The John Batchelor Show

Schedules

Saturday 21 December 2013

Images, above: Greater Germania's ancient families' coats of arms, from what is now Poland. See Hour 4, A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher B. Krebs JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 21 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A:  Fatal...

Friday 20 December 2013

Photo, above: The Battle of Chaldiran (Persian: چالدران‎ ; Turkish: Çaldıran) occurred on 23 August 1514 and ended with a victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire. As a result, the Ottomans gained immediate control over eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq. The battle, however, was just...

Thursday 19 December 2013

Photo, above: Antarctic dollar.  See  Simon Constable,  Dow Jones, on holiday gifts for the money-minded  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday  19 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board, in re: David...

Wednesday 18 December 2013

Photo, above:  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, and Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show. Hour One Wednesday  19 December 2013  / Hour 1, Block A:   Toshi Yoshihara,  A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Naval War College, in re:  Liaoning steams southward...

Tuesday 17 December 2013

Photo, above: Life on Europa? This moon of Jupiter might have life in a subsurface ocean. Water from a subsurface ocean on Jupiter's moon, Europa, could reach the surface through seeps or erupt from hot water vents. This water would reveal the chemistry of the subsurface ocean and may contain...

Monday 16 December 2013

Photo, above: Geysers of vapor—a couple of hundred kilometers tall and possibly erupting at supersonic speeds—occasionally spew from the south polar regions of Europa, one of Jupiter’s ice-covered moons, a new study suggests. See: Hour 3, Block D, Sid Perkins. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday ...

Sunday 15 December 2013

Photo, above:  Hôtel de Crillon, one of three restaurants: ". . . le restaurant Les Ambassadeurs représente le raffinement et le goût à la française.  Le chef de cuisines allie tradition et modernité." Hotel closed for renovation till 2015.  See Hour 2, Block A: French Kids Eat Everything: How Our...

Saturday 14 December 2013

Photo, above:  Combat, 24 August 1944: "French troops enter the liberated capital"  "after four years of hope and struggle." "DeGaulle will be in Paris today [In Rennes,] his car was covered with flowers by the population" "A day of battles and a night of enthusiasm in free Paris." "Lyon and...

Friday 13 December 2013

Photo, above: The pod-rooms at Endémico, one of the new hotels in the wine region of Valle de Guadalupe, are perched above the valley. See Hour 4, Block D, Damian Cave, NYT, on A Rustic Paradise, Open for Development  The Guadalupe Valley is Mexico’s Tuscany. We're south of the border and in from...

Thursday 12 December 2013

Photo, above:  Penang, Nineteenth Century postcard. See Hour 1, Block C, Sadanand Dhume, AEI. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts; Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board.  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday  12 December  2013 / Hour 1, Block A: David M Drucker,...

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