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Episode 421: On July 28, 1996, a fisherman hauling nets off the coast of Devon, England pulled up a body. The dead man had no wallet, no identification — nothing but a Rolex watch still ticking on his wrist. When British police traced the watch, it gave them a name: Ronald Joseph Platt, 51, of Essex. When they went looking for him, they found him — apparently alive. The trail led back across the Atlantic to Ayr, a small town in southwestern Ontario, where roughly seventy people had spent years trusting the wrong man with everything they had. By the time anyone understood what he'd done, he was already gone, and Ronald Platt was dead in the English Channel. Sources:Walker, Re, 1998 CanLII 14906 (ON SC)A Hand in the Water: The Many Lies of Albert Walker — Bill Schiller (HarperCollins, 1998)Nothing Sacred: The Many Lives and Betrayals of Albert Walker — Alan Cairns (McClelland-Bantam, 1998)Walker's Trail of Pain — Maclean's (July 6, 1998)Walker Money Hunt — Maclean's (July 20, 1998)Walker Faces Daughter at First Day of Trial — CBC News (June 1998)Mysterious Mr. Walker Sentenced for Fraud — The Globe and Mail (July 2007)Fugitive Financier Sentenced to Four Years for Fraud — CBC News (July 2007)Rolex Killer Denied Day Parole from B.C. Prison — Vancouver Sun (February 2024)Albert Johnson Walker — WikipediaThe Rolex Murder — therolexmurder.com (Elaine Boyes's site)The Rolex Killer - True CrimeExplore topics about albert-johnson-walker | Crime and Investigation UK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Essex native and outgoing Paramount Chief Technical Officer Phil Wiser tells Nestor about his childhood friendship with the late and legendary singer of Child's Play, Brian Jack, and his role in the band's reunion on Saturday, May 30th at Reckless Shepherd Brewery in Columbia, Maryland with John Allen, Nicky Kay and lots of old friends from the Seagull Inn days. The post Essex native and Paramount CTO Phil Wiser tells Nestor about Brian Jack and his role in Child's Play first appeared on Baltimore Positive WNST.

Retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective Gary Jenkins examines the rise and influence of Louis “Streaky” Gatto and the Genovese crime family's powerful New Jersey faction. Drawing from a 2004 New Jersey Crime Commission report, this episode explores how Genovese crews operated across multiple counties while controlling illegal gambling, loan sharking, and waterfront rackets through intimidation and organized violence. Gary breaks down the structure of Gatto's Bergen County crew, including the involvement of his son Joseph Gatto and son-in-law Alan “Little Al” Greco. The discussion details how the crew maintained control over bookmaking and gambling operations and how prosecutors later tied key members to murders connected to their criminal enterprises. The episode also dives into the federal RICO prosecution and the dramatic courtroom testimony of witness Robert Belli. Gary explains allegations that associates of the Gatto crew attempted to pressure and intimidate witnesses before testimony, including claims involving the infamous “evil eye” or malocchio. Prosecutors argued that subtle intimidation tactics, courtroom stares, and indirect threats were all part of an effort to influence testimony. Another major focus is Moe Brown, a reputed associate connected to the Gatto organization. The episode explores how prosecutors used recordings and testimony to connect Brown to the defendants and how his conduct in court became part of the government's intimidation narrative. Finally, Gary examines the later criminal cases involving Joseph Gatto, including offshore sports betting operations, convictions, prison sentences, and the eventual decline of the family's gambling empire. The episode concludes with the deaths of both Joseph Gatto and Louis “Streaky” Gatto, marking the end of an era for one of New Jersey's most feared Genovese crews. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. Transcript [0:00] Hey, all you wiretappers, good to be back here in the studio of Gangland Wires. A little extra I’m going to throw in here. I did this interview with Scott Deitch about Jerry Katina, and I got a lot of. [0:12] Comments, a lot of reactions to that show, a lot of New Jersey mob fans, Genovese mob fans out there. A guy named Carmine, Carmine something, he had some other numbers after his name. Carmine commented that I should do a show on Louis Streaky Gatto. That was a New Jersey capo who was one of the Chin’s best earners in the Genovese family. He had a crew down in New Jersey. And if you notice, one more thing, I was going to mention this before. I got a new hat. Now, check this out. [0:46] Hope you can see that. Got the gangland wire insignia on it. Now, this is my official gangland wire hat. [0:56] Louis Streaky Gatto, the New Jersey Crime Commission report in May 2004, reported that the Genovese family maintained five crews headquartered in New Jersey. Each was overseen by a capo, of course, and each of the four New York-based crews, this is right out of The Sopranos, about 40 soldiers and more than 400 criminal associates who were active in New Jersey. [1:21] They reported that the family operated in the northern New Jersey counties of Hudson, Essex, Union, Bergen, and Passaic County. They also had gained strength in Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties. Ocean, is that down in Atlantic City? I don’t have a map in front of me, so I’m not sure. The crime report stated that the Genovese family controlled the largest bookmaking and loan sharking rings in the New York, New Jersey metropolitan area. And the family maintained a strong influence on the Port Newark, Elizabeth, and Hudson County waterfronts. This report also identified the family consigliere Lawrence Little Larry Dentico as a person with the most extensive familiarity of the family’s New Jersey operations because he had been the top aide to the former consigliere and New York, New Jersey operations chief, Louis A. Bobby Mann. I did a show on Bobby Mann and Irwin Schiff and some of those plots, I don’t know, sometime in the last year, I believe. This 2004 report identified the five capos at that time in New Jersey, and they were Tino Fouimara, who died in 2010, Angelo Prisco, who died in 2017, Joseph Gatto died in 2010, Silvio DeVita, and Ludwig Bruchy, who died in 2020. [2:44] Now, Streaky Gatto, Louis Streaky Gatto, he was always the favorite money earner of Vincent de Chin Gigante. Before he was promoted to captain, his New Jersey crew was led by a capo named Peter LaPlaca until the mid-1970s, and that’s when Streaky Gatto took over the crew. Gatto was the boss of Bergen County with the help of his son, Joseph the Eagle Gatto. And his son-in-law, and a guy who keeps coming back in this thing, and who was his top enforcer, Alan Little Al Greco. I noticed a comment. Somebody said that he was really half Polish. I think his mother was Polish and his father was Italian. Somebody correct me on that in the comments, if you will. Controlled large illegal gambling, loan sharking, bookmaking operations in Bergen and Passaic counties. [3:33] These three guys used murder, violence, and fear to click on these rackets and control everybody who was a bookmaker. You couldn’t be, like Chicago, you couldn’t be a lone wolf bookmaker making money without these guys getting a piece of your action and working with you on it. They made sure that other rivals didn’t take advantage of somebody that was [3:55] under their protection. Gatto and Alan Greco, Little Al, were indicted on two counts of murder for the murders of Arthur Belli and Vincent Mastretti. They also were alleged to be behind the murders of a guy named Jack Handsome Jack, Ciaranella, Johnny Lombardi, and Peter Adamo. 1991-1990. [4:20] Streaky Gatto and Alan Greco were sentenced to 65 years. Streaky Gatto’s son, Joseph Gatto, was indicted on racketeering charges in the same RICO prosecution, but he only received 30 months. There was an appeal to that trial, and we learned a little bit about their brazen intimidation tactics, how it works. There’s a guy named Robert Belli, whose brother had had a gambling operation. His brother, Arthur Belli, was one of the persons in that RICO case that was murdered by Streaky Gatto. They called on Robert Belli to testify about the extortionate takeover of their gambling business. And he said that little Al Greco once told him, he said, things are going to be different now. And then shortly after that, Robert Belli’s hot dog truck was blown up and he was beaten by two men with baseball bats, typical mob extortionist takeovers of a small-time gambler, a bookie, a guy that had his own book of business, his own customers. As a result, he just gave it up. But he also testified that Belli disappeared and now we’re in trial for Belli being murdered by Streaky Gatto and planned on returning to the business just before he disappeared. [5:37] Now, in cross-examination, it turns out that he had been spoken to by somebody in the Gatto families because he all of a sudden starts agreeing with all the defense counsel’s suggestions, first of all, that the prosecutor paid him and pressured him, and all the local police and prosecutors involved in the case were corrupt. I’ll redirect. The prosecutor tries to show that Belli had become hostile to government and accommodating to the defense because he’d been intimidated. They asked Belli about a guy named Frank Sesta, who was known as Mo Brown. We’ll refer to him as Mo Brown. He was always known as Mo Brown. Belli stated that after defense investigators, Gatto’s lawyers and their investigators handed him into a meeting with the defense counsel, Mo Brown showed up and wanted to take him to the meeting. And then when he wouldn’t go with Mo Brown, Brown tried to pressure him into letting one of his associates drive him to this meeting and again to a pretrial hearing. He wouldn’t do it. He knew better than that. He took a ride with a government investigator. He did have to go meet with the defense counsel, of course. Anybody that’s going to be a witness against you, they have to make them available to the defense investigators and counsels, defense counsel, in order to do a deposition or just listen to what, see what they got to say. [6:59] He said Brown approached him and told him about a job interview. He said he’d take him to his job interview just before he testified at trial. He said Brown had discussed the case with him more than once and once said, isn’t it a shame that Little Al got 60 years in this case and he did get 65 years? And this all was coming out after they got their 65-year sentences, Little Al and Streaky Gatto. They just kept coming back. And then during the trial, the prosecutors got testimony from Belli that Moe Brown had been in the courtroom and standing directly in front of him several times and that he looked at him with an unhappy look. [7:36] Of course, they objected, the defense counsel objected to all that. They also introduced evidence that this Moe Brown was really closely connected to Streaky Gatto and Little Al Greco. They’d sent him into surveillance during the social club, the Lodi Social Club, and sent him with other people in the defendant’s gambling business. They also had a tape of a conversation between Louis Gatto Jr., Stryker Gatto’s son, and little Al Greco, talking about Mo Brown, that they were real familiar with him. So they connected Mo Brown to the Gattos and to Little Al Greco and then showed how he was then in court and was given the witness, the evil eye, the malokia, I think they call it, something like that was in The Godfather. And that he had tried to befriend the guy before he testified and told him about a job and tried to give him rides different places. They even mentioned that how… [8:39] They asked the witness Belli about three occasions during the trial when Al Greco had given him a look. One was before he testified, and Greco passed by him in the hallway, and he gave him a look. Defense has strenuously objected to this. It’s irrelevant, and you can’t really say that look was a bad look. The defense counsel strenuously objected to these points, but it was overruled. The second look came when Belli was in the back of the courtroom him waiting to testify, and Greco, Little Al Greco, just turned his chair around just to give him a look, and the third time was when Greco stood up and then turned over around and looked at Belli during the sidebar while Belli was on the stand. Prosecutor then asked Belli if Greco had ever looked at him that way before, and Belli said, well, he had. He said when he told him, Little Al Greco told him things are going to be different just before he beat him up, or had he beaten, And, of course, they strenuously object to all this. In the end, it did not do any good. In the end, little Al Greco still got his 65 years, and he didn’t get a new trial or anything. [9:45] A little story in regards to little Al Greco, the guy that was son-in-law to Strique Gatto and was right under him. It seemed like he was his main kind of enforcement guy, guy out dealing, maybe underboss, under people trying to, guy that deals with people on the street. He made a connection with a notorious New Jersey con artist and mob associates, Tom Giacomaro. They wanted him to come in and be a made man, supposedly, in the 80s. And, you know, he didn’t want it. He was independent. He knew better because once you come in, you know, they’re going to take everything from you. And he was quoted as saying, you know, I don’t want to kiss the ring. Everybody’s kissing Streaky Gatto’s ring, he said, except me. Jack Amaro was in the trucking business with two of Streaky’s crew, and they were making a lot of money. Streaky wanted to sit down. He wanted to bring this guy in because he was earning a lot of money. Giacomaro remembers that they met at Vesuvius in Newark. I mean, it sounds just like the Sopranos, doesn’t it? He described the table and how it went down. He said, Streaky sat at the head of the table with his sons right next to him, Joseph and Louis Jr. And his son-in-law, little Al Greco. [11:02] And Giacomaro remembered that Streaky was a skinny little guy who hardly said anything, but he said he had an ego big enough to suffocate the entire restaurant. Over again, little Al took care of the business during this lunch. He pitched Giacomaro on Friday. Him joining the family plan. And Streaky, during this time, he made a big production of putting some $100 bills between his knuckles. He held up his fist when the waiters came and they kissed his ring and took the bill and said, oh, thank you, Don Luigi. Thank you. During this lunch, he remembered that little Al once said, you know, we want to open the books for use. We got big plans for use. He knew what that meant. He knew he was then going to have to give him a percentage of his earnings and let them use his businesses to launder their money. Finally, he says, you know, Giacomaro says, I told Streaky and I told Lil Al, I said, you know, what can you really offer me with that? I don’t already have. He said, it was like everybody just quit breathing. [12:02] Just a dead silence fell over the table. He said he thought Streaky Yaddo was going to leap across his pastas and stab him in the eye with a fork. He didn’t, you know, he’s in a public place. And, you know, he would later say, you know, I was going to use them for everything they had, but never be one of them. You know, I’ll infiltrate their world all the way at the top if I can, [12:22] but I ain’t never being made because the only crime boss I want to answer to is myself. Joseph Gatto, Stricky Gatto’s son, was released in 1993, and he took over control of his father’s crew. He expanded the crew’s gambling operations and introduced, you know, brings it in the 21st century, so to speak, of the use of pagers and cell phones. And by 1999, he gets convicted again on some illegal gambling charges and took a plea deal. And at that time, he did admit that he was a capo of the Genovese family. You know, gambling is getting lesser, lighter sentences by then. He had a pretty light sentence. He gets released again in 2003. But a year later, he’s indicted in 2004 for running something called Catalina Sports, which is an offshore wire room in Costa rica bosley this thing was taking in 300 to 500 hundred thousand dollars profit per week and these gatos they were they were money earners that’s for sure that conviction gets overturned and you know by now 2005. [13:22] They did try him again in 2008. I don’t even know what happened. He’ll die in 2010. He’ll never go back to jail again. And nobody cares about gambling by then because it’s getting opened up all over the place. Streaky Gatto, who originally started talking about his father, died in prison in 2002. He never got out after he got that 65-year sentence from his RICO and murder convictions. So that’s a little bit about Louis Streaky Gatto. [13:48] And Carmine, thanks for suggesting that. So I hope y’all like this story. I hope y’all like my hat with my Gangland Wire logo on it. Talk to you later. Thanks, guys.

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222: Santorini Secrets: Mediterranean Living at MIA'S Kiki goes on location to Greece to experience the Mediterranean Diet — Santorini style. Today's Lexi:  Μεζέ – Meze – Appetizers In Today's Episode: Join Kiki and Sellia, owner of Mia's Restaurant on the island of Santorini in Greece. Today you will love an authentic and vibrant conversation about the Mediterranean food that is prepared and crafted by an all-woman kitchen spearheaded by chef Ellie.  What is fava, and how versatile is it? What is the secret to Mia's village salad, and how did Sellia get to Santorini in the first place?  There's so much more to this conversation, so please tune in. Resources: Mia's Restaurant Cupitol Coffee Cupitol — The Restaurant About Sellia Sellia Georges is a third-generation restaurateur whose family has been part of Chicago's restaurant industry for more than 40 years. Growing up, she worked in her family's restaurants — JC Georges (opened in 1982), OPA Estiatorio, Portofino Italian, and Elly's Brunch Café — and later worked alongside her father on the opening of the Elly's 24-Hour concept in downtown Chicago in 2010.   Sellia considers Cupitol to be the evolution of Elly's, bringing together an easy-going European atmosphere with an all-day dining experience. She opened the first Cupitol Coffee & Eatery location in Evanston in 2016, followed by a second location in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood in 2017, and a third location featuring an expanded bakery in West Loop in 2021. Her vision was to create a versatile space where guests could enjoy breakfast or coffee with friends, a full meal, work at a communal table or lounge, or simply grab a cold-pressed juice to go. Her Greek heritage is reflected throughout Cupitol, from the relaxed lounge atmosphere to the menu, which features house-made pastries, specialty roasted coffee, and creative cocktails.   Sellia's next concept brought her back to her roots with the opening of MIA'S Restaurant in Oia, Santorini, where her ancestors were born. Conceived during the pandemic, MIA'S has since become one of the most beloved restaurants in Oia, offering comforting yet elevated Greek cuisine through a modern, seasonal lens.   Most recently, in December 2024, she launched Cupitol The Restaurant, an expanded evolution of the Cupitol concept and the brand's fourth location. Her goal was to create an accessible all-day restaurant serving delicious, high-quality food and drinks for breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner at approachable prices. In addition to the signature Cupitol offerings, the restaurant features a specially curated dinner menu designed exclusively for this concept.   Alongside her extensive hospitality experience, Sellia holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Kingston University and a master's degree in Psychology from University of Essex. Credits: Music: Spiro Dussias Vocals: Zabrina Hay Graphic Designer: Manos Koumparakis  

Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. On the programme:Last week, Annunziata Rees-Mogg took to X to post a claim about the proportion of sex offences in Dorset that are committed by asylum seekers, writing that “asylum seekers make up 0.8% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offenses. So unbelievable I had to check.” We checked too, and the number isn't right.In the last series of More or Less we suggested that nuclear power plant Hinkley C was spending so much on protecting the fish population that it would cost something like £250,000 per fish saved. We've had to take a look at that one too.Last year, we looked at a report by the Bible Society based on polling from YouGov. The Quiet Revival suggested that churchgoing was on the rise in the UK, with young men leading the trend. YouGov now have an update on that survey.How many caterpillars does a blue tit chick eat before it leaves the nest? In a recent nature documentary, Sir David Attenborough said the right number was 20,000. We're not so sure.If you've seen a number in the news you think we should take a look at, email the more or Less team: moreorless@bbc.co.ukCONTRIBUTORS:Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory at Oxford University Professor David Voas, Emeritus Professor of Social Science in the UCL Social Research Institute Annette Jäckle, Professor of Survey Methodology at the University of Essex and a Deputy Director of the UK Household Longitudinal Study Dr Malcolm Burgess, Principal Conservation Scientist at the RSPBCREDITS Presenter: Tim Harford Reporter: Lizzy McNeill Producer: Nathan Gower and Josh McGinn Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon

After a turbulent few weeks, Westminster is in limbo. Keir Starmer appears safe – for now – after Wes Streeting's underwhelming resignation speech, and all eyes are turning to the Makerfield by-election on 18 June. Until then, the drama seems to have temporarily gone out of Labour's leadership turmoil.Isabel Hardman and Noa Hoffman join Megan McElroy to discuss Starmer's ‘pompous' tone at PMQs, what is really going on with Wes Streeting, and the Essex icon causing a storm on Twitter and inside the Department for Education.Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk/podcasts.Contact us: podcast@spectator.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Damned are – yes! - 50 years old with three of the originals still onboard. And just starting a world tour. In this immensely funny and touching podcast, Rat Scabies (who's smoking!) points up the repercussions of life in a band. He looks back at their first shows, their devoted audience, “old-fashioned rules”, highlights, regrets, the value of friendship, “putting on the black suit again” and how it felt to rejoin after 30 years on the outside. And all this too … … playing drums in an Essex panto while pelted with boiled sweets … Dave Vanian when he was a grave-digger … punk rock strongholds the world over – “South America was like being in the Beatles” … Mexico and other places you can still torch a drumkit … Mr Scabies, aged 70. “Even my mother calls me Rat. The name's done me well over the years” … going to the Isle Of Wight aged 14 (with the Danish nanny) and running a hot-dog stand during Hendrix … supporting the Pistols at the 100 Club: “like letting a greyhound out of a trap” … Tim Burton, the Goth revival, the Young Ones, steampunk and other factors that keeps the Damned in motion … “One band's an oddity, two's a fashion, three's a movement” … rejoining the Damned after 30 years – “like a great stain had been lifted” … Green Day, algorithms and how they acquired a whole new following. Order Damned tickets here: aegp.uk/the-damnedHelp us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Damned are – yes! - 50 years old with three of the originals still onboard. And just starting a world tour. In this immensely funny and touching podcast, Rat Scabies (who's smoking!) points up the repercussions of life in a band. He looks back at their first shows, their devoted audience, “old-fashioned rules”, highlights, regrets, the value of friendship, “putting on the black suit again” and how it felt to rejoin after 30 years on the outside. And all this too … … playing drums in an Essex panto while pelted with boiled sweets … Dave Vanian when he was a grave-digger … punk rock strongholds the world over – “South America was like being in the Beatles” … Mexico and other places you can still torch a drumkit … Mr Scabies, aged 70. “Even my mother calls me Rat. The name's done me well over the years” … going to the Isle Of Wight aged 14 (with the Danish nanny) and running a hot-dog stand during Hendrix … supporting the Pistols at the 100 Club: “like letting a greyhound out of a trap” … Tim Burton, the Goth revival, the Young Ones, steampunk and other factors that keeps the Damned in motion … “One band's an oddity, two's a fashion, three's a movement” … rejoining the Damned after 30 years – “like a great stain had been lifted” … Green Day, algorithms and how they acquired a whole new following. Order Damned tickets here: aegp.uk/the-damnedHelp us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Damned are – yes! - 50 years old with three of the originals still onboard. And just starting a world tour. In this immensely funny and touching podcast, Rat Scabies (who's smoking!) points up the repercussions of life in a band. He looks back at their first shows, their devoted audience, “old-fashioned rules”, highlights, regrets, the value of friendship, “putting on the black suit again” and how it felt to rejoin after 30 years on the outside. And all this too … … playing drums in an Essex panto while pelted with boiled sweets … Dave Vanian when he was a grave-digger … punk rock strongholds the world over – “South America was like being in the Beatles” … Mexico and other places you can still torch a drumkit … Mr Scabies, aged 70. “Even my mother calls me Rat. The name's done me well over the years” … going to the Isle Of Wight aged 14 (with the Danish nanny) and running a hot-dog stand during Hendrix … supporting the Pistols at the 100 Club: “like letting a greyhound out of a trap” … Tim Burton, the Goth revival, the Young Ones, steampunk and other factors that keeps the Damned in motion … “One band's an oddity, two's a fashion, three's a movement” … rejoining the Damned after 30 years – “like a great stain had been lifted” … Green Day, algorithms and how they acquired a whole new following. Order Damned tickets here: aegp.uk/the-damnedHelp us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's Legally Speaking Podcast, I'm delighted to be joined by Sam Grimley. Sam is a Barrister at One Essex Court. He specialises in commercial, competition and intellectual property litigation and has appeared in disputes before the High Court, IPEC and UKIPO. Before pursuing a career at the Bar, Sam worked with artists including Sir Tom Jones, Ed Sheeran and Jessie J. So why should you be listening in? You can hear Rob and Sam discussing:- Career Transition from Music to Law- Transferable Skills and How to Use Them Well- Resilience Through Hardship and Academic Challenges- The Importance of Seeking Feedback and Mentorship- Current Practice and Specialist Legal Work at One Essex CourtConnect with Sam Grimley here - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sam-grimley-47105224

Today is final judging day at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, ahead of the show's opening to the public tomorrow. This year, the Great Pavilion will include a mini flower farm, to promote British production. The display's been created by 8 growers from the organisation Flowers From The Farm. It says, after years of the market being dominated by cheaper imports, interest in British flowers is burgeoning. Now, more producers are needed to keep pace with the new demand. The UK's largest food and farm assurance scheme, Red Tractor, has had a difficult couple of years. Its new Chief Executive, Paul McLaughlin, tells Anna he's confident a standards overhaul will make the scheme work better for farmers and consumers. Hare coursing has been a long-standing problem for farmers, damaging crops, fencing and land. New sentencing guidelines for hare coursing will come into effect next month taking into account the impact of the crime on farms and rural communities. We hear from a farmer in Essex says he's been targeted almost 200 times in eight months.Presenter: Anna Hill Producer: Sarah Swadling

rWotD Episode 3301: Kings Head, West Tilbury Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Monday, 18 May 2026, is Kings Head, West Tilbury.The Kings Head Pub is a grade II listed pub in the conservation area of West Tilbury, in the Thurrock district, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England. The pub closed in 2015 and in May 2016 Punch Taverns sold the pub, as part of their corporate strategy, to housing developers.An Asset of Community Value order has been placed on The Kings Head by Thurrock Council, offering protection against any housing development.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:08 UTC on Monday, 18 May 2026.For the full current version of the article, see Kings Head, West Tilbury on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Bluesky at @wikioftheday.com.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Amy.

The build up to the by-election in Makerfield is likely to be the only political story in town in the coming weeks. Reform UK is pledging to throw everything at the race to stop Andy Burnham's ambitions to be Prime Minister. Another potential contender in any contest, Wes Streeting, has spoken openly about his Anglican Christian faith. Angela Rayner has described herself as not being religious. We explore how faith can play a role in politics.An evangelical church in Essex has launched an appeal against an order preventing “intimidating behaviour” by its members preaching on the street. The Bread of Life Community Church in Colchester, allegedly told passers-by they were going to hell. Colchester City Council has applied to police to issue a community protection notice. The Church maintains it's preaching a message of God's love. The case raises a lot of questions - not least about the lines preachers may or may not cross legally. What is public opinion on street preachers and has that changed? Who helped and who didn't echoes still as one of history's most searing questions in the wake of the Holocaust. As well as the countries who fought against Nazis in the war - the light has often been shone on heroic individuals who risked their own lives to save persecuted Jewish people. Are there lessons to be learned in understanding which local communities, and specifically religious groups, refused to look the other way and which ones did? This is the subject of the annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture tomorrow by Professor Mary Fulbrook, who was brought up as a Quaker. Presenter: Julie Etchingham Producers: Katy Booth and Alexa Good Studio managers: Becky Marcus and Catherine Everatt Editor: Tim Pemberton

The Spirit of God will use the word of God to transform the child of God. 1 Corinthians 2:12-13. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. Simon is the Pastor of Life Community Church in Rochford, Essex.

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Send us Fan MailCara Sullivan drops in to discuss her journey as a Theater Director, her role at Athens Creative Theater, and some upcoming shows including a Shakespeare in the Park production.  You can find info about upcoming shows at:https://www.accgov.com/646/ShowsBIO: Cara Rose Sullivan is the Program Specialist (Artistic Director) for Athens Creative Theatre. Cara holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from the East 15 Acting School at the University of Essex and a BFA in Musical Theatre from Young Harris College. A lifelong theatre artist, she has been in the performing arts since the age of seven and continues to find her greatest sense of home within the theatre community. Though new to the Athens arts scene, she is thrilled to collaborate with such a passionate creative community. Her recent directing credits include Sylvia, Stonewater Rapture, Sucker Punch, Appropriate (Co-Director), and most recently One Man, Two Guvnors with Athens Creative Theatre, among others. Outside of the theatre, Cara enjoys film, reading, and spending quiet time at home with her beloved dog, Hugo. She extends heartfelt gratitude to her parents, Jackie and Charlie, whose encouragement and presence at every performance have made this journey possible.About ACT: Athens Creative Theatre (ACT) has been a cornerstone of the Athens community for over 60 years, enriching lives through the power of performance and storytelling. Established in 1966 by University of Georgia Drama professor Jane Quinn, ACT began as part of UGA's Children's Theatre and Creative Dramatics classes. These early programs not only nurtured young talent but also provided invaluable hands-on training for graduate students pursuing master's degrees in Children's Theatre. Each student-director led a full production, featuring a child cast performing for young audiences—a tradition of mentorship and creativity that remains at the heart of ACT today.Since those humble beginnings, ACT has evolved into a vital cultural and educational asset in the Athens area. After being adopted by the City of Athens' Leisure Services Department, the theatre expanded its offerings beyond youth productions to include community and university participants. In 2004, Quinn Hall at Memorial Park was dedicated to Athens Creative Theatre and productions also take place at the beautifully restored Morton Theatre in Downtown Athens, where ACT continues to delight audiences with mainstage performances. Seasonally, ACT offers a diverse range of classes and workshops for a variety of ages. Every summer, the theatre hosts multiple theatre camps for students entering grades three through twelve, providing a fun and formative experience in the performing arts.ACT operates as a proud unit of the Arts Division within the Athens-Clarke County Department of Leisure Services. Despite receiving administrative and technical support, ACT thrives as a largely volunteer-driven organization. Community members are invited to contribute their talents in every aspect of theatre—actors, ushers, musicians, designers, builders, designers, choreography, directing, stage management, and front-of-house operations.The ACT team includes: Cara Rose Sullivan, Artistic Director and Program Specialist, Paige Baugher, Stage Manager and Program Leader, and Jeremy Miller, Scenic Artist.

On Monday the 11th May, Jack & Tate were guests live on BBC Radio Essex with Sonia Watson. Sonia asked the lads questions on the upcoming World Cup, including views on the ticket pricing & thoughts ahead of the tournament. Be sure to check out Sonia's show Monday - Friday 06:00 - 10:00 on BBC Essex.#TalkingLoyalPod are now on Instagram, Twitter & Facebook. All the social media tags are below:Twitter/IG/Facebook | @talkingloyalpodYouTube | TalkingLoyal Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cameron Ponsonby and Katya Witney bring you Oval and Out - your bitesize look at the action as Surrey Women got back to winning ways as they hosted Essex at the Kia Oval.

In its 80-year history, no woman has ever held the role of United Nations Secretary-General. The race for the job, which happens every 10 years, began in January and the candidates have recently appeared in their one and only TV debate. Four people are currently in the running, two of whom are female. But should it matter if the top job goes to a woman? Nuala McGovern discusses with Susana Malcorra, former Chief of Staff to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and founder of GWL Voices, which stands for Global Women Leaders, and Ben Donaldson, advisor to 1 For 8 Billion, a campaign group calling for an open, inclusive and merit-based selection process to appoint a woman as Secretary-General. Nuala speaks to actors Liv Hill and Tanya Reynolds, stars of the new West End play 1536. Set in Tudor England, the drama follows three young women in Essex as they grapple with the shockwaves of Anne Boleyn's execution. Through the stories of Jane, Anna and Mariella, the play explores how events at the Royal court ripple through ordinary lives, and what the fall of a queen means for women far beyond the palace walls.It has been called 'a last ditch reset', 'a very important moment' and 'the speech of his career'. That's the speech that Prime Minister Keir Starmer is giving today as he tries to convince Labour MPs he's the right man for the job after heavy election losses last week. One of those listening is Labour backbencher Catherine West who, if still dissatisfied after hearing him, says she will send out an email and attempt to trigger a leadership contest. Meanwhile Angela Rayner put out a 1000-word statement yesterday, warning that the party's current approach isn't working and it needs to change. Joining Nuala to discuss what the political landscape looks like for women after the elections is BBC political correspondent Alicia McCarthy and Dr Annabel Mullin, Director of communications at Elect Her, an organisation that works to get women into elected office. M&S have announced that following a successful trial they are ditching the measuring tape for bra fittings. Other underwear retailers have done this for years, but how does it work fitting a bra by eye? Nuala is joined by Joanna Wakefield-Scurr, Professor of Biomechanics at Portsmouth University, and virtual bra fitter Katie Weir.Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Andrea Kidd

In this episode of That Would Be Rad, we sink our teeth into one of the weirdest and most unsettling true stories we've ever covered: the Southend Werewolf.Picture this: a regular, easy-going guy from Essex named Bill Ramsey who spent almost forty years fighting something vicious that lived inside him. Out of nowhere he'd get hit with freezing cold chills, see a wolf staring back at him in the mirror, and then black out into these insane rages where he suddenly had crazy strength and acted like a straight-up animal. What began as a bizarre incident in his parents' garden when he was just nine years old spiraled into full-blown tabloid madness and eventually pulled in Ed and Lorraine Warren.Is it old-school folklore, straight-up demonic possession, a serious mental health thing, or some unholy mix of all three? This one really doesn't fit in any neat little box.What We Uncover in This Episode:Bill Ramsey's full story — starting with that insane 1952 garden episode as a kid where he ripped a fence post (concrete and all) out of the ground and chewed through wire with his teeth, all the way through the escalating nightmare of the 1980sThe notorious 1987 police station showdown in Southend where he fought a dozen cops on all fours, growling “The devil is in me…”A proper deep dive into werewolf history, from the Epic of Gilgamesh and King Lycaon all the way to medieval monster trials, the Beast of Gévaudan, and modern clinical lycanthropyHow the Warrens got pulled into the case, the intense 1989 exorcism with Bishop Robert McKenna, and the wild physical changes people swore they sawThe big debate: demonic animal spirit, psychological condition, hysterical strength, or something else entirelyWhat happened to Bill after the exorcism, his appearance on Sightings, and why this case still feels impossible to pin downWhy You NEED to Listen:If you're into episodes that feel like a proper paranormal thriller, this one's for you. Between my recent werewolf kick (thanks to Joe Abercrombie's The Devils, An American Werewolf in London, and Bad Moon), the edge-of-your-seat storytelling, and that lingering “what if this could actually happen to a normal person?” question - this might be one of our creepiest episodes yet. Fair warning: you might find yourself side-eyeing your backyard and mirrors for a while after this one.RAD WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT OUR SHOW:JOIN OUR PATREON: Exclusive episodes, bonus content, and behind-the-scenes weirdness: patreon.com/thatwouldberadBUY US A COFFEE: Fuel our late-night research sessions — buymeacoffee.com/thatwouldberad ☕️CHECK OUT OUR MERCH: Grab official That Would Be Rad gear — thatwouldberad.myspreadshop.comSHOW INFO:

La noche de Arjona explora el miedo ancestral a las aguas oscuras y sus monstruos. Guillermo Díaz detalla criaturas legendarias y reales. El Kraken, cefalópodo gigante nórdico, se relaciona con el calamar gigante (Architeuthis dux), de hasta 14 metros, filmado en 2006. El Leviatán, el monstruo más antiguo de Occidente, simboliza el caos primordial. La Hidra de Lerna, con nueve cabezas regenerativas, desafía a Hércules y tiene un análogo biológico en la hidra de agua dulce. El Monstruo del Lago Ness representa la criptozoología, popularizado por una foto de 1934 que resultó un engaño. El Megalodón, tiburón extinto de hasta 20 metros, cazaba ballenas; su desaparición se atribuye al enfriamiento oceánico y escasez de presas. El ballenero Essex, atacado por un cachalote, inspira la novela 'Moby Dick'. El océano profundo, menos explorado que el espacio, aún podría albergar animales grandes no catalogados, aunque no monstruos clásicos. Todos estos mitos nacen del miedo al abismo, a lo ...

Ethan Giffin of Groove Commerce joins Nestor to discuss his new book on modern ecommerce and taking a lane down the old school world of his DJ Opie music and love of Yacht Rock Revue at Pizza John's in Essex on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour. We waited far too long to have this old friend on the show to discuss business, making money on the web and Hall and Oates. The post Ethan Giffin of Groove Commerce joins Nestor to discuss his new book on modern ecommerce first appeared on Baltimore Positive WNST.

When buying a car, color might seem like a purely personal choice. But it turns out that picking a less popular color could actually pay off later in a surprising way—especially when it's time to sell. Source: Westways Magazine Summer 2024 / “Color Considerations” What does it really take to get better at something? Is it just practice—or is there a smarter way to improve? Why do some people seem to make rapid progress while others plateau? Scott Young, writer, podcast host (https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/podcast/), and author of Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery (https://amzn.to/3JOQ60k), breaks down what actually works when it comes to learning and skill-building. In our conversation, he explains the principles that separate effective practice from wasted effort—and how small adjustments can lead to much faster improvement. Tattoos have been around for thousands of years, yet their popularity today seems higher than ever. What draws people to permanently mark their bodies? Do they regret it later—or does the meaning deepen over time? Matt Lodder, senior lecturer in art history at the University of Essex and one of the world's leading experts on tattoo history, takes us inside this fascinating world. He is author of Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings (https://amzn.to/4bdVJlb), and in our discussion he explores the cultural, psychological, and historical reasons tattoos continue to hold such strong appeal. Humming might seem like a small, almost unconscious habit—but it can have a surprisingly positive effect on how you feel. And there's more going on behind it than you might think. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture-council/articles/humming-for-self-care-tool-for-leaders-toolboxes-1234956725/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS AQUA TRU: Take the guesswork out of pure, great-tasting water. Head to ⁠https://AquaTru.com⁠ now and get 20% off your purifier using promo code SYSK. AquaTru even comes with a 30-day best-tasting water guarantee or your money back. POCKET HOSE: For a limited time, when you purchase a new Pocket Hose Ballistic, you'll get a FREE 360 degree rotating pocket pivot and a FREE thumb drive nozzle! Just text SYSK to 64000 RULA: This Mental Health Awareness Month, don't just think about your mental health - actually take the step to take care of it. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://Rula.com/sysk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to get started. QUINCE: Refresh your everyday with luxury you will actual use! Go to ⁠⁠⁠https://Quince.com/sysk⁠⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too! SHOPIFY: It's time to turn those "what ifs" into CHA CHING with Shopify Today! Sign up for your $1 per month trail and start selling today at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://Shopify.com/sysk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ PLANET VISIONARIES : We love the Planet Visionaries podcast! In partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative. Listen or watch on Apple, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you are listening to this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The UK political landscape has just been permanently altered. In this emergency episode of Whitehall Sources, Calum Macdonald, Jo Tanner and James Nation deconstruct a seismic set of local election results.From Labour losing power in Wales for the first time in history to Reform UK gaining over 1,400 councillors, the "two-party system" is under fire. We analyse:The Welsh Upset: Why the First Minister lost her seat and what it means for the Union.The Reform Surge: How Farage's party is putting down roots from Essex to Hartlepool.Starmer's "New" Old Guard: The shocking return of Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman. Is Keir Starmer too weak for a reshuffle?The 2026 Midterms: Are we looking at a permanent fracturing of British politics? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We could all use a summer camp and a little more exercise and John Hoey of The Y of Central Maryland returns, joining Nestor at Pizza John's in Essex on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour with some goals for neighborhood folks to see what their local center is doing to stay relevant and helpful in communities throughout the region. The post John Hoey of The Y returns with clarity about local commitment and serving folks in neighborhoods throughout Central Maryland first appeared on Baltimore Positive WNST.

In this episode of the Interior Design Podcast, Hayley sits down with Evan from Walking With Reptiles - a passionate and dedicated reptile specialist - who's opening a reptile handling centre in Haybridge (near Maldon, Essex).Evan shares how watching Steve Irwin as a kid sparked a lifelong obsession with crocodilians, how his first snake changed everything, and why hands-on animal experiences can completely transform fear into fascination.We also dive into the crossover between landscaping, interiors, and building “living” environments - from slate backdrops and natural stone features to bioactive vivariums that look like a rainforest in your living room. If you love jungle-style interiors, terrariums, indoor “rainforest” vibes, or you're curious about reptile care and myths… this one's for you.In this episode, we cover:· Evan's reptile origin story (Steve Irwin, crocodiles, and that first corn snake moment)· What bioactive vivariums are (and how to build one)· Plants that work best: pothos, bromeliads, mosses + more· The biggest mistakes people make building indoor rainforest setups· The vision behind Walking with Reptiles and what visitors can expectwalkingwithreptiles.comhttps://www.harpdesign.co.uk/"At The Hotel" licensed via Music Vine: DESKRUPM3PLZEZT0

Anna in Chesterfield and Annabel in Essex prove a CAN do attitude is all you need!

Our lifer pal John Allen of Stone Horses returns to East Baltimore here with Nestor at Pizza John's in Essex to discuss his new single, "Make A Living," which is getting rock radio airplay and putting the band back on stage locally throughout the spring and summer. And, of course, there's the Child's Play reunion and tribute to late singer and guitarist Brian Jack on May 30th at Reckless Shepherd Brewery in Columbia. The post John Allen returns to discuss new Stone Horses single Make A Living and Child's Play tribute to Brian Jack on May 30th first appeared on Baltimore Positive WNST.

When we talk about prosecuting crime in Baltimore County it makes everyone's ears perk up and local attorney and candidate Sarah David tells Nestor about her path and vision as candidate for Baltimore County State's Attorney at Pizza John's in Essex on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour. Do you know who your State's Attorney is or what they do or how they could be helpful to you as a citizen? The post Sarah David tells Nestor her path and vision as candidate for Baltimore County State's Attorney first appeared on Baltimore Positive WNST.

A woman closes up her dress shop on a quiet November evening in Rochford, Essex, and heads out to run a simple errand for a friend. It should have been an ordinary trip, one of those everyday moments no one thinks twice about. But somewhere between locking the door and reaching her car, 63-year-old Norah Trott was attacked and left dying in a lane just yards from her own home.By the early hours of the next morning, her body had been discovered behind the Old Ship pub, sending shockwaves through the close-knit town. Detectives launched a huge murder investigation which saw thousands of people questioned, and witnesses reported seeing a suspicious young man carrying Norah's blood-stained bag. Yet despite the urgency and scale of the inquiry, the killer vanished.In this episode of British Murders with Stuart Blues, we explore the murder of Norah Trott and the decades-long investigation that followed. From the frantic early police search in 1978, to hypnosis sessions with a key eyewitness, evolving suspect sketches, and repeated cold case reviews, this is a story of persistence in the face of multiple dead ends. We examine the fear that gripped Rochford, the brutality of the attack, and how investigators refused to let Norah's case be forgotten even as the decades rolled on.We also break down the extraordinary forensic breakthrough that finally solved the case. Thanks to advances in DNA technology and the National DNA Database, evidence preserved from the original crime scene was re-tested more than 25 years later, leading detectives to Wayne Doherty after a routine police arrest on an unrelated matter. We cover his arrest, trial, conviction, and the life sentence that followed. This is a powerful true crime story about justice delayed, modern forensic science, cold case murder investigations, and the reality that some killers live on borrowed time.Exclusive content:Patreon - Ad Free, Early Access, Exclusive EpisodesFollow the show:British Murders with Stuart BluesDisclaimer:The case discussed in this podcast episode is real and represents the worst day in many people's lives. I aim to cover such stories with a victim-focused approach, using information from publicly available sources. While I strive for accuracy, some details may vary depending on the sources used. You can find the sources for each episode on my website. Due to the nature of the content, listener discretion is advised. Thank you for your understanding and support. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

(May 6, 2026) Climate change may alter our most beloved natural places. At Chimney Bluffs State Park with its clay pinnacles along Lake Ontario, researchers are trying to figure out how much climate change is accelerating a process of erosion that's been going on for thousands of years. Also: St. Lawrence, Clinton, Essex, Warren, and Herkimer counties have all run out of their childcare assistance funding. An answer could be in the state budget, but it's more than a month late.

Send us Fan MailWelcome to this special episode of the English Wine Diaries, in partnership with London Wine Fair.The 2026 London Wine Fair – taking place at Olympia London on 18th to 20th May – will, for the first time, showcase a specific country or region as the centrepiece, and this year it's Great Britain!There will be the largest presence of British producers in the show's 45-year history and, of course, that includes plenty of English wine.Visitors will be able to taste hundreds of wines from produces across the UK, attend panel discussions, such as How to Make English wine mainstream, and in an exclusive partnership with Tiny Wine, there are 84 free tasting kits showcasing a selection of standout British still red wines.Indeed, some of you listening may have already picked up a pack and scanned the QR code, but if you're tuning in pre-show make sure you have secured your entry ticket to the show at LondonWineFair.com so that you can snap up one of the complimentary packs from stand B60.I spoke to the producers behind those six wines – 1276 Wines in Herefordshire, Flint Vineyard in Norfolk, Bolney Wine Estate in West Sussex, Sandridge Barton in Devon, Williams Family Wines in Cambridgeshire and Lyme Bay, which makes wines from grapes grown in Essex – to deep dive into how two red wine grapes – Pinot Noir and Pinot Noir Precoce grow and develop in different parts of the country.Thanks for listening to The English Wine Diaries. If you enjoyed the podcast then please leave a rating or review, it helps boost our ratings and makes it easier for other people to find us. To find out who will be joining me next on the English Wine Diaries, follow @theenglishwinediaries on Instagram and for more regular English wine news and reviews, sign up to our newsletter at englishwinediaries.com. 

Hour 2 with Andrew Fillipponi and Chris Mueller: Mark Kaboly wrote that Drew Allar is Mike McCarthy's hand-picked quarterback. Mullsy thinks Allar is the one quarterback worth taking a shot on. Steelers Super Bowl Champion Trai Essex joined the show. ESPN's post-draft power rankings.

Trai thinks money could be a factor for Aaron Rodgers. $15 million would be the lowest amount of money any veteran starting QB is making. This may be the time for the youngsters to play. Trai likes Will Howard because he's a winner. "I don't see him sitting at all." Trai thinks Max Iheanachor will be the starting right tackle to start the year. He thinks Big Max is polished enough now.

Farmers are hoping for more rain in May after an unusually dry and windy April in many part of the UK. The East of England had between 2 and 4 per cent of the expected rainfall last month. We hear from a farmer struggling to plant his crops. This week we look at agroforestry - that's farming with trees in the mix. We visit farms using trees for different reasons - including providing shade for livestock, adding nutrients to soil, and providing habitats for useful insect predators. And the UK's second largest greenhouse - which could replace 7 per cent of the tomatoes the UK imports - has been given the go ahead. Rivenhall Greenhouse near Braintree in Essex will cover 40 hectares and use power from a domestic waste incinerator - burning all the black bag waste from the county. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally Challoner.

It's that time of the year again when the few of us who care about horse racing actually discuss it. Essex attorney and former delegate Todd Schuler returns to Koco's Pub on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to discuss Preakness ponies not at Pimlico, Triple Crown dreams sold off to the Churchill gypsies and insurance companies ponying up in court when they're not doing what the TV ads say they will. The post Essex attorney Todd Schuler talks Preakness ponies and insurance companies ponying up in court first appeared on Baltimore Positive WNST.

A 40 hectare greenhouse has been given the go-ahead in Essex. It'll be the UK's second largest, and will be powered and heated by a domestic waste incinerator on the same site. The company says it will grow 28,000 tonnes of tomatoes a year, which will offset 7 percent of UK tomato imports from Southern Spain, Morocco and Holland. We visit a farm in Gloucestershire where they incorporate trees into everything they grow. Silvohorticulture uses the trees to provide shade, wind cover, and compost. And this week we're looking ahead to the upcoming elections in the UK. Today, what politicians are promising farmers in Scotland. Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner.

Mark is joined by Ryan Malone to talk about the Penguins staying alive. Trai Essex recaps the Steelers draft. Ask Mark Anything! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark is joined by Ryan Malone to talk about the Penguins staying alive. Trai Essex recaps the Steelers draft. Ask Mark Anything!

In 1949, a headless, legless torso surfaced in the Essex marshes, setting off one of Britain's most sensational postwar murder investigations. The victim was Stanley Setty, a black-market car dealer. The suspect was Donald Hume, a small-time crook, chronic liar and pilot who rented a plane the night Setty disappeared but swore he had nothing to do with the gruesome killing.Crimes of the Centuries is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history. You can get early and ad-free episodes and more over at www.grabbagcollab.comOrder the Crimes of the Centuries book at your favorite bookstore or at www.centuriespod.com/book!Follow us on Instagram and other social media: @centuriespodEpisode Sponsor:Mint Mobile. Get premium wireless for $15/month at mintmobile.com/COTC.

New week, more quizzing ...today Alison in Neath takes on Neil in Essex.

Tenemos que comer como comían nuestros antepasados. Esa es la forma correcta de comer porque estamos diseñados para ello. Por eso cada vez estamos más enfermos que nunca, porque no estamos comiendo como se supone que debemos comer, ya que nuestros antepasados se alimentaban principalmente de la carne que cazaban y esporádicamente de algún fruto que podrían recoger por ahí, pero eran principalmente casi carnívoros y de ahí que la dieta carnívora, la dieta ancestral o la dieta animal based son la mejor manera en la que podemos alimentarnos. Por eso cada 2×3 te va a salir alguno con unas gafas rojas diciendo que hay que comer mucha carne, especialmente carne roja porque así es como hemos evolucionado. O lo que es lo mismo, alimentarse de manera opuesta a esto, es ir en contra de tu evolución y por tanto es lo contrario a la auténtica salud. Sin embargo, hoy quiero demostrar que esto no es otra cosa que marketing encubierto. Y quiero hacerlo exponiendo un estudio que es del año 2017 que creo que ya he utilizado en alguno de mis libros, pero como esto de las dietas es como los mundiales de fútbol y cada 4 años se va repitiendo la dinámica y antes la llamaban dieta paleo, luego dieta carnívora y ahora dieta ancestral que no deja de ser lo mismo. Es decir, una dieta que prácticamente repudia a los carbohidratos sobre todo complejos, vamos a ver qué es lo que dice este estudio. Este estudio se llama Ateroesclerosis coronaria en los Tsimane, una población indígena de la Amazonía boliviana. Los resultados sugieren que este grupo tiene los niveles más bajos de enfermedades cardiovasculares jamás registrados en cualquier población estudiada por la ciencia moderna. Y es una población que vive dentro del estilo de vida «preindustrial» (caza, recolección, pesca y agricultura de subsistencia), o sea, muy ancestral todo. Estado físico de los Tsimane El 85% de los Tsimane no presentaba riesgo de calcio coronario (puntuación de 0). Solo el 3% tenía una puntuación superior a 100 (considerada indicativa de enfermedad significativa). Incluso entre los mayores de 75 años, el 65% no tenía placa arterial, en comparación con solo el 14% de los estadounidenses de la misma edad. Tenían niveles muy bajos de colesterol LDL (el «malo»), niveles bajos de glucosa en sangre, presión arterial baja y casi no existía el tabaquismo ni la obesidad a pesar de tener niveles elevados de marcadores inflamatorios (como la proteína C reactiva) debido a infecciones crónicas. Pero esto no parecía traducirse en daño a las arterias, desafiando la idea de que toda inflamación conduce a enfermedades cardiacas. Hallazgos clave de este estudio: «Los Tsimane tienen una progresión extremadamente lenta de la aterosclerosis. Presentan un retraso de 24–28 años respecto a poblaciones occidentales en acumulación de calcio coronario. Un Tsimane de 80 años tiene una “edad vascular” similar a un estadounidense de unos 50–55 años. Incluso los hombres Tsimane tienen menos enfermedad que mujeres japonesas (una de las poblaciones más sanas en este aspecto)» Esto sugiere que la aterosclerosis coronaria puede evitarse en la mayoría de las personas si se mantiene durante toda la vida: LDL muy bajo presión arterial baja glucosa baja índice de masa corporal normal no fumar alta actividad física Pero ¿Cómo se consigue esto? Seguramente sea por la dieta ancestral que se está poniendo ahora de moda. Comerán testículos de toro crudos y muchísima carne roja y algo de fruta. Pues resulta que… no. La dieta «ancestral» de los Tsimane El 17% de su dieta viene de la carne de caza. El 7% viene del pescado que logran pescar. El resto viene de cultivos principalmente del arroz, maíz, tubérculos y plantain (similar a las bananas) Lo que significa que:; El 72% de su dieta procede de los carbohidratos (mientras que en Estados Unidos el 52% son carbohidratos), el 14% procede de la grasa (mientras que en EEUU el 34% es grasa) y el 14% viene de la proteína. Por tanto una dieta muy alta en carbohidratos y baja-moderada en grasa y en proteína. El resultado de esto son los corazones más sanos del mundo. No es lo único, el estudio también dice que son altamente activos en su día a día, y que los hombres dan una media de 17000 pasos cada día mientras que las mujeres dan una media de 16000 Incluso los que tienen más de 60 años superan la barrera de los 15000 pasos, mientras que en occidente hacer 10000 pasos es un logro épico. De hecho, esto rompe un poco con la idea de hacer ejercicio un par de veces por semana durante 20 minutos, que puede sonar muy sexy, pero que es mantener el listón extremadamente bajo si lo que quieres es mejorar tu salud. Porque si quieres mejorar tu salud, tienes que hacer tiempo para mejorarla y salir el domingo con la bici, con la cervecita del final de etapa, sin mantener un estilo de vida activo, no es suficiente y este tipo de estudios lo demuestran. No te digo que necesites irte al bosque a cazar, o a pescar tu propia comida, pero lo que parece estar claro es que probablemente necesites hacer más de lo que haces. De hecho, este es un argumento que a veces he escuchado a favor de dietas paleo, cetogénicas, ancestrales y toda la retaíla esta y es que dicen que para las personas sedentarias van muy bien porque los carbohidratos hay que ganárselos, y si estás todo el día sentado es mejor no comer muchos carbohidratos. Pero en lugar de decirle eso a una persona, ¿No sería mejor decirle que deje de ser sedentario? Y voy a exponer también un artículo de la BBC desglosando este mismo estudio: «Los científicos buscaron calcio en las arterias coronarias o “CAC”, que es un indicador de arterias obstruidas y del riesgo de sufrir un infarto. Examinaron el corazón de 705 personas mediante un escáner de tomografía computarizada (TC), tras colaborar con un grupo de investigación que estudiaba cuerpos momificados. A los 45 años, casi ningún tsimane tenía CAC en sus arterias, mientras que el 25% de los estadounidenses sí lo presenta. A los 75 años, dos tercios de los tsimane siguen sin CAC, en comparación con la gran mayoría de los estadounidenses (80%), que muestran signos de CAC. Los investigadores llevan mucho tiempo estudiando a este grupo, por lo que no se trata simplemente de que los tsimane menos saludables mueran jóvenes. Michael Gurven, profesor de antropología en la Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara, declaró a la BBC: “Es mucho más bajo que en cualquier otra población de la que se tengan datos.” El Dr. Gavin Sandercock, profesor de fisiología clínica (cardiología) en la Universidad de Essex, dijo: “Este es un estudio excelente con hallazgos únicos. Los tsimane obtienen el 72% de su energía de los carbohidratos. El hecho de que tengan los mejores indicadores de salud cardiovascular jamás registrados es exactamente lo contrario de muchas afirmaciones recientes que dicen que los carbohidratos son perjudiciales.” El profesor Naveed Sattar, de la Universidad de Glasgow, afirmó: “Este es un precioso estudio de la vida real que reafirma todo lo que sabemos sobre la prevención de enfermedades cardíacas. Dicho de forma simple: seguir una dieta saludable muy baja en grasas saturadas y rica en alimentos no procesados, no fumar y mantenerse activo durante toda la vida, se asocia con el menor riesgo de que las arterias se obstruyan.” Yo ya, sinceramente, me estoy cansando mucho de este ciclo continuo, de que cada X años se repita lo mismo con otros nombres, yo llevo con mi podcast 10 años y ya he hablado de esto muchísimas veces y he visto como estas tendencias subían bajaban y volvían a subir y esto solo sirve para hacer a unos cuantos más ricos a costa vuestra. Y yo sé que no voy a aguantar mucho más hablando de estas cosas porque lo que tenía que decir ya lo he dicho, y como siempre, habrá gente que lo entenderá y gente que no. Porque si comiendo el 72% de tu dieta consigues que tu corazón sea el más sano de la Tierra, ¿Cómo puede decir alguien que los carbohidratos son malos? Es más, los carbohidratos precisamente fueron lo que permitió a la raza humana sobrevivir. En Sudamérica sería el maíz, en el mediterráneo sería el trigo, en oriente sería el arroz, en Irlanda serían las patatas. Pero la gente comía estas cosas para sobrevivir. Es más, es que yo siempre he dicho, que intentar replicar la dieta de nuestros antepasados es una estupidez, porque nuestros antepasados no eran un ejemplo de nada. Pasaban calamidades y tenían una esperanza de vida ridícula comparada con ahora. Y si le preguntaras a cualquier paleolítico de la época, cómo prefiere vivir, si con sus circunstancias y su entorno o con nuestras circunstancias y nuestro entorno, cualquier paleolítico se cambiaría por ti ¿Por qué quieres tú cambiarte por él? ¿Por qué quieres emular lo que hacía él, si él vivía en un mundo de escasez y tú en un mundo de abundancia? ¿Por qué quieres cambiar abundancia por escasez? Porque yo al menos, prefiero vivir en un mundo repleto de alimentos en lugar de vivir en un mundo donde no hay alimentos. Puede que sea mi percepción, pero siempre ha sido así. Si a mi me dan la elección de vivir hace 10.000 años y vivir ahora, prefiero vivir ahora, y me temo que ese trato lo cogería también cualquier ancestro paleolítico, así que no sé por qué ese afán de comer como ellos. Sobre todo teniendo en cuenta que eso que nos dicen que es cómo comían ellos, no es ni siquiera verdad y que las poblaciones que más cerca viven de ese estilo de vida, comen precisamente de forma opuesta a como nos dicen que hay que comer según este estilo de vida ancestral. Si intentas quitar los carbohidratos o les tienes miedo, o piensas que estás gordo porque comes carbohidratos, no solo es que en el medio plazo no vayas a adelgazar, sino que también vas a empeorar tu salud. Porque si, los carbohidratos arrastran agua, cada gramo arrastra casi 3 de agua. Por eso cuando quitas los carbohidratos adelgazas enseguida, pero es solamente una ilusión. Y ya lo he dicho en todos los idiomas posibles, pero cada 4-5 años el círculo se cierra y se vuelve a empezar con las mismas mierdas que confunden a la gente y que hacen endiosar a nuevos gurús que terminan cayendo y volviéndose a levantar en la siguiente vuelta del círculo, y eso es lo que ha pasado con la dieta paleo 2.0 ahora llamada ancestral por algún motivo que desconozco, porque ni es ancestral, ni es paleolítica, ni tampoco es una alimentación saludable. Aunque como siempre, esto de saludable o no saludable no es dicotómico, si venías de alimentarte a base de panojitos y risketos, la dieta paleo es super saludable, pero si quieres optimizar tu salud, lo mismo no te viene mal fijarte en las poblaciones categorizadas como las más saludables y ver qué hacen ellas. Y si quieres un corazón a prueba de balas, los tsimane parece que lo tienen claro: El 72% de su dieta son carbohidratos y apenas tienen riesgo de incidencia cardiovascular siendo cinco veces menor que en poblaciones industrializadas, con un colesterol LDL medio (91 mg/dL) y el HDL de (39,5 mg/dL) donde la obesidad, hipertensión, hiperglucemia y tabaquismo regular eran raros. Sintetizo por si alguien se ha perdido: Más carbohidratos, menos colesterol, menos obesidad, menos hipertensión, menos hiperglucemia. Es decir, la dieta ancestral que te venden es una sucia mentira y de ti depende seguir apoyando esos cuentos chinos o no hacerlo. Yo lo tengo claro, pero por supuesto cada uno que haga lo que quiera, como digo siempre: Cuida de tu cuerpo y tu cuerpo cuidará de ti. Origen

Send us Fan MailJoin us for a closer look at some premonitions straight outta Essex with Richard Hatem, the mind behind the haunting adaptation of The Mothman Prophecies, where reality frays at the edges and something unknowable peers through.But his fingerprints are all over the strange and the supernatural…He's written for Titans, where a group of young heroes join forces in their fight against evil. He's brought chaos and chainsaw-splattered mayhem to Ash vs Evil Dead. He's explored belief, doubt, and the uncanny in Miracles.And, crucially, for so many of us who grew up with salt lines and flickering motel lights… he also contributed to the early, bone-chilling days of Supernatural, helping shape that first season when urban legends, roadside hauntings, and things in the dark felt just a little too real.From cosmic dread to folklore-fuelled horror, his work circles that same irresistible idea…That the stories we tell about monsters might actually be the stories that warn us.So tonight, we're stepping into that liminal space together…Where folklore meets film,Where belief becomes a doorway,And where, if you listen closely… something might just be listening back.Richard's podcast: https://www.richardhatemsparanormalbookshelf.com/If you have any more information about these stories or want to share your own experience, please contact us via eerieessexpodcast@gmail.comYou can support us on Ko-Fi and Patreon:https://ko-fi.com/eerieessexhttps://www.patreon.com/EerieEssex....or by leaving us a review.Support the show

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.comThis weekend, on the advice of ChatGPT, I visited Constable country. That is Essex, the villages of Dedham and East Bergholt, by the River Stour, which John Constable so famously painted.Having just spent a fortnight in Namibia, I've become attuned to stunning landscapes. Even so, I was blown away by the beauty of the place.Here are some snaps to get you in the zone.I went with a French friend who wanted to see the “real England”, but not too far from Stansted Airport.As we drove into East Bergholt, I began, as I always do as soon as I see them, to despair at the ugliness of modern buildings. No wonder we have so many NIMBYs, when what gets built around beautiful villages is so bland and ugly. Objection is both rational and natural.But then we turned a corner and everything was suddenly stunning.It's not a part of the world I knew. I had lazily assumed all of Essex looked like Basildon. It doesn't. It was glorious. You could really see the Dutch and Flemish influence in the architecture and the colours they were painted - so different to the equally beautiful Cotswolds, where I was last weekend doing gigs.We were only sixty miles from London, but it still felt like an England of old, unblighted.My French companion could not understand what I had been moaning about when I complain about decline. This was the England she knew growing up, and she got excited by everything. Scones. Tea. Churches. Beautiful landscapes. Polite conversation. Phone boxes. Properly kept gardens. Even the beer. “It's not cold,” she said, before promptly downing it.My oft-cited complaint that the England she knew is disappearing seemed nonsense. There was no evidence of it here.As we walked into Manningtree, the buildings got ugly again. Warehouses and industrial buildings, in particular. Nineteenth century warehouses were often things of beauty. Why can 21st century warehouses not be? (The answer lies in our system of measurement, but that's for another day).Then we learnt about Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, who operated here, exploiting the social upheaval of the English Civil War to have hundreds of women executed as witches. Among his methods of getting to the “truth” he used sleep deprivation to extract confessions; he tied victims to chairs and dropped them into the estuary. If they floated, they were witches. If they sank, they weren't. I guess the victims lost either way. He strip-searched women looking for signs of the mark of the devil. If he couldn't find any he pricked them with knives until he found the signs he was looking for. Just horrible. Maybe the English past isn't quite so idyllic after all.Here's what makes it worse. For every witch he successfully hunted down, the government gave him fee. He got very rich. Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome. A lot of innocent dead women. An early gruesome example of the law of unintended consequences. Remind me why I'm a libertarian again.Today, if we are heading into the civil war many think we are, who knows what kind of witch hunts we are going to see in the name of some nuts ideology?We caught a train from Mistley back to Manningtree. More grim modern housing. Lots of it too. More walking then a short river boat tour. We mentioned we were staying at a village up the road, East Bergholt, and one of the locals declared this was the last chance to enjoy it before more new-build goes up. “We need 1.5 million homes,” he said. “The question is, do we have 1.5 million people who are going to buy them?”Articulated right there is the property crisis coming to a town near you.I have long argued that beautiful property will keep its value. Ugly new build won't. Beautiful is pretty much synonymous with period. It was built using traditional measures, where proportion is intrinsic. No such proportion is inherent to metric. We are already seeing the unravelling of the new-build market in London. That unravelling is coming to everywhere there is ugly new build, whether blocks of flats or houses. We did find one modern close in East Bergholt that was actually beautiful by the way. So it's possible. But it's the exception, not the rule.This is one of the reasons I invest so much of my capital outside the UK. I don't like sterling, so I hold gold and bitcoin, and I don't like gilts. A weakening property market, which is happening right on cue, will create problems for both.If you live in a third world country such as the UK, I urge you to own gold or silver. The pound will be further devalued, as will the euro and dollar. The bullion dealer I use and recommend is The Pure Gold Company. They deliver to the UK, the US, Canada and Europe. More here.Idyllic corners of England do still exist. Many of them. UK shares already offer value. There is a lot to like in the UK, as my French companion kept pointing out. But there are also big problems ahead, with a leadership class that, shall we say, falls short.Opportunities abroad, howeverI sit regularly on a roundtable with Doug Casey and a number of other mining newsletter writers. A company presents. The experts grill them. The company logs off, and then we discuss it.I liked this week's so much I bought shares while the presentation was still happening. The company is …

50-year-old Robert Powell was brutally murdered outside a party in Essex in what investigators believed was a planned, targeted hit - carried out in front of his two sons. A truly shocking and deeply distressing crime.Thanks to determined and meticulous police work, the main suspect, Nana Oppong (pictured), was tracked down after fleeing the UK immediately after the killing. He travelled to Spain, before attempting to cross into Morocco hidden in the back of a lorry, using a fake Maltese passport. He was intercepted at Tangier Port and returned to the UK to face justice.Oppong later stood trial for Powell's murder - but his courtroom history added a dramatic twist. On three previous occasions, he had faced murder charges…and been acquitted every time. Would this be the fourth?I release episodes of the UK True Crime Podcast every Tuesday and Friday, so please do join me for the next episode on Tuesday.Buy My New True Crime Content Creators Online Coursehttps://adam-s-site-be58.thinkific.com/products/courses/true-crime-content-creation-courseWatch my YouTube channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@Adam-uktruecrime/videosListen/Watch the True Crime Catch Uphttps://audioalways.lnk.to/TrueCrimeCatchUpFind Our More About Mehttps://uktruecrime.comJoin UK True Crime Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Essex, 2023: On Easter weekend Carol Baxter and her husband Stephen Baxter were found dead in their armchairs, with no signs of violence or note to say goodbye. But when police began reading emails from a mystery doctor, they realised lies and manipulation were ingrained in every single element of the couple's life…masterminded by someone very close to home.Resources:Hourglass - http://www.wearehourglass.orghttps://linktr.ee/eleanornealeresourcesFollow Outlore Podcast here:YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@EleanorNealeInsta - @outlorepodcast https://www.instagram.com/outlorepodcast/?__d=16d TikTok - @outlorepodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@outlorepodcast A Moth MGMT production @moth-mgmtGet to know me on my Personal Channel YouTube - @ellieneale1 https://www.youtube.com/@ellieneale1 Insta - @eleanorneale https://www.instagram.com/eleanorneal...Tiktok - @eleanorneale https://www.tiktok.com/@eleanorneale?...Twitter - @eleanorxneale https://x.com/ELEANORXNEALE

In this Remaster episode I talk to Dr. Alan Hugenot. We talk about his Near Death Experience and his book The Death Experience: What it is like when you die. His book describes what you will experience as you die. Giving details of the death process and your journey into the afterlife based on the author's own Near-Death experience where he died, went out-of-body into the afterlife, and returned to a second life in the same body. His experiences are collated with the Tibetan Book of the Dead; the Egyptian Book of the Dead; and current research on the Near Death-experience by the International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS); Dr. Ian Stevensens's research on Children who Remember Past Lives at the University of Virginia; and studies of After-Death Communication at the University of Arizona. Giving the current science on consciousness survival while explaining quantum mathematics and the afterlife postulated to exist in dark energy located in alternative dimensions. Bio Dr. Hugenot began the study of mediumship more than a dozen years ago strictly as a scientist, intending to establish scientifically that this phenomenon was valid, and that communication with deceased surviving consciousness was indeed possible. Before giving his first reading he trained as a medium for 7 years within the Spiritualist tradition. This included completing the 4 year course with the Morris Pratt Institute, outside Milwaukie, Wisconsin, and also traveling to Lily Dale outside Buffalo, N.Y. to take week long seminars. Finally. he made three separate trips to England attending a total of five weeks of courses at Arthur Findlay College, of psychic science, outside Stansted, Essex, UK. So that today he is a member of the Licentiate Ministers & Certified Mediums Society of the NSAC. Currently, he regularly “demonstrates” Evidential Mediumship from the platform at Spiritualist services, and in circles (seances). His website is https://afterlife.pro/ https://www.facebook.com/alanhugenotmedium https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQMYWFHR https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlifeMy book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this 3-hour-long 200th episode, The Op shares the mic with 2-time Oscar-winning FX Artist and Creature Creator, Brian Wade! Join The Op as he fan-girls over Brian's 40+ year career in movie makeup and FX, lending his wizardry to amazing movie icons like The Demogorgon, The Terminator, The Thing, and many more... even Stuart Little :)Together, they land on Mersey Island, just off the Essex coast, northeast of London, connected to the mainland by a single strip of tarmac called the Strood — a causeway so low that twice a day the tide rolls in and swallows it whole. No bridge, no tunnel, no alternate route. It is the kind of tight, physically separated community where people know each other's cars, each other's dogs, each other's business, which is precisely why, when a quiet and well-liked local man was arrested in connection with a double murder, somewhere between thirty and forty of his neighbors immediately stepped forward to testify on his behalf. The lead investigator said she had never seen a number like that before in her career — not once — and that the gap between what the community believed about this man and what had actually been happening inside one house on the island is what the entire case runs on.The Op walks through all of it — the island, the family, the architecture of the deception, the fake personas and the voice recordings, the poisoning that lasted two years, the investigation that nearly pointed the wrong way, and the moment it didn't. He is joined, for the first time on a case episode, by a guest: two-time Oscar-winning effects artist Brian Wade, who rode every twist of this one in real time and made for the most memorable co-chair the Operator could have asked for on episode 200.Hugs ❤️----------------------------------------CREDITS:Narration – The OperatorResearch & writing – The OperatorCreative direction – The OperatorProduction – The OperatorIntro Music – The Operator...did we mention The Operator?

Get ready for a hot load of sperm... whales in this ep as we get into the story that inspired Moby DICK, wait I just realized is that whyt he called his story dick? cause of the sperm whales? I dunno if thats true but that hilarious. Anywasy heres the latest episode or whatever Send your scary stories to: ⁠⁠mikeohhello@gmail.com⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/thatchapterpodcast⁠⁠ Business enquires : ⁠⁠thatchapter@night.co⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices