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The KELA Podcast, East Los Angeles College's Community Podcast DestinationBackground Noise - Show 021 [Explicit] - Unnecessary NoiseTune into Background Noise with Omar Roa, Joe Dargan, and Chris Montes for an uncensored, chaotic, and hilarious ride through the minds of three hosts who couldn't care less if you stop listening after 30 minutes! This is where raw, unfiltered conversations thrive, from mocking high-profile Hollywood scandals, like whether Kevin Spacey deserves a "rape stipend" based on his number of Oscars, to tackling controversial subjects like the release of the redacted Epstein files and Omar's theory that white people age poorly due to historical inbreeding. Expect razor-sharp satire in segments featuring movie pitches, including a dark comedy casino heist...
2025-12-081h 32
Christ Over All4.54 Marc Minter, David Schrock & Stephen Wellum • Interview • “Liberty, Not Separation: The Historic Development of Baptist Perspectives on Church and State”ABOUT THE EPISODEListen in as David Schrock & Stephen Wellum interview Marc Minter on his Longform essay, "Liberty Not Separation: The Historic Development of Baptist Perspectives on Church and State"Timestamps00:48 – Intro05:52 – Marc Minter and His Academic Aspirations10:30 – The State of Political Theology in the SBC14:48 – Influences on Political Theology19:00 – The Significance of Everson v. Board of Education 194721:42 – How This Case Shaped Subsequent Generations’ Worldviews24:27 – Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists30:10 – How Much Did Jefferson’s Views Change Between 1776-1802?33:37 – The Distinction Between Reformation and Enlightment Traditions37:55 – The Two Notions of the Term ‘Separation’43:05 – Have We A...
2025-11-241h 07
The Stripped Back Podcast By Insight:S6 E9 - Heroes or Ghosts with Jordan Dargan and Adam FoleyIt’s the penultimate episode of Season 6, and we’ve got an inspiring double-header for you.Kicking things off in The Overload Segment, we usually focus on the trades – but this week, we welcome a different kind of apprentice. Jordan Dargan, Irish entrepreneur and standout contestant on BBC’s The Apprentice UK 2025, joins us to talk about his roots, his business journey, and what it was really like in the boardroom. From growing up in Ireland to pitching big ideas on national TV, Jordan brings energy, honesty, and insight into the world of startups and self-belief.Be sur...
2025-05-192h 34
Insight: The Stripped Back PodcastS6 E9 - Heroes or GhostsIt’s the penultimate episode of Season 6, and we’ve got an inspiring double-header for you.Kicking things off in The Overload Segment, we usually focus on the trades – but this week, we welcome a different kind of apprentice. Jordan Dargan, Irish entrepreneur and standout contestant on BBC’s The Apprentice UK 2025, joins us to talk about his roots, his business journey, and what it was really like in the boardroom. From growing up in Ireland to pitching big ideas on national TV, Jordan brings energy, honesty, and insight into the world of startups and self-belief.Be sure to check out Jord...
2025-05-192h 34
Enterprise Excellence Podcast with Brad Jeavons180 Leading Excellence: The 5 Hats of the Adaptive Leader with Chris Butterworth and Stephen Dargan, Part 2.Sign up with us and check out the resources on our website: https://www.leadingexcellencebook.com/Summary Keywordsleader, people, interference, organisation, book, behaviour, create, learn, excellence, formula, hats, leadership, listen, great, develop, purpose, talk, vulnerability.IntroductionWelcome to Episode 180 of the Enterprise Excellence podcast. This week, we will go deeper into leading excellence, exploring more topics of this book focused on helping organisations create cultures of continuous improvement and innovation.ContactsVisit https://www.leadingexcellencebook.com/about-the-authors to connect with any/all of the...
2024-09-1632 min
Enterprise Excellence Podcast with Brad Jeavons179 Leading Excellence: The 5 Hats of the Adaptive Leader with Chris Butterworth and Stephen Dargan, Part 1.Download the Leading Excellence Maturity Index here: https://www.leadingexcellencebook.com/resources#maturity-index.Summary Keywordsleaders, organisation, continuous improvement, Chris, book, behaviours, hat, coaching, individual, work, people, culture, create, Dargs, good, engagement, leadership, excellence, serve, system.IntroductionWelcome to episode 179 of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast. It is such a pleasure to have Chris Butterworth and Stephen Dargan on the show with us today to discuss the new book, and yes, I am also involved in Leading Excellence: the 5 Hats of the Adaptive Leader. This book brings together a mountain...
2024-09-0330 min
Lean Blog Interviews: Real-World Lean Leadership Conversations in Healthcare and BeyondInsights from 'Leading Excellence': Brad Jevons and Stephen Dargan on Adaptive LeadershipMy guests for Episode #512 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast are two of three co-authors of the upcoming book “Leading Excellence: 5 Hats of the Adaptive Leader” - Brad Jeavons and Stephen Dargan.
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Stephen Dargan
A diverse and inclusive, customer-centric, driven transformational leader with 20+ years of leadership experience spanning Australia and Europe. Stephen is a Shingo Institute Alumni, Shingo Facilitator and Examiner. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
2024-08-2158 minLean Blog Interviews: Real-World Lean Leadership Conversations in Healthcare and BeyondInsights from 'Leading Excellence': Brad Jevons and Stephen Dargan on Adaptive Leadership
My guests for Episode #512 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast are two of three co-authors of the upcoming book “Leading Excellence: 5 Hats of the Adaptive Leader” - Brad Jeavons and Stephen Dargan.
Episode page with video, transcript, and more
Stephen Dargan
A diverse and inclusive, customer-centric, driven transformational leader with 20+ years of leadership experience spanning Australia and Europe. Stephen is a Shingo Institute Alumni, Shingo Facilitator and Examiner. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
2024-08-0258 min
Imperfect Men36: William Henry DraytonOn this episode, Steve and Cody discuss Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, six time Grammy nominee, and lovelorn reality TV subject, William Drayton…wait, no, that’s not right…Podcast to recommend: The Almost Forgotten (http://almostforgotten.squarespace.com/)SourcesDabney, William M. and Marion Dargan. William Henry Drayton and the American Revolution. Albuquerque, NM: U. of New Mexico Press, 1962.Krawczynski, Keith. William Henry Drayton: South Carolina Revolutionary Patriot. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2001.“William Henry Drayton.” National Park Service. 27 Dec 2019. . Retrieved 4 Jun 2024.See pinned post on Bluesky for general sources Hosted...
2024-06-1819 min
Career & Spirituality ConversationsEp 11 - Bonus episode: Workplace Happiness LibraryThis episode was edited from Episode 4 - "Happy Workplaces, an Unstoppable Movement" with Stephen Dargan.
It summarises all the inspiring book recommendation Stephen made during the original episode.
Consider it as a bonus!
To contact Stephen:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-dargan-happywork/
And to access all the most recent episodes (up to episode 30) of Career & Spirituality Conversations, sign up here for free: https://keap.page/max338/sign-up-csc.html
See you again soon!
2023-11-2112 min
Career & Spirituality ConversationsEp 4 - Happy Workplaces, an Unstoppable Movement, with Stephen DarganThis week I interviewed Happiness at Work Champion Stephen Dargan.
For the past 12 years Stephen has championed organisations that create happier workplaces, working with leaders in organisations to shape a happier modern working environment.
He has ran 4 Happy Workplace Ireland conferences, where organisations as diverse as Tony’s Chocolonely, Innocent drinks and Airbnb have shared how they have transformed the world of work for the better.
This is actually how I met Stephen, as he took me in to present at the last conference, on the topic...
2023-10-121h 08
Wow @ Work22: Reframing marketing, with Simon BatchelarEthical marketing is a vital ingredient to a workplace where everyone feels good about themselves. The alignment of values, purpose, and how the organisation treats its suppliers and customers can be a big contributor to workplace happiness.
Simon Batchelar is the author of Reframing Marketing, and has been a marketing mentor for the past 20 years. Simon has a unique perspective on ethical marketing, and believes that marketing should align with the values of the company. This means it’s not good enough simply to talk the talk – organisations must put into practice the values they espouse.
L...
2023-06-1351 min
WingsS3E19: Lights...Camera...Play!In this episode of Wings Podcast we will meet Naina Dargan, a dubbing artist for Doordarshan at the age of 10, a choreographer and cheerleader for the IPL Cricket Team - Delhi Daredevils at 14, a primary school teacher at 21, a graduate from St.Stephen’s College, Delhi where she studied Philosophy and now a student of acting at the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India. Naina has worn many hats in the course of last 26 years with one aim - to learn and live life to the fullest! Naina Dargan can be reached at: Instagram; Facebook
2023-05-1152 minWow @ Work21: The self-managing SEO agency built on transparency and trustWhen SEO agency Reddico made employee wellbeing a key requirement, it accelerated their approval as a B Corp. Reddico's approach to unlimited holidays and self-managed teams shows that implementing these policies as part of a larger strategy can lead to positive results, like decreased sickness rates and increased trust within the team.
In his conversation with Stephen, Reddico’s Head of Culture Luke Kyte advises us not to copy what other companies are doing wholesale, but to adapt and build upon ideas to create something unique that works for each organisation.
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Reinventing Organizations: A...
2023-04-1043 minWow @ Work20: From software to sustainable fashion – a story of purpose and impactSince 1995, over 300,000 Indian farmers have taken their own lives. When software engineer Apurva Kothari read about this, he was compelled to leave his dream job and return to India to do something about it.
Apurva is a software engineer who fulfilled the dream of many young boys by working as a software consultant in San Francisco, New York, and eventually Sydney. However, while in New York, Apu read an article about the cotton crisis in Indian farming, and learned that 300,000 farmers from India had taken their own lives, with these deaths linked to GM farming in the...
2023-03-0747 minWow @ Work19: Rewriting the rules of work, with Beth StallwoodWhat if work didn’t have to be miserable? What if the memes people shared to help them get through the week weren’t needed? Beth Stallwood began asking these questions through her work as a coach, and during lockdown started putting her ideas down on paper.
Beth is a coach, facilitator, speaker, consultant, and author who has spent 20 years developing her approach to helping individuals and organisations with their people challenges. Her book on finding joy in work is a practical guide to creating a balance between work and life. She believes that work is a part...
2023-02-2059 minWow @ Work18: Stop living the life that others expect of you, with Ray MartinWhen his wife left him and the business they’d built, Ray Martin found himself feeling like a character in a play, with no script and no idea what to say next. Returning from a trip to Australia presented the possibility that he could rewrite that character, and change the story entirely.
Ray is an entrepreneur and award-winning business leader. Inspired by Bronnie Ware, author of The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, he left England to answer the question “How do I live true to myself from this moment onwards?”His nomadic adventure went global, from London...
2023-02-0851 minWow @ Work17: The four day week is your biggest differentiator when hiring, with Joe O'ConnorPeople transitioning from working five days to working four are getting the same amount of work done. Joe O'Connor from the Work Time Reduction Center of Excellence discovered this when speaking with women who’d come back from maternity leave, who were being given the same amount of responsibility but for four fifths the pay.
In his discussion with Stephen, Joe posits that organisations will need to compete for new talent on quality-of-life. And at the forefront of that is reducing – not simply compressing – the amount of time we spend working.
In his work with 4 Day Gl...
2023-01-2345 minWow @ Work16: The art of shouting quietly at work, with Pete MosleyThe world seems custom-made for extroverts, and has been for a long time. But for author Pete Mosely, being quiet doesn’t have to mean being ignored.
Pete is the author of The Art of Shouting Quietly, and A Quiet Person’s Guide to Life and Work. In his conversation with Stephen, he breaks down the myth that introversion and extroversion are linear, the benefits of slowing down, and the importance of promoting diversity in thinking and communication styles.
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Connect with Pete via LinkedIn
The Art of Shouting Quietly: a guide to self-promotion for...
2023-01-0945 min
The Fitness Business Life PodcastSuicidal Pilot to on line Inspiration - Live with Daniel DarganWe're streaming live in this episode with Daniel Dargan.
We cover:
Why Daniel gave up life as a pilot to become a Personal Trainer?
How his depression led to him making an attempt to take his own life?
How a coach helped him overcome the despair he found himself in?
What advice he has for anyone wanting to grow a Fitness Business?
How his business has blown up in the first year and why he got cancelled for his content?
This one is a Game...
2022-12-1951 minWow @ Work15: Wrong turns are where the magic happensWhat do we do when life or work throws us a curveball? In her new book, productivity expert Grace Marshall explores ways we can reframe struggle as the place where the magic happens.
Grace is an author, keynote speaker, and a Productivity Ninja with the Think Productive team. In her conversation with Stephen, she uncovers ways we can hold plans and expectations less tightly, and how we can find joy in our work when we push ourselves a little out of our comfort zone.
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Connect with Grace on LinkedIn
Grace’s website
Struggle: Th...
2022-12-1255 minWow @ Work14: Don’t just create a “safe space” – create a “brave space" – How to design your working life with Wouter Smeets from Prototype YouWe are all prototypes, with a lifetime of learning ahead of us. That’s the insight that led Wouter Smeets to cofound Prototype You, an organisation that runs workshops to help people work towards their ideal work experience.
For Wouter, the office is just another tool, and moving a mouse or typing at a keyboard are not signs of productivity. And conversely, sometimes working less is the better way to achieve good, sustainable work.
Wouter is a Dutch entrepreneur, innovator and ideas guy that loves to hang out on the beach. By reinventing why and ho...
2022-11-2854 minWow @ Work13: How a small supermarket is revolutionising the way we buy foodA third of all carbon emissions are created by the food system – in production, packing, distribution, and consumption. Ruth Anslow spent 15 years in the corporate sector and formed the HISBE supermarket brand to try and change that.
Ruth is a social entrepreneur and a keen advocate of doing business for social benefit, beyond just making profit. In 2010 she decided to take on supermarkets and cofounded HISBE Food with her sister, Amy. HISBE is a supermarket chain with a difference, built on a social enterprise business model and designed to support a sustainable future for food and farming....
2022-11-0346 minWow @ Work12: Happier at Work, with Aoife O'BrienAoife O’Brien is the founder of Happier at Work, a business with the mission to support organisations in retaining top talent. She is passionate about fit and specifically how creating the right environment can help individuals to reach their full potential and support organisations to thrive.
She partners with HR and business leaders to focus on four pillars: engagement and belonging; leadership equity; performance and productivity; and the future of work. She is a self-professed data nerd, with a 20+ year career in market research in the fast-moving consumer goods industry working with clients like Coca Cola, Un...
2022-08-1158 minWow @ Work11: Life as a Chief Happiness officer, with Sarah MetcalfeSarah Metcalfe is passionate about happiness in the workplace, and she knows the positive impact this has on the customer experience. Through continuing to innovate and improve the customer journey, Sarah joined Sure Petcare in 2010, taking responsibility for the company’s customer service and guiding it through an extraordinary period of expansion and growth. She now leads a talented multilingual team who deliver outstanding customer service and happiness to all Sure Petcare customers around the world. Sarah left Sure Petcare with a Net Promoter Score of 90+ in over 20 countries.
Sarah now runs her own consulting company, Happy Co...
2022-07-2842 minWow @ Work10: The 4 day week, with Elena KerriganElena Kerrigan is the MD of Think Productive, a UK-based global company that enables organisations to reimagine how they work with productivity tools. They have helped companies as diverse as Aston Martin, American Express, Audi, Boots, GSK, Sainsbury’s and Volkswagen.
Through their courses and workshops they help organisations reclaim time from distractions, unproductive meetings and getting emails under control. This has allowed Think Productive to not only talk the talk the talk but also walk the walk.
Since 2011 they have worked a four-day week: paid for five days but only working four days.
El...
2022-07-2040 minWow @ Work9: Remote working with Liam Martin – How to do your best work from anywhereStephen and Liliana are joined by author, conference organiser, and remote work expert Liam Martin.
Liam is the CMO of time tracking and productivity platform and also co-organizer of the Running Remote conference, and author of Running Remote: Master the Lessons from the World’s Most Successful Remote-Work Pioneers. He has spent 20 years working remotely before we all entered a forced world of work we never thought possible.
In his conversation with Stephen and Liliana, he examines the impact 20th century ideas of work have on 21st century work environments, using Tesla as an example. He...
2022-07-1243 minWow @ WorkEpisode 8: Henry Stewart- The Happy ManifestoJoining Stephen is Henry Stewart, Chief Happiness Officer at London-based training company Happy Ltd. Henry is the author of the Happy Manifesto, a book that helps organisations become great places to work.
An international keynote speaker, Henry advises others like Stephen on how they can transform the world of work for the better.
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The Happy. Manifesto
happy.co.uk
The Customer Comes Second: Put Your People First and Watch 'em Kick Butt
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Bullshit Jobs...
2022-02-0439 minWow @ WorkEpisode 7: The Happy Entrepreneurs- Dr Carlos Saba and Laurence McCahillLaurence and Carlos from the Happy Startup School do business differently, and want to help others think differently about the work they do. After running a design agency, their approach to business – integrating ease and play – became their focus, and the Happy Startup School was born.
In this conversation with Liliana and Stephen, the founders of this purpose-led business school unpack what brought them from founding Spook Studio to running a thriving community of entrepreneurs, how they're transforming people's approaches to business, and providing more opportunities to escape Zoom fatigue.
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The Happy Startup Scho...
2021-11-0750 minWow @ WorkEpisode 6: The four-day work weekAdvancements in technology, productivity, knowledge-work and leadership have yet to address the problems of work-life balance and burnout facing people in modern workplaces. This week, Liliana and Stephen dig into the ways in which shrinking the working week can expand our potential to be productive, healthier and happier.
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Work-Life Balance Is a Cycle, Not an Achievement
Parkinson's law
Happy Workplaces conference
Maverick!: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace, by Ricardo Semler
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing, by Bronnie Ware
To learn more...
2021-10-2439 minWow @ WorkEpisode 5: Motivating your mojoThis week, Stephen and Liliana talk mojo, and finding intrinsic motivation where it feels like none is available. Stephen shares his passion for the Frisbee, and Liliana describes her yoga practise and her love of rollerblading.
The main topic for discussion is intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation: doing things because we're satisfied by the task rather than because we expect a reward. Drawing on evidence from past experiments, Stephen lays out three steps organisations can take to instil a greater sense of autonomy.
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The formation of learning sets
The intrinsic motivation of Richard Ryan...
2021-09-2642 minWow @ Work4: Atomic Focus, with Patrick McKeownLiliana and Stephen are joined by Patrick McKeown, author of Atomic Focus, The Oxygen Advantage among several other titles, to discuss the ways poor breathing affects day-to-day living, and hampers our success. Patrick is an international breathing expert and author based in Galway, Ireland, working with members of the military, special forces, Olympic athletes and more.
Success has three key ingredients: focus, concentration, and attention span, and Patrick argues that you can't enter a state of flow if your breathing is dysfunctional. So Patrick shares some techniques you can implement today to keep track of your breathing...
2021-09-051h 09Wow @ Work3: Happy Habits, with John EllisonLiliana and Stephen are joined by behaviour designer and serial entrepreneur John Ellison.
John he started his entrepreneurial journey when he dropped out of university at the age of 18 to start his first ecommerce business. Since then he's been working at Harvard's Intersection of Business, Design, and Technology, to help make a world a better place.
He honed his craft as a UX designer at Brighton agency Clearleft, and went on to lead a product team at civic tech startup Peak Democracy in Berkeley, California, where he experienced his first acquisition and ended up meeting...
2021-08-2243 minWow @ Work2: The Great Resignation and BOLT scoringStephen discusses the Great Resignation, looking at a number of studies into how people feel about returning to work. Liliana leads Stephen into a test to discover his body oxygen level (which you're invited to follow along with), and discusses ambidexterity in organisations.
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How breathwork can help your team
Building a happier workplace
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The Great Resignation: How employers drove workers to quit
2021-08-081h 01Wow @ Work1: What is happiness at work?Stephen and Liliana introduce the Wow @ Work philosophy by talking about workplace happiness: what it is, and how organisations can go about achieving it, by creating a safe and trusting environment. They also discuss the science and benefits of breathwork, and how we've forgotten how to breathe more effectively as we've aged.
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How breathwork can help your team
Building a happier workplace
Links and resources
Microsoft releases findings and considerations from one year of remote work in Work Trend Index
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
2021-07-2537 minWow @ WorkTrailerWelcome to the WoW at Work Podcast, with Liliana Ashton and Stephen Dargan. We are here to help you navigate the science, research and practices that shape and enhance the happiness of the modern working environment.
The world of work is transforming, we can already see evidence that remote working is here to stay. The 4 day week, greater employee trust and autonomy and employee engagement are at the forefront of what modern organisations are now embracing.
Great organisations realise that making their people feel good is key. They see happiness and health at work as...
2021-07-0902 min
Delightful DissentThat's just the way it is? - Stephen DarganWe're told that some of the ways we do things are fixed, that they can't be changed. That doing them this way is the only way that works even though it's difficult. That we just have to live with them. But what if accepting things is not always best for everyone? What if things aren't as fixed as they think they are?
Join Stephen Dargan and me as we look at the saying "that's just the way it is". We'll explore what lies between passive acceptance and unreasonableness. We'll see if having something too difficult to do...
2021-05-111h 03
Happier At Work: Leadership, Culture, Performance31: Stephen Dargan on the Future of WorkThis is the first episode in the “Future of Work” series. I speak with Stephen Dargan from Wake Up. Stephen and I talk about how work is going to change in the immediate future as well as further down the line. It’s time to question the way we worked – where we work from, and the time spent at work. We talk about the importance of autonomy at work, as well as meaning and purpose.
Stephen Dargan wants your organisation to feel happier. Stephen has worked with managing teams for 10 years to now enabling leaders of organisations in Ireland and the UK t...
2020-05-0856 min
The Bottom Line on KCLR#026: The Bottom Line - Mrs Smart Money, Happiness in the Workplace & Goffs Thyestes DayThis week on the Bottom Line John speaks with Mrs Smart Money Kel Galavan to discuss her year of No Spend, how this idea came about, the results of her no spend year and how she achieved those results. They also talk about how this has developed into an on line business for Mrs Smart Money and the services that are on offer. www.mrssmartmoney.comJohn speaks with Carlow based Stephen Dargan, the CEO of Wake Up, a company which aims to create happier environments in the workplace, schools, towns and in people in...
2020-01-1831 min
Leitrim DailyEpisode 23: Faces & Places - Manorhamilton Wild Rose FestivalThis week for Faces & Places, Breifne is at the opening of the revived Manorhamilton Wild Rose Festival where each of the Roses and invited guests are introduced to the crowd after a 21 year absence from the social calendar of the town.
Despite the awful weather a fantastic crowd was on the streets to see the girls arrive in style in classic cars for the official opening ceremony and later in the day at the Go Kart Derby on Park Road.
Breifne caught up with some of the girls bidding to become the 2019 International Wild Rose from Madrid, London and...
2019-07-2328 min
Discover New Releases Audiobooks in Mysteries & Thrillers, HistoricalThe Moon Man, Book 1 Audiobook by Gary Lovisi, Ken Janssens, Erwin K Roberts, Andrew SalmonPlease visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1547 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Moon Man, Book 1 Author: Gary Lovisi, Ken Janssens, Erwin K Roberts, Andrew Salmon Narrator: Matt Waldron Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 11-21-16 Publisher: RadioArchives.com Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Publisher's Summary: The Robin Hood of the pulps! Detective sergeant Stephen Thatcher is the son of police chief Peter Thatcher. Sickened by the effects of the Great Depression on Great City, the young lawman cannot reconcile the rich society elite living the...
2016-11-2105 min