Podcasts about Hornblower

Don't be shy, send me a message!Every year, on October 21st, the Royal Navy celebrates Admiral Nelson's most famous victory, near Trafalgar in 1805 when 27 British Royal Naval ships defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet of 33 warships. But, what if Nelson had lost? And how can we celebrate this night?I draw upon three books:‘The Rise and Fall of the British Empire' by Lawrence James ‘Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World' by Brian Lavery‘HMS Victory' by Peter GoodwinI also recommend the movie ‘Master and Commander' (2003), the TV show Hornblower (1998-2003), and the classic clip (on Youtube) of John Noakes cleaning Nelson's Column for the children's TV show ‘Blue Peter'. My ‘Recommended Rabbit Hole': Lord Cochrane.  Just start with Google, see where it takes you, and let me know if you found it as fascinating as I do. This is an annual celebration and commemoration, so this episode is a rerelease from October 21st, last year. You can e-mail me: AlbionNeverDies@Gmail.comYou can find me on Instagram: @FlemingNeverDies***Subscribe to my newsletter: https://youtube.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b3afdae99897eebbf8ca022c8&id=5165536616Check out my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/britishcultureCheck out my online shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/British-culture/shopSupport the showSupport the show

So, my son got married. Want to hear the story? Are you easily accessible to your clients? Are you ensuring seamless communication to prevent day-of issues? In this episode, I share the story of my son's wedding and highlight crucial lessons about the importance of communication and responsiveness in the wedding business. Listen to this new 13-minute episode for insights on improving your client communication and handling unexpected challenges during events. Episode Summary:  In this heartfelt episode of the Wedding Business Solutions podcast, I share the story of my son Adam's unique wedding in San Francisco. Unlike traditional ceremonies, this wedding spanned multiple days and featured intimate gatherings, a City Hall ceremony, and memorable activities like a cable car ride and a Hornblower dinner cruise. I highlight noteworthy experiences, both positive and challenging, such as vendor communication issues and special touches like custom whiskey blends. Through this personal recount, I draw valuable lessons on the importance of effective communication and customer service in the wedding industry. Don't miss out on this insightful and inspiring episode! If you have any questions about anything in this, or any of my podcasts, or have a suggestion for a topic or guest, please reach out directly to me at Alan@WeddingBusinessSolutions.com or visit my website Podcast.AlanBerg.com   Please be sure to subscribe to this podcast and leave a review (thanks, it really does make a difference). If you want to get notifications of new episodes and upcoming workshops and webinars, you can sign up at www.ConnectWithAlanBerg.com    View the full transcript on Alan's site: https://alanberg.com/blog/ Coming to Wedding MBA this year? Join me for a sales workshop, only 25 seats. Use this link to save $20 off your ticket:https://events.alanberg.com/LV1112#/buyTickets?promoCode=EarlyBird I'm Alan Berg. Thanks for listening. If you have any questions about this or if you'd like to suggest other topics for "The Wedding Business Solutions Podcast" please let me know. My email is Alan@WeddingBusinessSolutions.com. Look forward to seeing you on the next episode. Thanks. Listen to this and all episodes on Apple Podcast, YouTube or your favorite app/site: Apple Podcast: http://bit.ly/weddingbusinesssolutions YouTube: www.WeddingBusinessSolutionsPodcast.tv Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sGsuB8 Stitcher: http://bit.ly/wbsstitcher Google Podcast: http://bit.ly/wbsgoogle iHeart Radio: https://ihr.fm/31C9Mic Pandora: http://bit.ly/wbspandora ©2024 Wedding Business Solutions LLC & AlanBerg.com

INTRO (00:00): Kathleen opens the show drinking a Herding Cats Hazy Pale Ale from Quayle's Brewery in Oro-Medonte, ON. She reviews her weekend in Niagara Falls (Canada) taking a boat tour under the Falls on The Hornblower, eating her favorite shrimp at The Keg, and a sold out show at FallsviewCasino. She shares some freaky stats about Niagara Falls and recommends that everyone visit at least once in a lifetime. COURT NEWS (24:20): Kathleen shares news on Taylor Swift's terror scare surrounding her Vienna ERAs concerts, Jelly Roll helps open a new youth center in Nashville, Snoop gave an epic performance at the Closing Ceremonies of the Paris Olympics, and Kathleen nominates Chappell Roan as a new queen for the court. TASTING MENU (6:15): Kathleen samples Hostess Hickory Sticks, Hippie Chippies, and Chiavettas Salt & Vinegar BBQ chips. UPDATES (44:47): Kathleen shares updates on Banksy's latest grouping of animal murals around London, the QAnon Shaman will get his headdress back, and Charles Barkley cancels his retirement plans. “HOLY SHIT THEY FOUND IT” (50:51): Kathleen is amazed to read about the discovery of a lost temple where Jesus performed miracles, and the mystery of the Bronze Age ax heads mailed anonymously to an Irish museum has been solved. FRONT PAGE PUB NEWS (52:49): Kathleen shares articles on “The Wizard of Oz” being adapted for the Vegas Sphere, Denny's is closing 15 restaurants, a reclusive tribe attacks loggers in an effort to save the Amazon, Hurricane Debby blows $1M worth of cocaine onto Florida beaches, Elon Musk's X to close SFO office, Airbnb stock has nosedived, stranded NASA astronauts could be vaporized returning to Earth on the Boeing Starliner, WHAT WE'RE WATCHING (43:20): Kathleen recommends watching “Mountain Queen” on Netflix.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this edition of Ask Joan, Joan Hamburg provides detailed information about Macy's 4th of July fireworks event. This year's fireworks will take place over the Hudson River for the first time in over a decade, beginning at 9:25 PM on July 4th. Joan shares prime viewing locations in Manhattan and New Jersey, entry points, and security guidelines. She also lists various cruise options for watching the fireworks from the water, including Sea Streak Ferry, Circle Line, the North River Lobster Company, and City Cruises by Hornblower, complete with prices, amenities, and booking details. For those unable to attend in person, the event will be broadcast on NBC and streamed on Peacock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy podcast, the team reflect upon what in the media has inspired them with their gaming. Links: Deathship One Chain of Command Far East Handbook Forgotten Battles: Raids in the European Theatre 1939-1945 Band of Brothers (2001) Hornblower (1998-2003) Sharpe (1993-2008) Cross of Iron (1977) Attack (1956) Bridge Too Far (1977) Theirs is the Glory (1946) The Rest is History Spartacus (1960) Spartacus: Blood & Sand (2010-2013) Rome (2005-2007) Mersada (1981) Gladiator (2000) Bequest to the Nation (1973) Black Hawk Down (1997) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Sahara (1943) T-34 (2018) Fury (2014) The 317th Platoon (1965) The Winter War (1989)

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I vårt mest Hornblower-inspirerade avsnitt hittills går vi – på vår arbetsgivare Eriks begäran – igenom Thomas Cochrane; en brittisk, sjöburen frifräsare tillika excentrisk gentleman.Per håller i rodret den här gången och beger sig tillsammans med Tompa ut på de sju haven. Resan för oss från de brittiska öarna, till Chile, Brasilien och till sist till Grekland. På vägen hinner Cochrane göra så många pojkboksfnoskigheter att Per till slut övertygas om att han bara var en litterär karaktär som via trolldom råkade bryta igenom tid- och rumsvägen och på så vis äntra verkligheten. Har Mattis någon roll i detta? Nej! Han vet nämligen ingenting om ämnet, så det närmsta man kommer en roll är att han lär sig saker.Stort tack till Erik! Detta är hans personliga expressavsnitt.Vill du också ha ett personligt expressavsnitt? Bli då vår patreon på tier Gustav II Adolfs livvaktstyrka. Stötta oss på Patreon!Support till showen http://supporter.acast.com/krigshistoriepodden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on The Reorg Primary View, Hornblower files chapter 11 with RSA providing for $300 million senior DIP, $285 million junior DIP and $345 million rights offering, U.S. Supreme Court declines to consider request from Millennium Health lender claim trustee to review August 2023 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that syndicated loans qualify as securities under federal and state laws and Rite Aid debtors file an amended plan with “toggle” allowing a pivot to a sale transaction. If you are not a Reorg subscriber, request access here: go.reorg-research.com/Podcast-Trial We're looking for feedback to improve the podcast experience! Please share your thoughts here: www.research.net/r/Reorg_podcast_survey For more information on our latest events and webinars: reorg.com/resources/events-and-webinars/ Sign up to our weekly newsletter Reorg on the Record: reorg.com/resources/reorg-on-the-record/ #leveragedfinance #highyield #restructuring #performingcredit #distresseddebt #debtrestructuring #leveragedloans

Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: Mayor Eric Adams says he's canceling an expected third round of agency spending cuts and allowing city agencies to restart some hiring. Meanwhile, a New York City watchdog agency has found that pepper spray use against detainees at Rikers Island is skyrocketing. Plus, Hornblower, the company that operates the New York City Ferry, is filing for bankruptcy.

Tourism transit gianit Hornblower Group has entered bankruptcy protection, and American Queen Voyages has shut down. | Frommer's

Episode: 1085 The first American steam engine.  Today, steam comes to America.

#1 New York Times bestselling author, Jim Butcher, spoke with me about how he outlined a hit 20-novel series (years before he had an agent), why all steampunks wear goggles, and the second book in his Cinder Spires series, THE OLYMPIAN AFFAIR. Jim Butcher is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera, and the Cinder Spires novels. The long-anticipated second novel in his Cinder Spires series is The Olympian Affair, described by the author as “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Sherlock meets Hornblower,” in a series “... about noble families, magic-wielding warriors, and airship battles.” Library Journal called it “... an exciting epic fantasy, set in the sky and filled with airships, magic, and the connections of blood and found family." And New York Times bestselling author David Weber said of the book, “It's steampunk meets magic with a dose of sci-fi for seasoning.” [Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file, Jim Butcher and I discussed:  Why “breaking into print is an arduous and discouraging process” The Genre Fiction Novel class that changed his writing for good Keeping your writing time sacred When your fans become your boss How to write a “steam opera” His most important legacy as a writer And a lot more! Show Notes: jim-butcher.com The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires Book 2) by Jim Butcher (Amazon)  Jim Butcher Amazon Author Page Jim Butcher on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They say that all life came from the oceans… But, as the residents of Aberdeen Massachusetts are about to discover, when a mysterious and beautiful woman arrives in the New England fishing town it's not just hearts that will be broken and some fish should be thrown back…. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They say that all life came from the oceans… But, as the residents of Aberdeen Massachusetts are about to discover, when a mysterious and beautiful woman arrives in the New England fishing town it's not just hearts that will be broken and some fish should be thrown back…. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every year, on October 21st, the Royal Navy celebrates Admiral Nelson's most famous victory, near Trafalgar in 1805 when 27 British Royal Naval ships defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet of 33 warships. But, what if Nelson had lost? And how can we celebrate this night?I draw upon three books:‘The Rise and Fall of the British Empire' by Lawrence James ‘Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World' by Brian Lavery‘HMS Victory' by Peter GoodwinI also recommend the movie ‘Master and Commander' (2003), the TV show Hornblower (1998-2003), and the classic clip (on Youtube) of John Noakes cleaning Nelson's Column for the children's TV show ‘Blue Peter'. My ‘Recommended Rabbit Hole': Lord Cochrane.  Just start with Google, see where it takes you, and let me know if you found it as fascinating as I do. This is an annual celebration and commemoration, so this episode is a rerelease from October 21st, last year. You can e-mail me: AlbionNeverDies@Gmail.comYou can find me on Instagram: @FlemingNeverDies***Subscribe to my newsletter: https://youtube.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b3afdae99897eebbf8ca022c8&id=5165536616Check out my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/britishcultureCheck out my online shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/British-culture/shopSupport the showSupport the show

Today we talk about Mal Duncan, who has been Guardian, Hornblower, Herald, and most recently Vox. He joined the Teen Titans due to his good morals and over the years has gotten superpowers. Today's mentioned & relevant media: -Teen Titans (1966) #26-53 -The Brave and the Bold (1955) #102 -Secret Origins Annual (1987) #3 -The New Titans (1984) #56, 59, 75, 78-79, 83-85 -Hawk & Dove Annual (1990) #1 -JLA/Titans (1998) -Titans Secret Files (1999) #1-2 -The Titans (1999) #39 -Teen Titans (2003) #17-19, 22-23, 29, 35-37, 99-100 -Infinite Crisis (2005) #2-3 -Outsiders (2003) #31-32 -Firestorm (2004) #20 -52 (2006) #4-5, 50 -Secret Six (2006) #3-4 -52/WW III Part One: A Call to Arms-Part Two: The Valiant -Tales of the Sinestro Corps (2007): Superman-Prime -Titans Hunt (2015) -Titans (2016) #3-18 -Dark Nights: Death Metal (2020): The Last Stories of the DC Universe -The Other History of the DC Universe (2020) #2 -DC Power (2023) #1 -World's Finest: Teen Titans (2023) #2 -Batman: Justice Buster vol. 1 -Wonder Woman (2023) #1 -Devil's Reign (2021) Thanks to Victoria Watkins for our icon! Support Capes and Japes by: Checking out our Patreon or donating to the Tip jar Find out more on the Capes and Japes website.

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Bring on the battalion of Dad Books! Cornwell started writing the Richard Sharpe novels because he wanted something like Horatio Hornblower on land. Well, we haven't read any Hornblower yet but we can attest that this book sure is about a British rifleman fighting in the army during the Napoleonic Wars! Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Advertise on OverdueSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest for this episode is Rory Stewart - the former diplomat and politician turned podcasting rock star. In a conversation that I hope you agree is compelling and useful, Rory talks about his greatest failures, traumas, his approach to risk and why a political comeback is on the cards. A proud Scot, Rory was born in Hong Kong and brought up in Malaysia. After Eton, he went on to Oxford and the diplomatic service but took a sabbatical to spend 20 months walking across countries including Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. A journey of self-discovery and frequent life-threatening dangers.After working as the Governor of an Iraqi province, Rory entered British politics as a Conservative MP – holding ministerial positions before making a bid to become Prime Minister. When Boris Johnson won the election in 2019, Rory resigned and threw his hat into the ring to become the new London mayor. After that contest was delayed by COVID, bruised and battered by the experience, he left politics and indeed later left the country. Rory talks about the influence of his beloved father Brian – a remarkable man who was D Day hero and decorated spy. Rory reveals how, in 2015, he tried in vain to resuscitate his father who collapsed and died in his arms. It is a truly moving account not only of that terrible moment but also of the incredible bond that he shared with his dad.Rory now teaches international relations and politics at Yale University, runs a brilliant charity from his home in Jordan, all whilst co-hosting with Alastair Campbell the podcasting sensation that is The Rest is Politics.An episode packed with emotion, honesty and reflections on crisis that are as fascinating as they are helpful. I hope you enjoy it.Full episode transcript available at: https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/podcasts/rory-stewart-on-a-love-for-risk-a-battle-with-bitterness-and-why-a-political-comeback-is-on-the-cards/Rory's Crisis Comforts:1. Meditation. I've done eleven-day silent retreats, which have been very important to me. And so in periods of extreme stress, I find deep meditation. An hour or two of meditation is very powerful.2. Childlike films or books on tape. I've been listening at the moment to the Hornblower series. When I'm a bit stressed, I put it on and it puts me back into a happy place of being a kind of 15-year-old in the 1950s.3. Animals. That relationship with your dog or a cat – learning from their virtues, I think is hugely important.Links:Pre-order Rory's upcoming book – Politics On the Edge - https://amzn.to/3mtPbdQRory's website - https://www.rorystewart.co.uk/Follow Rory on Twitter - https://twitter.com/RoryStewartUKTurquoise Mountain Foundation - https://www.turquoisemountain.org/The Places In Between - https://amzn.to/3UzAiDfOccupational Hazards - https://amzn.to/3KBDnhOThe Marches - https://amzn.to/3ZZPkDHCan Intervention Work? - https://amzn.to/3zWhLYu Stream/Buy ‘Allies' by Some Velvet Morning: https://ampl.ink/qp6bmSome Velvet Morning Website: www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk Your Daily Practice: Sleep by Myndstream: https://open.spotify.com/track/5OX9XgJufFz9g63o2Dv2i5?si=b2f9397c92084682 Host – Andy CoulsonCWC production team: Louise Difford, Ed Isaacs and Jane SankeyWith special thanks to Global

This March we are joined by Fiona Hornblower, President and CEO of the NALP Foundation. Listen in as Fiona discusses the current status of the legal pipeline and job market, what the NALP Foundation's research tells us about the current legal pipeline, and what recommendations exist to address the flaws in the way the legal pipeline currently functions. You can read more about the research discussed in this podcast episode from the NALP Foundation (hyperlink: https://www.nalpfoundation.org/)   The two studies referenced in this episode are available for purchase online at the NALP Foundation website: Update on Associate Attrition: Findings from a National Study of Law Firm Associate Hirings and Departures: https://www.nalpfoundation.org/product-page/update-on-associate-attrition-calendar-year-2021 Study of Law School Alumni Employment & Satisfaction: Employment Outcomes Three Years After Graduation, Class of 2018: https://www.nalpfoundation.org/product-page/us-study-of-law-school-alumni-employment-and-satisfaction-class-of-2018

This week on the blog, a podcast interview with writer/director Nicholas Meyer about his work on the Adrian Brody “Houdini” mini-series, as well as thoughts on Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, Time After Time and more.LINKSA Free Film Book for You: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/cq23xyyt12Another Free Film Book: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/x3jn3emga6Fast, Cheap Film Website: https://www.fastcheapfilm.com/Behind the Page Nicholas Meyer Interview Part One: https://tinyurl.com/3f7mbzerBehind the Page Nicholas Meyer Interview Part Two: https://tinyurl.com/ms3tm45fNicholas Meyer website: https://www.nicholas-meyer.com/Eli Marks Website: https://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Albert's Bridge Books Website: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BehindthePageTheEliMarksPodcast***Nicholas Meyer – TranscriptJohn Gaspard: Do you remember what it was that caused your dad to write that book? Nicholas Meyer: I know something about it. He was interested, the subjects that kind of absorbed his attention were the sons of passive or absent fathers. This was a topic which probably originated from his experiences with his own father, my grandfather, who was a very interesting man and a kind of a world beater, but who spent so much of his time doing what they said in The Wizard of Oz—being a philip, philip, philip, a good deed doer—that he didn't have enough time for fathering. He was not a bad man at all, quite a conscientious one. But the parenting was left to his wife and I think my father missed and was affected by not having an involved father. And I think that a colleague of my dad's said to him Houdini, that's the guy for you. And that's how he did it. I'm only sorry that he didn't live to see the two-night television series based on his book. Jim Cunningham: I enjoyed it immensely as a Houdini fan. It was fascinating and fun and Adrian Brody is terrific, as is the woman who plays Bess. I thought I knew a lot about Houdini and there was a lot in there that I did not know. And I really enjoyed the opening to it, which suggests that it's all fact and all fiction, and it's our job to figure out which is which. How did you come to being involved with the TV mini-series about your dad's book?Nicholas Meyer: I have been friends and worked for many years with a television producer named Jerry Abrams. I started working with Jerry in 1973 with the first teleplay that I wrote was for a television movie called Judge Dee in the Haunted Monastery. There was a—China apparently invented everything first, including detective stories—and a circuit court judge in the seventh century, Judge Dee Jen Jay, solved mysteries and people wrote detective stories about him and now there are movies about him. But back in 1972, or something like that, and I had just come to Hollywood and was looking for work and didn't know anybody. And I met Jerry Abrams and I met a director named Jeremy Kagan and I'm happy to say both of these gentlemen are alive and still my friends. They gave me a shot to write this Judge Dee in the Haunted Monastery because I think ABC thought they were going to get a Kung Fu movie out of it, which it wasn't. But it was a television movie with an all Asian cast. The monastery in question was the old Camelot castle on the Warner Brothers lot and that's where I met Jerry. And Jerry and I've been friends ever since. Jerry's son is JJ Abrams, who directs movies. Anyway, Jerry said to me a couple of years ago, let's do Houdini and I said, Oh, funny, you should say that because my dad wrote a very interesting book about Houdini. I would be interested if it were based on his book. I would only be interested and that's how it got made.John Gaspard: What was your process? Did you know it would be two nights going in? Did you know it's going to be that long? How did you get started and what other resources did you use, because I know there's stuff mentioned in the movie that I don't remember being in your dad's books. You must have had to dig a little bit.Nicholas Meyer: There's a lot of books about Houdini, that I read many, many books, because my dad's book is distinguished—if one could call it that—by being the only book of all the books about Houdini that attempts some inner explanation of his psychological process. The why? Why would you do this? Why do you feel the need to do this? Other books will tell you what Houdini did, and some will tell you how he did it. But my dad's book, as I say, it kind of explores the why of it. And so I read these other books to supplement the rest of the how and the why and I've amassed quite a large Houdini library. When I say large, probably compared to yours not so much, but I must have like 10 books about Houdini and flying aeroplanes and Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle and spiritualism and so forth. So, yes, I read all those to supplement what I was trying to condense. I don't remember whether at this point whether it was proposed as two nights or three nights or whatever. I also know that if it hadn't been for Adrian Brody agreeing to play Houdini, it never would have happened. They weren't going to do it without a star.Jim Cunningham: He's great.John Gaspard: I was telling Jim earlier, before you got on, that my wife was kind enough to sit down and watch it with me. She's always worried in things like this, that she's going see how something's done. She doesn't want to know how magic is done at all. And when we got to the end, she said, “Houdini seems so nice. He's such a likeable guy.” And I think that's really more Adrian Brody.Nicholas Meyer: Oh, yeah. The Adrian Brody. As I say, the movie would not have got made without Adrian. I'm not sure that he wasn't to a large degree cast against type. I think Houdini was a guy with ants in his pants, a kind of frenetic character. And I don't think when you read about him in any detail, that he was what you'd call nice. I think he was a person who had a lot of charm that he could switch on and off like a tap. And I think this is one of the things that my dad's book brings out, and we tried to bring it out in the movie: that Houdini's whose own father was a failure of flop and absent parent. So, I think Houdini spent a lot of his life looking for substitutes or alternative father figures. And I think the first one he probably stumbled on was the French magician Robert-Houdin, from whom he took his name. And I think Houdini's pattern, at least according to my dad's reading of it, was to find father figures and fall hard for them, only to ultimately become disenchanted and alienated and furious with them. Probably, because ultimately, they weren't his real father. But I think there was something like that going on. John Gaspard: Yes, it's pretty clear that's what happened with Doyle as well. Nicholas Meyer: Yes, but he had better reason than in some other cases to be disenchanted with Doyle because Doyle's Atlantic City séance with Lady Doyle, Houdini ultimately regarded as a real betrayal. Because he decided, probably correctly, that the contact with his mother via Lady Doyle doing spirit writing was fake. And by the way, it's not that Mrs. Doyle or Lady Doyle might not have believed what she was doing. It just didn't track for two reasons: Houdini experienced this contact with his mother, and he was as obsessed with her as he was with the fact of an absent father. And he was so overcome when she spoke to him via the spirit writing that it was a couple of days before he realized that his mother didn't speak a word of English. And she had communicated via lady Doyle in English, she only spoke Yiddish. Doyle got around this difficulty by explaining that the medium in this case, Lady Doyle, worked as a kind of simultaneous translator. And Houdini said, yeah, but—and this was the second item—it was his birthday. And she never mentioned it and she always sent him something on his birthday. And he then denounced Doyle and Lady Doyle, as quote, menaces to mankind.John Gaspard: So, were you involved in a day-to-day way with production? And I'm wondering why you didn't direct it?Nicholas Meyer: I was involved. The whole movie was shot in Budapest, everything and I was involved. I was not invited to direct. I have not directed really since the death of my wife in 1993. I had two small children to raise and by the time it was, like, possible for me to go back since they are now grown up and busy. I was sort of out of a game. John Gaspard: Oh, that's too bad. You're a terrific director.Nicholas Meyer: I'm not arguing with you.John Gaspard: So, once you were scripting it, and you were using other sources, how concerned were you about this is fact, this is fiction?Nicholas Meyer: That's a very good question and it doesn't just apply to Houdini. It applies largely to the whole issue of dramatizing the stories based on real events. And by the way, you could make the case in a way that there's no such thing as fiction; that all fiction ultimately can be traced back to something real. I'll give you two examples off the top of my head: one, Moby Dick was based on a real Whale called Mocha Dick because of his color; and, as Heinrich Schliemann proved, when he discovered Troy, most legends, most myths have their origins somewhere in the mists of time, in some kind of reality. It turns out there was a place called Troy. So, he was not far off the mark. It's a knotty question with a “k” how much we owe to fact and how much we get to mush around and dramatize? And the answer has to be inevitably elastic. The problem is that people are neither taught, nor do they read history anymore. We are not taught civics. We are not taught history. Nobody knows anything and so by default, movies and television are where we get our history, and that history is not always truthful. It is dramatized for example, in that Academy Award winning movie, The Deer Hunter, we learn that the North Vietnamese made American prisoners of war in Vietnam, play Russian roulette. There is no evidence, no historical evidence that they ever did any such thing. And yet, if you're getting your history from the movies, that's what you see and someone said that seeing is believing. In any case, you have to sort of always be looking over your own shoulder when you are dramatizing history and realizing that, yes, you can tell a story with scope, dates and characters. But what's the point where you cross a line and start inventing things out of whole cloth? I'll give you another example: was Richard the Third really the monster that Shakespeare portrays? Now, remember, Shakespeare is writing for the granddaughter of the man who killed Richard the Third and usurped his throne and called himself king. You could make a very different case that that guy was a scumbag and that Richard was not, but you know, Shakespeare was in business. The Globe Theatre was a money-making operation and Henry the Seventh's granddaughter was the Queen of England. So, there are a lot of variables here. When you sit down to dramatize, I've worked for the History Channel and I can tell you the history channel will not make a movie where Americans look bad. The History Channel will not make a movie that questions any point in our own history. Our right to the moral high ground. It's a point of view and they have a demographic and Americans don't want to be shown any of their own flaws or asked to think about them. Jim Cunningham; Well, who does? Can I ask questions about the espionage? Part of what I witnessed last night, although I had sort of a vague memory, that there is some espionage connection or perhaps connection? In the first episode that he was working for at least the American government and perhaps the English government as well. Is there evidence for that?Nicholas Meyer: Circumstantial evidence.Jim Cunningham: Yes, and I suppose that it could still be even at this late date protected in some way in terms of, I don't know them, not admitting, or maybe no real hard evidence exists anymore, right?Nicholas Meyer: I'm more inclined to think that no real hard evidence exists. Although we all know that somebody said, truth is the daughter of time. But a lot of evidence has for a lot of things, not merely in this country, but also England has been redacted and eliminated and buried. You know, how many of your listeners know the story of Alan Turing? Alan Turing may have shortened World War Two by as much as two years by inventing the computer that helped break the German Enigma code. Alan Turing signed the Official Secrets Act which meant that his wartime work could never be revealed. Alan Turing was gay. After the war was over, Alan Turing was arrested on a morals and decency charge and he could not tell the world who he was and so he was sentenced to some kind of chemical castration, I believe and he killed himself. And all of this remained a secret for the next 55 years before the world's, you know, learned and suddenly there was a play called Breaking the Code and then there was the Enigma novel by Robert Harris and then there was the movie, which is very inaccurate, and very troublesome to me, The Imitation Game. Because in The Imitation Game, the first thing he does when he's arrested, is tell the cop who he is. With a crushing irony, as well as inaccuracy, is it there's no way he was allowed to tell. That was the price you pay when you sign the Official Secrets Act. So that movie kind of bugged me. Whereas for example, Enigma, which I think is one of my favorite movies, doesn't bug me at all because it doesn't call him Alan Turing and therefore, he's not gay, and it's a different story entirely spun out of inspired by, but not pretending to be Alan Turing.Jim Cunningham: Well, now I'm gonna have to watch that movie because I don't think I've seen it. Nicholas Meyer: You never saw Enigma?Jim Cunningham: I don't believe I saw Enigma.Nicholas Meyer: It's the only movie produced by Mick Jagger and Lorne Michaels, written by Tom Stoppard. Kate Winslet, Dougray, Scott, Jeremy Northam. Anyway, it's a fantastic movie, but you have to watch it like five times in order to understand everything that's going on because Tom Stoppard is not going to make it easy.John Gaspard: Just a quick side note here. I remember reading somewhere that Mick Jagger was a possible first choice for Time After Time Nicholas Meyer: Yeah, for Jack the Ripper. John Gaspard: Okay, interesting. I prefer the choice you came up with.Nicholas Meyer: Well, when they—Warner Brothers—were trying to sort of figure out how to make this movie, quote, commercial (they were so surprised when it was a hit), they suggested Mick Jagger as Jack the Ripper. And he was in LA at the time touring and I really didn't understand the politics of not just filmmaking, but you know, sort of office politics generally. And my first reply was no, you know, you might believe him as the Ripper, but you'd never believe him—or I didn't think you would believe him—as a Harley Street surgeon. And they said, You mean you won't even meet him? And that's when I said, oh, okay, I get it. I have to agree to meet. So I met him and then I said, fellas, I still don't, you know, think this can work. And so we went on to David Warner.Jim Cunningham: I think that was the first film I became aware of David Warner and of course, it colored my opinion of David Warner for everything I've seen him in since, including him as Bob Cratchit in a version of A Christmas Carol. I kept thinking to myself, don't turn your back on him. He's a killer. He's a stone-cold killer, because of Time After Time, which is still one of my favorite movies.Nicholas Meyer: Oh, thank you so much.John Gaspard: We promised not to geek out too much. But I have to tell you that the hotel room scene between him and McDowell, I still pull up once or twice a year to look at the writing and the acting in that scene. “You're literally the last person on Earth expected to see.” They're both so good in that scene.Nicholas Meyer: They are that, they are.John Gaspard: I think you mentioned in your memoir in passing that when you did The 7% Solutionthere was some back and forth with the Doyle estate. We—Jim and I—have a friend, Jeff Hatcher, who wrote the screenplay for Mr. Holmes, which is based on a book. Once the movie came out, it did run into some issues with the Doyle estate, because the writer had taken some characteristics of Holmes from the later books …Nicholas Meyer: It's all bullshit. All that is bullshit. The Doyle estate, which was once the richest literary estate in the world, was run into the ground by his descendants and their in laws and they don't care anything about Sherlock Holmes. All they care about is money. And what they try to do is to stick up movie companies and book companies and say you've got to pay. And back when Holmes legitimately fell into copyright, which is when I wrote The 7% Solution, yes, I had to pay and I understood that. I mean, I didn't understand it when I wrote the book because I was a kid. But I understood it when it was explained to me. What since happened is they continue, even though he's out of copyright, to try to pretend that he is or that one or two stories are etc. My friend, Les Clinger, who is a business manager but also happens to be a lawyer and a Holmes' enthusiast, took the estate to court and won. He broke that bullshit stranglehold that they were trying to exercise on anybody who wanted to write or create or make a movie about Holmes. Now, it's also true that big companies like Warner Brothers, or Paramount or something, if they make a Sherlock Holmes movie, and the Doyle estate comes sniffling to their door, find it cheaper to say, here's $10,000, Go away, than it is to bother to do what Les did, which was take them to court. It's just, it's blackmail, you've all seen the Godfather, you know, give me a little something to wet my beak is what this is all about. I have nothing good to say about them and what they did with Mr. Holmes, your friend's movie, was they waited until the movie was about to come out before they hit him.John Gaspard: Jim, I should mention, you probably don't know this, that and this is the truth, the man we're talking to is the man for whom the thing at the beginning of a DVD that says the opinions expressed here are not those of this company. He's the reason that's on DVDs. Jim Cunningham: Is that right?Nicholas Meyer: Yes, I will explain because I'm very proud of it. I've made a couple of contributions to civilization. One of them is the movie The Day After, it's my nuclear war movie. And the other is this little sign. And it happened when they were preparing the DVD release of Star Trek Two: the Wrath of Khan. I was interviewed and asked to explain my contributions to the making the movie, the script, the directing, etc. So, I told the story about how I came to write the script. And the DVD lady who subsequently became a very good friend of mine said, “Gee, the lawyers say we can't use any of what you told us.” And I said, “And why is that?” And she said, Paramount was worried about getting in trouble with the Writers Guild, because you are not credited as the author and you wrote this sort of under the table, the script. And I said, Well, why don't you just take me out of the whole DVD? Because if I can't tell the truth about it, I don't want to be in it.And she said, “That's what I hoped you would say. Now, I've got some ammo.” So, she went back and she came back and she said, okay, here's the deal. And the deal now applies to every studio. “The opinions expressed in this interview, are not those of Paramount Pictures, its employees or affiliates.” What this does is it stops those interviews from being bullshit puff pieces and allows them to become oral histories. Now, different people may have different oral histories of the same thing. You put them all on the DVD, but suddenly, you've opened up a whole world to telling things that really happened or that the tellers think really happened, or are their opinions without the studio, worried that they're going to be sued, because of that little disclaimer. And they all have that now and that's my contribution.Jim Cunningham: It's great. Now, I promised John before this interview that I would not talk Star Trekwith you, but since you've opened the door a little bit here. Now, that you say that you wrote Wrath of Khan under the table, can you just flesh that out for me? It might not ever be in the podcast, but I'm an incredible Star Trek fan. So, I'm interested in this story.Nicholas Meyer: Well, very quickly, I knew nothing about Star Trek when I met Harve Bennett, the producer of what was going to be the second Star Trek movie. He showed me the first movie. He showed me some of the episodes and I got kind of a jones to make an outer space, a space opera. And I realized once I started to familiarize myself with Captain Kirk that he reminded me of Captain Hornblower, which were the books by CS Forester that I read when I was a kid, about a captain in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, who had adventures and a girl in every port, which sounded good to me. I was 12. I think it was 13 or something and so I thought, “Oh, this is Hornblower and outer space. This is destroyers. This is submarines.” So, I made a deal with Paramount and Harve Bennett to direct a Star Trek movie for them, which was going to be their second movie. And Harve said, draft five of the script is coming in. So, I went home and waited for draft five. And, you know, I looked up and it was three or four weeks later and wondered whatever happened, because I was starting to think about spaceships and stuff like that. And he said, “Oh, I can't send you the script. It's not good. I can't.” I said, “Well, what about draft four, draft three, whatever?” And he said, “You don't understand. All these different drafts are simply separate attempts to get another Star Trek movie. They're unrelated.”And I said, “Well send them all to me. I want to read them.” And he said, “Really?” I said, “Yeah.”And in those days, you didn't hit Send. A truck, drove up, a van, and it had a lot of scripts. And I'm a very slow reader and I started. I read all these scripts and then I said, “Why don't you and your producing partner, Robert Salem, come up to my house and let's have a chat about this because I have an idea.” And so they showed up, and I had my ubiquitous legal pad and I said, “Why don't we make a list of everything we like in these five scripts? It could be a major plot. It could be a subplot. It could be a sequence. It could be a scene. It could be a character, it could be a line of dialogue, I don't care. Let's just make the list and then I'll try to write a new screenplay that incorporates as many of these elements as we pick.” And they didn't look happy and I thought, I don't get a lot of ideas. This was my idea and I said, “What's wrong? What's wrong with that?”And they said, “Well, the problem is that if we don't have a screenplay within 12 days, Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects house for the movie, say they can't deliver the shots in time for the June opening.” And I said, “What June opening? “And I only directed one movie in my life, and these guys had booked the theatres for a movie that didn't exist. And I said, “Well, okay, I'll try to do this in 12 days, but we got to pick the stuff now.” And they still weren't happy. And I said, “So, what is it? What's the problem?” And they said, “Well, you know, let's be honest, we couldn't even make your deal in 12 days.” And at this point, I was like, foaming at the mouth. I said, “Look, guys, forget the deal. Forget the money. Forget the credit. I'm not talking about directing. We've already got that signed, sealed and delivered. But if we don't do this, now, there's gonna be no movie, yes or no?” And I was an idiot, because I at that point gave away you know, what turned out to be significant. So, I didn't invent Kirk meets his son. I didn't invent Khan. I didn't invent Savak. I didn't invent the Genesis Planet. I didn't invent any of those things. I just took them and played with them like a Rubik's Cube and poured my, essentially it's all my dialogue, Harve wrote a few lines, but I wrote most of it.John Gaspard: Well, it certainly worked.Jim Cunningham: Oh, boy. Yeah, absolutely. And I will not bring up The Undiscovered Countrybecause I promised John I wouldn't. The 7% Solution is very interesting. You took one thing, and you extrapolated out from that an entire kind of reality about Holmes that had not been explored. And it's similar to kind of what your father did with Houdini. And did that ever occur to you that there was there's a similarity there somehow?Nicholas Meyer: Well, I did 7% before he did Houdini.Jim Cunningham: He owes you then.Nicholas Meyer: Oh, yeah. He does. It's interesting. I was not the first person to put together Holmes and Freud. In fact, Freud knew that he'd been compared to Holmes. Freud loved to read Sherlock Holmes stories. That was his bedtime reading and at some point, he even wrote in one of his case histories, “I follow the labyrinth of her mind, Sherlock Holmes-like until it led me to…” So he knew about this comparison. And there was a doctor at Yale, a famous psychiatrist/drug expert, who wrote a paper that my father gave me to read about Holmes, Freud and the cocaine connection. Because Holmes is a cocaine user and for a time, so was Freud. And when my book came out and was the number one best-selling novel in the United States for 40 weeks, I got sued by this doctor at Yale for plagiarism. This is like the first successful thing I'd ever done in my life and this guy was saying I ripped him off. Because he was probably walking across campus and people were saying, “Hey, doc, hey, professor, that guy in the New York Times you ripped you off.”So, I got sued. This is how you know you're hot is when you get sued. But it was devastating to me. It was devastating and it was expensive, because I had to defend myself. I had a lawyer and the lawyer said, “They have no case. We will ask for something called summary judgment.” And I said, “Does that mean we have to wait till July?” And he goes, no, no, no, it's not about that x couldn't resist summary judgment. Yeah, that happened in the summertime.Summary judgment turns out to mean that the facts of the case are not in dispute. No one can dispute that I read his essay. I put it in my acknowledgments. I thanked him. I read it. The question is, what is the definition of plagiarism? It turns out, you cannot copyright an idea. You can only copyright the expression of an idea. The words. I hadn't used his words. I haven't used any of his. I didn't write an academic paper. I wrote a novel. I wrote a story. So, I won and then he appealed and I won again, end of story. So, it didn't originate with me, nothing originates with me. Moby Dick was based on another whale. Emma Bovary was a real person, on and on and on. If you read the history or a biography, you understand that in good faith, efforts have been made to lay out the facts. But when you read a historical novel, you understand that the facts have been mushed around and dramatized, that the author has assumed the dramatist's privilege, his prerogative, to help things along. There's an Italian phrase, se non è vero, è ben trovato. If it didn't happen that way, it should have. I'll give you another example: Queen Elizabeth the first and her cousin and rival Mary Queen of Scots, whom Elizabeth subsequently had beheaded, never met in real life. They'd never met. But of all the 4,622 movies, plays, operas, novellas, ballets, whatever that are, they always meet. Because it ain't cool if they don't meet. John Gaspard: It's a better story.Nicholas Meyer: It's a better story.

By Andrew McCaldon The extraordinary and explosive relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and the film composer Bernard Herrmann. Recorded live at Alexandra Palace with the BBC Concert Orchestra playing Herrmann's scores from the partnership's iconic films - Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho. Bernard Herrmann ..... Tim McInnerny Alfred Hitchcock ..... Toby Jones Alma Hitchcock ..... Joanna Monro Lucy Anderson/Tippi ..... Tara Ward Lew Wasserman/Cary/Paul ..... Jonathan Forbes BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Ben Palmer Produced by Neil Varley and Tracey Neale Directed By Tracey Neale By the late 1950s Herrmann and Hitchcock – known to each other as ‘Benny' and ‘Hitch' – have formed the most famous composer-director partnership in film history, creating masterpieces of cinema together, including Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho. But with tensions growing between the two maverick artists and change afoot in the movie industry, Benny and Hitch's collaboration and friendship comes to a catastrophic end at a recording session for the film Torn Curtain. But who is really responsible for the break-up? From beyond the grave, Benny and Hitch set out to determine which man has blood on their hands? Recorded in front of an audience at Alexandra Palace and starring two stellar actors, Tim McInnerny and Toby Jones, this thrilling and witty drama, will feature performances of Bernard Herrmann's music by the brilliant BBC Concert Orchestra. Writer: Andrew McCaldon worked with the BBC as a key creative on Ten Pieces, for which he wrote a series of acclaimed films and BBC Proms concerts. He has also combined music and drama in numerous shows for the BBCCO, BBCSO and the BBC Singers. Other recent writing work includes: Wemba's Dream, a community music-drama event with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, for which Andrew acted as Creative Director (2021); Abracadopera!, an original TV opera-comedy-drama, created and written by Andrew for English National Opera and broadcast on Sky Arts and Sky Kids (June 2022); and Gnomus, a site-specific play for Puppets With Guts staged at Stonehenge (April 2022). Cast & Performers: Tim McInnerny has just finished filming One Day for Netflix and plays the lead role in the forthcoming film Killers Anonymous. He can be seen in Ten Percent, the UK version of Call My Agent and also appeared in Game of Thrones. Toby Jones can be seen in The English for the BBC. Other work includes Jon S. Baird's Tetris for Apple TV and Sam Mendes's film Empire of Light, due for release in January. He will also appear in the forthcoming Indiana Jones film. Joanna Monro has been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company several times. Her TV credits include Doctors and Doctor Who. She was a presenter on That's Life and her theatre credits include Blood Brothers and Mamma Mia! Tara Ward has worked in film, television, stage and radio. Recent appearances were in the film Justice League and Sky TV's Riviera. She played Mrs March in Radio 4's Little Women. Tara has written a number of books on personal development. Jonathan Forbes played the lead role in the film Conspiracy of Silence. TV highlights include Hornblower, Foyle's War and Black Mirror. He played Sharon Hogan's brother in Catastrophe for Channel 4. He also starred in Radio 4's returning series Tracks. The BBC Concert Orchestra appears on Radio 2's Sunday Night Is Music Night as well as exploring music from classical to contemporary on Radio 3. Soundtracks include Blue Planet and Serengeti for BBC 1 and in February it worked with over 20 artists for Radio 2's Piano Room Month. It appears annually at the BBC Proms and at London's Southbank Centre. The Conductor, Ben Palmer is Chief Conductor of the Deutsche Philharmonie Merck in Darmstadt and Babylon Orchester Berlin and Artistic Director of Covent Garden Sinfonia. He is one of Europe's most sought-after specialists in conducting live to picture. Next year he conducts the German tour of Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens. Production Team: Directed by Tracey Neale Produced by Neil Varley & Tracey Neale Production Co-Ordinators, Ben Hollands, Ayesha Labrom & Hannah O'Reilly Technical & Outside Broadcast Team: Chris Rouse, Alison Craig, Gilly Chauhan, Simon Nicklinson and Jon Wilson

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San Francisco is a beautiful place to have a wedding, as Total SF hosts Peter Hartlaub and Heather Knight learned, after attending the nuptials of podcast listeners Kevin Dublin and Kate Lewin. Hartlaub and Knight play audio from that wedding, then invite Chronicle arts and culture columnist Tony Bravo for a draft to pick the best places in the city to get married. The Muni historical streetcars, Hornblower cruises, San Francisco Botanical Garden and Vaillancourt Fountain (!?!) make the list. Produced by Peter Hartlaub. Music from the Sunset Shipwrecks off their album "Community," Castro Theatre organist David Hegarty and cable car bell-ringing by 8-time champion Byron Cobb. Follow Total SF adventures at www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Captain Radio returns us to the past reflecting on our absent brother, Bill Hollweg. They say that all life came from the oceans… But, as the residents of Aberdeen Massachusetts are about to discover, when a mysterious and beautiful woman arrives in the New England fishing town it's not just hearts that will be broken and some fish should be thrown back…. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Captain Radio returns us to the past reflecting on our absent brother, Bill Hollweg. They say that all life came from the oceans… But, as the residents of Aberdeen Massachusetts are about to discover, when a mysterious and beautiful woman arrives in the New England fishing town it's not just hearts that will be broken and some fish should be thrown back…. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every year, on October 28th, the Royal Navy celebrates Admiral Nelson's most famous victory. But, what if Nelson had lost? And how can we celebrate this night?I draw upon three books:‘The Rise and Fall of the British Empire' by Lawrence James ‘Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World' by Brian Lavery‘HMS Victory' by Peter GoodwinI also recommend the movie ‘Master and Commander' (2003), the TV show Hornblower (1998-2003), and the classic clip (on Youtube) of John Noakes cleaning Nelson's Column for the children's TV show ‘Blue Peter'. My ‘Recommended Rabbit Hole': Lord Cochrane.  Just start with Google, see where it takes you, and let me know if you found it as fascinating as I do. You can e-mail me: AlbionNeverDies@Gmail.comYou can find me on Instagram: @FlemingNeverDies***Subscribe to my newsletter: https://youtube.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b3afdae99897eebbf8ca022c8&id=5165536616Check out my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/britishcultureCheck out my online shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/British-culture/shopSupport the show

1792 till 1815 låg britterna i nästan obrutet krig med Frankrike under revolutionärt styre och Napoleon. Britterna tvangs förlita sig på sin flotta i kampen. Sjöstriderna skildras i CS Foresters romaner om Horatio Hornblower och de äventyr han och hans mannar upplever till havs. Jalle och Timmie har kollat på filmatiseringarna av böckerna som BBC skapade 1998-2003. Inlägget Hornblower och den brittiska flottan dök först upp på Radio Svegot.

Kathleen opens the show drinking a Niagara Premium Lager from Niagara Falls Brewing Company. She shares details of her weekend in Niagara Falls including her experiences on the Behind The Falls Tour, and her favorite activity: The Hornblower boat ride. She reads the documented encounters of people who have survived going over the Falls, including 7-year-old Roger Woodward's miraculous survival and Annie Edison Taylor's journey over the Falls with her cat in a barrel.“GOOD BAD FOOD”: In her quest for new and delicious not-so-nutritious junk food AND in continuing her search for the best Ranch, Kathleen samples Lay's Chili Cheese Frito chips, Cheez Whiz Original Cheese Dip, and her favorite Canadian snack: Hostess Hickory Sticks. THE QUEEN'S COURT: Kathleen reports that Queen Dolly Parton has a new Greatest Hits album “Diamonds and Rhinestones” being released Nov. 18thUPDATES: Kathleen gives an update on Mattress Mack's new sports website, and the Bed Bath & Beyond CFO's recent suicide. “HOLY SHIT THEY FOUND IT”: Kathleen is amazed to read about the discovery of a rare fossil on Prince Edward Island.FRONT PAGE PUB NEWS: Kathleen shares articles about the grave of a female vampire discovered in Poland, Burning Man ends with a Thunderdome fight, a Ponzi scheme founder referred to as “Mother Teresa” is arrested in Florida, Britain's oldest pub is in danger of shuttering its doors forever due to rising energy costs, and a chimp who escaped from a Ukrainian zoo is rescued. SEE KATHLEEN LIVE: See Kathleen live > kathleenmadigan.com/tour See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jack worries about his new purser and the crew starting to think this is an unlucky voyage. Stephen gets a surprise visitor in Lisbon, Jack meets the son of an old shipmate, and the backward glances at Master & Commander continue, as we wonder where Sharpe and Hornblower have got to. Ch 3, Ch 4 (Part).

Friday Travel and Cruise Industry News May 6, 2022 with Chillie Falls LIVE from Denver, Colorado. Today's Headlines: CDC Changes; MSC Improves Loyalty Program, Celebrity Introduces No Perk Rate; Norwegian Cancels Prima Cruise; Royal Caribbean Swaps Ships, at 100%; Hornblower to Build Hydrogen Refueling Station; and much more LIVE at 11 AM EST. Cruise Ships Sailing From North American Ports Today May 6 Boston Norwegian Pearl Port Canaveral Carnival Liberty, Independence of the Seas, Disney Dream Port Everglades Celebrity Equinox Miami Freedom of the Seas, Carnival Conquest Los Angeles Long Beach Carnival Radiance Los Angeles San Pedro Navigator of the Seas Seattle Celebrity Solstice, American Constellation Vancouver Radiance of the Sea, MV Ocean Victory Honolulu Disney Wonder Thanks for visiting my channel. Recent NYTimes Feature: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/opinion/a-cruiser-sets-sail-despite-covid.html Link to Group Cruise: https://travelfunbiz.com/2022-dec-4-11-7-days-ncl-encore-caribbean-great-stirrup-cay-dominican-republic-from-miami-florida/ To access the Travel and Cruise Industry News podcast; https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/travelcruisenews or go to https://accessadventure.net/ Fly For Free https://bit.ly/35YeWqF Save On Airfare https://bit.ly/3h6lXLf To subscribe: http://bit.ly/chi-fal As always, I appreciate super chats or any other donation to support my channel. For your convenience, please visit: https://paypal.me/chillie9264?locale.x=en_US Chillie's Cruise Schedule: https://accessadventure.net/chillies-trip-calendar/ For your special needs, contact me or Scootaround, https://www.scootaround.com/mobility-rentals, 1.888.441.7575. Use SRN 11137. Special Needs Cruising: https://youtu.be/DWR5kNM2x_g Check out my streaming partner: https://streamyard.com?pal=4889083533852672 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChilliesCruises Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chillie.falls Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChillieFalls Business Email: chilliefalls@gmail.com Accessible Travel Blog: https://accessadventure.net/ Chillie Chats With Sue Bryant, London Times Cruise Editor About Azamara and Ponant https://youtu.be/61ZTnHHl2eY Chillie Chats With Kelly Narowski, Disability Rights Advocate and Avid Traveler https://youtu.be/NFB7LhkJ7go and https://youtu.be/LxbC5UW-Lsk Chillie Chats With Captain Mick, Active Disabled Americans https://youtu.be/B3g17D8Tv6Y Chillie Chats With Ashley Lyn Olson, WheelchairTraveling.com https://youtu.be/N4kCil4xT3M Chillie Chats With Kelly McDaniel About the MS Rotterdam https://youtu.be/cHw2BpO7J4M Chillie Chats With Jordan Taylor, of JJ Cruise https://youtu.be/O5Khw0avcTQ Chillie Chats With Coleen McDaniel, Cruise Critic's Editor-In-Chief https://youtu.be/5mbjRqNcRXk Chillie Chats With Cruise Critic's Adam Coulter from Norwegian jade https://youtu.be/NVEPLIQ-tH0 Chillie Chats with Jeannine Williamson about MSC Seashore https://youtu.be/aZsNm7ElQYE Chillie Chats With Shelby Frenette about TA Training https://youtu.be/OhBRwS5Hp1M Chillie Chats With Cruise Buoys LIVE From Marseilles https://youtu.be/F3K_8W0p5eY Chillie Chats with Author Ivan Cox a/k/a Dr. Gerald Yukevich, The Cruise Ship Doctor, https://youtu.be/juZmIuYv-IU Chillie Chats With Bubba Shumard On CDC, RCCL and HAL https://youtu.be/UtFrYjOVkXk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Horns, hisses, and hamburgers! Turns out this can be a deadly combination when put in the wrong hands. Join Ronald and Matthais every week as they bring you the scoop behind the weirdest headlines from across the globe. Submit your own headlines to butthatsadifferentstory@gmail.com to have it read on the podcast and expanded upon by Matthias and Ronald! Follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/butthatsapodcast/ Written, Recorded, and Directed by Andrew Damitio and Dan Cabrera Music by Andrew Damitio

This time, the guys decide to discuss Sci-Fi's greatest Captains (or commanders) depending on the definition form the show or movie. First Mac discusses how he is chaperoning Mac Jr's 6th grade class to the mountains ina few weeks and DT has some survival advice for him which include bringing a weapon… among 6th graders… Then they delve into the world of Sci-Fi and who was a great Captain/Commander ranging from Battlestar to Star Trek, to Exosquad to Forbidden Planet. The list keeps going that this became Part 1 of an analysis of the captains of Sci-Fi. Don't worry, Part 2 is coming very soon.

Sarah Vine and her co-presenter, author Imogen Edwards-Jones, speak to Hollywood actress Alice Evans about the pains of divorce (including who gets to keep the chopping board) after Evans' husband Hornblower star Ioan Gruffudd became ‘Instagram official' with his younger girlfriend. Plus, Hannah Betts on this year's beauty advent calendars - which ones are a Claus for celebration, and which ones are jingle hell? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lord R and Midge have a chat about the latest stupidity engulfing our island. We also call Don in the Azores to find out what it was like travelling around. Plus we talk Labour Party conference and who would win in a fisty fight...Sharpe or Hornblower?Please leave us a review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-real-normal/id1528841200 TELL YOUR MATES ABOUT US! Just share this podcast with your breddren innit.Send us an email: therealnormalpodcast@gmail.comFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/realnormalpodFollow us on our SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RealNormalPodcast/

Despite not having as much trouble with Anatolia as his father, Antiochus II is still going to face a not-inconsiderable struggle upon his accession. This week, we're going to explore the Chremonideian War which kept Ptolemy II occupied until 261 BCE, and introduce some of the underlying causes of the Second Syrian War... Sources for this episode: 1) Bagnall, R. S. and Derow, P. S. (2004), Greek Historical Documents: The Hellenistic Period (2nd edition). C. The Period of Stability (276-221): 19. Chremonides' Decree, Oxford: Blackwell. Available at: columbia.edu [Accessed 06/06/2021]. 2) Bevan, E. R. (1927), The House of Ptolemy, London: Methuen Publishing. Available at: LascusCurtis [Accessed 08/02/2021]. 3) Grainger, J. D., (2014), The Rise of the Seleukid Empire (323- 223 BCE), Seleukos I to Seleukos III. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books Ltd. (eBook) [Accessed 04/01/2021]. 4) Heinen, H., Encyclopaedia Britannica (2019), Ptolemy II Philadelphus (online) [Accessed 27/05/2021]. 5) Hornblower, S., Encyclopaedia Britannica (2020), ancient Greek civilisation (online) [Accessed 07/06/2021]. 6) Rawlinson, G. (1869) A manual of ancient history from the earliest times to the fall of the Western Empire, comprising the history of Chaldea, Assyria, Media, Babylonia, Lydia, Phoenicia, Syria, Judea, Egypt, Carthage, Persia, Greece, Macedonia, Rome, and Parthia. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (eBook) [Accessed 02/03/2021]. 7) Volkmann, H., Encyclopaedia Britannica (2019), Antigonus II Gonatas (online) [Accessed 27/05/2021]. 8) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Battle of Cos (online) [Accessed 27/05/2021]. 9) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Chremonideian War (online) [Accessed 07/06/2021]. 10) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Chremonides (online) [Accessed 06/06/2021]. 11) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Saronic Gulf (online) [Accessed 06/06/2021]. 12) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Syrian Wars (online) [Accessed 27/05/2021].

Rachel Stark, Gavin Lewis, Andy Young and Marcus Cribb join me to make the cases for the greatest novels on the Napoleonic era, championing the top 4 as voted for by the public in my recent twitter poll. The Aubrey-Maturin series, War and Peace, Hornblower series and Sharpe series all feature, and we also cover some honourable mentions. Support: https://www.patreon.com/thenapoleonicist Tip: https://ko-fi.com/napoleonicist Bookstore: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/thenapoleonicist

Eric Whitby is out of Facebook jail! Eric and his attorney, Orlando Hornblower, joined the show to celebrate his release! Orlando sheds some light on where he went to law school, how he got involved in this case, and his success in getting Eric's release. After a few moments, Eric, joins in and we dive into his racing career and many other topics. Those would include why he runs the 600 modifieds, his love of super late models, the upcoming season and much more! Enjoy! KDH Motorsports - https://www.facebook.com/KDH-motorsports-538790926223460 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the4widesalutepodcast/support

1953-04-03_0037_-_Adventures_of_Horatio_Hornblower_the_-_Hornblower_s_First_Command Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

After seven months at sea Captain Horatio Hornblower and his crew aboard HMS Lydia finally sight land. But the land looks like a burning mountain with two volcanoes. It seems that they have arrived at the entrance to the Gulf of Fonsica where Hornblower is requested and required to form an alliance with Don Julian Al Farado a large landowner there who intends with their help to rise in rebellion against the Spanish monarchy. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

After seven months at sea Captain Horatio Hornblower and his crew aboard HMS Lydia finally sight land. But the land looks like a burning mountain with two volcanoes. It seems that they have arrived at the entrance to the Gulf of Fonsica where Hornblower is requested and required to form an alliance with Don Julian Al Farado a large landowner there who intends with their help to rise in rebellion against the Spanish monarchy. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hornblower had faced many problems in his seafaring career but as he looks back now he can remember none graver than that which faced him as he prepared to sail in his frigate in search of the Natividad. He had captured her before in harbor by night and by surprise and now he must beat her on the open sea. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

So as not to imperil his mission Hornblower had been obliged to turn over the Natividad to the mad man Don Julian who called himself divine almighty, El Supremo. Now he was coming aboard to murder Hornblower's prisoners, Spanish officers. Hornblower was determined to save them at least. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

After seven months at sea Captain Horatio Hornblower and his crew aboard HMS Lydia finally sight land. But the land looks like a burning mountain with two volcanoes. It seems that they have arrived at the entrance to the Gulf of Fonsica where Hornblower is requested and required to form an alliance with Don Julian Al Farado a large landowner there who intends with their help to rise in rebellion against the Spanish monarchy. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In all Hornblower's years at sea both before and since that memorable time he does not remember being so utterly weary as he was after the Natividad plunged burning under the surface of the deep Pacific. But his own ship, Lydia was not without damage herself and thirty-eight of his men had been killed. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Lady Barbara was having a humanising affect on Hornblower and the elaborate pose he had with difficulty built up before his officers and men of being a hard, silent, unemotional machine was jeopardized by those long tropical evenings at the rail under the white moon and the soft pacific breeze. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Besides wondering whether he could man his ship in time to return to sea Hornblower had other worries because his wife Maria was with him in his lodgings. She was tearful and told him that he might become a parent again. He felt guilty as he was just getting over the shock of the news that Lady Barbara Wellsley over whom he had nearly made a fool of himself aboard the Lydia, had just married Admiral Leyton a man under whom Hornblower was now serving. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Even after so many years Horatio Hornblower still feels a sense of shame of his temporary dependence on the mad Don Julian who believed himself a divine being and above the laws of man. While he waited he considered his best course of action. There was a chance that the Spanish ship might come in from sea in which case with half his crew ashore Hornblower would be in a hopeless case. On the other hand he had lookouts aloft and he was frantic to secure stores less Don Julian's rebellion should come to a sudden and bloody ending… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/drama/the-adventures-of-horatio-hornblower Hornblower was a historical action adventure series produced by Harry Towers in 1952. The series was a 30-minute show revolving around the life of Horatio Hornblower, a Captain in the Royal Navy of the British Empire which was played by Michael Redgrave. The protagonist of the show was adapted from the series of 12 novels created by C. S. Forester entitled "Hornblower". The plot of the show starts with Hornblower being a junior Royal Navy Captain in Napoleonic times. He was sent in Central America on a secret mission. There, he reminisces the times when he was still a seasick and hopeless midshipman. As the story goes on, Hornblower gains promotion regardless of the fact that he lacks the resources and influential connections.This is because he used his skills and daring character. After overcoming lots of obstacles set in different lands with different tongues, Hornblower achieved the highest achievement one can get in his profession-- he became Rear Admiral of the Red Squadron, and later on he was known to be the 1st Baron Hornblower. The show had 46 episodes in total which was played in CBS until it ended by July 17, 1953.