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1001 Best of Jack London

Host Jon Hagadorn

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No other writer of adventure short stories and novels was as successful and as prolific as Jack London. He lived the life he wrote about, and his stories cover every corner of the globe. His characters are based upon people he knew and encountered throughout his active young life. His characters consist of all colors and creeds, ages and abilities, educations and backgrounds- but they generally have two things in common: the will to survive and thrive, and the inner toughness required to get ...
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Expand your horizons with this collection of hand-picked classic short stories and tales by writers like Jack London, Guy de Maupassant, Edith Wharton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Hans Christian Anderson, Ambrose Bierce, and many others. These fast-paced stories and captivating tales are chosen for their unique flavor, are suitable for all ages and tastes, and provide a window to a time when writers knew how to tell great stories using descriptive w ...
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Macabre London

Macabre London Podcast

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Do you like your history haunted? Then Macabre London is the podcast for you. Every fortnight we'll unravel a tale that's gruesome, horrifying or downright macabre. Get bonus content on Patreon (https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/806851) Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Known mainly for his tales of adventure, this work of science fiction by Jack London is set in a post-apocalyptic future. It’s 2072, sixty years after the scarlet plague has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and as he realizes his time grows short, he tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons. Through his narrative, we learn how the plague spread throughout the world and ...
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London Review Bookshop Podcast

London Review Bookshop

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Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more. Find out about our upcoming events here https://lrb.me/bookshopeventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Where History Comes Alive! A fast-paced, well-researched weekly podcast covering a wide range of historical events, persons, places, legends, and mysteries, Hosted by Jon Hagadorn, the selection of stories and interviews includes lost treasure, unsolved mysteries, unexplained phenomenon, WWII stories, biographies, disasters, legends of the Old West, American Revolutionary history, urban legends, movie backstories, and much more. Available wherever podcasts are found, including Apple Podcasts ...
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Hugely popular among younger readers, White Fang by Jack London was a runaway hit when it first debuted in 1906, as a serial story in the Outing magazine. Since then it continues to enjoy immense acclaim and popularity as a coming of age allegory where a nonconformist youngster is transformed into a responsible citizen. The most appealing aspect of White Fang is that it's told from the point of view of an animal, in this case an Alaskan Husky. Like Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, White Fang als ...
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The LTL Show

Jack Moore - London Tech Leaders

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The LTL Show is our animated podcast, where we invite some of the leading names in technology to talk all about their experiences, backgrounds, learnings, personal development and all things tech!It promises to be informative, entertaining and original, and we can't wait to share it with you.
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9yrspodcast

9yrspodcast

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Hosted by Nick Draper and Stuart Deacons, the 9yrspodcast drops every Friday during the football season, with some variable audio quality and occasional insightful comment.
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Tessa Thompson stars as an idealistic young journalist trying to make a name for herself by following a group of paranormal explorers, obsessed with a seemingly harmless pastime known as the Left/Right Game. The journey takes her into a supernatural world that she and the other members of the expedition can neither handle nor survive.
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Call of the Wild is an emotional rollercoaster of a novel set during the late 19th century Klondike Gold Rush. The central character is Buck, an Alaskan sled dog who is forced to adjust to the cruel climate in order to survive. If you have even a remote love of dogs then you will fall head over heels in love with this book. In fact, take away the fact that Buck is a dog and the story is the same, a struggle against greed and to live a life of freedom. London spent a year in Yokel researching ...
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History for You with Douglas and Hugh

Douglas Wrattle, Hugh Canard

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Well done, brave adventurer! You have uncovered History For You with Douglas and Hugh - a brand new comedy podcast about history. For you. Join two potentially award-winning historians Douglas Wrattle and Hugh Canard as they take you on a fascinating deep dive into the fascinating annals of fascinating world history. Subjects include King Arthur, Boudicca, 1066, The Great Fire of London, Pirates, Ghosts, King Henry VIII, Jack the Ripper, Highwaymen and more! This comedy series is written and ...
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Masterpiece Theatre meets Mystery Science Theater 3000 in a podcast of highbrow readings and lowbrow commentary. Comedians Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai come together to read aloud classic and not-so-classic literature from the public domain and provide real-time commentary with the help of special guests. Subscribe now to experience the best and worst from the likes of Edgar Allen Poe, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sherwood Anderson, Jack London, and many more... no one escapes ...
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Parks & Travel

Big Blend Radio Network

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A Big Blend Radio Travel Podcast covering Parks and Public Lands, Historic Sites and Landmarks, and their local communities, destinations, and recreational opportunities.
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The infamous Whitechapel murders, retold. Everyone knows the story of Jack the Ripper, the chilling serial killer that haunted the streets of 19th century London. Now, 135 years later, there’s a new killer in town. In this darkly comic reimagining, men are the victims of sexually aggressive murders committed by a woman: the mysterious Jackie. The only obstacle standing in her way? The slightly clueless, extremely over-caffeinated Detective Abberline and his not-so-crack team at the City of L ...
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The Bike Show Podcast

Jack Thurston

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Podcast devoted to the art, science, politics and transcendental pleasure of cycling, in London and beyond. Presented by Jack Thurston the show has been running since 2004, initially as a radio show on Resonance FM. It covers the intersections of cycling, culture, society and creativity from a variety of perspectives. From Tour de France to roller-racing, from Brompton commuters to bicycle messengers, from Kraftwerk to hip hop, from urban design to countryside trips. Literature, history, tra ...
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Get ready to leave the mundane behind. Jump in Linda’s backpack and join her on adventures around the globe. She seeks out the wild beauty of our planet, taking you from Alaska to Patagonia on the southern tip of Chile, on Big Blend Radio’s podcast, ”Lost Angel Travel Adventures with Linda Ballou.”
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The streets of wartime London are pitch black and the darkness offers cover to a murderer every bit as terrible as Jack the Ripper. During one awful week in February 1942 he viciously attacks women night after night. But the victims of the so-called Blackout Ripper are now all but forgotten. In this season of Bad Women, historian Hallie Rubenhold and criminologist Alice Fiennes share new details from the archives to tell the extraordinary and moving stories of the women who died and why thei ...
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Witches Talking Tarot (and other things...)

Witches Talking Tarot (and other things...)

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Come sit a spell with Amber and Maddie as they discuss divination, the occult, the supernatural, the paranormal, paganism and different paths, solstice celebrations, mythology from around the world, aliens, cryptids and other creatures, and Of Course- Tarot!
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Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

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For people who like history but don't care what actually happened. Join comedians Fin Taylor and Horatio Gould as they guess/explain every event in human history, from Neanderthals to 9/11. Guaranteed to give you an entirely new and incorrect perspective on world events. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor
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Black Jack

Dan Shaurette on Podiobooks.com

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BLACK JACK, is a new short story by Dan Shaurette, a prequel to his upcoming novel, BLACK CASTLE. Confidence artist Jacob Springer discovers that his mother, a Faierie, has been murdered in London. Can he track down her killer while the police have their hands full with Jack the Ripper's reign of terror? Featuring the voice talents of Dani Cutler, Emerian Rich, Glenn Hibburt, Jack Mangan, Lucie LeBlanc, Mat Weller, Murdo Morrison, Pete Lutz, Sean Young, Ted Wenskus, and Veronica Giguere. Thi ...
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Man in the Arena (Audio)

Man in the Arena

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O Man in the Arena é um videocast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital apresentado por Miguel Cavalcanti. O canal foi destaque na The Next Web (um dos cinco podcasts de empreendedorismo em destaque na América Latina), Endeavor (9 dos melhores podcasts para empreendedores), e Exame (8 canais do YouTube que todo empreendedor deveria acompanhar). Sétima temporada (2021).
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Join host Jack Baker as he explores under-appreciated conservation stories! Featuring interviews with the pioneering conservationists at the forefront of wildlife protection, the show promises to highlight every story – no matter how small, strange, or unexpected! 🦜 Also, look out for new episodes of ReZOO – The Zoo Review Podcast! Co-hosted by Jodi McFarlane, this series investigates the conservation work of zoos from around the world, while also offering perspective on the visitor experien ...
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Fictional

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser | Nextpod

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Classic lit with a modern tone, every other week. From the creators of Myths and Legends, comes an altogether same-but-different podcast set in the world of classic lit. These are the stories of Dracula, The Time Machine, The Three Musketeers. They're stories written by Jane Austen, Shakespeare, and H.P. Lovecraft, but with a casual, modern tone. Listen as Jason and Carissa Weiser breathe new life into the classics and tell the stories of some of the greatest books ever written.
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Showmance

RomComPods

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The third immersive fiction podcast from the RomComPods team! Recently jilted by her boyfriend (who also happens to be her boss...yikes!), Casey is offered a dream job launching the British spin-off of the cooking TV show she produces, and heads to London looking for love. What she doesn’t expect is to find it TWICE! Showmance stars Skyler Samuels (Scream Queens), Jack Turner (One Winter Weekend), and Elliot Knight (Life Sentence).
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Travel to London beyond time and place with London expert, writer and historian Philipp Röttgers. Weekly new episodes in English and German! "Talks beyond time and place": Every episode features another Londoner as a guest, and Philipp and his guest chat about how London influences their lives. "Tales beyond time and place": Dark, strange and mysterious London-tales "Deutsche Episoden": Wir bringen euch London auf die Ohren - und lassen euch eine Reise unternehmen ins London jenseits von Ort ...
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True Spies takes you inside the world's greatest espionage and detective operations. Our hosts Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Sophia Di Martino, Daisy Ridley and Rhiannon Neads talk to the real spies behind the missions. What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position? We explore and investigate real life thrillers, mysteries and crimes - stories that prove truth is stranger than fiction! These stories cover lies, murder, theft, sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. Y ...
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Football Weekly

The Guardian

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Join Max Rushden, Barry Glendenning and special guests as they pick over the latest football action from the Premier League and beyond The show has reported on matches and games from all of the following: Premier League, Champions League, Euros / Euro 2024, World Cup, Championship, League One, League Two, Scottish Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue Un, La Liga, Europa League, Europa Conference League, Women’s Euros, Women’s World Cup, and the WSL (Women's Super League). We talk about ...
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In his memoir Sonic Life (Faber), Thurston Moore recounts a life that has been defined by music. Following a childhood rock ’n’ roll epiphany in the early 1960s, his infatuation with the subversive world of 1970s punk and no wave led him to move to New York City, where he immersed himself in the underground music and art scenes. In 1981 he co-found…
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The show for people who like history but don’t care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes subscribe to the Patreon and become a Truther For all ad enquiries, please contact [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould
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This is our way of reminding you that we offer new Jack London stories weekly every Sunday at noon ET at 1001 Best of Jack London- Here are the links: Our website: https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001-best-of-jack-london-1/ Hit "Follow" at Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Spotify: htt…
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Jack Sheppard & Jonathan Wild: The Criminal & The Thief-Taker Who Betrayed Each Other In the dark and dangerous streets of 18th-century London, crime was everywhere—but so was corruption. Jack Sheppard, the legendary escape artist, and Jonathan Wild, London’s self-proclaimed ‘Thief-Taker General,’ started as allies, but their partnership took a dea…
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From Alaska to Hawai'i and California, this episode of Big Blend Radio's "Lost Angel Travel Adventures with Linda Ballou" podcast focuses on the life of famous writer Jack London. Linda's essay "Jack London and Me" is included in the 2024 San Francisco Writer’s Conference Anthology. In it she shares her deep connection to a man considered to be our…
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In Black Meme (Verso) Legacy Russell, award-winning author of the groundbreaking Glitch Feminism, explores the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media. Through imagery, memory, and technology, Black Meme shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our understand…
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One Monday morning in 1958, Nina Lawson, Mistress of Wigs at the Metropolitan Opera, came into work to discover that someone had stolen thirty thousand dollars' worth of wigs from the Met. The theft made national headlines, and the FBI joined the hunt for the culprits. Show notes and full transcripts available at www.artofcrimepodcast.com. If you'd…
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After US & Russia met in Riyadh, US and Ukraine followed up to meet in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia this past week. Today’s show summarizes the positions and demands of the various parties in the 4-way negotiations that are the current discussions re. future peace in Ukraine: USA, Russia, Ukraine, and European Union NATO. What did the USA tell Ukraine in J…
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What’s wrong with saying “my truth” and embracing moral relativism? In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis warns that abandoning objective truth doesn’t just erode morality—it opens the door for manipulation by those in power. Decades later, his prophetic critique is more relevant than ever. Join Michael Knowles and Neil Shenvi, a Christian apologist,…
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Content Warning: This episode contains adult themes throughout. When defense journalist Brendan McNally stumbled across a long-forgotten name in 1990s Prague, he had no idea of the remarkable story he would uncover. It belongs to Martha Dodd: ambassador's daughter, mistress to Nazi officials, and Stalinist spy. In the first episode of this two-part…
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In 1909, the discovery of a young woman, pale and emaciated, lying lifeless in a bathtub marked the start of an investigation into what seemed like a tragic story with a bleak ending. Just beneath the surface, however, lurked something far darker. As investigators pulled back the curtain, they uncovered a twisted tale of manipulation, greed, and mu…
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Welcome to the fourth special episode recorded liveat Global Birdfair 2024. Today, Jack is joined by Sean McCormack from the Ealing Beaver Project to discuss their efforts to bring beavers back to London! Jack and Sean discuss how this project came to be, the challenges it has faced, and the many successes that it has already seen! Plus, the duo ta…
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The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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The incredible true story (the 1996 movie is largely fiction) of a British railroad project in Kenya in 1898 that was being harassed by man-eating lions which would attack coolies in the night,dragging them out of their tents screaming for help. Coolies, African workers, teamsters, and British authorities were mauled over a peroid of 9 months, with…
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"Was My Brother In The Battle?"- What Civil War meant to my family-Six hundred thousand men died or were wounded in the American Civil War. Just as many families were affected. Mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers all felt the hopelessness of not knowing if their sons and brothers would ever come home. Steven Foster captured this feeling of help…
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The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Our dodgy spell continued this week with defeat at home to Cheltenham, but should we have seen the light of the Notts County win was a false dawn at the time? Nick seems to think so, and the problems we've been having, arguably since the turn of the year, continue to raise more questions than answers. However, Stu has one key reason as to why our f…
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The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Today, I'm thrilled to share an episode of a wonderful podcast, ArtMuse. This is part one of a two-part episode about Audrey Munson, sometimes referred to as "America's first supermodel." She inspired more than a dozen prominent statues throughout New York. After reaching the height of her fame, she got roped into one of the early twentieth century…
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This episode of Big Blend Radio's "Food, Wine & Travel" Show with IFWTWA features Mary Grace Kauffman of Destination Gettysburg who gives a spring and summer overview of what you can experience in beautiful and historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, including Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site. Spring and summer hig…
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In this True Spies Classic, it's the late 1980s, and change is in the air in Eastern Europe. For a young journalist like Mark Baker, Czechoslovakia is an interesting place to be. But Mark has attracted some unwanted attention - a fact that he'll only discover several decades later. Sophia Di Martino joins Mark to travel through the True Spies looki…
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This shared episode of Big Blend Radio's PARKS & TRAVEL Podcast features travel writer Sharon K. Kurtz who shares her whale watching adventures in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Baja California Sur is a premier whale-watching destination, home to both the blue whales of Loreto Bay National Marine Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the gr…
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Today’s show analyzes two key events of the past week: an in-depth discussion of Trump’s speech to Congress: EOs, DOGE, Taxes, Tariffs, new defense spending in the pipelines, reaffirmation of Greenland and Panama Canal takeover and further shift in US support for Zelensky and Ukraine. Democrats’ Senator Slotkin weak response indicate Democrats stil…
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Deep in the heart of Egypt, a horrifying discovery shocked archaeologists—a mummy with its mouth frozen in an eternal scream. Who was this tormented soul? And why did ancient embalmers leave them in such a ghastly state? In this episode of Macabre London, we uncover the chilling mystery of the Screaming Mummy of Luxor. Was it a curse? A case of liv…
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Welcome to the third of four special episodes recorded live at Global Birdfair 2024. Today, Jack is joined by the host of ‘Natures a Hoot’, Tom Morath, to discuss the wonderful world of Vultures. They discuss the joys of working with Egyptian Vultures, the challenges of protecting the Lappet-faced vulture, and the Poison Response Action Campaign wh…
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They say behind every good man there is a strong woman- and if ever men needed strong moral support it was during the harsh winter of Valley Forge (1777-78), where the wives of George Washington, Henry Knox, Nathaniel Greene- and members of the "camp followers"- wives and children of the soldiers- tended to the sick, washed laundry, cooked what foo…
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Reflecting on the experiences we value most, many that come to mind are those we share with others. Consider the strangers we sit alongside at the football, the romantic partners who share (or endure) our favourite television shows, the friends with whom we dance through the early morning hours. Despite the growing ease of on-demand, private aesthe…
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328 - Louise, the new student at the academy: "The girls worshipped her, and the teachers jealously admired her both for her mind and for her uncanny beauty." Ethel, fellow student: "loathed everything about her." Tuck in for the genius of Truman Capote and his unforgettable characters in one of his "Early Stories."…
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Nick and Stu return to discuss how and why the team have gone from 12 unbeaten to winless in four, and why have the goals dried up? Alongside that we nose around Division Four, with a focus on who might still gate crash the play-offs, and which club (spoiler: we hate them) looks to be in crisis and potentially heading for the drop. We also have a f…
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