My Podcast Blog

July 25, 2021

My Hometown: Barcelona

Today’s preview blog features Barcelona, next in our Hometown series. Our Wednesday podcast will have Fariba Rezvani and Miguel Valls talking about their hometown in Spain.   Situated in the North East corner of Spain, Barcelona is the c…

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July 25, 2021

My Hometown: Barcelona

Today’s preview blog features Barcelona, next in our Hometown series. Our Wednesday podcast will have Fariba Rezvani and Miguel Valls talking about their hometown in Spain.   Situated in the North East corner of Spain, Barcelona is the c…

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July 23, 2021

Collateral Damage, by Mark Shaw

Today’s blogpost previews Monday’s podcast, an interview with author Mark Shaw. His latest book, Collateral Damage, looks at the three deaths of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, JFK in 1963 and Dorothy Kilgallen in 1965 and links them.What could …

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July 20, 2021

Social Media Profiles: the real, the fake and the extreme. In conversation with Professor Chris Bail of Duke University.

Is online anonymity the primary driver of the extremist commentaries that have polarized American politics and society generally ?   Tune in to Tuesday’s podcast when Professor Chris Bail who heads up the Polarization Lab at Duke, will …

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July 1, 2021

Auckland My Hometown

We are launching a new series on July 8 called My Hometown. Each of the 10 episodes will feature a profile of a city and an interview with one of its residents to give us a native's sense of what it's like to live there. Covid lockdowns for the las…

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June 13, 2021

Author Cate Holahan discusses her new domestic thriller Her Three Lives..

Cate Holahan will be our guest on Thursday June 17 to talk about her fifth and latest thriller Her Three Lives. Cate graduated from Princeton in 2002 and pursued a career in journalism, writing for The Record, The Boston Globe and Businessweek. …

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June 11, 2021

G7 meets in Cornwall, England June 11-13 to co-ordinate global economic recovery.

The G7 is a group of developed global economies - UK, USA, France, Japan, Germany, Canada and Italy - which will meet 6/11 -13 to co-ordinate global economic policies post Covid pandemic. It is President Biden’s first trip abroad as President …

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June 5, 2021

Baseball Card Mania: the big business of trading sports cards.

Walmart and Target recently announced they would stop selling sports trading cards for the safety of their customers.  Was there some terroristic bio threat to one of America's treasured childhood past times, buying collecting and trading baseb…

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May 30, 2021

Covid baby bust signals continued fall in US birth rate.

The world's fertility rate has been steadily declining for the last 70 years, first in the developed world and more recently in developing countries. In 1950 for instance, women were having an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime. But by 2017, …

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May 22, 2021

Orexit: 5 Oregon counties vote to join Idaho

The state of Oregon is located in the Pacific NW. With a population of 4.7 million it is about one tenth the size of California. It's climate is dictated by its geography. The western one third of the state from the Pacific Ocean, East to the Cascad…

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