The John Batchelor Show

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Saturday 1 March 2014

Photo, above: Papua New Guinea, World War II cemetery at Bomana, Port Moresby  (Photo:  B. Ludin, courtesy of Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 1 March  2014 / Hour 1, Block A: You Are Not Forgotten: The Story of a Lost World War II Pilot and a...

Friday 28 February 2014

Photo, above:  Barricades, rue Soufflot, Paris, 1789, by Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (30 June 1789 – 17 January 1863) a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects. He was born in the Paris Louvre while his parents were staying there during the French Revolution. JOHN BATCHELOR...

Thursday 27 February 2014

Photo, above: Ariel Sharon at his beloved Sycamore Ranch in the Negev (Photo: Yossi Rot) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday  27 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Susanne Craig, NYT, in re...

Wednesday 26 February 2014

Photo, above:  Aberdeen, Kings College. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts:  Gordon Chang, Forbes.com.  Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show. Hour One Wednesday  26 February  2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Scott Harold, Associate Political Scientist at RAND, in re: Virgin and the latest round of Branson...

Tuesday 25 February 2014

Photo, above: Red and Black Flag of the OUN JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday  25  February  2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Larry Kudlow, in re:  Energy independence, Keystone Pipeline, shipping oil by train. North Dakota. Tuesday...

Monday 24 February 2014

Photo, above:  Saint Catherine's Monastery, founded by the Emperor St. Justinian the Great, sits at the foot of Mount Sinai in Sinai, Egypt. (Hussein Talal/ AP )  . . . A violent insurgency and military crackdown sweeping across Egypt’s northern Sinai peninsula have brought an unwelcome quiet to...

Sunday 23 February 2014

Photo, above: . . .  The year was 1951. Mohammed Mossadegh captivated the world with his struggle for independence from the British. He was charismatic and forceful. He was also eccentric. He greeted visitors, even foreign dignitaries, while in bed. He had fainting spells in Parliament. He...

Saturday 22 February 2014

Above: Alexander in India (although there appears to exist no record in India of his presence there). A Medieval European drawing of Alexander and the Indian Gymnosophists. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday  22 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman (1 of 2)...

Friday 21 February 2014

Photo, above: Astronomers at NASA have seen signs of the first stars in the universe. Alexander Kashlinsky and colleagues at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt observed fluctuations in the cosmic infrared background which, they say, are due to "Population III" stars. The observations...

Thursday 20 February 2014

Photo, above:  The 1916 Sykes-Picot lines cease to exist as Syria becomes a failed state, Iraq becomes a vassal of Iran, Jordan is all but overwhelmed by refugees – Palestinian, Iraqi, Syrian – and Lebanon is gnawed into pieces by Hezbollah/Iran. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co hosts:  Mary Kissel, Wall...

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