Comedian, musician and conductor Rainer Hersch's informal and irreverent take on the Proms season, with guests from the world of classical music lifting the piano lid on what really happens in the Albert Hall between July and September each year. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rainer-herschs-proms-in-the-pub. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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When a small tech startup releases a new AI-powered dating app, it disrupts more than just the market...
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This is the official podcast of the Adventure Game Hotspot Network. Space Quest Historian, One Short Eye, Conversations with Curtis, The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast and Weird Gaming Adventure (aka: Adventure Game Hotspot) get together whenever we feel like it and talk about whatever we feel like... bust mostly about adventure games. I don’t like to tell people what to do but SQH will be pissed if you don’t follow us. It’s an easy choice if you ask me!
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Ten Feet Away International is a homeless arts project with visual art, audio and video from around the world.
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The new London Book Fair FREE podcasts include views from key figures within the industry and interviews with the three authors taking part in the LBF Author of the Day programme. The podcasts will include a mix of both audio and video episodes. The London Book Fair is held on the 14-16 April 2008, at Earls Court, London. Find out more at www.londonbookfair.co.uk
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The Infosecurity Podcast is brought to you by the organisers of Infosecurity Europe, Europe's number one dedicated information security event. The audio and video episodes will include cutting-edge views from the industry's leading experts, as well as practical tips and strategies to help you protect your business. Many of the experts featured in the series will be present at Infosecurity Europe, held on the 22nd - 24th April 2008, at Olympia, London. If you would like to meet them face-to-f ...
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As running a startup begins to take its toll, the team has a hard time holding it together… Starring Eunice Wong as Paige, Gail Shalan as Becky, and Shiromi Arserio as Sidra. Featuring Robin Miles and Deepti Gupta.By Spoken Realms
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Has Becky lost control of the app?By Spoken Realms
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Secrets upon secrets upon secrets. All of the stress starts to take its toll. Starring Eunice Wong as Paige, Gail Shalan as Becky, and Shiromi Arserio as Sidra. Featuring Robin Miles and Deepti Gupta.By Spoken Realms
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Paige reports to Cynthia about how scary experiencing the app can be…By Spoken Realms
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Cynthia (Robin Miles) courts a mysterious new buyer. Becky (Gail Shalan), Paige (Eunice Wong), and Sidra (Shiromi Arserio), are both worried and curious. Sidra and her mother (Deepti Gupta) continue to play phone tag. Also featuring Lisa Flanagan, Stephen Kilcullen, Marni Penning, and Mark Sanderlin.…
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A potential new buyer throws the team for a loop…By Spoken Realms
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Paige (Eunice Wong), Becky (Gail Shalan), and Sidra (Shiromi Arserio), start making the matches behind-the-scenes by hand. Paige comes up with a way to help Sidra talk with her mother (Deepti Gupta) whether Sidra likes it or not. And, Cynthia (Robin Miles) starts getting suspicious. Also featuring Lisa Flanagan and Marni Penning.…
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Managing Stress and Expectations of Daily Gaming Content Creation
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If you are a gaming content creator on Youtube or perhaps you run a gaming podcast like our good friends Classic Gamers Guild you no doubt have run into stress of living up to your own and your audiences expectations. The Adventure Game Hotspot Network members all chime in on how they deal with poor performance or disappointing reactions to the gam…
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When a small tech startup releases a new AI-powered dating app, it does more than just disrupt the market. Paige (Eunice Wong) and Sidra (Shiromi Arserio) are blindsided when Becky (Gail Shalan) tells them there is a problem behind the scenes at DateWerks. The team scrambles to figure out what to do and more importantly, what do they say to their A…
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Adventure Game Communities - The Beauty and Drama -AGHN Content Creators Pod
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On The AGHN Content Creators Podcast, we're talking about our communities and what type of comments and feedback we get: the good, the bad, the ugly, and everything in between. We also discuss the fun things that we are working on when it comes to adventure game content creation. The Adventure Game Hotspot Network: / @oneshorteye - adventure game s…
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When a small tech startup releases a new AI-powered dating app, it disrupts more than just the market…By Spoken Realms
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Gear Talk. AGHN Creators talk about their AUDIO SETUPS
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In this episode of Adventure Game Hotspot Network Content Creators Podcast to the Max show the Adventure Game Hotspot Network creators (we need to think of a real name for this show) talk about their audio setups that they use while creating their awesome videos and podcasts. As always, you will get lots of tips and tricks mixed with some stories o…
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Tips, Tricks and Sometimes Failures of Creating Adventure Game Content
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The Adventure Game Hotspot Network is back and this time the WHOLE crew is here. In this episode we learn that "hair loss is a symptom of content creation. We talk about the stresses of creating YouTube, and other media content and what we are working on (and hopefully succeeding at). Space Quest Historian, Weird Gaming Adventure (AGH), Conversatio…
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We Talk About Adventure Games and Stuff - An Introduction
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In this podcast we say hello to our hero's: Space Quest Historian, OneShortEye, Conversations with Curtis and Weird Gaming Adventure introduce themselves and discuss what the Adventure Game Hotspot Network is. The guys have a great time and we believe that you will have a great time talking about Adventure Games with us? Why did I capitalize Advent…
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And so my friends we reach the end of our series. In this Last Night of the Proms in the Pub, I look back over the best bits of the podcast as Harry the Piano and I say cheerio until next year.... Thanks for listening Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rainer-herschs-proms-in-the-pub. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa…
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Tommy Pearson popped over to chat about his time at Radio 3 as their youngest presenter by some decades and his experience of presenting The Proms. We also spoke about how he got to write for Richard Attenborough and meeting TV legend Des Lynman. Harry the Piano treats us to a Franz Liszt version of Darth Vader's Imperial March. Become a member at …
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In which we're very excited to be joined by actor and satirist Tom Walker, better known as his foul mouthed political TV anchor creation, Jonathan Pie. Tom is a Proms virgin or so he claimed, so together with Harry The Piano, we took him along to experience the fun. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rainer-herschs-proms-in-the-pub. Hosted…
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I was delighted to invite Harry the Piano into my humble home and talk to him about his genius ability to take audience suggestions of a song to be played in the style of composer and hey-presto Scooby-Doo a la Mozart, or a Beethoven take on the News at Ten theme. We talked about this crossover between classical music and comedy and the few select …
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Conductor Barry Wordsworth is a true hero of the Proms - veteran of 30 appearances, including the 1993 Last Night, he has has done it all: jubilee concerts, programmes of Royal celebration, concertos, first performances. Hear his fascinating reminiscences of studying with Adrian Boult; how Malcolm Arnold nearly destroyed a priceless guitar live on …
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What would The Proms be without the Prommers? I speak to some of the hardcore fans, many of whom have been attending for decades, about the quirks, the trials and the friendships made in queuing for the daily cheap standing tickets. And Harry the Piano rounds things off with his Beethoven-Cole Porter mash up. Become a member at https://plus.acast.c…
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Baritone Benjamin Appl is a former member of the BBC New Generation Artist scheme and a much sought after song recitalist. But excitingly for me we both share an Anglo-German heritage and lo-ove of music. I met up with him a couple of days before a rather unusual slot in a Symphony by the Danish Composer Carl Nielson. And we finish as always with H…
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Oliver has been selling tickets, cheap, outside the Albert Hall for over 40 years. Now he is 79 and the business is not what it used to be: the audience books online and nobody has cash anymore. Listen to the poignant story of one of the Proms' quiet background characters as he draws towards the end of an era. The episode ends with Harry the Piano …
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I pop backstage to chat with British oboist and conductor Nicholas Daniel, a former winner, several moons and many suns ago, of the BBC Young Musician of the Year. We talked about him playing at the Proms, Vaughan Williams's messy manuscripts and how he was pulled over by police whilst listening to music. And once again Harry the Piano wraps things…
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Norman Lebrecht is one of the most celebrated writers on Classical Music. He is unashamedly pugnacious in his opinions about the industry, predicting recently that the 2022 Proms would be the last as we know them. So what comes next? Could the the BBC and Proms ever part company? Find out in this fascinating interview. Plus Rainer on buying tickets…
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Pianist and broadcaster Simon knows a thing or two about music - like what Wagner nicked from Rogers and Hammerstein for example. Then there's what Mary Poppins has to do with La Traviata, plus he can explain the secret tricks composers use to make your heart melt. Special guest Harry the Piano works his magic on Mozart and Debussy. Become a member…
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What's it like to be asked to compose a new piece for the Proms? I don't know, but Roxanna Panufnik absolutely does, having had her commission 'Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light ' played at the Last Night in 2018. We chatted about her Polish heritage, how her work draws on complementary religious traditions and I tested out on her my exciting new …
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I pop down South London to meet up with and eat cake with pianist Piers Lane A.O. What does A.O mean? Pleased you asked, as it was a question I put to Piers as well as talking to him about his five solo performances at the Proms, as well as the joys of a digital page turner. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rainer-herschs-proms-in-the-pu…
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Rob Cowan has been a BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM radio presenter over many years, so who better to talk to about the behind the scenes shenanigans of broadcasting the Proms than he? Amongst other things we chatted about his first experience of the Proms, argue over the merits of Mahler 7 and the most memorable Prom ever!. And Harry the piano gives u…
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The Proms was different back then. Norma Fisher had a sparkling solo career in the 60s and 70s including a number of Proms appearances, and is now one of Britain’s most respected piano teachers . Hear about her BBC audition to an, apparently, completely empty Albert Hall; not making eye contact with Sir Malcolm Sargent, and overcoming the horrors o…
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In which Rainer - that's me - reviews the First night of the Proms and chats to Ivan Hewett who is chief music critic of the Daily Telegraph. We chatted around the history of the Proms, his top tips for this year's programme, his thoughts on the Last Night, and the Prommer who wanted her ashes spread at the Royal Albert Hall. And there's a Bob Marl…
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Violinist Tasmin Little OBE has played 21 times at the Proms. Hear her great stories about walking up the gangplank to the stage at the Albert Hall, dealing with orchestra members who hover round her changing room practising the very concerto she is about to play, and much more besides. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rainer-herschs-pro…
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Jon Collins talks to David Lacey.By Infosecurity Europe
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Jon Collins talks to Paul Dorey.By Infosecurity Europe
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Jon Collins talks to Phil Zimmerman .By Infosecurity Europe
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Brian McKenna talks to Marcus Ranum on cyberwarfare.By Infosecurity Europe
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Jon Collins talks to Dan Kaminsky.By Infosecurity Europe
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Gerry O'Neill reveals why there is a need for greater professionalism in the information security industry.By Infosecurity Europe
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Gerry O'Neill on whether effective information security is about people or technology.By Infosecurity Europe
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Liz Thomson from Book Brunch talks to Sujata Sen, Director East India - British Council about the Indian market in relation to LBF 2009.By London Book Fair
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Liz Thomson from Book Brunch talks to Tim Hely, CEO Hachette Livre about his thoughts on the state of the publishing industry.By London Book Fair
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Blended Social Engineering and IT Based Attacks
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Peter Wood talks about IT based attacks through social engineering.By Infosecurity Europe
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Jon Collins speaks to Fred Piper.By Infosecurity Europe
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Jon Collins speaks to Alan Paller.By Infosecurity Europe
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Jon Collins speaks to Alan Paller.By Infosecurity Europe
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Jon Collins speaks to Adam Laurie.By Infosecurity Europe
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Jon Collins speaks to Bruce Schneier.By Infosecurity Europe
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Liz Thomson from Publishing News talks to Sebastian Faulks about his latest novel Engleby, as well as his future James Bond book.By London Book Fair
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At a time when confidence in the Government’s ability to protect private information is at an all time low and identity cards and mass personal informatics are getting ever closer to introduction - Infosecurity Europe’s Richard Fitzhugh talks to David Blunkett, MP for Sheffield Brightside and former Home Secretary about some of the concerns for bus…
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We interviewed Francis Bennett who has programmes the Digital Seminars at this years London Book Fair. He talks about some of the opportunities and risks in digitisation.By London Book Fair
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We interviewed Vivian Bird, Director of the literary charity Booktrust, to hear about how they and many other organisations are encouraging and empowering people of all ages to become lifelong readers.By London Book Fair
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