Twisted Money Podcast is a podcast on Fraud, Scams, and Deceptions to help the listeners become better informed on fraud and cyber-attacks methods so that listeners don't become a victim of fraud and cyber-attacks.
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Art VS entertainment? Style over content? Schindler's List or Weekend at Bernie's?!! Two film fans in Birmingham, England. One is a chin stroker. The other is a punter. Discussion ensues.... Leave us feedback at chinstrokervspunter@gmail.com Voicemail (US) 206-350-0293 or (Elsewhere) 001-206-350-0293
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Longest-running tabletop wargaming podcast on the planet!
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New England Public Radio's J. Kyle Sullivan hosts a roundup of the top entries from public storytelling events around the region.
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A forum for professional, student and community journalists in the north east of England to meet, learn and collaborate. It’s supported by Newcastle University.
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Detailing the life and reigns of the Plantagent Kings of England and their Descendants. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/allthingsplantagenet/support
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Michael J. Johnson is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer/engineer. He is also a professor at Berklee and New England Conservatory in Boston.
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Revolution 250 is a consortium of organizations in New England planning commemorations of the American Revolution's 250th anniversary. https://revolution250.org/Through this podcast you will meet many of the people involved in these commemorations, and learn about the people who brought about the Revolution--which began here. To support Revolution 250, visit https://www.masshist.org/rev250Theme Music: "Road to Boston" fifes: Doug Quigley, Peter Emerick; Drums: Dave Emerick
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Welcome to Choose Film: A Reel Retrospective. Each episode we take a deep dive into a random film chosen by our guest host. Each season we will pick a theme and review films based on that. i.e Monster Movies: Jaws, Godzilla etc Contact infoInstagram: @choosefilmpodcast Twitter: @FilmChoose
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A podcast for all things Manchester United. Featuring season ticket holders from the Stretford End and J Stand plus a selection of Redcafe's finest. Match analysis, latest news, match previews, banter, transfer rumours and the odd trip down memory lane. Find us on the Sport Social website: https://podcast.sport-social.co.uk/podcast/united-hour/
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Interviews with Scholars of Britain about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies
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Read it to me is a podcast by Matthew and Cintia. All about the love of words and the spoken voice. They choose some of their favourite and famous pieces of writing. And ask each other to read them. It's definitely not lit crit, but they do bicker and flirt quite a bit.
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A look at Overlanding around the UK and soon, Abroad!
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Join me as I delve into stories of the paranormal. Interviews, experiences, theories and tales of all things ghostly, cryptid and extra-terrestrial. Let's muse, regale, discuss, ponder & pontificate. Episodes out as and when I can make them. Email me your experiences at paranormalorwhatpodcast@outlook.com. Together, we can figure it out...
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The Northern Agenda is a weekly podcast covering politics and public affairs from across the North of England, voiced by journalists who are outside the Westminster bubble, reporting from the other side of the North/South divide. From Blackpool to Barnsley and Bamburgh and everywhere in between, exploring subjects such as levelling up to buses, elections to the latest council scraps, The Northern Agenda brings you discussion and analysis of the North's big political stories, from people expe ...
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Walking virtually alongside pilgrims and authors, the Sacred Steps Podcast explores the world's most revered footpaths, connecting a community of pilgrims from across the globe. From the Camino de Santiago through Spain to the Via Francigena across Europe to Italy, the podcast features updates and first-hand accounts from the footpaths of pilgrimage. A companion to Kevin Donahue's pilgrimage books (The Pilgrims' Table and Sacred Steps: A Pilgrimage Journal), the podcast also introduces sever ...
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A-list guests like ... Paul McCartney, Stephen Colbert, Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Costner, Spike Lee, Bryan Cranston, Kristin Chenoweth, David Duchovny, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Burr, Laura Prepon, Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Strahan, Historian Jon Meacham, Judd Apatow, Kristen Chenoweth, Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, , Sanjay Gupta, Ken Burns, Bill Wyman-The Rolling Stones , Tim Robbins, Bob Costas and MORE, join Emmy & Peabody award-winning comedian Paul Mecurio who interviews the big ...
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Robin Hood is one of the most ubiquitous figures in the English-speaking world. He’s been the star of countless films, television shows, books, games, and branded merchandise from baking supplies to investment apps. Whether he’s wearing a dark shrouding hood or a jaunty pointed cap, there’s a distinct image that comes to mind when you hear the name. Our mission is to dissect that image. Through interviews with academics and experts we’ll be taking a focused look on what one would actually ex ...
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On a dreary Tuesday morning in 1939, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien wandered into the Eagle & Child on St. Giles' Street in Oxford, England. The Eagle & Child was where these 'Inklings' gathered regularly to discuss their latest literary ideas, some of which would impact Christians worldwide for generations to come. The Eagle & Child Podcast is devoted to discussing the history and inspiring stories of influential Christian thinkers & their thoughts. 'A tip of the hat to the Inklings & Christ ...
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One of the many public affairs lecture series Maine Public Radio presents weekdays at 2:00 pm, In partnership with many civic minding organizations and educational institutions from all around the state, Speaking in Maine features diverse speakers addressing many of the important issues of our day. The Executive Producer for Speaking in Maine is Susan Tran.
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A comedy chat show hosted by award-winning comedian, author and accidental relationship guru Rosie Wilby. She and a rotating cast of her acclaimed performer pals look back at their best and worst romantic breakup stories. Tragedy plus time equals comedy, right? The Breakup Monologues was initially developed as part of a multi-platform project supported using public funding by Arts Council England. The music used in the series is Hackbeat Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creativ ...
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What’s The 411Sports | Sports News and Commentary with a Dose of Pop-Culture
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Join Keisha Wilson and Mike McDonald, the hosts of What’s The 411Sports, as they discuss through an urban lens topical news from sports, with a dash of entertainment, pop culture, politics, film, and music. Some episodes include features and interviews with and about athletes. Plus, you never know who’s going to be put on the bench or sent to the Dog House! Check out a sample video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?3=&v=FP6gvhTiCzA Also, check us out at https://411SportsTV.com, and subscribe ...
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Welcome to the Jen Waters' Pen Jen’s Inkwell Podcast! Jen wrote and performed all the original stories in the podcast. This podcast is produced by Eric Baines, who scored all the stories and poems in the series to public domain and original music. The podcast is associated with the blog of the same name, Pen Jen’s Inkwell, www.penjensinkwell.blogspot.com, which can be found on her website: www.jenwaters.com. It features the children's music and spoken word stories from her Apple Music releas ...
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New York Times and internationally bestselling author Amie Kaufman answers one question each week about writing craft. Full of practical tips and an exercise each week, this is a show for writers, for readers who want a backstage look at how their favourite authors craft their stories, or for creative writing classrooms.
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Let go of fear and embrace your Spiritual Gifts! Maria Gonçalves is an Evidential Psychic Medium, Intuitive Tarot Teacher, mentor, and author who was featured in the L.A. Times. On the Maria Gonçalves podcast, you will learn to let go of fear and embrace your intuitive, psychic and mediumship abilities. This podcast will feature heart-to-heart, authentic interviews with psychics, mediums, healers, and insightful solo sessions. Maria owns the Maria Gonçalves School, where she offers Mediumshi ...
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Investment Matters connects you with the investment themes shaping our world. Featuring insights from our investment teams on key economic and market drivers, this channel explains the risks and opportunities uncovered by our research and highlights the implications for investors. Views presented are as of the date published and may not reflect the views of others in the organization. This material shall not be deemed to be a direct or indirect provision of investment management services. No ...
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Fantasy Literature has emerged as one of the most important genres over the past few decades and now enjoys extraordinary levels of popularity. The impact of Tolkien’s Middle-earth works and the serialisation of George Martin’s ‘Game of Thrones’ books has moved these and their contemporaries into mainstream culture. As the popularity grows so does interest in the roots of fantasy, the main writers and themes, and how to approach these texts. Oxford is a natural home to fantasy literature wit ...
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The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare, is the first of the history series that continues with Parts 1 and 2 of King Henry IV and with The Life of King Henry V. At the beginning of the play, Richard II banishes his cousin Henry Bolingbroke from England. Bolingbroke later returns with an army and the support of some of the nobility, and he deposes Richard. Richard is separated from his beloved Queen, imprisoned, and later murdered. By the end of the play, Bolingbroke has been ...
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Myron Scholes On Time provides insight into the thinking of Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences and Janus Henderson’s Chief Investment Strategist, Myron Scholes. Aimed at sophisticated investors, and those who wish to be sophisticated investors, these episodes provide a fresh, and at times controversial, take on foundational investment principles through the lens of the dynamics of time. Views presented are as of the date published and may not reflect the views of others in the organization. ...
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EP. 37 Where are the people of colour in Spiritual Practice with Rev. Lorna J Hines
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Today's guest speaker is… Rev. Lorna J. Hines, LCSW, PR/LCSW, ACSW Lorna J. Hines is a Spiritualist Minister and a multi-talented and gifted Medium, Trance Healer, Intuitive, Numerologist, Psychotherapist, Inspirational Speaker, Teacher and Author who was initially guided into the Behavioral Health Industry to provide skillful and compassionate car…
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The Whiskey Rebellion with Brady J. Crytzer
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The "Whiskey Rebellion," as Alexander Hamilton called it, was the first major test of the new government's power to control its territory. The Whiskey Tax of 1791 taxed smaller producers of whiskey, and required all stills to be registered. The response of farmers in the west--many of them veterans of the Revolution--was at times violent, and Presi…
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Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb, "The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a fiercely brilliant Catholic convert; a daughter of privilege longing to escape her stifling upbringing…
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Paige Reynolds, "Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a sur…
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Kathryn Hughes, "Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
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In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries been seen as a household servant or urban nuisance had now become an object of pride and deep affection. From presidential and royal families who imported exotic breeds to working-class men competing for cash prizes for the fattest tabby, people became en…
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Tabitha Stanmore, "Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic" (Bloombury, 2024)
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Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing a trial. Maybe you're looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might have been cunning folk: practitioners of “service mag…
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Jessie Abrahams, "Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class" (Bristol UP, 2024)
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Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds remain less likely to enter university than their advantaged counterparts. Drawing on unique new research gathered from three contrasting secondary schools in England, including interviews with children f…
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Rishi, Binface and me: election night in North Yorkshire
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It's General Election night and Rob Parsons has got himself a front row seat for one of the highest-profile counts in the North: Rishi Sunak's Richmond and Northallerton constituency in North Yorkshire. With Sunak's Conservatives facing near certain defeat to Labour in the polls, the media is waiting for the Prime Minister to show his face in the e…
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Jeremy Black, "Defoe's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)
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The Weight of Words Series continues with Defoe's Britain (St. Augustine's Press, 2023), as historian Jeremy Black uses this writer to interpret Britain in the late 1600s, and likewise looks to the times to interpret the fiction. As seen in previous studies on Christie, Smollett, Fielding, and the Gothic novelists, Black tells the story of the stor…
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Ep 75: Ghosts of Tennessee: Interview with Cyn Shrader Hill
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Cyn Shrader Hill is an experienced paranormal investigator from Tennessee. She is also the author of 5 books about the paranormal. We talk about her paranormal experiences, her investigations, her books and her heart-wrenching experience of communicating with a dear loved one after they were taken too soon. It was a pleasure and a privilege to talk…
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EP 36: Eva Shehu, Psychic Medium, Clairaudient, and Spiritual Healer based in Massachusetts, USA
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July Evidential Mediumship Circles are now up to register https://mariagoncalvesmedium.com/mediumship-circles-1 Sign up for the Intuitive Tarot Certification now up https://mariagoncalvesmedium.com/tarot-certification Email me with any questions Maria xo Today's guest speaker is… Eva Shehu, a gifted Psychic Medium and Spiritual Healer located in Ma…
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A chat with MUST (Manchester United Supporters Trust)
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Nik is joined by CEO Duncan and Financial Director Andy from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy United Hour
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John Trumbull, Painter of the Revolution with Richard Brookhiser
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We see him as the artist who gave us the iconic imagery of our nation's founding. He saw himself as a historian. John Trumbull, soldier, spy, and artist was the son of a Connecticut Governor, a scion of the first-families of New England. Join Professor Robert Allison in conversation with award-winning author Richard Brookhiser on his book Glorious …
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Faith Smith, "Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2023)
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In Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century (Duke UP, 2023), Faith Smith engages with a period in the history of the Anglophone Caribbean often overlooked as nondescript, quiet, and embarrassingly pro-imperial within the larger narrative of Jamaican and Trinidadian nationalism. Between the 1865 Mor…
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Jane Clauss - Emmy Winning Host, CBS Anchor, "The Today Show," Host "Creative Living"
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A really fun conversation with Jane about her amazing career as a host, CBS news anchor and nationally known DIY expert on such shows as NBC’s The TODAY Show, FOX Good Day, and HSN to name a few. Jane explains why being a radio host for 4 hours a day early on in her career was so instrumental to her success on TV. Hear what makes Jane such a GREAT …
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Why voters in the North are so disillusioned by the General Election
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This week voters across the North will be going to the polls for the General Election with all the national polling pointing to a big Labour victory. But Rob Parsons wants to hear what's happening at local level across the North of England and has reassembled a panel of top political journalists, Liam Thorp from the Liverpool Echo, Joseph Timan fro…
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Cintia asks Matthew to read the BBC website match report of the Euro 2024 Round of 16 game between England and Slovakia.By Read it to me
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In this episode, I, Jonathan, share my live recording from Huzzah! 2024 in South Portland, Maine, post-pandemic. I’m joined by Joerg Bender of Things from the Basement. The convention was a huge success with increased attendance, thanks to vendors like WeeWolf Miniatures, Bloody Scotsmen Games, and Trilaterum, who showcased top-notch… Read More»…
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Peter Murray Jones, "The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
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Friars are often overlooked in the picture of health care in late mediaeval England. Physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, barbers, midwives - these are the people we think of immediately as agents of healing; whilst we identify university teachers as authorities on medical writings. Yet from their first appearance in England in the 1220s to the disp…
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Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word (Princeton UP, 2022), Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word. Sonenscher sh…
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Shahmima Akhtar, "Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, Race and Nation, c. 1850-1970" (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Shahmima Akhtar is a historian of race, migration and empire and an assistant professor of Black and Asian British History at the University of Birmingham. She previously worked at the Royal Historical Society to improve BME representation in UK History, whether working with schools and the curriculum, cultural institutions, community groups or oth…
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Nicola Clark, "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens" (Norton, 2024)
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Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes, an a…
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Reeju Ray, "Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge (Oxford UP, 2023) is a study of the travels of colonial law into the North-East frontier of the British Empire in India. Focusing on the nineteenth century, it examines the relationship of law and space, and indigenous place-making. Inhabitants of the frontier hills examin…
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Simon Heffer, "Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars" (Penguin, 2024)
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Simon Heffer's book Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars (Penguin, 2024) is an astonishingly ambitious overview of the political, social and cultural history of the country from 1919 to 1939. It explores and explains the politics of the period, and puts such moments of national turmoil as the General Strike of 1926 and the Abdication Crisis of 1…
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EP 35: Let's talk about Trance Mediumship with Rickie Avitan Psychic Medium
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Today's guest speaker is… Rickie Avitan a gifted Trance Medium, Psychic, Spiritual Healer, Teacher, and Clinical Hypnotherapist. Rickie’s services allow you to encounter your spirit guides and loved ones even after they have left this world to give you guidance and reassurance that more exists even after death and that there is a whole other world …
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495: Knock at the Cabin, Truck Turner, Tall T, Under Paris, The Acolyte and MORE
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On the audio version of the latest ChinStroker VS Punter podcast, the feraure review is M. Night Shyamalan's 2023, Rod Serling-infused KNOCK AT THE CABIN. We also have a bog old catch-up on what we have been watching including: Episode timings: 00:00 – Intro 06:04 – Knock at the Cabin (Feauture Review) 35:00 – Truck Turner 39:34 – Prisoners of the …
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Episode 39: Reading Cozy Robin Hood Fiction with Jenny Kane & Jennifer Ash
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This week I'm joined by a fiction writer who has delved deeply into the world of Robin Hood fiction through her work on the Robin of Sherwood audio dramas as well as the world of medieval outlaws through her academic studies and the Folville Chronicles, a historical fiction series centered around the very real Folville gang of the 14th century. Jen…
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Sarah Johnson's Mt. Vernon with Scott E. Casper
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Mount Vernon's historical status was secured by George Washington's ownership, but its full history cannot be told without examining the other people who lived here. Sarah Johnson, first living enslaved at Mount Vernon and later emancipated, saw the change in Mount Vernon from family home to national treasure. We discuss this story with Scott E. Ca…
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Global Perspectives: Where do we go from here?
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Janus Henderson’s asset class heads discuss their outlook for the second half of 2024 in a panel discussion from our recent Global Investment Summit. Jim Cielinski, Global Head of Fixed Income, joins Lucas Klein, Head of EMEA and Asia Pacific Equities and Marc Pinto, Head of Americas Equities in a session hosted by Matthew Bullock, EMEA Head of Por…
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Northern election rivals taken to task
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In the run-up to the General Election, we've heard so much from the likes of Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak, Nigel Farage and Ed Davey - wouldn't it be interesting to put the local candidates bidding for voters in the North in the spotlight for a change? This week on the Northern Agenda podcast, election rivals in the North East are taken to task ove…
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Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by globalised elites and mass migration. Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Maki…
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Henry Reece, "The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail? Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolve…
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ETH Staying Put | Euros - England & Scotland (and Denmark) | Transfers
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Nik and Jamie are joined by special guest Anders to celebrate the news that ETH is staying put! They also talk about the Euro's so far, with special attention on England, Scotland and Denmark. They then finish with some transfer talk and the potential ingoings and outgoings at Old Trafford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/…
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M. Girard Dorsey, "Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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In Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II (Cornell UP, 2023), M. Girard Dorsey uncovers just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to crossing the red line that restrained poison gas during World War II. Unlike in World War I, belligerents did not release poison gas regularly d…
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Ep:74: ABCs (Alien Big Cats), cryptids & ghosts?: Interview with Mike Potts
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Mike Potts has been the chief executive of Beastwatch UK and is now involved in National Exotics, UK; National Exotics is the country’s only national search & rescue service for escaped or abandoned exotic animals. Mike is a former psychiatric nurse, who has had more than his fair share of spooky experiences over the years. We talk about possible b…
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Will Orgreave miners get the truth after 40 years? | A postcard from Southport
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We're 40 years on from the so-called Battle of Orgreave, when thousands of picketing miners were attacked by riot police in South Yorkshire in what has been described as one of the most violent clashes in British industrial history, with police using ‘paramilitary’ tactics. And to mark the occasion a new report, chronicling what campaigners say is …
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John Ratzenberger - "Cheers," "Cars," "Inside Out 2"
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John created one of the most iconic characters in television history - Cliff Clavin of "Cheers." Hear the fascinating story how that character was created, how John's 10 years touring Europe as a performer led to him landing the role of cheers, what his huge comedy influences are and much more.By Paul Mecurio
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A FIELD IN ENGLAND (Dir. Ben Wheatley) w Brendan Swift
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Welcome to episode 097 of Choose Film Podcast. It’s time to take a walk across the country, find the nearest ale house and watch out for nettle when taking a shit outside. We’re discussing Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England. Film synopsis During the English Civil War, a small group of deserters, including the lacemaker and alchemist's assistant, Whi…
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EP 34: Let's talk about Mediumship and Psychic Development with Karly Douglas Spiritual Medium and Psychic based in Northern England
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Today's guest speaker is… Karly Douglas is such a beautiful Soul! She is a Spiritual Medium and Psychic who grew up in Aberdeen in Scotland and now lives near Manchester in Northern England. From a young age, Karly was fascinated by the idea of magic. She always felt there was an unseen world, which her family put down to her very active imaginatio…
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Ben and William Frank became part of the Second Rhode Island Regiment in 1777. AFter figinting in the Battle of Rhode Island, Ben switched sides, joined with the British, and wound up in Nova Scotia after the war. His descendant Shirley Green, a Toledo police officer and now director of the Toledo Police Museum, wrote about the Frank Brothers in he…
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Behind the Scenes – Wargaming Recon #304
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Jonathan and Peter discuss Jonathan's journey from adversity to podcasting, highlighting community, collaboration, and sustainability. They express gratitude to listeners and encourage creativity with perseverance and joy.By Jonathan J. Reinhart
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Harry R. McCarthy, "Boy Actors in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. Harry McCarthy provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical skills in order to reassess their wide-reaching contribution to early modern theatrical cul…
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Hannah Forsyth, "Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 (Cambridge UP, 2023) explores the rise of the professional middle class across the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. With a focus on British settler colonies - Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States - Hannah Forsyth argues that the …
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Matthew asks Cintia to read passages from The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, published in 1848.By Read it to me
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Laurence M. Geary, "The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting" (Cork UP, 2023)
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In this interview, he discusses his new book The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting (Cork UP, 2023), a collection of interconnected essays on different aspects of agrarian agitation in 1870s and 1880s Ireland. The Land War in Ireland addresses perceived lacunae in the historiography of the Land War in late nineteenth-century…
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Ep:73: Paranormal podcaster: sleep paralysis, alien abduction, conspiracy theory: Interview with Chris Holm
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Chris Holm is a paranormal podcaster from the USA. He has had episodes of sleep paralysis, which have been terrifying for him. He chats to me about alien abduction and the conspiracy theory surrounding The Mandela Effect. Chris' podcast is 'Conspire A Theory', and is available on all good podcast platforms.…
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Ep:73: Paranormal podcaster: Alien abduction, sleep paralysis, conspiracy theory: Interview with Chris Holm
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Chris Holm is the host of Conspire A Theory podcast in the USA. We chat about his experiences of sleep paralysis and connections to alien abduction. Chris then tells me his take on a conspiracy theory- The Mandela Effect.
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