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Marbella with Him & HerDutch Tapas in Marbella, More Marbella Coffee Culture & Hannah's Butlins AdventureWelcome to episode 99 of the number one podcast in Marbella (as far as we are concerned) Marbella with Him & Her. It is a lifestyle podcast presented by husband and wife duo PJ Lopez and Hannah Murray bringing you some expat married banter along with some great recommendations, their social activities and selected news from their collaborators the Euro Weekly News!
This week they start with the horrendous weather front that has been battering the Costa del Sol during the week. Torrential rain and extremely high winds left flooding, felled trees and property damage across the region. Find...
2026-02-0126 min
In Our TimeItalo CalvinoMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Italian author of Invisible Cities, If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, Cosmicomics and other celebrated novels, fables and short stories of the 20th Century. Calvino (1923 -1985) had a passionate belief that writing and art could make life better for everyone. Despite his parents being scientists, who dearly wanted him to be a scientist too, and his time fighting with the Partisans in Liguria in WWII during which his parents were held hostage by the Nazis, Calvino turned away from realism in his writing. Ideally, he said, he would have liked to be...
2024-12-1948 min
In Our Time: CultureItalo CalvinoMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Italian author of Invisible Cities, If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, Cosmicomics and other celebrated novels, fables and short stories of the 20th Century. Calvino (1923 -1985) had a passionate belief that writing and art could make life better for everyone. Despite his parents being scientists, who dearly wanted him to be a scientist too, and his time fighting with the Partisans in Liguria in WWII during which his parents were held hostage by the Nazis, Calvino turned away from realism in his writing. Ideally, he said, he would have liked to be...
2024-12-1948 min
Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIOEpisode 3: Sit Down!On the third episode of Organize the Unorganized, we examine the three initial major victories of the CIO in rubber, auto, and steel. We begin by recounting the story of the “first CIO strike” at the Goodyear complex in Akron, Ohio, a victorious strike that put the CIO on the map. We then turn to the great General Motors strike in the winter of 1937, perhaps the most iconic confrontation of the period and generally recognized as the CIO’s transformational victory. We end briefly on the steel organizing campaign, whose success was drawn in part from the threatening militancy of the CI...
2024-01-2343 min
Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam PodcastThe Cobalt Blue PlanetShow Notes
With last week's general discussion of the plot of Char's Counterattack out of the way, it's time to start diving deep on specific aspects of the film. This week: environmental justice advocate Colin joins us to discuss the environment, and environmentalism, in Char's Counterattack. Plus in the research Thom explores what it might mean that the Federation is headquartered in Lhasa while Nina looks at how a 1988 audience might have responded to talk of 'nuclear winter'.
From the Talkback
In preparation for our conversation, Colin had us read "Principles of Environmental Justice" by the...
2021-11-2000 min
Hail to the ChiefEpisode Zero: Format and BackgroundIn this episode, our first, the hosts, Dirk and Max, introduce themselves. They discuss the categories under which they will be judging each monarch, and they discuss the very broad strokes of Spanish history in the period from the Fall of the Roman Empire right to, but not through, the establishment of the King of Asturias. Bibliography: -Ballan, Mohamed. "Fraxinetum: An Islamic Frontier State in Tenth Century Provence." -Bragg, Melvyn, Tim Winter, Martin Palmer, and Mehri Niknam. “Muslim Spain.” -Interview by Melvyn Bragg. In Our Time, BBC, accessed 11/3/21. Audio. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548l1.
2021-11-151h 04
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Blackbirds: A London Blitz Novel by Melvyn FicklingPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482649to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Blackbirds: A London Blitz Novel
Series: #2 of Bluebird
Author: Melvyn Fickling
Narrator: Nigel Patterson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Release date: April 6, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
It's 1940 and the London Blitz is raging. Bryan Hale and Bluebird Squadron fight on into the autumn of 1940, chasing down the new threat of 'Jabo' hit-and-run raids by bomb-laden enemy fighters over the capital's rooftops. Bryan's chance encounter in a London pub with Jenny, an acquaintance from his school-days, starts them both down the road to a...
2021-04-068h 49Explore New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalBlackbirds: A London Blitz Novel by Melvyn FicklingPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482649to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Blackbirds: A London Blitz Novel
Series: #2 of Bluebird
Author: Melvyn Fickling
Narrator: Nigel Patterson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Release date: April 6, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
It's 1940 and the London Blitz is raging. Bryan Hale and Bluebird Squadron fight on into the autumn of 1940, chasing down the new threat of 'Jabo' hit-and-run raids by bomb-laden enemy fighters over the capital's rooftops. Bryan's chance encounter in a London pub with Jenny, an acquaintance from his school-days, starts them both down the road to a...
2021-04-068h 49
Download Latest Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Westerns & WarBlackbirds: A London Blitz Novel by Melvyn FicklingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blackbirds: A London Blitz Novel Series: #2 of Bluebird Author: Melvyn Fickling Narrator: Nigel Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Westerns & War Publisher's Summary: It's 1940 and the London Blitz is raging. Bryan Hale and Bluebird Squadron fight on into the autumn of 1940, chasing down the new threat of 'Jabo' hit-and-run raids by bomb-laden enemy fighters over the capital's rooftops. Bryan's chance encounter in a London pub with Jenny, an acquaintance from his school-days, starts them both down the r...
2021-04-0630 min
LIKE A LOCAL PODCASTPALM SPRINGS, CA with Rachael O'BrienWe're on the WEST COAST this week interviewing world headlining comedian @rachaelnobrien! We officially have the travel bug because we're craving sun, palm trees and viewzz for days.
SHOW NOTES:
Where to stay: Parker Palm Springs, La Serena Villas, Sands Hotel & Spa, La Quinta Resort
Where to eat: Casa Mendoza, Mr. Lyons, Farm, Koutouki Greek Estiatorio
Where to drink: Melvyn’s, The Nest, Counter Reformation
What to do: Andreas Canyon Trailhead, Joshua Tree, The Fine Art of Design (thrift store)
RAPID FIRE:
Most instagram-able spot: Andrea’s Canyon or Joshua tree
Best pizza: Piero's PizzaVino
Favorite event: Any concert in the...
2021-01-1247 min
HSEMA Off the RecordBe A Good Neighbor This Winter SeasonCold weather is on its way and this week, we're discussing the District's outreach to vulnerable populations in our community. Director Rodriguez is joined by Laura Zeilinger, Director of the DC Department of Human Services (DHS), and Melvyn Smith, the Homeless Services Outreach Coordinator about services and resources in place to support our neighbors in need. Tune in to learn how you can help protect residents experiencing homelessness from cold weather injury and death. For more information on resources provided by DHS, visit dhs.dc.gov. See acast.com/privacy...
2020-12-1016 min
In Our Time: HistoryNapoleon's Retreat from MoscowMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss how, in September 1812, Napoleon captured Moscow and waited a month for the Russians to meet him, to surrender and why, to his dismay, no-one came. Soon his triumph was revealed as a great defeat; winter was coming, supplies were low; he ordered his Grande Armée of six hundred thousand to retreat and, by the time he crossed back over the border, desertion, disease, capture, Cossacks and cold had reduced that to twenty thousand. Napoleon had shown his weakness; his Prussian allies changed sides and, within eighteen months they, the Russians and Austrians had c...
2019-09-1954 min
RSDS RADIO SOCIETÀ DEI SOGNINapoleon's Retreat from MoscowMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss how, in September 1812, Napoleon captured Moscow and waited a month for the Russians to meet him, to surrender and why, to his dismay, no-one came. Soon his triumph was revealed as a great defeat; winter was coming, supplies were low; he ordered his Grande Armée of six hundred thousand to retreat and, by the time he crossed back over the border, desertion, disease, capture, Cossacks and cold had reduced that to twenty thousand. Napoleon had shown his weakness; his Prussian allies changed sides and, within eighteen months they, the Russians and Austrians had captured P...
2019-09-1954 minIn Our TimeNapoleon's Retreat from MoscowMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss how, in September 1812, Napoleon captured Moscow and waited a month for the Russians to meet him, to surrender and why, to his dismay, no-one came. Soon his triumph was revealed as a great defeat; winter was coming, supplies were low; he ordered his Grande Armée of six hundred thousand to retreat and, by the time he crossed back over the border, desertion, disease, capture, Cossacks and cold had reduced that to twenty thousand. Napoleon had shown his weakness; his Prussian allies changed sides and, within eighteen months they, the Russians and Austrians had c...
2019-09-1954 min
In Our Time: ScienceBird MigrationIn a programme first broadcast in 2017, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some birds migrate and others do not, how they select their destinations and how they navigate the great distances, often over oceans. For millennia, humans set their calendars to birds' annual arrivals, and speculated about what happened when they departed, perhaps moving deep under water, or turning into fish or shellfish, or hibernating while clinging to trees upside down. Ideas about migration developed in C19th when, in Germany, a stork was noticed with an African spear in its neck, indicating where it had been over the...
2017-07-0651 minRSDS RADIO SOCIETÀ DEI SOGNIBird MigrationIn a programme first broadcast in 2017, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some birds migrate and others do not, how they select their destinations and how they navigate the great distances, often over oceans. For millennia, humans set their calendars to birds' annual arrivals, and speculated about what happened when they departed, perhaps moving deep under water, or turning into fish or shellfish, or hibernating while clinging to trees upside down. Ideas about migration developed in C19th when, in Germany, a stork was noticed with an African spear in its neck, indicating where it had been over the winter...
2017-07-0651 minIn Our TimeBird MigrationIn a programme first broadcast in 2017, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some birds migrate and others do not, how they select their destinations and how they navigate the great distances, often over oceans. For millennia, humans set their calendars to birds' annual arrivals, and speculated about what happened when they departed, perhaps moving deep under water, or turning into fish or shellfish, or hibernating while clinging to trees upside down. Ideas about migration developed in C19th when, in Germany, a stork was noticed with an African spear in its neck, indicating where it had been over the...
2017-07-0651 minIn Our Time: ScienceAntarcticaMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of Antarctica.The most southerly of the continents is the bleakest and coldest place on Earth. Almost entirely covered in ice, Antarctica spends much of the winter in total darkness.Antarctica was first named in the second century AD by the geographer Marinus of Tyre, who was one of many early geographers to speculate about the existence of a huge southern landmass to balance the known lands of northern Europe. But it wasn't until the nineteenth century that modern man laid eyes on the continent.In the intervening two hundred years...
2010-06-2442 minIn Our TimeAntarcticaMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of Antarctica.The most southerly of the continents is the bleakest and coldest place on Earth. Almost entirely covered in ice, Antarctica spends much of the winter in total darkness.Antarctica was first named in the second century AD by the geographer Marinus of Tyre, who was one of many early geographers to speculate about the existence of a huge southern landmass to balance the known lands of northern Europe. But it wasn't until the nineteenth century that modern man laid eyes on the continent.In the intervening two hundred years...
2010-06-2442 minIn Our TimeThe Glencoe MassacreMelvyn Bragg and guests Karin Bowie, Murray Pittock and Daniel Szechi discuss the Glencoe Massacre of 1692, why it happened, and its lasting repercussions.On a winter night in 1692, a company of soldiers quartered with the MacDonalds of Glencoe rose early and slaughtered their hosts. About 38 men, women and children were killed. Their homes were torched and many survivors died as they fled into the snow. This mass killing was branded by a Scottish Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry as 'murder under trust'.Why did this still infamous atrocity happen? The answer takes in the seismic impact of the Glorious Revolution...
2010-01-2142 minIn Our TimeHeatMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of scientific ideas about heat. As anyone who’s ever burnt their hand will testify – heat is a pretty commonplace concept. Cups of coffee cool down, microwaves reheat them, water boils at 100 degrees and freezes on cold winter nights.Behind the everyday experience of hot things lies a complex story of ideas spread across Paris, Manchester and particularly Glasgow. It’s a story of brewing vats and steam engines, of fridges, thermometers and the heat death of the universe. But most importantly, it was the understanding and harnessing of heat that helped make t...
2008-12-0442 minIn Our Time: ScienceHeatMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of scientific ideas about heat. As anyone who’s ever burnt their hand will testify – heat is a pretty commonplace concept. Cups of coffee cool down, microwaves reheat them, water boils at 100 degrees and freezes on cold winter nights.Behind the everyday experience of hot things lies a complex story of ideas spread across Paris, Manchester and particularly Glasgow. It’s a story of brewing vats and steam engines, of fridges, thermometers and the heat death of the universe. But most importantly, it was the understanding and harnessing of heat that helped make t...
2008-12-0442 minIn Our TimeThe Four HumoursMelvyn Bragg and guests talk about blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm. These are the four humours, a theory of disease and health that is among the most influential ideas aver conceived. According to an 11th century Arabic book called the Almanac of Health, an old man went to the doctor complaining of a frigid complexion and stiffness in winter. The doctor, after examining his condition, prescribed a rooster. Being a hot and dry bird it was the perfect tonic for a cold and rheumatic old man. This is medicine by the four humours. The idea that the...
2007-12-2042 minIn Our Time: ScienceThe Four HumoursMelvyn Bragg and guests talk about blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm. These are the four humours, a theory of disease and health that is among the most influential ideas aver conceived. According to an 11th century Arabic book called the Almanac of Health, an old man went to the doctor complaining of a frigid complexion and stiffness in winter. The doctor, after examining his condition, prescribed a rooster. Being a hot and dry bird it was the perfect tonic for a cold and rheumatic old man. This is medicine by the four humours. The idea that the...
2007-12-2042 minIn Our TimeThe PreludeMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest long poems in the English language – The Prelude. Begun in Northern Germany during the terrible winter of 1798 by a young and dreadfully homesick William Wordsworth, The Prelude was to be his masterpiece - an epic retelling of his own life and the foundation stone of English Romanticism. In language of aching beauty wordsworth expressed thoughts about memory, identity, nature and experience familiar to anybody who has walked alone among the hills. With Rosemary Ashton, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London; Stephen Gill, University Professor of En...
2007-11-2242 minIn Our TimeThe Pilgrim FathersMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Pilgrim Fathers and their 1620 voyage to the New World on the Mayflower. Every year on the fourth Thursday in November, Americans go home to their families and sit down to a meal. It’s called Thanksgiving and it echoes a meal that took place nearly 400 years ago, when a group of religious exiles from Lincolnshire sat down, after a brutal winter, to celebrate their first harvest in the New World. They celebrated it in company with the American Indians who had helped them to survive.These settlers are called the Pilgrim Fathers. They we...
2007-07-0542 min
In Our Time: ReligionThe Pilgrim FathersMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Pilgrim Fathers and their 1620 voyage to the New World on the Mayflower. Every year on the fourth Thursday in November, Americans go home to their families and sit down to a meal. It’s called Thanksgiving and it echoes a meal that took place nearly 400 years ago, when a group of religious exiles from Lincolnshire sat down, after a brutal winter, to celebrate their first harvest in the New World. They celebrated it in company with the American Indians who had helped them to survive.These settlers are called the Pilgrim Fathers. They we...
2007-07-0542 minIn Our TimeTsar Alexander II's assassinationMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. On 1st March 1881, the Russian Tsar, Alexander II, was travelling through the snow to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. An armed Cossack sat with the coach driver, another six Cossacks followed on horseback and behind them came a group of police officers in sledges. It was the day that the Tsar, known for his liberal reforms, had signed a document granting the first ever constitution to the Russian people.But his journey was being watched by a group of radicals called 'Narodnaya Volya' or 'The People's Will...
2005-01-0641 minIn Our TimeMuslim SpainMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Muslim Spain. In 711 a small army of North African Berbers invaded Spain and established an Iberian Islamic culture that would last for over 700 years. Despite periods of infighting and persecution, Muslim Spain was a land where Muslims, Jews and Christians co-existed in relative peace and harmony. Its capital, Cordoba, although not unique amongst Spanish cities, became the centre and focus for generations of revered and respected philosophers, physicians and scholars. By the 10th century Cordoba was one of the largest cities in the world. But what some historians refer to as Cordoba’s Golden Ag...
2002-11-2128 minIn Our Time: ReligionMuslim SpainMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Muslim Spain. In 711 a small army of North African Berbers invaded Spain and established an Iberian Islamic culture that would last for over 700 years. Despite periods of infighting and persecution, Muslim Spain was a land where Muslims, Jews and Christians co-existed in relative peace and harmony. Its capital, Cordoba, although not unique amongst Spanish cities, became the centre and focus for generations of revered and respected philosophers, physicians and scholars. By the 10th century Cordoba was one of the largest cities in the world. But what some historians refer to as Cordoba’s Golden Ag...
2002-11-2128 min
In Our Time: PhilosophyDemocracyMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins of democracy. In the Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln called it “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”, but the word democracy appears nowhere in the American Constitution; the French Revolution was fought for Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité and the most that Churchill claimed for it was that it was “the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” The Athenian city state famously practised participatory democracy, but neither Plato nor Socrates approved, the Romans turned their back on the idea of ‘mo...
2001-10-1828 minIn Our TimeDemocracyMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins of democracy. In the Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln called it “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”, but the word democracy appears nowhere in the American Constitution; the French Revolution was fought for Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité and the most that Churchill claimed for it was that it was “the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” The Athenian city state famously practised participatory democracy, but neither Plato nor Socrates approved, the Romans turned their back on the idea of ‘mo...
2001-10-1828 min