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Over the years, podcasts have become an increasingly popular medium because they are well-packed, can be followed from any place, at any time and without Internet connection. Listening to podcasts enables people gain a clearer insight about the social affairs and social issues in every corner of the world. In this catalog, there are podcasts where well-read hosts and guests discuss about people of different religions and their way of life and culture, of different communities, countries, continents, different philosophies as well as different points of view on society. Also, literature fans can learn more about the latest news from their favourite genres, emerging authors, current best selling books and literary theories. Furthermore, people can find interviews and true and inspiring life stories told by people from all walks of life. Some podcasts house activists who fight for the rights of the oppressed, ranging from animals to people, aiming at creating a better society.
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History as told by the people who were there.
Seriously is home to the world’s best audio documentaries and podcast recommendations, and host Vanessa Kisuule brings you two fascinating new episodes every week.
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.
Earshot presents documentaries about people, places, stories and ideas, in all their diversity.
Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
View the Episode Archive » Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes | RSS. #smartbinge Radiolab podcasts
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations.
Bi-weekly narratives on the unsolved and the unexplained, mysteries, historical true crime, touches of the paranormal and cultural peculiarities.
IDEAS is a deep-dive into contemporary thought and intellectual history. No topic is off-limits. In the age of clickbait and superficial headlines, it's for people who like to think.
Stories and interviews about the paranormal, cryptids, forgotten history, folklore, and more.
A podcast for lovers of Tudor history.
Have you ever locked eyes with a stranger and wondered, "What’s their story?" Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected. Extraordinary stories from around the world.
In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives & links between past & present and new academic research.
Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.
A weekly podcasting exploring great political revolutions. Now: The Russian Revolution Next: ???
Discover world history, culture and ideas with today’s leading experts
A podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Why do we remember our heroes better than our villains? Hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Learn more: www.badgayspod.com
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.
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Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.
Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.
Welcome along to Half-Arsed History! It's a weekly podcast highlighting absurd and entertaining stories from history. For around half an hour a week, it also makes your host Riley Knight feel as though his useless history degree has some kind of real-world relevance.
Presents an anarchist analysis on local, national and international news and events. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.
Mythology & Religion in the Human Story
A Comedy Podcast about the Oddities of Christian Culture
Red Web dives into the Internet's most intriguing mysteries, conspiracies, and supernatural events. With an appetite for the unknown, Trevor Collins and his co-host Alfredo Diaz analyze various unsolved incidents.
The simplest questions often have the most complex answers. The Philosopher's Zone is your guide through the strange thickets of logic, metaphysics and ethics.
Mysterious Universe is a weekly podcast featuring fascinatingly strange reports from all over the world. Always interesting and often hilarious, join hosts Aaron Wright and Benjamin Grundy as they investigate the latest in futurology, weird science, consciousness research, alternative history, cryptozoology, UFOs, and new-age absurdity.
Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
A podcast broadcasting Anarchist texts and audiobooks
Spend an hour in someone else's life. Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met.
Feature length, atmospheric, spooky stories told on the 13th of each month. Explore an eerie universe of supernatural and occult tales
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Download the latest documentaries investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
The Spoken History of a Global Language
Award-winning LBC presenter and best-selling author James O’Brien hosts a series of compelling conversations with fascinating people. These are revealing interviews with people who rarely give in-depth interviews, be it from politics, entertainment or news. Subscribe to get a new episode every Friday.
A crew of experienced paranormal investigators talk all things paranormal.
Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars. Learn more at 99percentinvisible.org.
Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries. Subscribe to Fresh Air Plus! You'll be supporting the unique show you can't get enough of - and you can listen sponsor-free. Learn more at plus.npr.org/freshair
Timcast IRL features Tim Pool and guests discussing issues in culture, news, and politics. Featuring Ian Crossland as co-host and Lydia as live producer.
Exposing violence and cover ups, the new season of Motive investigates the hidden world of big prisons in small towns. Places where everyone knows each other and difficult truths get buried.
For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+, now available on Apple Podcasts. All shows are also available for free. If you're listening on Apple Podcasts, press the '+' icon to follow the show for free. Real Dictators is the award-winning podcast hosted by Paul McGann that explores the hidden lives of history's tyrants. New episodes Wednesdays. Follow Noiser Podcasts on Twitter @Noiser_Podcasts for updates on our shows.
Welcome to Horrifying History! You are about to hear tales of the unexplained, paranormal, and supernatural happenings that have stained the pages of history.
Author Dana Schwartz explores the stories of some of history’s most fascinating royals: the tyrants and the tragic, the murderers and the murdered, and everyone in between. Because when you’re wearing a crown, mistakes often mean blood.
AWAYE! presents a diverse and vibrant Aboriginal arts and culture from across Australia and the best from Indigenous radio broadcasters around the world.
Criminal is the first of its kind. A show about people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. Hosted by Phoebe Judge. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
A podcast about myths we think are history and history that might be hidden in myths! Awesome stories that really (maybe) happened!
Country music singers McGraw and Faith Hill star in the Paramount+ series 1883. The show tells the story of a group of Eastern European immigrants trying to make their way in covered wagons from Texas to Oregon. Before they filmed, they attended "cowboy camp," to learn the basics of riding horses and driving wagons. Dave Davies spoke with McGraw ab…
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Earshot
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Who is Tootie? A journalist investigates her cat
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Listless in the Melbourne lockdowns two through six, Lisa Divissi became obsessed with the mystery of her adopted cat’s past life - and what it means to live with the unknown
Charles sues his country’s richest companies on behalf of black goldminers. It’s a battle that could spell ruin for Charles, but this isn’t a man who takes no for an answer. Presenter: Mobeen AzharProducer: Fiona WoodsBy BBC World Service
Stephen Sackur is in Washington DC to speak to America’s first transgender state lawmaker, Danica Roem. She overcame long odds to win a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. Now she’s a powerful voice in the US culture wars. From trans rights to abortion, are progressives or conservatives in the ascendant?…
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Timcast IRL
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Sunday Uncensored: Will Witt & Eva Member Podcast: AOC PISSED At Elon, Crew Talks Davos WEF, Bill Gates, And Klaus Schwab
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Tim & Co. join commentator Will Witt & fiance, lawyer, and commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek to discuss some of the spicier topics ordinarily only available to Timcast.com members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Tim Pool
In this episode of Half-Arsed History, hear the tale of the famous Roman general and statesman, Julius Caesar, who played an instrumental role in the transition between the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. https://halfarsedhistory.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/205-julius-caesar.mp3 Download Episode (Right click and select “Save as…”) Image: Camuccini…
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Desert Island Discoveries - Lauren Laverne and Vick Hope
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Lauren shares handpicked gems from the Desert Island Discs back-catalogue with Radio 1 presenter Vick Hope, including Bob Mortimer, Maya Angelou, Joe Wicks, Sophia Loren, Tom Hanks, Dame Pat McGrath and Sinéad Burke.By BBC Radio 4
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Philosopher's Zone
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Conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism and fun
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a conspiracy theorist. Many people who buy into paranoid fantasies about stolen Presidential elections and sinister global Jewish cabals are perfectly sane, well-educated individuals. So why do they fall for these myths? This week we consider the possibility that the attraction is primarily aesthetic, and that the …
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The Bible Recap
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Day 149 (1 Kings 1-2, Psalm 37, 71, 94) - Year 4
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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts. This episode originally appeared in the winter of 2019. A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you…
Max Pearson introduces the memories of people who knew Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe; plus, how a collector in the Soviet Union managed to open a museum for Russian artists banned by Stalin, and how a festival in Senegal in the 1960s inspired artists across a newly-independent Africa.PHOTO: Pablo Picasso in 1955 (Getty Images)…
Musician Jessie Lloyd shares some Kala Lagaw Ya from the Torres Strait, including a phrase that'll make you check yourself.
The head of the World Bank recently warned that the Russian invasion of Ukraine could cause a global recession. There are additional reasons for the global economic crisis of course. We are now more than two years into a pandemic, and every country has its own political situation which may, or may not, contribute to the problem. People from countri…
Leah Purcell has adapted the story of The Drover's Wife to a feature length film
Stephen Page has won a Red Ochre Award for outstanding lifetime achievement in Indigenous arts
SHOW NOTES: - All the info you need to START is on our website! Seriously, go there. - Join our PATREON community for bonus perks! - Get your TBR merch - Show credits FROM TODAY’S PODCAST: - John 10:9 - Video: 1 Kings Summary - Join us on a trip to Israel! Find out more at israelux.com! SOCIALS: The Bible Recap: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter D-Gro…
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Talking Tudors
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Episode 158 - The Margins of Late Medieval London with Dr Charlotte Berry
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Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Charlotte Berry about late medieval and Tudor London. Follow Dr Berry on Twitter. Find out more about your host at On the Tudor Trail. Join 365 Days with Anne Boleyn! https://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2022/02/13/365-days-with-anne-boleyn-an-intimate-journey-of-discovery Buy Talking Tudors merchandise at https://talk…
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Audible Anarchism
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Alexander Berkman: What is Communist Anarchism? - How the System Works
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Read for Audible Anarchist by Gregory Pankow https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69G... Link to text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Alexander Berkman (November 21, 1870 – June 28, 1936) was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism and his writing. Berkman was born in Vilna …
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Fresh Air
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Best Of: Comic Sarah Silverman / Poet Diana Goetsch
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As a kid, Sarah Silverman says, the fact that she wet the bed was her "deepest, darkest shame." Decades later, she wrote about the humiliation in her 2010 memoir The Bedwetter — now adapted into a musical. The comic talks with Terry Gross about the songs, cringing at some of her old jokes, and satirizing the Left in I Love You, America. Book critic…
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Timcast IRL
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Timcast IRL #539 - Ex Federal Agent Investigated As ACCOMPLICE In Buffalo Tragedy w/ Bryan Dean Wright
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Tim, Ian, and Lydia host podcaster and commentator Bryan Dean Wright alongside energy expert Daniel Turner to discuss the officers involved in Uvalde, the heroic CBP officer who left a haircut and borrowed a shotgun to evacuate the school in Uvalde, Tim's agreement with Karl Marx on one issue, the incredibly deceptive journalists' article about ord…
Back in 2002, Jad Abumrad started Radiolab as a live radio show. He DJ’d out into the ether and 20 years later we do the same. To commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the show, the Radiolab team went old school and took over WNYC Radio, went live on the FM band. We answered the phones, played some wonderfully weird audio, including one piece wher…
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Arts & Ideas
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New Generation Thinkers: Contesting an Alphabet
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Images of Cyril and Methodios adorn libraries, universities, cathedrals and passport pages in Slavonic speaking countries from Bulgaria to Russia, North Macedonia to Ukraine. But the journeys undertaken as religious envoys by these inventors of the Cyrillic alphabet have led to competing claims and political disagreements. Mirela Ivanova's essay co…
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New Generation Thinkers: The Paradox of Ecological Art
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Sculptures like mouldy fruit, sea creatures that look like oil, blocks of ice carved from a melting glacier and transported to a gallery, reforesting a disused quarry: Vid Simoniti looks at different examples of environmental art and asks whether they create empathy with nature and inspire behaviour change or do we really need pictures of loft insu…
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New Generation Thinkers: Ruffs in Jamestown
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The discovery of goffering irons, the tools used to shape ruffs, by an archaeological dig in North America, gives us clues about the way the first English settlers lived. Lauren Working's essay looks at the symbolism of the Elizabethan fashion for ruffs. Now back in fashion on zoom, they were denounced by Puritans, shown off in portraits of explore…
The myth of Orpheus is the oldest love story, from ancient Greece — it's the story of the power of art, a story told through opera and film, and poetry. Two thousand five hundred years later, IDEAS contributor Tom Jokinen explores why the myth of Orpheus still has such a hold on us. *Originally aired on October 14, 2021.…
After 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II is the world’s most high profile global figure and a unique exemplar of diplomacy and soft power. Much of her role takes place behind the scenes. She came to the throne in 1952 at a time of crisis and as the British Empire disintegrated in the aftermath of World War Two. The Queen’s role as constitut…
Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the world's most influential female artists - in 2014, her painting "Jimson Weed" sold for the highest price ever paid for a work by a woman. Famous for her vivid oil paintings of flowers, landscapes and animal skulls, she lived and worked in the wild dry canyons and deserts of New Mexico in the southern United States. L…
In 2018, we talked with three of America’s most experienced trauma surgeons about what happens when someone is shot. We wanted to spend some time with that conversation again this week. Special thanks to Dr. Amy Goldberg, Dr. David Spain, and Dr. Ronald Stewart. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, Th…
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The Bible Recap
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Day 147 (1 Chronicles 26-29, Psalm 127) - Year 4
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In June, Lansbury will receive the Tony Award for lifetime achievement. The Murder, She Wrote star previously won Tonys for her performances in Gypsy and Sweeney Todd. She spoke with Terry Gross in 2000. Also, David Bianculli reviews the PBS Great Performances documentary about Stephen Sondheim's Company.…
Plasma beings, transdimensional entities, supernatural power locations and so much more fill this episode as the brilliant Greg Little joins us to discuss his new book “Origin of the Gods”. We dive into stories of blue beings and plasma based lifeforms as we seek a unifying theory of the paranormal. Then in our Plus+ extension we dimension shift an…
Why are people with mental illness committing themselves in advance, when well, to treatment that they know they may want to refuse when they become unwell? Sally Marlow investigates. Juan was diagnosed with bipolar in his late teens. In the decade that followed, he suffered an episode of severe mental illness once nearly every year, plagued by int…
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Timcast IRL
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Timcast IRL #538 - Cops TASED And Detained Parents Who Tried To Save Their Kids In Texas w/ Kash Patel
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Tim, Ian, and Lydia host potential Timcast writer and bass player Adrian Norman and former Trump administration official Kash Patel to discuss the police officers who refused to allow desperate parents to extricate their children from a school shooting, even as they saved their own kids, the problems with red flag laws and leftist arguments for gun…
How a sheltered girl who grew up on a soldier settlement farm in country New South Wales grew up to become a feminist trailblazer
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Deconversion Therapy
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Gwen Shamblin and HBO’s The Way Down Part 2
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HARDtalk
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Luis Lacalle Pou: Why is Uruguay moving to the right?
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Uruguay’s President Luis Lacalle Pou. He’s a conservative advocate of free market economics and tougher crackdowns on crime. Why is Uruguay going right when so much of Latin America is currently trending to the left?By BBC World Service
He’s known mostly to his younger fans for playing Ben Harper in the decade-long running sitcom, My Family and to an older audience as the eponymous Marxist in Citizen Smith. In this episode of Full Disclosure James is joined by the BAFTA and Olivier award-winning actor Robert Lindsay who discusses moving from humble beginnings in the Derbyshire ind…
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Fresh Air
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How A Disinformation & Harassment Expert Became A Target
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Nina Jankowicz was tapped to head the Biden administration's new Disinformation Governance Board but resigned after being deluged with online threats. Her new book is How to Be a Woman Online.By NPR
As one of history's most well-known, highly-regarded writers, it's no secret that Shakespeare's life and work is full of strange stories -- but did you know one of his most famous plays is considered cursed? In today's episode, the guys are joined by special guest, award-winning playwright Will McFadden, as he breaks down to supposed origin of the …
Henry VIII from a female perspective is on offer at the Globe Theatre this summer in a new adaptation of the play written by Shakespeare and John Fletcher. Globe writer in residence Hannah Khalil explains some of the more surprising innovations in this production, while New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday presents the familiar saga of Henry VIII as…
in April 1966 thousands of artists and performers from all over Africa descended on the Senegalese capital, Dakar, for the first World Festival of Black Arts. Ibrahim el-Salahi and Elimo Njau are two leading African artists who took part in that first festival. The spoke to Ashley Byrne in 2016Photo: Poster from the first World Festival of Black Ar…
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Ideas
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Britt Wray on Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
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Science writer and scholar Britt Wray specializes in the mental health impacts of the ecological crisis. Her new book, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis, shares productive ways to cope, think, and act while facing an anxious ecological present and uncertain future.
Senegal in West Africa recently introduced much tougher sentences for rape. Until 2019 it was deemed a misdemeanour rather than a serious crime and anyone convicted was often released after a few years, or even a few months. Myriam Francois meets rape survivors and both female and male campaigners to see if the new law is changing the lives of wome…
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the accounts by Eusebius of Caesarea (c260-339 AD) and others of the killings of Christians in the first three centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus. Eusebius was writing in a time of peace, after The Great Persecution that had started with Emperor Diocletian in 303 AD and lasted around eight years. Many died unde…
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The Bible Recap
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Day 146 (Psalm 131, 138-139, 143-145) - Year 4
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The Forum
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Insulin: The discovery that transformed diabetic care
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The story of the discovery and development of insulin is a tale full of twists and turns, Nobel prizes and fierce rivalries. Scientists in the late 19th Century established the connection between the pancreas and diabetes, isolated the hormone insulin, and even patented the extract that lowered blood sugar. But it was not until a Canadian team publ…
We tell the story of Abbé Fouré, the hermit-priest of Rotheneuf, France. After a stroke forced him into retirement, Abbé Fouré moved to a hermitage on the Brittany coast. Over the next 14 years, he carved more than 300 sculptures into the rocks on the cliffs of Rotheneuf. If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus co…
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Timcast IRL
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Timcast IRL #537 - GOP Turnout SHATTERS Records As Democrats QUIT Party And Vote Republican w/Will Witt & Eva Vlaardingerbroek
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Tim, Ian, and Lydia host PragerU commentator Will Witt and fiance, lawyer, and European conservative commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek to the Georgia GOP's massive voter turnout, Beto O'Rourke's ongoing political beclownment, the Indiana law banning males competing with females in sports, a liberal professor's take on a possible American civil war, …
Ocean racing navigator Will Oxley first learned his trade through celestial navigation, using a sextant and the stars. He then began ocean racing around the world, and in 1998, he found himself upside down in a storm-wrecked Bass Strait (R)
Royal Trumpeter John Blanke's image is on show alongside portraits of the Tudor monarchy in an exhibition opening at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool. Blanke is the only black Tudor for whom we have an identifiable picture, painted on horseback in the royal retinue. New Generation Thinker Christina Faraday has been looking at these and other Tudor a…
