A series of live mixes from Nigel's gigs around the globe.
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I'll be covering topics from proper exercise, nutrition, longevity, but also things like music, philosophy and anything and every thing that contributes to maximizing life quality!
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A podcast featuring conversations with Caribbean jazz and steelpan jazz musicians based in the islands and the diaspora.
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THE BIBLIO FILE is a podcast about "the book," and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging, long-form conversations with authors, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and many others inside the book trade and out - from writer to reader.
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Welcome to The Sceptic, the Daily Sceptic’s weekly podcast. Host Laurie Wastell interviews the authors of some of the website’s most talked about recent pieces. Please subscribe, and remember: question everything; stay sane; live free. Produced by Richard Eldred.
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Set in the heady days of 1970's Italy, before the internet shrank the world, 'Italia 77' tells a compelling story of two Lancastrian friends, fresh from the UK, one a failed dental student, the other, an ageing rugby star, who find themselves landed in Rome with the bold intention of taking the Italian sporting scene by storm, but this is far from being a sporting memoir. Join us on a journey of enlightenment, adventure, enduring friendship and discovery on a five-year trail from Rome to Flo ...
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Interesting Conversations with Interesting People featuring Interviews with Award Winning Authors, Therapists, Relationship/Life Coaches and a wide variety of people with intriguing stories to share. All Podcasts Available @ Website: https://www.authornigelbecklespodcasts.com/ Thanks
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A podcast about architecture, buildings, urban culture and space with Ambrose Gillick, discussing ideas, artefacts and people with scholars, designers, artists, teachers and architects. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts/ iTunes, Youtube Music and Amazon Music. Contact Ambrose on a.gillick@kent.ac.uk i. @ais4architecture x. @AisArchitecture f. @aisforarchitecture
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Taking the concept from Brian Lamb's long running Booknotes TV program, the podcast offers listeners more books and authors. Booknotes+ features a mix of new interviews with authors and historians, along with some old favorites from the archives. The platform may be different, but the goal is the same – give listeners the opportunity to learn something new.
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A wargaming Podcast covering that modern day rarity, The Big Game. No 10 figures a side on a 3ft square table here old chap. All scales, all periods, so long as its BIG. You know what they say ”Go Big or Go Home” We, my friends have gone Big ! Each episode will look at a different aspect of the Big Wargame and do a little bit to bring them back into fashion. Is it a coincidence that Warlord games bring an Epic scale box set out just after this podcast went to air ! I don’t think so, so get o ...
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Race Beyond Borders is a podcast by the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity. It exists to raise new questions about race & Blackness across time and beyond geographical divides. Visit www.afremoya.com
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A monthly review of the best, worst and most absurd of online celebrity journalism in the UK. Hosted by Chris Beckett and Matt Withers.
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The newest HR podcast. Presented by People in Flow's operations coordinator, Rae Hine with guests Neville Pritchard and Nigel Girling. Special guests have included Dave Ulrich, Owen Ferguson, Andy Friedman, Catherine Llewellyn and Richard Scott; With many more exciting industry leaders in the pipeline! We provide consulting, insight, coaching and facilitation of change innovation of the highest global quality. Reducing stress and energising the workplace is at the very heart of every action ...
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Presented by People in Flow's operations coordinator, Shannon O'Connor with guests Neville Pritchard and Nigel Girling. Special guests have included Dave Ulrich, Owen Ferguson, Andy Friedman, Catherine Llewellyn and Richard Scott; With many more exciting industry leaders in the pipeline! We provide consulting, insight, coaching and facilitation of change innovation of the highest global quality. Reducing stress and energising the workplace is at the very heart of every action we take. Want t ...
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Welcome to What's Out There? The podcast channel for Out There Paranormal. Join us as we look into all things spooky, strange, and just plain weird. Take a journey into the world of the unexplained with our eclectic mix of podcasts delivered in a more light-hearted style but still packed with little tidbits of information. We cover stories from haunted places, telling tales of what lurks in the darkness. Walk with us as we go out investigating, and listen as we talk through the many aspects ...
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This is the podcast of the Wildlife Disease Association (WDA, https://www.wildlifedisease.org). Our host Dr Catharina Vendl chats with wildlife health professionals including researchers, vets, pathologists and more, about the joys and challenges of their job and the emerging issues of wildlife health locally and worldwide. All of our guests have a longstanding affinity with the WDA and a true passion for wildlife in common. So brush up your knowledge of current wildlife issues and One Healt ...
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🌟 Welcome to ”The Outskirts of Faith” Podcast! Launched December 1st, 2023. 🌟 Are you seeking spiritual connection or intrigued by the Christian faith? Whether you’re a seeker, a sceptic, or a devout believer, ”The Outskirts of Faith” extends a warm welcome. Join us on this transformative journey that transcends boundaries, embracing every soul seeking spiritual growth and connection. Join us for captivating conversations where diverse guests open up about their personal and candid journeys ...
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Eli Marcus is a fiery, renowned dynamic Motivational Speaker and Professional Mentor Coach who, as former CEO of The Seminar Center in NY, worked with some of the all-time great celebs, book authors & speakers including Michael Jackson, Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul), Dr. Richard Carlson (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff), Denis Waitley, Les Brown, Neale Donald Walsch, Ivana Trump, Davy Jones (The Monkees), Dr. Brian Weiss, James Van Praagh, Iyanla Vanzant, Caroline Myss & hundred ...
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The AI Horizon” is a groundbreaking series hosted by Emily Barrett, AI Lead & HPC System Architect for Lenovo, that explores the profound impact of artificial intelligence across diverse sectors. Through captivating conversations with industry pioneers, academic luminaries, and visionary thinkers, this compelling show unravels the infinite possibilities and complexities of AI technology. Emily engages with renowned experts, uncovering untapped career prospects, the critical role of training, ...
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A podcast about people joining forces for the planet.
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20 For 2020 - Powered Up Success Techniques for the new decade Hosts Sandra Beck and Linda Franklin explore new and innovative techniques to successfully manage your business, health and relationships issues. Learning how to turn challenge into opportunity makes a huge difference in both your short term and long term results. Sandra provides the perspective of a single mom with two teenage boys running her own company. Linda with a successful 25 year career on Wall Street shares strategies t ...
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Interviews with leading executives who are driving Innovation, Corporate Venturing and Strategic Change by Andrew Gaule. For details of our support see www.aimava.com
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Scott Mills and Chris Stark kick start the weekend with lots of laughs and entertainment. Just what you want on a Saturday morning! With your texts, tweets and calls.
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The Japan Memo is a monthly podcast series that analyses why Japan matters in today’s regional and global geopolitical landscape. In each episode, Robert Ward of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Japan Chair Programme, will bring in strategists, experts and practitioners from around the world to examine how Japan is using its diplomatic, economic and military tools to achieve its strategic goals, and what lessons it offers to other countries. Hosted on Acast. See acast ...
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Nigel Broomhall, CEO of Invisible Urban Charging, an EV charging infrastrcuture as a service business operating globally, shares with you what's going on around the world in the EV space. Discover what forms of transport are making the shift to electric drives, from cars to trucks, motorbikes to planes, everything with an internal combustion engine today is about to be transformed. Get insights into new models coming into the market, the best choices for you and your business, and what you s ...
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Richard Charkin on Lessons Learned from 50 Years in Book Publishing
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Richard Charkin has held senior posts at many major, and some minor, publishing houses in the U.K. over the past 50 years, including: Harrap, OUP, Pergamon Press, Reed Elsevier, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, and Mensch Publishing. He is former President of The Book Society, the International Publishers Association and the UK Publishers Association. His bo…
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Episode 63 - Paul Thompson - EWM Catch Up & the WW2 German Raid on the UK
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Hi everyone, This was planned initially as a bit of a catch up episode with a number of guests but I wasn't able to get all the interviews done and I've been away myself so rather than have this lying around for weeks I've put my catch up with Paul out as an individual episode. Paul was my guest on Episode 43 and we chatted in depth on that occasio…
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“Police Came to My Home Over My ‘Right-Wing Views’”
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Welcome to episode 14 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Ava, a 19 year-old charity volunteer from Liverpool, who tells the shocking story of how she was visited at her home by counterterror police – despite them telling her she hadn’t committed a crime – then questioned over her political vie…
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Henrik Schoenefeldt: Environmental design and the Houses of Parliament.
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Episode 123 of A is for Architecture is a discussion with Henrik Schoenefeldt, Professor of Sustainable Architecture at the School of Architecture, Design & Planning, University of Kent, about his research into the work and influence of the Scottish physician David Boswell Reid on the environmental design underpinning Barry and Pugin’s Palace of We…
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Ep. 184 Dr. Marty Makary, "Blind Spots"
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Dr. Marty Makary is a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor. He has published more than 300 scientific research articles. His book is called "Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health." In his preface, Dr. Makary says he realizes that much of what the public is told about health is medical dogma, an idea or pra…
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Does Britain Have a Two-Tier Legal System?
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Welcome to episode 13 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Sarah Phillimore, barrister and gender-critical campaigner, on how the barristers’ regulator is pushing to make lawyers embrace woke ideology; Steven Tucker, regular Daily Sceptic contributor and author of Hitler and …
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In this episode of A is for Architecture, Dell Upton, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, UC Berkeley and Professor and Chair of Art History at UCLA, speaks about his book, American Architecture: A Thematic History, published by Oxford University Press in 2019. To the question, What is American architecture? Dell suggests ‘That is a very long and v…
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Ep. 183 Ken Khachigian, "Behind Closed Doors"
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The book is called "Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Reagan & Nixon." It's the title of a memoir by a man who worked closely with both. Ken Khachigian, the author, was a speechwriter and a confidant to former Presidents Nixon and Reagan back in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Near the end of his book, Khachigian, a lawyer based in California, writes: …
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#44 Jane and all things Australian wildlife health (Australia)
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Our host Cat Vendl is talking all things Australian wildlife health with wildlife biologist Jane Hall. Jane is the project officer at the Australian Registry of Wildlife Health at Taronga Zoo and a PhD candidate at Griffith University. In her many years with the Registry, she has worked with all creatures big and small, from the tiniest marsupials …
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Welcome to episode 12 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Ben Sixsmith, Online Editor at the Critic and author of the Zone substack, on Keir Starmer’s miserabilist plan to ban smoking outside pubs; Len Shackleton, Professor of Economics at Buckingham University and a fellow at the Institute of …
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Cat Rossi, Victoria Kelley & Jessica Kelly: Borders.
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The title of this year’s Design History Society Annual Conference is Border Control: Excursion, Incursion and Exclusion and for this episode of A is for Architecture, three of the conference’s convenors, Dr Jessica Kelly, Professor Victoria Kelley and Professor Cat Rossi, took a bit of time to talk about it with me. The conference blurb states: ‘Wh…
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Ep. 182: David Roll, "Ascent to Power" – Part 2
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This is the second in a 2-part series with David Roll, a Washington-based attorney, who has written books on Harry Hopkins, George Marshall, and Louis Johnson. Now comes his fourth book, "Ascent to Power," which focuses on Franklin Roosevelt's final days through the sudden transition to the presidency of Harry Truman. Spanning the years 1944-1948, …
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Episode #330: Learn to Meditate with Sandra Beck and Nigel Welling
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Tune in to Powered Up Talk Radio with Sandra Beck as she sits down with author Nigel Welling to explore the how, when, and why of meditation. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned meditator, this discussion will provide valuable insights on incorporating meditation into your daily life for greater focus, relaxation, and overall well-being.Discove…
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G Flip's rock star partying and Oasis date clash chaos
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Chris Beckett and Matt Withers return for another look at the latest online celebrity journalism, including G Flip partying like a rock star, Lana Del Rey's alligator tour guide romance and Oasis date clash chaos.By Barely Contained
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The Truth About Immigration Into Britain
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Welcome to episode 11 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Dr. Freddie Attenborough, Communications Officer at the Free Speech Union, on the Labour Government’s chilling social-media crackdown in the wake of the Southport riots; Andy Collingwood, writer and co-host of the Mul…
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Professor Nigel Cross is the podcasts' 120th guest, Emeritus Professor of Design Studies at the Open University, design researcher who played a pivotal role in establishing design as an academic discipline, Editor in Chief of the journal Design Studies between 1984-2017, developing the concept of design thinking along the way. We speak about the se…
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Ep. 181 David Roll, "Ascent to Power" – Part 1
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David Roll, a Washington-based attorney, has written books on Harry Hopkins, George Marshall, and Louis Johnson. Now comes his fourth book, "Ascent to Power," which focuses on Franklin Roosevelt's final days through the sudden transition to the presidency of Harry Truman. Spanning the years 1944-1948, David Roll's newest book looks at the struggles…
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Hollywood Secrets and Scandals - with Sue Cameron of The Hollywood Reporter
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Sue Cameron has known, interviewed and befriended a plethora of Hollywood and Music A Listers. In fact they are so famous, they would belong in an A+ list category if there was one. She has been a daily columnist & TV editor for The Hollywood Reporter, Hamptons & a Cosmo contributor. She is an original founder of Women in Film, an organization of 2…
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Poltergeist meaning.. The word poltergeist comes from the German poltern, 'to make sound, to rumble,' and Geist, 'ghost, spirit.' The term itself translates as 'noisy ghost', 'rumble-ghost', or a 'loud spirit'. One of the tricks a poltergeist is known for is making "knocking" noises, so it will come as no surprise to learn that the word poltergeist…
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#43 Helena and Project 'Whale Exhale' (Norway)
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This week on WDA's Wildlife Health Talks podcast, host Dr Cat Vendl immerses herself and our listeners in an interview with Dr Helena Costa on her project 'Whale Exhale'. Helena studies the viruses in the blow of humpback whales that visit the coastline of Norway for the annual herring run. A PhD student at Nord University in Bodø, Norway, it's a f…
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Episode 62 - Trevor Dixon - Dixon Miniatures
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Welcome back everyone to Episode 63 of the Yarkshire Gamers Reet Big Wargames Podcast and today I've got off my backside and driven down t'road to Honley just outside Holmfirth where I sat down with Trevor Dixon of Dixon Miniatures to chat about his time in the hobby. He got his first break with Hinchliffe Miniatures before striking out on his own …
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Robyne Calvert: Design, reconstruction and The Mackintosh Building.
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Cultural historian Dr Robyne Calvert discusses her recent book, The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art in the 119th episode of A is for Architecture. Published by Yale University Press, the book is a detailed study of The Mackintosh Building, one of the great icons of modern architecture, and its reconstruction, engaging …
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Book scholar Jonathan Rose on who used to read Playboy magazine and Why
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The last time I ran into renowned book scholar Jonathan Rose (at a SHARP conference) he mentioned that he was doing some work on Playboy magazine. ‘Way more women readers than you’d expect!’ he told me. Rose is an accomplished author. His groundbreaking and award-winning book, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, first published in…
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Ep. 180 Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money"
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Presidential historian Tevi Troy has called his latest book "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry." Mr. Troy has spent most of his professional life in and around Washington-based government and politics. He is currently a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center. In the introduction to t…
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Japan and the Pacific Islands countries with Professor Koga Kei, Shiozawa Hideyuki and Euan Graham
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Robert Ward hosts Professor Koga Kei, Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Shiozawa Hideyuki, Senior Program Officer at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and Euan Graham, Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Robert, Kei, Hideyuki and Euan discuss: Japan’s strategic approach to the Pacific Island countries Ch…
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Nigel Biggar: Fighting Back Against “Decolonisation”
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Welcome to this special episode of the Sceptic, with Professor Nigel Biggar. Nigel Biggar is Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and the author of Colonialism: a Moral Reckoning. Nigel recently delivered the second lecture of Modern Dissent, a London lecture series challenging established ideas run b…
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Richard J Weller: A Grand Tour through the Anthropocene.
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In Episode 117 of A is for Architecture’s landscape architect Richard J Weller, discusses his beautiful book, To the Ends of the Earth: A Grand Tour for the 21st Century, published by Birkhauser this year. The book develops the historical practice of the Grand Tour – ‘an intellectual, cultural undertaking that was sort of a finishing school and an…
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Ep. 179 Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"
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Maureen Callahan's book "Ask Not: The Kennedy's and the Women They Destroyed" has been near the top of the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list since its publication in early July. In a review of the Callahan book by Nina Burleigh in the Washington Post, Burleigh writes: "She identifies the wellspring of misogyny in Irish Catholic patriarch Jo…
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Karen Etingin on running a vintage poster shop
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Karen Etingin is the proprietor of L'Affichiste, a vintage poster shop in Montreal. Here's the scoop: "Working with private, corporate and institutional clients, L'Affichiste deals in vintage posters on a global level. The gallery provides evaluations of private, corporate and museum collections of posters, and is a member of the internationally re…
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#42 Richard Kock and how colonialism threatened species survival (UK)
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Our host Cat Vendl chats with WDA's own vice president Richard Kock. Richard has lived almost a life time of promoting wildlife health in Africa, Central Asia and the UK. Born in Rhodesia (today's Zimbabwe), Richard worked in Kenya for many years. He has seen the devastating consequences of colonialism to wildlife conservation first hand and has wo…
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Episode 21: Island Jazz Chat with Anthony Pierre
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Anthony Pierre represents a pioneering effort of a Caribbean musician to establish a sustained island jazz presence in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. That multi-decade journey has resulted, by the 1990s, in the formation of the Caribbean jazz sextet Kalabash, which focused on "using the steel drum as a lead voice in a jazz ensemble, while ex…
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Britain’s Civil Unrest and the Crisis of Multiculturalism
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Welcome to episode ten of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Claire Fox, the cross-bench peer and founder of the Academy of Ideas, on the fallout of the Southport attack and the crisis of multicultural Britain; Dr. James Alexander, Professor of Political Science at Bilkent Uni…
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Michael Pawlyn: Biomimetic, regenerative architecture.
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A is for Architecture’s 116th episode features the architect, writer, public speaker, TED-talker and all round polymath, Michael Pawlyn, discussing Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency, which he co-wrote with urbanist, curator and writer, Sarah Ichioka and published with Triarchy Press in 2021. It’s a challenge, what Michael artic…
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Episode 61 - Little Wars TV with Greg and Miles
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Hey Up, Its time to go across the pond to the USA and speak to a couple of guys who are part of the team who run Little Wars TV on that there Utubes. These guys are so big they even have more subscribers than Alex Sotheran ! The channel has been off air for a while and has recently returned to the airwaves so I thought it would be a great time to h…
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Ep. 178 Richard Brookhiser, "Glorious Lessons"
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Richard Brookhiser has written and edited for National Review magazine for over 50 years. He has also written books about George Washington, James Madison, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, and "gentleman revolutionary" Gouverneur Morris. Now comes his latest, "Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution." Trumbull, who liv…
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Episode #329: Gray Divorce with Sandra Beck
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Join Sandra Beck and Linda Franklin of Powered Up Talk Radio for an in-depth discussion with Dr. Carol Hughes and Bruce Fredenberger, authors of "Home Will Never Be The Same Again," about the phenomenon of Gray Divorce. As more long-term high-profile cases come to light, many are left wondering about the impact on adult children when their parents …
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Doug McGuff co-author of Body by Science "Best Way to Straighten Deck Chairs on the Titanic?"
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In preparation for article/speech that I want to write, I wanted to do a consultation with Dr. Doug McGuff both to check my understanding and to make sure I didn't make too many errors in describing the science behind my latest distinctions: 1. The difference between so called optimal and good results is very small and is likely irrelevant in the l…
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Welcome to episode nine of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Toby Young, Daily Sceptic Editor-in-Chief and the founder of the Free Speech Union, on Labour’s outrageous attack on free speech in universities; Our special guest this week Andrew Montford, Director of Net Zero Wat…
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Matt Withers and Chris Beckett return for another look at the latest online celebrity journalism, including Craig Charles' Crispy Pancake crusade, Rafael Nadal's adorable mini-me and Kerry Katona's offer to Donald Trump.By Barely Contained
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Sofia Singler: The Aaltos’ sacred architecture
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Episode 115 of A is for Architecture is a conversation with Sofia Singler, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and College Lecturer in Architecture at St John’s College, Cambridge. We discuss parts of her book, The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto, which she published with Lund Hum…
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Ep. 177 Former Washington Post Reporter & Professor Leon Dash
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Leon Dash spent over 30 years with the Washington Post from 1966 to 1998. In 1995 series on poverty and survival in urban America. Leon Dash spent 4 years following the life of Rosa Lee Cunningham and her 8 children and 5 grandchildren. He appeared on C-SPAN's Booknotes program in November 1996 to discuss his published book, which focused on the un…
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#41 Martin and the Amur tigers (all over the place)
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Tigers, leopards and now one-horned rhinos. Dr Martin Gilbert studies them all. He is a wildlife veterinarian, epidemiologist and Associate Professor of Practice at Cornell University, US. Originally from Scotland, he has investigated infectious diseases and mysterious mass die-offs all over Asia. It was him and his colleagues who discovered that i…
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Welcome to the third and final episode in our "Haunted and Cursed" trilogy. In this episode, we cover the sinister side of cursed objects. Once again, we have gone on an internet deep dive to bring you a selection of strange items, each with a terrible tale to tell. Of course, it's much more exciting if you can see the objects in question, and once…
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Michael Lista on writing true crime, and getting optioned
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Michael Lista is an investigative journalist, essayist and poet who lives in Toronto. I’ve followed his career now for some fifteen years. He’s written true crime for the better part of a decade. His story “The Sting” is being adapted by Adam Perlman, Robert Downey Jr., and Team Downey, into a television series for Apple TV+. We talk here about Mic…
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Welcome to episode eight of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Dr David Livermore, microbiologist and Daily Sceptic regular, on the growing concerns about the Lucy Letby verdict, and how the Daily Sceptic led the world in raising them; Dr Angus Dalgleish, emeritus professor of…
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Jane Rendell: Psychoanalysis writing architecture
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In Episode 114 of A is for Architecture Jane Rendell, Professor in Critical Spatial Practice at The Bartlett, UCL, discusses some aspects of her recently republished book, The Architecture of Psychoanalysis: Spaces of Transition, which came out with Bloomsbury in the spring. Jane says ‘I think what I'm more interested in is how architecture can al…
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Episode 21: Island Jazz Chat with Vaughnette Bigford
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Vaughnette Bigford is the Creole Chanteuse, the island songbird who "has made the local [Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean] songbook the new jazz standard in the Caribbean...the premier jazz song stylist in these islands whose palette knows no boundaries. Tone, beauty, presence: the definition of the New World African." An apt description from…
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Ep. 176 Ronald Feinman, "Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency"
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This Booknotes+ podcast is a repeat of a Q&A program from November 4, 2015. The featured guest, Ronald Feinman, is the author of the book "Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency," in which he examines attempts on the lives of presidents and presidential candidates throughout history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f…
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Episode #328: Getting your PHD after 50 with Sandra Beck and Dr Leigh Richardson
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Join host Sandra Beck on this inspiring episode of Powered Up Talk Radio as she interviews the remarkable Dr. Leigh Richardson. Dr. Richardson, who achieved her PhD after the age of 50, recently presented her groundbreaking dissertation findings in Budapest. This episode delves into the concept of a "second wind" in life, exploring how it's never t…
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Ed Miliband’s Oil and Gas Lunacy – with Ross Clark
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Welcome to episode seven of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Special guest Ross Clark, Spectator columnist and author of Not Zero, on why Ed Miliband’s crusade against oil and gas could put Britain’s economy 6 feet under; Tony Morrison, who writes on US politics for the Dail…
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