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Two and a Mic - The Social Podcast — 295 episodes

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Poetry – And So They Set the Stage, the Whole Damn Stage…is a Set Up by TwoandaMic

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When the Cockroaches of India come together, ministers topple – a sign of democracy in action and the power of Gen Z!

3

From helping displaced children in Syria learn to running a techno music festival in Germany – A humbling journey!

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Racism to the north, xenophobia to the south, yet the dream of Pan-Africanism remains strong!

5

Poetry - Character of the Happy Warrior by William Wordsworth (including an intro by TwoandaMic)

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The Enemy Within – How Anna approached her fight with Cancer and lived to tell the tale.

7

The TwoandaMic Book Club - Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism and other arguments for economic independence by Professor Kristen R. Ghodsee

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Poetry - ‘til the Peacekeepers Came to Knife Freedom in the Back by TwoandaMic

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Greek Genocide Day of Remembrance - Remember and Never Forget...

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Dr Boshart - "People don’t want to challenge structures, and I think that structure is failing." How Healthcare in Canada is failing First Nations communities

11

Merging Businesses and Cultures, Gender Equality Legislation in the EU and AI is a Salad Full of Challenges

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NGOs are the fundamental societal adhesive that channels our hope on our behalf. We simply cannot risk losing them...

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Young Sherlock on Amazon Prime - A TV Show Review

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Urban mobility and how cities function and why people move around as they do

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Poetry - A Plagued Journey by Maya Angelou

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Corruption is a devil we know, and patriotism is an awkward bedfellow - A TwoandaMic Monologue

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Short Stories – The Private History of a Campaign that Failed by Mark Twain

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Celebrating International Women’s Day – a letter written by Constance Lytton

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The war on Iran is a civil war of human conscience, and the aggressors will lose no matter what the outcome because the people they fail to represent demand better at home.

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Do people have to be aware that they have moved to the right for it to count as a move to the right?

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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. From '1984' by George Orwell

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Iran’s brutal response to protests and the wider political divisions for Iranians in Iran and elsewhere

23

The Epstein Case – how did this sordid network grow so big under the noses of the biggest security agencies in the world?

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Mask wearing thugs with impunity will never enforce the law – the truth about Trump and his ICE and the lessons for the rest of us!

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The assassinations that sabotage peace

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7 Days of Mayhem that started 2026

27

The Sudanese Armenian Heritage Project

28

Poetry - The Defeat of Youth by Aldous Huxley

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TV Shows of 2025 - The Battle for Streaming?

30

The TwoandaMic Book Club - The Armour of Light by Ken Follett

31

It’s very important that Nigerian people maintain revolutionary vigilance!

32

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

33

A Nigerian Activist in Berlin

34

A TwoandaMic Monologue: The Honourable Politicians

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The curse of democracy is the hypocrisy it nurses.

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Short Stories – The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde

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Short Stories – The Street that got Mislaid by Patrick Waddington

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Dept Q on Netflix - A Review

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Book Club – Crooked Cross by Sally Carson

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Lynchings in the USA yet the ‘President’ targets non-existent ANTIFA ‘organisation’?

41

Ravenswood High School in East Palo Alto - a star of desegregation or a victim to flawed planning?

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The Senate Charade and the Fakeness of Farage – House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Free Speech

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Poetry - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon

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Severance on Apple TV+ - A review

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Performance politics aimed at fuelling disharmony – surely people deserve better than Reform!

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Palantir isn’t the problem. The system which believes that Palantir is the solution is the problem.

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What happens when debating guru Mehdi Hasan meets 20 angry right wingers?

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Short Stories - Man from the South by Roald Dahl

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Short Stories - A Slander by Anton Chekhov

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The legacy of Iran-Contra lives on but how much do we remember?

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West Asia to the UK, South America to Germany – meshing cultures and fitting in.

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TrhxianL: "Resistance doesn't disappear" - the histories not taught

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Yerevan and Marseilles, Twinning and Students Exchange Cultures and Experiences

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Will the Wheel of Time weave again?

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Cybersex and chatting sex dolls are no longer fictitious fancies - they are here already!

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Short Stories - A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf

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Short Story – The Mouse by H. H. Munro (Saki)

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I am a human being! At what point do we begin to matter? Trans women and the humans behind the activism

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Book Club - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Bladerunner) by Philip K. Dick

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Burkina Faso – the pride of Africa and the light of the world!

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Esheru - The Ancestors Speak Through Me

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Sheltering Armenians from the constant fire from Azeris: an endless battle for survival.

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Smart nature systems and collaborative thinking in a sustainable hub in India - supported by WeltHungerHilfe

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Racism is an agenda even in the healthcare sector

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The integrity of Armenia’s borders are being threatened by dictatorial petrostate Azerbaijan

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Do you find politics too frustrating? Are you fed up with inept politicians? You're not alone!

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President Troll, Secretary Ruin and the Cuban Trafficking that never was...the art of lying

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Dr #Boshart provides her #community a piece of #healthcare #sovereignty with a #FirstNations worldview.

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Book Club – A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Emma Southon

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How the #AfD would use #taxes to #beat the poor - Pre-election 2025 Miniseries Final Part

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The #AfD Policies on #Sovereignty and the #EU Analysed - Pre-election 2025 Miniseries Part 6

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Mindful Motherhood and creating a safe space - with psychologist Anne

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The #AfD Policies on #Family Analysed - Pre-election 2025 Miniseries Part 5

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The #AfD Policies on #Energy Analysed - Pre-election 2025 Miniseries Part 4

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The #AfD policies on #Migration and #BorderControl analysed - Pre-election 2025 Miniseries Part 3

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The #AfD’s educational policies are dangerous and divisive - Pre-election 2025 Miniseries Part 2

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The AfD and the legacy of the Berlin Wall - Pre-election 2025 Miniseries Part 1

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The BBC is broken, MSM has been hijacked, Information is filtered, the truth is MIA!

79

Lilek – We need to build resilient communities.

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Julia Books – The birth of a UNCRN and a community

81

A Series on Africa - Libya and Gaddafi - The Colonel of Controversy and Contradication

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Racism – Many people do not start out racist, they are forced into it by the elites - it's just a ruse.

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Poetry – My Native Land by Shoshee Chunder Dutt

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A Series on Africa - Burkina Faso Part 3 - Compaoré plunged Burkina Faso into darkness, Traore returns it to the light…

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Deconstructing the Myth that Colonialism Ever Came to an End – 3 Activists Speak Out

86

Special Episode - The US Election 2024

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A Series on Africa - Burkina Faso - Part 2 - The Story of Thomas Sankara

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A Series on Africa - Burkina Faso - Part 1

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Feminism through Art with Lulu

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A Series on Africa - The Democratic Republic of Congo

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A Series on Africa – the continent that has given the world so much!

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Poetry - The Refugees by Randall Jarrell

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Why does the Right dislike…Foreigners!

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Blockaded for 9 months and the UN did nothing - A story of the Armenians

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Short Story - The Ambitious Guest by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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200 Up and my children are still teaching me!

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Free Armenian Hostages - the Scandal of Greenwashing and COP29!

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Why does the right dislike...diversity?

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Book Club – Dissolution by C J Sansom

100

Hannah - There is a lot of beauty to share in science.

101

Omish Njash on the people of Kenya on Haiti – “They do not wish to be occupiers in another black people’s land” - The Final Part!

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‘GenZ correcting Kenyan politics’ with Omish Njash – part 2

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Omish Njash in Nairobi: We elected an unruly president. These are the circumstances.

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Lulu: We could not use English words on social media! But we didn’t follow that rule.

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Tania: Scouting was always about being outside, about adventures and about campfires.

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Inspiration: is it overrated? Or do we all need a bit of it from time to time?

107

The Armenian Genocide 2023 and COP29

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Short Story - The Lightning-Rod Man by Herman Melville

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Adémola: African history did not begin with slavery, slavery is an interruption of African history.

110

Fehler Kultur – “Fortify the Growth Mindset.”

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Book Club – 3 Body Problem by Cixin Liu

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Disappoined with Democracy - Reflections

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The worlds of TV shows with Amber from The Road to Tar Valon

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Tanja - Peacefulness of the mind is behind conditions.

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The walls of our minds, simple messaging and social conditioning - a reflection.

116

Did LeBron ruin the NBA?

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Poetry – IF by Rudyard Kipling

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Short Stories – One of These Days by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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The Corruption Saturation Effect Part 1

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The way female artists are portrayed does more harm than good.

121

Dr Boshart – providing healthcare for First Nations people: We were operating out of a shelter – and even that was taken away!

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Poetry - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

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We need to create decentralised support systems!

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Shakespeare’s classic with a Nairobian twist: Omera gi Juliet

125

How Indian villages can become more resilient - the story of an idea and generous in-laws Part 1

126

Book Club – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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COP28 and the Robbers: We expect our policy makers to understand the issues, but they don’t.

128

Because breasts are sexualised

129

Mischka: Let’s start with not reading fake news!

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If you don’t have peace within yourself then you can’t support others

131

Psychology is a tool to understand why you are suffering.

132

Karin - Many parents would be well-advised to listen more to their children.

133

Japanese Anime films are the world’s most imaginative pool of storytelling!

134

Kicking about in Nairobi – the life of artist Omish Njash Ep 2 part 1

135

Turning the tables with Lilek - A podcast in reflection and transgenerational trauma!!

136

Caragh: I do not fit in boxes!

137

The rise and plateauing of the right in Spain

138

Esheru: Once colonialism ended, globalism started

139

Lilek: Tapping into the intensity of concentration in the moment

140

Julia Books – Be a part of the journey of creating a lively story!

141

The KfW Foundation is looking to award a nature conservationist €50k! Help us find the winner!!!!

142

Artist Omish Njash - “It’s unfair to give a gift if something else must die!”

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Poetry - Sonnet 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare

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Tai – My style is very stream of consciousness…

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Lilek from Extinction Rebellion - If we think differently, we should act differently.

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Lilek from Extinction Rebellion: It’s painful for people to change!

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Short Stories - The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade by Edgar Allan Poe

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Lilek from Extinction Rebellion: “We have lost the understanding that we are part of the natural world!”

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Lilek of Extinction Rebellion: We are not the secret service of the climate justice movement.

150

Book Club - Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City by Edmund Richardson

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Poetry – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

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Short Stories - Araby by James Joyce

153

Burger Boy and Humble Pie: A good burger is super simple and authentic!

154

Dr Boshart - There is no primary care, there are no doctors for First Nations communities.

155

Poetry – Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

156

George Orwell – Politics and the English Language – An Essay

157

Florah – “More voices should be given to Africans about things that relate to them, within the media.”

158

Book Club - The Black Echo by Michael Connolly

159

Presidents: James Madison 4/46: Founding Father, Victor, Federalist, Slaver Owner

160

Caragh McMurtry and Mikey talk diversity and equity in elite sport!

161

"Reading your reality" and managing people with Helga Niola

162

Short Stories - The Law of Life by Jack London

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The Spirit of Football, Fair Play and Sustainability (#SDGs) with Benni Grunewald

164

Poetry – Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

165

Short Stories - The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty

166

Short Stories - The Fiddler by Herman Melville

167

Alex Mays – Founder of the Breakthrough party - #HopeHasANewHome

168

Shole Pakravan – The tragedy of Reyhaneh and a mother’s work to keep her daughter’s memory alive!

169

Julia Books and the eternal cliff-hanger!

170

Poetry – A Psalm of Freudian Life by Franklin Pierce Adams

171

USA - The Story from the Other Side

172

Short Stories – The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

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Short Stories - How the Leopard got His Spots by Rudyard Kipling

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Parastu: The people of Iran want freedom

175

Book Club - Red Rising – Pierce Brown

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Poetry - Meditations by Margaret Fuller

177

Sacagawea, York and the Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Caragh and Mike – the team that is bursting with energy!

179

Shirley Franklin: People are looking for a place to belong.

180

Prime Ministers of the UK #2 and #3 - A Tale of 2 PMs

181

Chris - The Mid-terms and Basketball - Don't force it man!

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Presidents: Thomas Jefferson 3/46: founding father, republican, democrat and slave owner.

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Caragh McMurtry – Rower for Team GB, Woman and Neurodiverse

184

Short Stories – Bellflower by Guy de Maupassant

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Prime Ministers of the UK: No. 1 Robert Walpole - Prime Minister and Slaver

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Poetry – The Sunflower by Dora Greenwell

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Presidents: Johns Adams 2/46 – Where did it all go wrong?

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Poetry – The Waste Land by T S Eliot

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Presidents: George Washington 1/46 – Was he really all that?

190

Short Poems 1 - A few thoughtful chants

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Short Stories - Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

192

Vladi - Vasectomies and all forms of contraception on my island will be free!

193

Video gaming is an art that brings people together!

194

Women of the French Revolution – A chat with Traci

195

The Iran Contra Affair - a talk with Aydan

196

Generations: A talk with my sons to celebrate 100!

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Short Stories - The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov

198

Aydan: Social funding? Reagan gouged it all out!

199

Short Stories - Luck by Mark Twain

200

Aydan: We need to take care of our country!

201

Tanja – The Power of Anger or can it be Love?

202

Hinrich Westerkamp and a community that open minds and hearts to welcome refugees.

203

Julia Books - Lively Story - StoryTelling, networks, content and more!

204

Short Stories - Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

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Poetry - Alone by Edgar Allan Poe

206

Lanna: I am a change maker. I don’t want to accept things as they are.

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Siblings: "The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr. Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?" Blackadder.

208

Tatiana: “Are you creating a sustainable solution or is that a band aid?”

209

Vladi: A chat about practical work and I ask myself “am I a work/life balance freak?”

210

Briskby - What makes you feel active!

211

Vlad: Poverty is not a money problem!

212

Vladi: Penal systems must be about qualifying criminals for social re-integration

213

Flock - A Movement for Equality

214

RTTV: The making of a great podcast, the work, the friendship, the ambition

215

Siblings: A Roman beginnings

216

Vladi: Systems don’t matter, histories matter!

217

Vladi - It's not about democracy, it's about the best system

218

Building society block by block: Democracy or not democracy?

219

Vladi - Is democracy a buzzword?

220

Kristine – Mentoring, making decisions, being creative and being an ally

221

Drab - Everything Wheel of Time and Working Out the Twitter Algorithm

222

Tanja - The Need to Be and Not Only Do

223

Claudia - Changing our mindset and what we can learn from our kids

224

Alberto - Sports journalist, football commentator, podcaster!

225

Maya Angelou - An inspiration, artist and activist

226

Tanja - In the flesh and talking SensualTalk, superstition and ice cream!

227

Raphael - Education needs us and it deserves our support!

228

Mitja - Historical echoes from Europe to the UK

229

Benny ventures out into sustainable photography

230

Tanja - Balance, appreciating one's self, and knowing our passions

231

Kristine - Recruiting and Mentoring: Passion, Equality and Determination

232

Slavery by Hannah More (a poem)

233

WoT (with spoilers): We’re on the Road to Tar Valon

234

WoT: Drab talks Wheel of Time, Greens and Socialism and Social Media

235

Tatiana - You have to be involved. From a distance you’re always out of touch!

236

Tanja – Coping with a loss and being true to myself!

237

Karin - The attack on the Capitol was an attack on Democracy!

238

Claudia talks different cultures in Italy and France in a field of science.

239

Florian from Schønlein Media reveals how a great podcast came to be!

240

Just me - Wheel of Time - online communities and holiday

241

Tanja and the passions and energies of life and love

242

Identity - Community - Discrimination - Ethnic Survival

243

Generations 2 – 15 and saying it like it is!

244

Karin - Transparency and governing the public interest

245

The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare

246

Episode 50 - Fighting for freedom and truth!

247

Karin – Echoes of Reality and Perspective

248

Alfred Tennyson - The Lady of Shalott

249

A talk with Olympic Gold Medallist Tom Mackintosh

250

Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth

251

Karin: Courage – Afghanistan – Democracy: in no specific order

252

Generations

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Karin – A literal journey across borders and cultures

254

“If you’re not afraid of it, then you don’t care!” A talk with Anna always inspires...

255

A motorcycle adventure decades in the making – Tanja hits Liguria on two wheels

256

Karin looks at North and South by Elisabeth Gaskell - a stunning 19th Century novel

257

Julia and Tapster Media: A new approach to digital publishing

258

Anna - I need to tell stories

259

The Maltese Connection - Do it like Vene

260

Tanja - The energies of Dance and calm of Mindfulness

261

Startups and Whisky 3 - In person

262

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

263

Startups and Whisky 2 - People Strategies

264

Just me - and a jingle - thoughts inspired by Nilsson's Everybody's Talking

265

Karin: The world of books and the importance of storytelling

266

Sensuality in society and breaking the taboo with Tanja

267

Institutionalised discrimination - will it ever end?

268

Karin: Writers saved by German state sponsorship

269

The Dance by Siamanto - Dedicated to the 1.5m Armenians

270

Karin - When power wants to kill free speech, it seeks out writers first

271

The day football scored 12 own goals!

272

Tanja raises the temperature with Sensual Talk!

273

Startups and Whisky Part 1

274

Karin - PEN and the meaning of sacrifice

275

Ani and Tatiana - double trouble or twice the value?

276

Karin - In Germany rebuilding

277

Rohwedder and the Stay Behind Network!

278

1st in the Premier League to 2nd Amendment

279

Karin - London, but through a prism!

280

Karin - From Cincinnati to assassinations: The plot thickens!

281

Karin - The building blocks that shape a life...

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Karin - A life of movement and movements!

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The Vaccination / The Blue Economy / An Intro into Inequality

284

Migrant worker deaths in Qatar / Navalny / Green Pass please guv?

285

Finding a path - one small step at a time!

286

The Great Call of China

287

Modern echoes of the French Revolution?

288

A path through youthful empowerment, self-management and 'the Rona' in Bolivia

289

Chris is back and we're talking catch up, news but mainly sports betting in the US!

290

Just me this time, evaluating and thinking out loud!

291

Alvaro suggests a limit to the "state"

292

A Chat With Ani Barcelona

293

Episode 3 - A look back at life on the east coast

294

Episode 2 - A chat with Tatiana

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Episode 1 - Just starting Out - Intros