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I am a simple guy from Calcutta, India. Just reminiscing the past and collating some thoughts - around varied subjects, that I find intriguing! Radio has always fascinated me, and it's about time I have my own little Radio show! As, I have a lot to share ..just kidding!!
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Join actor Dev Patel for a discussion and Q&A about Lion. The film follows Saroo (Patel), a young man determined to find the home and family he lost at age 5 after getting lost on a train and being taken thousands of miles across India to Calcutta, where he is eventually adopted by an Australian family.
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Australian director Gracie Otto discusses her latest film The Last Impresario. This biographical documentary uncovers the story of Michael White, the playboy who transformed the UK cultural scene in the 1970s with musicals like Oh! Calcutta! and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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This unit will give you an opportunity to think about some of the key concepts and methods of the discipline of Religious Studies. You will meet examples of different forms of religious practice and belief, mostly from Britain and India. This study unit is just one of many that can be found on LearningSpace, part of OpenLearn, a collection of open educational resources from The Open University. Published in ePub 2.0.1 format, some feature such as audio, video and linked PDF are not supported ...
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Join Dave and Elise every week for a buggy-ride of cinematic exploration. A bilingual Montreal native and a Prairies hayseed gravitate to Toronto for the film culture, meet on OK Cupid, and spur on each other's movie-love, culminating in this podcast. Expect in-depth discussion of their old favourites (mostly studio-era Hollywood) and their latest frontiers (courtesy of the TIFF Cinematheque and various Toronto rep houses and festivals). The podcast will be comprised of several potentially n ...
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50 years ago my parents set off on an epic adventure that took them across the globe. In two and half months they covered 19,000 miles and travelled through 16 countries; they flew from Vancouver to Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok, and on to Calcutta. From there they took trains, buses, rickshaws and hitchhiked across India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey. Finally ending their travels in Europe, with stopovers in Greece and Italy, settling down in Switzerland, their final destinat ...
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Go beyond the back pages and join the Telegraph's rugby experts and big name guests as they tackle the game's most interesting trends, themes and talking points. Our unrivalled rugby coverage now available on the move! New episodes out Mondays. Previously on this podcast channel: Brian Moore's Full Contact Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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India Booked is a podcast that uses literature as a lever to bring multiple facets of India alive. A perfect podcast for bibliophiles, trivia junkies and people interested in learning more about India. Every episode focuses on a different theme and takes place via a conversation between the host with celebrated authors. Got feedback or want to feature an author? Write to us at indiabookedpodcast@gmail.com
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From the author who started it all and New Zealand's original podcast authoress, Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine return to Podiobooks.com with Tales from the Archives, a collection of original steampunk short stories set in the world of their award-winning series, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. Featuring voices familiar and new, Pip and Tee invite you to sample the fantastic world of their shadowy organisation that fights for Queen and Empire against the mysterious and unknown. This vol ...
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For this Paramount 1947 Studios Year by Year episode we watch a couple of films by producer/director team of Seton I. Miller and John Farrow: California, starring the belligerent sexual tension of Barbara Stawyck and Ray Milland in a left-leaning fable about the establishment of law and order in the West Coast, and Calcutta, a terrific Alan Ladd/Ga…
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For this MGM 1947 Studios Year by Year episode, we discuss Cynthia, a gentle family melodrama starring a luminous 15-year-old Elizabeth Taylor as an over-protected teenager, and High Wall, a psychiatric film noir with great roles for Robert Taylor and Herbert Marshall as sweaty noir protagonists at cross purposes. Our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto…
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We’re back on the couch for another fresh episode with our dear friend, Ramon Bescansa. As a world renowned golf instructor, life coach, and caddie, Ramon was on the bag for Miles Russell last week in his PGA Tour debut at the Rocket Mortgage in Detroit! So we figured why not sit down to chat about the experience. We also delve into LAB Golf putter…
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After some rocky episodes, our Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view uncovers a couple of gems: Nobody Runs Forever aka The High Commissioner (1968, directed by Ralph Thomas), a spy thriller bursting at the seams with the charms of Rod Taylor and Christopher Plummer, and Hard Contract (1969, the only feature film made by writer-director S. Lee Pogosti…
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We finally recorded the day after a major, and this is easily our best recap of all-time. Pinehurst rules. Bryson rules. The USGA wasn’t the story. A Father’s Day to remember. Perfection. If you like living forever, and you like golf, then you're going to LOVE Live Forever Golf. Enter discount code "LFG20" for 20% off your next order at LiveForever…
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For our June Special Subject we revisit the work of Kenji Mizoguchi, looking at two films from earlier than his best-known (in the West) period: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), about cross-class lovers and what it takes to become a great artist, and The 47 Ronin (1941), based on a true story that became emblematic of samurai values. To…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Straight Down the Middle'ish! Join us as we kick off the new season with former PGA Tour member and voice of the Korn Ferry Tour, James Nitties! From competing with Matt on the Big Break, to grinding through the ranks of the PGA Tour, Nitties has seen a lot in the golf landscape and has the stories to prove it! Grab a bloomin…
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This week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view sees Lilli in two small but crucial roles: Sebastian (1968), starring Dirk Bogarde as a Cold War cryptanalyst of divided political loyalties, and Oedipus Rex (1968), starring Christopher Plummer as Freud's favourite plaything of the gods. We discuss Cold War politics, the Swinging Sixties New Woman, fr…
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On this week's episode, we dive right into the golf scene in Myrtle Beach with The Salty Golfer himself, Wes Loman, and the founder of Grand Strand Brewing, Clayton Burrous. We explore the origin stories of The Salty Golfer, and where things are headed next for this legend of the Grand Strand. We also talk about the upcoming Plunder on Pawley's Isl…
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For this Universal 1946 episode, we chose a B-movie double bill, The Cat Creeps (directed by Erle C. Kenton, best known for Island of Lost Souls) and She-Wolf of London (directed by Jean Yarbrough, Abbott and Costello specialist), hoping for hidden gems. But did we find any? And in the Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, our Powell and Pressbur…
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In this week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, we encounter more Nazis in a couple of movies very loosely based on real WWII incidents: Disney's Miracle of the White Stallions (1963), based on Operation Cowboy (but with the equine eugenics shoved into the subtext), and Operation Crossbow (1965), about the attempt by British Intelligence…
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What a wild week it was in Louisville last week! Catch our recap on the carnage from Kentucky. If you like living forever, and you like golf, then you're going to LOVE Live Forever Golf. Enter discount code "LFG20" for 20% off your next order at LiveForeverGolf.com Straight Down the Middle'ish is brought to you by Live Forever Golf. Check out our F…
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This week we have a whopping big episode for you: Part 2 of our look at Samuel Goldwyn Productions, dealing with the 1940s; and, in our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, brief discussions of three Powell and Pressburgers, kicking off TIFF's May retrospective. For this episode we watched The Little Foxes (directed by William Wyler), The Pride …
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