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Episode 120 (11/06/26) – It's the first of our World Cup specials and we kick off with Barry testing Greg on his World Cup knowledge. Then there's: Greg talking about his idea for a new England song and finally starting work on a screenplay, The Concierge, actively trying to get banned from TikTok, the life and death of Youtube vlogger, Adam The Woo, Craggy, the best TV of 2026 so far, David Sullivan and the Sunday Sport's terribly dated “Countdown to Sixteen”, Brian Gawkins (Football Manager), recommendations, and a whole lot more!

Episode 119 (28/05/26) – Robbie Williams at Soccer Aid and other sports news, the Chloe Vs The World podcast, trying to advertise our podcast, the dark origin of the Nike slogan “Just Do It”, a letter from a “fan” of the podcast about our weekly improv The Concierge, followed by this week's unmissable episode of said improv, some more sports and entertainment news, another new improv (Brian Gawkins football manager), Reform's plan to bring back cat calling, Craggy, adults abusing young sports stars, Barry Norman's hatred of children, the story of a man that was dating a trans woman without knowing, recommendations, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

Episode 118 (28/05/26) – On this week's show: Chris Packham's excitement over wildlife, all the people dying in water in an attempt to stay cool, Ricky Gervais shilling for some crappy drink, a live investigation into who is cutting grass at this time of night? The Concierge, the man who got his groin burnt by hot coffee on a plane flight, rubbish 70's cops, Duncan Ballantyne comes out as a Restore supporter, some advice for someone with a racist friend, an improv of the last days of Freddie Mercury, Craggy, the death of Judith Chalmers, recommendations, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

Episode 117 (21/05/26) – On this week's show: Greg finally gets the right size drive belts for his electric skateboard, moderating time playing video games, new presenters on Strictly and House of Games, Katie Price and her scamming husband, is Billie Eilish a little bit overrated? The Married At First Sight controversy, how to play Cine2Nerdle, Torture Dogs, the dark origin or the term “sweet Fanny Adams”, The Concierge, the cast for the new Street Fighter movie, what to do with old VHS tapes, the first person to seek assisted death that is physically healthy, Craggy, recommendations, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

Hosts Jonathan Owens and Suzanne Beasley break down the latest at the legislature, including proposed budget raises, a looming income tax constitutional amendment, retiree COLA concerns, and SEANC's new vacant-jobs dashboard. They discuss the staffing crisis across state agencies and how pay compression is driving vacancies. Guest Tammera Hill, Chief Operating Officer of the Department of Adult Correction, details the planned closure of Craggy Correctional Institution, employee transfers, recruitment challenges, and the need for meaningful pay solutions. Visit SEANC.org to contact your legislators.

Episode 116 (14/05/26) – On this week's show, Greg talks about being a “white knight” in social media comment sections, the prospect of speed dating, Jared Leto as Skeletor, the new Mandalorian film, fun but morally dubious and exploitative experiences for rich people to pay for, The Concierge, the Vernon Kay and Tess Daly breakup rumours, the one thing you would change from your past, existing weird sports and ideas for new ones, Jackass vs. Dirty Sanchez, some shockingly innocuous causes of sepsis, Craggy, recommendations, Future Greg, and a whole lot more!

*Episode 115* (07/05/26) – On this week's show: What crime would you do if it meant that no one else in the world would ever be a victim of that crime ever again? Would you rather meet your past self or future self? Pluribus wanking?_The Concierge_, VE Day memories with the oldest World War 2 veteran, the new “rat virus” and the prospect of another lockdown, Richard Dawkins falling in love with AI, body parts used as insults, the curse of TOWIE? _Craggy_, recommendations, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

Episode 114 (30/04/26) – On this week's show: Bad improv characters, Russel Grant visiting Russel Brand in prison, good gameshows for the Royals to take part in, The Concierge, pop songs that could replace the national anthem, is the music of Michael Jackson not only tainted but a little bit overrated too? the London Marathon, our new improv Craggy, the stories of a person that likes to collect people's nappies and someone whose exact idea for a movie has been made into someone else's movie starring Paul Rudd, recommendations, replacement electric skateboard wheel drama, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

Episode 113 (23/04/26) – On this week's show: Walking through town with long bits of wood, some listener emails, The Concierge, who could play Sindy in a live action movie, some dating app advice from the female perspective, another new improv called ‘Craggy', an advertising slogan quiz, a middle aged dad that fell in with the wrong crowd, Old G, recommendations, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

In this episode, we're popping the cork on the difference between looking fit and actually being healthy. We dive into the "aesthetic trap"—why a six-pack isn't always a sign of wellness—and why the best health hack might just be minding your own business. (inside joke - listen to become an insider!)To keep things crisp, we're pairing the conversation with a tasting of New Zealand's finest Sauvignon Blanc from Craggy Range: exploring what makes this wine special to us, while discussing how to filter out the noise of unsolicited advice. This is about drinking well and drinking mindfully!  Grab a glass and join us for a session that's high in acidity and low in judgment.Instagram: Christine D'Angelo - https://linktr.ee/ChristineDangelo?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=b910d1e2-5c73-41d4-9f96-d5c1946dc9d8Instagram: Susan Pajak - https://linktr.ee/winegirlgonewild?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGnPVdQMbR7mELFNAdb_GBwZpc1MVuZh92wwbHugE2npjrES2NCFTwiU-PdjN4_aem_I5xoNLTilDWMvtxnlnJ_yQMore on Craggy Range Winery:https://craggyrange.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopf7ssQuwrEfBn4QlBr41SewedC6Z4GNHR6ByNzJg1lqEeLA8N6Support the show

Episode 90 Letter to My Mother by Suzannah V. Evans   Suzannah V. Evans reads ‘Letter to My Mother' and discusses the poem with Mark McGuinness. https://media.blubrry.com/amouthfulofair/media.blubrry.com/amouthfulofair/content.blubrry.com/amouthfulofair/90_Letter_to_My_Mother_by_Suzannah_V_Evans.mp3 This poem is from: Under the Blue Available from: Under the Blue is available from: The publisher: Bloomsbury Poetry Amazon: UK | US Bookshop.org: UK   Letter to My Mother by Suzannah V. Evans You, pedalling your armsabove your head in bed,that bad arm suddenlymobile and flexible.You, meeting me at school,feeling something stir, sprinting across the grass . . . the two of us laughing, Mr. Tarpin peeringquizzically from the gate.You, with your bright lipstick.You, with your hands like mine.You, with your floppy hat.You, with your easy laugh.You, with the ellipsesof your emails. Your strongfront crawl. Your assertivegestures as you motionthrough talk. Now, when I swim, the movement of my armsis for you. A high arc,fingertips cleaving bright.Shuddering kick of legs.The sea pool in Seixalis for you. Craggy rocksand my head dipped to blue.Grey crabs line the rocks:I think of the limpets that spot McClure's paintingwith the reading woman,sun hat, white paper sheaf.Memory of last summer,absorbed in Woolf outside.A sudden rush of windcaused the parasol to liftand your own hat to spin right up from your head – where it hovered longerthan seemed possible, black ribbon flapping. Porto Moniz   Interview transcript Mark: Suzannah, where did this poem come from? Suzannah: So this poem emerged towards the end of my writing process for writing the poems in Under the Blue which is my first poetry collection. And the first two parts of the book… The book is a triptych of sequences, sort of playing with epistolary forms, so postcards and letters. The first two parts of the book are playing quite specifically with the form of the postcard, and the poems are quite private poems, in some ways. And I was interested in using the postcard form because it is a form which is both private and, in a sense, public in that, when you're writing a postcard, you're writing it to an individual. But a postie can turn that postcard over and read what's on the back. Anyone can read what's on the back. And with this third section in the book, I wanted to directly address some of the earlier figures who had appeared in the first two sections, and I suppose, to address them and to kind of write directly to people. So this poem is written to my mother, and it's in the form of a letter. And I'd say that the writing of this particular poem, this section of the book, was much more deliberate in some ways than the first two sections, which kind of emerged. And then, once I'd written those sections, I had sort of most of a manuscript, and these letters were really kind of, for me, kind of sealing and sending the manuscript off and kind of finishing it in that sense. Mark: Okay. It's really interesting to know that, the postcards come first in the book, and they're all prose poems, aren't they? Suzannah: Yeah. Mark: So they look like postcards on the page. And then, at the end, you've got the sequence of letters, which are kind of long and thin, maybe, to me, suggesting letters are longer than postcards. So, how did you start writing postcards, to begin with? And then we'll move on to the letters. Suzannah: That's a good question. So the postcards, I think I'm always looking for formal inspiration in the things around me. So I am a formal poet in the sense that I've written sonnets. I've written rondels, a lot of rondels. And I'm very interested in traditional form, but I'm also interested in the way that the world can provide forms for the poet. And I was on holiday, visiting my partner's father, when… So this is the first postcard in the book, although it's not sort of titled as a postcard. It's called ‘Under the Blue'. It's the title poem. And that sort of was drawn from a roughly real-life event, where sort of there was this incident with a kayak. My partner was swept off his feet, and it really just brought back to me an earlier experience of actually witnessing a seizure. And that was an experience which had really, really shocked me, and it had come completely out of the blue, really just out of nowhere. And I don't know why, but I had wanted to write about it. Maybe that's a kind of processing thing, or maybe it's just a way to kind of hold close different things that happen in your life. But I'd known for a while that I'd wanted to write about it, and this was years and years later. But seeing this figure being kind of knocked over and sort of just being sort of buffeted in that way really took me back to that night with the seizure. And I felt like these two events were kind of doubled, and I could kind of see both of them at the same time. So it started off with writing about that. And it was, because I was on holiday, a postcard seemed like an apt way to write about that. And so I suppose, kind of, it really started with that first poem. And it's quite subtle, I think, the moment with the seizure. It sort of comes towards the end of the poem. You can sort of read it almost without thinking about the seizure too much. But it does. I think, sort of, that event refracts across the collection. So even though there are moments sort of later in the book where the word seizures is used, someone seizes someone else's wrist in that sort of, a kind of reference back, there's a lot of falling over in the book, a lot of stumbling. And yeah, so I think the impetus for the postcards, kind of, it came from that first section. And actually, they were literal postcards, because I sent some of them. I kind of printed them off and sent them to friends in the post. Because I love…I'm a big letter writer. I send a lot of postcards. Like, postcards are really a big…it sounds weird to say that postcards are a big part of my life, but they kind of are. Like, I really love postcards. I like to collect them from galleries. And so it's partly a homage to my love of the postcard. And I think, also, with postcards, you have the art or the image on the postcard as well. And there's a few kind of ekphrastic moments in the book. So, kind of, all of that is woven in, I think. And the idea of what you can't say in a postcard, I think that's what the middle section of the book, for me, kind of turns the form on its head a little bit more to kind of write about things that maybe you actually wouldn't necessarily write in a postcard. So, to me, I kind of think of them as anti-postcards, almost. Yeah. Mark: So, the form is actually rooted in your life, that you do send postcards. It's not just a conceit for you. Suzannah: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mark: And of course, when a poem is framed as a postcard or a letter, there is a sense of it feels personal. You know, ‘I' and ‘you' are always… Quite often, there can be quite a lot of ambiguity about who the I is and who the you is. But if you signal it as a letter, like last month, I did Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, which was four verse epistles to Viscount Bolingbroke. And so that puts a different frame on it when you know that he's addressing, ‘My Lord,' and we're kind of overhearing that. Suzannah: Yeah. Mark: There's a sense that this is a personal communication, that maybe there's a real relationship underpinning. Suzannah: Yes. And I think that's something that the whole collection kind of plays with in a way. When I teach poetry, I'm always very adamant, or sort of something that I talk about with students is this idea that you never really can conflate the I of the poem with the poet. Even when there is autobiographical kind of crossover, I think there's something that happens. When you write a poem, it becomes an art object. It becomes something that is changed. I almost want to say it's not a photograph, but I think photographs are kind of complex as well in the way that they capture reality. So I think, for me, there is a real distinction between the first and second sections and the third section of the book. But something that I kind of have been thinking about as well is there's a poem that T.S. Eliot wrote to his wife, and he says something, like, ‘These are private words addressed to you in public.' And so I think this idea of what is private and what is public is really…it makes it quite hard for me to talk about the book sometimes, I think, but it's really at the crux of what it is, the sense of sort of letting the reader into some kind of quite private spaces and the importance of doing that as well, how the private is political. Just all of those things are kind of in there. But I think, in particular, the letters are really public declarations of love and trust, and they are very felt poems that are intended to honour particular people. And the collection ends with a letter to my father, who… The father figure is sort of less present in the earlier sections of the book, but it sort of attributes to my dad. That is an autobiographical kind of poem at the end of the book, which is in thanks really for everything that he does to hold up the people who are in earlier parts of the book and to kind of celebrate his role, to celebrate what he does as a carer, but also just to kind of… I think the letters are just…they're like praise poems really. They're just intended to celebrate these people. Mark: That's a nice idea, isn't it? The praise poem. That should maybe be more prominent, shouldn't it? Suzannah: Yeah. Mark: So with this one, specifically, what could you say about your intention in writing the letter to your mother? Suzannah: I think that this was one of the letters that I found more difficult to write, because the figure of the mother…and again, I won't say my mother because I think, for me, there's still this distinction between, even while the book draws on lived experience, it's not a direct reflection of that. But I think because of the earlier sections of the book, which are, at times, quite stark, I really wanted to write a poem that, I don't know, that sort of dwelled on movement and closeness and joy, I guess, just the delight, the sheer kind of delight of someone moving how they want to move. I think that I was kind of looking at this poem again before, thinking that we were going to talk about it. And that movement, to me, there's a shift after all the sort of you, you, you parts of the poem, which sort of have more kind of…the lines sort of go more to the end of the line. And then, when it starts talking about swimming, there are sort of full stops towards the middle of the lines. And I sort of wanted there to be almost like a kind of pull through those lines, as if someone is swimming through those lines, and you feel the arm going down, your strong front crawl, pause, your assertive gestures as you motion through talk. So kind of like having that pulling movement as swimming in the poem. And my mum, who is disabled, she was diagnosed with a neurological illness when I was 12. She used to be a really keen swimmer. And I remember as a child seeing her do front crawl and being, like, ‘Wow.' I actually only learned to do front crawl properly when I was in my late twenties. And I now love… I really love doing front crawl. I absolutely love it. And again, I swim in celebration of my mum. So if I swim front crawl, I'll always do a length for my mum and kind of dedicate that length to her. So all of those things, again, they're kind of these quite private things that are kind of in the poem, but not fully in the poem. But I think that if you have those kind of reverberations of these kind of memories or feelings, even if you don't write about them directly, they're kind of pulled into the poem through the energy of the language that you do decide to use. Mark: And interestingly, as you talk about the relationship between the real person and the person in the poem, I guess another effect, for me, at least, as a reader, is when I read this, it just makes me think, Oh yeah, people do have their different ways of moving and opening a book or eating a salad, or whatever it may be. That's their kind of signature style in life. Or the little quirks in the way they punctuate their emails. Suzannah: Yeah, yeah. Mark: And so there's the thing of it's very specific, but it's also very suggestive, I think, that we easily identify with a relationship like this, even if the circumstances are different. Suzannah: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I like what you say about movement, though. And I feel like every person has their own kind of form, like, if we're thinking about form in poetry. It's what I think about when I watch people run a lot of the time. I'm thinking about, ‘Wow.' Really, really, really different form, really different ways of moving, even though that repetitive motion is very… There are only so many ways that you can run, and yet it is so different for everyone. And I think, with this poem as well, something that I was interested in doing was kind of going back to an earlier point, kind of. So, that ‘You, meeting me at school,' kind of thinking about earlier times as well. And again, the ‘sprinting across the grass' kind of goes back in a way to that opening epigraph to the book, which is from Virginia Woolf's novel, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf being a modernist writer. And it's… Oh, not Virginia Woolf, sorry, what am I saying? It does go back to that, but I'm actually thinking of Charles Baudelaire, who talks about ‘the ecstasy and horror of life'. Mark: He's great, isn't he? Suzannah: Yeah, really. But this idea of the kind of sprinting across the grass, it was just such a joyful thing, such an incredibly out-of-the-blue, again, to go back to that phrase, sudden burst of energy and motion. And I think we were laughing, but also probably crying, so we probably looked pretty strange. And again, I think the book is really interested in those kind of doubled states where maybe there's sort of deep despair, but also real joy, or anger, but delight. So kind of there's a sense of these cyclical movements through those different states, different emotions, or even a kind of merging of those two things together at the same time. Mark: And can I pick up on the Virginia Woolf reference, because that…I mean, in your writing, there's a lot of summer seaside imagery, and you've got the epigraph from To the Lighthouse. So, I would bet that the person reading Woolf outside was reading To the Lighthouse in this poem. And of course, that's a novel with a mother very much at the centre of it. I mean, it's clearly artfully placed in the poem. So I was curious about, what was your decision to put that in? Suzannah: Yeah. I mean, I think it's a very sort of associative poem. It kind of goes from the reference to Daphne McClure, who is an artist, and she has this wonderful, kind of quite humorous painting of a woman reading. And then it kind of goes to actual reading. Mark: Yes. Suzannah: But then it kind of goes back to McClure as well, because in the painting, this woman is reading, she's got this big sheaf of papers or this big kind of white book paper that she's reading. And then the poem kind of has that in mind. And then, when the hat lifts at the end of the poem, sort of, you've got all of it there. So it's kind of going back to that visual image and making its own kind of different visual image at the end of the poem. And I really love, in Woolf's novel, there's this idea of, like, Lily, the painter, and she's thinking about sort of making her mark. And how do you make a mark? How do you begin? How do you create? How do you have a vision? So I suppose that's part of it. And then the epigraph to the book is really just my favourite sort of thing, and it's this idea that Woolf is writing about that if you're watching, if you're looking at waves from far off, kind of, they look very symmetrical, and they look very regular. But if your perspective changes and you're suddenly the swimmer in those waves, it's completely different. You're having this entirely other experience where, you know, how a painter might paint those waves from far off, these lovely, kind of, they're all the same size, they're kind of coming regularly. And then, to be that swimmer, who is having to kind of arch over each wave or sort of get over each wave, and relentlessly, just wave after wave, and each one is different, you know. So again, there's that kind of repetition idea in there, but also this idea of scale and perspective, and the idea that you might kind of look at something from far away, and it seems very orderly, and it seems very symmetrical, and it seems very easy to deal with, essentially. But if you are the swimmer, that's not the case. And each thing requires a lot of consideration. And that's really what the middle section of the book is interested in, sort of how to write about care and how to write about things, which are just very different, I think, when you're in the midst of them, and every particular thing is something that needs to be negotiated in that way. So the image of waves in the Woolf novel is very important, and also the idea of, in the novel, obviously, the lighthouse is this kind of ever-present, sort of, almost like a character. And I wanted the sea to have that role in this book. So a lot of my earlier writing has been about the sea. And this book is less directly about the sea, but the sea is always present, and I wanted it to be heard and felt, even when it's not kind of being described in detail. Mark: That's a very interesting point about different perspectives, because I think we experience that throughout the book. So some of the postcards are very much about the more difficult aspects of care, caring for a parent. So we read this one in the light of that, and vice versa, and so this is, if you like, the praise poem, the joy, the celebratory. Suzannah: Yes. And I think I'm very, very interested in the relationship between prose… I was going to say prose poetry and line-broken poetry, but also just poetry and prose. And a lot of my influences for writing are quite prose-y, often. I'm interested in prose writers, and I'm interested in where that line is between this idea of what makes a prose poem a poem. And I think if you give a reader a kind of extensive amount of prose, and that sets up a particular kind of rhythm, a particular kind of feel, but then, to follow that with very short-lined poems, line-broken poems, it's a different kind of… I think I wanted it to be almost like a kind of lift at the end of the book, where you've kind of had this kind of, I don't want to say denser, but definitely starker prose. And then there's kind of a much shorter section at the end of the letters, it's very short, but it's kind of just a movement into a different kind of writing. And I wanted that to be a noticeable kind of contrast. Mark: Yeah, definitely. I mean, even visually on the page, the prose looks denser, whereas these, I don't know, it feels like you pick your way a bit more nimbly through these. How did you arrive at that as the solution to how you represent a letter on a page? And was this one of the later ones? So in a sense, the form was predetermined, but it's like you're writing a sonnet sequence, and then you know that there's going to be another one like that. Suzannah: Yeah. So I really do like a sequence. A huge amount of my writing involves sequences, and I think there's something about, if you do something one time and you like it, I think it's worth doing it again. So my first pamphlet is a sequence of poems about the British surrealist artist Eileen Agar. And I often just keep going. If I'm writing something, kind of, I keep going with that. So yes, this was part of an earlier sequence in the sense that the first letter in the book is the first letter that I wrote, and I think, in that sense, the form was kind of set out. And then, in terms of it being kind of, like, a longer shorter-lined poem, I was thinking a little bit about how if you unfold a letter from an envelope, you would have to do that with this poem. Mark: Oh, yes, I remember that. Suzannah: Yeah. And it can be quite tricky, actually. I find it quite tricky to fold letters so they fit correctly in their envelope. But yeah, there's something about that. Whereas the postcard poems, they are, like, poems that you could almost kind of fit to the back of a postcard. But the ones that kind of escape from that or kind of defy that form, I think, are also…that's interesting to me as well, kind of, to flip that. So, for example, I think the most…the postcard that, to me, is the crux of the middle section is the postcard on Christmas night, which is one that I had thought that I would not ever really want to read out loud because it's quite an intense poem. But I did read that one at the London launch for my book at Burley Fisher Books because I was kind of surrounded by people that I knew, and it felt right. But that poem is a much longer postcard. And again, I like the idea of a postcard where you're defying the amount of space that you have to write in. And again, I think that prose poems also do that, because there's a similar kind of sense of overspill in a prose poem, because you're tipping over that line end, and that's quite defiant as well. So I think, if you then tip over the form of the postcard, it's kind of a doubly defiant, formally, kind of way of writing. Mark: Thank you, Suzannah, for sharing such a personal and beautiful poem today and a joyful one. And I would encourage listeners to go and check out the rest of the book and see how it fits into the sequence, because this is really one of those books where the parts really do make up something bigger than the whole. So let's have another lesson to ‘Letter to My Mother'. Suzannah: Thank you.   Letter to My Mother by Suzannah V. Evans You, pedalling your armsabove your head in bed,that bad arm suddenlymobile and flexible.You, meeting me at school,feeling something stir, sprinting across the grass . . . the two of us laughing, Mr. Tarpin peeringquizzically from the gate.You, with your bright lipstick.You, with your hands like mine.You, with your floppy hat.You, with your easy laugh.You, with the ellipsesof your emails. Your strongfront crawl. Your assertivegestures as you motionthrough talk. Now, when I swim, the movement of my armsis for you. A high arc,fingertips cleaving bright.Shuddering kick of legs.The sea pool in Seixalis for you. Craggy rocksand my head dipped to blue.Grey crabs line the rocks:I think of the limpets that spot McClure's paintingwith the reading woman,sun hat, white paper sheaf.Memory of last summer,absorbed in Woolf outside.A sudden rush of windcaused the parasol to liftand your own hat to spin right up from your head – where it hovered longerthan seemed possible, black ribbon flapping. Porto Moniz   Under the Blue ‘Letter to My Mother' is from Under the Blue, published by Bloomsbury Poetry. Available from: Under the Blue is available from: The publisher: Bloomsbury Poetry Amazon: UK | US Bookshop.org: UK   Suzannah V. Evans Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, researcher, and educator. Her debut collection Under the Blue is shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and her work has received the Ivan Juritz Prize and a Northern Writers' Award. Her poetry pamphlets are Brightwork and Marine Objects / Some Language. She teaches poetry in adult education and works with Poetry By Heart. suzannahvevans.com Photograph by Naomi Woddis   A Mouthful of Air – the podcast This is a transcript of an episode of A Mouthful of Air – a poetry podcast hosted by Mark McGuinness. New episodes are released every other Tuesday. You can hear every episode of the podcast via Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts or your favourite app. You can have a full transcript of every new episode sent to you via email. The music and soundscapes for the show are created by Javier Weyler. Sound production is by Breaking Waves and visual identity by Irene Hoffman. A Mouthful of Air is produced by The 21st Century Creative, with support from Arts Council England via a National Lottery Project Grant. Listen to the show You can listen and subscribe to A Mouthful of Air on all the main podcast platforms Related Episodes Letter to My Mother by Suzannah V. Evans Episode 90 Letter to My Mother by Suzannah V. Evans  Suzannah V. Evans reads ‘Letter to My Mother' and discusses the poem with Mark McGuinness.This poem is from: Under the BlueAvailable from: Under the Blue is available from: The publisher: Bloomsbury Poetry... 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Welcome to Grid Talk, this week it's the Christmas draw! with the GOAT playing the character of “Christmas Craggy”!! The 26 time national champion, 9 time European champion and a World title thrown in over the last over 4 decades. We Still cant find anyone better qualified to give you the best prizes for our 2025 prize give away. The one and only Neil Cragg joins us for this bumper special, with amazing guest host, the world famous Aidan Burke!!#CMLdistribution#SchumacherRacing#Willspeed#GTRC

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Feck! Arse, Drink! Girls!Yes, we are celebrating the wonderful world of Fathers Ted, Douglas and Jack this week. Not forgetting Mrs Doyle and the rest of the inhabitants of Craggy island. If you have seen this comedy you'll know what we are talking about and if this is your introduction then just thank us later.We are joined by our pod pal Father Harvey as we countdown our Top moments from the three seasons of 'Father Ted'. Almost an impossible task as there are just so many.Enjoy!Here's all our Gubbins - SOCIAL MEDIAwww.twitter.com/toptenpodswww.instagram.com/toptenpodswww.facebook.com/toptenpodsEMAILGet in touch with us right here:toptenpods@hotmail.comPATREONCome and support the podcast at Patreon for some great rewards including -BE A GUEST ON YOUR OWN EPISODES VIDEO PLAYLISTS FOR EVERY EPISODEEXCLUSIVE TTTOAP BADGEEPISODES 5 DAYS EARLY AND AD FREE!www.patreon.com/toptenpodsEPISODE LINKSApple: apple.co/3ica0FySpotify: spoti.fi/3BRhkypYouTube: https://bit.ly/3jQETisMERCH https://www.podcastmerch.co.uk/170026-top-10-of-anythingLINKTREEhttps://linktr.ee/toptenpodsBUY US A COFFEEhttps://ko-fi.com/toptenpodsSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-top-ten-of-anything-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I had a beautiful chat with Jessica-Belle on the podcast today. Recent bride, married at Craggy Range in Hawkes Bay. Editor and writer of For All Seasons. A few things we cover:

Welcome to Grid Talk, this week it's the 2024 Christmas draw! with the GOAT playing the character of “Christmas Craggy”!! The 26 time national champion, multiple Euros and a World title thrown in over the last over 4 decades. We can't find anyone better qualified to give you the best prizes for our 2024 prize give away. Not forgetting, one and only Aidan Burke joins us to keep things in line! #CMLdistribution #SchumacherRacing #Willspeed #GTRC

This week we get into the legend of the Witch of Yazoo in Mississippi and the haunted Craggy Prison in Asheville, NC. Listen if you dare! Email us your stories!!! or if you want to sponsor us ;)  Email - ⁠⁠⁠mysteriesmythslegends@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠  ESTY: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.etsy.com/shop/LuxieandLuna?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=826447453⁠⁠⁠  We post pictures of our stories every week on instagram!!!! FOLLOW US ON SOCIALS:  Tiktok: @myths_podcast  Instagram: @myths_podcast  Twitter: @myths_podcast  Taylor's Instagram: @teeelive  Taylor's Twitter: @teeelive  Savannah's Instagram: @kavannahaha  Savannah's Twitter: @sanna_sunshine  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mysteriesmythsandlegends/support

Nach dem Carat ist vor dem Tag Team Festival! Nach dem Festival-Wochenende gilt es, neue Storylines aufzubauen und schonmal voraus zu blicken auf die nächsten Show-Termine. Im Amboss kriselt es gehörig zwischen dem 16 Carat Gold Gewinner Laurence Roman und dem wXw Unified World Wrestling Champion Robert Dreissker. Zudem haben wir neue Tag Teams in den Big Bucks (Norman Harras & Alex Duke) und KxS (Fast Time Moodo & Axel Tischer), die sich etablieren wollen und auf die Tag Team Titel aus sind. Und natürlich wollen wir auch nicht den neuen Levaniel und Rückkehrer Ahura außen vor lassen. Letzterer legte sich zuletzt noch mit High Performer Ltd. an. Außerdem wollen wir etwas voraus schauen zum nächsten größeren Event, nämlich True Colors 2024. Einige Matches sind bereits angekündigt und wir geben unsere Vorhersagen zu den Matches und Storylines ab, die wir bereits sehen und die wir uns noch erhoffen. Worauf freuen wir uns besonders und was überzeugt uns bisher weniger? Wer wird am 27.04.20 4 in Dresden seine „True Colors“ zeigen? Mit dabei sind dieses Mal Pascal, Björn und Craggy, mit unterschiedlichen Ansichten zu einigen Themen. Wir freuen uns schon auf Eure Meinungen, besonders zu den kontroversen Themen. Lasst uns in den Kommentaren wissen, was Ihr von den letzten Entwicklungen haltet und worauf Ihr Euch in der Zukunft freut. Wir wünschen viel Spaß beim Zuhören!

DM Julz is out sick so FORMER DM Brad takes over!!! We take a look at something happening elsewhere in Isen, as a group of hapless ne'er-do-wells put their lives on the line to get their hands on a life changing reward.We put D&D aside to play the #kiwirpg system; d12go! Grab yourself a free copy of the d12go core rulebook (and a number of supplements and adventures) on drivethrurpg.com or itch.io.Featuring:Kasia Czarkowska-Guzuik as Vince PontoonSeverin Gourley as Grimp LurmanErika Jayne as Rick O'Sheaand Brad Zimmerman as GMVisit www.fateofisen.com to learn more.Fate of Isen is one of the Feedspot top D&D podcasts in the world! Check out Feedspot here.If you like the show, please feel free to follow us on social media (@fateofisen) or support us on Patreon! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Intro, outro, and recap music by freesound user, Tyops, and ambient sound by TabletopAudio.com

Das Carat-Wochenende im Rückspiegel, nehmen wir uns die Zeit um die Shows des Wrestling-Festivals Revue passieren zu lassen. Hierfür gehen wir chronologisch durch die Shows und geben unsere Meinungen und Einschätzungen zu den Geschehnissen rund um das größte europäische Wrestling-Turnier, sowie unsere Vorschläge und Ideen für zukünftige Storylines und Matches. Dabei schauen wir nicht nur auf das Turnier selbst, sondern auch auf die anderen Shows, wie „Ambition“ und „We Love Wrestling – Wildcard Edition“, die an diesem Wochenende statt fanden. Was hat uns besonders überzeugt, was hat eher enttäuscht? Und was halten wir von dem Gewinner des Turniers? Wie geht es weiter mit den großen Fraktionen der wXw, wie Amboss und High Performer Ltd.? Und was ist eigentlich ein Sigma? Hört rein und erfahrt mehr zu all diesen Fragen und unseren Meinungen dazu. Wie die letzten Jahre auch wurde 16 Carat Gold von wrestling-infos.de gesponsert. Hierzu haben wir auch dieses Jahr wieder Interviews mit vielen Teilnem ern geführt, die ihr hier finden könnt. Und auch Showberichte für alle Shows am Carat-Wochenende, sowie für alle weiteren wXw Shows könnt ihr hier finden. Mit dabei sind dieses Mal Pascal und Craggy, mit unterschiedlichen Ansichten zu einigen Themen. Wir freuen uns schon auf Eure Meinungen, besonders zu den kontroversen Themen. Lasst uns in den Kommentaren wissen, was Ihr von den letzten Entwicklungen haltet und worauf Ihr Euch in der Zukunft freut. Wir wünschen viel Spaß beim Zuhören!

Am kommenden Wochenende ist es bereits wieder soweit. Das größte Wrestling-Turnier Europas geht in die nächste Runde und wir schauen uns im Deutschland Recap Podcast an, was an dem vollgepackten Wochenende alles zu erwarten ist. Nicht nur das Turnier selbst, sondern auch die anderen Shows, wie „Ambition“ und „We Love Wrestling – Wildcard Edition“ rund um das Großevent laden zu wilden Spekulationen und Vorfreude ein. Wer wird am Ende das Rennen machen? Was geschieht mit den Titelgürteln, die allesamt über das Wochenende hinweg auf dem Spiel stehen werden? Welche Überraschungen sind sonst noch zu erwarten? Hört rein und erfahrt mehr zu all diesen Fragen und unseren Meinungen dazu. Wie die letzten Jahre auch wird 16 Carat Gold von wrestling-infos.de gesponsert. Hierzu haben wir auch dieses Jahr wieder Interviews mit vielen Teilnehmern geführt, die ihr hier finden könnt. Und auch Showberichte für alle Shows am Wochenende werdet ihr zeitnah bei uns lesen können. Zudem werden wir live vor Ort sein und freuen uns schon auf euch. Sagt gern mal Hallo, wenn ihr wollt. Mit dabei sind dieses Mal Pascal und Craggy, mit unterschiedlichen Ansichten zu einigen Themen. Wir freuen uns schon auf Eure Meinungen, besonders zu den kontroversen Themen. Lasst uns in den Kommentaren wissen, was Ihr von den letzten Entwicklungen haltet und worauf Ihr Euch in der Zukunft freut. Wir wünschen viel Spaß beim Zuhören!

Bei „Back to the Roots“ fand traditionell die Käfigschlacht statt, also schauen wir zurück auf die Ereignisse des jüngsten Events und geben unsere Meinung zu der Zukunft der Liga und aktuellen Fehden der deutschen Promotion ab. Konnte die Singles-Käfigschlacht zwischen Aigle Blanc und Joseph Fenech Jr. mit denen aus der Vergangenheit mithalten? War das lange Sebastian Hackl-Match so wie erwartet und? Wie geht es mit dem wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship weiter? Außerdem schauen wir voraus auf „Dead End 2024“ am 09.02.2024 und „Road To 16 Carat Gold: Bielefeld“ am 10.02.2024. Hier werden die letzten Weichen für 16 Carat Gold gestellt. Welche Wrestler gewinnen die Qualification Matches? Schafft es Rotation, seinen Titel bis Carat zu halten? Wie die letzten Jahre auch wird 16 Carat Gold von wrestling-infos.de gesponsert. Freut Euch also jetzt schon einmal auf einige Interviews, Vorschau, Showberichte etc. Mit dabei sind dieses Mal Björn, Pascal und Craggy, mit unterschiedlichen Ansichten zu einigen Themen. Wir freuen uns schon auf Eure Meinungen, besonders zu den kontroversen Themen. Lasst uns also wissen, was Ihr von den letzten Entwicklungen haltet und worauf Ihr Euch in der Zukunft freut. Wir wünschen viel Spaß beim Zuhören!

Fresh rain. Fresh woodland rain, from Miller's Dale in Derbyshire. From a hedgehog's perspective. Low on the forest floor, amidst the leaf litter, and the tangled ivy. A hidden hedgehog's place where only raindrops that have missed every leaf, twig and branch above, lands.  In total darkness the night before, we'd tied the Lento box to the broad base of a tree to capture the sound-scene of this place. On the very edge of a precipitous ravine. Far below, beyond a procession of trees whose vertical trunks grew up from ground too steep to climb, rilled the River Wye. It shined through the night as a vail of clean, wide white noise, and rose up as an aural mist, from the shallow fast rushing water below.  As the new day began to dawn, the Lento box listened alone. Faithfully capturing the aural experience of the falling rain, a hedgehog roused its prickly self around the foot of the tree. Time passes. Fresh banks of rain come, and go. Distant birds call from the high tree tops. Wood pigeons coo, from their sheltered perches. It's a world of tall leafy trees, and falling water. And flowing water. And steep sided valleys. And plunging green meadows. And craggy, exposed rock formations. * Nearby this wooded location, with lofty views over Miller's Dale, is Ravenstor YHA. A gloriously echoey retreat, whose grand columned entrance also shows the building's austere past. Now it welcomes the gladly fatigued, bearing rucksacks on worn shoulders, with an appetite for a bunk bed slumber, preceded by a hearty self-cooked meal prepared in a friendly communal kitchen. This is where we stayed overnight while both Lento boxes recorded. Hear what the other box captured on episode 184.

Connacht produced one of their best performances of the season to grab a spot in the R16 of the Challenge Cup with a bonus point victory over Bristol Bears.Danny Deegan and Alan Deegan take you through the match, we hear Rob Murphy's commentary on the Connacht tries while the Craggy crew of Linley MacKenzie, William Davies and Dave Finn give their thoughts in the post match review.We hear from Pat Lam, Pete Wilkins and Connacht wing Andrew Smith in the post match press conference. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nachdem sich beim „23rd Anniversary“ die Landschaft der wXw für immer verändert hat, schauen wir zurück auf die Ereignisse des Events und geben unsere Meinung zu der Zukunft des Frauenwrestlings in der deutschen Promotion. Besteht noch Hoffnung für die Damen nach der Titelvereinigung der Women's World Championship mit der wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship? Was tut sich in der Tag Team Szene und was überraschte uns noch so bei der Show? Außerdem schauen wir voraus auf „Back to the Roots 2024“ am 20.01.2024. Hier wird es wieder die beliebte Käfigschlacht geben, doch ist dieses Mal alles anders? Wie geht es zwischen Axel Tischer und Sebastian Hackl weiter und worauf freuen wir uns besonders? Mit dabei sind diesmal Björn, Pascal und Craggy, mit durchaus unterschiedlichen Ansichten zu einigen Themen. Wir freuen uns schon auf eure Meinungen, besonders zu den kontroversen Themen. Lasst uns also wissen, was ihr von den letzten Entwicklungen haltet und worauf ihr euch in der Zukunft freut. Wir wünschen viel Spaß beim Zuhören!

Welcome to Grid Talk, this week it's the Christmas draw! with the GOAT playing the character of “Christmas Craggy”!! The 26 time national champion, multiple Euros and a World title thrown in over the last over 4 decades. We cant find anyone better qualified to give you the best prizes for our 2023 prize give away. The one and only Neil Cragg joins us for this bumper special #CMLdistribution #SchumacherRacing #Willspeed #GTRC

Das „World Tag Team Festival“ ist vorbei, Zeit also, die schöne Zeit Revue passieren zu lassen. Dieser Aufgabe nehmen sich nicht nur David, Pascal und Craggy an, auch dabei ist diesmal Stephan, den man aus unseren AEW- und WWE-Podcasts schon kennt. Herausgekommen ist ein viel zu langer Podcast, in dem aber sehr genau über die Show gesprochen wird. Ihr tut Euch das wirklich an? Nun denn. Viel Spaß!

Das „World Tag Team Festival“ steht vor der Tür, Pascal (hermeshater), Craggy und David (VidDaP) sind in Oberhausen vor Ort und freuen sich wie Bolle. Wir haben im Rahmen der Vorberichterstattung auch einige Interviews geführt. Hört auch dort gerne einmal herein? Pascal und David werden dabei schon am Donnerstag in Genuss der „Inner Circle“-Show kommen, wo Psycho Mike und Jacob Crane ein hoffentlich fantastisches Wochenende einleiten werden. „Femmes Fatales“ wartet mit einem kleineren Turnier, aber vielen interessanten Namen auf, während für die sonntägliche „We Love Wrestling“-Show bislang nur ein Match zwischen Fast Time Moodo und Luke Jacobs angekündigt ist. Dennoch ein großer Grund, sich auf das Match zu freuen! wXw arbeitet an diesem Wochenende mit „Game Changer Wrestling“ zusammen, die bei zwei „Late Night“ Shows die Turbinenhalle abreißen wollen – die Ansetzungen lassen es vermuten. Höhepunkt des Wochenendes wird selbstverständlich das namensgebende „Tag Team Festival“ sein – zwölf Teams, die danach streben, am Ende des Turniers die Tag Team Titeln in ihren Händen zu halten. Oder werden gar die OnlyFriends das Team sein, was die Titel auch durch das Turnier hinweg verteidigen kann? Die Podcaster, soviel sei schon einmal gesagt, sind einstimmig überzeugt: Nein. Wer aber werden die neuen Champs sein? Wir alle können uns nur überraschen lassen. Hört dennoch gerne rein, um unsere Meinungen zum Wochenende zu hören.

Diesmal waren wir nicht vor Ort, dennoch haben es sich Craggy und David (VidDaP) nicht nehmen lassen, über die wXw-Shows in Bremen und Hamburg zu quatschen. Eine Show, die weniger, eine andere, die dafür etwas mehr relevant war, inklusive eines Titelwechsels? Klingt nach genug Grundlage für den Podcast. Der Amboss dominiert weiter, Fehden werden vernünftig bis gut fortgeführt, Rott & Flott sind (endlich) wieder zurück, genauso wie Hektor Invictus und Dennis „Cash“ Dullnig. Herrlich! Auch der Backstage-VLOG hat sich schnell als feste Größe etabliert und hat einige Weichen für das Tag Team Festival gestellt. Was wir also über die beiden Shows im hohen Norden zu „fachsimpeln“ hatten? Findet es heraus!

Craggy, Pascal (hermeshater) und David (VidDaP) waren vor Ort, um sich in Oberhausen Shortcut to the Top anzuschauen. Eine Card, die viel versprach und auch einhielt. Leider zog es Craggy vor, eine Reise mit der Bahn durch Deutschland anzutreten (ohne Deutschland-Ticket!), sodass Pascal und David auf sich gestellt waren. Dies sollte der ganzen Geschichte aber keinen Abbruch tun, selbst ohne Craggys Expertise. Der Amboss dominiert weiter, Fehden werden vernünftig bis gut fortgeführt, die neue Women's Champion überzeugt und auch das namensgebende „Shortcut“-Match weiß zu gefallen. Auch die (meisten) Überraschungs-Teilnehmer waren gut ausgewählt und sorgten teils für Begeisterung bei den Fans (und auch bei uns). Zudem konnten Debütant Michael Smolik und Rückkehrer Sebastian Hackmann durchaus beachtliche Leistungen zeigen. Kleines Schmankerl: die absolut überragenden Promos von Axel Tischer in der Show sowie im Backstage-Shotgun-Video-Format. Herrlich. Warum dennoch ein paar Fragezeichen bleiben und die Shows in Bremen und Hamburg recht beliebig zusammengewürfelt wirken? Findet es heraus! Viel Spaß beim Hören.

Samstag ist es so weit, die Abkürzung nach oben steht an! David, Craggy und Pascal diskutieren auch über die jüngsten Show und geben ihre Prognosen ab, wie die Weichen für die kommenden Shows, allem voran dem Tag Team Festival, gestellt werden.

Michael Banks, customer experience manager at Craggy Range Winer, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report about the wine, the restaurant and the accommodations at this family owned winery. Banks manages the winery's Cellar Door and visitor hosting program at this winery located in the shadow of Te Mata Peak in the premium wine growing area of Hawke's Bay New Zealand. This video is from a fam trip organized by Down Under Answers. For more information, https://craggyrange.com or www.duatravel.com. If interested, the original video of this podcast can be found on the Insider Travel Report Youtube channel or by searching for the podcast's title on Youtube.

In dieser Ausgabe des Deutschland Recap Podcasts geht es um die anstehende Veranstaltung „Drive of Champions“ aus dem Hause wXw. David, Craggy und Pascal diskutieren über die jüngsten Ereignisse und geben ihre Prognosen ab, ob kommende Woche große Ereignisse die Straße zum Tag Team Festival erschüttern.

Join us this week as we explore the old Craggy Prison in Asheville, NC.  We have a great time discussing the possibilities of what could happen with this fantastic old building! Next Generation sci-fi sitcom Join a cast of hilarious AI idiots on a mission to wipe out the humans and save Earth. Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Beans, Gaz and Dave were honoured to be joined again by Author Vic Ferrari. On previous occasions, Vic has regaled us with stories from his books about his time as a law enforcement officer and detective in the NYPD. Find his books here : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dickheads-Debauchery-other-ingenious-ways/dp/1519056222/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?crid=SYUH72HEZYW6&keywords=vic+ferrari&qid=1673997369&sprefix=vic+ferr%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-5 - this time he was asking the questions... he grew up watching British TV shows - which we find peculiar - and he asks us about #MontyPython #FatherTed #SteveCoogan and even #AreYouBeingServed and we do our best to fill in the blanks. There is a little crackle at the start of the episode which dissipates throughout as we recorded this remotely as snow falls on to our Craggy island. The opening music is "London Bayou" by Oscar Albis Rodriguez and the closing music is "BDS" by Lewis Pickford. Did you know that you can get 20%off your order at ollys-ollys.com just by listening to this podcast. This episode is also available on YouTube https://youtu.be/ltAlDemW0iM tallboyradio.com

Craggy Range Winery Te Kahu Gimblett Gravel Vineyards In this episode, Rob, Scott, and Becky review a Bordeaux blend from New Zealand, namely the Craggy Range Winery Te Kahu.  So come join us, on The Wine Vault.

Close your eyes and imagine it: Craggy coastlines with the rumble of crashing surf, sand dunes shaped by the wind off the Atlantic, maybe a lonely lighthouse, and lots of green. The air is bracing, carrying the scent of pine and the sea. Atlantic Canada comprises four provinces: Newfoundland and Labrador, plus the three Maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, also known as PEI. Lumped together for convenience, each province has its own quirks and charm. You might visit the colorful fishing villages in Nova Scotia or go kayaking in the Bay of Fundy. If Anne Shirley tops your list of best literary heroines, you'll definitely want to make a pilgrimage to PEI. And for Viking lore and teeth-rattling wind — plus puffins, iceberg sightings, and the northern lights — Newfoundland is the place to be. Wherever you land, you're enveloped in the fathomless blue of the sky and sea. It's a dramatic landscape with hardy people and a long history of compelling stories. In this episode, we talk about the lure of buried treasure, pick up a bit of Newfoundland slang, plan a getaway to a posh island hotel, and discuss practically sentient weather. Then we recommend five great books that took us to Atlantic Canada on the page: Crow by Amy Spurway https://bit.ly/3QBrD0r Galore by Michael Crummy https://bit.ly/3PtOrhh My Darling Detective by Howard Norman https://bit.ly/3waEWNo The Boat Who Wouldn't Float by Farley Mowat https://bit.ly/3pr2Y2U The Shipping News by Annie Proulx https://bit.ly/3wd40mR As always, you can follow us at: Our web site at Strong Sense of Place Patreon Twitter  Instagram Facebook  

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Did ‘Soylent Green's' Predictions About 2022 Hold Up? In the spring of 1973, the movie Soylent Green premiered. The film drops us into a New York City that's overcrowded, polluted, and dealing with the effects of a climate catastrophe. Only the city's elite can afford clean water and real foods, like strawberry jam. The rest of the population relies on a communal food supply called Soylent. There's Soylent Red, Soylent Yellow… and a new product: Soylent Green. The year the film takes place? 2022. And spoiler alert: Soylent Green is people. While the 2022 the film depicts is—thankfully—much darker than our current situation, the message still holds up. When the film premiered, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the Clean Air Act were very much in the country's consciousness. 50 years later, warmer temperatures, soil degradation, and social inequality are more relevant than ever. Joining Ira to talk about the importance of Soylent Green 50 years later is Sonia Epstein, associate curator of science and film at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. Also joining is soil scientist Jo Handelsman, director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery in Madison, Wisconsin.   The National Science Foundation Has A New Goal: Entrepreneurship The South By Southwest festival in Austin this year was the site of at least one unusual event: a press announcement by the head of the National Science Foundation, the primary federal agency tasked with funding and supporting fundamental research and investing in the education of young scientists in those fields. NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan announced he was creating a new directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) to focus on “use-inspired” research that can be brought to commercial markets, in partnership with businesses and entrepreneurs. The goal, Panchanathan said in a press release in March, was to “accelerate the development of new technologies and products that improve Americans' way of life, grow the economy and create new jobs, and strengthen and sustain U.S. competitiveness for decades to come.” Panchanathan talks to Ira about what this new chapter means for the NSF, the future of basic research with no immediate commercial uses, and the challenges of persuading the public that failure, as much as success, is inherent to science.   The Colorado River Misses Its Snow High in the Rocky Mountains, under thin air and bluebird skies, the Colorado River basin is slowly filling its savings account. Craggy peaks become smooth walls of white and piles of snow climb conifer trunks, covering even the deepest, darkest corners of the woods with a glimmering blanket. The snow that accumulates in the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming will eventually become water in the Colorado River. Some of it will flow as far south as Mexico, running through kitchen faucets in cities and suburbs along the way, or watering crops that keep America fed through the winter. Year by year, those piles are getting slightly smaller and melting earlier — slowly exhibiting the sting of a warming climate. The way we measure the snow is changing too, as a shifting baseline for what counts as “average” paints a somewhat deceptive picture of how much snow is stored up in the mountains. Read the rest at sciencefriday.com.   Exploring Neptune's Unusual Seasons Planetary scientists monitoring how the outer planets change over time have made a surprising observation of springtime on the planet Neptune. As the planet moves towards summer in its southern hemisphere, one might expect it to get warmer—but in data taken over 17 years, researchers observed that the average temperature actually seems to be declining. One theory involves the conversion of atmospheric methane, which traps heat, to ethane or other hydrocarbon compounds that release heat more readily, but more research is needed. The researchers also spotted the rapid formation of a hot-spot at the south pole of Neptune, with an increase of some 11 degrees C over just two Earth years. Models had predicted a temperature swing of perhaps 15 degrees over the entire seasonal cycle. These findings were reported this week in the Planetary Science Journal. Scientists don't know very much about Neptune—it's over 30 times Earth's distance from the sun, and gets only one nine-hundredth of the sunlight. It takes around 165 Earth years to complete an orbit, meaning that the researchers' 17 years of data account for only a small fraction of one season. Because of the planet's tilt and its long orbit, the last time the planet's north pole was visible from Earth was in the 1960s. And we've only visited once, via the Voyager spacecraft, over 30 years ago. Michael Roman, a planetary scientist at the University of Leicester in the UK, and one of the authors of the report, joins Ira to talk about the strange springtime on Neptune—and the planet's many remaining mysteries.   Transcripts for each segment will be available the week after the show airs on sciencefriday.com.  

Enjoy this small sample of some of the content for the Scarlets review podcast which is available at patreon.com/craggyrugby to Craggy club members only, which has exclusive post match audio from Andy Friend as well as the normal Craggy Crew analysis on the match.So if you are not already a club member, why not join the Craggy Rugby club on patreon.com/craggyrugby for the price of a coffee and a snack to support the work we do in providing the most comprehensive coverage of Connacht Rugby anywhere. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Julian Grounds is Chief Winemaker at Craggy Range Winery, situated in the majestic North Island of New Zealand.Western Australian born he dived into wineries and vineyards at age 17 and has continued to globe trot and gain wine making experience ever since.Now at the Helm of such an iconic winery, Julian carries the responsibility with an effortless grace.https://craggyrange.comFollow Over a Glasshttps://www.instagram.com/overtheglasspod Host Shanteh Walehttps://www.instagram.com/shantehwale/?hl=enExecutive Producer Rob Lockehttps://www.instagram.com/foodwinedine/Executive Producer Anthony Huckstephttps://www.instagram.com/huckstergram/LISTEN TO OUR OTHER FOOD PODCASTShttps://linktr.ee/DeepintheWeedsNetwork

Julian Grounds is Chief Winemaker at Craggy Range Winery, situated in the majestic North Island of New Zealand. Western Australian born he dived into wineries and vineyards at age 17 and has continued to globe trot and gain wine making experience ever since. Now at the Helm of such an iconic winery, Julian carries the responsibility with an effortless grace. https://craggyrange.com Follow Over a Glass https://www.instagram.com/overtheglasspod Host Shanteh Wale https://www.instagram.com/shantehwale/?hl=en Executive Producer Rob Locke https://www.instagram.com/foodwinedine/ Executive Producer Anthony Huckstep https://www.instagram.com/huckstergram/ LISTEN TO OUR OTHER FOOD PODCASTS https://linktr.ee/DeepintheWeedsNetwork

The Agents of Repair find their sea legs. But a cursed, vanishing, island is out there somewhere within the water, and they'll soon find themselves changed to their very core.Venture Forth is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. We play 5th edition (5e) Dungeons and Dragons in a home-brew D&D setting. Our campaign takes place in the high fantasy realm of Elbor. A world filled with monsters, heroes and epic tales to be told. Support the show

Our very own legend Neil Cragg chats all kinds of RC with Aidan & Martin.

The Boys go to clear the trolls from their holes. Things do not go as planned. Find out this, and much more only on the Warp Lords Podcast. Check out the world we are playing in: Maltharssus Prime We release new episodes every Wednesday morning! Please provide any feedback to warplordspod@gmail.com, or Reach out to us on Twitter! We want to hear from you! Warp Lords is a product of Bandit Gang Entertainment, and the game is used with their permission. Buy the game, take the ride! Buy/Download Warp Lords Here Follow our Sosh-Meds! Warp Lords Podcast Tweeter: @WarpLordsPod Warp Lords Tweeter: @Warplords Warp Lords Facebook: Warp Lords Credits: GM (Tales of the Bloodmoon): Mike “Danger” Vautour Xulroth: Jared Cryan Blair VanDeGuff: Graham Banas Rhubarb the Cat: Devin Malinowski Emmie Ematsu: Sonny "Santino" Tartaglia Music: Jared Cryan Editing: Mike "Danger" Vautour Jared Cryan Devin Malinowski Art: Mike "Danger" Vautour If you like what you heard, then please spread the word. Any characters, items, animals, blob monsters, trees, instruments, bad voices, manic lawyers, power tools, pocket pickles or shitty jokes that bear resemblance to another intellectual property or otherwise non-original content are used in parody or satire or other harmless ways and are in no way related to or a depiction of another subject in or around reality. This is a silly podcast with silly people, and is not intended to be taken seriously by anyone in any way.

The Boys go to clear the trolls from their holes. Things do not go as planned. Find out this, and much more only on the Warp Lords Podcast. Check out the world we are playing in: Maltharssus Prime We release new episodes every Wednesday morning! Please provide any feedback to warplordspod@gmail.com, or Reach out to us on Twitter! We want to hear from you! Warp Lords is a product of Bandit Gang Entertainment, and the game is used with their permission. Buy the game, take the ride! Buy/Download Warp Lords Here Follow our Sosh-Meds! Warp Lords Podcast Tweeter: @WarpLordsPod Warp Lords Tweeter: @Warplords Warp Lords Facebook: Warp Lords Credits: GM (Tales of the Bloodmoon): Mike “Danger” Vautour Xulroth: Jared Cryan Blair VanDeGuff: Graham Banas Rhubarb the Cat: Devin Malinowski Emmie Ematsu: Sonny "Santino" Tartaglia Music: Jared Cryan Editing: Mike "Danger" Vautour Jared Cryan Devin Malinowski Art: Mike "Danger" Vautour If you like what you heard, then please spread the word. Any characters, items, animals, blob monsters, trees, instruments, bad voices, manic lawyers, power tools, pocket pickles or shitty jokes that bear resemblance to another intellectual property or otherwise non-original content are used in parody or satire or other harmless ways and are in no way related to or a depiction of another subject in or around reality. This is a silly podcast with silly people, and is not intended to be taken seriously by anyone in any way.

Connacht started the game like a whirlwind but got blown away by a hurricane of a performance by the PRO14 champions in the Sportsground in round 2 of the Rainbow Cup.The Craggy crew are not too despondent with the home team been hammered by one of the best teams in Europe and are buzzing about Bundee Aki becoming Connacht's 4th British and Irish Lion.We also hear the post-match thoughts of Andy Friend and Peter Sullivan. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Connacht have an unusual opportunity to complete a double over Leinster when the PRO14 champions arrive in the Sportsground on Saturday evening.Linley Mackenzie, Sports Editor for the Galway Advertiser and Connacht Rugby correspondent for the Irish Times joins resident Craggy statsman Danny Deegan and host Alan Deegan to discuss the challenge that the Leinster will represent to a resurgent Connacht as well as hearing about the new signing Mack Hansen, the contract extension for Abraham Papali'i and the new forwards coach Dewald Senekal.We also hear the thoughts of Dave Heffernan and Andy Friend from the Connacht press conference as well as some snippets of James Tracey and Stuart Lancaster from the Leinster press conference. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What a frustrating defeat for Connacht, the Craggy crew try to make sense of if and we hear the thoughts of Andy Friend and Eoghan Masterson in the post match press conference. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How old is old to you? Imagine what it would be like if the only tool you had for determining a person's “oldness factor” was the vibrancy of his or her personality and passion for life. A survey by the Pew Research Center indicates that most people see old age as beginning around sixty-eight, while those already in their “golden years” believe that a better estimate is seventy-five years. If we're talking about defining “old” as simply the seventy-fifth time a person circles the sun, enjoy the ride. But what if we had no concept of time …  or any physical evidence of the aging process? How about if we don't use wrinkles, age spots, gray hair, no hair, declining memory, and other things as a clue to tell someone's age.