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Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a little bit wider to encompass the whole of the BBC, Roger examines the issues that are facing the corporation and public service broadcasting. Find all our podcasts here And please support this podcast by subscribing here We also support VLV (Voice of the Listener and Viewer) which represents the int ...
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HIF Player

Harrogate International Festival

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One arts charity, multiple fantastic Festivals. From world exclusive events with international best-sellers, to launching the careers of debut authors, the HIF Player Podcast brings the literary conversations from Harrogate International Festivals' famous stage to audiences around the world.
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Welcome to Let's Chaat - the podcast that takes you beyond the bricks and mortar to uncover the stories, the passions, and the driving forces behind the UK's leading property entrepreneurs. Hosted by James Rogers and Luke Biddle. James is the creator of Property & Poppadoms, a property investor, specialist finance broker, and most of all, a proud Dad. Luke, is a seasoned business coach with a knack for uncovering what really makes people tick. Here at Let's Chaat, we're not just talking abou ...
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Crossing the Line

Sam Hume, Oliver Rednall, Charlie Collicutt

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Crossing The Line: Tales from The Entertainment Industry brings you a variety of guests who share their stories and experiences from across show business and entertainment. These include actors, directors, writers, casting directors, producers, production staff and many more. The show raises the curtain delivering a much broader view introducing the audience to what goes into bringing them their favourite films, stories, books, video games, television programmes and everything else within th ...
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Circle of Three

Bonnie Loewen and Katharine Cherewyk

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Are you longing to navigate change in ways that leave you invigorated and at peace? Are you looking for habits and rituals that keep you and yours living authentic lives? Welcome to Circle of Three, a conversation between two friends and colleagues with an invitation to you, the listener, to step into the circle. Through poetry, story and an offering of personal and collective practices, Bonnie Loewen and Katharine Cherewyk aim to spark your own reflection — on your voice, your wisdom, and y ...
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Welcome to "The Many Blessings Conversation," where entrepreneurs, influencers, and thought leaders share stories of triumph over adversity. Join us for intimate insights into personal and professional struggles, discovering the transformative power of resilience. Gain wisdom, inspiration, and practical advice in less than one hour. Subscribe and celebrate the blessings born from adversity! 🎙️✨
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That's The Drink Talking

Buxstock Entertainment

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The great social lubricant… alcohol. We drink it to have a good night, to help with conversation, or simply because we love a good ale.‘That’s the Drink Talking’ is a comedy podcast hosted by comedians and beer drinkers Harley Breen and David Quirk plus guests including beer makers, master brewers, distillers, wine makers, non-drinkers, comedians, musicians, actors and other interesting people who happen to be passing by. Recorded live at The Espy every Tuesday arvo, That’s the Drink Talking ...
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‘I have written a blasphemous book’, said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, ‘and I feel as spotless as the lamb’. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible – and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child – or perhaps its immaculate conception – the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville’s magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud ...
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Welcome to The Youth Workshop Podcast. The Youth Workshop is a youth ministry organisation dedicated to helping youth leaders and pastors navigate the rough terrain that is youth ministry and committed to equipping and growing the next generation of leaders through events, resources and mentoring. On this podcast you will hear interviews and conversation with the most innovative and creative youth experts from around the world. If you are ready to take your youth ministry to the next level, ...
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For over 20 years, Shaun McCambridge has been inquisitive, learning and experimenting with different ways to leverage our greatest asset….. our minds, to work for us rather than against us. Join Shaun as he engages with inspiring guests to provide you with tangible knowledge and insights to help you achieve more. This show is powered by Stellar Recruitment and is inspired by our company purpose and WHY which is….. “Inspiring growth, Changing lives”. Shaun McCambridge is the Managing Director ...
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The Founder is a show that features world-class entrepreneurs and their early stories of ingenuity, struggle and perseverance to get their companies off the ground. Kallaway goes in-depth with founders in straight talk, uncensored conversations to understand their thoughts, feelings and actions behind the big decisions that influenced the direction of their startup. At the end of each episode, founders share their 1-2 favorite ideas for other businesses they wish existed and we riff on how t ...
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Our App today is called FCC Mobile Speed Test. This is the new app that the FCC just put out last week. It's a way for you to see the actual speeds on your broadband. They say it's the best way for the federal government to have an accurate map of what actual speeds are around the country. There are two different kinds of tests. The Crowdsource Tes…
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The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. The Portuguese got there first, persuading the Spanish to fund expeditions trying to go the other direction, sailing westward across the Atlantic. Roger Crowley, in his new book Spice: The 16th-Century…
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This week, Modya and David explore the double parsha that ends the book of Numbers (Bamidbar). They explore once again the role of calmness in speech through taking on responsibilities that previously were only in the domain of the Divine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! …
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LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED: The topic of today’s episode is human trafficking and crimes against children, usually sexual crimes, and sometimes ritual abuse and organ harvesting. Matt Osborne has worked with OUR Rescue (originally Operation Underground Railroad) for ten years; he left his CIA career to join this NGO and is now one of the longes…
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Catherine Segurson is the founding editor of Catamaran. She’s a painter, videographer and creative writer who graduated from the Master of Fine Arts program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Prior to founding Catamaran 12 years ago, she worked at both Zeotrope and ZYZZYVA literary magazines. California-based Catamaran focuses ofte…
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For Kahane, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the black nationalist, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the Arabs. The greatest enemy of the Jews was liberalism. Shaul Magid, Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and Rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue, is a celebrated and brilliant scholar of radical and dissident Jud…
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Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person--perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. They win elections not because of the elevated rhetorical performances we often associate with charisma ("ask not what your country can do for you"), but because of something more ordinary an…
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How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do such everyday buildings reflect a city’s changing political, social, and economic needs, through their yearslong transformations in forms, functions, and management? Today’s book is: Everyday Architecture in Context: Public Markets in Hong Kong, 1842-1981 …
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Jane-Marie Collins's book Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888 (Liverpool UP, 2023) examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to the history of slavery and race relations in Brazil, updates the research about t…
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The idiom of contemporary politics is a kind of philosophical hodge-podge. While there’s plenty of talk about the traditional themes of freedom, justice, equality, and autonomy, there is also an increasing reliance on ideas like misinformation, bias, expertise, and propaganda. These latter notions belong, at least in part, to epistemology – the are…
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A number of converts to Buddhism report paranormal experiences. Their accounts describe psychic abilities like clairvoyance and precognition, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, and encounters with other beings such as ghosts and deities, and they often interpret these events through a specifically Buddhist lens. Paranormal States: Psy…
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Both Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden have made stops in Texas over the past two weeks. The president spoke at the LBJ Library and stopped at Houston City Hall Monday, where former Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is lying in state. The vice president gave speeches in Dallas and Houston last week; she will speak at Lee's memory …
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The mother of a toddler is suing a Plano preschool for a million dollars claiming her girl got ahold of an employee's vape pen on her first day. The Denton County woman says the 20-month-old girl came home from her first day at the Bright Horizons preschool with a puffy face and spent the night throwing up.…
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Our App today is called Point. If you're someone that has some time, and you want to use that time to volunteer, this app can point you in the right direction to find the right place to donate that time and effort. The app breaks down the volunteer opportunities into 20 different categories. You can do work with groups that specialize in homelessne…
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Will Africa’s increasingly youthful population lead to new democratic and development breakthroughs? Or will it generate fresh instability as frustrated young people demand economic opportunities their governments cannot provide? In this episode, Nic Cheeseman talks to Professors Amy Patterson and Megan Hershey about their recent book Africa’s Urba…
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Predatory publishing is a complex problem that harms a broad array of stakeholders and concerns across the scholarly communications system. It shines a light on the inadequacies of scholarly assessment and related rewards systems, contributes to the marginalization of scholarship from less developed countries, and negatively impacts the acceptance …
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Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protection in tropical societies. In Cameroon, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, St. Vincent, and Tanzania, dracaena and cordyline plants are simultaneously property rights institutions, markers of social…
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Originally published in Polish in 2019 by The Lethe Foundation, Humanism As Realism: Three Essays Concerning the Thought of Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt (St. Augustine's Press, 2023) demonstrates the relevance and importance of Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) and Irving Babbitt (1865-1933). Their collective legacy is one of responsible and truly …
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Jessica Henry's Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened (U California Press, 2021) explores a shocking but all-too-common kind of wrongful conviction: wrongful convictions for crimes that never actually happened. Henry's meticulously-researched book sheds light on how the US criminal justice system makes it possible…
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In this episode, host SEAC Director John Sidel talks with Dr Qingfei Yin, SEAC Associate and Assistant Professor of International History at LSE. Dr Qingfei Yin talks about her new book State Building in Cold War Asia Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border (due out with Cambridge University Press in August 2024), explains how she be…
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Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit unions, worker cooperatives to insurance mutuals, nonprofits to mutual aid, countless examples prove that people working together can extend the ideals of …
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In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological, and emotional needs challenged both the estab…
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Our App today is called Perplexity AI. This is an AI search app. This app will help you with information that you are doing research for. This is like Google on steroids. It might make you even forget all about Google for your search. You can ask all kinds of questions and get detailed answers. It works with your voice as well. It will also show yo…
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