-Laperouse lost her life to a severe sesame allergy. In this episode, James Wong speaks to Natasha’s parents Tania and Nadim, who worked with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to confirm the plant substance that caused their daughter’s death and on their fight to change the law. We hear from the experts: Professor…
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Zombies, tripping and the everyday normality of fantastic fungi
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In this episode James Wong learns how there’s nothing weirder and more wonderful than the everyday. Hear about the depression trials that have seen sufferers tripping on magic mushrooms, and the zombie fungus that causes ants to explode. Fungi may get a bad press for growing on your shower curtain or fridge, but there’s so much more to this amazing…
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Deep in some of the world’s most hard-to-reach places lies a wealth of plant knowledge that could offer the next life-saving cure. In this episode, James Wong explores how Kew scientists works alongside remote communities on the ground to understand plants’ medicinal properties. And there’s a history lesson in it too, as James learns of the enormou…
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The curry killer: How Kew helped bring a murderer to justice
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Plants have the power to cure – and also kill. In this episode we hear how a spurned woman murdered her lover with just a mysterious plant substance. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was instrumental in the race to identify the material, and how it was used, so to bring the killer to justice. James Wong hears how specialist plant knowledge uncovered …
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Uncovering a multi-million pound smuggling trade
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One wintery morning in 2014, somebody stole a tiny and extremely rare waterlily from the collection at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was never seen again, and they were never caught. James Wong begins his journey into the mysterious world of plants and fungi by looking at the criminal underworld of plant trafficking. Speaking to Border Force, …
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James Wong introduces "Unearthed", launching August 5th 2020. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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