In search of the legendary “Portrait of Dr Gachet”. The last great portrait by Vincent van Gogh disappeared from the public eye three decades ago. The podcast series FINDING VAN GOGH traces the painting’s eventful history – to get to the bottom of the question: where is the masterpiece now?
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English Heritage cares for over 400 historic buildings, monuments and sites, and brings the story of England to life for over 10 million people each year. http://www.english-heritage.org.uk
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The Cottage Punk podcast provides the latest academic news every week on Sunday. This podcast also provides in depth discussion on everything from AI to Vincent Van Gogh and much more.
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What do Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, and I have in common? We're all self taught artists. I stumbled around in the dark as I started my artistic journey... I didn't know what paints to buy, how to varnish my work, or the differences between painting mediums. The mission of the Self Taught Artist podcast is to help artists (and aspiring artists) learn and fully discover the joy of making art. We will cover everything from the basics of painting, to how to sell your work, and beyond.
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Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
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The show where we watch the 1970s TV show "In Search Of..." and look at possible explanations the producers didn't consider.
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Welcome to ”The Enduring Lives,” the podcast that delves into the extraordinary lives of history’s most fascinating individuals. Join us on a captivating journey through time as we explore the intricacies of legendary figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, Cleopatra, Vincent van Gogh, and many more. In each episode, we bring you meticulously researched and beautifully narrated audio biographies, unraveling the layers of these iconic personalities. Through immersive storytelling, you’ll discover ...
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Secret messages enhancing clarity for all life as we know it. I have already said too much.
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Short stories with deep insights
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Delve into ’Extraordinary People: Stories and Legacies That Shaped Our World,’ a captivating podcast exploring the lives and impacts of remarkable individuals. From their early years to enduring legacies, join us for in-depth stories and reflections on those who’ve profoundly influenced history and culture.
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Audio tour for the main collection from this museum in otterlo, the netherlands
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Hello Teamsters! Join Carey Ann Watkins and Allison Easley as they navigate through psychological and historical topics to discover the truth about the age-old question; are all things connected? New episodes released every Thursday!
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Film Director Phil Grabsky and art-lover Laura Bentham meet each week to talk about paintings that inspire or excite them. Listen to their ‘Painting of the Week’ and explore some of the world’s most amazing art. For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast
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Art History doesn't have to be dull and boring! Let your kids and teens learn about the different art eras and get to "know" some of the famous artists, by joining veteran homeschool mom and artist, Alisha Gratehouse, and her daughter, Olivia, on a FUN, artsy tour across the centuries as we peek into the lives of some of the most creative minds of all time! Perfect for homeschool morning time, car-schooling or as a complement to your in-depth art study.
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A new podcast for every day of the year, in which we present our most cogent, reasoned, and occasionally shouty arguments to decide what each date should be best remembered for. Every episode features fun historical facts, a vote on the winner, and tearful recriminations.
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My own gray sponge has been saturated and shaped by so many incredible thinkers. This is a podcast where I share the stories of those minds who have inspired mine. From philosophers, poets, musicians, artists, scientists, athletes, and more, I invite listeners to learn a bit more about seekers from the past... and more. Along the way, catch words of wisdom; coalesce with this universal consciousness and continue to grow too. I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast. If y ...
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Mysteries From The Past is a fast-paced, fun, intriguing podcast that examines history's greatest unsolved mysteries! Actor and historian Rory Duffy (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Blue Bloods, Law and Order: SVU) brings audiences back in time with original music, recreation scenes and exciting narration. Get out your magnifying glass and help us solve these mysteries! We would love to hear from you! mysteriesfromthepast@gmail.com
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Spin A Yarn is a storytelling podcast that covers classic fiction works with high quality readings that are meant to immerse the listener in the world of the story. Narrated by Jordan Dawson.
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Have you ever heard of Louis Congo? What about the forgotten Downwinders or The Devil’s Bible? These are just a few examples of people, events, and things from our past that have been lost to time. They’re important in the greater context of our understanding of the world and how our past shaped our present, yet they never made it into history books. In this bi-weekly podcast, freelance journalist, Crystal Ponti, digs up extraordinary excerpts of forgotten history, bringing her passion and l ...
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Virtuous Men is a podcast produced by creators Jamie Adams and Scott Einig devoted to sharing the lives of men of history, fiction, and today, and the virtues they personify. Each episode will take you through the life of each man and virtue and inspire you to live a virtuous life of your own. Join us for Season 4, a 5-part series on the Lewis and Clark Expedition as we travel alongside the men of the Corps of Discovery and explore the many virtues on display throughout their incredible adve ...
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Club For Life show with only The Best in House Music, for life ! a blend of Underground dance music / Pianos and baselines / tech house and Progressive house, with upfront Club Anthems - Featuring artists like CamelPhat / Space motion / Soul Avengerz / David Penn / Freejak / Vintage Culture / Cassimm / Andy Galea / Silver Panda / Harry Romero and loads more
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As a young man working for Dutch art dealer Goupil & Co, Vincent Van Gogh was sent to London in 1873 to work in the firm's Covent Garden branch. Two months later he moved to a house in Stockwell – a building now marked by a blue plaque. In this episode, we're joined by Van Gogh House London's Alice Childs and Livia Wang, and art critic Andrew Graha…
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Episode 285 – Behind the Scenes of a Roman Villa
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This week, we're on-site at North Leigh Roman Villa in Oxfordshire – one of the larger villas of Roman Britain, which once included 16 mosaic floors and 11 rooms with underfloor heating. As a major conservation project gets underway, we find out about who lived here, how the site was discovered and the important work taking place to protect it. Joi…
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Club For Life Show #27 Fat Boy Slim/Swedish House Mafia/Cassian/Loofy/Bart Skils & Weska & More
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The Club For Life Show (The Best in House Music) Airscape - Pacific Melody (Kryder's Extended Balearic Breaks Mix) Akami - In The Night Time (Extended Mix) Electronic Youth - You Feel Like (Extended Mix) Piero Pirupa x Chapter & Verse x Jude & Frank - Sunshine (Extended Mix) DJ S.K.T, James Haskall - Naughty Girl (Extended Mix) POU x Scott Forshaw …
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Jeb and Blake go into the jungles of California and France in search of WILD CHILDREN! This episode of ISO contains a lot of disturbing content and our commentary is laced with expletives, hence the Explicit tag. Tarzan is raised by a fictional ape species known as The Mangani The story of Mowgli is LOOOOSELY based on the real-life person Dina Sani…
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Episode 284 - Lady Elizabeth Russell: Keeper of Donnington Castle
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This week, we’re getting to know possibly the first woman in England to be accorded the role of ‘Keeper’ of a castle. As well as possessing Donnington Castle, Lady Elizabeth Russell was highly educated and ambitious, and her extraordinary life even included a run-in with Shakespeare. Here to tell us more are English Heritage interpretation manager …
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Club For Life Show #26 All Vinyl Trance Classics - Veracocha/PVD/Lange/Vincent De Moor/Bedrock & More
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The Club For Life Show (The Best in House Music-All Vinyl Trance Classics) Veracocha - Carte Blanche Angel In Motion - PVD bootleg Quench - Dreams Lange - Drifting Away Vincent De Moor - Flowtation Alpha Breed - Beyond The Moon Agenda - Heaven Bedrock - Saints and Sinners - Pushin Too Hard The ThrillSeekers - Synaethesia (Fly Away) PVD Dub Mix Also…
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Episode 282 – Life as a medieval nun
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Nuns played an important part in Anglo-Saxon religion and society, and remained integral to English religious, social, political and economic life for the rest of the Middle Ages. But what was daily life like, why did women choose to become nuns, and what happened to nunneries following the Dissolution? To find out more, we're joined by senior prop…
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How could Vincent have been a creative genius - yet also "insane?" Jeb and Blake take a look at Nimoy's very personal thoughts about this question. This episode deals with the topic of self-harm and suicide. If you're struggling with thoughts of self harm, please get help immediately. You can reach trained and empathetic counselors (in the USA) by …
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Episode 281 – Harry Hotspur and Warkworth Castle
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Sir Henry 'Hotspur' Percy (1364–1403) was the most admired knight of his time. He fought in several campaigns against the Scots and the French during the Hundred Years' War, was a prime mover behind the deposition of Richard II, rebelled against Henry IV and was featured in plays by Shakespeare. Here to discuss his remarkable life is properties his…
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Bonus episode - Summer with Queen Victoria: Life at Osborne
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In this special episode created in partnership with The Gilded Gentleman podcast, English Heritage curator of collections and interiors Christopher Warleigh-Lack joins host Carl to discuss Queen Victoria’s grand estate on the Isle of Wight. Osborne House reveals an intimate view of the private life of Queen Victoria and her family. Book your visit …
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Club For Life Show #25 Purple Disco Machine/Robbie Rivera/Silver Panda & Sevenn/Francesco V/Zoura DS/Dirty South & Ferry Corsten & More
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The Club For Life Show (The Best in House Music) Anthony Francis - I Want You (Hear My Call) (Extended Edit) Julien Jabre - Swimming Places (Purple Disco Machine Re-Work) MYTIKO - Estos Sonidos.mp3Voost - Drums (Extended Mix) Hako - Gotta Stand Up (Extended Mix) Francesco V - Guess Your Mind - Perfect Driver Zoura DS - Controlla (Extended Mix) Fran…
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Episode 280 – Bad King John: England’s worst monarch?
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King John, who reigned from 1199 to 1216, has gone down in history as one of England's worst monarchs, thanks to his military failures and excommunication by the pope. Yet he is associated with significant historical events, including the signing of the Magna Carta. Senior properties historian Dr Steven Brindle and senior properties curator Roy Por…
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Club For Life Show #24 Guest Mix-DJ MD - Hot Since 82 /Da Hool/CamelPhat & Robert Miles / Josh Wink / Chemical Brothers & More
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The Club For Life Show (The Best in House Music) Kancho Club & Andre Espeut – Cobalt Learning to Love ft. Noah Handerson Your Love - Antdat Extended mix Da Hool – meet her at the love parade -Plecta Remix Namito – Letting Go Robert Miles V CamelPhat-Children x Cola Josh Wink – Higher State Of Consciousness-Remix Hot Since 82 - Buggin Chemical Broth…
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Episode 279 – Uncovering the prehistoric Uffington White Horse
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This week, we're in Oxfordshire to unravel the story of a landmark that has been here for around 3,000 years: the Uffington White Horse. As excavations of the site take place, we join senior properties curator Win Scutt and archaeologist David Miles to discover more about their research, and to find out about the work taking place to restore the ol…
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Episode 278 - Marble Hill: how to build a Georgian villa
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Today, we’re looking at the history of one of the last complete surviving Georgian villas along the River Thames in south-east London. Marble Hill belonged to Henrietta Howard and was created to provide an escape away from her life in Georgian court society. But how was it designed? And how did Henrietta start building this remarkable property? We’…
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S04E15 - The Missing Heir (Explicit)
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Jeb and Blake learn all about the riveting world of stock certificates and inheritance law! It may not be the most mysterious episode of In Search Of... but it's certainly one of the episodes we watched. Show Notes: Orson Welles Critic Clip Lot 249 Texas Pacific Land trust 1980 article The big 2014 Business Insider article Pembroke: http://www.oldl…
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Club For Life Show #23 Calvin Harris/Vintage Culture/The Chemical Brothers/Stretch & Vern/Da Fonk & More
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The Club For Life Show (The Best in House Music) Chamonix - 77 Strings (Two and Fro Bootleg) DJ Georgie Porgie - Make Me Love Ya Darren Gilles - My Imagination Kiesse - Lock Me Free (Original Mix) TWISTED VOICE (Hannes Bruniic's Clint Eastwood Edit) Stretch & Vern - Rockin with the Best Da Fonk Feat Joni - Mochakk Vintage Culture & Goodboys - Chemi…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of the great French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926) in London, initially in 1870 and then from 1899. He spent his first visit in poverty, escaping from war in France, while by the second he had become so commercially successful that he stayed at the Savoy Hotel. There, from his balcony, he began a ser…
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Episode 277 - In the Ayahs’ Home: Pioneering Indian and Chinese Women in Hackney
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Today we're marking South Asian Heritage Month with a look at the Ayahs' Home – the Hackney property for nannies and nursemaids from Asia that is now honoured by a blue plaque. Joining us to reveal the stories of the pioneering Indian and Chinese women who lived here in the early 1900s are blue plaques historian Dr Rebecca Preston and the manager o…
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Episode 276 - The lost art of the parterre garden
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Today, we meet English Heritage landscape advisor Emily Parker and head gardener Andrew Luke to explore the eye-catching parterre gardens at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire. Discover the history of these ornamental flower beds, what goes into planting and maintaining them today and where else you can admire similar schemes. To learn more about our perfe…
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Club For Life Show #22 All Vinyl Club Classics: Alison Limeric/DaHool&Duke (Bootleg)/Chicane/Greece 2000/Soulsearchers (Bootleg) & More
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The Club For Life Show (The Best in House Music) Bongo Bob - Inhale (Duke 'So in Love With you'/Da Hool "Love Parade'/Express of Sound) Bootleg Chicane - Saltwater Kings of tomorrow - Finally Chez Damier - Can you Feel it (NY Dub) Alison Limeric - Where Love Lives (Classic Mix) Greece 2000 - Three Drives (Hooj) Solution - Feels So Right - Nush Club…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling" (1749) by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), one of the most influential of the early English novels and a favourite of Dickens. Coleridge wrote that it had one of the 'three most perfect plots ever planned'. Fielding had made his name in the theatre with satirical plays that were so …
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Episode 275 - Secrets of the Corbridge Hoard
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On the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the Corbridge Hoard, we’re joined by English Heritage collections curator Dr Frances McIntosh and archaeologist and writer Mike Bishop to reveal the story of one of the most significant finds from Roman Britain. To learn more about the Corbridge Hoard, go to: www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/corbr…
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The Friendship of Armistead & Hancock (S5, E8)
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Friendship is a mutual concern, interest, and love that exists between two people. This love is the kind the Greeks called philia, or brotherly love. One such friendship was that of Lewis Armistead and Winfield S. Hancock. Although these men found themselves on opposing sides of America's most divisive and deadly conflict, their friendship endured …
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Episode 274 - Heroes of the 1924 Paris Olympics
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As Team GB athletes prepare to compete at the Paris Olympics, we’re going back a hundred years to discover the stories of the Olympic heroes of Paris in 1924 who are commemorated with blue plaques in London today. Joining us to discuss their lives and achievements are blue plaques senior historian Howard Spencer and director of the International Ce…
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Redemption is the process by which a man regains or acquires virtue in an effort to better his life. Whether it comes about as an atonement for wrongdoing or a realization that a life of sin will never bring fulfillment, redemption is the path toward a life of virtue. One of world literature’s most profound examples of redemption is the hardened co…
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S04E14 - San Andreas Fault [EXPLICIT]
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Jeb and Blake are joined by Sharon Hill to get shook by the San Andreas Fault! Understanding the Richter Scale (logarithmic) Link (Netflix) to Earthstorm docu series YT video clip featuring geologist Dr. Kerry Sieh Classic Budweiser commercial from the 70s The Salton Sea Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Nuclear activist Ray Vrana Peter Gros of Wild King…
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Club For Life Show #21 - Space Motion/Solardo/Rui da Silva/TCTS/Dominic Balchin & loads more
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The Club For Life Show (The Best in House Music) Amuka & M is For Motion - Bourgie Bourgie (Rafael M Chill Bar Vibe Remix) Piero Pirupa, Marco Lys - I Got To Move Elliot Starr - Looking Back - (Esquire Extended Remix) Seb de Wilde x Stanford - Dopamine Dominic Balchin - Spirit of '74 (The Theme) Si Slay - Ubah (Extended Mix) [Wh0 Worx] Esamba (Yvva…
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Season 4, Ep.10: Starry Night Over the Rhône by Vincent Van Gogh
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This week, Phil and Laura look at Vincent’s other ‘Starry Night’, painted just down the road from his famous yellow house in Arles, and explore the themes of love, madness and beauty that have followed this beloved and troubled artist over the centuries... Support the showBy Seventh Art Productions
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Episode 273 - Pandemic: how the Black Death ravaged medieval England
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This week, we’re looking back at the origins and effects of a global pandemic that shook the medieval world. Joining us on our journey back to the 1340s, when the Black Death started to claim its first victims in England, is Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia, Mark Bailey. We discover its causes, how it swept acros…
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Episode 272 - The decline of the English country house
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This week we’re joined by English Heritage historians’ team leader Dr Andrew Hann and senior properties historian Dr Steven Brindle to discuss the story of Sutton Scarsdale Hall in Derbyshire. We'll cover the decline of this Georgian mansion, the issues that affected many of England’s grand country houses and the work of charities such as English H…
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Season 4, Ep.9: Augustus of Prima Porta Statue - Vatican Museums
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Talk about good PR! This masterpiece by an unknown Greek artist depicts the first official emperor of Rome, Augustus, demonstrating his firm grasp of the importance of a carefully crafted public image in 20AD... Support the showBy Seventh Art Productions
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In order to understand In Search Of… The Dark Star, Jeb and Blake will first need to get Sirius; Sirius-B, that is! Links from this episode: Siris (A part of the Canis Major constellation) Jeb discussed a couple of evocative artworks: Appeal to the Great Spirit (Dallin) End of the Trail (Fraser) North African musket (Moukahla) Colonial Williamsburg…
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Club For Life Show #20 Feat. Eric Prydz Vs Becky Hill (Mashup)/Bicep vs Rui Da Silva (Mashup)/Dave Moralles/Space Food/Andy Galea & loads more
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The Club For Life Show (The Best in House Music) Jackers Revenge-What House Andy Galea - All Night EXTENDED MIX Eric Prydz & Mikro Vs Becky Hill - Pjanoo Overdrive (Discosid Mashup) Dave Moralles - Needin You Raven Maize - Real Life (David Penn Remix) Valorin 'Gratitude' - (Extended Mix) [Night Mayors] Space Food-Pride Allan Piziano - El Sabroso (E…
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Season 4, Ep.8: Colliers Unloading on Hove Beach by John Constable
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This week, Phil’s takes leading BBC radio presenter Danny Pike for a trip to the Brighton Pavilion to examine local legend John Constable’s stunning work depicting the seafront a stone’s throw from our office… Support the showBy Seventh Art Productions
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