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Cricket for everyone – your friendly guide to the world's strangest sport. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins combine match analysis with irreverence, politics, interviews and history as they follow the game they love around the world. You can support the show at patreon.com/thefinalword.
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Seeds

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A patient awakes in a hospital. She is unable to remember who she is or how she got there, but she does know that she has to get out. She is urged to do something, something that is of vital importance....Four research scientists are freezing, terrified and together in the basement of the Institute of Plant Industry, forced to make impossible choices to protect life-saving seed samples against an invading army, a starving population and each other. Listen to these two worlds entwine in Seeds ...
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Archbishop Stephen Cottrell, Dr Paula Gooder and Bishop Philip North reflect on the 15 Biblical Stations of the Cross. The Stations of the Cross have formed part of Christian devotion for many centuries because they offer a particularly vivid way of following in the steps of Jesus on the way to the Cross. In the earliest days of Christian pilgrimage, visitors to Jerusalem would walk the path from Pilate’s house to Calvary. In the late fourteenth century, the Franciscan protectors of the holy ...
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TSoNYC® - The Sound Of New York City®

TSoNYC® - The Sound of New York City®

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"The Sound of New York City" is a project born from the idea of its founder back in 2006 to encourage the rediscovery of the Disco Sound, including Soul - Funk - House, while at the same time make use of my extensive vinyl collection, much of which was gathered from underground sources, dating back to 1975. In December 2009 the initial project was transformed into a live, 24/7 web radio station: TSoNYC™ The Sound of New York City™. The station's programming is based on the history of New Yor ...
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Old schoolmates Ross, Henry and Tom reunite to tackle stereotypes of the ‘lazy generation’. Each episode they delve into the life of a successful millennial, hear their story and learn about what has contributed to their success.
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Rising with the Tide

Rising with the Tide

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Welcome fellow travellers! Rising with the Tide is a search for knowledge, wisdom and ideas centered around environment, development and a range of other topics, guided by some of the greatest heroes of our times. Listen to the podcast, learn with us!
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 2: Bad light, bad cricket, a big boy on debut and some offies from Chris Woakes. The day that was at The Oval, which Sri Lanka did well to get back into, with Daniel Norcross and Adam Collins who were together on the balcony. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Check out Wes…
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 1: Ollie Pope had a shocker last week at Lord's but across the river to his dear old home ground, he was back to his best with a fine ton. It defined the opening exchanges of England's third and final Test against Sri Lanka, which was otherwise marred by autumnal rain and gloom. Cam Ponsonby has Daniel…
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Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging (U California Press, 2017) is a lively, readable exploration of "chosen" identity, kin, and community in a global era. Anthropologist Naomi Leite examines the complexity of how we know ourselves -- who we "really" are -- and how we recognize others as strangers or kin through t…
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After reading David Chaffetz’s newest book, you’d think that the horse–not oil–has been humanity’s most important strategic commodity. As David writes in his book Raiders, Rulers and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires (Norton, 2024), societies in Central Asia grew powerful on the backs of strong herds of horses, giving them a military and a…
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Season 16, Episode 36: A big week, beginning with the very sad and seemingly inevitable confirmation that Will Pucovski's career will end early after one Test for Australia. A different kind of retirement too, at the end of a very long career, as the consummate newsbreaker Malcolm Conn finishes up. Elsewhere, back to a topic that needs to come up m…
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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we go from Peggy Antonio on episode 200 to another pioneer from the other side of the world. There's some love for a very early Final Word fave who also knew his way around some tunes, a return to one of the nights of Adam's formative (absence of) memory…
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 4: There wasn't much chance for Sri Lanka, and despite some effort to make a scrap of things, the margin was a big one. It did however give Gus Atkinson another chance at the honours boards at Lord's. Daniel Norcross joins Cameron Ponsonby. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword …
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 3: A day that went just as we all predicted needed something special, and Joe Root provided it by backing up his day one ton with another, breaking a host of records in the process - he is some cricketer. Adam Collins watched it all at Lord's, and he has Daniel Norcross for company. Support the show with…
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 2: Gus Atkinson's staggering Test summer continues, crushing a run-a-ball maiden ton to get on the Lord's boards for a third time. From there, once the hosts got the ball, Sri Lanka never looked like it and are a mile behind after two days. On the pod tonight, TMS stats wizard Andy Zaltzman returns, join…
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Aleksander Pluskowski of the University of Reading joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation, out 2024 with Reaktion Books. A gripping account of the rise and fall of the last great medieval military order. This book provides a concise and incisive introduction to the knights of the …
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Aleksander Pluskowski of the University of Reading joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation, out 2024 with Reaktion Books. A gripping account of the rise and fall of the last great medieval military order. This book provides a concise and incisive introduction to the knights of the …
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 1: Joe Root, ton machine. Lord's day one, England need someone to stand up, and there he is with a 33rd Test century to his name. It defined an opening day that got away from Sri Lanka at the end with fast bowler Gus Atkinson 74 not by the close of play. There's nobody better to talk all things Gus than …
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During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chicanery, and Catholicism as repugnant superstition. By the mid-eighteenth century, they would describe amicable debates between evangelical missionaries and Algonquian religious leaders about the moral…
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Dale Ahlquist is the founder the of the Society of G. K. Chesterton and Chesterton Schools, of which there are currently 70 and number is rising. He is also the editor of the book we are talking about today, Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching, from Sophia Press, which explores the economic and social questions of how we should organi…
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Season 16, Episode 35: In a dramatic twist that nobody saw coming, the most powerful man in cricket continues to be the most powerful man in cricket. The only thing being that he is leaving his job at the BCCI to do much the same job at the ICC. See ya, Greg Barclay. But there is some encouragement in recent comments from the new boss about support…
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Season 16, Episode 34: August has been a great run for interviews on the pod. And today, to end this busy month, we bring you an hour with a man who has been making a contribution to the game in many varied and interesting ways for the better part of half a century, Mark Nicholas. As a player, captain, journalist and one of the most well-regarded t…
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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we go to Adelaide all the time for cricket, but let's have the story of a different trip for a different reason, one that in time circles all the way back to the MCG. A meditation on the nature of musical enjoyment and parasocial relationships on a crick…
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Manchester Day 4: England get the job done, going one-nil up at Old Trafford. But that doesn't tell the full story of the most competitive Test this summer, Sri Lanka hanging in there all the way. For that, we welcome Andy Zaltzman back to the pod, who is back co-hosting in Manchester alongside his radio colleague …
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Manchester Day 3: A clinical England took advantage of a curiously sleepy Sri Lanka, with Jamie Smith easing himself to a near-faultless maiden hundred. A spirited fightback saved the visitors from complete humiliation, with England’s bowlers made to tough it out. Daniel Norcross has Henry Moeran with him at Old Tr…
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Manchester Day 2: On a wet day in Manchester, Sri Lanka were just about on top when Joe Root was dismissed. But then Harry Brook and Jamie Smith, with some help from Chris Woakes, steadied the ship to guide the hosts into a lead. For the story of the day, here's Cam Ponsonby with Daniel Norcross at Old Trafford. Su…
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Manchester Day 1: Sri Lanka were cruising for a bruising after an early collapse on the opening day of the series but were saved by their captain (and Final Word Fave) Dhananjaya De Silva along with number nine Milan Rathnayake. Nevertheless, England still claimed the honours. Cam Ponsonby has Daniel Norcross with …
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