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This is PickleballALW's $10M Payday, Nike Enters the Chat, The Ripsken Story, & The Truth About Rec PlayFrom the historic $10 million contract for Anna Leigh Waters to the emotional origin story of the Ripsken brand, this episode covers the entire spectrum of the sport. In this episode of This is Pickleball, Rick and Fabian break down the massive "Paddle Shuffle" of 2026—tracking the moves of Rachel Rohrabacher, Chris Haworth, and rumors about the Johnson siblings. Rick then opens up in a rare, vulnerable segment about his late brother, Todd Witsken (former World #1), and the spiritual connection he shares with his nephew, tennis superstar Ben Shelton. Plus, Rick drops essential coaching advice on why you need to st...
2026-01-1443 min
Severed | True Crime PodcastStrange Stories: Pumpkin PounceWe discuss an inflatable yard decoration that took flight in Bay Village, Ohio. This 15-foot pumpkin was ablaze with LED lighting amidst a wind and rainstorm, obstructing traffic and posing a challenge to officers on the scene to restrain its loose tethers.
CW | TW: This episode discusses a runaway, inflated pumpkin! Listener discretion is advised.
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2025-10-0631 min
Kincraig CaresSpecial ep! Supporting people with cancer in our communities betterToday’s episode is a special one-off to mark National Cancer Survivors Day (1st June), and is actually with someone from my previous community - Rachel Westwood.Rachel has been very open about her experiences going through cancer treatment in order to improve understanding of what it’s like, and how others can best help. She has a particularly interesting insight, being a pharmacist, a wife, a mother of three, someone who's always prioritised her health and a linchpin character in her community. Knowing what to say to someone with cancer, and what to do, can b...
2025-06-0123 min
Stuff You Missed in History ClassHelen McNicoll, Canadian ImpressionistHelen McNicoll was a Canadian painter who had a significant influence on the rise of Impressionism in that country. McNicoll, who lost her hearing in childhood, was quite successful as an artist, though her career and life were short. Research: Anderson, Jocelyn. “William Brymner: Life & Work.” Art Canada Institute. https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/william-brymner/biography/ Atanassova, Katerina. “Helen McNicoll: In Search of Light.” National Gallery of Canada. 5/4/2023. https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/your-collection/helen-mcnicoll-in-search-of-light Babbs, Verity. “Painting Bought for $2,700 Revealed to Be $390,000 Masterpiece.” Artnet. 10/23/2024. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fake-or-fortune-helen-mcnicoll-painting-2557012 Burton, Samantha. “Helen McNicoll: Life and Work.” Art...
2025-02-0338 min
TV Italian StyleZ: ‘Zum zum zum’ and other theme songs of the varietàSend us a textSarà capitato anche a voidi avere una musica in testa,sentire una specie di orchestrasuonare suonare suonare suonareZum zum zum zum zum,Zum zum zum zum...Well, has it ever happened to you? Have you found yourself humming or singing a song that's got stuck in your head? And how many times has that song been from a television show you were watching?Television theme songs are the focus for this final episode of the TV Italian Style podcast series, and w...
2024-12-3051 min
TV Italian StyleY: Young people and Italian variety televisionSend us a textIn this penultimate episode of the podcast, we're talking about young people and Italian variety television. How were young people portrayed on Italian television screens? Were there variety television shows that were aimed specifically at an audience of young people? Did young people appear on Italian television in this period? How were the 1950s different to the 1960s and again to the 1970s from the point of view of i giovani on television? I'm really pleased to be joined once again by historian Cecilia Brioni to answer some of these questions in this...
2024-12-1659 min
TV Italian StyleX: Xavier Cugat, Abbe Lane, Romina Power and more: international hosts and guest stars of the varietàSend us a textAcross the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Italian television played host to a series of popular and well-loved stars that hailed from outside of Italy. On the podcast, we've already talked about how stars like the Kessler twins, Henri Salvador, and Lola Falana brought something new and different to Italian television screens, a difference that was, in the case of the Kesslers and Lola, sexy but accepted thanks to the fact that they were not Italian. But there were many stars who featured on Italian television screens in this period and brought something new...
2024-12-0253 min
TV Italian StyleW: Walter Chiari, il bravo ragazzo del varietàSend us a textSignore, signori, today's episode focuses on 'il primo ragazzo della porta accanto dello spettacolo italiano [che] irruppe con quel ciuffo un po’ malandrino, con quell’aria gioviale, simpatico, di amico con cui tirar mattina, nel cinema e nel varietà made in Italy del dopoguerra [...]. Fu una rivoluzione nel varietà, non era un comico buffo, non aveva trucchi visibili sul viso, non portava costumi per far ridere, giacche troppo grandi o troppo piccole, non faceva le facce, non parlava a doppi sensi, insomma non era né Macario né Dapporto, ma un tipo normale...
2024-11-1844 min
TV Italian StyleV: Vianello and Mondaini - ridere sempre per stare bene insiemeSend us a textIn this episode, we're talking about ‘la coppia piu amata della tv’. Ten years after their deaths, the Corriere della sera newspaper ran a feature article to mark the fifty years our two stars were together and the impact they had on television. Here’s how the article opened:'«Se mi guardo indietro non ho pentimenti. Dovessi ricominciare, farei esattamente tutto quello che ho fatto. Tutto. Mi risposerei anche. Con un’altra, naturalmente». Ironia, battibecchi e risate sono gli ingredienti che hanno alimentato per oltre cinquant’anni l’amore tra Raimondo Viane...
2024-11-0556 min
TV Italian StyleU: Un, due, tre with Ugo Tognazzi and Raimondo VianelloSend us a textIn this episode, we're going back to the 1950s and to a series that played an important role in establishing the nature of variety television in this period, and the expectations of Italian television more broadly. That series is Un, due, tre. Hosted for the majority of episodes by comedians Ugo Tognazzi and Raimondo Vianello, the show appealed to audiences thanks to its regular focus in each episode on the nature of television itself. Popular programmes and television stars were satirized and parodied each week, and through this humour, Italian audiences also learned...
2024-10-2440 min
TV Italian StyleT: Telematch, Giochi senza frontiere, and La Domenica Sportiva: Enzo TortoraSend us a textIn this episode, my virtual guest star is one of the four so-called founding fathers of Italian entertainment television: Enzo Tortora. He was an important star right from the start of the varietà, hosting series like Primo applauso in 1956, Telematch in 1957, and Voci e volti della fortuna again in 1957. In 1965, Enzo would become host of La Domenica sportiva and Giochi senza frontiere. And in 1977, he would reach the peak of his fame as host of yet another new series, Portobello. But his career was also marked by scandal. In June 1983, Enzo was arrested a...
2024-10-0736 min
TV Italian StyleS: Studio Uno, un ‘varietà musicale di classe’Send us a textIn this episode, we’re celebrating a show that, in the words of television critic G in the Corriere della sera newspaper, ‘mostra uno standard superiore alla media della trasmissioni del genere’. It’s another one of my favourites but it's also one of the cornerstones of the varietà televisivo and a series that is responsible for establishing a certain successful variety show format that would shape subsequent Italian series for many years. The title? Well, apparently, that took a little while to be decided upon – according to the radio and television listings magazine Ra...
2024-09-2352 min
TV Italian StyleR: Race and Italian variety televisionSend us a textOn this episode of the podcast, I'm really pleased to be joined by researcher and historian Jessica L. Harris to talk about a really interesting aspect of Italian variety television during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s: the representation of race on the small screen. And whilst television in this period in Italy was multicultural, and we’ve seen that already on the podcast as we’ve talked about the fame and success of figures like the German Kessler twins, Italian American Don Lurio, and Guadeloupean Henri Salvador, our focus in particular in this epis...
2024-09-0954 min
TV Italian StyleQ: Quel Quartetto Cetra - humour in four-part harmony on Italian televisionSend us a textLucia Mannucci. Virgilio Savona. Giovanni "Tata" Giacobetti. Felice Chiusano. The Quartetto Cetra, so much more than just an 'Italian jazz vocal quartet' as they're often described online. The Quartetto's success covers the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s, and spans radio, theatre, and, of course, television.But what is at the heart of the Quartetto's appeal? According to journalist Marco Di Tillo, È facile a dirsi. Piacevano perché, non solo erano bravi cantanti e musicisti, ma soprattutto erano sempre non solo al passo con i tempi, ma...
2024-08-2635 min
TV Italian StyleP: Pippo Baudo, un grande della televisione italianaSend us a textOn 7 June 2024, the television presenter and host Pippo Baudo celebrated his 88th birthday. Here's how the Italian media marked the occasion:Tanti auguri a Pippo Baudo, che il 7 giugno compie 88 anni. Una colonna della Rai e della nostra televisione, il conduttore che ha spaziato in tutti i generi, colto e appassionato. Con Mike Bongiorno, Enzo Tortora e Corrado, moschettiere del piccolo schermo. (La Repubblica)Ha scoperto talenti, ha condotto per tredici volte il Festival di Sanremo, ha fatto registrare record di ascolti e share in tv: un m...
2024-08-1240 min
Confessions of a Closet RomanticAll the Single Ladies: Love and IndependenceSend us a textBeing single — whether it's a temporary identity or permanent — is valid life choice, but it doesn't often feel that way in our society. Living a romantic life can mean being part of a couple, and also includes being unpartnered, child free, parenting a pet, and falling in love with yourself. Some brave real life artists and fictional characters of the 19th and early 20th century managed to create this type of life, and while you shouldn't need to be a courageous soul to pull it off, these romantic stories and movies about their live...
2024-08-1037 min
TV Italian StyleO: O heart I hear you beating - Introducing Rita PavoneSend us a textIn this episode, we're focusing on one particular star who burst onto Italian television screens in 1962 and who was introduced to television viewers by Radiocorriere in a rather particular way:Ha cominciato presto a «far notizia» per i giornali; e il motivo - a guardar bene le fotografie di queste pagine - è il meno plausibile. Era l'agosto del 1945, i Pavone abitavano allora nel quartiere torinese di San Paolo, in via Malta. La signora Maria - una donna minuta, ma di una confortante solidità - era in attesa del suo terzo lieto even...
2024-07-2959 min
TV Italian StyleN: Non vi facciamo ridere? The comedians of the varietàSend us a textRaimondo Vianello and Sandra Mondaini. Raffaele Pisu. Gino Bramieri. Walter Chiari. Ave Ninchi. Paolo Panelli. Bice Valori. Aldo Fabrizi. Alighiero Noschese. Cochi e Renato. Just some of the famous faces of the varietà televisivo of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s who were responsible for one of the most important aspects of these programmes: making the viewers laugh.In an article from Radiocorriere in 1954, journalist Dino Falconi praises the varietà televisivo and identifies what he sees as being one of the most important elements of the genre: Sono le trasmissioni sca...
2024-07-1559 min
TV Italian StyleM: Mina, volto e voce della televisione italianaSend us a textIn this episode, we're focusing on one particular star of varietà who has been described as the queen of Saturday night variety television and as the face and voice of Italian TV. That star is Mina. According to her online biography, Mina is 'la più grande voce italiana di sempre. Ma non solo. Per gli italiani Mina è un’icona al pari di altri grandi “marchi”che parlano di qualità eccelsa nel mondo, quali Ferrari o Fellini. Nell’immaginario collettivo per gli italiani Mina è un patrimonio del quale andare orgogliosi. Mina ha incarnato il modello del ta...
2024-07-0148 min
TV Italian StyleL: Lelio Luttazzi and Alberto Lupo at Teatro 10Send us a textIn this episode, we're focusing on one particular varietà and on its two hosts: musician and composer Lelio Luttazzi and actor Alberto Lupo. The variety series in question is Teatro 10, directed by Antonello Falqui and broadcast in 1964 and again in 1971 and 1972.According to Radiocorriere in 1964, Teatro 10 is a different type of variety show:Teatro 10 non è un complesso prefabbricato a pezzi e poi messo insieme; tutto lo spettacolo si svolge come se si trattasse di una rappresentazione teatrale, cioè dal vivo: niente doppiaggi, niente trucchi, niente stratagemmi tecnici; non potremo, per...
2024-06-1745 min
The Business Breakthrough PodcastPhotography hacks for business owners - Rachel from Scribbly Gum Photography | Ep 29Glenn and Rachel share tips on bringing the human element to your social media and website as well as photography tips and overcoming imposter syndrome as a business owner.
Connect with Rachel on Instagram here @scribbly.gum.photography
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https://www.resolvecoaching.com.au/apply-to-work-with-me/
2024-06-1331 min
TV Italian StyleK: Kessler twins, ‘two pairs of legs with one head’Send us a textIn January 1961, the cover of television and radio listings Radiocorriere featured two stars who would during the decade become important figures for variety television in Italy, coming to represent the golden age of television from the 1960s. The cover is described thus:In Francia le chiamano ormai, semplicemente, le "gemelle di Parigi". Sono Alice ed Ellen Kessler, giovani ma già notissime “vedettes” del Lido. Figlie di un ingegnere di Lipsia, iniziarono fin da bambine lo studio della danza classica e moderna. Dopo la guerra, la famiglia si trasferì nella Germania Occidentale, a Düss...
2024-06-0357 min
TV Italian StyleJ: Johnny Dorelli - Love in Portofino and beyondSend us a textJohnny Dorelli, "il Frank Sinatra d'Italia" according to the press on the occasion of Johnny's 80th birthday in February 2017. The newspaper L'Avvenire explained: "ancor oggi il suo è l’unico nome da farsi in risposta al quesito «Chi è il più grande entertainer dello spettacolo italiano?». Il primo in questa classifica resta lui, Dorelli: sin dall’esordio italiano, è stato l’unico interprete nostrano mai paragonato a Sinatra". Born in Italy, Johnny moved with his family to New York and at early age and studied music at the High School of Art. On his return to Italy, he was...
2024-05-2036 min
TV Italian StyleI: Io, Agata e tu... Introducing Raffaella CarràSend us a textOn 5 July 2021, Raffaella Carrà passed away at the age of 78 after an unspecified illness. The story was front page news, given Raffaella's status in contemporary Italy. RAI explained ‘È morta all’età di 78 anni Raffaella Carrà, definita la Regina della tv italiana. Showgirl, cantante, ballerina, attrice, conduttrice televisiva, radiofonica e autrice televisiva. [...] Durante la sua lunga carriera, Raffaella Carrà è diventata un’icona della musica e della televisione italiana’ (RaiNews 2021). According to Il Corriere della sera, ‘Raffaella era una donna forte, libera, controcorrente. Una donna che della libertà e dell’allegria aveva fatto la sua bandiera’ (Volpe 20...
2024-05-0645 min
TV Italian StyleH: Hai visto come ballano? Dancing and the dance troupe in variety televisionSend us a textIn this episode, we're talking about dancing and the varietà, focusing in particular on the balletto, the dance troupe, but also on the hosts and guest stars who dance as part of their performances on variety shows. And whilst I'm a bit outside my comfort zone talking about dancing, I'm going to describe the different routines that we see during the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and the changes that take place which mirror broader changes in society - like the recognition of young people as an audience and the impact of the sexual rev...
2024-04-2238 min
TV Italian StyleG: Gran Festival del varietà and others - variety shows of the 1950sSend us a textIn this episode, we're focusing on where it all began for the varietà televisivo and looking in particular at the series from the 1950s that helped establish the genre and its primary characteristics. With the help of the listings magazine Radiocorriere we'll look at the different series that debuted at the start of regular television broadcasts in January 1954 - Settenote; I love you, je t’aime, io t’amo; Antologia del buonumore; Ciribinibin; Rosso e nero, and Un due tre - as well as series like Ottovolante and Gran Festival del varietà which were broadcas...
2024-04-0846 min
Viva! Vegan Podcast#32 Vegan News Minisode - April 2024 The Vegan News Minisode with Faye Lewis Bringing you the latest news from the world of veganism: Episode 32: April 2024 Welcome to the Vegan News Minisode, brought to you by leading vegan charity Viva!. Presenter Faye is this month joined by Rachel as they bring you the latest plant-based lifestyle, food and animal campaigns news from around the globe. In this episode, Faye and Rachel discuss a video claiming raw milk heals lactose intolerance, and it being flagged as 'false information'. The hugely anticipated documentary, I Could Never Go Vegan, France's ban on meat labels for veget...
2024-04-0214 min
TV Italian StyleF: Franca Valeri - more than just La Signorina SnobSend us a text'Con un lampo unico di creatività, è stata proprio lei ad aver letteralmente rivoluzionato la comicità e l'immagine femminile dal secondo dopoguerra con l'invenzione di personaggi simbolo come La Signorina Snob, la sora Cecioni, Cesira la manicure. L'ironia scorrettissima, il tratto rapido, il soprassalto linguistico e surreale sono i suoi strumenti per raccontare le tante identità femminili in mutazione. Autrice di diversi libri, tra questi 'Il diario della signorina Snob', 'Le donne' e il più recente 'Il secolo della noia', vera protagonista e mai solo caratterista, come talvolta descritta dalle biografie, è stata anche sceneggiatrice di alcuni...
2024-03-2538 min
TV Italian StyleE: E che cosa guardavamo alle 9?Send us a textIn this episode, we're exploring the impact of all of the popular variety shows that audiences were watching on television at (approximately) 9pm in the evenings in Italy. With help from the novels of Elena Ferrante, Francesca Melandri, and Marco Vichi alongside extracts from diaries of viewers from the 1950s, we'll get a sense of what it really felt like to watch these shows at the moment they were first broadcast. Italian society was clearly changing during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and television viewing and programmes highlighted this drive towards modernisation. But...
2024-03-1129 min
TV Italian StyleD: Directors - going behind the camera of the varietàSend us a textAntonello Falqui and Vito Molinari are the two directors who are main focus of this episode that goes behind the camera of the varietà. We find out more about Falqui's inspiration and influences, looking at how his work in television drew on his love of theatre, cinema, and the American musical. His significant varietà included Il musichiere, Studio Uno, Teatro 10, and Milleluci, and these shows would help establish the popularity of some very famous faces of Italian television, including Mario Riva, the Kessler twins, and Mina. Vito Molinari then shares some st...
2024-02-2640 min
TV Italian StyleC: CanzonissimaSend us a textToday's episode focuses on just one varietà but it's an important one: Canzonissima. This series featured on Italian television screens throughout the 1950s, 60s, and 70s (even if it did undergo occasional changes in title) and helped to launch and establish many famous faces in this period. The premise of the show was a song competition that was linked to the New Year's National Lottery in Italy and viewers were encouraged to vote each week for their favourite singer by sending in postcards, which would then also be entered into the draw for l...
2024-02-1244 min
TV Italian StyleB: Buone vacanze - Pop music and the varietàSend us a textMusic is such a fundamental element of the varietà and this episode explores some of the most popular types of songs and most successful singers and programmes in Italy during the 50s, 60s, and 70s. We'll think about the canzone all'italiana alongside urlo and international stars as examples of songs that were on the small screen in Italy, and what the impact of seeing singers performing actually was on the audience. Buone vacanze, Studio Uno and Johnny 7 are some of the shows we'll talk about, and of course we have to mention the T...
2024-01-2939 min
TV Italian StyleA: Allegria! Mike Bongiorno, Corrado, and Italian variety televisionSend us a textWhen Italian television launched with regular national broadcasts in 1954, what was it like? What was RAI and what was its mission? And who were the famous faces and voices that Italians were watching and listening to?In this episode, we'll think about the aim of Italian television between 1954 and 1976, when there was one national broadcaster, RAI, and strong pressure from the State and the Vatican that would shape programming and content throughout this period. And then we'll meet two virtual guest stars who are considered two of the founding fathers of...
2024-01-1535 min
Great Sacred MusicThursday 3rd August: Lift Thine EyesNineteenth century music for upper voices, including works by Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel.
Led by Rachel Haworth
Directed and accompanied by Polina Sosnina
With thanks to the donors of the Spirit of St Martin’s Campaign for supporting this season of Great Sacred Music.
2023-10-1931 min
The Royal College of Psychiatrists PodcastChoose Psychiatry – Making training flexibleIn this podcast we hear from three trainees, who each talk about one way the College encourages and supports flexibility in psychiatry training. We also go into how we'll be making training even more flexible over the next five years.
It was hosted by Dr Declan Hyland, our Associate Dean for Choose Psychiatry (Careers), and we heard from Dr Rachel Kerrigan, Dr Jacqueline Haworth, and Dr Jehan Elturky.
View the transcript on our website: https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-features/podcasts/detail/choose-psychiatry-making-training-flexible
2022-11-3027 min
Justin Moorhouse About 30 Minutes No More Than 45I Do Need A New SofaJustin has a jam-packed week catching up with Jimmy Carr, Kevin Bridges and Danny Mcloughlin. He bumps into Jules (Julia Haworth) after some Christmas shopping, and Janet answers some of your questions. Justin and Janet discuss the podcast's new Twitter and the Post Bag is in full swing. Get in touch or #AskJanet here: Twitter - @3045podcast Email – 3045podcast@gmail.com Sign up for the Podcast email: www.justinmoorhouse.com THIS WEEK'S GIGS… See Justin on Saturday here:
2021-12-1434 min
Goal Get It PodcastTop 7 Books That Changed My Life As A CEOToday I am sharing seven books that were game changers for me, in hopes that it will illuminate the journey for you. I believe in being a lifelong learner, and reading these books helped me along my CEO journey. This list will help you think about the books that you’ve read and how they’ve inspired you, as well. Who knows, maybe you’ll dive in and have a whole new reading list! When you're finished listening, head on over to Instagram and DM me a book that has changed YOUR life! Show Lin...
2021-07-0627 min
Punk CX: Customer Experience Insights with Adrian SwinscoeGoing from good to great in customer experience - Interview with Rachel Haworth of Coventry Building SocietyGoing from good to great in customer experience - Interview with Rachel Haworth, Customer Experience Director, at Coventry Building Society. Particularly for non-UK readers, a building society is a financial institution that is owned by its members as a mutual organisation. Coventry Building Society is the second largest organisation of its kind in the UK with over 1.8 million members that save or have a mortgage with them. Rachel joins me today to talk about customer experience, the approach they have taken, the successes they have had, what it takes to have the highest customer satisfaction of any major bank...
2019-11-2439 min