Podcast appearances and mentions of michael horovitz

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday. Military correspondent Emmanuel Fabian and reporter Michael Horovitz join host Jessica Steinberg for today's podcast. Horovitz describes scene of massive Tel Aviv protest Saturday night demonstrating against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government and the coalition's planned judicial overhaul. Fabian discusses recent spate of West Bank clashes amidst plans by finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and public security minister Itamar Ben Gvir to change defense and policing systems in the region. Fabian also dissects some of the comments made by outgoing IDF chief of staff Aviv Kohavi regarding Smotrich's West Bank powers and why the IDF should only report to the defense minister. Steinberg comments on a new documentary, "The Narrow Bridge," making rounds of film festivals, created by Australian trauma psychologist Esther Takac about healing process of four people grieving from tragic losses due to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Discussed articles include: ‘A plan to change Israel's DNA': 80,000 rally in Tel Aviv against judicial overhaul Palestinian shot dead by IDF troops in West Bank amid apparent scuffle Army chief spurns Smotrich's W. Bank powers: IDF reports only to defense minister Documentary places lens on transformation from grief to reconciliation Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on iTunes, Spotify, PlayerFM, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts. IMAGE: More than 80,000 protest against the current Israeli government at Tel Aviv's Habima Square on January 14, 2023 (Courtesy Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matthew Bannister on Jehan Sadat, the wife of president Anwar Sadat of Egypt, who campaigned for women's rights, supported the disabled and disadvantaged people and forged an academic career. Michael Horovitz, the anarchic poet who staged chaotic 'happenings' and supported new talent. Richard Ernst, the Swiss chemist who won the Nobel prize for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Dilip Kumar, the Bollywood actor known as 'the king of tragedy'. Producer: Neil George Interviewed guest: Noah Bakr Interviewed guest: Shibley Telhami Interviewed guest: Adam Horovitz Interviewed guest: John Hegley Interviewed guest: Matthias Ernst Interviewed guest: Professor Kurt Wüthrich Interviewed guest: Anil Sinanan Archive clips used: ABC NEWS, 06/10/1980; SPINE TV, 21/12/2011; Optic Nerve Ltd 2011-2021; Martin Packard, You Tube 2010; Devdas film, 1955; Kohinoor film, 1960; Mughal-E-Azam film, 1960.

What is physical Perfection? Is it health or elusive looks or simply wabi sabi? What makes a perfect body? What is that exactly? Is it just looks or health? Is it simply an elusive goal? In this podcast episode I consider and muse over what is perfection? Who gets to decide what the perfect body is? I was inspired to talk about this subject after hearing a panel discussion. ‘Perfectibility of the body' was the name given to the cultural arts discussion panel at The Festival of Science and Arts, in London UK. The panel included Alison Lapper, who is the well known outspoken disabilities artist advocate and the writer and poet Michael Horovitz. Alison Lapper said, “in my eyes I'm in the perfect body”. What a powerful statement of body confidence. Plato and Aristotle, the philosophers from ancient Greece, stated this about perfection. They believed there could not be a perfect anything. This perfection relates to a colour or a book or a breast. What a relief that is then! Aristotle wrote “that is perfect that has achieved it”. I wonder if in our culture we are being overly perfectionist in how we do things. Considering what makes a perfect body. Whether wabi sabi would be a more gentler approach to how we view the body and almost everything. In the episode I provide a list of the practical ways we can help ourselves to becoming or maintaining healthy and happy in our body and mind. It's not rocket science and it's not perfect body! Pause moment senses based mindfulness For the Pause Moment in this episode I guide you into taking a quiet moment for yourself. I use the power of positive words and visuals to relax the body and mind. To include the letting go of being perfect. We can become our own cheerleader towards living a life we feel comfortable with. I enjoy hearing about how you dealt with a situation that initially required perfection on your part. How you stepped aside from the stress of perfection and created your own wabi sabi of the situation. You can subscribe to my email list to hear about my new episodes, articles and other subscriber only events.

Peter Whitehead was an innovative English writer and filmmaker who documented the counterculture in London and New York in the late 1960s.   His film Wholly Communion captured The International Poetry Incarnation, a groundbreaking event at The Royal Albert Hall in 1965 that was to prove pivotal in the evolution of the underground  scene. The film featured poetry readings by Beat poets including Allen Ginsberg, Michael Horovitz, Adrian Mitchell and Lawrence Ferlinghetti and established Whitehead as the London counterculture's 'Man With a Movie Camera'.   Film event producer Marek Pytel walks us through Whtehead's life and work including the iconic 'Tonite Let's All Make Love in London' documentary that helped define the "swinging London" scene of the sixties with psychedelic performances and interviewees including Pink Floyd, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, Vanessa Redgrave, Lee Marvin, Julie Christie, Allen Ginsberg, Eric Burdon, Michael Caine and many others.   We hear how Whitehead went onto film with The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix and to make provocative work about the countercultural protest movement in late 60s New York before making an extraordinary career swerve.   For More on Marek Pytel's work see www.realityfilm.co.uk   For more on the Bureau of Lost Culture www.bureauoflostculture.com  

The end of our Blakean Month is celebrated in this programme with performances from The Children (John Gibbens and Armorel Weston), a poem from DiDi, a blend of Blake and Dylan from Dave Russell, Songs and poetry from Michael Horovitz and Venessa V, Stephen Micalef accompanied by an improvised piece from the Ring Mod Orkestra (Tim Flitcroft) and last bit not least, Grassy Nowel.

Michael Horovitz is one of the last surviving Beatniks, 'the big daddy of the British Beat Movement'. In the 1950s, he founded a ground-breaking magazine which was the first to publish new work by Samuel Becket and William Burroughs, including passages from Naked Lunch which had been banned for obscenity in America. At 78 he's still performing his poems in pubs, and still playing his 'anglosaxophone', a kind of exuberant kazoo. In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Horovitz talks about the poetic revolution that began in the 50s, and about his friendship with Stan Tracey, who died recently. He tells the story of how his family were forced to flee Nazi Germany in the 1930s, where his father was a lawyer. His music choices include Beethoven, Mendelsohn and Stan Tracey, as well as a rare Charlie Parker jazz improvisation from 1945 (which includes one of the few recordings of Charlie Parker's voice). He includes too a moving recording of his wife, the poet Frances Horovitz, reading a poem she wrote when she was dying, and a recent 'jazz poem' of his own, where Horovitz plays alongside Damon Albarn and Paul Weller. Plus a few blasts on his 'anglosaxophone'...

Matthew Parris is joined by Michael Horovitz who nominates fellow poet and founder of the 'Beat Generation', Allen Ginsberg, as his Great Life. Ginsberg's friend and biographer Barry Miles provides biographical detail of this colourful and controversial writer, who through his battle for free expression inspired American counter culture. Producer: Melvin Rickarby First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013.

Click here to listen to So Here We Are on Miporadio SoHereWeAre I first encountered the poetry of Tom Raworth in Michael Horovitz’s Children of Albion: Poetry of the ‘Underground’ in Britain... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]