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Set in the heady days of 1970's Italy, before the internet shrank the world, 'Italia 77' tells a compelling story of two Lancastrian friends, fresh from the UK, one a failed dental student, the other, an ageing rugby star, who find themselves landed in Rome with the bold intention of taking the Italian sporting scene by storm, but this is far from being a sporting memoir. Join us on a journey of enlightenment, adventure, enduring friendship and discovery on a five-year trail from Rome to Flo ...
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The Sceptic

The Daily Sceptic

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Welcome to The Sceptic, the Daily Sceptic’s weekly podcast. Host Laurie Wastell interviews the authors of some of the website’s most talked about recent pieces. Please subscribe, and remember: question everything; stay sane; live free. Produced by Richard Eldred.
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THE BIBLIO FILE is a podcast about "the book," and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging, long-form conversations with authors, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and many others inside the book trade and out - from writer to reader.
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Interesting Conversations with Interesting People featuring Interviews with Award Winning Authors, Therapists, Relationship/Life Coaches and a wide variety of people with intriguing stories to share. All Podcasts Available @ Website: https://www.authornigelbecklespodcasts.com/ Thanks
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A podcast about architecture, buildings, urban culture and space with Ambrose Gillick, discussing ideas, artefacts and people with scholars, designers, artists, teachers and architects. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts/ iTunes, Youtube Music and Amazon Music. Contact Ambrose on a.gillick@kent.ac.uk i. @ais4architecture x. @AisArchitecture f. @aisforarchitecture
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Race Beyond Borders

The Atlantic Fellows For Racial Equity

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Race Beyond Borders is a podcast by the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity. It exists to raise new questions about race & Blackness across time and beyond geographical divides. Visit www.afremoya.com
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The newest HR podcast. Presented by People in Flow's operations coordinator, Rae Hine with guests Neville Pritchard and Nigel Girling. Special guests have included Dave Ulrich, Owen Ferguson, Andy Friedman, Catherine Llewellyn and Richard Scott; With many more exciting industry leaders in the pipeline! We provide consulting, insight, coaching and facilitation of change innovation of the highest global quality. Reducing stress and energising the workplace is at the very heart of every action ...
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People in Flow

People in Flow

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Presented by People in Flow's operations coordinator, Shannon O'Connor with guests Neville Pritchard and Nigel Girling. Special guests have included Dave Ulrich, Owen Ferguson, Andy Friedman, Catherine Llewellyn and Richard Scott; With many more exciting industry leaders in the pipeline! We provide consulting, insight, coaching and facilitation of change innovation of the highest global quality. Reducing stress and energising the workplace is at the very heart of every action we take. Want t ...
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What's Out There?

Nigel Higgins & Juliette Smith

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Welcome to What's Out There? The podcast channel for Out There Paranormal. Join us as we look into all things spooky, strange, and just plain weird. Take a journey into the world of the unexplained with our eclectic mix of podcasts delivered in a more light-hearted style but still packed with little tidbits of information. We cover stories from haunted places, telling tales of what lurks in the darkness. Walk with us as we go out investigating, and listen as we talk through the many aspects ...
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Wildlife Health Talks

WDA Communications Committee

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This is the podcast of the Wildlife Disease Association (WDA, https://www.wildlifedisease.org). Our host Dr Catharina Vendl chats with wildlife health professionals including researchers, vets, pathologists and more, about the joys and challenges of their job and the emerging issues of wildlife health locally and worldwide. All of our guests have a longstanding affinity with the WDA and a true passion for wildlife in common. So brush up your knowledge of current wildlife issues and One Healt ...
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🌟 Welcome to ”The Outskirts of Faith” Podcast! Launched December 1st, 2023. 🌟 Are you seeking spiritual connection or intrigued by the Christian faith? Whether you’re a seeker, a sceptic, or a devout believer, ”The Outskirts of Faith” extends a warm welcome. Join us on this transformative journey that transcends boundaries, embracing every soul seeking spiritual growth and connection. Join us for captivating conversations where diverse guests open up about their personal and candid journeys ...
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Japan Memo

The International Institute for Strategic Studies

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The Japan Memo is a monthly podcast series that analyses why Japan matters in today’s regional and global geopolitical landscape. In each episode, Robert Ward of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Japan Chair Programme, will bring in strategists, experts and practitioners from around the world to examine how Japan is using its diplomatic, economic and military tools to achieve its strategic goals, and what lessons it offers to other countries. Hosted on Acast. See acast ...
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The AI Show

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The AI Horizon” is a groundbreaking series hosted by Emily Barrett, AI Lead & HPC System Architect for Lenovo, that explores the profound impact of artificial intelligence across diverse sectors. Through captivating conversations with industry pioneers, academic luminaries, and visionary thinkers, this compelling show unravels the infinite possibilities and complexities of AI technology. Emily engages with renowned experts, uncovering untapped career prospects, the critical role of training, ...
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Nigel Broomhall, CEO of Invisible Urban Charging, an EV charging infrastrcuture as a service business operating globally, shares with you what's going on around the world in the EV space. Discover what forms of transport are making the shift to electric drives, from cars to trucks, motorbikes to planes, everything with an internal combustion engine today is about to be transformed. Get insights into new models coming into the market, the best choices for you and your business, and what you s ...
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Eli Marcus is a fiery, renowned dynamic Motivational Speaker and Professional Mentor Coach who, as former CEO of The Seminar Center in NY, worked with some of the all-time great celebs, book authors & speakers including Michael Jackson, Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul), Dr. Richard Carlson (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff), Denis Waitley, Les Brown, Neale Donald Walsch, Ivana Trump, Davy Jones (The Monkees), Dr. Brian Weiss, James Van Praagh, Iyanla Vanzant, Caroline Myss & hundred ...
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20 For 2020 - Powered Up Success Techniques for the new decade Hosts Sandra Beck and Linda Franklin explore new and innovative techniques to successfully manage your business, health and relationships issues. Learning how to turn challenge into opportunity makes a huge difference in both your short term and long term results. Sandra provides the perspective of a single mom with two teenage boys running her own company. Linda with a successful 25 year career on Wall Street shares strategies t ...
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Welcome to episode 17 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Brendan O’Neill, Chief Political Writer at Spiked, on the anniversary of the October 7th pogrom against Israel – and his powerful new book on how the West failed this moral test. Jess Gill, student and political commentator, on how mass …
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Our host Cat Vendl chats with Anastasiia Kovba about all things viral diseases of wildlife in Japan, to be more precise on the island of Hokkaido. Anastasiia is a PhD student, based at the University of Hokkaido in Sapporo. Anastasiia grew up in the Ukraine and did her vet degree there. For her Master’s, she moved to Japan to study HIV. But since h…
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In Episode 126 of A is for Architecture, Gabriel Esquivel, associate professor and director of AI Advanced Research Lab at Texas A&M University, and director of the T4T Lab, speaks about Design Technology and Digital Production: An Architecture Anthology, which he edited, and was published by Routledge in 2023. The book ‘engages and deploys a varie…
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Welcome to episode 16 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Charlotte Gill, journalist, author of the Woke Waste substack and the Daily Sceptic’s newest columnist, on the Labour MPs involved in the Left-wing activist group, Hope Not Hate. Freddie Attenborough, Director of Digi…
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Episode 125 of A is for Architecture is a conversation with historian Dr Jessica Kelly, Reader in Design and Architectural History at London Metropolitan University. We discuss her 2022 book, No More Giants: J.M. Richards, Modernism and The Architectural Review, published by Manchester University Press. It’s an interesting story, one that mirrors t…
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Chris is joined by singer, songwriter and founder member of Dodgy, Nigel Clark in a special live episode recorded at the North of England Centre for Music & Arts in the beautiful Yorkshire town of Marsden. It's a new arts centre on the canalside just next to the Standedge Tunnel. They chat about Nigel's childhood memories of live music, a cracking …
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Welcome to episode 15 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Andrew Doyle, comedian, broadcaster and author of Free Speech and Why It Matters and The New Puritans, on how Labour’s plans for an “Islamophobia” definition could bring a blasphemy law to Britain. Eugyppius, the pseu…
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⁠On Episode 124 of A is for Architecture Graham Haughton and Iain White tell me about their excellent book, Why Plan? Theory for Practitioners, published by Lund Humphries in 2019. On the reason for theory for planning, Graham suggests: ‘ to a certain extent, theories sometimes can make reality. […] you could argue that some of Patsy Healy's work a…
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Have you heard of the upcoming WDA2024 off-country conference from Dec 1-6? In less than 2 months the annual international WDA conference is coming up. It will take place in Australia’s capital, Canberra, from Dec 1-6. Australia! Sounds great, you might think. But that may not be in the budget right now. Fear not! We have you covered. This year’s c…
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Robert Ward hosts Dr Matsuda Takuya, Adjunct Lecturer at Aoyama Gakuin University, Dr Vida Macikenaite, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations of the International University of Japan, and Dr Wrenn Yennie Lindgren, Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Centre for Asian Research at the Norwegian Institute of Internati…
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Welcome to episode 14 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Ava, a 19 year-old charity volunteer from Liverpool, who tells the shocking story of how she was visited at her home by counterterror police – despite them telling her she hadn’t committed a crime – then questioned over her political vie…
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Episode 123 of A is for Architecture is a discussion with Henrik Schoenefeldt, Professor of Sustainable Architecture at the School of Architecture, Design & Planning, University of Kent, about his research into the work and influence of the Scottish physician David Boswell Reid on the environmental design underpinning Barry and Pugin’s Palace of We…
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Welcome to episode 13 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Sarah Phillimore, barrister and gender-critical campaigner, on how the barristers’ regulator is pushing to make lawyers embrace woke ideology; Steven Tucker, regular Daily Sceptic contributor and author of Hitler and …
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In this episode of A is for Architecture, Dell Upton, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, UC Berkeley and Professor and Chair of Art History at UCLA, speaks about his book, American Architecture: A Thematic History, published by Oxford University Press in 2019. To the question, What is American architecture? Dell suggests ‘That is a very long and v…
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Our host Cat Vendl is talking all things Australian wildlife health with wildlife biologist Jane Hall. Jane is the project officer at the Australian Registry of Wildlife Health at Taronga Zoo and a PhD candidate at Griffith University. In her many years with the Registry, she has worked with all creatures big and small, from the tiniest marsupials …
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Welcome to episode 12 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Ben Sixsmith, Online Editor at the Critic and author of the Zone substack, on Keir Starmer’s miserabilist plan to ban smoking outside pubs; Len Shackleton, Professor of Economics at Buckingham University and a fellow at the Institute of …
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The title of this year’s Design History Society Annual Conference is Border Control: Excursion, Incursion and Exclusion and for this episode of A is for Architecture, three of the conference’s convenors, Dr Jessica Kelly, Professor Victoria Kelley and Professor Cat Rossi, took a bit of time to talk about it with me. The conference blurb states: ‘Wh…
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Tune in to Powered Up Talk Radio with Sandra Beck as she sits down with author Nigel Welling to explore the how, when, and why of meditation. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned meditator, this discussion will provide valuable insights on incorporating meditation into your daily life for greater focus, relaxation, and overall well-being.Discove…
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Welcome to episode 11 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Dr. Freddie Attenborough, Communications Officer at the Free Speech Union, on the Labour Government’s chilling social-media crackdown in the wake of the Southport riots; Andy Collingwood, writer and co-host of the Mul…
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Professor Nigel Cross is the podcasts' 120th guest, Emeritus Professor of Design Studies at the Open University, design researcher who played a pivotal role in establishing design as an academic discipline, Editor in Chief of the journal Design Studies between 1984-2017, developing the concept of design thinking along the way. We speak about the se…
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Richard Charkin has held senior posts at many major, and some minor, publishing houses in the U.K. over the past 50 years, including: Harrap, OUP, Pergamon Press, Reed Elsevier, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, and Mensch Publishing. He is former President of The Book Society, the International Publishers Association and the UK Publishers Association. His bo…
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Sue Cameron has known, interviewed and befriended a plethora of Hollywood and Music A Listers. In fact they are so famous, they would belong in an A+ list category if there was one. She has been a daily columnist & TV editor for The Hollywood Reporter, Hamptons & a Cosmo contributor. She is an original founder of Women in Film, an organization of 2…
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Poltergeist meaning.. The word poltergeist comes from the German poltern, 'to make sound, to rumble,' and Geist, 'ghost, spirit.' The term itself translates as 'noisy ghost', 'rumble-ghost', or a 'loud spirit'. One of the tricks a poltergeist is known for is making "knocking" noises, so it will come as no surprise to learn that the word poltergeist…
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This week on WDA's Wildlife Health Talks podcast, host Dr Cat Vendl immerses herself and our listeners in an interview with Dr Helena Costa on her project 'Whale Exhale'. Helena studies the viruses in the blow of humpback whales that visit the coastline of Norway for the annual herring run. A PhD student at Nord University in Bodø, Norway, it's a f…
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Cultural historian Dr Robyne Calvert discusses her recent book, The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art in the 119th episode of A is for Architecture. Published by Yale University Press, the book is a detailed study of The Mackintosh Building, one of the great icons of modern architecture, and its reconstruction, engaging …
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The last time I ran into renowned book scholar Jonathan Rose (at a SHARP conference) he mentioned that he was doing some work on Playboy magazine. ‘Way more women readers than you’d expect!’ he told me. Rose is an accomplished author. His groundbreaking and award-winning book, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, first published in…
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Robert Ward hosts Professor Koga Kei, Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Shiozawa Hideyuki, Senior Program Officer at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and Euan Graham, Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Robert, Kei, Hideyuki and Euan discuss: Japan’s strategic approach to the Pacific Island countries Ch…
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Welcome to this special episode of the Sceptic, with Professor Nigel Biggar. Nigel Biggar is Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and the author of Colonialism: a Moral Reckoning. Nigel recently delivered the second lecture of Modern Dissent, a London lecture series challenging established ideas run b…
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⁠In Episode 117 of A is for Architecture’s landscape architect Richard J Weller, discusses his beautiful book, To the Ends of the Earth: A Grand Tour for the 21st Century, published by Birkhauser this year. The book develops the historical practice of the Grand Tour – ‘an intellectual, cultural undertaking that was sort of a finishing school and an…
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Our host Cat Vendl chats with WDA's own vice president Richard Kock. Richard has lived almost a life time of promoting wildlife health in Africa, Central Asia and the UK. Born in Rhodesia (today's Zimbabwe), Richard worked in Kenya for many years. He has seen the devastating consequences of colonialism to wildlife conservation first hand and has wo…
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Anthony Pierre represents a pioneering effort of a Caribbean musician to establish a sustained island jazz presence in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. That multi-decade journey has resulted, by the 1990s, in the formation of the Caribbean jazz sextet Kalabash, which focused on "using the steel drum as a lead voice in a jazz ensemble, while ex…
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Welcome to episode ten of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Claire Fox, the cross-bench peer and founder of the Academy of Ideas, on the fallout of the Southport attack and the crisis of multicultural Britain; Dr. James Alexander, Professor of Political Science at Bilkent Uni…
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A is for Architecture’s 116th episode features the architect, writer, public speaker, TED-talker and all round polymath, Michael Pawlyn, discussing Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency, which he co-wrote with urbanist, curator and writer, Sarah Ichioka and published with Triarchy Press in 2021. It’s a challenge, what Michael artic…
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Join Sandra Beck and Linda Franklin of Powered Up Talk Radio for an in-depth discussion with Dr. Carol Hughes and Bruce Fredenberger, authors of "Home Will Never Be The Same Again," about the phenomenon of Gray Divorce. As more long-term high-profile cases come to light, many are left wondering about the impact on adult children when their parents …
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In preparation for article/speech that I want to write, I wanted to do a consultation with Dr. Doug McGuff both to check my understanding and to make sure I didn't make too many errors in describing the science behind my latest distinctions: 1. The difference between so called optimal and good results is very small and is likely irrelevant in the l…
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Welcome to episode nine of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Toby Young, Daily Sceptic Editor-in-Chief and the founder of the Free Speech Union, on Labour’s outrageous attack on free speech in universities; Our special guest this week Andrew Montford, Director of Net Zero Wat…
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⁠Episode 115 of A is for Architecture is a conversation with Sofia Singler, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and College Lecturer in Architecture at St John’s College, Cambridge. We discuss parts of her book, The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto, which she published with Lund Hum…
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Tigers, leopards and now one-horned rhinos. Dr Martin Gilbert studies them all. He is a wildlife veterinarian, epidemiologist and Associate Professor of Practice at Cornell University, US. Originally from Scotland, he has investigated infectious diseases and mysterious mass die-offs all over Asia. It was him and his colleagues who discovered that i…
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Welcome to the third and final episode in our "Haunted and Cursed" trilogy. In this episode, we cover the sinister side of cursed objects. Once again, we have gone on an internet deep dive to bring you a selection of strange items, each with a terrible tale to tell. Of course, it's much more exciting if you can see the objects in question, and once…
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Michael Lista is an investigative journalist, essayist and poet who lives in Toronto. I’ve followed his career now for some fifteen years. He’s written true crime for the better part of a decade. His story “The Sting” is being adapted by Adam Perlman, Robert Downey Jr., and Team Downey, into a television series for Apple TV+. We talk here about Mic…
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Welcome to episode eight of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Dr David Livermore, microbiologist and Daily Sceptic regular, on the growing concerns about the Lucy Letby verdict, and how the Daily Sceptic led the world in raising them; Dr Angus Dalgleish, emeritus professor of…
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⁠In Episode 114 of A is for Architecture Jane Rendell, Professor in Critical Spatial Practice at The Bartlett, UCL, discusses some aspects of her recently republished book, The Architecture of Psychoanalysis: Spaces of Transition, which came out with Bloomsbury in the spring. Jane says ‘I think what I'm more interested in is how architecture can al…
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Vaughnette Bigford is the Creole Chanteuse, the island songbird who "has made the local [Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean] songbook the new jazz standard in the Caribbean...the premier jazz song stylist in these islands whose palette knows no boundaries. Tone, beauty, presence: the definition of the New World African." An apt description from…
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Join host Sandra Beck on this inspiring episode of Powered Up Talk Radio as she interviews the remarkable Dr. Leigh Richardson. Dr. Richardson, who achieved her PhD after the age of 50, recently presented her groundbreaking dissertation findings in Budapest. This episode delves into the concept of a "second wind" in life, exploring how it's never t…
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Welcome to episode seven of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Special guest Ross Clark, Spectator columnist and author of Not Zero, on why Ed Miliband’s crusade against oil and gas could put Britain’s economy 6 feet under; Tony Morrison, who writes on US politics for the Dail…
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⁠Episode 113 of A is for Architecture’s is a conversation with Cécile Brisac, founder of Atelier Brisac, a practice based in London and Paris, with a body of work produced since Atelier Brisac's founding in 2019, and previously with Brisac Gonzalez, and that includes the Museum of World Cultures, Gothenburg, Pajol Sports Centre, Paris, the Performi…
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Welcome to this special episode of the Sceptic with Professor Eric Kaufmann, on his new book, Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution. Eric is Head of the Institute of Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham, a member of the advisory board of the Free Speech Union and a senior fellow at Policy Exchange. Host La…
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Our host, Dr Cat Vendl chats with yet another winner of the 2024 BioOne Ambassador awards, Dr Sarah Wright. Sarah studied an aspect of the immune system of South American sea lions. She is based in Illinois in the US and is the Associate Editor for two veterinary journals and the co-host of the podcast Veterinary Vertex. Listen in to Sarah’s story!…
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Robert Ward hosts Richard J Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kotani Ken, Professor at Nihon University in Japan, and Hosaka Sanshiro, Research Fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security and PhD student at the University of Tartu. Robert, Richard, Ken and Sanshi…
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