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Welcome to the fourth episode of ‘Yer a Wizard', a Harry Potter Sleep Saga where you are the main character.  Tonight you continue your adventure in the Leaky Cauldron, with a hearty wizard's breakfast, before meeting a gentle new companion and taking a journey through the mysterious floo network, arriving in the heart of Kings Cross Station. And then, Platform 9 3/4 awaits... If you would like to enjoy ad-free content, exclusive sleep stories, live readings and more, then you can join our wonderful Patreon community here: https://www.patreon.com/sleepycatmeditations  Note: There is no intentional copyright infringement in this meditation. This is an original sleep story, based loosely on the fictional world of Harry Potter created by JK Rowling.

In this episode, which is No. 4 in Danny Hurst´s Monopoly podcast series, we reach the square that is Kings Cross Station. He looks at whether this was where Boudica made her last stand and is buried. Danny also reveals why it is built slap bang next to another major station – St Pancras. Of course, he also covers the Harry Potter connection as well as the history of the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel. KEY TAKEAWAYS There is a weird potential connection between Boudica and why JK Rowling chose platform 9 ¾ for her Harry Potter books. Unlike many other areas in London, Kings Cross has only been gentrified once and that did not happen until the beginning of the 21st century. The station sits on the site of a smallpox hospital. Kings Cross has been used in numerous dystopian post-WWII films. The station has been bombed twice, once in 1941 and again in 1973. BEST MOMENTS ‘One-upmanship and money prevailed over common sense. ´ ‘Despite gentrification, these issues have merely been swept under the carpet.' ‘This led to smoking being banned across the London Underground network.' EPISODE RESOURCES Shop for all official versions of Monopoly here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/page/785DC233-0A69-4DF8-98E9-4F50CC50A59E HOST BIO Historian, performer, and mentor Danny Hurst has been engaging audiences for many years, whether as a lecturer, stand-up comic or intervention teacher with young offenders and excluded secondary students. Having worked with some of the most difficult people in the UK, he is a natural storyteller and entertainer, whilst purveying the most fascinating information that you didn't know you didn't know. A writer and host of pub quizzes across London, he has travelled extensively and speaks several languages. He has been a consultant for exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum and Natural History Museum in London as well as presenting accelerated learning seminars across the UK. With a wide range of knowledge ranging from motor mechanics to opera to breeding carnivorous plants, he believes learning is the most effective when it's fun. Uniquely delivered, this is history without the boring bits, told the way only Danny Hurst can. CONTACT AND SOCIALS https://instagram.com/dannyjhurstfacebook.com/danny.hurst.9638 https://twitter.com/dannyhurst  https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-hurst-19574720 Podcast Description "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." James Joyce. That was me at school as well. Ironically, I ended up becoming a historian. The Unusual Histories podcast is all about the history you don't learn at school, nor indeed anywhere else. Discover things that you didn't know that you didn't know; fascinating historical luminaries and their vices and addictions, the other numerous sides of every story. We start with the Monopoly Series, in which we explore how the game came to be, the real-life connection between the cheapest and most expensive properties, the history of each location, how proportionate the values were then and are today, what the hell a "community chest" is and whether free parking really does exist anywhere in London.  If you love history; or indeed if you hate history, this is the podcast for you…

Chris Smiles is one of the world's leading tech-driven architects. He has mastered the use of digital technology and computational design to create sports stadia that will dominate deep into the 21st Century. He is the man behind the quarter of a billion-dollar Marvel Stadium redevelopment. He was a key member of the winning bid to build Optus Stadium, and was lead designer of the new Adelaide Oval. Prior to starting his own firm, Smartform, Chris did major projects everywhere from China, to Kazakhstan, and even worked on the Royal Botanic Gardens and Kings Cross Station in London. Today, Chris gives us an exclusive insight into the cutting edge tech driving the future of sports stadiums.  

In this first episode of our second series on the cost of living, Business Daily's Leanna Byrne looks into the areas of our lives that are costing us the most. Today we focus on our public transport systems. Figures from Statista, a market and consumer data platform, puts Auckland, New Zeland as the third most expensive city for public transport, we hear from Jon Reeves who is National Co-Ordinator and Co-Founder of the Public Transport Users Association there. When the cost of living rises, it rises for everyone. So those working in the transport sector want pay rises to reflect that. Anna Jane Hunter, partner at Winder Phillips Associates, tells Business Daily that there's a lot of systemic issues in the UK's transport sector that have only just bubbled to the surface again after two years of us staying at home and not using public transport. We speak to Gregor Kolbe, who works on transport and consumer politics for the Federation of German Consumer Organisations. Over the summer, Germany encouraged people to use public transport by actually reducing the cost of transport. But prices are back to normal levels now. Presenter/producer: Leanna Byrne Image: Passengers at Kings Cross Station in London/ Credit: EPA

Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. Today I'll be discussing HOW Harry RETURNED from Limbo. In case you had forgotten, Harry actually ends up DYING at one point after an encounter with Voldemort in the forbidden forest:"Harry looked back into the red eyes, and wanted it to happen now, quickly, while he could still stand, before he lost control, before he betrayed fear-- He saw the mouth move and a flash of green light, and everything was gone."And the next thing we know, Harry is beginning to regain consciousness- only- he's not in the Forbidden Forest anymore. In fact, entirely disoriented, he didn't know WHERE he was."He lay in a bright mist, though it was not like mist he had ever experienced before. His surroundings were not hidden by cloudy vapour; rather the cloudy vapour had not yet formed into surroundings. The floor on which he lay seemed to be white, neither warm nor cold, but simply there, a flat, blank something on which to be."His environment was completely surreal, and Harry had lost all of his bearings. In fact, he had no idea if what he was experiencing was real, or just a figment of his imagination. "Tell me one last thing. Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"To Which Dumbledore replies:"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"Harry, after a minor adjustment to his surroundings, also noticed that the mist had begun to form in the shape of Kings Cross Station, where he first departed to Hogwarts so many years ago. But Harry wasn't truly at Kings Cross, so- where was he? As it turns out, he was in limbo.Socials: https://linktr.ee/hptheory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Foundations of Amateur Radio One of the many acronyms that define the world of amateur radio is VFO. It stands for Variable Frequency Oscillator. That doesn't explain much if you're not familiar with the purpose of it and just how special this aspect of amateur radio is. Much of the world of radio beyond our hobby, like broadcast television, WiFi and Citizen Band or CB, to name a few, uses radio spectrum in a particular way. On a television you change channels to switch between stations. Similarly, a WiFi network uses specific channels to make your wireless network a reality and the same goes for CB, different channels to make yourself heard. Looking specifically at CB for a moment, if you look at channel 8 for example, depending on which type of equipment you have, your radio might be using 27.055 MHz, or 476.575 MHz, or 476.6 MHz. Each of those frequencies can be described as CB channel 8. The first is on the 27 MHz or 11m band, the second is if you're using a 40 channel radio, which is now depreciated and the third is if you're using an 80 channel radio. If you look at digital broadcast television, channel 8 is on 191.5 MHz. On WiFi, channel 8 is on 2.447 GHz or 5.040 GHz. You get the point, depending on where you are as a user of radio spectrum, channel 8 might mean a whole host of different things and as I've described with CB radio, that might even change over time. Harry Potter needed magic to reach Platform Nine and Three-Quarters at Kings Cross Station to get to school. In a channelised world, getting to an in-between frequency is not possible if you're using licensed equipment, unless you're a radio amateur, then you can use magic to get into the gaps. That magic is called the VFO. You might recall that our radios use many different frequencies internally to be able to filter out specifically what signal you want to hear. Most of those frequencies are fixed, in fact in the vast majority of cases these are actually tuned and calibrated to work in a very specific way. The one exception is the VFO, it's by nature variable. It's likely calibrated, but it's not fixed and that allows our community to tune our equipment to any frequency we desire. The traditional user interface for this is a big knob on the front of your radio, colloquially referred to as the dial, as-in turn the dial to change frequency. This allows us something quite rare in radio land. We can be frequency agile. It means that if there's interference at a specific frequency, we can tweak our VFO and slightly modify where our radio is tuned. You use this almost subconsciously when you're on HF trying to tune to a particular station. In the world of software radio there's likely no knob. You type in a number and the variable frequency oscillator in the radio is tuned to another frequency and the output signal, or transmit signal if you're making noise on-air, changes to another frequency. Digital modes like WSPR, which generally use a very specific frequency also vary that frequency but in a different way. You set your radio to the appropriate so-called dial frequency, let's say 28.1246 MHz on the 10m band and then the software alters the signal by up to 200 Hz to change within the available audio range of your radio, altering between a low of 1400 Hz and a high of 1600 Hz, making the actual WSPR frequency on 10m between 28.1260 and 28.1262 MHz. I'm mentioning the WSPR example because while we're frequency agile in our hobby, we do use channels as well. There's a specific set of frequencies set aside, channels if you like, for WSPR, FT8 and other modes. We do the same on the 2m and 70cm bands where we have rules for where repeaters are allowed to be. It means that we get the best of both worlds. We have the stability and institutional knowledge where repeaters or some modes go, but we also get to play in any spot we want. For example, there's nothing stopping me and a friend setting our radio to some random frequency within our license allocation and outside pre-allocated space and run a WSPR transmitter there. Only the two of us will know about it, well at least at first, but it allows us to experiment away from any other users who might experience interference from our tests and exploration. The VFO is what makes our hobby so very interesting and it's what makes it possible to do weird and wonderful experiments. I'm Onno VK6FLAB

The King's Cross fire on 18 November 1987 is still considered the worst fire in the history of the London Underground and began when a match was dropped on the escalators.The fire claimed the lives of 31 people – including a senior ranked firefighter – and seriously injured many more.  Listen to every episode & Debrief ever made, get full access to discounts, insider info & support the ongoing work of the podcast by clicking HERE A big thanks to our partners for supporting this episode.William Wood WatchesHAIX FootwearRosenbauerDuty Crew Coffee Please subscribe to the podcast on Youtube Enter our monthly giveaways on the following platformsFacebookInstagram Fitness For the Frontline is coaching designed specifically to reflect the physical elements of the role of a Firefighter for those applying for, currently serving in or retired from the fire service. Designed by Firefighters for FirefightersJoin our Facebook group HERE Try the program for FREE HERE Get notified of each Podcast episode as soon as they come out by clicking HERE 

Richie and Chris embark on a new series of Travel Hacker, attempting to see how many countries they can visit in a day. In episode one they meet at Kings Cross Station in London, England, and travel approximately 187 miles. You can get all 6 episodes of this series on Patreon now! Thanks to our Patreons who funded every bit of this journey, and who we hope will take us to new locations soon. Contact us with feedback - TravelHackerPodcast@gmail.com or Tweet @RichieFirth @ProducerChris

Afsted med Hogwartsekspressen! I selskab med de mange nye skoleelever er Harry nu endelig på vej til sit nye hjem, Hogwarts, og derfor læser vi kapitlet gennem temaet 'samhørighed'. Vi fremhæver de steder i kapitlet, hvor vi ser eksempler på samhørighed, men vi taler også om det modsatte, nemlig steder hvor samhørigheden mangler. Vi kommer blandt andet omkring følgende spørgsmål:- Hvordan har Harry det egentlig hos Dursley-familien, efter han er blevet afsløret som magiker? - Hvorfor bliver Harry og Ron mon venner så hurtigt? - Hvilken symbolik ligger der gemt i Rons rotte, Scabbers? I Lumossegmentet har Marie både undersøgt den virkelige og den fiktive Kings Cross Station i London, og vi kommer både omkring kærligheds- og spøgelseshistorier og den metaforiske betydning af stationen.

14 year old Andrew Gosden went missing in 2007, and nothing has been heard from him since. He took a train from his home in Yorkshire to London and was captured on cctv at Kings Cross Station. No confirmed sightings have come to light of him since. You can visit my webpage at podpage.com/true-crime-nightmare or follow me on twitter True Crime Nightmare @nightmarecrime. If you are interested in making a donation, which would go towards making future episodes, you can do so here https://www.paypal.me/RParry235

For our Christmas special, we decided to go somewhere a bit special. A slight detour past Nomad we landed at the beautiful Ezra, located in Potts Point just a stone's throw from Kings Cross Station. Opening in late August, the restaurant has already begun to cause a stir which is exactly what owners Nick and Kirk Mathews Bowden wanted to do with this Tel Aviv inspired venue. Whilst they both admit to not having any Israeli roots, they were so taken with the electric nightlife and the delicious food that they had to bring that to Sydney. With the help of head chef Ben Sears, whose resume doesn’t scream Mediterranean king, they have turned this corner restaurant into a bustling beautiful spot full of ashkenazi, mid eastern and Mediterranean food, matched with a 40 odd wine list and cocktails to write home about. Worth a try, we thought so. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On the morning of September 14 2007, 14 year old Andrew Gosden walked out of his home in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, took £200 from his bank account and purchased a one way ticket to London. CCTV footage captured Andrew leaving Kings Cross Station in London at 11:25am, and this would be the last confirmed sighting of Andrew. Sources:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q9FGRDB2-o4bbxomST4CRnvYwAEFbv03O-5c0zqSjX4/edit?usp=sharing

For episode 7, our tour guides are taking a closer look at King’s Cross/St. Pancras! Our hosts Greta Granger, Nick Longbottom, Will Hagrid and Alex Scamander attempt to figure out where the barrier to Platform 9 ¾ really is…and also, what it actually is. Is Boudicca really buried under King’s Cross? And does she share her name with a Harry Potter villain? Why does Harry end up at King’s Cross when he’s dead – is he dead? Is Dumbledore Death? Where do ghost trains go? How did David Yates manage to film in such a busy station – and which of our guides have actually tried on invisibility cloaks? Finally, listen to a romantic story or two, whilst searching for the magical Eurostar!So get ready to burst through barriers, as we tackle familiar train guards, owl cage accidents, and miss seeing JK by a smidge as she sneaks past us, all in just over 30 minutes. Subscribe now to keep up to date with our episodes, and to continue following our wizarding journey through the muggle and magical world of JK Rowling!

➡️Name: Andrew Gosden ➡️Home Town: Balby, Doncaster ➡️DOB: 10th of July, 1993 ➡️Date of disappearance: 14th September 2007 (13 yrs ago) ➡️Age of disappearance: 14 ➡️Last Seen: 11:25am at Kings Cross Station, London ➡️Outstanding features: Deaf in his left ear, Wore thick glasses, Extra curve on his left ear, brown hair that dropped across his face ➡️Age now: 27 (inRead more

On the morning of September 14, 2007, an accomplished 14-year-old student named Andrew Gosden skipped school for unknown reasons and boarded a train headed to Kings Cross Station in London, at which point he was captured alone on surveillance video exiting to the street. But that was the last confirmed sighting of the teen. He was never heard from again. Many theories about his vanishing have gained traction in the aftermath, yet his disappearance remains a mystery to this day. Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological exploration of Andrew's actions leading up to the event in an effort to understand why he left, in addition to how he might have met his untimely demise.

“Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, art, word, war” het en storslått utstilling som ble vist på British Library våren 2019. Køene sto flere hundre meter ut i gaten forbi Kings Cross Station og perrong 9 og trekvart i London hver eneste dag, og alt var utsolgt. Hvorfor ? - De anglosaksiske kongedømmene var selve starten på alt som er britisk i dag, sier kurator Claire Breay på British Library. Hun har ledet et stort prosjekt hvor dokumenter, bøker og gjenstander fra hele den Anglo-Saksiske perioden på De britiske øyer har blitt samlet. - Kontakten med det kontinentale Europa, idéene som fulgte med alle de forskjellige innvandrings- erobrings og bosettingsbølgene. Det er røttene våre, og de kan ikke skilles fra den europeiske felleskulturen. sier hun. Men legger fort til at det ikke er ment som noen kommentar til Brexit. British Library skal ikke ha noen mening i slike saker. Anglo-Skandinavia I MUSEUMs vandring rundt på utstillingen er det seniorarkivar Jo Rune Ugulen Kristiansen fra Arkivverket i Bergen som er vår veiviser. Han er middelalderhistoriker og har selv sittet mange ganger på lesesalene her. - Jeg jobber jo vanligvis med yngre dokumenter, sier Kristiansen, som har et spesielt ansvar for de aller eldste, håndskrevne dokumentene i Arkivverket. Men her, sier Kristiansen, kan vi møte mange av navnene vi kjenner fra de norrøne sagaene i samtidige, autentiske kilder. Mot slutten av den Anglo-Saksiske perioden, på 900 og 1000-tallet, var innslaget av skandinaviske erobrere, handelsmenn og bønder, med andre ord vikingene, så stort på De britiske øyer at det er riktig å kalle den delen av perioden for Anglo-Skandinavisk. Og i dokumenter, håndskrevne bøker, avtaler og tegninger møter vi blant andre kong Knut den mektige og hans dronning Emma. Knut var sønnesønn av Harald Blåtann, sønn av Svein Tjugskjegg som erobret England og ble selv en av Europas mektigste konger med hele sitt Nordsjørike , inkludert Norge. På utstillingen kan vi blant annet finne en hel «lovtale», en bok på latin, som forteller om dronning Emma og kong Knuts liv. I «Enconium Emma Reginae» fra 1041 finner vi også en tegning som viser de to. Av de eldste dokumentene som forteller om vikingenes England på utstillingen er lovteksten som regulerer forholdet mellom Alfred den store og vikingkongen Guthrum. Den er antakelig fra ca 890 og viser starten på det som senere ble Danelagen og det danske og skandinaviske kongedømmet på De britiske øyer. Medvirkende: Curator Claire Breay, British Library, seniorarkivar Jo Rune Ugulen Kristiansen, Arkivverket, Bergen. Programleder Øyvind Arntsen. Sendt første gang 11/5 2019

So, we started out on a short journey in November and finished at Kings Cross Station last Saturday as a small group. Therefore, I just wanted to spend a few minutes today sharing what the TPV Apprentice Programme is all about and how the guys found it. Resources mentioned Property Deal Tips & How to […] The post Soundbite: 100 Days On – The Apprentices Graduate! appeared first on The Property Voice.

An audio portrait of one day at Kings Cross Station. Where are people going, where have they been and how are they connected to each other and to the station? What happens when you introduce serendipity and coincidence into the station’s waiting area? Recorded and produced by Social Broadcaster Lucia Scazzocchio.

On the morning of September 14th, 2007, 14 year old Andrew Gosden left his home in Doncaster, England. His parents believed he was on his way to school, but Andrew had other plans. Instead, he returned home, changed his clothes, and caught a train to London. CCTV footage captured Andrew leaving Kings Cross Station. This is the last time Andrew Gosden was ever seen, and his family has had few answers since. Today, we speak with Andrew's father, Kevin Gosden, Andrew's sister Charlotte, and Josie Allen from the UK organization Missing People. As the ten year anniversary of Andrew's disappearance is just days from the release of today's episode, we hope that someone comes forward with new information.

A secret entrance to another world has long been fertile ground for great writers. Alice enters a backwards world through a looking glass. Harry Potter walks through a brick wall at 9 ¾ Kings Cross Station to board the train to Hogwarts. In C.S. Lewis’s classic tale, little Lucy Pevensie accidentally discovers the world of... Read more

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