Podcast appearances and mentions of peter watt

In this episode Tom and Chris talk to Australian author Peter Watt about his incredibly adventurous life, his life-changing encounters with Wilbur and how Wilbur inspired him to become a best selling author - the Australian Wilbur Smith Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1935, miner Alexei Stakhanov became a hero of labor in the Soviet Union, and the Stakhanovite movement began. But what was touted as an organic step forward to greater productivity by Stalin was truly a carefully planned PR effort. Research: Applebaum, Anne. "Holodomor". Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Jan. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/event/Holodomor Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "kulak". Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Nov. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/topic/kulak Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Stakhanov". Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Jun. 2008, https://www.britannica.com/place/Stakhanov Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Industrialization, 1929-34.” https://www.britannica.com/place/Soviet-Union/Industrialization-1929-34 Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Lavrenty Beria". Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Dec. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lavrenty-Beria Kotkin, Stephen. “Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941.” Penguin. 2017. “Soviet leaders' gifts go on show.” BBC News. Nov. 15, 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6150746.stm Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Khrushchev's secret speech". Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Feb. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/event/Khrushchevs-secret-speech Costea, Bogdan and Peter Watt. “How a Soviet miner from the 1930s helped create today's intense corporate workplace culture.” The Conversation. June 29, 2021. https://theconversation.com/how-a-soviet-miner-from-the-1930s-helped-create-todays-intense-corporate-workplace-culture-155814 “Heroes of Labor.” Time. Dec. 16, 1935. https://web.archive.org/web/20071016224729/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,755449,00.html “Khrushchev and the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party, ” U.S. Department of State. Office of the Historian. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/khrushchev-20th-congress Knight, Amy. “Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant.” Princeton University Press. 1995. Newman, Dina. “Alexei Stakhanov: The USSR's superstar miner.” https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35161610 Overy, Richard. “The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia.” Norton. 2006. Remnick, David. “Soviets Chronicle Demise of Beria.” The Washington Post. Feb. 29, 1988. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/02/29/soviets-chronicle-demise-of-beria/f3793536-d798-44a1-943c-287b99f88340/ Schmemann, Serge. “In Soviet, Eager Beaver's Legend Works Overtime.” New York Times. Augst 31, 1985. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/31/world/in-soviet-eager-beaver-s-legend-works-overtime.html SIEGELBAUM, LEWIS H. “Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941.” Cambridge University Press. 1988. SIEGELBAUM, LEWIS H. “THE MAKING OF STAKHANOVITES, 1935-36.” Russian History, vol. 13, no. 2/3, 1986, pp. 259–92. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24655836 “Stalin at the Conference of Stakhanovites.” Seventeen Moments in Soviet History. Michigan State University. https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/year-of-the-stakhanovite/year-of-the-stakhanovite-texts/stalin-at-the-conference-of-stakhanovites/ Davies, R. W., and Oleg Khlevnyuk. “Stakhanovism and the Soviet Economy.” Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 54, no. 6, 2002, pp. 867–903. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/826287 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to Episode 50 Part 1 of the Play It Up Podcast!! This is the first in a 2-part series covering the ins and outs of the Brisbane Pinball and Arcade Collective (BPAC) 2023 event which took place from the 14-23rd July at Brewdog Dogtap in Murrarie, QLD. And honestly, what better way to celebrate 50 episodes of your favourite podcast, with TWO episodes of your favourite podcast? Wow! We hope you enjoy our flyover of BPAC's Arcade events in classic Play It Up Podcast fashion, and please join us in Episode 50, Part 2 for a deep-dive into the event with a few extra special guests – So stay tuned for more shortly!! A HUGE, HUGE Play It Up Podcast shoutout to: Your Australian Kong Off 6 guns: Michael ‘Bonerforce' Edwards, Sean ‘Taggsta' Tagg, Dr. Aaron Raynor, Greg Pell, Geoff ‘80sarcadekid' Suttor, Matt Tecchio, Shane Sawle, Michael Kibbey, Patrick Silva, Allen ‘muscleandfitness' Staal, Luke ‘Busho' Bushell, Danny ‘SimpleDack' Fazackerley, Jack Philippi, Ky Staal, Derek Broadfoot, Pat Mortiss, Connor Weekes, Matthew Tolhurst, Tim Bragg, Alix McLean, Marc Bell, Andrew ‘Barra' Barrow and Chris Sommersville Our awesome mates at Brewdog Brisbane (thank you) Ultra big Play It Up shoutouts to Tanya Lowe and Adam Lee ANZAP Hall of fame recipients Jimmy Nails, Michael Kibbey, Richard Rhodes, Rob McAuley, Paul Hornitzky, Andrew Barrow, Danielle Peck, Dave Peck, Yee Fong, Peter Watt, Steven Edwards (and anyone else we may have missed we deeply apologise!) Yewww we love you guys Chapter Guide: 0:00 – Hi Denny Hi Mike Hi Neil Hi Shaun 1:35 – BPAckin' up post BPAC 3:30 – Shaun's experiences with his first BPAC since 2019 8:10 – Neil Cairns ANZAP Hall of Fame Induction 10:25 – ANZAP and other Hall of Fame Inductees 15:15 – Donkey Kong L3 Comp 19:55 – AKO6 Qualifying day 29:35 – Australian Kong Off Juniors comp 33:00 – Back to qualifiers!! 34:10 – Taggsta and Denny drawn game 39:10 – Taggsta and Denny second game 40:00 – Neil's 1st round vs. Allen 41:30 – Shauno v Shano 45:20 – other games round 2 47:12 – Neil v GEF second round 49:38 – Denny v Barra second round 50:30 – Neil v Tech third round 53:13 – Neil v Shane game for third place (Where's the Beef??) 55:50 – To be continued… In Part 2!! We hope you enjoy the episode! Feel free to drop us a line about BPAC or anything Arcade and classic gaming on Anchor at the link below and your question could be featured on the podcast! https://anchor.fm/playituppodcast Want moar Play It Up Podcast? You can also find us here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZnONv0hcDWXCA29BdpmV9Q (Full Video Podcast) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/play-it-up/id1489273083?uo=4 https://open.spotify.com/show/0BJmmWLtgkDnd5l4JVTOju?si=f273f3a11f4142fb https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS83MzYyNDQucnNz https://www.breaker.audio/play-it-up https://pca.st/5tm92if5 https://radiopublic.com/play-it-up-WdLrZL https://instagram.com/playituppodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/PlayItUpPodcast Contact on us on Anchor for any questions for the team or feedback. Thanks you absolute legends, and we will see you in Episode 50, Part 2!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/playituppodcast/message

We’re joined by Dr. Peter Watt, author of Drug War Mexico: Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy, to

Alex Lloyd interviews Australian Army veteran Peter Watt. Life on the Line tracks down Australian military veterans and records their stories. Peter Watt enlisted during the Vietnam War. He has been a soldier, articled clerk to a solicitor, prawn trawler deckhand, builder's labourer, pipe layer, real estate salesman, private investigator, police sergeant and adviser to the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. Today, he is a volunteer firefighter with the Rural Fire Service and an author. His new novel, CALL OF EMPIRE, is out now in print, audiobook and ebook, and Alex is Peter's publisher at Pan Macmillan. To see photos related to today's interview, visit our website - www.lifeonthelinepodcast.com - or follow us on social media: @lifeonthelinepodcast on Facebook and Instagram, @LOTLpod on Twitter and 'Thistle Productions' on LinkedIn.

This week we are so excited to interview Ken Liu! All of his writing and translation work is excellent, but if you haven't read his short story collection The Paper Menagerie  we recommend you start there, it's full of incredibly memorable stories.We talked with Ken about:Growing up in both China and AmericaRobo-Ken - the neural network he built to help write a storyThe singularity and uploading your consciousnessHis background as a programmer and lawyerThe importance of family in his storiesThe meaning of silkpunk and his series The Dandelion DynastyWe'll be releasing more bonus content from the Hugo Awards on YouTube over the next week - check those out on our YouTube channel if you haven't already subscribed!Next episode we'll be discussing Peter Watt's Blindsight - look forward to talking with y'all then. Happy reading everybody!

'The Colonial's Son' is historical fiction from the Palmer River goldfields to the political power play of Europe, Peter Watt writes of the fighting by bushrangers or armies to achieve their ambitions.In ‘Dark Rise', C. S. Pacat creates a fantasy world where there is an ambiguity between good and evil – the light and the dark. Nothing is what it seems. 

This episode of The Conversation's In Depth Out Loud podcast features the story of a young Soviet miner named Alexei Stakhanov, and how the work ethic he embodied in the 1930s has been invoked by managers in the west ever since.Stakhanov's staggering workload and personal commitment to his job as a miner in Stalin's Soviet Union became the embodiment of a new human type and the beginning of a new social and political trend known as “Stakhanovism”. Bogdan Costea, professor of management and society at Lancaster University, and Peter Watt, international lecturer in management and organisation studies at Lancaster University in Leipzig, argue that the spectre of this long-forgotten Soviet miner still haunts our workplace culture today.You can read the text version of this in-depth article here. The audio version is read by Les Smith in partnership with Noa, News Over Audio. You can listen to more articles from The Conversation, for free, on the Noa app.The music in In Depth Out Loud is Night Caves, by Lee Rosevere. In Depth Out Loud is produced by Gemma Ware.This story came out of a project at The Conversation called Insights supported by Research England. You can read more stories in the series here.The Conversation is a charity. If you're able to support what we do, please consider donating here. Thank you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our fascination with fire goes back millennia and with changing climate conditions, fire will only take greater hold on our collective psyche. This important session brings together 'The Arsonist' author Chloe Hopper, fire historian Stephen Pyne and RFS veteran Peter Watt to discuss our evolving relationship with fire and how to better work WITH fire, rather than against it.

Peter Watt's big canvas Australian historicals have garnered a popular following far beyond the shores of his homeland. And that's how Peter - a man of action who's been described as “the Australian Wilbur Smith” - likes it, because he's always had a primary aim of entertaining readers and elevating Aussie stories to international notice. Hi there, I'm your host Jenny Wheeler and today Peter talks about living his dream life – volunteer fire fighting for six months of the year and writing his new historical series in the other six . Six things you'll learn from this Joys of Binge Reading episode: Why he's got the ideal lifeHow Wallarie became a star in GermanyThe little known history that excites himHow his passion for Aussie history has inspired othersThe writers he admires the mostWhat he'd do differently next time: (you'll be surprised!) Website: http://www.peterwatt.com Facebook:  (Fans of Peter Watt books - Public group) https://www.facebook.com/groups/60777773968/  What follows is a "near as" transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to important mentions. Jenny: But now, here's Peter. .  Hello there Peter and welcome to the show, it's great to have you with us. How Peter got started as an author Peter:  Hello Jenny and 'Kia Ora' to all my New Zealand readers. (Ed note: Kia Ora is a Maori greeting of welcome.) Peter Watt: Author and volunteer fire fighter Jenny:  That's fantastic, and you do have a lot of New Zealand readers.  We'll get on to that.  But beginning at the beginning, I always like to ask this question although it's maybe a little clichéd – was there a “Once Upon a Time” moment when you decided that you wanted to write fiction?  And if so, what was the catalyst for it? Peter:  Yes, well I've looked at this question many times and I think I was aged 7 sitting on a tractor …. driving round and round in circles, and of course in those days there were no cabins, you just sucked in the diesel and sucked up the dust, and I thought to myself, I'm going to start creating stories in my head so I don't go mad.  It started there, Jenny. Jenny:  But it took you a long time then to get round to doing it. Peter:  Yes, you know, we make the mistake of letting life get in the way and not devoting ourselves to what we really want to do.  I was about 50 when I commenced writing “Cry of the Curlew” (Book One in the Frontier series) and from there it's been history, with all the other books following. Cry of the Curlew: #1 in the Frontier series Jenny:  Did you always know it would be historical fiction that you would want to write? Peter:  Yes, most definitely.  I was influenced by James A. Michener, Leon Uris and many of those other American writers who tended to write with the historical background. I always thought that our part of the world, Australia and New Zealand, had got very little exposure in literature, so I devoted myself to that.  Jenny:  I know you've said that actually you probably have been responsible for a little bit of a tourist boom drawing people to Australia, having become interested in the Australian stories, so you've been successful at that. Peter:  Yes, it's nice when I receive emails from American readers who say, you know we never thought about coming to Australia until we read one of your books.  And I would sometimes meet them at the airport and give them a bit of a guided tour. Peter's 12-book Aussie family saga  Jenny:  Fantastic!  What a lovely thing.  You've led a remarkably adventurous life and we'll get onto that, but your series – you've got a 12 books Frontier series which is a very big family drama, in fact it follows the rivalry between two families and now you've started a new series, The Queen's Colonial.  There have been a few stand alones and I think a Papua New Guinea trilogy in the middle there somewhere, but let's talk about the latest book,

Peter Watt - Engage

Michael Zwaagstra is interviewed by Peter Watt on Alberta Morning news about no-zero policies.

As General Secretary at the Labour Party, Peter Watt oversaw the party's transition from Tony Blair to Gordon Brown. Resigning at the height of the Donorgate affair in 2007, he published his no-holds-barred memoir and exposé 'Inside Out' soon after, which cast an unforgiving light on Brown's leadership style and caused a media furore. Now Director of Child Protection at the NSPCC, Peter explains how he 'managed' the press at the top of the Labour Party and talks about the NSPCC's campaigning role in the Jimmy Savile scandal.

Institute for the Study of the Americas, Human Rights Consortium, Dr. Par Engstrom, Dr. Peter Watt,Ms. Valentina Rosendo Cantú, Mr. Santiago Aguirre, Mr Matthew Phillips

Institute for the Study of the Americas, Human Rights Consortium, Dr. Par Engstrom, Dr. Peter Watt,Ms. Valentina Rosendo Cantú, Mr. Santiago Aguirre, Mr Matthew Phillips

In 1982, Peter Watt left his life as a commercial fisherman on the east coast of Nova Scotia to volunteer in Vanuatu. Little did he know that this experience would mark the beginning of his lifelong journey in international development.In this podcast, Peter discusses how his experience in international development has shown him the importance of observing, investigating, documenting and consulting the local community before undertaking a project while on assignment. Volunteer for a better world! Join CUSO-VSO, share skills and volunteer in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. Volunteers, donate, share skills.www.cuso-vso.org

In 1982, Peter Watt left his life as a commercial fisherman on the east coast of Nova Scotia to volunteer in Vanuatu. Little did he know that this experience would mark the beginning of his lifelong journey in international development.In this podcast, Peter discusses how his experience in international development has shown him the importance of observing, investigating, documenting and consulting the local community before undertaking a project while on assignment. Volunteer for a better world! Join CUSO-VSO, share skills and volunteer in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. Volunteers, donate, share skills.www.cuso-vso.org