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In this week's episode, I take a historical digression to look at the four major Thomases of the English Reformation - Thomas Wolsey, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, and Thomas Cranmer. This coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in the Dragonskull series at my Payhip store: QUEST25 The coupon code is valid through March 9 2026. So if you need a new ebook this winter, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 292 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is February 27th, 2026. Today we are taking a digression into history by looking at the four Thomases of the English Reformation (with one bonus Thomas). We'll also have Coupon of the Week and a progress update on my current writing and publishing projects. First up, let's do Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in the Dragonskull series at my Payhip store. That coupon code is QUEST25 and as always, the links to the store and the coupon code will be available in the show notes of this episode. This coupon code is valid through March 9th, 2026. So if you need a new ebook this winter, we have got you covered. Now for an update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. I am very nearly done with Cloak of Summoning. As of this recording, I am 35% of the way through the final editing pass. This episode should be coming out on, let's see, March the 2nd. I'm hoping Cloak of Summoning will be available a few days (hopefully like one or two days) after this episode goes live, but we'll see how things go. In any event, it should be out in very early March, which is not far away at this point. I'm also 14,000 words into Blade of Wraiths, the fourth book in my Blades of Ruin epic fantasy series. Hopefully that will be out in April, if all goes well. That's my secondary project right now, but once it gets promoted to primary project once Cloak of Summoning is available, my new secondary project will be Dragon Mage, which will be the sixth book in the Rivah Half-Elven Thief series. I'm looking forward to that since it is going to bring to an end a lot of ongoing plot threads. So it should be quite a fun book to write and hopefully to read. That should hopefully be out in May or possibly June, depending on how things go. In audiobook news, Cloak of Titans, the audiobook narrated by Hollis McCarthy, should be available in more audiobook stores than it was this time last week, though it's still not on Amazon, Audible, or Apple. Brad Wills is working on recording Blade of Storms and I think the first six chapters are done. Hopefully we should have those audiobooks available to you before too much longer. So that is where I'm at with my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. 00:02:18 Main Topic: The Four Thomases of the English Reformation Now without further ado, let's get to our main topic and it's time for another of my favorite topics overall, a digression into obscure points of history. I've mentioned before that Wolf Hall (both the TV show and the book) is a lot easier to understand if you are at least passingly familiar with the key figures of the English Reformation, which happened during the reign of King Henry VIII. But who were these key figures? I had a history professor who said that to understand the English Reformation, you need to know about the four Thomases of the English Reformation: Thomas Wolsey, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, and Thomas Cranmer, since each one of them altered events in a major way. Fun fact: only one of the four died from natural causes and right before he was about to go on trial for treason, which would have likely ended with his execution. The English Reformation was a tumultuous time and the Tudor court was not a place for the faint of heart or the morally scrupulous. So let's talk about the four Thomases and one bonus Thomas today. But first to understand them, we should look at three background trends that converged and boiled over during their lifetimes. #1: Henry VIII needs an heir. King Henry VIII was quite famously married six times and executed two of his wives in his quest for a male heir. To the modern era, this sounds odd and chauvinistic, but one of the errors of studying history is assuming that the residents of the past had any interest in 21st century standards of behavior. By the standards of Henry's time, having a male heir to assume the kingdom after his death was absolutely vital. In fact, an argument could be made that Henry was attempting to act responsibly by going to such lengths to father a male heir, though naturally he went about it in a spectacularly destructive and self-absorbed way. Remember, Henry's father, Henry VII, came to the throne after a 30-year civil war, and there were noble families that thought they had a better claim to the throne than Tudors and would be happy to exercise it. A good comparison is that the lack of a male heir for Henry VIII was as serious a crisis as a disputed presidential election in 21st century America would be. You can see evidence for this in Henry's famous jousting accident in 1536. For a few hours, people were certain that he was dead or was about to die, and this incident caused a brief constitutional crisis. If Henry died, who would rule? His daughter, Mary, who he had just declared a bastard? His young daughter Elizabeth from Anne Boleyn? His bastard son, Henry FitzRoy? A regent? One of the old families who thought they had a claim to the throne? Now, these are the sort of questions that tend to get decided by civil wars, which nobody wanted. So Henry needed a male heir and it weighed on him as a personal failure that he had been unable to produce one, which was undoubtedly one of the reasons he concluded that several of his marriages had been cursed by God and needed to be annulled. Though, of course, one of Henry's defining traits was that his self-absorption was such that nothing was ever his fault, but a failing of those around him. #2: The Reformation is here. At the same time Henry was beginning to have his difficulties, the Protestant Reformation exploded across Europe. The reasons for the Reformation were manifold. There was a growing feeling across all levels of society that the church was corrupt and more concerned about money than tending to Christ's flock, a feeling not helped by the fact that several of the 15th and 16th century popes were essentially Renaissance princelings more interested in luxury, money, and expanding the power of the papal states than in anything spiritual. Many bishops, archbishops, abbots, and other high prelates acted the same way. The situation the early 16th century church found itself in was similar to American higher education today. Many modern professors and administrators go about their jobs quietly, competently, and diligently, but if you want to find examples of corruption, folly, and egregious waste in American higher education, you don't have to try very hard. Reformers could easily find manifold examples of clerical and papal corruption to reinforce their arguments. Additionally, nationalism was beginning to develop as a concept, as was the idea of the nation state. People in England, Scotland, Germany, and other countries began to wonder why they were paying tithes to the church that went to build beautiful buildings in Rome and support the lavish lifestyle of the papal court when that money might be better spent at home. For that matter, the anti-clericalism of the Reformation was not new and had time to mature. At the end of the 14th century, Lollardy was a proto-Protestant movement in England that challenged clerical power. In the early 15th century, the Hussite wars in Bohemia following the teachings of Jan Hus were a preview of the greater Reformation to come. Papal authority had been severely damaged by the Great Schism at the end of the 14th and the start of the 15th century when two competing popes (later expanded to three) all tried to excommunicate each other and claim control of the church. In the aftermath, Renaissance Humanists had begun suggesting that only the Bible was the proper source and guide for Christianity, and that papal authority and many of the church's practices were merely human traditions that had been added later and were not ordained by God. A lot of the arguments of the Reformation had their earliest form from the writers of the 15th century. Essentially, the central argument of the Reformation was that the believer's personal relationship with God is the important part of Christianity and doesn't need to be mediated through ordained priests in the official sacraments of the church, though such things were still important. Of course, all the various reformers disagreed with each other about just how important and what the nature of that relationship was, how many sacraments there should be, and what the precise relationship between the individual, the church, and the state should be (and that argument got entangled with many other issues like nationalism), but that was a central crux of the Reformation. So all these competing pressures have been building up, and when Martin Luther posted his statements for debate on church reform in October of 1517, it was the equivalent of lighting a match in a barn that had been stuffed full of sawdust and was suffering from a natural gas leak. #3: The printing press. So why did Luther's action kick off the Reformation as we know it and not the other proto-Protestant movements we mentioned? I think the big part of that is the printing pass, perhaps the biggest part. The printing press did not exist during the early proto-Protestant movements, which meant it was a lot harder for the ideas of reform to spread quickly. The Lollards in particular wanted to translate the Bible into English instead of Latin, but the Bible is a big book and that is a lot of copying to do by hand. In 1539, after a lot of encouragement from Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII decreed that an English Bible should be placed at every church in England. In 1339, that would have been an impossible amount of copying by scribes. In 1539, thanks to the printing press, it was essentially on the scale of the government embarking on a mid-sized industrial project, perhaps a bit of a logistical and organizational challenge and you have to deal with contractors, but by no means impossible. The printing press made it possible for the various arguments and pamphlets of the Reformers to spread quickly throughout Europe. Luther published tracts on a variety of religious and political topics for the rest of his life, and those tracks were copied, printed, and sold throughout Europe. In fact, he had something of a flame war with Thomas More over Henry VIII's "Defense of the Seven Sacraments". Kings and governments frequently tried to suppress printers they didn't like, but the cat was out of the bag and the printing press helped drive the Reformation by spreading its ideas faster than had previously been possible. AI bros occasionally compare modern large language model AIs to the printing press as an irreversible technological advancement, but one should note that the printing press of the 16th century did not require an entire US state's worth of electricity and an unlimited supply of water. So those were some of the undercurrents and trends leading up to the English Reformation. With that in mind, let's take a look at our four Thomases. #1: Thomas Wolsey. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was Henry's right hand man during the first 20 years of his reign and essentially the practical ruler of England during that time. He started his career in Henry's reign as the almoner, essentially in charge of charity, and it ended up becoming the Lord Chancellor of England. Since Henry was not super interested in actually doing the hard work of government, Wolsey ended up essentially running the country while Henry turned his full enthusiasm towards the more ceremonial aspects of kingship. Wolsey was an example of the kind of early 16th Century church prelate we mentioned above, more of a Renaissance princeling than a priest. However, as Renaissance princelings went, you could do worse than to have been ruled by someone like Wolsey. And if you were a king, you would be blessed to have a lieutenant as diligent in his work as the Cardinal. Granted, Wolsey did amass a large fortune for himself, but he frequently patronized the arts, education and the poor, pursued some governmental reforms, and deftly maintained England's position in the turbulent diplomacy of the time. He was also much more forgiving in questions of religious dissent than someone like Thomas More. Wolsey was the most powerful man in England at his apex, and the nobility hated it for him because his origins were common. So long as he had Henry's favor, Wolsey was untouchable and the nobility couldn't move against him. But the royal favor came to an end as Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon was unable to produce a son. Since Catherine had previously (and briefly) been married to his older brother Arthur before Arthur's death, Henry became convinced (or succeeded in convincing himself) that his marriage was cursed by God for violating the prohibition against sleeping with your brother's wife in the book of Leviticus. His eye had already fallen on Anne Boleyn and Henry wanted an annulment and not a divorce in his marriage with Catherine. In the eyes of God, he would never have been married at all, and then he could marry Anne Boleyn with a clear conscience. Here, Wolsey's gift for diplomacy failed him, but perhaps it was an impossible task. Catherine of Aragon was the aunt of Emperor Charles V, who at the time was the most powerful man in Christendom. All of Wolseley's efforts to persuade the pope to annul the marriage failed, partly because the pope had already given Henry VIII dispensation to marry his brother's widow. Wolsey's failure eroded his support with the king. Anne Boleyn likewise hated Wolsey partly because she believed he was hindering the annulment, and partly because he had blocked her from marrying the Earl of Northumberland years before she had her eyes set upon Henry. Finally, Henry stripped Wolsey of his office of Lord Chancellor, and Wolsey retired to York to take up his role as archbishop there. Wolsey's popularity threatened Henry and Anne, so Henry summoned him back to London to face treason charges. Perhaps fortunately for Wolsey, he died of natural causes on the journey back to London. His replacement as Lord Chancellor was Thomas More, the next of our major for Thomases. #2: Thomas More. More was an interesting contrast-a Renaissance Humanist who remained a staunch Catholic, even though Renaissance Humanists in general tended towards proto-Protestantism or actual Protestantism. He was also in some ways oddly progressive for his time. He insisted on educating his daughters at a time was considered pointless to educate women about anything other than the practical business of household management. Anyway, More's training as a lawyer and a scholar led him to a career in government. He held a variety of posts under Henry VIII, finally rising to become the Lord Chancellor after Wolsey. In the first decades of his brain, Henry was staunchly Catholic and despised Protestantism, in particular, Lutheranism in general and Martin Luther in particular. In 1521, Henry published "Defense of the Seven Sacraments" against Luther, and More helped him write it to an unknown degree. In their dislike for all forms of Protestantism, More and Henry were in harmony at this point. More was involved in hunting down heretics (i.e. Protestants) and trying to convince them to recant. During his time as the Lord Chancellor, More ended up sending six people to be burned at the stake for heresy, along with the arrest and interrogations of numerous others. This rather clashes with his "humanist man of letters" aspect, but More was undoubtedly convinced he was doing the right thing. And while he might have believed in education, he most definitely did not believe in freedom of conscience in several areas. To be fair to More, in the view of many at the time, Protestants, especially Anabaptists, were dangerous radicals. Likely More viewed hunting heretics in the same way as some modern politicians view hunting down covert terrorist cells or surveilling potential domestic terrorists. Harsh measures true, but harsh measures allegedly necessary for the greater good of the nation. However, the concord between More and Henry would not last. Henry wanted to set aside Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn, which More staunchly opposed. More especially opposed Henry breaking away from Rome and becoming head of an independent English Church. At first, More was able to save himself by maintaining his silence, but eventually Henry required all of his subjects take an oath affirming his status as head of the church. Thomas Cromwell famously led a deputation to try and change More's mind, but he failed. More refused, he was tried on specious treason charges, and beheaded in 1535. Later, the Catholic church declared him the patron saint of politicians. This might seem odd given that he oversaw executions and essentially did thought police stuff against Protestants, but let's be honest-it's rare to see a politician even mildly inconvenience himself over a point of principle, let alone maintain it until death when he was given every possible chance to change his mind. Probably the most famous fictional portrayals of More are A Man For All Seasons and Wolf Hall. I would say that A Man For All Seasons was far too generous to More, but Wolf Hall was too harsh. #3: Now for the third of our four Thomases, Thomas Cromwell. After Wolsey's fall and More's refusal to support Henry's desire to either annul his marriage to Catherine or to make himself head with the church so he couldn't annul the marriage, Thomas Cromwell rose become Henry's new chief lieutenant. Cromwell is both a fascinating but divisive figure. For a long time, he was cast as the villain in Thomas More's saga, but Hillary Mantel's Wolf Hall really triggered a popular reevaluation of him. Like A Man For All Seasons was too generous to More, I would say Wolf Hall was too generous to Cromwell. Nonetheless, I suspect Cromwell was and remained so divisive because he was so effective. He got things done on a scale that the other three Thomases of the English Reformation never quite managed. Cromwell's origins are a bit obscure. It seems he was either of non-noble birth or very low gentry birth and his father Walter Cromwell was a local prosperous tradesman in a jack of all trades with a reputation for litigiousness. For reasons that are unclear, Cromwell fled his birthplace and spent some time in continental Europe, possibly as a mercenary soldier. He eventually made his way to Italy and started working for the merchant families there, gaining knowledge of trade in the law, and then traveled to the Low Countries. When he returned to England, he became Cardinal Wolsey's right hand man. After Wolsey's fall, Cromwell went into Parliament and defended his master whenever possible. This loyalty combined with his significant talent for law and administration caught the eye of Henry and he swiftly became Henry's right-hand man. Amusingly, Cromwell never became Lord Chancellor like More or Wolsey, but instead accumulated many lesser offices that essentially allowed him to carry out Henry's directives as he saw a fit. Unlike More and Wolsey, Cromwell had strong Protestant leanings and he encouraged the king to break away from the Catholic Church and take control of the English Church as its supreme head. Henry did so. His marriage to Catherine of Aragon was nulled. The rest of Europe never accepted this until Catherine died of illness and it became a moot point. In 1533, he married Anne Boleyn. Like Cromwell, Anne had a strong Protestant bent and began encouraging reformers to take various offices and began pushing Henley to make more reforms than he was really comfortable doing. For example, Cromwell was one of the chief drivers behind the English Bible of 1539. This, combined with Anne's inability to give Henry a son, contributed to Anne's downfall. Unlike Catherine, she was willing to argue with Henry to his face and was unwilling to look the other way when he wanted a mistress, and this eventually got on Henry's nerves. Events are a bit murky, but it seems that Henry ordered Cromwell to find a way he could set aside Anne and Cromwell complied. Various men, including her own brother, were coerced and confessing to adultery with Anne on charges that were most likely fabricated and Anne's "lovers" and Anne herself were executed for treason in 1536. Cromwell had successfully used a technique that many modern secret police organizations and dictatorships employ- if you want to get rid of someone for whatever reason, accuse them of a serious crime, coerce them to a confession, and then have them executed. Joseph Stalin did basically the same thing when he purged the Old Bolsheviks after Lenin's death. Henry married Jane Seymour shortly after Anne's execution, and she finally gave Henry his long-waited son, though she died soon afterwards of postpartum complications. Cromwell also oversaw the dissolution of the English monasteries in the 1530s. Monasticism had become quite unpopular even before the Reformation, especially among humanist writers. The concentration of property in the hands of monasteries made for a ripe target. Using Parliament and with Henry's approval, the monasteries of England were dissolved, the monks and nuns pensioned off, and the various rich properties held by the monasteries were given to the king and his friends. Cromwell himself profited handsomely. This was essentially legalized theft, but there was nothing the monasteries could do about it. Cromwell pushed for more religious reforms, but that combined with the dissolution of the monasteries caused "The Pilgrimage of Grace" in 1537, a rebellion that Henry was able to put down through a combination of lies, stalling, outright bribery, and brutal repression under the Duke of Norfolk (more about him later). Cromwell was at the zenith of his power and influence, but his reformist bent and made him a lot of enemies. For that matter, Henry was increasingly uncomfortable with further religious changes. He wanted to be head of his own church, but essentially his own Catholic Church, not his own Reformed or Lutheran one. Cromwell's alignment with the reform cause gave his more traditionalist enemies a tool to use against him. Cromwell's foes had their chance in 1540 when Henry married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. Cromwell had heavily pushed for the match, hoping to make an alliance with the Protestant princes of Germany against the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor. For whatever reason, Henry took an immediate dislike to Anne and never consummated the marriage, which was swiftly annulled and Anne pensioned off. Henry blamed Cromwell for the failed marriage and Cromwell's enemies, particularly Duke of Norfolk and Bishop Gardiner of Winchester, were able to convince Henry to move against him. Cromwell was arrested, stripped of all the titles and property he had amassed, and executed in July of 1540. The sort of legal railroading process he had born against Anne Boleyn's alleged lovers and numerous other enemies of Henry's was used against him. This was one of the very few executions Henry ever regretted. Within a year, the French ambassador reported that Henry was raging that his counselors had misled him into putting to death the most faithful servant he had ever had. Once again, nothing was ever Henry's fault in his own mind. The fact that Henry allowed Cromwell's son Gregory to become a baron and inherit some of his father's land shows that he likely changed his mind about the execution. For once in his life, Henry was dead on accurate when he called Cromwell his "most faithful servant". He never again found a lieutenant with Cromwell's loyalty and skill. The remaining seven years of Henry's reign blundered from setback to setback and all the money Henry obtained from the dissolution of the monasteries was squandered in indecisive wars with France and Scotland. I think it's fair to say that the English Reformation would not have taken the course it did, if not for Cromwell. As ruthless and as unscrupulous as he could be, he nonetheless did seem to really believe in the principles of religious reform and push such policies whenever he could do so without drawing Henry's ire. #4: Now the fourth of our four major Thomases, Thomas Cranmer. If Thomas Cromwell did a lot of the political work of the English Reformation, then Thomas Cranmer wrote a lot of its theory. Cranmer was a scholar and something of a gentle-minded man, but not a very skillful politician. He seemed happy to leave the politicking to Cromwell. I think Cranmer would have been a lot happier as a Lutheran pastor in say, 1950s rural Nebraska. He could have married a farmer's daughter, had a bunch of kids, and presided at weddings, funerals, and baptisms where he could talk earnestly about Jesus and Christian virtues, and he probably would have written a few books on obscure theological points. But instead, Cranmer was destined to play a significant part in the English Reformation. He started as a priest and a scholar who got in trouble for marrying, but when his wife died in childbirth, he went back to the priesthood. Later, he became part of the team of scholars and priests working to get Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled. While he was at university and later in the priesthood, he became fascinated by Lutheran ideas and became a proponent of reform. As with Cromwell, Henry's desire to marry Anne Boleyn gave Cranmer his great opportunity. Anne's family were also in favor of reform, and they arranged for Cranmer to become the new Archbishop of Canterbury. The new archbishop and the like- minded clerics and scholars laid the legal and theological groundwork for Henry to break with Rome and become head of the English church with Cranmer and the rest of the reform faction wanted to be used to push for additional church reforms. He survived the tumults of Henry's reign by total loyalty to the king – he mourned Anne Boleyn, but didn't oppose her execution (though he was one of the few who mourned for her publicly), did much the same when Cromwell was executed, and personally sent news of Catherine Howard's adultery to the king. Because of that, Cranmer had a great chance to pursue the cause of reform when Henry died and his 12-year-old son Edward VI became King. Edward's uncle Edward Seymour acted as the head of the King's regency council, and Seymour and his allies were in favor of reform. Cranmer was at last able to steer the English church in the direction of serious reform, and he was directly responsible for writing the Book of Common Prayer and several other key documents of the early Anglican church. But Cranmer's of luck ran out in 1553 when Edward VI died. Cranmer was part of the group that tried to put the Protestant Lady Jane Grey on the throne, but Henry's daughter Mary instead took the crown. Mary had never really wavered from her Catholicism despite immense pressure to do so, and she had last had a chance to do something about it. She immediately brought England back to Rome and started prosecuting prominent reform leaders, Cranmer among them. Cranmer was tried for treason and heresy and sentenced to be burned, but that was to be commuted if he recanted his views in public during a sermon, which he did. However, at the last minute, he thunderously denounced his previous recantation, asserted his reformist faith, and vowed that he would thrust the hand that signed the recantation into the flames first. Cranmer was immediately taken to be burned at the stake, and just as he promised, he thrust his hand into the flames, and his last word is that he saw heaven opening and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. Cranmer had spent much of his life trying to appease Henry while pushing as much reform as possible, but in his final moments, he had finally found his defiance. When Mary died and Elizabeth took the throne, she returned England to Protestantism. Elizabeth was much more pragmatic than her half siblings and her father ever were, so she chose the most expedient choice of simply rolling the English church back to as it was during Edward VI's time. Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer and religious articles, lightly edited for Elizabeth's sensibilities, became the foundational documents of the Anglican church. So these four Thomases, Thomas Wolsey, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, and Thomas Cranmer were central to the events of the English Reformation. However, we have one bonus Thomas yet. Bonus Thomas: Thomas Howard, the Duke of Norfolk. Thomas Howard was a powerful nobleman during the reign of Henry, and the Duke of Norfolk was frequently Henry's lieutenant in waging various wars and putting down rebellions. He was also the uncle of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, Henry's second and fifth queens. He was also involved in nearly every major event of Henry's reign. So with all that, why isn't Norfolk as remembered as well as the other four Thomases of the English Reformation? Sometimes a man would be considered virtuous by the standards of the medieval or early modern age, yet reprehensible in ours. For example, for much of the Middle Ages, crusading was considered an inherently virtuous act for a knight, whereas in the modern age, it would be condemned as war mongering with a religious veneer. However, by both modern standards and Tudor standards, Thomas Howard was a fairly odious character. For all their flaws and the morally questionable things they did, Wolsey, More, Cromwell, and Cranmer were all men of conviction in their own ways. More and Cranmer explicitly died with their faith. Cromwell's devotion to the Protestant cause got him killed since he insisted on the Anne of Cleves match. Even Wolsey, for all that he enriched himself, was a devoted servant of Henry after his downfall never betrayed the king. By contrast, Norfolk was out for Norfolk. This wasn't unusual for Tudor nobleman, but Norfolk took it to a new level of grasping venality. He made sure that his daughter was married to Henry's bastard son, Henry FitzRoy, just in case FitzRoy ended up becoming king. He used both his nieces, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, to gain power and lands for himself, and then immediately turned against him once he became politically expedient. In fact, he presided over the trial where Anne Boleyn was sentenced to death. After the failure of the Anne of Cleve's marriage, Norfolk made sure to bring his young niece Catherine Howard to court to catch Henry's eye, and to use the Anne of Cleve's annulment as a lever to get rid of Thomas Cromwell. Both stratagems worked, and he attempted to leverage being the new Queen's uncle to bring himself to new power and riches, as he had with Anne Boleyn. Once Henry turned on Catherine Howard, Norfolk characteristically and swiftly threw his niece under the bus. However, as Henry aged, he grew increasingly paranoid and vindictive, and he had Norfolk arrested and sentenced to death on suspicion of treason. Before the execution could be carried out, Henry died, and Norfolk spent the six years of Edward VI's reign as a prisoner in the Tower of London. When Edward died and Mary took the throne, she released Norfolk since she was Catholic and Norfolk had always been a religious traditionalist suspicious of reform. He spent the remaining year of his life as one of Mary's chief advisors before finally dying of old age. As I often say, history can be a rich source of inspiration for fantasy writers, and the English Reformation is full of such inspiration. Wolsey, More, Cromwell, and Cranmer can all make excellent inspirations for morally ambiguous characters. For that matter, you can see why the reign of Henry VIII has inspired so many movies, TV shows, and historical novels. The real life events are so dramatic as to scarcely require embellishment. So that's it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show and thank you for listening as I went on one of my little historical digressions. I hope you found the show enjoyable. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy, and we'll see you all next week.
The 5th edition of Victoria’s Pride Street Party took over Fitzroy on Sunday 8 February 2026 – a celebration of progress, love, and diversity! JOY Breakfast was there to capture the celebration and reflect on the festivities on Monday the 9th, fresh off the heels. Experience a full day of LGBTQIA+ art, live music, performances, community and culture, with stalls showcasing local treasures. Open to all – families, friends, and allies – there's something for everyone, from morning to night. Screenshot The post Victoria’s Pride Street Party Wrap-up appeared first on JOY Breakfast.
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After another summer spent basking, footy is just about upon us again. Next Saturday night (assuming no cyclones form between now and then), the Lions will unfurl the Premiership flag for the second consecutive year, before kicking off the 2026 AFL season against the Western Bulldogs.We've had one dose of pre-season footy already in last week's hit-out against Carlton, and there's still one to come before the real stuff gets underway, with the Suns heading to Brighton Homes Arena for Thursday night's fixture.This week on the podcast:-The club's #1 ticket holder Dan Anstey joins us again-Who will get the final wing spot for Opening Round?-We've found some incredible Fitzroy audio from the archivesAnd much more!
Jeff Brown joins Sam, Rich and Liam for a wide‑ranging, deeply human conversation that moves from footy folklore to leadership, loyalty and life after a cancer diagnosis. Brown reflects on his years as Collingwood president, the fallout and legacy of the Do Better report, the rise of Craig McRae, and the club's transformation into a 110,000‑member powerhouse.The boys dive into the changing landscape of the AFL — from gaming and sponsorship tensions to the evolution of coaching, culture and the booming growth of AFLW. Brown also opens up about his battle with multiple myeloma, the research breakthroughs giving real hope, and the community behind the “My Greatest Call” fundraising lunch honouring Sandy Roberts.It's a conversation full of humour, honesty and perspective — from legal war stories to media memories, from Fitzroy heartbreak to Collingwood triumph, and from the fragility of life to the power of mateship.A thoughtful, funny and generous chat with one of Australian sport's most influential figures.
Mental Load ist die unsichtbare, ständige mentale Arbeit, die nötig ist, um einen Haushalt, eine Familie und den Alltagsrhythmus am Laufen zu halten. Sie beginnt nicht erst bei der Handlung selbst, sondern weit vorher, im Denken, Planen und Erinnern. Die psychologische Forschung beschreibt diese Form der kognitiven Dauerbeanspruchung als einen relevanten Stressfaktor, der das Wohlbefinden und die Beziehungszufriedenheit beeinflusst.Hier findest du mehr Informationen zur Paar- und Einzeltherapie bei mir und meinem Team (online und in Bonn vor Ort)Wenn du mich und den Podcast unterstützen möchtest, dann bewerte den Podcast gerne und schicke ihn an jemanden weiter, der sich auch dafür interessieren würde. Mein neues Buch hilft dir besser zu kommunizieren, deine Muster zu verändern und wieder Nähe herzustellen. Studien:Daminger, A. (2019). The Cognitive Dimension of Household Labor. American Sociological Review, 84(4), 609–633. Schoenfeld, E. A., Loving, T. J., Pope, M. T., Huston, T. L., & Štulhofer, A. (2017). Examining the Connections Between Spouses' Nonsexual Behaviors, Sexual Frequency, Sexual Satisfaction, and Marital Satisfaction. Archives of Sexual Behavior. Harris, E. A., Gormezano, A. M., & van Anders, S. M. (2022). Gender inequities in household labor predict lower sexual desire in women partnered with men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, 3939–3958.Carlson, D. L., Hanson, S., & Fitzroy, A. (2016). The gendered division of housework and couples' sexual relationships: A reexamination. Journal of Marriage and Family, 78(4), 975–994.Reich-Stiebert, N., et al. (2023). Gendered mental labor: A systematic literature review on cognitive and emotional labor in households. Sex Roles, 89, 289–311
This week we go back in time with Lion, Eagle, Saint, Bomber and Docker Dale Kickett. Dale reminisces about his career, reflects on some of special moments during his time in the game.A Western Australian, Dale was recruited to the AFL for the 1990 season after Fitzroy used its first pick in the 1989 National Draft, selecting him at pick No. 9 overall. He played 15 senior games in his debut season before being traded to the West Coast Eagles at the end of the year. Dale spent just one season on the Eagles list, managing two senior games in a powerhouse side before being delisted.St Kilda became his third AFL club, where he played 21 games. After returning to Western Australia, Essendon identified his potential and recruited him in the 1993 mid-season draft. He played eight games for the Bombers in 1994.The introduction of the Fremantle Football Club in 1995, coached by his three-time Claremont premiership mentor Gerard Neesham, proved the perfect fit. Dale spent eight seasons at Fremantle, playing 135 games, and finished his AFL career with 263 games across five clubs.Dale speaks about many key moments across his incredible journey in what is a must-listen episode.A great listen with the 117th member of 'The 90's Club Footy Podcast'.
Interview with performer Ruby Slippers ahead of Victoria's Pride Street Party in the Smith-Gertrude-Peel precinct in Fitzroy and Collingwood, Sunday, 8 February.
Headlines:- Local footy clubs have suspended or abandoned initiatives addressing gender based violence in the face of State Goverment funding cuts.- Aquaculture program developing production methods for goldlined rabbit fish.- 44Flats United has identified the decision as wholesale destruction of public housing in Victoria as a method of social cleansing of Melbourne's inner city suburbs. - Gaza's key Rafah border crossing has reopened for limited traffic after almost two years of closure. 7:15// Layna Hokianga-Pouaka was born and raised in Ngāti Kahuungunu, on the east coast of the North Island of Aotearoa/NZ. Layna is a dedicated advocate for Māori and Indigenous rights, truth and justice particularly ensuring Māori representation at a government level. Here is a speech Layna spoke at the Invasion Day rally at Dijlang, 2026, organised by Be Tru Cry Justice Geelong, a group of First Nations Peoples and non-Indigenous members who share a commitment to the Uluru Statement from the Heart. 7:30://Lucinda Thorpe is a Privacy Campaigner at Digital Rights Watch. Lucinda is back this morning to tell us more about Palantir. Primarily a defence contractor, Palantir Technologies specialises in data integration and surveillance analytics, with customers such as the Israeli occupation Forces and U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE, as well as government and corporate clients in Australia. You can find out more about Palantir by going to digitalrightswatch.org. Cam Wilson, reporter at Crikey has also written about the tech company's ties to Australia you can find the article here crikey.com.au.7:45://Lisa Palma is the CEO of Wildlife Victoria and a dedicated volunteer wildlife rescuer. Lisa spoke to us about how Victoria's recent heat waves are affecting wildlife. In this interview we specifically focus on the grey headed flying fox, their vulnerability to heat and how Wildlife Victoria is working to protect them. You can find more at their website wildlifevictoria.org.au or their instagram.8:00://Gayle Osborne is a member of Wombat Forestcare, a community group dedicated to protecting forests and wildlife in the Wombat Forest and surrounding area. Gayle spoke to us in July last year to discuss the Victorian government's undelivered promise to create a national park in the region and the impact of planned burns on vulnerable species. Today Gayle joins us to discuss what's next for Wombat Forestcare in 2026 and positive changes to federal strategic assessment processes. You can get involved with Wombat Forestcare on Facebook or visit wombatforestcare.org.au8:15://Sarah is from the Victorian Pill Testing Service, a service that opened its doors in Fitzroy on August 21st 2025. This morning we are speaking to Sarah about what the service is and the importance of drug checking within our communities. We also discuss the accessibility of the VPTS at the Victorian Street Pride Party set to be held this coming Sunday the 8th of February.
This week, we revisit our 2023 conversation with His Honour Justice Paul Coghlan AO. Paul's life in the law has taken him from the Deputy Crown Solicitor's Office to the Bar, from Director of Public Prosecutions to a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria - and somewhere along the way, he also managed to serve as Mayor of Fitzroy.A wealth of knowledge, Paul reflects on his approach to prosecuting, his treatment of witnesses and juries, and his experience striking case-cracking deals in the early days of the gangland murder trials.www.greenslist.com.au/podcast
This week we go back in time with former Fitzroy and Melbourne defender Marcus Seecamp. Marcus reminisces about his career, reflects on some of special moments during his time in the game.An East Perth native, Marcus was the second overall pick in the 1991 National Draft, making the move to Victoria with Fitzroy. He spent three seasons with the Lions, playing 51 games, before being traded to Melbourne at the end of the 1994 AFL season. Marcus then enjoyed a six-year stint with the Demons, adding a further 89 games at the highest level.From draft day expectations to life inside two proud AFL clubs, Marcus shares plenty of great stories and touches on a number of topics from a fascinating era of football. A great listen with the 116th member of 'The 90's Club Footy Podcast'..
In this first installment of a three‑part mini‑series honoring the 2025 Distinguished Risk Manager (DRM) Award recipients, URMIA Matters highlights the remarkable career and life of Fitzroy Smith, Assistant Vice President, Chief Risk Officer at Howard University, with guest host, Miguel Delgado, current URMIA president and Associate Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at Carnegie Mellon University, interviewing. Fitzroy reflects on his early introduction to the insurance world through a high‑school program in Hartford, which set him on a lifelong path in risk management. With more than 25 years of experience across insurance, brokerage, captive management, local government, and over two decades in higher education, he shares the mentors, milestones, and leadership opportunities that shaped his professional journey, which culminated in the surprise of receiving the DRM Award at URMIA's Annual Conference in Las Vegas. Beyond his professional accomplishments, Fitzroy discusses his deep commitment to community service, including decades of involvement with the YMCA and ongoing humanitarian efforts in Jamaica following recent hurricane devastation. He also offers a glimpse into what's ahead, from advancing risk management excellence at Howard University to continuing his lifelong passion for youth development and service. Show Notes URMIA's Distinguished Risk Manager Award Three Honored as Distinguished Risk Managers at URMIA Annual Conference Guest Fitzroy Smith, Assistant Vice President, Chief Risk Officer - Howard University Guest Host Miguel Delgado, Associate Vice President and Chief Risk Officer - Carnegie Mellon University Connect with URMIA & URMIA with your network-Share /Tag in Social Media @urmianetwork-Not a member? Join ->www.urmia.org/join-Email | contactus@urmia.org Give URMIA Matters a boost:-Give the podcast a 5 star rating-Share the podcast - click that button!-Follow on your podcast platform - don't miss an episode!Thanks for listening to URMIA Matters!
With flood waters on the Fitzroy river rising, and expected to peak on Tuesday night - we had a yarn with the Bureau of Meteorology's Dean Narramore about how much rain has fallen across CQ and how high we can expect the river to peak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As we get on top of all we need to know before the Fitzroy peaks, Rockhampton Deputy Mayor Drew Wickerson let us know where things are at and what to expect.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week we go back in time with former Fitzroy and Hawthorn player Shayne Stevenson. Shayne reminisces about his career, reflects on some of special moments during his time in the game.Shayne, who hails from Tasmania, first began his AFL career with Fitzroy during the early 90s. Shanye played 11 games with the Lions between 1991 and 1993, not once experiencing a victory. He then headed to Hawthorn and added a further 34 games to his tally.In this chat, Shayne talks about his strong debut match for Fitzroy, the challenges of holding a regular spot at the Lions, his move to Hawthorn, featuring in finals football, his memorable 1995 goal against Sydney and playing alongside a host of Hawthorn champions.A great listen with the 114th member of 'The 90's Club Footy Podcast'.This episode has been produced by Set Sounds.
Dylan from the City of Yarra and Tex McKenzie speak about the Yarra Queer History Walk, a guided tour that traces Melbourne's queer‑footprints through Fitzroy, Collingwood and Abbotsford. Jack is also joined by Rachel Cook and Chiron Hooson from Thorne Harbour to discuss the Community Periodic Surveys, our presence at Carnival, and more. Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing at joy.org.au/wellwellwell. If there's something you'd like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria and South Australia at thorneharbour.org and samesh.org.au.
In this episode of My Love of Life Energy, I sit down with William FitzRoy for a grounded, honest exploration of what it means to live as yourself — without seeking permission, approval, or validation. We talk about inner authority, self-trust, and the courage it takes to honor what you know inside, even when it means walking away from what looks good on the outside. William shares how deeply knowing your own energy shapes the way you move through work, relationships, and spiritual spaces — and why real growth always leads you back to yourself. Together, we explore: • What inner authority actually feels like in everyday life • Why you don't need a grand purpose to live meaningfully • The difference between teaching and giving people answers • How spiritual spaces can support sovereignty rather than dependence • Why authenticity is naturally attractive and can't be manufactured This conversation is an invitation to stop outsourcing your knowing, to trust what you sense inside, and to come home to yourself — again and again.
Ben John is the chef behind BistroX at The StandardX in Fitzroy. He trained in Aotearoa New Zealand, came up through some of Naarm's most exacting kitchens, and has led teams at places where standards are high and pressure is constant. At BistroX, he's building something deliberately more relaxed: a neighbourhood bistro inside a hotel that doesn't really feel like a hotel at all. We talk about suppliers and seasons, teaching young chefs properly, breaking down whole animals, and what leadership looks like now compared with when he was coming up. We also talk about balance, longevity, and how to stay generous in a demanding industry. I really enjoyed this conversation. Ben is thoughtful, grounded and deeply committed to the craft.
You're listening to Thursday Breakfast's Summer Programming Series on 3CR Community Radio!Today's show features a selection of interviews covering public health topics such as young people's experiences of chronic pain, First Nations medical trailblazers, the campaign to Save Cohealth, a Palestinian physician in Gaza practicing medicine during genocide, and the importance of drug checking.// Acknowledgement of Country//Joshua Pate - Young People & Chronic Pain (04 Dec 25)// Physiotherapy researcher and health science communicator Dr Joshua Pate joined us to unpack the impacts of chronic pain on young peoples' lives, and the consequences of failing to believe young people and and adequately resource paediatric pain care in Australia. Joshua co-authored the 2025 National Kids in Pain Report commissioned by Chronic Pain Australia, released in September 2025, which details the scale and impact of chronic pain for young people in Australia. The report documents how these experiences shape young peoples' worlds and have flow-on effects in all parts of their lives, and you can read it here.// Kimberley Benajamin - Our Medicine (10 Jul 25)// Kimberely Benjamin is a Yawuru, Bardi and Kija woman from Rubibi/Broome, and proudly living and working on Country. Kimba discussed the directing and making of SBS & NITV show Our Medicine, a 6-part series behind-the-scenes look showcasing First Nations medical trailblazers and traditional healers, who, through their work, care and knowledge are making change and having positive impacts on community. Watch it on SBS on Demand now.// Shaday - Save Cohealth Campaign (06 Nov 25)//Shaday, a GP trainee at a community health clinic joined us to discuss organising for the Save Cohealth Rally and rally at Sarah Witty's office. The rally is calling on federal or state emergency funding to save the clinics that service over 12,500 people and prevent a statewide health catastrophe. Some symbolic motions in parliament have been moved but it's mass mobilisations like the Town Hall in Fitzroy and the rally that will win this campaign.// Dr Ezzideen Shehab - Palestinian Physician in Gaza & Author (06 Nov 25)// Dr Ezzideen Shehab, a Palestinian physician in northern Gaza, shared his reflections on practicing medicine during Israel's ongoing genocide. Dr Shehab has collaborated with Readers and Writers Against the Genocide to publish Diary of a Young Doctor a remarkable collection of diary entries that he has kept to document eyewitness accounts of the genocide. Order your copy of Diary of a Young Doctor by heading to linktr.ee/readerswritersagainstgenocide, and follow Dr Shehab on Instagram at @ezzideenshehab.// Cameron Francis - The Loop Drug Checking (27 Nov 25)// Cameron Francis is the CEO of The Loop Australia - a national harm reduction charity delivering drug checking services in Victoria and New South Wales, and until recently in Queensland. He joined us to discuss the importance of drug checking and harm reduction, particularly at mobile sites ahead of festival season. You can access free drug checking in Victoria at 95 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Follow them on instagram for drug alerts or contact them for more information.// Songs//Our Blood & Firekeeper by FAMILIBuy their latest EP 'BLOODFIRE' on bandcamp//
مریم ناصری، مهاجر ایرانی ساکن ملبورن، پس از سالها کار در معماری و تجربهٔ مادری، «دل به دل» را بنیان گذاشت؛ فروشگاهی که هنر دست هنرمندان جوان ایرانی را به قلب ملبورن میآورد. او در گفتوگویی با ما از شکلگیری این ایده، چالشها و امیدهایش، و رویداد تازهٔ «دیو و خورشید» میگوید؛ رویدادی با پیام امید و نور که ۵ تا ۷ دسامبر در فروشگاه دل به دل در Fitzroy برگزار میشود.
CoHealth-ka, Kensington, Fitzroy iyo Collingwood ee Melbounre, ayaa illaa badhtamaha sannadka dambe sii furnaan doona ka dib markii loo helay kharash ku-meel gaadh ah. Shirkadda Meta ayaa ku wargelisay macaamiisheeda Australian-ka ah ee 16-jir ka yar, inay lumin doonaan akoonnadooda baraha Facebook iyo Instagram.
Interview with city of Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly about the community campaign opposing the closure of Cohealth services in Collingwood, Fitzroy and Kensington. We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present. If you like our work, become a supporter: https://www.greenleft.org.au/support Support Green Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/greenleft Green Left online: https://www.greenleft.org.au/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greenleftaction Twitter: https://twitter.com/greenleftonline YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/greenleftonline TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@greenleftonline Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenleftonline/ Podbean: https://greenleftonline.podbean.com/ Telegram: https://t.me/greenleftonline Podcast also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Antennapod, Itunes and PodcastAddict.
Season 19, Episode 7: We left our conversation in part one at the South American Championships, reflecting on where Brazil has been over the last quarter of a century. This time, recording at Poços de Caldas - the remarkable home of cricket in the country - it's time to cast ahead to the decades to come. For that, England legend Claire Taylor, with her MCC hat on, leads the ep. She's followed by Jon Surtees of the Surrey CCC, talking about their charitable contributions in high-performance infrastructure. Then last but not least, the man more important than any vaulting the game to where it now sits in Brazil, their outstanding CEO Matt Featherstone. Pre-order your copy of Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics: linktr.ee/tfwbook Our book launches are in London, November 10 at the Jolly Gardeners in Vahxuall, and Melbourne, November 27 at the Commercial Club in Fitzroy. For London, RSVP to matt.thacker@forwardpress or grab a spot here. For Melbourne, just roll up. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Learn about Lacuna Sports - bespoke female cricket wear, created by women for women: lacunasports.co.uk Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for workers since 1919: mauriceblackburn.com.au Get your big NordVPN discount: nordvpn.com/tfw Get 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: t20vision.com/FINALWORD Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Season 19, Episode 6: When the game was looking for good news stories during the Covid pandemic, we found one in Brazil. Five years on, Adam has spent the week there, and what a week. In this first of two eps, he speaks with great friend of the pod Roberta Moretti Avery - now the President of Cricket Brasil - then later chats with her husband Richard, who is coach of the men's team, who have recently joined the women as professional players. Between times, MCC representatives from the women's and men's teams, currently touring the country during the South American championships, share their perspectives on one of the best stories in global cricket. Pre-order your copy of Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics: linktr.ee/tfwbook Our book launches are in London, November 10 at the Jolly Gardeners in Vahxuall, and Melbourne, November 27 at the Commercial Club in Fitzroy. For London, RSVP to matt.thacker@forwardpress or grab a spot here. For Melbourne, just roll up. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Learn about Lacuna Sports - bespoke female cricket wear, created by women for women: lacunasports.co.uk Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for workers since 1919: mauriceblackburn.com.au Get your big NordVPN discount: nordvpn.com/tfw Get 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: t20vision.com/FINALWORD Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Headlines II here - Weapons manufacturers and distributers part of the corporate sponsors for the National Press Club - NSW government chief sponsor of the Sydney International Weapons Expo - Home Renovations linked to 51% of Mesothelioma death - "Punishment before trial" Senator Thorpe rejects police buries buried in social security bill - Fair Work amendment (Baby Priya's) bill - Israel's Knesset push bill to execute people labelled "terrorists" - Zohran Mamdani wins the NYC mayoral raceVoices 4 Palestine II Yusef Alreemawi speaks at the Socialist Alliance/Green Left's Ecosocialism Conference this year about the role and importance of poetry as part of a discussion on "Israel having the right to exist". Listen here.Then we hear from Naarm based Palestinian poet Michaela Sahhar doing two readings from her most recent book "Find me at Jaffa Gate". Listen here.Song - Mustafa - Name of GodRodrigo Acuna Interview II hereVeteran journalist come director Rodrigo Acuna drops in to talk to us about all things Venezuela as he prepares for the Melbourne premiere screening of his new documentary "Venezuela: The Cost of Challenging an Empire". The documentary is screening Saturday 6th December, 6pm at the Wildflower picture house, 318 George St, Fitzroy. Song - Jesse Welles - Venezuela This is the Week II hereComrade Kevin keeps us up to date on the weekly beat in his classical satirical style. Daryl Croke AEU Interview II hereAnnie leads an interview with Daryl Croke rank and file member of the AEU talking about the chronic underfunding in public schools in Victoria and the rally that is on Wednesday at 4:30 outside of Anthony Carbines offices, 149 Burgundy St, Heidelberg.Events:Sudan Rally, 12pm State Library, Sunday 9th NovGramsci Symposium. 630pm, Trades Hall, Tuesday 11th NovPalestinian Film Festival Special Screening, 630pm Cinema Nova, Thursday 13th NovBig Ride For Palestine, 10am Highlands Lake Reserve, Saturday 15th NovSong - EZLN - Se Acabó
Season 19, Episode 5: At last, the speculation is over. At least, Geoff and Bharat think that it is, because they think this Australian Ashes squad leaves no doubt about what the final XI will be. Also this week, Kane Williamson is not bringing the snacks, James Anderson goes along with conformity, England create some weird tension on the contract list, and we farewell young Ben Austin. Pre-order your copy of Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics: linktr.ee/tfwbook Our book launches are in London, November 10 at the Jolly Gardeners in Vahxuall, and Melbourne, November 27 at the Commercial Club in Fitzroy. For London, RSVP to matt.thacker@forwardpress or grab a spot here. For Melbourne, just roll up. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Learn about Lacuna Sports - bespoke female cricket wear, created by women for women: lacunasports.co.uk Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for workers since 1919: mauriceblackburn.com.au Get your big NordVPN discount: nordvpn.com/tfw Get 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: t20vision.com/FINALWORD Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Season 19, Episode 4: The women's World Cup semis are around the corner, so first up it's time to run the rule over the four remaining teams, and get a sense of what might happen and what might not between England, South Africa, India and Australia. Also this week, Pat Cummins is confirmed to miss the first Ashes Test, Bharat Sundaresan joins Geoff Lemon to offer informed theories about what might follow that, while the rest of the field jockeys for position. Pre-order your copy of Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics: linktr.ee/tfwbook Our book launches are in London, November 10 at the Jolly Gardeners in Vahxuall, and Melbourne, November 27 at the Commercial Club in Fitzroy. For London, RSVP to matt.thacker@forwardpress or grab a spot here. For Melbourne, just roll up. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Learn about Lacuna Sports - bespoke female cricket wear, created by women for women: lacunasports.co.uk Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for workers since 1919: mauriceblackburn.com.au Get your big NordVPN discount: nordvpn.com/tfw Get 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: t20vision.com/FINALWORD Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an inadvertent detour into just how distant the 1990s version of Australia feels from today, in maturity and tone and the possibility of change. The reconciliation journey that stalled, the television broadcasts that foundered, and the scope that narrowed. Also this week, the first burst of many from a burst expert, and the puzzling world of cricket slash fiction. Your Nerd Pledge numbers for this week: 2.61 - Jeffrey Gabriel 5.23 - Nick Donovan 4.60 - Anna Forsyth 9.10 - Leigh Couchman Pre-order your copy of Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics: linktr.ee/tfwbook Our book launches are in London, November 10 at the Jolly Gardeners in Vahxuall, and Melbourne, November 27 at the Commercial Club in Fitzroy. For London, RSVP to matt.thacker@forwardpress or grab a spot here. For Melbourne, just roll up. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Learn about Lacuna Sports - bespoke female cricket wear, created by women for women: lacunasports.co.uk Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for workers since 1919: mauriceblackburn.com.au Get your big NordVPN discount: nordvpn.com/tfw Get 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: t20vision.com/FINALWORD Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Critical minerals are becoming a central part of our everyday lives, advancing technology in industries from health care to energy to defence.
Over the weekend the GND Media team ran a radio station at The World Transformed festival, taking place in Hulme this year. Shout out to Josh, Becky, Stephen, Matthew, Mikki, Fitzroy and Barney! XR not only brought climate issues into the mainstream, they also changed how people protested. However, since COVID XR's civil disobedience style protests have waned and protests in general seem to have gone back to the prioritising numbers over disruption.Ads is joined by two of his old XR comrades to discuss how XR changed the game but also what protests needs to do today to stay a relevant part of political action.The songs in the show are, Terrorist, by Low Key Health and Wealth by Bob VylanSupport the show
Over the weekend the GND Media team ran a radio station at The World Transformed festival, taking place in Hulme this year. Shout out to Josh, Becky, Stephen, Matthew, Mikki, Fitzroy and Barney! We grabbed 15 minutes with the new leader of the Green Party Zack Polanski. We asked him how its going being shot into the limelight, the differences bewteen the Greens and Your Party, and what's it like having to deal with Piers Morgan? Over the next week or so we will be uploading various bits from panels and interviews from across the festival. stay tuned. Support the show
Bella talks about the Albanese government's new, yet still very weak, 2035 climate goals and why youth participation is so important in climate activism with guest Ivy Sheng, from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. Recently, the Albanese government introduced their 2035 climate goals, which is a plan to reduce carbon emissions by 65-75% produced during 2005, as part of the bigger plan for net 0 by 2050. The decision has been marked as an incredible and historic decision made by Australia's government compared to the 43% 2005 decrease set previously. However, once we start to look a little closer at the numbers, it's easy to see this decrease won't be nearly enough to stay below 2°C and is below the bare minimum to care for our climate.As a result, many grassroots organisations such as the AYCC, the Nilumbuk Climate Action Team, Extinction Rebellion and many more, held nationwide snap protests outside of Labor MP's offices demanding action for a greater change. We here speeches from Ivy Sheng from AYCC, Mitsy from the Nilumbuk Climate Action Team and a third speaker (Apologies name is unknown, please feel free to let the station know and I will give proper credit!), as well as a performance by the Climate Choir outside of MP Sarah Witty's office in Fitzroy, Melbourne.Additionally, Bella chats to guest speaker Ivy Sheng from AYCC about why youth involvement is super important in the climate action movement.
Welcome to The 80's Montage! (music, mateys and cool shit from the 80s) Your Hosts Jay Jovi & Sammy HardOn, singers from Australian 80's tribute band Rewind 80's. We take you back to living in the 80's: music, artists, TV commercials and video clips. Please rate, review and enjoy! Music licensed by APRA/AMCOS Theme music ©2019 M. Skerman. Produced & edited by Matty Ray. See Facebook for links to videos & songs mentioned in this episode! Email: Samantha@planet80s.com.auFacebook: the80smontagepodcast twitter: @the80smontage instagram: the80smontageTHE 80's MONTAGE PODCAST 300th EP - www.rewind80smixtape.com.auCreatures of Habit Bar & Bandroom - Sun, 16 Nov, 5pm - 10pm AEDTSelling fast please get your tickets..
The build-up to the 2025 AFL Grand Final continues in our live episode from Fitzroy's Royal Derby Hotel, joined by special guests Simon Black and Sam Graham!
Writer and performer Lorin Clarke chats about her documentary, But Also John Clarke, in honour of her father; Russel Larke, head gardener at Fed Square, shares all the details about the exciting new projects happening in our city; the team celebrates the people giving it all in Sydney marathon; author Andy Griffiths shares his favorite self-made catchphrases while talking about his new book You, Me and the Peanutbutter Beast; filmmaker Zoe Goldham explains the shift in her neighbourhood with her new documentary Gore Street, Fitzroy and comedian Jonathan Schuester shares his thoughts on a certain bird. With presenters Jas Moore, Daniel Burt & Nat Harris.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/breakfasters/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Breakfasters3RRRFM/Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/breakfasters/
In the second of our mini series on emerging designers based in Melbourne, my guest this week Singaporean-Aussie designer Jude Ng. Jude started out selling at design markets, and we talk here about how some people might view that as not elevated, somehow not fashion enough. And what rubbish that is! As Jude says, it was having these direct relationships and conversations with potential customers that helped him build his business. To this day, he's set up his workshop on view in his Fitzroy, Melbourne store, so that people who are interested in his work can actually see him do it. In his own words, he offers: "ethically Melbourne made, zero waste slow fashion production and in-house bespoke mending". His pieces are unisex, and he talks about: "a different perspective in the realm of fashion by playing with a signature asymmetry and a relaxed, gender neutral sense of tailoring... using an artisanal approach and respect for the traditional craft techniques." And it works. It's beautiful and people love it. Six years in to his independent business, he's proving you can thrive as a directional designer outside of the obvious fashion capitals.Thank you for listening to Wardrobe Crisis.Find links and further reading for this episode at thewardrobecrisis.comRead Clare's columns & support the show on Substack - wardrobecrisis.substack.comTell us what you think. Find Clare on Instagram @mrspressGot recommendations? Hit us up!And please leave us a rating / review in Spotify/ Apple & help us share these podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
World-renowned travel expert Emily FitzRoy joins Tanya Rose to share her travel secrets this week. Emily is a fountain of knowledge when it comes to travelling Italy, and tells Tanya all about how she first fell in love with the country whilst on an Italian exchange at school. She reveals the secrets of how she found the perfect shooting locations for Succession and The White Lotus and shares how she found the best restaurant in Venice with Stanley Tucci! Plus, Emily shares her top travel tip and tells the story of how she narrowly-avoided being attacked by a bear in Bhutan! Don't forget to follow @travelsecretsthepodcast and remember, you can watch all of our episodes on YouTube. Places mentioned: Milan, Italy Naples, Italy Trattoria Sorstanza, Florence La Passalacqua, Lake Como Hotel II Pelicano, Italy Bhutan Hebrides, Scotland Venice, Italy Rome, Italy Trattoria alla Madonna, Venice Osteria alla Testiere, Venice La Torricella, Rome Sicily JG Melon, New York The Carlyle, New York Brighton Chapters 00:00 Intro 07:55 Secret 1: Number 1 travel destination everybody should go to 12:54 Secret 2: Most unexpected travel experience 16:33 Secret 3: Most Over or Underrated travel experience 19:25 Secret 4: Best Food & Drink while travelling 28:59 Secret 5: Poignant memory from a trip 33:12 Secret 6: Number 1 travel tip 35:39 Secret 7: Special travel photograph
本期主播苗炜,三联生活周刊编辑、作家本期特别嘉宾许知远,作家、单向空间创始人宋明蔚,作家、译者、资深户外媒体人,《比山更高》作者姜淼,始祖鸟大中华区品牌营销副总裁“山峰是所有自然景观的开端和结束。” 英国哲学家约翰·罗斯金的这句话,道尽了高山对现代人那份极致的吸引力。在众多户外体验中,攀登高山被视为人类对自然最深刻的探索,承载着我们对山野的无尽向往与敬畏。而对身处都市的我们而言,高山更像一种精神象征,指向无限的可能与想象。无论身在何处,山野那原始的呼唤总在回响——在那看似粗粝的世界深处,蕴藏着某种奇异的精细。本期节目中,三联的苗师傅与单向空间创始人、作家许知远,《比山更高》作者宋明蔚,以及始祖鸟大中华区品牌营销副总裁姜淼展开一场关于「出发向高山」的围炉对谈。他们四人带着各自对自然的向往,相聚在始祖鸟全球首家ARC'LOUNGE,于这个都市腹地的户外精神大本营,分享彼此心中的高山。我们究竟为何要「出发向高山」?是为追寻心中的风景,或是为探索自我的边界?相信每个人都有独属的答案。如果你也曾经受到过山野自然的召唤,本期节目或许会是你旅途之中或静夜畅想的好伴侣。无论是许知远的“陶渊明式攀登”还是宋明蔚的“登山的双重自由”,抑或是姜淼所说的“出发的底气”,这一小时的对话,希望能为你构建关于「高山」的灵感与想象。愿我们都能拥有持续出发的冲动 ,无论在山野,还是在日常。【时间轴】00:02:55 户外运动,一种“迟来的召唤”00:03:59 自然金字塔理论:通过走向辽阔之地来重塑精神00:09:50 深入感受户外人的世界,一方面粗粝,一方面又特别精细00:10:57 喝着whisky去爬山,攀岩运动中的自由精神(free spirit)00:14:31 登山中的双重自由:积极自由vs消极自由00:18:53 “因为山在那里”,换种方式解读乔治马洛里这句名言00:23:20 始祖鸟为何要在都市腹地打造一个沉浸式的精神场域?00:24:56 每个人都有属于自己的高山,不妨试试陶渊明式攀登法?00:29:08 当下人对户外的渴望:身体的自我发现成为新启蒙00:37:12 装备与攀登的关系:最冷静的设计,才能托举最深厚的热爱00:40:26 阿式攀登vs喜马拉雅式攀登:阿式攀登的纯粹与理想主义00:49:20 刘洋和潘愚非聊聊顶级运动员攀爬中的心流状态00:54:10 此刻出发,最想去的户外目的地是哪里?节目中提到的户外攀登相关人物1、何川:始祖鸟运动员,中国攀登代表人物,完成Fitz Roy、川口塔峰等山峰国人首登。2、严冬冬:自由攀登者,曾与周鹏组成“自由之魂”登山组合,完成幺妹峰中央南壁线路首攀。3、刘洋:始祖鸟运动员,2025 年完成未登峰卓木拉日三峰首登。4、潘愚非:始祖鸟运动员,中国首个 IFSC 攀岩世界杯冠军。5、李致新、王勇峰:两人历时11年完成登顶世界七大洲最高峰,被称为“中国登山双子星”。6、Dean Potter:美国知名攀岩家、登山家及极限跳伞家,2005年因翼装飞行事故去世。 节目中提到的作品1、《念念远山》《荒野之境》《古道》:罗伯特·麦克法伦“行走文学三部曲”。2、《地标》:罗伯特·麦克法伦的自然随笔,献给英国土地的赞歌。3、《深时之旅》:罗伯特·麦克法伦对地下世界的求知之旅。4、《山谷崛起》(Valley Uprising):纪录片(2014),讲述优胜美地攀岩与极限运动简史。5、《静谧的荣光》:加拿大人类学者、探险家戴维斯记录英国三次派出远征队试图完成人类登顶珠峰壮举的故事。6、《浪漫地理学》:段义孚从哲学、心理学、人类学的角度讲述人性与大地的互动。7、《Philosophy in the Flesh》:美国语言学家乔治·莱考夫著,从认知语言学角度重新审视思想、道德等概念。8、《极限登山》:登山家 Mark F.Twight 和 James Martin 合著的极限登山运动现状报告、户外攀登运动员的学习指南。策划:孙阿濛 尹济男音频制作:小玉编辑:天健
In this episode, we sit down with Mike Lukens, who has dedicated over 15 years to Rocky Mountain National Park and currently serves as the Climbing and Wilderness Program Supervisor. Mike oversees critical aspects of the park's operations, including Search and Rescue (SAR) efforts, ensuring visitor safety across its vast wilderness.Beyond his administrative role, Mike is an accomplished climber. In 2016, alongside Quinn Brett and Max Barlerin, he completed the first ascent of the "Colorado Route" on the south face of Fitz Roy in Patagonia—a challenging 500-meter climb rated at 5.11c .What You'll Learn:The diverse recreational opportunities within Rocky Mountain National Park, from technical climbs to serene backcountry adventures.Insights into the park's SAR operations and the importance of preventative measures for visitor safety.Mike's personal experiences and stories from his climbing expeditions and rescue missions.Why Listen:Gain a deeper appreciation for the natural beauty and challenges of Rocky Mountain National Park through the eyes of a seasoned ranger and climber. Whether you're an avid adventurer or a casual park visitor, Mike's insights offer valuable perspectives on safety, exploration, and the spirit of the wilderness.______________Follow us on social!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/safetravelspodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@safetravelspodYouTube: youtube.com/@safetravelspodSafetravelspod.com
Victoria ha confirmado que abrirá en agosto su primer sitio fijo de prueba de pastillas en Fitzroy, una de las áreas de vida nocturna más populares de Melbourne. La decisión pone al estado en una posición única en cuanto a la política de drogas, ya que otros estados y territorios de Australia luchan por equilibrar la minimización del daño con enfoques cada vez más duros de ley y orden.
Mit Charles Darwin umsegelt FitzRoy (geb. am 5.7.1805) die Welt. Der Kapitän der HMS "Beagle" verfolgt dabei eine eigene Mission: Stürme vorhersagen und so Leben retten. Von Stephan Beuting.
Le Victoria s'apprête à ouvrir son premier centre permanent de dépistage de pilules à Fitzroy, au cœur de la vie nocturne de Melbourne. Destiné à analyser les substances et détecter les opioïdes synthétiques les plus dangereux, ce site inédit s'inscrit dans une approche innovante de la politique des drogues, à l'heure où l'Australie cherche à concilier réduction des risques et renforcement des mesures de sécurité.
On this day in Tudor history — traditionally 15th June 1519 — Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate but much-loved son of King Henry VIII and Elizabeth “Bessie” Blount, was born at the Priory of St Lawrence in Essex. Acknowledged by his father and showered with titles, Fitzroy was raised for greatness. At just six, he became Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Earl of Nottingham, and Knight of the Garter—unprecedented honours for a royal bastard. He was educated like a prince, married into the powerful Howard family, and held top-level posts including Lord Admiral and President of the Council of the North. There were even whispers he might be legitimised and named heir. But in July 1536, aged only seventeen, Fitzroy died suddenly—likely from tuberculosis—just weeks after witnessing the fall of Anne Boleyn. His father was devastated. Had Fitzroy lived, could he have succeeded his father as king? Was England robbed of a strong, adult heir? Let me know in the comments—and don't forget to like and subscribe for more Tudor history stories. #TudorHistory #HenryFitzroy #HenryVIII #BessieBlount #OnThisDay #RoyalBastards #TudorHeir #16thCentury #HistoryTube #TudorPrince #AnneBoleyn
In this presentation, I disucss the evidence for sunlight, Vitamin D system and circadian rhythms in regulating cancer defense and immune function in the body. I also discusses nuances surrounding skin cancer and how to safely obtain sunlight in a skin-type appropriate manner. Watch this talk on Youtube for slides and video. Filmed live at 75 Reid St, Fitzroy for the fourth REGENERATE summit on March 23rd, 2025.REGENERATE is a decentralized health summit shedding light on the causes and solutions of modern diseases.The three pillars of REGENERATE are:1. Circadian and quantum health2. Ancestral nutrition3. Regenerative farmingFollow REGENERATEWebsite: www.regnerateaus.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/regenerate.aus/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Regenerate_AusRumble: REGENERATEHEALTHSUMMITSign up to our email list via website to be informed of the next event!Interviews with world leading experts on the REGENERATIVE HEALTH PODCAST - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChwehAy8qwgKT8J58gh9AWAFilming & editing by Pete Williams of Handeye Productions - http://handeye.tv/#regenerate #regeneratehealthsummit #regeneratemelbourne2025 #decentralizedhealthSend us a textSupport the show
Today Jay is joined by his mom Susan and his sister Suzanne to discuss Susan's recent backpacking trip to Torres del Paine and Mt. Fitz Roy in Patagonia, and how challenging treks like this are central to her approach to aging. You'll hear about: Why at 72 years old Susan chose to take the ‘Challenging' trip as opposed to the ‘comfort trip' The pros and cons Susan has experienced as she's continued to push your body despite age What Susan has gained from a life of challenging herself physically The mental game of staying at your top possible performance as you age Join us over on the First Ascent Patreon. For $5, $7 or $10 a month, you'll get access to wide ranging bonus content from greats like Mark Hudon, Scott Stevenson and many more. Plus you'll get a Discord chat, exclusive beta, route info, and more. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/FirstAscentPodcastDo you have a listener question or a topic idea? Let us know at @firstascentpod on Instagram! Jay can be found at @jayknower. Disclaimer: The information expressed in this episode is for entertainment purposes only, and is not intended as, nor should it be interpreted as, informational or instructional.
Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
This week, let's talk about two people who played very important roles in the life and court of Henry VIII: Bessie Blount, who gave Henry his first surviving son, and that son, Henry Fitzroy. Neither would live beyond the reign of Henry, so their impact was limited, but they still are incredibly important characters that deserve an episode. Thanks as always for your support, friend. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.