Podcasts about Godalming

In the summer of 1726, In the little Village of Godalming, a 25 year old servant woman claimed to give birth to rabbits. Surgeons, nobles, and even the King believed her at first, but the truth, or a version of it that the public can embrace, always has a way of coming out. For years, history thought they had solved the mystery of "The Rabbit Breeder", but beneath the hoax lies a darker tale of pain, power, and control.This is the true story of monstrous birth — and the woman behind it. This is the story of Mary Toft.   Click To Learn More Mary Toft, Monster and Mason By Karen Harvey University of Glasgow Library — The Curious Case of Mary Toft A digital exhibition exploring the archival material and cultural impact of the Toft hoax. The Public Domain Review — Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits History Extra — Who Was Mary Toft & How Did Her Rabbit Hoax Capture Georgian Society? Nathaniel St. André — A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets (1726) The original pamphlet published by one of the royal physicians who believed Mary Toft.

En 1726, l'Angleterre connaît l'un des scandales médicaux les plus étranges de son histoire. À Godalming, un petit village du Surrey, une domestique illettrée nommée Mary Toft prétend donner naissance à des lapins. Oui, des lapins.Tout commence lorsque Mary, enceinte, affirme avoir fait une fausse couche après avoir été effrayée par un lapin dans les champs. Peu de temps après, elle se met à "accoucher" d'étranges restes d'animaux : morceaux de lapins, entrailles de chat, fragments d'os. Son beau-frère, intrigué, alerte un chirurgien local, John Howard, qui constate lui-même la présence de fragments animaux qu'il pense expulsés par voie vaginale.Fasciné, Howard envoie des lettres à des médecins de renom à Londres, dont Nathaniel St. André, chirurgien du roi George Ier. Ce dernier, enthousiasmé par cette affaire qu'il pense être une découverte médicale majeure, vient examiner Mary Toft. Et là, il assiste de ses propres yeux à un "accouchement" de lapins. Stupéfait, il en parle à la cour : le roi lui-même veut en savoir plus.Mary est transférée à Londres, au centre de l'attention médiatique et médicale. Elle est examinée, disséquée symboliquement, interrogée. On envisage même que ses "enfants lapins" soient la preuve d'un phénomène biologique rare : la "théorie de l'impression maternelle", selon laquelle une émotion forte pouvait influencer la forme du fœtus.Mais bientôt, les doutes s'accumulent. Les lapins "nés" de Mary sont en réalité de jeunes spécimens parfaitement formés, certains digèrent même du foin. Finalement, Mary avoue : c'est une supercherie. Avec l'aide de complices, elle insérait des morceaux d'animaux dans son vagin, simulant des accouchements. Pourquoi ? Pour attirer l'attention, pour l'argent, ou peut-être sous la pression de ceux qui l'ont exploitée.L'affaire fait scandale. Mary est emprisonnée, puis relâchée sans condamnation formelle. Quant aux médecins impliqués, leur réputation est ruinée. St. André, en particulier, devient la risée du public.Mais au-delà du sensationnalisme, cette affaire révèle les failles de la médecine du XVIIIe siècle, où les patientes pauvres n'étaient pas écoutées, mais disséquées symboliquement par des hommes en quête de gloire. Mary Toft, à sa manière, a retourné ce pouvoir en jouant avec les attentes et les croyances de son temps.L'affaire des lapins de Mary Toft n'est pas seulement une imposture grotesque : c'est un miroir des inégalités sociales, du statut des femmes et de la crédulité des élites face à ce qu'elles veulent désespérément croire. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Join Yvette Fielding as we venture into the murky depths beneath Britain's historic sites to uncover whether archaeological digs might be awakening spirits once at peace.From the famed “Bones Room” at Bamburgh Castle to the rediscovery and reburial of King Richard III under a Leicester car park, we'll explore the chilling question: does disturbing the final resting place of the dead invite hauntings, curses, or restless souls?We'll also examine the lesser-known case of 300 skeletons unearthed in Godalming's Station Road car park and discuss what truly happens to the bones we unearth—and whether the spirits linger, watching us from beyond.Tune in for a spine-tingling journey through archaeology's darker side, where science and the supernatural collide.A Create Podcast Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/paranormal-activity-with-yvette-fielding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shoh diu y podcast, Abbyr Shen Reesht, lesh meeryn 'sy Ghaelg ass shiartanse dy chlaareyn Radio Vannin er yn chiaghtin.Fastyr Jeheiney eddyr 5.00pm as 6.00pm va Daniel Quayle chebbal Kiaull as Cooish, as veih'n chlaare shen ta shin clashtyn ny va Daniel dy ghra, son y chooid smoo mychione y chiaull v'ayns y chlaare, ny yeih nagh vel shin clashtyn shen ayns shoh.KIAULL AS COOISHKiaull as Cooish marish Daniel Quayle, vees goll er jannoo eddyr yn BBC as Radio Vannin er y voggyl AM 1368. Ayns 'Goll as Gaccan' fastyr Jedoonee eddyr 4pm as 6pm, va Phil Gawne jannoo ymmyd jeh coloayrtys recortit liorish Ruth Keggin Gell mychione yn Eailley Ghaelgagh va currit er bun liorish Phil 'sy vlein 1996, as neayr's shen haink yn ennym j'ee dy ve yn Chooish. Va shen feer anaasagh, agh cha row meer er-lheh 'sy Ghaelg hene 'sy chlaare y cheayrt shoh. As myr shoh, gys Claare ny Gael. Ta mee gooley dy bee mayd cheet gys jerrey yn lioar, Dracula liorish Bram Stoker mysh queig shiaghtin jeig veih shoh, er yn oyr nagh vel monney j'ee er mayrn ain choud's ta shin lhaih ee ayns chyndaays 'sy Ghaelg. Ec y traa t'ayn ta'n Olloo Van Helsing er n'ghra dy jean eh cur-lesh Mina Harker gys Cashtal Dracula. Ta Jonathan Harker currit ass dy mooar, er yn oyr dy vel Mina hannah doghanit ec yn Chount Dracula as ta'n annym eck ayns gaue hannah. Ta shin clashtyn veih Lioar-laa Mina Harker : CLAARE NY GAEL Ren coraa yn Olloo, choud's loayr eh ayns sheeanyn cleeir millish, va jeeaghyn dy aa-woalley 'syn aer, kiunaghey shin ooilley:— "Oh, my charrey, t'eh er yn oyr dy baillym sauail y Ven-seyr Mina veih'n voayl atçhimagh shen dy vel mee son goll. Nar lhig eh Jee dy baillin cur-lesh ee gys y voayl shen. Ta obbyr—obbyr keoie—dy ve jeant ayns shen, nagh vel son ny sooillyn eck. Ta shinyn ny deiney ayns shoh, ooilley er-lhimmey jeh Jonathan, er nakin lesh ny sooillyn oc hene ny vees dy ve jeant roish my vod y boayl shen ve jeant glen. Cooinee er dy vel shin ayns çhennid debejagh. My vees yn Count scapail voin y cheayrt shoh—as lajer, aghtal, croutagh eh—foddee dy jean eh reih dy chadley rish cheead blein, as eisht ayns traa yinnagh y fer ain cho veen"—ghow eh my laue—"çheet dy reayll sheshaght rish, as veagh ee gollroosyn elley ren uss, Jonathan, fakin. T'ou uss er ninsh dooin jeh ny meillyn froaishagh oc; ren oo clashtyn y gearey awane oc choud's ren ad greimmey y poagey va brebbal ren yn Count ceau daue. T'ou bibbernee; as kiart dy vel eh myr shen. Jean leih dou eh dy vel mee cur wheesh pian ort, agh t'eh femoil. My charrey, nagh vel shoh feme doogh as er-e-hon ta mee cur, foddee, my vioys? My haghyrys eh dy jinnagh feallee erbee goll stiagh 'sy voayl shen dy hannaghtyn ayn, orrympene's veagh eh dy gholl dy reayll sheshaght maroo. " "Jean myr ta'n aigney ayd," dooyrt Jonathan, lesh sogh hug eh dy slane er creau, "ta shin ayns laueyn Yee!" Ny s'anmee.—Oh, hug eh foays dou fakin yn aght ren ny deiney dunnal shoh gobbraghey. Cre'n niart t'ec mraane agh dy cur graih da deiney tra t'ad cho jeean, as cho firrinagh, as cho dunnal! As, neesht, hug eh orrym smooinaghtyn er niart yindyssagh yn argid! Cre nagh jig lesh tra ta ymmyd jeant jeh dy kiart; as cre hig lesh my vees drogh ymmyd jeant jeh? Dennee mee cho booisal dy vel yn Çhiarn Godalming cho berçhagh, as dy vel eshyn chammah's Mnr. Morris, as palçhey argid echeysyn neesht, arryltagh dy cheau eh cho seyr. Er-son mannagh ren ad, cha vod yn turrys beg ain eer goaill toshiaght, edyr cho leah as lesh cullee cho mie, myr bee eh çheusthie jeh oor elley. Cha nel three ooryn ersooyl neayr's v'eh reaghit ny veagh yn paart ec cagh jin dy yannoo; as nish ta baatey-liauyr bree aalin ec yn Çhiarn Godalming as Jonathan, lesh bree jeant aarloo dy ghoaill toshiaght er grig. Ta lieh-ghussan dy chabbil mie ec yn Er-lhee Seward as Mnr. Morris, as stoamey ad. Ta ooilley ny caslyssyn çheerey as cullee jeh caghlaaghyn keint vees ry gheddyn ain....

Ta shin goaill toshiaght er y phodcast shoh, Abbyr Shen Reesht, lesh ny cooishyn ass claare marish Daniel Quayle, Kiaull as Cooish, vees goll er jannoo fastyr Jeheiney eddyr queig pm as shey pm er Radio Vannin AM Three-Jeig, Sheyad-Hoght.KIAULL AS COOISHDaniel Quayle, as eh chebbal Kiaull as Cooish, as magh assjee cheayll shin ny cooishyn echey.Cha row skeeal ny aa-loayrtys jeh fockleyn jeh drane ny arrane er-nyn-son ayns Goll as Gaccan y cheayrt shoh, fastyr beg Jedoonee eddyr kiare as shey pm.Ayns Claare ny Gael va paart jeh'n skeeal Dracula ain reesht, y lioar ard-ghooagh shen liorish Bram Stoker, agh ayns chyndaays 'sy Ghaelg. Nish ta'n possan dy chaarjyn er jeet veih purt enmyssit Varna gys fer elley enmyssit Galatz, t'ad er n'gholl magh dy reaghey aghtyn dy chosney er boayrd lhong t'er roshtyn Galatz, as t'ad treishteil dy chur-rish Count Dracula dy stroie eh. Ta Mina Harker er n'gholl back gys y thie aaght marish Quincey Morris, er yn oyr nagh vel glareaghyn joarree erbee echey. Ta shin clashtyn mychione eiyrtys jeh paart jeh'n obbyr ass Lioar Laa Mina Harker hoshiaght.CLAARE NY GAEL Ny s'anmee.—Ta'n Çhiarn Godalming er jeet back. Ta'n Consul assaaragh, as ta'n Lhiass-Chonsul çhing; myr shoh ta'n obbyr cadjin er ve jeant ec cleragh. V'eh feer chooneydagh, as gra dy row eh arryltagh dy yannoo veg erbee 'sy phooar echey.Lioar Laa Jonathan Harker. 30 Jerrey Fouyir.—Ec nuy er y chlag hie yn Fer-lhee Van Helsing, yn Fer-lhee Seward, as meehene lesh shilley er Messrs. Mackenzie & Steinkoff, ny jeantee jeh'n cholught Hapgood ayns Lunnin. V'ad er n'gheddyn çhellgram veih Lunnin, ayns freggyrt da yeearree y Hiarn Godalming hug eh liorish çhellgraph, ren shirrey orroo dy hoilshaghey magh dooin shirveish erbee 'sy phooar oc. V'ad kenjal as cooyrtoil erskyn insh, as ren ad cur-lesh shin çhelleeragh er boayrd y Czarina Catherine, va ny lhie ec aker ayns purt ny hawiney. Ayns shen honnick shin y Captan, va enmyssit Donelson, ren insh dooin mychione y turrys echey. Dooyrt eh ayns ooilley ny laghyn echey nagh row rieau shiaulley cho vondeishagh. "Ghooinney veen!" dooyrt eh, "agh hug eh aggle orrin, son va shin jerkal dy beagh feme ain er cooilleeney shen lesh bit beg ennagh ass cadjinys jeh olkys, dy reayll rish y stayd er mean. Cha nel eh mie dy roie veih Lunnin gys y Vooir Ghoo lesh geay çheu-chooylloo jin, myr dy beagh y Jouyl hene sheidey er ny shiauill son yn oyr echey hene. As ooilley yn traa cha dod shin scrial veg. Tra va shin faggys da lhong, ny da purt, ny da kione-çheerey, huitt kay orrin as ren ee troailt marin, derrey yn traa lurg jee lheie ersooyl as ren shin jeeaghyn mygeayrt, as dar y Jouyl cha dod shin fakin veg erbee. Ren shin roie shaghey Gibraltar gyn ablid ain dy chur cowrey; as derrey raink shin ny Dardanelleyn as v'eh orrin fuirraghtyn dy gheddyn y chied ain dy gholl nyn drooid, cha row shin faggys dy liooar dy chur eam er veg. Ec y toshiaght v'eh foym goaill neose shiaull as goll mygeayrt derrey va'n chay er n'gholl ersooyl; agh eisht, va mee smooinaghtyn my v'eh fo'n Jouyl lhiggey dooin cosney stiagh 'sy Vooir Ghoo dy bieau, dy lickly v'eh dy jinnagh eh shen baillhein ny dyn. Dy beagh turrys tappee ain cha beagh eh noi'n ghoo mie ain lesh ny shellooderyn, ny jannoo skielley da'n traaght ain; as veagh yn Shenn Ghooinney ren shirveishagh er yn oyr echey hene braew booisal dooin nagh dug shin lhiettrimmys ersyn." Va'n mestey shoh jeh onid as crout, jeh far-chredjue as resoon dellal, greesaghey Van Helsing, as dooyrt eh:— "My charrey, ta'n Jouyl shen smoo aghtal na ta shiartanse dy leih smooinaghtyn; as ta fys echey tra ta peiagh ennagh rea rish!" Cha row y moylley mee-haitnyssagh da'n vainstyr, as hie eh er:— "Lurg dooin cosney shaghey y Bosphorus ren ny deiney goaill toshiaght er gaccan; haink paart jeu, ny Roumanianee, as vrie ad jeem dy cheau harrish boayrd

Beggan anmagh, gow shiu my leshtal!Shoh diu y podcast, Abbyr Shen Reesht, lesh meeryn 'sy Ghaelg ry chlashtyn ayns kuse dy chlaareyn Radio Vannin er yn chiaghtin. She Fiona McArdle ren chebbal Shiaght Laa fastyr Jerdein ec 5.30 er y chlag.SHIAGHT LAAShiaght Laa, va goll er chebbal ec Fiona McArdle.Va Daniel Quayle chebbal y chlaare echey, Kiaull as Cooish, vees goll er jannoo eddyr yn BBC as Radio Vannin fastyr Jeheiney. 'Syn aght cadjin ain 'sy phodcast shoh, she Cooish as Cooish ta shin dy chlashtyn, gyn ny peeshyn dy chiaull, agh shoh dooin Daniel.KIAULL AS COOISHDaniel Quayle as y chlaare echey – paart j'ee, ec y chooid sloo, y paart ayn t'eh loayrt - Kiaull as Cooish.Son Goll as Gaccan fastyr Jedoonee, cha row meer s'lhiurey 'sy Ghaelg er-nyn-son, myr shoh lhig dooin goll er nyn doshiaght gys Claare ny Gael, vees geiyrt dy jeeragh er Goll as Gaccan ec shey pm fastyr beg yn Doonee.Ayns yn ayrn shoh jeh Dracula liorish Bram Stoker, ta'n Chount Dracula troailt veih Lunnin gys Varna ayns lhong, as t'eh ny lhie ayns kishtey lane dy ooir ass Transylvania. Ta'n possan dy chaarjyn fuirraghtyn er y lhong. CLAARE NY GAELJEELANE YN ER-LHEE SEWARD. 26 Jerrey Fouyir.—Laa elley gyn naight jeh'n Czarina Catherine. Lhisagh ee ve ayns shoh liorish nish. S'baghtal eh dy vel ee foast troailt raad erbee, er yn oyr dy row tuarastyl Bnr. Harker fo hypnosis ec irree ny greiney foast yn red cheddin. She possible eh dy vel y lhong ny lhie, ny keayrtyn, er coontey chay; ren kuse jeh ny baatyn bree haink stiagh fastyr beg jea cur tuarastyl jeh clampyn dy chay chammah's my hwoaie as my yiass jeh'n phurt. Shegin dooin tannaghtyn rish freayll yn arrey ain, er y fa foddee dy jig cowrey mychione y lhong traa erbee. 27 Jerrey Fouyir.—S'quaagh eh; gyn naight foast jeh'n lhong urree ta shin fuirraghtyn. Hug Bnr. Harker tuarastyl riyr as moghrey jiu myr dy cadjin: "tonnyn lhiantyn as ushtey roie," ny yeih dy dooyrt ee neesht dy row "ny tonnyn feer faase." Ta ny çhellgrammyn veih Lunnin er ve yn red cheddin: "gyn tuarastyl elley." Ta Van Helsing feer imneagh as dinsh eh dou kiart nish dy vel aggle echey dy vel y Count scapail voin. Dooyrt eh neesht dy cowreydagh:— "Cha mie lhiam y liasstid shen ec y Ven-seyr Harker. Foddee anmeenyn as cooinaghtyn jannoo reddyn quaagh fo hypnosis." Va mee er çhee briaght jeh tooilley, agh ren Harker kiart ec y traa shen çheet stiagh ayn, as hrog eh seose laue raauee. Shegin dooin cur eab noght ec yn lhie-ghreiney er cur urree loayrt ny smoo tra 'sy stayd eck fo hypnosis.28 Jerrey Fouyir.—Çhellgram. Rufus Smith, Lunnin, gys yn Çhiarn Godalming,trooid H. B. M. Lhiass-Chonsul, Varna."Tuarastyl jeh Czarina Catherine goll stiagh ayns Galatz ec nane er y chlag jiu"Jeelane yn Er-lhee Seward. 28 Jerrey Fouyir.—Tra haink y çhellgram fograghey magh y çheet stiagh ayns Galatz er-lhiam nagh dug eh wheesh aggle er fer erbee jin as foddee dy beagh jerkit rish. Ayns firrinys, cha row fys ain er y voayl veih, ny er yn aght, yinnagh y builley çheet; agh er-lhiam dy row shin ooilley jerkal dy jinnagh red ennagh quaagh taghyrt. Va'n cumrail er y çheet stiagh ayns Varna cur shickyrys dooin fer as fer nagh beagh cooishyn kiart myr va shin jerkal rish; cha row shin agh fuirraghtyn dy gheddyn magh yn aght yinnagh y caghlaa çheet dy ve ayn. Agh veg ny sloo va'n yindys. Ta mee shein dy vel dooghys gobbraghey ayns aght cho treishteilagh dy vel shin credjal noi'n toiggalys ain dy bee reddyn myr lhisagh ad y ve, cha nee myr lhisagh fys y ve ain er dy bee ad. Ta shirrey y tharrey jeeoil myr aile symney da ainleyn, eer mannagh vel eh agh ignis fatuus da deiney. S'quaagh va'n cheeill chionnit...

Election 24, Episode 26 The Battlebus fridge is freshly stocked with ice cold lagers, best enjoyed with chips and cake. It'll all make sense. Today's candidates are: Jeremy Hunt, Conservative, Godalming and Ash X: @Jeremy_Hunt W: https://www.jeremyhunt.org/ Carla Denyer, Green Party, Bristol Central X: @carla_denyerW: https://linktr.ee/carladenyer Katie White, Labour, Leeds North WestX: @KatieJWhite W: https://www.katie4leedsnw.com/ Debbie Abrahams, Labour, Oldham East and SaddleworthX: @debbie_abrahamsW:https://www.debbieabrahams.org.uk/ Just 543 to go...If you are a candidate or know one who'd like to come on the show, email politicalpartypodcast@gmail.com SEE Matt at the Edinburgh Festival in August: Matt Forde The End of an Era Tour Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Guardian's John Harris is on the road, visiting Jeremy Hunt's seat in Godalming and Ash and Michael Gove's Surrey Heath constituency to find out why lifelong Conservative voters are abandoning the party. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

In this episode, Visualising Peace student Robert Rayner interviews Debby Flack. Debby served as an Ecumenical Accompanier (EA) with EAPPI in Palestine and Israel. EAPPI is a World Council of Churches programme which sends human rights monitors to Palestine and Israel for three months at a time. The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel was formed in response to a 2002 call from the Heads of Churches in Jerusalem to create an international peacekeeping presence in Palestine. EAs form multinational teams which provide an impartial, nonviolent 24/7 protective presence across the West Bank. While the World Council of Churches and many organisations which send EAs are Christian organisations, the programme sends those of all faiths and none. The programme has evacuated EAs during the most recent escalation of the conflict.Debby is a Quaker from Godalming in Surrey, who was trained and served in the South Hebron Hills earlier this year (2023). Robert discusses with her what an ‘average' day as an EA looked like, what accompaniment actually is, and why ‘principled impartiality' is so important. Debby explains how her experience has shaped her life back home, how it has led to her current advocacy and activism and the importance of local engagement for peace. During the podcast, she discusses both the pragmatic and more abstract aspects of the work, from spiritual practices for peacekeepers to how to see and understand both sides of a deep-rooted conflict. She describes the importance of EAs' protective presence, especially against the backdrop of the current violent flareup of the conflict, in the wake of Hamas' attacks on October 7th and Israel's military response.This episode reflects Robert's wider research interests in the role of religion in peacebuilding, and what the advantages and disadvantages of neutrality are for NGOs working in conflict-affected areas.We hope you find the conversation interesting. For a version of our podcast with close captions, please use this link. For more information about individuals and their projects, including some of Robert's museum entries on Neutrality, Impartiality and EAPPI, please visit the University of St Andrews' Visualising Peace website.

The very last episode in Series 10, but I'll be back with a couple of bonus episodes closer to Christmas and the New Year. Thank you so much to all of you who have liked, subscribed and shared the podcast this year; your endorsement means the world! Join me for The Retrospective here - https://quietthehive.com/product/the-retrospective-2023/ Get tickets for my in person 'Calm amongst the Chaos' session at Well & Good in Godalming, here - https://bewellgood.co.uk/events/2023/11/24/coffee-amp-connection-december Find me on substack @quietthehive

Gather round, gather round. No stop, that's too much gathering. Disperse... A little more... A little more. Well now you're far too dispersed, aren't you? You're gonna wanna give me just a hint more gathering. Woah woah woah, now you're even more gathered than the first time. So much for the wisdom of crowds, ya tightly packed throng o' boneheads. In this very chatty episode of Regular Features, Gav recounts the tale of our annual trip to the most happening Halloween party this side of Godalming. Steve hosts a "guess the TV theme tune" quiz in lieu of actually doing a feature. And Joe turns informant for anyone who'll listen. "Onion Capers" and "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This time out we chat with award-winning, best-selling Patrick Ness. Author of young adult books, including The Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls -  his newest book Different For Boys - as well as books for adults n all, like. https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/patrick-ness (Not to be confused with Patrick Nest, a bee keeper from Godalming, Surrey. Although, I'm not sure how you could become confused, they've got completely different names). https://patrickness.com/ Also this episode, we've got a rather chilling listener WIP from Kalina Holzapfel.

Charlie is co-founder of the epic studio and co-working space, Well and Good. Situated in Godalming, Charlie and her co-founder Anna have created a space which is welcoming, warm and fun, building a community and a vibe that is unique. Here we explore the challenges and joys of running your own business, why you should always do what you love and love what you do, and why asking questions is key. Find out more about Well & Good here - https://bewellgood.co.uk/ Go and become part of the instagram community - @bewellgood.co.uk

Caroline Farrow is back with us as we discuss our way through the big stories this week in the news and across the media. Expect free thinking, free speech and plenty of opinion as Caroline let's us know what she really thinks about the topics this episode including..... - Migrants could be housed on old ferries as the government ends hotel stays. - Unelected PM Rishi Sunak bans media from Conservatives' conference. - Hey Waterstones... stop pushing dangerous gender ideology at children! - #LetWomenSpeak: New Zealand tour explodes into violence as hard left men's rights activists show the world exactly who they are. - Violent male paedophile moved to Washington women's prison. - Uproar as Kent Police is slammed for poster classifying rapes as non-emergency crimes. - Watershed moment in the trans debate, sparked by the landmark decision about female athletes. - Humza Yousaf commits to introducing abortion up to birth and sex-selective abortion in Scotland if he becomes the next First Minister. * CitizenGo Waterstones Petition https://citizengo.org/en-gb/fm/210382-waterstones-stop-pushing-dangerous-gender-ideology-children In 2010, frustrated by many of the media headlines and negative coverage of Catholicism, Caroline began a blog in defence of Catholic teaching and to reflect on UK current affairs and world events through the lens of a Catholic woman. What began as nothing more than personal musings designed to explain and propose controversial ethics and life issues to those who had struggled with them, or to de-bunk misleading narratives and headlines, soon mushroomed and popular posts would receive more than 30,000 unique visitors a day. Between 2011 and 2017, she was a member of the organisation Catholic Voices, set up to promote the defence of Catholic teaching in the public square and made numerous media interventions on their behalf and quickly became the 'go to' voice for media organisations looking to represent a female conservative Catholic point of view. Since 2013 Caroline has writes a weekly column for the Catholic Universe and has written for and featured in a number of other publications such as the Catholic Herald, the National Catholic Register, the Conservative Woman, Mercatornet, Crisis Magazine, LifeSiteNews and Church Militant. She used to write on Catholic culture at the now defunct Spectator Arts blog and has been featured in the Daily Mail, the Observer and the New Statesman. In 2013, Caroline was included as part of the first cohort of the BBC's '100 women' and she regularly features on BBC News, Sky News, ITV's Good Morning Britain, BBC Sunday Morning Live, the Big Questions and has made multiple appearances on Radio 4's flagship Today programme, Woman's Hour, the Moral Maze and the Sunday programme as well as featuring in one-off documentaries. Caroline also presented the coverage for March for Life UK for EWTN and has contributed to News Nightly and Celtic Connections. She also frequently contributes to Talk Radio, LBC and BBC local radio as well as BBC Radio Ulster, discussing matters pertaining to Catholicism, feminism and the challenges of motherhood and family life. Caroline has an eclectic career background. She began her professional life as a student accountant for a big 5 firm before succumbing to a desire for travel and adventure and became a member of cabin crew working both long and short-haul routes for internationally acclaimed airlines. Having got the travel bug out of her system, she returned to work within investment banking and private equity in the City of London until her first child was born. Caroline is currently the campaign director at CitizenGO, has 5 children of school-age, four girls and one boy and is married to a Catholic priest who converted from Anglicanism, a few years after they were married. Follow and support Caroline at the following links... GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/cf_farrow Twitter: https://twitter.com/CF_Farrow?s=20&t=Je-7QgQaAve5NCKtELcYNg Website: https://www.carolinefarrow.net CitizenGo: https://citizengo.org Originally broadcast live 25.3.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. 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Migrants https://web.archive.org/web/20230325135434/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/24/migrants-could-housed-old-ferries-rishi-sunak-ends-hotel-stays/ Rishi Sunak https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/24/rishi-sunak-bans-media-conservative-spring-conference Waterstones https://citizengo.org/en-gb/fm/210382-waterstones-stop-pushing-dangerous-gender-ideology-children Kellie-Jay Keen https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11901005/UK-trans-critic-Kellie-Jay-Keen-doused-tomato-juice-protestors-Auckland-New-Zealand-rally.html Posie Parker https://twitter.com/salltweets/status/1639480137833140225?s=20 Women's Prison https://reduxx.info/the-worst-one-yet-violent-male-pedophile-moved-to-washington-womens-prison/ victim legal fees https://twitter.com/Glinner/status/1639606190769422336?s=20 Kent Police https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11888161/Kent-Police-slammed-poster-classifying-sexual-assaults-non-emergency-crimes.html gender war https://web.archive.org/web/20230325120043/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/25/week-tide-turned-gender-war/ Yousaf https://righttolife.org.uk/news/humza-yousaf-commits-to-introducing-abortion-up-to-birth-and-sex-selective-abortion-to-scotland  [0:22] So without further ado, Caroline, thank you so much for coming back with us tonight. Always a pleasure, always a pleasure, Peter. Always good to have you. And we are not short of stories, as always. Let, actually, let me, let me just see if I can pull in. Do let me know where you're watching. I'll have the, certainly the GETTR page open for your comments in there. So do let us know where you're watching we'll get to see the international flavour of fuel jumping on. So let's start with the UK and we'll start with immigration. Very hot subject. The title here from the Telegraph is migrants could be housed on old ferries as Rishi Sunak ends hotel stays. People who arrive illegally on small boats will initially be moved into decent but rudimentary accommodation, government said to announce. [1:22] And there was one figure here, Rishi Sunak expected to declare as early as next week, the beginning of the end of asylum hotels which are currently being used to house more than 50,000 migrants at a cost of nearly seven million pounds a day. What are your thoughts on this story that those who come over illegally could be put on boats?   It just shows what a shambolic mess our, immigration system is in. I think it's appalling actually. I mean in some ways I'm sure [1:58] many people would say well it's a deterrent, it will make only those who really have no other choice than to come here, it will make people who are perhaps what they call economic migrants think twice, but it is clearly inhumane, you know, putting people on boats, you know, to live. And it just shows that we really need to have a rethink of our immigration policy, because clearly, the reason that they're going to, well, I say clearly, the reason that this policy has been mooted is because at the moment we're spending £7 million a day housing asylum seekers or refugees. And again, I want to be really careful because when we're talking about these groups of people, we are talking about human beings who do have human rights, who do have human dignity. You know these are these are people wanting to come to Britain to make a better life and I'm not going to slam anybody for wanting to to go to a country to seek a better life for themselves you know that that is you know an inherent an intrinsic human right but equally countries do have the rights to police their borders but we must make sure that we do it justly and fairly. Now if we've got so many people coming to this country that we cannot physically house them, that we have to put them on boats, then we need to have a balanced and grown-up discussion about immigration. [3:27] What our immigration policy should be. We can't clearly just say let's have open borders. It'd be lovely, wouldn't it? It'd be lovely to say everybody who wants to come here can come here and you're guaranteed a welcome and the British people are very tolerant and very hospitable, all of those things are true. It'd be lovely if we could do that, but we are a smallish island, and our infrastructure is already creaking at the seams. So whenever you talk about immigration and whenever you talk about people coming here on boats or people making their way illegally, and you express some concern, you get tarred as a racist or far-right bigot or compared to Hitler's Germany is the latest slur, but there is an issue here. When we have got people that we just don't have, we are spending seven million a day at a time when we are so overstretched economically, when our infrastructure is in chaos, and then we're saying, okay, well, we can't, [4:24] housing people in hotels is not sustainable at seven million a day, just, you know, either in terms of the cost or in terms of how much room we have, so we've got to, you know, put them on boats, then we we need to have some serious policy about numbers, who we can accommodate you know and have and have a procedure for allowing those people who can come here. Who have a legitimate reason to be here, who have ties with this country, and who want to build a new life for themselves and work. We need to facilitate that, but equally [4:58] we can't, much as it would be great to allow every single person to come in, we don't have the infrastructure to do that. And shoving people on boats, I think, is a cruel and inhumane policy. You wouldn't like to live on a boat. We're warned of the dangers of not dehumanising people, but actually when you start putting people on boats or in army barracks, that's exactly what it does. It treats people, not as people, but as a number and a problem. That's not a humane, and I'm a Christian obviously, and that's not a Christian way of dealing with it. So it's a very fraught issue but we need some sensible grown-ups to the table and I think both sides could do with dialling down the rhetoric. So expressing concern about this and saying, you know, okay, what are the numbers we can accommodate? It's not racist. [5:57] Equally, and it's not Nazi Germany either, but equally on the other side of the coin, being really really harsh and firm and calling people names and attacking people isn't the answer either and you know and I do think we we do have to do something to stop people from coming over on these inflatable dinghies and risking their lives you know and it's not good it's not good for political cohesion because it is you know we've seen riots outside hotels which is which is terrible which is not what we want to see and we don't condone you know and And the reason, certainly nobody can condone that, and it must be awful for those people who are inside the hotels when they are subject to those protests, you know, you've got to remember that there are human beings involved. But this is because of the resentment that is building, being built up by these policies, because I think I was reading in the Telegraph, the Red Wall constituencies up north, they are having like 16 times the amount of asylum seekers or refugees that are being housed in the South and the South East. And the other point I want to make, I mean this is a very personal one, [7:14] I'm very open about the fact that my two youngest children have special needs and right now we need to get primary school places for our children and they've been turned down from six local primary schools because there are no places because they're being taken up by Ukrainian children. Now I don't resent Ukrainian children a school place at all and one might argue, well, Caroline, you're middle class, you're educated, you know, it's not as important for your children to have a place as it is the Ukrainian children. And I might agree with you, I might not, but at the end of the day, not everybody's going to have that attitude and be in a position where they think, okay, I'm going to see what I can do to cobble together an education at home. But equally, what it means is you're having to put one child over another, you're having to prioritise children for school places. We've got a crisis in the NHS and there's a crisis in dentistry, so you're having to prioritise one person's need over another. [8:23] So we can't just continue to say, OK, everybody who wants to come here should be able to come here and that's fine, without, you know, some serious thought to the question. No completely and we'll move on but a simple way of fixing it would actually be to, actually process the people probably within weeks and put them back where they came from if they do if they are able to go back but that would be common sense but that would seem to fix the issue. But anyway moving on let's just touch on this subject quickly because I want to go on some of of the others. But I find this interesting and this is Rishi Sunak bans media from Conservative Spring Conference. Press and public barred from attending with party, claiming it is an internal event closed to media. And I know I've been to many UKIP conferences, Caroline I'm sure you've been as citizen go to different political conferences and it is quite essential I think part of the democratic process to for the meditative access to these political conferences. Yeah, I don't think we should gloss over this actually. I think this shows we have a need for a new political settlement. This is almost like something out of Putin's Russia. [9:39] You know, the Conservative Party are, you know, years ago, the Conservative Party have always had amongst, I suppose, politics always been tribal, and the Tory Party have always had a reputation of being the elites and very divorced from the working class. They're not helping themselves with this. In the 80s, Thatcher's Tories were all about, oh yeah, you know, Basildon Man, Wolverhampton Man, you know. I mean, we're in touch with the working man and we're in touch with the working people and we want to help people make better lives for themselves. This just screams we are the elite, we are the elite, we are you know this is this is a party who, [10:23] by the looks of things, are not going to win the next general election, or they might, and this is really unfortunate actually, because the Tory party might win the next general election on the issue of gender ideology, and because Tories can say what is a woman, the Tories are also doing the right thing on sex education lessons, they're not doing enough, we need, I might get onto that later, but we need the review of sex education in classes to be independent. We can't have the Department for Education doing the review or the inquiry because they've been captured for so many years and useless for so many years, you know, they've been captured by Stonewall. But so the Tories are doing the right thing on gender ideology and they're doing the right thing on relationships and sex education, well they're kind of on their way to doing the right thing, whereas Keir Starmer can't even make up his mind what a woman is or what his stance is, and he can see what's happened to Nicola Sturgeon. But actually, the Tories don't deserve to get in. They're going to use this gender ideology and what they've done to suck up some Labour votes, but they don't actually deserve to get in. [11:35] Particularly if they're going to have their conference and they're going to shut off, media and the public and it just smacks of we are the elites and we are deciding, we're in government, we don't actually care about whether or not we get in next time or we're just so complacent we think we're going to get in. And the jargon they're using is like real left-wing Marx, you know, this is a training event, I mean for goodness sake, a training event, when has a conference been an internal training event? Yeah, it smacks of elitism, it's quite. It smacks of authoritarianism as well, you know, Soviet era, you know, group of people over there. No, I think it's very worrying and it speaks of a need, I think, for a new political settlement or a new political party to be more transparent and more in touch. You know, we're just, oh, I'm sick of politicians.   Oh, so am I. So let's move from this story, Let's move on to the work that you're doing in CitizenGo. [12:42] This is Waterstone Stop Pushing Dangerous Gender Ideology at Children, one of your campaigns. And the viewers can see that Waterstone, so yeah, Waterstone's UK's leading high street book retailer has shortlisted the book entitled My Trans Teen Misadventure by Lewis Hancock, a transgender identified female for its prestigious children's book prize due to be awarded 30th of March and this is aimed at 14 year olds. It's unbelievable that Waterstones would be pushing a book like this for their children's book prize and it's wonderful to see obviously the support to this petition has gained but tell us about this campaign Caroline.   Well okay it's not actually the first time Waterstones have done this so just before I started Citizen Go in 2019, they had another book that was about a boy who wanted to be a mermaid, and that was written by an LGBT. I think he might have been a transgender identified man, I'm not entirely sure, but certainly someone who identified as a member of the LGBT community and It was all about this boy who wants to be a mermaid and a drag queen and they nominated that as well. [13:59] And I think clearly the head of children's is obviously fully on board the woke gender train. Now the reason that this book caught my attention is because it actually has an adult advisory, on the back. So it's been nominated for a children's prize but with an adult warning advisory on the back. And I don't know if you've been into Waterstones but they have their book of their weeks, they have their promos. And being nominated for this book is, for this award is a real honour. It's really prestigious, it's going to make your book sales rocket and it's going to make your profile rocket. Now Waterstones are a high, as you know though, the UK's leading bookseller. They're really trusted, you know, sometimes you want something to read and you go [14:50] into Waterstones and you see what they're recommending and you're like, oh right, okay, I'll have a look. Now these books are being placed on tables where there's a high footfall of children and adolescents as well, so but in that kind of child and adolescence area and you'll see on the table, we recommend this book. Now the thing is, as you know I've got many children, I know exactly what they're like and they will be attracted to a book and they won't see, oh, that's for older readers. So this book has a cartoon on the front. Welcome to Hell, My Trans Teen Misadventure. It's the sort of thing that my 8-year-old son might pick up, because it looks like Horrid Henry or something. Do you know what? It appeals to a younger demographic. He would pick it up, and he wouldn't look at the warning on the back. And then he flicks through, and he sees these cartoons. Now, all children love cartoons. My children are no different. They like the Beano. They like Bunny and Monkey and Dogman. And all children like cartoons. And that's fine. And Waterstones sell these nice cartoon books. So he would see that, or my 10-year-old daughter might see this, and they'd flick through it. [15:59] Then you've got that picture, which I've got illustrating the petition, which is basically the author of this book is projecting her own experience as a woman who wanted to be a man when she was an adolescent. And it's just encouraging teenage girls to just self-hate on their bodies. So breasts are two fatty lumps that need to be gone. [16:23] There's stuff about hairy legs, you know, and then it's, you know, it points to her pubic area and it says, don't go there, an imaginary willy. I mean, no, it's just validating every single hitch from hell. Teen girls, almost every teen girl has some neurosis or anxiety about her body, that's entirely and 100% natural. This book is sowing the seeds of self-doubt, of hatred, and it's validating that and it's saying, oh, the female body is disgusting and something not to be liked. [16:57] And, you know, there's no way that just a 14-year-old would read that. Probably actually, many savvy 14-year-olds would go, oh, that's a comic book. I'm well beyond. They might actually turn their noses up at it because it looks maybe a little bit too babyish. So it is clearly designed to appeal to a younger demographic. But even if you were 14 and older, it's validating teen girls' anxieties about their body. But worse still, Waterstones then came out with, oh, this is one page out of context. No, there's another cartoon where it shows a girl being injected with either puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones. And she was going, yeah, yeah, just in time for uni. So it's kind of telling girls, oh, my goodness, you've got to get this done before you go to uni. And then you have the nurse. She's learning something from the experience. And then they mentioned Keira Bell, the detransitioner. And they were saying, oh, yeah, there was this girl. And she really regretted it. And she took them to court and made it much harder for everyone. But fine, it's all been sorted out now. And you can get puberty blockers. [18:08] And this other girl who has a beard and is now allegedly a man says, oh, yeah, this was the best thing I ever did. That's not a balanced discussion at all. That's just pushing gender transition at children. And when we see countries around the world putting the brakes on and saying, actually, there isn't the evidence to show that this is safe. We're quite concerned about the long-term health effects, you know, effects on bone density, on brain development, you know, all those things. As puberty is a time when your body is laying down the foundations for the rest of your life. [18:42] It's a completely natural process and sort of stopping with it has never ever been done before in human history and you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, is the phrase. But certainly there are a lot of concerns, long-term health concerns about puberty blockers. We're seeing young girls now with osteoporosis and arthritis, you know, and you take testosterone as a woman and it's It's very difficult to come back from that. But there's no balanced discussion. It's just propaganda. And what gets me about this, if this was like Asterix, for example, another great cartoon book. So in great literature, it's not cartoons. This is not a book that would be read in a classroom. It wouldn't be studied for GCSE literature. It has absolutely no literary merit whatsoever. Fine, of course, Waterstones are going to sell cartoon books because they sell and they're fine. And we have a phrase in our house, donut books. So certain authors and certain books, they're allowed to, you know, my kids are allowed to read them. Of course they are, but it's like a donut. You know, you don't have too much of it. So David Walliams being one of those, yeah, don't get me started. [19:59] But you know, that's, so the cartoon books are like the donut books. They're not the books that you would study all the time. And certainly, you know, not really about, and yet Waterstones have thought this worthwhile to put on a children's prestigious literature award. [20:20] I suppose Harry Potter came out too late, but you know, everyone would have sneered at Harry Potter, but, and they did, when Harry Potter came out, everybody sneered at it. Oh, it's not great literature, blah, blah, blah. you know, Harry Potter should be on there or, you know, it's not the magician's nephew, is it? [20:37] It's not C.S. Lewis. It's just a very crude cartoon book pushing gender ideology. And actually [20:46]i've been blown away by the success of this petition. This has been the most successful petition I've run, I think, in the past year, you know, and the numbers just exploded. And yeah, I'm going to keep plugging it and we are going to do some offline. What I would like to do is get a decent children's book and see if I can get a decent children's book into schools and libraries because this is a problem. Once this book goes on this list, then schools go, oh yes, it must be very good, mustn't it? Waterstones say, and same with libraries. So actually, I think there's a case for countering their propaganda with some better propaganda. And the other thing, actually, sort of, Peter, while I'm on Waterstones, the other thing is that they appear to have been suppressing two books, one by Helen Joyce called Trans and the other by Hannah Barnes called Time to Watch or Time to Wait. And it's an investigation of the Tavistock gender identity clinic. And lots of people have been going into Waterstones and asking for copies of these books and finding that Waterstones staff have basically hid them out back. And that, you know, they can't get them. I went into Waterstones in Godalming and asked for them. [22:12] You know, and yeah, no, I don't have any of those. No, you'll have to order them. And certainly some of the more woke stores in London, there's been reports of staff hiding them away. So yeah, Actually, Waterstones, you are a leading high street retailer and you enjoy a lot of customer trust. [22:38] Let me, the viewers and listeners can go to citizengo.org and go and have a look at those petitions. Sign it, but also put it on your social media profile, send it on to others. Don't only you go and click on sign up, but make others aware of it as well. And then you'll be passing the word and raising the concern of this and also introduce some people to Citizen Go. So go and do that. When you finish watching this, have a click on it and make use of that. Now, let's go and look at Down Under, New Zealand. Can you call New Zealand Down Under? I think you can. I don't know. I don't want to get into that argument between Aussies and the Kiwis, but UK trans critic, Kelly J Keane, there are a whole load of issues I have even just with the headline, but anyway. [23:30] UK trans critic Kelly J Keane or Posie Parker is doused in tomato sauce and evacuated by cops before she can speak during the latest rally in New Zealand as she considers cancelling the rest of her tour. And the little bullet points here are Kelly J. Keen was doused with tomato juice, said she fears for her life, fears for life in inverted commas, meaning that I don't know why they're trying to take away from that, or and then transphobe may cancel the rest of her tour, again inverted commas, the Daily Mail calling someone who stands up for the rights of women to be women a transphobe, and then puts in men in Nazi clothing also join protests, again the Daily Mail linking her with that which is complete nonsense. But obviously people can go on to Posey's Twitter account can see the violence which she has faced. [24:27] Talk to us about this, Caroline, and I know you've, I think I saw a tweet from you back 2020 when you were voicing support of Posie Parker and what she is trying to do, to stand up for women and to say that men have no right in those spaces and a woman is a woman, full stop. But tell us about this. [24:49] Well, I mean, Posie's been, or Kelly, Kelly J, has been working since sort of 2017, 2018, which was when I first met her. But yeah, she did a, so she does these events around the country called Let Women Speak. Now, these events are amazing, they empower other women. So it's an open mic event, it's a bit like some speaker's corner. So she goes and she, it's not her preaching at people, she allows women to go and take the microphone and tell their story. Now, Posey does not discriminate at all. If you're a woman and you want to have the mic, she doesn't pre-screen you, she doesn't say what are your views on this, that and the other. If you want to talk about female emancipation, well it's not even emancipation, but if you want to talk about your story about why you think men shouldn't be allowed in changing rooms or your daughter's been getting changed in Primark and she's had some man come in, she's all about, or you're a victim of of domestic violence and whatever it might be. She's all about empowering women to tell their stories. And she doesn't tell you what story you should tell. This is about helping women to find a voice. [26:04] And now, of course, a lot of people don't like that because let women speak. They don't want women speaking. And they say it's terribly transphobic. Well, I don't actually know. The first time I was called a transphobe. [26:19] I remember it was in 2011 and I just laughed, I thought this is a made-up word. [26:25] What are you talking about, a transphobe? and it is a made-up word and basically anybody who, stands up for the rights of women to have single-sex spaces and to have single-sex associations gets called a transphobe because you know men who identify as women want to be in our spaces and want to be in our groups because it gives them validation. Yeah, I'm a real woman, I'm using your spaces, I'm in your clubs, you know, it gives them the validation that they want and they need and they require, but at a massive cost to women. So it comes at a cost to religious women. [27:04] You know, particularly Jews and Muslims who, you know, aren't allowed to share those spaces, so it drives religious women out of public life. And it comes at a cost to rape victims or domestic abuse victims, people who've had a really bad experience with male violence, with rape, and they just are very, very traumatized by men and they just don't want men in their spaces. Or just normal, I say normal, but just ordinary women and girls who don't have a history of trauma but just feel very, very uncomfortable. And we're just told, no, no, no. You should accept men in your spaces. You should accept men in your sports. I remember a few years ago doing a radio interview. And I was talking about the fact that my, I think she was about 13 then. My 13-year-old daughter had been made to feel very uncomfortable because she was getting fitted for a bra. and there was men milling about. And somebody said to me, well, what have you done, Caroline, to make your daughter hate men. [28:13] It's like, no, I don't. This isn't about hatred. This is about girls' natural boundaries. And you ask any parent of any ordinary, well-adjusted teenager, when they're little, yes, they will toddle around the house with no clothes or very inhibited. And then they hit sort of 10, and the bathroom door shuts. And they start finding their own privacy, their own boundaries. And they're drawing up their boundaries. And you have to respect that. We all have our own boundaries. But actually, what we are being told is, you must be kind. You must be kind. You must be nice. And you must let your guard down. So if you're getting changed in the gym and you're getting naked, and there's a woman in there with a penis, it's your fault if you've got an issue with that. [29:01] So Posie is just, actually, Posie's just a normal wife and a mom. And Posie's been in the very fortunate position that she was a stay-at-home mom. She didn't have to work. And she got very, and she's always counted herself, actually. This is why it's really strange that she gets called right wing. She always countered herself as a lefty. She was always like, yeah, I'm a left wing woman. I'm a lefty atheist. Again, she gets pilloried because she associates with the likes of me, who doesn't agree with abortions. They're like, I mean, these, and you get this as well. even from the left-wing feminists, trying to tell her, trying to police who she should and should not be friends with, who she should and should not associate with. You know, everybody's sort of trying to tell, take Posie's autonomy from her, tell her, you know, oh, if you want to be a good little feminist, this is what you should do. And Posie, you know, [29:58] Is a marketing genius and all power to her. She's gone out there and she's got the message out there and of course, you know when you're on target because you're getting a lot of flack. So Posie has got a load of flack from the left-wing feminists who've been tarring her as a right-wing Nazi bigot and then of course that's been picked up by the trans activists. literally she's She's been in the position of just, because she didn't have to work, and she got drawn into this debate. But she's put her heart and soul into this. And just being able to put, she thought of putting woman, adult, human, female on billboards and on the t-shirts. And she's gone global. And good luck to her. And I'm not convinced, actually. So in Australia, what happened was she went to Australia, a bunch of neo-Nazis turned up and they were doing Hitler salutes. Now, I'm not sure, I don't know, but I almost wonder if this could be an Antifa... [31:09] Because who does that in this day and age? Who does that? I mean, I didn't even know that that was a thing. People going out, goose-stepping. I shouldn't laugh because the Nazi salute is not funny, it's heinous, it's traumatic and what it's associated with. But this is not, and normally, I mean I don't know, I don't associate, contrary to popular belief, I don't know anyone who identifies as hard right or far right. I don't know any neo-nazis or any fascists. But I kind of think, don't these sorts of people stay in the shadows? Because they know that their beliefs aren't mainstream and aren't going to be accepted. I mean, who does that? It goes out like... [31:59] But Caroline, do you not see it out when your local Sainsbury's or Tesco's and suddenly see 20 Nazis all lined up? Oh no, none of us ever see that. So you're right. The only way I can understand is that its staged , that's the only way it makes sense. It's just so bizarre. And so she got all the flack, you know, for them turning up and she should have, apparently she should have immediately told them to go away. Right, okay, so Posie's five foot one. [32:26] You may have, she's a diminutive. I'm sure she won't mind me saying this. Potted Posie, no, she's a small lady. I'm not tall and she's sort of way below me. You know, so this diminutive little lady has to see a bunch of Nazis doing like a Basil Fawlty salute and tell them to go away. I don't think so. And it wasn't, whoever they were and whatever their motivation, I mean, far right people aren't going to support feminists anyway. They're not aligned with feminists. They have a very misogynistic outlook on life. And I think they were, if they were genuine far-right people, then they were obviously just leveraging, I think what the far-right are trying to do is leverage some of these issues that, you know, conservatives are concerned about, in order to maybe try and legitimize themselves and to try and get conservative support. But, but I'm, yeah, I'm very doubtful that they were genuine because it's, [33:31] As you say, it just doesn't ring true. I mean, who would be saluting to Hitler and why, you know? It's play acting. And one thing, if I can say, that I have admired Posie from afar. We were accused, or she was accused of being part of us, I think, because some of our team went to film an event down in Brighton. I think I have bumped into Posie once and talked to her for maybe 40 seconds. This was years ago, she probably had no idea who I was, and we went to film that thing in Brighton, the stand-up for women, and it was a public park, so we filmed, and suddenly the story is, and it's unbelievable, but yeah, I don't know Posie, Posie doesn't know me, good luck to her, we wish her the best from afar, but it's obviously these, the media, both kind of on the left and and then in the far right, they all try and paint a certain picture that isn't true, just to target their... [34:32] Yeah, and I think what's happened is very frightening to her. It must have been really frightening. Some of the pictures, people with their hands sort of on her throat. It turns out, I think it was security trying to get her away. And she said, you know, if I'd fallen over, I didn't think I was going to get up. And just the sheer naked aggression. And what was she doing, right? What was she doing? She was just saying, women can have a voice, women can speak. We don't want men in our changing rooms. We don't want men in our sports. And of course, we've had a good result with Athletics Federation yesterday as well. I think the tide is, I've said this for years, the tide is beginning to turn. But actually, it feels that there is being a significant shift. But it's awful for her, actually. Awful. and awful for the women of New Zealand to live in. But we'll move on, but just one thing to leave the viewers is the first line, the first sentence, it gives the headlines and then it starts off in the article. This is the Daily Mail. The first word they use in the article is controversial, anti-trans. [35:43] It's controversial standing up for women's rights, women's only spaces? The Daily Mail have lost the plot. If any of you think actually the Daily Mail are on the side of common sense, that is utter nonsense. They're not. They're on the side of whatever is a good story for them and sells papers.   And actually you have to ask as well, when people say transphobe, like you know, they say, what do you mean? I'm not irrationally scared or whatever. You know, [36:08] what rights do you, does the transgender, transsexual community not have that they want? And I guess their answer is, we want everyone to accept that we are women, that we are the sex that we say we are. Now there is an argument, yeah, okay, I'm sure at work, people can use your new name and they can maybe use your new pronoun and people can treat you with dignity and respect. But there needs to be a balancing exercise in terms of common sense. And when somebody is being made to feel like they can't go to the loo all day at work because they feel very uncomfortable, then there needs to be sensible accommodation made. And it shouldn't be a case of, you know, the woman who's feeling uncomfortable because she's got a man in her changing room or whatever, it shouldn't be her that's made, you know, to feel uncomfortable. There needs to be, and none of the activists, a very sensible solution would be, well, let's have a third space, okay? Let's have men, let's have women, and let's have a third gender neutral. But the activists don't want that. [37:27] No, they will not stop. That is the frightening thing. Let's look, because this is one of the outcomes. We've got five minutes to spare, we'll do another four. We've touched on this, and again, sometimes you end up repeating the same stories, but just with different characters in different locations. And this is the worst one yet. Violent male pedophile moved to Washington Women's Prison, And there were some, yeah, here's the figure. So, Jolene Karisma Starr, born Joel Thomas Nicholas, is the latest male transfer to the Washington Correction Center for Women, which currently has approximately one dozen male inmates being housed in the facility. Just there, I can see the problem. A dozen male inmates in a woman's prison. But, Caroline, we see this regularly, probably every other week, another story of different parts of the world where a man, often who has been charged with rape or sexual assault of a woman, ends up with a group of women. There is no way you can describe [38:43] the suffering that then continues and the position that you put women in, putting a man who's doing that in a woman's prison. Yeah, and it's not just the other female, I say other female, it's not just the female inmates that that person is terrorizing, it's also the female prison guards because they have to do intimate searches and all sorts. And so you're not just putting, and of course, every woman, regardless of whether or not she's an inmate, deserves dignity, respect and safety, but it's not just the inmates that are being put at risk, it's also the female prison staff. And the other thing you have to remember that is in women's prisons, most women who are in prison are not there for violent crime. [39:31] Female offending has a very different face to it to male offending. Now I know that there are women in prison for violent crime but I think the proportion, I think it's something like 75 percent, there's a very good website, Keep Prisons Single Sex, and I think it's something like over 75 percent of women who are in prison are not there for, it's for non-violent crime. [39:57] So you've got a very vulnerable demographic as well because most women in prison are disproportionately affected by domestic violence or they've had difficult lives, which is why they have ended up in prison. And we did another campaign this month, you may have seen, for Barbie Kardashian, a very violent 21-year-old who I can't repeat the things that he said about what he wants to do with his mother. He's threatened to rape, torture, and murder his mother. He's got a history of violent assault. He tried to kill a female social worker who was looking after him. And of course, Irish media, you're not allowed to talk about him in Irish media. They got an injunction out. And there's an Irish outlet called Gripped, who'd published a very detailed and telling history. And even though Barbie Kardashian, I mean, even the name just shows, tells you what he thinks of women. I can't remember what his real name is, but everyone knows him as Barbie Kardashian. [41:05] I think it's Alexandro something or other. I think it's Alexandro Gentile. But yeah, he's now known as Barbie, And he's this very, very violent prisoner, when he was jailed the guard I said, we're very worried, he still poses a significant threat to public safety and to women's safety and he's been jailed in women's, in Limerick [41:28] Prison. And when you look at his life, he's had a terrible life. He was brought up with abusive parents and his father co-opted him into domestic abuse of his mother and he's clearly very disturbed, very violent, very dangerous. So yes, you can have a slight bit of sympathy for a very disordered mindset. But it's not safe to put a man like that in close proximity with women who've already, you know, if you're a woman in prison, then you've had, most of the time, you've had a very hard life. [42:05] I'm not going to say that women should never be in prison or anything like that. But you have to accept that you're dealing with a very vulnerable demographic and they're being put at risk and so are the female prison guards. It has to stop. And in fact, if you haven't signed a Barbie Kardashian petition on Citizen Go, please do so. Because actually, every single day that goes past and these men are in our prisons, what's going to happen? What's going to have to happen before people realise the folly of this? Let's just bring up this tweet. We'll see how much you want to admit. This is Graham Linehan. And some good news, at Flying Lawyer 73 has lost another case and owes his latest victim legal fees of £15,000. I believe now he owes between 80 and 100 grand to solicitors from a series of failed cases. Again, why is he allowed to continue doing this? Now you probably have an idea what this is about, but when people can spend this amount of money on nonsense through the legal system. [43:14] It makes you kind of wonder, well, where are our tax money going? Are they paying for it themselves? So, do you want to touch on this before we move on? Briefly. So, Flying Lawyer 73 is Stephanie Hayden. Stephanie Hayden is the transgender-identified male who was responsible for my arrest in October, and he's also been responsible for the arrest of two other women. Kate Scottow, who was arrested, she was a breastfeeding mother, she was arrested in front of her autistic children, and I was arrested in front of my autistic children, and Bronwyn Dickinson, another woman, he got arrested. What Stephanie Hayden does, so Stephanie Hayden is a transgender identified activist who in 2018 came to prominence. [43:59] Basically trying to do a version of lawfare, so would go around trying to get people cancelled, he got people kicked out of their university positions. He tried to sue Mumsnet. It just made an absolute nuisance of himself. And he said, oh, I'm standing up for transgender rights. Now, anytime anybody says anything about Stephanie Hayden that Stephanie Hayden doesn't like, he reports them to the police and he sues them. And he claims when he reports them to the police, he trumps up the charges. So he told the police that I had posted memes about him on a forum. I hadn't. But the police were stupid enough to go, oh, gosh, that's terrible, isn't it? And came and seized my devices looking for evidence. They still haven't found it because I didn't do it. So he uses his transgender status as leverage with the police and gets the police to act as his personal militia. The police forces aren't joined up. So Surrey police were quite surprised when I told them, you know he's had two other women arrested for this. Were like, well Caroline, save it for interview. She said, all right, save that for interview. [45:08] So it's not joined up and what Stephanie Hayden does is a two-pronged approach. So he'll try and have you arrested. He had the police called out to Graham Linehan as well and he will then sue you. He's suing me for the third time. And he sues you because he doesn't have a, to the best of my knowledge, he doesn't have a job. He calls himself a lawyer, but he's not a regulated or qualified or insured barrister, solicitor or legal executive. So he's eligible for the help with fees scheme, which is for people on low income or on certain benefits. So he will take out a claim against you in the high court and he's exempt from court fees. So if you sue somebody, it's typically about 5% of the claim and he sues for unlimited amounts. So he is about a 5,000 pound court fee. And that's in place to act as a barrier to stop vexatious claims. Stephanie does not have that barrier. And because Stephanie has a law degree, they then act as a litigant in person, which they appear to enjoy very much because they go to court and they start calling Barrister as malignant friend and everyone else just cringes and dies with embarrassment for them, honestly. [46:28] So and prior to suing, he's suing my boss at the moment. My boss said, oh, I've made it. You're not anybody in the UK. You're not doing effective work, unless you're, no, joke. He'll probably be transcribing this and saying, oh, they deliberately. So he's suing me for the third time. and he says, oh, you know, she's forcing me to sue her. [46:51] Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's bringing his claim, you know, she's forced me to do this. And so he forces, you rack up a lot of legal fees defending yourself because most people, you know, can't defend themselves in the high court, and it's all about [47:07] do you know the procedure? Anyone who's been through a court case knows it's not necessarily about evidence or rights and wrongs. It's do you know the procedure? And Stephanie Hayden clearly does. And yeah, and his behaviour in litigation, but before, it's quite bad as well. Oh goodness, it's quite shocking. But before he sued all these gender critical people, he was at Birkbeck University studying for law degrees, a mature student, and he sued, you just don't want this bloke in your orbit, because he sued all his fellow students as well and he sued the Students' Union because there was some argument about internal politics, he sued his landlady, he sued his, you know, and he has a history as well as he, if he doesn't pay his rent, then, you know, they obviously then take him to court for the unpaid rent and he sues them back for harassment. So amongst his former claimants are two landlords. And it's just really frustrating because he can just keep going to the court, filing another claim. [48:17] A master, you know, an admin judge will just briefly look at it and just check that it's procedurally right and they stamp it. And this is then, you know, taxpayers' monies, both in terms of the court fees and in terms of court time that's being wasted on these frivolous pursuits. So he sued an organisation called the Family Education Trust because they had retweeted somebody and made a comment which he thought could be about him and it was to do with vexatious litigants wasting money. So they retweeted something, it was up for less than an hour and he sued them for defamation and the court, the judges dismissed it and said that the the claim was fanciful, was devoid of reality and hopeless and he has to pay their legal costs. But he already owes various other people, including Associated Newspapers, who reported on when he got another woman arrested, they reported on the fact that he'd got another woman arrested, and he said, oh, it's defamation and harassment, sued them, lost that one, and he owes them like 30,000. So he owes, you know, for most people, if you owed that amount of money, you wouldn't sleep. [49:32] So I think there's a real issue here. I mean, this isn't just about my particular issues or my vendetta, but there's a real issue with the system that somebody can exploit the court system [49:47] in this fashion and when you can't get legal aid, you know, people are scrabbling for legal aid, and yet, you know, the system wasn't set up or clearly it never envisaged the help with fee schemes that it could be abused in this way. What it's done about it, I don't know, And presumably Peter, all of this, for somebody who really despises me, so Stephanie Hayden [50:13] every time I'm on any media outlet, every time I've been on GB News, he's made a complaint to Ofcom. For somebody who says he's so harassed by me and he's terrified and me saying things, you know, me just telling the truth that this is... [50:27] a dodgy character, puts him at risk of violence and what have you. For someone who claims that I'm harassing him, he follows my every online and mainstream media move. Yeah, so I know that this will probably be played back in court or to the police and I'm not saying it to cause any alarm or distress. I think this is actually a public interest issue, particularly when it's somebody trying to make themselves a media figure. So, you know, yeah, I think, yeah, I think it's public interest and I think something needs to be done. So, yeah, there we are with that one. Yeah. Well, let's finish with this story, which is a good story. This is in the Telegraph. The week has turned in the gender war. There's been a watershed moment in the trans debate sparked with a landmark decision about female athletes, which you mentioned earlier, Caroline, and that's the World Athletics Council, which have ruled that only those born as women can compete in [51:36] women's sports, which did seem quite common sense to most of us, but yeah, they have ruled that common sense will prevail. So it is a positive story, and I think the article talks about that this could actually spread into other areas and bring that, I guess, sense of common sense to the debate in other parts of society?   Yeah, I hope so. And, you know, I think. [52:04] what's been really, this has been quite a grassroots movement right from the start, you know, like we talked about Posie Parker. [52:14] But we can see there a picture of Sharron Davies. And it's just really gratifying that we've had JK Rowling and Sharron Davies. And some of these really big names speak out because someone like me, someone like Posie, we get called right wing bigots, transphobes. [52:37] But you see someone like Sharron Davies, who she feels really or Sharron Davies, isn't it? Sorry, I called her Davies. She feels very strongly about this because she was cheated out of a gold medal her entire career because of women on testosterone, these German athletes who were doped up. So she feels very strongly about fair play for women in sports. And it's very hard to portray Sharron as being a conservative bigot, for want of a better word, or for being right wing. And I think it's incremental. This was always going to be death by 1,000 cuts, because gender ideology had got so big. And it had got captured into every area of society. We said earlier, we've seen it in education. We've seen it very chillingly, as I know and Harry Miller saw and various other people have experienced. We've seen it embedded into the police service. [53:45] We've seen it embedded into every element of society. [53:52] So as a telegraph sort of op-ed made clear, it was either we kind of go along with this and we say, you know, people like Caroline, people like Posie are, you know, outrageous bigots, or actually, you know, we push back, you know, it didn't even say we pushed back, but we had a choice to be made. And I think, finally, we deviated off down the path of madness. And slowly, I think we're coming back. And I think the pendulum is swinging. And I don't, there's always a danger, isn't it? The pendulum goes. I think what we had was, we had the laws of 1957, when homosexuality was criminalized. And we've swung all the way from there, where being gay would get you locked up, and again, [54:48] that was low-hanging fruit. It was much easier for the police to arrest somebody who was cottaging in the public loo. Now, that is an offence to public decency, but it's much easier to get someone doing that than the serious criminals, whereas these days it's much easier to get someone saying the wrong thing online. So we've gone from a position where people were unjustly repressed. For someone who's often called a homophobe, I feel very strongly about the decriminalisation of homosexuality. I believe that it's a private act of morality and what you do in your bedroom, as long as it's, you know, the usual caveats with consenting adult, and doesn't involve children or animals, that's your affair. What you want to get up to in your bedroom is your affair. And as a tolerant liberal, I have no interest in telling people what they should be doing in their bedrooms. Even as an Orthodox Christian, I don't have care of souls. It's not for me to bring people to Jesus by telling them what they should do in bed. So I feel very strongly that homosexuality shouldn't be criminalized. But we've gone from a position where, because we had a section of society who were unjustly repressed, the pendulum has swung all the way over there, [56:16] to the other side. And people have sort of reacted so strongly to the oppression. It's the same with critical race theory as well, in that we've still been acting in 2022, like we're a deeply homophobic or a deeply racist society. And we're not. I think there has been, [56:36] I would say, at least for the last 20, 30 years, there has been a lot more tolerance. And rightly so, people shouldn't be persecuted. But there's still this feeling, oh, there's this terrible persecution. So we have to flood children with all kinds of propaganda and tell them how to wash after sex. And it's kind of been part and parcel of sexual liberalism as a movement, sexual progressivism, sexual libertinism. So we've gone from repression to libertinism and I think we need to sort of [57:12] move somewhere back near to the middle. And you know, I said this on my Twitter feed and I mean it, I think it's been really hard for, there have been very many sensible lesbians and gays out there that have been calling out their own community and that's been, that's courageous really actually to say, hang on a minute, I didn't sign up for this. I didn't sign up for people claiming to be a different sex. I didn't sign up for the grooming of children. You know, this doesn't help. This isn't, you know, this kind of drag queens into primary schools perpetuates every single negative stereotype that they've been trying to counter for years and years. So I'm hoping that it will, I think we're beginning to see a correction, but nobody can sit on their laurels, you know, and certainly as New Zealand shows, there are still countries, [58:11] New Zealand, Australia, America and parts of America still deeply enthralled to this nonsense and we need to really have a think about, you know, we need this independent investigation into sex ed in schools. So, yeah.   Well, let's see if a so-called Conservative government actually get around to doing that, but there's a whole other discussion. Caroline, as always, thank you so much for joining us and giving us your thoughts on those stories.   Oh, always a pleasure. Thanks so much for having me, Peter.   Not at all, and I encourage our viewers and listeners to go and make use of citizengo.org and do look at those petitions, do sign them and do pass them on to your friends and encourage them to do the same. And I think on that, I wish everyone watching a wonderful rest of your Saturday. Have a great Sunday. And we'll be with you on Monday evening for a special that something that we've been working on for the last two years behind the scenes. And I'm so excited that we can finally discuss it. [59:15] And that is tune in Monday 8 p.m. And we'll talk about it then. So look forward to seeing you then 8pm UK or 3pm Eastern or noontime if you're over in the Pacific on the West Coast. So we'll see you on Monday. Thank you so much and good night to you all.

Last time we spoke about the successful execution of operation KE and the battle of Wau. Operation KE was a success and the Japanese had managed to evacuate 10652 men. Simultaneously while Operation KE was going on, the Japanese had refocused on New Guinea and sought to secure their important bases at Lae and Salamaua. In order to secure them the Japanese commenced a new offensive, this time aimed at Wau which held a significant airfield that could be used to threaten Lae and Salamaua. The Japanese managed to land significant forces to hit Wau, but the Australians tenaciously held them back long enough to get reinforcements to Wau to push the Japanese back. The Japanese offensive turned into a catastrophic failure, yet despite being pushed back the Japanese would regroup and plan another offensive to take Wau. But for today we are diving back into the CBI theater. This episode is the First Chindits Expedition: Operation Longcloth  Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.    The story of Operation Longcloth and the actions that will take place in Burma require us to talk about some notable figures, one who is to put it frankly, a very bizarre but fascinating man. Orde Wingate was born into a military family in February of 1903, his father was a religious fundamentalist who became a member of the Plymouth Brethren. Wingate and his 6 siblings experienced a very repressed childhood and were kept away from other children for fear of spiritual contamination and would endure a regime of religious mania spending entire days reading and memorizing the Old Testament. For Orde, the religious indoctrination was accompanied by a spirit-shrinking spartan regime, something like a secular boot camp. When his family moved to Godalming, in 1916, Orde was sent to a Charterhouse school. He was very much an outsider there and did not mix with the other children nor participated in any sports. Then in 1921 he was accepted into the Royal Military academy at Woolwich, training as an officer in the Royal Artillery. At this point he suffered a salient trauma, Wingate began breaking all the rules and underwent a ritual known as “running”. The other military students summoned Wingate from his room, stripped him naked and had him run between lines of senior students who whacked him with knotted towels before he was tossed into a tank of icy water, it was the good old running the gauntlet. Wingate would stare the other boys right in the eyes and define them to do their worst to him. Many were intimidated by this and ceased hitting him as a result. Then Wingate would toss himself into the icy water tank. Wingate had thus shown himself to be a student of note at an early age.  By 1923 Wingate received his commission as a gunnery officer and a post at Salisbury Plain where he soon gained a reputation for being a skilled horseman and particularly good at the fox hunt.  But many who knew of him described him to have a dark side, yet again he always broke the rules and conventions. This became more of an issue by 1926 when he took a post at the military school of Equitation where he became very alienated by his peers and superiors by his arrogant insubordination. But Wingate enjoyed a powerful patronage for at this point in his life his fathers first cousin, “Cousin Rex”, Sir Reginald Wingate, the former Governor-General of Sudan and High commissioner in Egypt took him under his wing. Wingate took leave and began studying Arabic at the London School of Oriental and African Studies and then served in Sudan and Ethiopia. He also carried on a 5 year affair with a woman named Enid Peggy Jelley, to whom he got secretly engaged. But after 6 years after boarding the liner Cathay at Port Said, returning for his marriage to Peggy, he fell in love with a 16 year old girl named Lorna Paterson who was traveling home from Australia. As soon as he got home to Peggy he notified her he was in love with another.    Wingate married Lorna in 1935, a woman 13 years younger. In 1936 Wingate became an intelligence officer with the British Mandate in Palestine and almost immediately became an ardent Zionist, though he was not himself Jewish. Palestine at this time had an enormous Jewish population since the end of the first world war and a large influx of those fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The Arab population saw them as a future threat and guerilla groups sprang up. Archibald Wavell the newly arrived commander in chief in Palestine had Wingate form the Special Night Squads (SNS) to combat Arab terrorism. Wingate was an early proponent of using paramilitary actions at night to induce a unique and singular terror in his enemies. He got the SNS to use slavering dogs, a very calculated piece of cruelty since the animals were regarded as unclean by Muslims. The SNS were basically legitimizing Zionist counterterrorism, using Jewish thugs to strike back at Arab thugs.  Wingate performed war crimes and horrible atrocities while leading the SNS and was recalled. This should have been the end to his career, but Wavell and Sir Edmund Ironside kept making up excuses to cover for criticisms against him. These two men managed to get Wingate back into the game by 1941 where he was brought over to Ethiopia to help fight against the Italians. Backed by Wavell, he attempted another go at the SNS, this time named the Gideon Force, a band of irregulars made up of British, Sudanese, Ethiopians and some ex SNS. Wingates force proved spectacularly successful and this time with no controversy. But still because of his tactlessness and insubordination, Wingate ended up getting whisked out of Ethiopia at the end of hostilities.  Wingate found himself in Cairo in a major depression, he tried to kill himself with a Ethiopian knife but was saved by a man who drove him to the hospital. There is considerable evidence to suggest Wingate was bipolar and had experienced an acute episode of downswing for his manic-depression. Wingates enemies and critiques were delighted at the news of his downfall and hoped he would be court-martialed and tossed into an asylum, but Wingates backers prompted him up yet again. His suicide attempt was attributed to delirium induced by malaria, but as Churchill's personal physician Lord Moran would write in his diary about Wingate ‘Wingate seemed to be hardly sane . . . in medical jargon a borderline case.'  Wingate was certainly a bizarre person, he was also an exhibitionist and extremely eccentric as many sources put it. He was careless in dress, always unkempt, had zero respect for military convention and hierarchy and expected his superiors to satisfy his every whim. When General Auchinlack succeeded Wavell as commander in chief in the middle east he met Wingate who came to his office in shorts, with a dirty solar topi and a greasy blue jacket. Wingate loved to go around camps naked, often appearing out of a shower nude to bark orders at other men. He liked to wear an alarm clock around his wrist that would go off on odd occasions for no particular reason that anyone could figure out. He was rarely seen with his trademark Wolseley helmet and fly whisk. He carried on a string around his neck a raw onion which he occasional snacked upon, cant make that one up people. He had a lot of food fads which he imposed upon his subordinates, such as vegetarianism. He rarely changed his clothes and thought doing laundry was unnecessary.  Wingate went through a limbo period until 1942 where Wavell asked for his services to help in South-East Asia. Originally Wingate was told he would be training Chiang kai-sheks forces guerrilla warfare and he was quite unenthusiastic for 2 reasons. 1) such an endeavor he deemed to be like teaching one's grandmother to suck eggs. 2) he wondered what the point was of sending a Middle East expert to the CBI theater? Yet as of February the 27th Wingate found himself departing to be the liberator of Delhi with the rank of major. It would take 3 weeks for him to get over to Wavell and by that time Rangoon had fallen. Wavell told him that his job had thus changed, now he would be in charge of all guerilla operations against the Japanese within Burma.Wingate was sent to Maymyo east of Mandalay to take over the Bush Warfare School being run by another colorful character named Michael Mad Mike Calvert. Calvert was coming back to Maymyo, returning from a failed operation and found Wingate sitting at his desk. Calvert glared at him and asked who he was and calmly Wingate simply stated his name. And would you know it, they got on perfectly fine and even became friends. The two men both decided their first task should be to go down to see Slim at Prome. Slim had met Wingate back in East Africa in 1940, both men serving under Wavell against the Italians. Upon discussing the matters of organized guerilla groups, Slim agreed to some of Wingates ideas but doubted his Ethiopian experience would be relevant for the task. As Slim was becoming very aware, jungle warfare in Burma was a special type of beast. Wingate was very impressed by Slim and said of the man ‘There is only one soldier worthy of the name East of Suez. He is a bad-tempered little terrier by the name of Slim.' When Chiang Kai-shek was departing back to China after a visit in March, Wingate managed to take a seat on the plan alongside him, hoping to learn about warfare in Burma from the generalissimo. However their aircraft was chased by Japanese fighters, ruining times for conversation. Wingate was informed at Chongqing that he would not be receiving Chinese fighters for his programs as they were now going to Stillwell as a result of the catastrophe in Burma. When he returned to Burma he was informed by Calvert they had sent 100 Bush warfare people into the Irrawaddy and only 11 survived, things were chaotic to say the least. Wingate then took Calvert for a week long car tour of the Burmese frontier making careful notes of animals, insects, reptiles, and terrain details. In Delhi on april 24th, Wingate announced he no longer had any interest on training a guerrilla group, but instead wanted to create a more proactive long-range penetration (LRP0 group. He had 3 major motifs for this, 1) the Japanese troops behind the lines had to be inferior to those as the front, thus the British should get behind. 2) They needed to use communications based on radio and supplied by air. 3) They had to cut the Japanese supply lines and destroy their arms dumps, thus typing up disproportionate numbers of the enemy. He continuously made his case to his superiors and many thought him nuts to think he could train men for jungle warfare in just 8 weeks time. But Wingate kept pushing for it, insisting also that all the men must be volunteers and that he needed at minimum 3000 men.  The finer points of his idea brought up the need to supply special units with airdrops, not a particularly new idea, but certainly a gung-ho one. His superiors wanted to outright reject his ideas, but Wavell yet again was championing his cause. Wingate won out the day and it was agreed to allocate men to his project. The 77th Indian brigade was formed and it was certainly a motley collection. The main British component was the 13th battalion of the King's liverpool regiment raised in Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool in 1941. These were older, married men with no dreams of martial glory, typically employed in the coastal defense of Britain then suddenly shipped to India after the Japanese went supernova in the east. They displayed a lack of enthusiasm for Wingates ideas, many of them were also too old for jungle combat. Wingate rejected 250 of them off the bat and Wavell gave permission to fill the gaps with other units. The rest would come from two oriental units,the first being the 2nd battalion Burma rifles. These were mainly warriors from anti-Japanese hill tribes, the Kachins, Chins, Karens and such, those personally affected by Japans aggression and eager for payback. They were eager and better yet, they taught Wingate a lot about jungle warfare. The other were Gurkhas whom always held high regard amongst the British, though Wingate thought them arrogant, ill-disciplined and overrated. I find that truly bizarre, because all literature i have ever read about Gurkha's troops has been nothing, but praise and something out of a Rambo film. One historian of the Gurkhas said of Wingate ‘Wingate was the only officer in 130 years of service ever to criticise the performance of Gurkha soldiers, characterising them as mentally unsuited for their role as Chindits. Of course the same might be said of Wingate.' Likewise the Gurkhas found Wingate arrogant, overly domineering and someone who paid little heed to them who had vastly more experience fighting in Burma. They also really did not like him because of his rude and autocratic treatment of them.  Wingate divided his force into 8 columns each commanded by a major and each given 15 horses and 100 mules. The columns would be sustained by airdrops, thus an RAF signaling section was attached to each. They trained in the central provinces of India and in the Saugur jungle due south of Gwalior. Within the jungle training the idea was to hit the men with every possible scenario they might face, to push them to the absolute limit. They endured hell. Encounters with giant snakes, mosquitoes, leeches, days filled with half rations deliberately to simulate living off airdrops. Men collapsed from heat, marching with full packs through vegetation. When the monsoons hit, they were marching through mud, rivers and torrential rain. Many days began at 6am with half an hours bayonet drill, followed by unarmed combat. After breakfast they learnt woodcraft, map reading, compass reading, how to forage and distinguish poisonous plants. They learnt how to blow up bridges, lay ambushes, how to storm airfields, how to properly clear paths in jungles, it was grueling.  From the beginning of the training programme there were sickness levels allegedly as high as 70%. Wingate was ruthless, in the case of those saying they were suffering from dysentery, he ordered his officers into the bathrooms to inspect the mens stools to prove if they were lying. Amongst many of his enemies, the Medical Corps would be a large one. Wingate continued to alienate himself and made more and more enemies. At one point Wingate misunderstood the Burmese word for Lion “chinthe” as Chindit and declared it to be the name of his LRP group henceforth, thus they became known as the Chindits. His Burmese aide, Sao Man Hpa told him the word made no sense in Burmese, to which Wingate told the man Chinthe made no sense in English.  Wingate defeated the 70 percent rate of illness, bringing down to a 3 percent, via brutal methodology, most genuinely ill men simply carried on too afraid to be punished. Wingates eccentric qualities spread amongst the men, like his necessity to wear shorts in the rain, to eat raw onions, and to keep a bunch of buffalo to milk because he believed their milk had salubrious qualities. Wingate should have been sacked at countless times, but the rubicon had been crossed and he was expected to lead his men by 1943. By December of 1942, the Chindits and Wingate were ready for action. They had been trained to carry 70 pounds on a march, were equipped with tropical uniform: army bots, mosquito nets, mess tins, sterilizing kits, each man had a rifle or Bren gun plus 50 rounds of .303 ammunition and 6 days worth of rations. The rations were 12 wholemeal biscuits, 2 ounces of nuts and raisins, 2 ounces of cheese, 4 ounces of dates, 2 ounces of chocolate, 20 cigarettes (which greatly annoyed Wingate as he deemed smoking a major hinderance), tea, sugar, powdered milk, salt and vitamin C tablets. The mules of his forces carried 3 inch mortars, ammunition, wireless radio sets and batteries. His force of 8000 were divided into 8 columns of around 400 men each: consisting of 3 rifle platoons, a support platoon with 2-3 inch mortars, 2 Vickers medium machine guns, a mule transport platoon and an RAF air liaison detachment. In addition he had 10 platoons for reconnaissance, scouting and sabotage operations. Now originally Wingates force was supposed to be part of a 3 pronged offensive, utilizing conventional British forces attacking Akyab and the ARakan while the Ledo and Yunnan forces led by Stilwell would secure northern Burma and reopen the land route to China. As we all know during this series, Burma was a colossal mess. Originally 4 Corps would assault Sitang and Kalewa while 15 Corps attacked Akyab and Arakan, but shortages in labour, transport and lack of skilled hands led to the cancellation of the major project. Even worse, Chiang Kai-Shek, greatly pissed off by the decisions made during the Casablanca conference, refused to sanction a Chinese expedition from Yunnan. With all hopes for the great 1943 offensive dashed, Wavell had to consider whether the Chindits were even relevant anymore. Wavell arrived to Wingates HQ on February 7th after countlessly telling the man things were simply postponed. In a 2 hour meeting Wingate fought bitterly to send his men into the fray, but Wavell stated he could not be party to the pointless waste of lives. Wingate made multiple arguments for sending his boys in, 1) cancellation would boost defeatism in the Indian army: 2) it was essential for the British to overcome their current ignorance of Japanese jungle fighting: 3) Fort Hertz, the remaining British outpost in Burma was in desperate need of relief: 4) without a Chindit crossing, the Japanese would dominate the jungle on either side of the Chindwin river: 5) the 77th brigade was not pitch perfect and any delay would be catastrophic to morale: 6) An attack by the 77th brigade would impair and set back Japanese preparations for an offensive. Wavell apparently impressed by Wingates enthusiasm agreed to let the Chindits have their day. The Chindits were not directed south-east to help with the Arakan operation, instead their assignments were to be to cut two railways, one between Myitkyina and Mandalay in northern Burma and the other, the Mandalay-Lashio line. The codename of the operation was Longcloth, which annoyed Wingate because it held no grandiloquence he sought.  In early february the 7 Chindit columns marched south east from Imphal to Moreh on the Assam/Burma border. Once across the border they split into 2 groups, the southern group consisting of columns 1 and 2, around 1000 men and 250 mules which was a feint to throw off the Japanese and the Northern group consisting of columns 3,4,5,7 and 8, around 2000 men and 850 mules who would destroy the railways. Small patrols were sent across the Chindwin marching some 30 miles into enemy territory and coming back without any incident, however doing that with 3000 men was another matter entirely. On February 13th, an advance party of the Northern group crossed at Tonhe around 50 miles north to act as a a doubled bluff to cover for the southern groups feint. Meanwhile a disinformation party with the southern group marched south and ordered a huge quantity of supplies from a village known to be aiding the Japanese, providing a great ruse. The second wave of 2000 men from the Northern group crossed the Chindwin unopposed on the 14th.  Crossing the Chindwin was not easy, while elephants and bullocks swam across with ease, the pack mules proved very skittish, most likely fearing crocodiles. Getting them to the far bank was a nightmare. The southern group also had its problems with their mule. They had the first task of ambushing a 250 strong Japanese garrison at Maingnyaung on the 18th, but ran into a skirmish with a Japanese patrol before they made it there. The enemy was thus alerted and bombarded them with mortars, this spooked the mules and the caused a stampede. Many mules were lost in the jungle, the element of surprise with it and the fiasco cost the southern group a delay of 3 days. The southern group slowly pulled away from the hill country east of the Chindwin, making for the Mandalay-Myitkyina railway. By the night of the 3rd of March they were ambushed in the Mu valley. It was a utter disaster. Radios, ciphers and most of their equipment were lost. Column 2 was almost annihilated, column 1 limped on to the banks of the Irrawady awaiting final orders from Wingate, who instead kept blaming their commander, Major Burnett. As for column 2 he said “the disaster to No. 2 Column, was easily avoidable and would never have taken place had the commander concerned understood the doctrines of penetration”.  Meanwhile Wingate and the Northern group rendezvoused 5 miles inland from the Chindwin and received their parachute drops. Wingate then pondered his options, he could make for Tonmakeng where intelligence reported no enemy presence and wait for the next supply drop and attack the 200 strong Japanese garrison at Sinlamaung or they could bypass it and head into the Mu valley. He kept the men marching and some of his scouts reported a Japanese garrison was at a gold mining village called Metkalet 15 miles east of the Chindwin near Tonmakeng. He ordered columns 3 and 5 under Calvert and Fergusson to attack at once. Then another disaster struck. Fergusson's column got stuck in a swamp and scouts returned again with a new report that no Japanese garrison was in Matkalet after all. So Wingate and Calvert directed the columns to Tonmakeng. Wingates thinking was it was better to strike at an enemy strength he knew, rather than the Mu valley which was an unknown. They reached Tonmakeng without further incident by february 22nd and learnt a Japanese garrison was at Sinlamaung, 10 miles away so WIngate dispatched 3 columns to attack it while the rest of the men waiting for a supply drop expected 3 days away. Disaster struck. The 3 columns were unable to locate Sinlamaung after 3 days and when they finally found it on the 25th, the Japanese garrison had just pulled out. Wingate met with his officers and they decided to march to Zibyutaungdan with Calverts column 3 in the lead. On March 1st they made it to Zibyutaungdan and then proceeded to descend into the Mu Valley. Wingate then ordered the Northern group to disperse into its columns and rendezvous later at the Irrawaddy or beyond. He also dispatched an advance party across the Irrawaddy to the Kachin highlands northeast of Mandalay to try and raise a guerrilla force among the pro-british people there.  By the night of March 3rd disaster struck. At the very same time the southern group was being ambushed, column 4 walked into an ambush, 2 miles west of Pinbon. Major R.B Bromhead, a descendant of the Bromhead famous for fighting the Zulu at Rorke's drift in 1879, did his best to get his panicked mules with their Gurkha handlers to disperse and regroup at a rendezvous point hoping to get help from columns 7 and 8, but while trying to do so, the men were attacked again and by the time they reached the rallying point columns 7 and 8 had moved on. With no food or radios and just a handful of mules left, the column had no choice but to retreat back to India. Within a days time, columns 2 and 4 were broken and on their way back to India. Wingate was livid, his credibility was at stake, but fortunately for him and his men the Japanese assumed when they whipped out Column 2 they had destroyed the entire invasion effort. By March 6th, Calvert and Fergussons columns were within striking distance of the Wuntho-Indaw railway. Calvert and Fergusson hatched a bold and daring plan to assault what was a 800 strong garrison at Pinlebu. They spoke with Major Walter Scott leading Column 8 and told him to attack Punlebu while they supervised a massive supply drop north-east of the town. The idea was that the attackers and supply collectors would support another. Doing so they would set up roadblocks to the north and east of Pinlebu and call upon the RAF to bombard the town, making the Japanese believe they were facing a huge force. The attack turned into an amazing success. The Japanese were quickly confused as Calvert and Fergusson had the railway line demolished. It was a bloody fight, but the line was blown up in several places. The Japanese counterattacked in force trying to stop the demolition. Calverts men also mined 2 railway bridges, one of them a 3-span 120 footer. In the bloody mayhem, Calvert and Fergussons men killed about a third of the Pinlebu defenders and cut railway lines in 70 separate places. During the evening Fergussons column no 5 blew up the 40 foot rail bridge at Bongyaung gorge, leading also to hundreds of rock and rubble going over railway lines around the gorge. Now 10 mites north of Wuntho, Wingate established his HQ in the Babwe Taung hills. He had a tough decision to make, should he retreat back to India or press further and cross the Irrawaddy? Wingate even considered turning his HQ into a new fort like Fort Hertz, to try and push the Japanese to give up the Irrawaddy towns. Wingate as you probably have guessed went with option number 2, despite how unbelievably dangerous it was. The Japanese were hard on their tail as the Chindits made their way trying to cross the Irrawady river. This is where I have to leave our story of the Chindits, but they will come back throughout the war.  We need to make a small detour to speak about the Casablanca conference that took place from January 14 to the 24th. Chiang Kai-Shek had been begging the Americans and British for more aid. FDR told Chiang Kai-shek he would champion his demands to Churchill at the Casablanca Conference, but Churchill brushed this all aside. The conference ended with two large decisions, the first being the controversial doctrine of unconditional surrender. The allies were now confident after the success of operation Torch, the victories at Alamein and at Stalingrad that the Germans were on the run. But over in southeast asia, the Japanese looked impregnable. Thus the 2nd decision made was basically to keep the Europe First course steaming ahead, the Pacific was simply second banana. But for America, the situation in the Pacific had distinctly changed, they had won the initiative and now sought to consolidate their conquests in the east. Admiral King applied considerable pressure to the matter, in private he began urging that if the Pacific did not get 30% of allied resource quote “it would necessitate the US regretfully withdrawing from the commitments in the European theater”. Admiral King wanted to continue the momentum in the Pacific by seizing the Solomones, the eastern New Guinea-Rabaul area, capture back Kiska and the Attu islands in the Aleutians begin operations in the Gilberts, Marshalls, Carolines, take Truk and extend the occupation of New Guinea to the Dutch borders. The British opposed this as they continued to argue the best course was to defeat Germany first then devote all resources against Japan. Now as for the CBI theater, plans were continuing for Operation Anakim and the Burma offensive, but the British were not looking to extend their commitments in the theater very much. They argued that the depleted condition of the eastern fleet prevented them from carrying on a naval supremacy campaign in the Bay of Bengal, and this led Chiang Kai-shek to refuse to support an offensive through northern burma, because of the lack of British naval forces at hand. Thus operation Anakim looked like it was only going to get off in late 1943. For all the failures of the conference, FDR did try to remedy the situation as best as he could with their Chinese allies. FDR made it known he wanted to treat China as a great power that the allies would help build up for the current war and postwar. He also acknowledged the dramatic need to keep supply routes to China open. Stilwell advised 5000 tons of supplies be sent over the Hump per month as a goal to hit by February of 1943, this would require 140 aircraft during good weather and 300 aircraft during monsoon seasons. But Washington at this time could only spare 75 aircraft, another disappointment to Chiang Kai-shek. Another important side aspect to the Casablanca conference was brought forward by Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud who were vying to become recognized partners to the allies with their Free French Forces. Until this point, the Japanese had a pretty awkward relationship with their technical ally, Vichy France. This awkward situation led them to simply ignore the Free French forces and by proxy they decided to not touch the French concession of Guangzhouwan which had declared itself part of Free France. French Indochina of course was fully invaded prior to 1941 and remained under nominal Vichy French control, but Guangzhouwan was beginning to stick out like a sore thumb. Chiang Kai-shek recognized Free France's authority over Guangzhouwan and many Chinese forces of the 4th Area Army led by General Zhang Fukui fled into the concession to escape the Japanese. This drew Tokyo's attention and they finally decided to put an end to the Free French presence in China. The 23rd army of General Sakai lent 2 battalions of the 23rd independent mixed brigade from Hong Kong to go over to the Luichow Peninsula. They landed at the village of Peichatsun on February 17th and began skirmishing with some Chinese defenders. They soon overwhelmed the defenders and seized the towns of Hsinlaitsun and Haikang, forcing the Chinese to withdraw towards Suichi. From there the Japanese continued north, seizing Suichi and Chihkan. After these seizures, the Japanese had fully encircled the French concession of Guangzhouwan. The Japanese and representatives of Guangzhouwan soon fell into negotiations and the Free French were forced to declare the concession an open city, allowing the Japanese to occupy it without a fight.   I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The eccentric or better said madman Wingate got his wish to send the Chindits into the fray, despite just about no one other than Wavell wanting him to do so. With Onions wrapped around their necks they made their first strike against a Japanese railway and it was a surprising mixed success. 

Tipps von George Hotz, eine OpenAI Zusammenfassung über Adlous Huxley und Georg findet Island besser als Brave New World. Kapitel: 0:00:00 - Senior Consultant 0:09:05 - Immer Fragen stellen - George Hotz 0:21:15 - OpenAI ChatGPT 0:28:31 - AI Zusammenfassung über Aldous Huxley 0:36:03 - Brave New World - Zero Covid Politik 0:43:37 - Island - Aldous Huxley 0:59:23 - Zitate OpenAI ChatGPT Zusammenfassung über Aldous Huxley: Aldous Huxley war ein britischer Schriftsteller, der vor allem durch seinen Roman "Schöne neue Welt" bekannt wurde. Er wurde am 26. Juli 1894 in Godalming, Surrey, England geboren und verbrachte seine Kindheit in einer literarischen Familie. Sein Großvater war der bekannte Schriftsteller Thomas Henry Huxley und sein Onkel war der Schriftsteller und Satiriker Aldous Huxley. Huxley studierte am Balliol College in Oxford und begann nach dem Abschluss seine Karriere als Schriftsteller. Seine ersten Werke waren Lyrik und Essays, aber er wurde auch als Schauspielkritiker und Journalist tätig. In den 1920er Jahren veröffentlichte er mehrere Romane, darunter "Crome Yellow" und "Antic Hay", die beide zu Bestsellern wurden. Sein bekanntester Roman, "Schöne neue Welt", erschien 1932 und beschreibt eine Zukunftsgesellschaft, in der die Menschen durch die Verwendung von Drogen und Genetik kontrolliert werden. Das Buch wurde zu einem Klassiker der Science-Fiction-Literatur und wurde mehrfach verfilmt. In den folgenden Jahren veröffentlichte Huxley weitere Romane, darunter "Eyeless in Gaza" und "Time Must Have a Stop", die jedoch nicht an den Erfolg von "Schöne neue Welt" heranreichten. In den 1950er Jahren wandte er sich dem Schreiben von Non-Fiction-Büchern zu und veröffentlichte Werke über Spiritualität und Philosophie, darunter "The Doors of Perception" und "Island". Huxley starb am 22. November 1963 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien, im Alter von 69 Jahren. Er hinterließ ein umfangreiches literarisches Werk, das ihn als einen der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts etablierte.

The Weightlifting Lawyer, Troy Atkin will be representing England in New Zealand at the end of the month in the Commonwealth Powerlifting and Benchpress Championships.Troy talked to Noni Needs about holding the title of English Bench Press Champion in the open men's 120kg category - with a personal best of 190kg and being third overall in the UK Bench Press category.Troy, is a trainee solicitor at Boscoes Law Ltd, Portsmouth and joins a 20 plus strong English team. He attended Churcher's College and Godalming college. IG@the_weightlifting_lawyerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The story of Dracula is an epic. It is with that in mind, the Storytelling Breakdown team is bringing you the biggest episode we've ever produced. Our four hosts stepped into the roles of Dracula and three of the hunters pursuing the vampire for this Halloween episode. The game is an ongoing tabletop cat and mouse dynamic. Stephen played Count Dracula, evading the hunters at every opportunity, while leaving destruction in his wake. Caleb played Lord Godalming or Arthur Holmwood, whose resources were used to their fullest potential taking the fight to the vampire's deadliest lairs. Jacob Ganser is back on the podcast, this time taking on the role of Dr. John Seward, attempting to crack the psychology of the dreaded undead before he can make more cracks in the psyches of the hunters. Ben played Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, Dracula's feared nemesis, providing the hunters with the knowledge and tools necessary to stand resolute against evil. Last, Larissa played Mina Harker, whose quest to destroy Dracula is also a quest to regain her agency, from the count, the game design, and the original source material provided by Bram Stoker. Will the intrepid hunters succeed in destroying Dracula before his machinations corrupt all of Europe? There is only one way to find out. Interview with the Vampire (2022) and Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) are the subjects of this episode's Spotlight. Caleb and Ben do a Spotlight each year and their conversation starts around the 02:47:01 mark. Subscribe to Storytelling Breakdown wherever you get your podcasts. You can find out more about this show at storytellingbreakdown.com. There you can also find our blog community and support us through Patreon. You can contact us via email at info@storytelling-breakdown.com or using the Storytelling Breakdown Facebook or Instagram. Storytelling Breakdown is hosted by co-founders Ben Clemmer and Caleb Meyer. Since the beginning of 2022, Storytelling Breakdown has also been hosted by Stephen Stachofsky and Larissa Whitaker. Our theme music is by Kurt Roembke. Our logo is by Daniel Church. Our podcast is hosted by John Dawkins and Wayneshout Productions.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This podcast contains strong language from the start Honor is the Managing Director of Birchgrove, a specialist age-exclusive developer working to establish a portfolio of assisted living neighbourhoods with well thought-out facilities for rent.Central to Birchgrove's proposition is the belief that renting instead of owning a home is the most liberating form of tenure, allowing neighbours to retain their independence without the burden of homeownership.Birchgrove has communities in Sidcup in Kent and two neighbourhoods in Woking and Ewell, both in Surrey. Following closely behind are Banstead, Godalming, Leatherhead and most recently Chiswick in London.

Justine Roberts is the CEO and founder of Mumsnet. A website that makes parents' lives easier by pooling knowledge, advice and support on everything from baby names, and household tips, to who they're voting for in the next election.  On the podcast, Justine talks about being a young girl from Godalming, mad about Liverpool football club and spending her years at Oxford University on the sports field. She worked as an investment banker and journalist before having a light-bulb moment on holiday with her one-year-old, which inspired the inception of Mumsnet.  Produced by Matt Taylor and Natasha Feroze. 

... Or why does Cerne Abbas remind me of a mix of the village from Children of the Stones, Summerisle, Corfe Castle and Chiddingfold! (I said Godalming on the podcast but on second thoughts that is a bit too urbane with it's fancy big Waitrose). I finally visit the Cerne Giant after planning it for two trips... I did have to take a sneaky taxi ride cos I just missed the bus in Dorchester, if you have ever seen Dorchester you'll know why I didn't want to spend nearly 3 hours there wating for the X11. Gilling around Weymouth is bad enough! Shame cos the last bus from Cerne is 6pm I could not try those lovely pubs out (only 3 survive from the original 12 so no The World's End here, definite vibes of Hot Fuzz though). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jaunt/message

Today on the Art Seeker Stories podcast, I have an Art 2 HeArt with Becky Sheraidah, Founder and CEO of ARTHOUSE Unlimited,  a charity that represents a collective of artists living with complex neuro-diverse and physical support needs, including complex epilepsy. The artists' work alongside instructors to create artworks which are developed into designer products for sale. All artwork derives from the skills each artist brings and every contribution holds real value. The charity provides a socially inclusive and safe environment for adults who are often susceptible to social exclusion. ARTHOUSE Unlimited believe that feeling a sense of social inclusion, feeling valued for individual skills and truly purposeful in daily life enhances emotional health and well-being. Becky's aim is for Arthouse Unlimited to be a platform for social change, as so many people living with similar conditions experience social isolation and are undervalued for skills in daily life. The artists have individual and expressive styles when creating artworks and have a unique way of seeing the world, offering an alternative view of society and enhancing other peoples' lives with beautiful artistic offerings. In this episode, Becky and I talk about our emotional connection to the sea and the wonder of nature. We dig deep into intuition and universal energy. We chat about Becky's own artwork which echoes her own cycle of life. She paints portraits, feeling a deep connection with those she paints as they are invited to collaborate, although she hasn't painted in a while, instead her true vision and focus is ARTHOUSE Unlimited. We chat about how ARTHOUSE Unlimited came to be and reminisce about the early days, and talk about the importance of value, purpose, and social inclusion for all.  You can find out more about ARTHOUSE Unlimited, belowWebsite : www.arthouseunlimited.orgInstagram: @arthouse_unlimitedYou are always welcome to visit the ARTHOUSE Unlimited shop:96 Highstreet, Godalming, Surrey, GU7 1DWFind me and sign up for my newsletter at:www.emmahill.co.ukFollow me on instagram@emma.hill_art

Rabbits?  Yes, rabbits!  Plural!  As in “Mary Toft gave birth to more than one rabbit.”  Believable?  Not these days.  But in 1726, it was plausible to many, and Mary Toft, 24, of the village of Godalming, England, was convincing to many in her claim that she had just given birth to rabbits.      Oh, and just as astonishing, those births took place after she had already given birth to Mary, Anne, and James, all human children fathered by Joshua Toft, a clothier by trade and a non-rabbit by birth.      Here, from Volume 3 of Stories from History's Dust Bin, comes the “rabbit tale,” if we may use that phrase, of a woman who insisted she had given birth to a “fluffle” of bunnies – a claim that made its way – all the way to the court of King George II of England before the matter could be put to rest.      Stories from History's Dust Bin is a 3-volume set of historical short stories. These are the nuggets of gold that had fallen by the wayside… the little known and unusual. Many of these gems were destined to be forever lost until they were collected, dusted off and brought back to life by author Wayne Winterton.   Each podcast episode features one of the over 450 stories featured in Winterton's Award-Winning* series, narrated by either the author, his son, William Winterton, or his daughter, Jana.   If you enjoy today's episode, please leave us 5 stars and a glowing review on iTunes! And if you don't want to wait a whole week to hear another story from the Dust Bin, consider picking up the books on Amazon (either downloadable or good ol' fashioned ink and paper).   The Entire History's Dust Bin Collection Is Available On Amazon: https://amzn.to/3bDrip4

Triple tonners, retro memes, hypotheses, Ambassador appreciation appreciation, morse code and volunteer milestone tees. Plus Nicola defends her nerdiness and Danny profiles Broadwater parkrun in Godalming.

In the eighth episode of British Murders Season 3, I tell the tragic story of Bill Williamson and his killer Ann Browning.⁣⁣Bill was 82 when he was murdered by 53-year-old Ann.⁣⁣He was convinced by her to sell his home and to move in with her.⁣⁣On the same day the house sale was completed, Bill moved in with Ann and was brutally killed by her.⁣⁣Ann was sentenced to life imprisonment in August 2011 with a minimum term of 25 years.⁣Follow British Murders on social media:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/britishpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/britishmurdersTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@britishmurdersTwitter: https://twitter.com/britishmurdersYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BritishMurdersPodcastMerchandise available here:https://teespring.com/stores/britishmurdersSupport the show on Patreon for early access to ad-free-episodes:https://www.patreon.com/britishmurdersMake a one-off donation here:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/britishmurders All episodes are available on my website:https://www.spreaker.com/show/british-murdersPlease send any British murder case suggestions to:britishmurderspodcast@gmail.comIntro music:David John Brady - 'Throw Down the Gauntlet'https://linktr.ee/davidjohnbradymusicMy recording equipment:Shure SM57 Dynamic MicFocusrite Scarlett Solo USB Audio InterfaceAudacityEdited in:DaVinci Resolve 17AudacityMastered in:AuphonicReferences:BBC News. (2010, October 10). Godalming woman charged with murdering widower. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-11509756BBC News. (2010b, October 12). Woman in court charged with murdering missing man. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-11524744BBC News. (2011a, January 24). Woman denies murder of widower in Surrey. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-12269107BBC News. (2011b, August 4). Godalming cleaner “killed companion for money.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-14405199BBC News. (2011c, August 8). Ann Browning confesses to murder of Bill Williamson. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-14447461BBC News. (2011d, August 9). Surrey cleaner jailed over postman murder. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-14445060Daily Mail Reporter. (2011, August 8). Ann Browning jailed for life after beating “infatuated” widower to death. Mail Online. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023720/Ann-Browning-jailed-life-beating-infatuated-widower-death.htmlFernandez, C., & Gill, C. (2010, October 8). Body of missing pensioner Bill Williamson is found. Mail Online. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1318954/Body-missing-pensioner-Bill-Williamson-found.htmlGreenwood, D. (2019, May 31). Do Bees Die After They Sting? BeehiveHero. https://beehivehero.com/do-bees-die-after-they-sting/Pasha, Y. (Writer), & King, H. (Director). (2013, February 23). Bill Williamson (Season 1, Episode 3) [TV series episode]. In B. Altounyan, K. Anastasi, M. Gordon (Executive Producers), A Town & Country Murder. Flame.Neuhaus, L. (2018, April 8). 17 things you will totally get if you live in Godalming. SurreyLive. https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/17-things-you-totally-you-14505502Surrey Live. (2013, July 2). Tributes to Bill Williamson after body found. https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/tributes-bill-williamson-after-body-4817931

The Interview Series steams ahead with a conversation with Steve Shorney! A Local Business owner in the Godalming, Surrey area with Cafe Mila, we go through Steves experience with Depression and his journey within a Psychedelic experiment as showcased on the BBC documentary ______! From the Trials of the Pandemic on Local Business owners, his own struggles with mental health and outlooks on life gained through this experiment that ended just as the Pandemic began, this is definitely a tale of a journey that you do not want to miss! Links and Resources:https://cafemila.co.uk/Subscribe now so as to not miss an episode!

Lottie Davies was born in Guildford, UK, in 1971. She grew up in Surrey and was educated in Alton and Godalming. After a degree in philosophy at St Andrews University in Scotland, she moved back to England to pursue a career in photography. She is currently based in Cornwall in the south west of England.Lotties' unique style has been employed in a variety of contexts, including newspapers, glossy magazines, books and advertising. In recent years she has developed her practice to employ moving image, audio, text and interactive installation. This mixed media approach is crystallised in her long-term project Quinn (2014-2020).  Her work has garnered international acclaim with the image Quints, which won First Prize at the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Awards 2008 at the National Portrait Gallery in London, with Viola As Twins, which won the Photographic Art Award, Arte Laguna Prize in Venice in 2011, and her collaboration on Dreams of Your Life with Hide & Seek/Film 4.0 which was BAFTA-nominated in 2012.Lottie's work is concerned with stories and personal histories, the tales and myths we use to structure our lives. She takes inspiration from classical and modern painting, cinema and theatre as well as the imaginary worlds of literature. She employs a deliberate reworking of our visual vocabulary, playing on our notions of nostalgia and visual conventions with the intention of evoking a sense of recognition and narrative. Sandy Nairne, former director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, described Davies' work as “brilliantly imaginative”.On episode 156, Lottie discusses, among other things:Her relocation from London to Cornwallcurrent project, QuinnWhy she sets her work in the pastThe benefits of using an actor to represent her character, QuinnHow to acquire a baby for a shootWhy her mother was born in a bucketOn photographers not being considered artistsHer column for Professional Photographer‘Photobook Fails'The six phases of the creative processThe Empathy Museum portraitsMemories and NightmaresReferenced:Laura NobleSamuel J WeirForest School CampsMatt HarrisGordon MacDonaldCraig EastonDean PavittPaul SamsonGary Rhodes Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Mutton Row Books“‘It's not painting is it? You just press a button.' Yes, all I do is press a fucking button. You numpty!”

In this episode Brynn and I listen to a very rare lecture from one of the greatest philosophical and psychedelic minds of the 20th century...Aldous Huxley. Aldous talks about the different ways the visionary experience has manifested for humans throughout the centuries, and how these experiences can help us. Listen In! Aldous Huxley Bio:Aldous Leonard Huxley was born in Godalming on 26th July, 1894 in an upper scale family. He came from a literary background, his father also being a biographer, editor and poet. Huxley was educated at Eton College in Berkshire from 1908-1913. When he was just fourteen years old, his mother died. During his teenage years, he also suffered from an attack of Keratitis Punctata and thus became blind for about eighteen months, but then by wearing some special kind of glasses, he was able to recover his eye-sight a little and at least read, but consequently also learned Braille. Even though he had frequent conditions of near blindness, Huxley went on relentlessly with his studies at Balliol College in Oxford, where he received his B.A in English. He was confused whether to pursue his career as a scientist or take part in the World War. Since, he was unable to decide, he took up writing.He wrote several poems, which appeared in 1916 and the second volume, which appeared in 1920. Huxley’s novel, Crome Yellow came in 1921, which blended criticism, dialogue, wit and satire and also established Huxley as one of the most important literary authors of the decade. Within a period of 8 years, Huxley had written several books. Amongst these novels, the most notable ones are Point Counter Point published in 1928 and Do What You Will published in 1929.At this time, Huxley became involved in the study and practice of mysticism. His new philosophical outlook informed his novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936), which promoted pacifism on the eve of World War II.After Many a Summer Dies the Swan (1939) makes the case for the emptiness of materialism. Gradually, Huxley moved toward mystical writings, far from the tone of his early satire. The Perennial Philosophy(1945) and The Doors of Perception (1954) represent Huxley’s non-fictional expression of his interests, including even experimentation with psychedelic drugs. The Doors of Perception is a book by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision", and reflects on their philosophical and psychological implicationsHuxley’s last novel, Island (1962), returns to the theme of the future he once explored so memorably in Brave New World. The later novel, in which Huxley tried to create a positive vision of the future, failed to come up to readers’ expectations. Brave New World Revisited, a series of essays addressing the themes of his early novel, represents a more successful rethinking of future (and present) social challenges.Huxley died of cancer in California on November 22, 1963. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're joined by Chris Taylor, Founder of Accelerator HR and host of the "Oven Ready HR Podcast" in Godalming, England.  We talk about his background in marketing and why it's so important that marketing and HR work together, the challenges of returning employees to the office, and how he launched a podcast without ever even listening to them.  Chris also shares what he thinks the biggest misconception of those outside the United Kingdom have about their residents and we even talk about The Goonies! Chris' recommendation: https://twitter.com/rihamsatti How to reach Chris: https://ovenreadyhr.com/ Join us on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month at 7 PM ET for the #HRSocialHour chat on Twitter!  Be sure to check out our storefront (all profits go to charity): https://www.teepublic.com/user/hrsocialhour

In today’s show: The Construction Collective will assemble TONIGHT; impending Easter holidays raise urban exploration and trespass fears; and The Builders’ Conference has delivered another demolition project lead, this time in Godalming. And you can view our previous coverage of the dangers of urban exploration here: https://tinyurl.com/36jrvyps

We talk to HEMA instructor, SCA fencer, lecturer, historian and TV presenter Lynette Nusbacher, who teaches at The School of the Sword, Godalming, UK. This episode was recorded live 23rd of April 2020.

My friend Tim talks about meeting the band Genesis and why it's important to listen to their music. He also tells a story of meeting the band Then Outlaws. Genesis are an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, in 1967. The most commercially successful and longest-lasting line-up consists of keyboardist Tony Banks, bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford and drummer/singer Phil Collins. The Outlaws are an American southern rock/country rock band best known for their 1975 hit "There Goes Another Love Song" and extended guitar jam "Green Grass and High Tides" from their 1975 debut album, plus their 1980 cover of the Stan Jones classic " Riders in the Sky".

This week, I'll introduce you to Mary Toft, an English woman from Godalming, Surrey, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she seemingly gave birth to rabbits.   Shout out to Ed from Ontario for suggesting this one. Apologies that it's taken so long.   Next episode will drop on August 24.   The ODDentity Podcast is brought to you on a weekly basis by host Janine Mercer. The podcast is written, produced, and edited by Janine Mercer (unless otherwise stated), and the music is provided by Garage Band.   Find the odd pod on Twitter and Instagram @oddentitypod and Facebook as The Oddentity Podcast. You are welcome to email suggestions for future episodes to theoddentitypodcast@gmail.com and if you'd like a transcript of this episode, one will be available at theoddentitypodcast.wordpress.com.   Please take a moment to leave a 5* review on iTunes and, if you haven't already, please make sure to mash that Subscribe button to be sure you're in the know when a new episode drops. Sincerest thanks to those who have promoted The ODDentity Podcast to their family, friends, and coworkers. Every little bit helps!   UNICO NUTRITION Save $20 on your purchase at WWW.UNICONUTRITION.COM if you use code ODDENTITY at checkout!   LUME Visit https://bit.ly/2BTUUSL and be entered every week to win a FREE Lume product! Orders over $20 get FREE first-class shipping.   Sources: Book: Delivery of Rabbets https://www.gutenberg.org/files/62720/62720-h/62720-h.htm https://archive.org/details/shortnarrativeof00sain https://www.npr.org/2019/11/21/781209908/mary-toft-or-the-rabbit-queen-asks-big-questions-about-small-animals https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-toft-and-her-extraordinary-delivery-of-rabbits https://www.vice.com/sv/article/5gkvnz/woman-gives-birth-to-snake-203 https://books.google.com/books?id=O7wQAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA197#v=onepage&q=mary%20toft&f=false https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/phantom-pregnancy#symptoms https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/aug2009.html http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2429/1/uk_bl_ethos_548708.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Toft

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Episode 2   Francesca Lacuata is lead instructor at The School of the Sword's Godalming chapter, having studied Bolognese swordplay and rapier since 2010. She has a further interest and some experience in renaissance dagger-fighting, Bartitsu and longsword. Fran has instructed at several high-profile events in Britain, Europe and the US; and has placed in and won a number of international tournaments.   As a writer, Fran has demonstrated, panelled and presented on historical fencing and real-world violence at various lectures and writers' conventions, including Fantasycon and at the Wallace Collection.   She was a main organiser of the International Rapier Seminar 2016; co-founded Waterloo Sparring Group in 2012, which facilitates inter-group sparring from clubs all over the south of England and beyond; is a founder of the Wessex League series of events; is a key organiser of the Albion Cup; runs the Spring Sword Workshops and Swords of Winter events; organises By The Sword – an annual women's event running since 2017; and was a founding member of Esfinges, a worldwide organisation for women in HEMA.   For more information about the host Guy Windsor and his work check out his website at https://guywindsor.net/ And to support the show, come join the Patrons at  https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy  

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Round the World motorcyclist, Elspeth Beard is an architect and motorcyclist, and is noted for being one of the first English women to ride a motorcycle around the World. Later she redesigned Munstead Tower in Godalming, winning the 1994 Royal Institute of British Architects award for South East England.

A new scanning technique that can identify aggressive tumours could help to transform the treatment of breast cancer. Dr Ferdia Gallagher, an academic radiologist at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge explains. Meanwhile, cervical cancer affects more than 3,000 women a year, but there is concern that progress has stalled in tackling the disease. Dr Julie Sharp is head of health and patient information at Cancer Research UK and she discusses what needs to happen. How much do your girlfriends mean to you? A new play at the Royal Court theatre explores the highs - and the lows - of female friendship. The playwright Miriam Battye and actor Rebekah Murrell join Jenni to discuss. In October 1726, newspapers began reporting a remarkable event: In the town of Godalming in Surrey, a woman named Mary Toft was giving birth to rabbits. Mary was examined by medics and the case drew the attention of the King, government and law courts. Historian Karen Harvey talks about her new book The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder. And, Clara Ponsati is a highly regarded economics professor at the University of St Andrews, but in 2017, she was the Catalan minister of Education when the independence referendum was held. The Spanish government declared the vote illegal and it wants Ponsati to return to Spain to face a charge of sedition. The BBC’s Niall Gallagher takes a look at who she is and what is likely to happen next. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Ruth Watts

“La población óptima está sobre un modelo de iceberg: ocho de nueve partes debajo de la línea de flotación, y una de nueve partes por encima.- ¿Y ellos son felices debajo de la linea de flotación en detrimento de ese horrible trabajo?- Ellos no lo encuentran como tal. Al contrario, les gusta. Es ligero y de una simplicidad infantil. Sin esfuerzo excesivo ni de espíritu ni muscular. Siete horas y media de un trabajo ligero, nada cansador, enseguida la ración de soma, deportes, copulación sin restricción y el cine sentido”. Durante los denominados felices años veinte, cuando en la narrativa británica predomina un clima de efervescencia experimental y se produce la eclosión de relatos modernistas de la mano de James Joyce o Virginia Woolf, surge también la novela satírica y de ideas de Aldous Huxley. El autor nace en 1.894 en Godalming, pequeña ciudad cerca de Londres, en el seno de una familia distinguida, con una gran tradición intelectual. Como era de esperar en alguien de su clase, se educó en el prestigioso colegio de Eton, para pasar después a realizar estudios de literatura inglesa y filosofía en la universidad de Oxford. Sin embargo no todo fue bienestar y felicidad en la vida de Huxley. Su madre murió de cáncer cuando el tenía solo catorce años y poco después su hermano Trevenan se suicidó tras sufrir una depresión nerviosa. Por si fuera poco, a los dieciséis años se vio aquejado de una enfermedad que casi le dejó ciego, aunque consiguió recuperar la visión de un ojo. Su vocación literaria se inició en el ámbito de la poesía con el libro “La rueda encendida”, de 1.916, al que seguirán otros poemarios. Sin embargo fueron sus novelas de la década de los veinte “Los escándalos de Crome”, “Danza de sátiros” o “Contrapunto”, las que le trajeron popularidad y reconocimiento. Por entonces ya casado con María Nys, hija de un industrial belga, pasaba mucho tiempo viajando por todo el mundo, recogiendo sus experiencias en varios libros de viajes. En 1.937 Huxley se trasladó a Los Ángeles, California. Allí entabló amistad con actores como Charlie Chaplin o Greta Garbo, y escribió guiones para el cine. Ya en la década de los cincuenta el autor se interesó por el empleo de drogas, como la mescalina, en el tratamiento de enfermedades mentales, y en 1.953 decidió experimentar con esta droga. Entonces nació su obra “Las puertas de la percepción”. Huxley continuó escribiendo y residiendo en los Estados Unidos hasta el final de sus días. Su muerte se produjo el mismo día del asesinato del presidente John F. Kennedy, el 22 de Noviembre de 1.963, de ahí que su fallecimiento pasara casi totalmente inadvertido. Sin embargo su obra siempre obtuvo el reconocimiento de la crítica, que le ha considerado como uno de los novelistas ingleses más destacados del siglo XX. Huxley fue un autor prolífico que, a lo largo de los casi cincuenta años de su carrera literaria, escribió más de cincuenta volúmenes. La crítica suele estructurar su producción en tres etapas: una primera en la que predominan sus primeros relatos breves y novelas de corte satírico, con las que fustiga a la burguesía británica, sus costumbres y sus valores establecidos. Con humor e ironía arremete, por ejemplo en “Los escándalos del Crome” y “Arte, amor y todo lo demás”, contra intelectuales, esnobs y artistas diletantes. La segunda etapa se suele situar en los años treinta, con un Huxley más serio, que asume una función de mayor responsabilidad, mediante ensayos y novelas que rezuman matices políticos y filosóficos. De estos años son su distopía “Un mundo feliz” y sus ensayos “El fin y los medios” de 1.937, donde presenta un credo claramente pacifista. En su tercera y última etapa el autor empieza a interesarse por una filosofía basada en el misticismo oriental. En “Un mundo feliz”, novela publicada en 1.932, Aldous Huxley nos sumerge en una visión deshumanizada del futuro, donde domina una sociedad totalitaria regida por un sistema inmutable de castas. A modo de parodia de las utopías de H.G. Wells, se presenta aquí un mundo aséptico y supuestamente feliz, donde los habitantes no padecen enfermedades ni tienen carencias de tipo material, pero se ven totalmente sometidos por un régimen político que utiliza los avances tecnológicos y las drogas de diseño para anular todo atisbo de libertad e individualidad. La trama presenta un intento de rebelión al sistema protagonizado, primero por Bernard Marx, un miembro inadaptado de la casta superior que es diferente a los demás por un supuesto fallo durante su gestación, y en la segunda parte de la novela por John “el salvaje”, que se ha criado en una reserva, fuera de esa sociedad. Ambos personajes fracasan en su intento de cambiar ese horrible mundo y el trágico fin de John viene a representar un aviso sobre aquello a lo que está abocada nuestra propia sociedad si no se pone antes remedio. Huxley ofrece en esta obra una critica feroz contra el consumismo, el materialismo, la propaganda, la destrucción de la cultura y la falta de libertad y privacidad. Alerta asimismo sobre los peligros del progreso y de la ciencia, cuando no van acompañados de principios éticos. La historia de este “mundo feliz” demuestra cómo los avances tecnológicos y científicos se pueden convertir en un instrumento del poder para el control de la humanidad. Aunque se trate de una obra de ciencia-ficción emplazada en el año 632, después de Ford, son constantes las referencias al mundo contemporáneo de Huxley. A principios de los años treinta, la sociedad europea sufre grandes tensiones políticas, sociales y morales. Diversos acontecimientos se viven intensamente en los foros políticos europeos: el fascismo en Italia, el nazismo en Alemania y la consolidación del régimen comunista de Stalin en Rusia. En definitiva, la sociedad sufre el conflicto entre los ideales democráticos y sus adversarios de la derecha y la izquierda, conflicto que desembocará en la segunda guerra mundial. “Un mundo feliz”, sin ser una novela abiertamente política, da cumplido testimonio de esta situación por la que atraviesa el mundo occidental y denuncia las conductas totalitarias de gobiernos que no dudan en utilizar cualquier instrumento a su alcance para mantener el poder. En este sentido los nombres de algunos personajes – Bernard Marx, Hubert Bakunin, Sarojini Engels, Polly Trostky, Darwin Bonaparte, Benito Hoover..- son muy sugerentes. Por otro lado algunos temas que se tratan en la obra son cuestiones sobre las que se debatía intensamente en medios intelectuales y científicos del periodo de entreguerras y por las que Huxley mostraba un gran interés, como la manipulación genética para la mejora de la raza humana, las técnicas conductistas y psicológicas para condicionar el comportamiento de las personas, el culto a la belleza y a la perfección física, o el uso de drogas como remedio para prevenir el malestar social y las ideas subversivas. Algunas de estas cuestiones siguen de actualidad en nuestros días, por lo que no extraña que a Aldous Huxley se le vea, con frecuencia, como a un autor visionario y profético, que anticipa algunos de los temas que siguen sacudiendo la opinión púbica actual.

One of the questions most often asked at Shipleys LLP is whether it’s better to be a sole trader or limited company? For the first episode of our new audio podcast, Shipleys FM, our main topic is sole trader or limited company. When is the right time to incorporate? What are the tax consequences of changing from being a sole trader to incorporating as a limited company? I chat with Michelle and Martin to answer these questions and more. Our client interview in this episode features filmmaker David Thompson. David was the founding head of BBC Films, before leaving to start his own film production company, Origin Pictures. At Origin Pictures, David has produced films including The Awakening, An Education, and The Sense of an Ending. As he explains in our conversation, he also produced Mandela: The Long Walk To Freedom, featuring Idris Elba. We cover a quick overview of HMRC investigations; nobody wants to be on the receiving end of an inquiry from the taxman, so this segment is worth a listen. Last but not least, there’s a catch-up with my colleague Mike Luckett, Principle at Shipleys LLP. Mike is responsible for the day-to-day running of Shipleys’ two tax departments in London and Godalming. As a former HMRC Officer, he is well aware of the procedure from the other side of the fence. We hope you enjoy listening to our first podcast episode. Do also drop me a line with any questions or feedback you have, I’d love to hear from you. Please subscribe to Shipleys FM in Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast player. And please share this episode with a friend or colleague. We publish our next episode in a fortnight, where the main topic is tax-savvy charitable giving. Until then, thank you for listening to Shipleys FM.

Banjo, Cadwallader and Jessie chance their luck with varying degrees of success. Sophia uses the light to reveal the truth while Arthur summons up unspeakable horrors and Godalming continues to act as the perfect servant.

Godalming Film Festival Podcast 2019 – The Great Gatsby Matthew speaks to Michael O’Sullivan about the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby. We talk about the story and its history, the different adaptations, and what makes this version so special. Visit Godalmingfilm.com to find out more about the festival, and you can book tickets directly […]

Godalming Film Festival Podcast 2019 – Overview Matthew speaks to Michael O’Sullivan about the festival line up for 2019, the background behind it, what we learned from 2018, and what we’re most excited about. Visit Godalmingfilm.com to find out more about the festival, and you can book tickets directly by visiting the Eventbrite page for […]

Godalming Film Festival Podcast 2019 – Alien Matthew speaks to Michael O’Sullivan about Ridley Scott’s classic science fiction horror, Alien. We go into some of the critical opinions, behind the scenes information, and reasons why it is such an enduring classic. Visit Godalmingfilm.com to find out more about the festival, and you can book tickets […]

Cressida returns from Edinburgh and hosts a party. Uncle George and the Tribune reflect on Society business. Godalming makes a friend.

Jill Bennett talks to Stacey McIntyre owner of the Holistic Centre in Godalming and organiser of the G Live Wellness Day on 22 September. Jill talks to Stacey about what will be happening at this twice yearly event. https://bit.ly/2C0epso

Nick Waugh recently made his first Top 8 at Grand Prix Barcelona 2018 playing Boros Burn. Nick lives in Godalming, United Kingdom. Click to Tweet: I got a ton of value from Nick Waugh when he shared his story on #MTGProTutor! Listen here: http://bit.ly/mtgprotutor-ep295 First Set 7th Edition Favorite Set 7th Edition Favorite Card Eidolon of the Great Revel Early Challenge Making the best use of time. There's a ton of things you can do and Nick struggled with making time for Magic. Now, he only focuses on the format of his next event. Learning Moment The first time you step out of your comfort zone, you're going to lose a lot. So make the most of it. Proudest Magic Moment Top 8 at Grand Prix Barcelona, 2018. What Have You Learned From Magic Discipline. Hard work paying off. Grand Prix Preparation Nick is a Burn player and knew he was going to play his Boros Burn deck. To prepare though he updated his sideboard guide. Biggest Mistake Players Make Getting things you can't control to get the better of you. (e.g. Playing against a more experienced player. You have no control over how much Magic your opponent has played.) Parting Guidance Focus on your current game. Don't let things you can't control affect you.  Magic Resource Red Deck Winning Connect With Nick Waugh Twitter:@Nickyeahman ‏ Check Out Magic Story Magic Story brings the lore of the Multiverse to life in an audio presentation never before heard in the Magic community. Listen to Episode 1 here or on www.magicthestory.com  

In 1726 London was rocked by a bizarre sensation: A local peasant woman began giving birth to rabbits, astounding the city and baffling the medical community. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll review the strange case of Mary Toft, which has been called "history's most fascinating medical mystery." We'll also ponder some pachyderms and puzzle over some medical misinformation. Intro: The notion of music without substance raises some perplexing philosophical puzzles. Japanese haiku master Masaoka Shiki wrote nine verses about baseball. Sources for our feature on Mary Toft: Dennis Todd, Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England, 1995. Clifford A. Pickover, The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: A True Medical Mystery, 2000. Richard Gordon, Great Medical Mysteries, 1984. Lisa Forman Cody, Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons, 2005. Wendy Moore, "Of Rabbit and Humble Pie," British Medical Journal 338 (May 7, 2009). Palmira Fontes da Costa, "The Medical Understanding of Monstrous Births at the Royal Society of London During the First Half of the Eighteenth Century," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 26:2 (2004), 157-175. Lawrence Segel, "What's Up, Doc?" Medical Post 39:11 (March 18, 2003), 37. Glennda Leslie, "Cheat and Impostor: Debate Following the Case of the Rabbit Breeder," Eighteenth Century 27:3 (Fall 1986), 269-286. Bill Bynum, "Maternal Impressions," Lancet 359:9309 (March 9, 2002), 898. Dolores Peters, "The Pregnant Pamela: Characterization and Popular Medical Attitudes in the Eighteenth Century," Eighteenth-Century Studies 14:4 (Summer 1981), 432-451. S.A. Seligman, "Mary Toft -- The Rabbit Breeder," Medical History 5:4 (1961), 349-360. Charles Green Cumston, "The Famous Case of Mary Toft, the Pretended Rabbit Breeder of Godalming," American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children 68:2 (August 1913), 274-300. Nathaniel Saint-André, A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets, Perform'd by Mr John Howard, Surgeon at Guilford, 1727. Sir Richard Manningham, An Exact Diary of What Was Observ'd During a Close Attendance Upon Mary Toft, the Pretended Rabbet-Breeder of Godalming in Surrey, From Monday Nov. 28, to Wednesday Dec. 7 Following, 1726. Cyriacus Ahlers, Some Observations Concerning the Woman of Godlyman in Surrey, 1726. Thomas Brathwaite, Remarks on a Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets, Perform'd by Mr. John Howard, Surgeon at Guilford, 1726. A Letter From a Male Physician in the Country, to the Author of the Female Physician in London; Plainly Shewing, That for Ingenuity, Probity, and Extraordinary Productions, he Far Surpasses the Author of the Narrative, 1726. The Several Depositions of Edward Costen, Richard Stedman, John Sweetapple, Mary Peytoe, Elizabeth Mason, and Mary Costen; Relating to the Affair of Mary Toft, of Godalming in the County of Surrey, Being Deliver'd of Several Rabbits, 1727. Jonathan Swift, The Anatomist Dissected: or the Man-Midwife Finely Brought to Bed, 1727. "Merry Tuft," Much Ado About Nothing: or, a Plain Refutation of All That Has Been Written or Said Concerning the Rabbit-Woman of Godalming, 1727. "Full and Impartial Relation and Detection of the Rabbit Imposture &c.," The Political State of Great Britain 32:12 (December 1726), 572-602. Edward White, "An Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits," Paris Review, July 5, 2016. Listener mail: Rasnov Fortress, Romania Tourism (accessed July 5, 2018). Wikipedia, "Rasnov Citadel" (accessed July 5, 2018). Wikipedia, "Polybius" (accessed July 5, 2018). "Polybius," Encyclopaedia Britannica (accessed July 5, 2018). "The British Alpine Hannibal Expedition," John Hoyte (accessed July 5, 2018). Wikipedia, "War Elephant" (accessed July 5, 2018). "Battle of the Trebbia River," Encyclopaedia Britannica (accessed July 5, 2018). Philip Ball, "The Truth About Hannibal's Route Across the Alps," Guardian, April 3, 2016. Paul Rodgers, "Tracing Hannibal's Elephants -- With Dung," Forbes, April 5, 2016. Franz Lidz, "How (and Where) Did Hannibal Cross the Alps?" Smithsonian, July 2017. Michael B. Charles and Peter Rhodan, "'Magister Elephantorvm': A Reappraisal of Hannibal's Use of Elephants," The Classical World 100:4 (Summer 2007), 363-389. S. O'Bryhim, "Hannibal's Elephants and the Crossing of the Rhône," The Classical Quarterly 41:1 (1991), 121-125. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Benjamin Busser, who was inspired by the "Peter Weinberger" episode of the Casefile podcast. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Gertrude Jekyll was born in the late 19th Century and, as a talented gardener and craftswoman, managed to forge a highly successful path in a male-dominated world. This year marks the 175th anniversary of Gertrude's birth. Helen Mark heads to sunny Godalming in Surrey, to visit the home and gardens where Ms Jekyll defined her gardening style, bred new plant varieties, developed a life-long partnership with the architect Edwin Lutyens, and became the 'celebrity gardener' of her day. Uncovering Gertrude Jekyll's talent, determination and focus, and considering her legacy today, we look at the impact this iconic gardener has had on Britain's private landscapes.

The inaugural episode of Project Studio Tea Break sees Mike Senior and Jon Whitten settle down with their cuppas to ponder the big issues of project-studio existence. The SM57's tuning dial, for instance. Or toast Foley. The Tell-tale Tummy. Whether it matters what side a dulcimer-player dresses. Plus, do you know what a Meccano X-Wing, the wine-tasting clap, nipple clamps, and Minecraft's mullet-mod have in common? Or that The Phantom Facepalm hails from Godalming? For in-depth coverage of these crucial issues and more, join Mike & Jon on their first pioneeringly open-source podcast adventure. (May contain traces of laser-printed fruit.) Fancy more of this nonsense? Then please support the podcast!

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Rob travels to visit Dan's new flat in Godalming, we listen to a band and Alex talks about meat. Support the show (http://www.prestomusic.com/jazz)

Juliet and Terence grapple with graffiti in Godalming (and other places!); how to motivate a Premiership footballer; and Juliet advises Terence on modern social etiquette. Plus four great tracks of music...

Penny Dreadful, having premiered at South by Southwest and airing on Showtime, is a “quality TV” version of episodic horror. The series derives its name from 19th century serialized fiction called penny dreadfuls, and the series’ main characters and narrative arches are derived from classic 19th century horror literature (Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus for example). Further Reading Benshoff, Harry M. Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1997. Print. Clover, Carol J. Men Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. London: BFI, 1992. Print. Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1993. Print. Hand, Richard J., and Jay McRoy. Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Film. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2007. Print. Humm, Maggie. Feminism and Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1997. Print. Janisse, Kier-La. House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films. Godalming, UK: Fab, 2012. Print. Kiefer-Newman, Katherine. “Agent of Change: A Multiplicity of Female Tricksters in Two Decades (1990s and Early 2000s to 2010) of Postmodern American Movies.” Diss. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2011. Print. Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. New York: Columbia UP, 1982. Print. Skal, David J. The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror. New York: Norton, 1993. Print. Let’s Start at the Beginning (Lee Rosevere) / CC BY-SA 4.0 Author: Geneveive Newman

Darknet is an adaptation of the Japanese series Torihada (2010-present), and exists as something between a web series, an interactive TV anthology, and a Canadian network series. References and Further Reading Abramowitz, Rachel. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: Women’s Experience of Power in Hollywood. New York: Random House, 2000. Print. Barnouw, Erik. The Golden Web: A History of Broadcasting in the United States. Vol. 2. New York: Oxford UP, 1968. Print. Clover, Carol J. Men Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. London: BFI, 1992. Print. Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1993. Print. Hamilton, Patrick. Gas Light, a Victorian Thriller in Three Acts. London: Constable, 1939. Print. Humm, Maggie. Feminism and Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1997. Print. Janisse, Kier-La. House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films. Godalming, UK: Fab, 2012. Print. Jones, Norma, Maja Bajac-Carter, and Bob Batchelor. Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littelfield, 2014. Print. Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. New York: Columbia UP, 1982. Print. Lené Hole, Kristin. Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics: Claire Denis, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2016. Print. Rochon, Debbie. “The Legend of the Scream Queen.” GC Magazine 1999. Web. Rose, Jacqueline. Sexuality in the Field of Vision. London: Verso, 1991. Print. Short, Sue. Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print. Sobchack, Vivian Carol. Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture. Berkeley: U of California, 2004. Print. Let’s Start at the Beginning (Lee Rosevere) / CC BY-SA 4.0 Author: Geneveive Newman

In this new series of Ramblings, Clare Balding talks to those for whom walking is more than a leisure activity but a passion that's vital to their lives. In this first programme she goes to Thursley in Surrey to meet the novelist and screenwriter, David Nicholls. His first novel, 'Starter for Ten' was followed by the much acclaimed 'One Day', and as David admits to Clare. its success took him a little by surprise. They take an eight mile circular route around The Devils Punchbowl. David explains how important walking is to his creative process, although he always worries its a bit of a skive ! However, he finds it the ideal way to listen to and absorb a novel when he's adapting one of the classics for TV, as he did with 'Far From the Madding Crowd'. He talks to Clare about how he loves exploring new cities by foot and the techniques he uses to encourage his children to walk. The walk Clare and David took can be found on OS Explorer map OL33 & 145 or Landranger 186, the map reference is SU 955 414, the walk starts in the village of Thursley about 3 km south-west of Godalming. Thursley GU8 6QD Producer: Lucy Lunt.

Lynn, the PWRR's ambassador explains how she got involved with the regiment & the #GodVinFair

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Charlotte Ord is the UK Personal Trainer of the Year 2010 and 2014, trainer on ITV1’s hit show, The Biggest Loser, head strength and conditioning coach to the England Lacrosse Squad, owner of Surrey based fitness club, The Charlotte Ord Academy, and contributor to many of the UK’s leading fitness magazines including Men’s Health, Women’s Health and Women’s Fitness. In her own words... Having left school and earned an honours degree in Psychology & Sociology, I quickly realised that a career in fitness was perfect for me.  I love teaching, I love working out, and I get a total buzz out of helping other people achieve their dreams, so I got myself certified as a personal trainer and was fortunate to land a managerial role at a large corporate gym as my first job in the industry.  Whilst this was a slight baptism of fire, it pushed me in every way, which I think is essential if you really want to fulfil your potential. Fast forward a few years and today I am the owner of two awesome fitness clubs, the Charlotte Ord Academies in Guildford and Godalming.  There I work closely with my top class team to provide a fitness coaching solution that really delivers results.  I’m incredibly proud of it because these are places where lots of people achieve things they weren’t really sure they could, as well as having a bloody good time doing it, and that’s our mission! In 2011 I became head coach to the England Women’s Lacrosse Team and was selected as a trainer on the hit ITV1 show, The Biggest Loser.  I’m also a mentor for other fitness professionals and am dedicated to raising the standard of the fitness industry both in the UK and beyond.  I am also absolutely passionate about promoting health at every size and encouraging people to love their bodies at their fit and healthy natural weight. I work extensively with people struggling with disordered and emotional eating patterns and find great fulfilment in helping people re-establish a healthy relationship with food. Ultimately, what I do and what I freakin’ LOVE to do is help people win, whether it be in sport, business or the game of life.

The men from London arrived just in time to see Mary Toft give birth to her fifteenth rabbit. It was the winter of 1726, and Nathaniel St. André and Samuel Molyneux arrived in the market town of Godalming in Surrey to meet Mary Toft, a short, stout peasant of "stupid and sullen temper" (per St. André's later, embittered description). They found the country-woman waiting at the house of local man-midwife John Howard. She was lingering on the edge of a bed, stripped down to her corset. Howard assured the Londoners that they had come just in time. Soon Mary Toft's body began to twist and contort. Her throes could be so powerful that her clothes would fly off her body, and the woman would have to be held down in her chair. Sometimes the labors lasted up to a day and a half. Toft's belly would "leap," a phenomenon Howard thought was caused by baby rabbits jumping around inside Toft's uterus. One was observed to hop like this for eighteen hours. But that winter day, the labor was not prolonged, and soon Toft had delivered her child--the skinned torso of a small rabbit. The men from London started dissecting it right there on the floor. St. André--surgeon anatomist to the King of England himself--took a section of lung and put it in a basin of water. It floated, showing that the lungs had air in them, which suggested that the creature had breathed before it died. The rabbit's anus was found to have feces in it, which meant that the small animal must have eaten something. There was no blood. St. André then turned his attention to the mother, who had been waiting patiently by the fire. He found that one breast produced a thin, watery milk. After palpating Mary's stomach, St. André found a hard lump in the woman's right side. From this he concluded that the rabbits had been bred in Toft's fallopian tubes, after which they had hopped down to her uterus, where they developed. With no prospect of another birth any time soon, the men retired. In the evening Mary Toft fell into convulsions again--this time so violent she had to be held in her chair. "After three or four very strong Pains that lasted several minutes, I delivered her of the skin of the rabbet, rolled and squeezed up like a Ball," St André wrote later. The rabbit's head came soon after, complete except for one ear. Satisfied, St. André and his companion Molyneux returned to London with some of Mary's purported offspring, preserved by Howard in jars of alcohol. By the end of the year, all of England--even King George I himself--would know about the woman who had given birth to rabbits.

A radical call to step out into the unknown. Dangerous words! With Justin Abraham. Recorded at Godalming England at the Spirit Body Soul gatherings.