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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Worth a listen Apr 9^th, 2015 at 10:59am http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/daniel-mannix-biograp... Political history fans might find this worthwhile. Archbishop Mannix had a big influence over the Irish Catholic Labor vote in Victoria in the early part of the 20th century.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Worth a listen Reply #1 - Apr 10^th, 2015 at 10:31am http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2015/03/25/4204400.htm Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous) talks about her life. She never stops laughing, what a character. Worth listening just to hear her describe her schooldays.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Worth a listen Reply #2 - May 1^st, 2015 at 5:17pm http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/mediareport/finishability2c-filteri... If the Monster Raving Looney Party still exists and is looking for a new leader, this could be the bloke.
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Reply #3 - May 5^th, 2015 at 9:19am

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/conversations/jane-caro/6430024

I admit to being wrong here. I previously had a strong dislike of Jane Caro, not because of her feminism but because she is such a strident critic of everything non-left.
But I didn't realise she was an author and in particular of a book on Elizabeth I, who is something of a feminist icon herself. And not only an author but a beautifully sensitive reciter of Elizabethan poetry.
Now I'm an admirer.

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Worth a listen Reply #4 - May 14^th, 2015 at 12:26pm http://www.dw.de/inside-europe-inside-europe-2015-05-10/e-18245520-9798?maca=en-... The last half hour here is a rebroadcast of an old doco on the closing weeks of WW2 from a German perspective. Eyewitness interviews & archival German broadcasts make for interesting listening.
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Reply #5 - May 22^nd, 2015 at 10:50am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/greatlives

J G Winant was the US Ambassador to Britain from 1941 to 1945.
He was a confidant of FDR, even though he came from the Republican party, and he was a close friend of Churchill.
He worked closely with Roosevelt to get America into the war against the prevailing isolationist spirit.

After the war he went home. Churchill was out of office, Roosevelt was dead and he didn't have a close relationship with Truman. His personal life was in a bit of a mess after an affair with Churchill's daughter Sarah and he shot himself.

His life is discussed here. Interesting.

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issuevoter Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9200 The Great State of Mind Gender:	Re: Worth a listen Reply #6 - May 27^th, 2015 at 7:54am Just listened to the piece on Winant. I would like to read the book now.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Worth a listen Reply #7 - May 27^th, 2015 at 6:01pm I often feel like that but it rarely happens. I spend so much time listening these days
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Reply #8 - Jun 1^st, 2015 at 10:30am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ptw#playepisode1
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/radioplay/ptw_20150529-0800c.mp3

I used to enjoy Jane Horrocks as "Bubble" in AbFab, but I fell in love with her as "Gracie".
Apart from anything else I love her unashamed Lancashire accent.
Here she is in great little radio play "Sung". But you often have to be quick with these things as they have a limited time availability.

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Worth a listen Reply #9 - Jun 13^th, 2015 at 3:03pm http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/untold-story---merchant-nav... The little known war along Australia's coast in 1942-43. The way torpedoed seamen were treated is unbelievable.
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Reply #10 - Jun 20^th, 2015 at 10:50am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02tl30s

Do you remember the epic John Ford western "The Searchers"?
This doco delves into the real history of the homesteaders who lived on the edge of the Comanche empire and one family in particular who were probably the source for the movie.
It deals with the Comanche war in general and the fate of captives taken for trade or slaves or wives.
Ironically, the real person who was probably the model for the John Wayne character was a famous Negro captive hunter.
Very interesting.

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Worth a listen Reply #11 - Jul 17^th, 2015 at 11:31am http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0608nvd A progressive who thinks the rejection of authority has gone too far. "Regrets, I've had a few" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k2f7z Tony Hancock - he couldn't find happiness, he didn't expect to be happy, but he made millions & millions of people laugh.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Worth a listen Reply #12 - Aug 11^th, 2015 at 1:56pm http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02ypjy0/episodes/downloads Archive recordings of war correspondents going back to late 1930s. May be interesting in weeks to come. PS many of the links in the posts above may now be out of date as the BBC has changed it's podcast download website and file names may have changed. Don't know.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Worth a listen Reply #13 - Sep 2^nd, 2015 at 3:02pm Want a laugh? http://www.radioechoes.com/radio-active Never heard this show before. The bits I've listened to have been good.
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Reply #14 - Sep 21^st, 2015 at 10:39am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031wmm7

An interview with a NASA team leader responsible for part of the landing operation of the Rover on Mars.
Not only an insight into the technologies involved but a human story of how the shy quiet girl in the class turned herself into a leading space engineer.

Would she like to go to Mars?
"The technologies can be mastered. All it takes is time & money"

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