Podcasts about Pugwash

Duncan Maitland is a musician, singer and writer. He formed his first band The Flood, in 1985 and later joined the Irish band, Picturehouse, on the recommendation of the producer of David Gary and the Pixies, Ronnie Stone. Picturehouse recorded their debut album, "Shine Box" which included Duncan's song "Fan Club" described by the music journalist John Walshe from Hot Press as among the best songs never recorded by the Beatles. The band continued to tour Europe the following year, supporting bands like Bon Jovi , Meatloaf and the Coors and in 1998 began work on their second album "Karmarama" for which Duncan wrote many songs including "Sunburst" which went on to become the band's biggest record. Duncan worked with the Irish band Pugwash and recorded a number of albums with them, as well as recording and touring as a solo performer. He also recorded with XTC.Duncan Maitland is our guest in episode 553 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he'd like to preserve and one he'd like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Duncan Maitland on Instagram @duncan.maitland.101 .Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter/X & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter/X: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people .To support this podcast, get all episodes ad-free and a bonus episode every Wednesday of "My Time Capsule The Debrief', please sign up here - https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com. All money goes straight into the making of the podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hussain Al-Shahristani, president of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, expressed concern at a press conference in Tokyo on Friday about U.S. President Donald Trump's order to resume nuclear tests.

The 63rd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs opened in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima on Saturday, bringing together about 190 participants from around 40 countries and regions to mainly discuss the elimination of nuclear weapons.

01 Paris Cesvette & Frank McComb - Drifting (DJ Spen, Thommy Davis & Gary Hudge Remix) 02 Yousef feat Yasmin - Round & Round 03 MERLIN BOBB, Mark Francis - Don't Play With My Heart (Main Version -Unified Spirits Edit) 04 Paris Cesvette & Amy Douglas - Give It Up (Byron The Aquarius Extended Remix) 05 FCL, Lady Linn, Jimpster 06 Seb Skalski, Carla Prather - No One But You (Extended Mix) 07 Patricia Nicole, Luis Loowee R Rivera - Rotation (Remixes) (Loowee R's Vocal Remix) 08 Teddy Douglas, Tedd Patterson - Don't Turn Your Back On Me Feat. Pauline Taylor (Tedd Patterson Remix) 09 Pat Bedeau, Nita Funk - Music Is The Answer (Extended Mix) 10  S.E.L & Michele Chiavarini - 2 Up (MicFreak & DJ Spen House Mix) 11   Ron Trent - Black Magic Woman (Coflo Remix) 12  Yooks, Tasha LaRae - Smile (Original Mix) 13  Makin' Moves - Natural Frequency (Dark Sweet Mix) 14  Dan the Drum x Carmy Love - Hurt So Bad (Original 'SHLJ' Mix) 15  Peven Everett, Tony Touch - No Wonder (Yoruba Soul Mix) 16  Tracksuit Society, N.W.N. - The Frequency (N.W.N. Remix) 17  Mark Francis, Crue Paris - Sometimes (Vocal Remix) 18  Osner, Rona Ray - Now That You're Here (Coflo Remix) 19  SoulFreakah, NutownSoul - Thank You 20  DJ E-Clyps, Tasha LaRae - Best Way (Extended Mix)

Aaron Paul, Jobi McAnuff & Tommy Smith talk to new Luton boss Jack Wilshere. They also discuss clubs returning to ‘old flame' managers, what about Maldon & Tiptree's war of words with Port Vale after the FA Cup draw, and will Chris Powell make our All-Time Ultimate EFL XI? All that and Pugwash rears his head in 72PLUS 72MINUS. Messages/voicenote us on WhatsApp - 08000 289 369.01:55 What would Jobi/Tommy change about their former clubs? 05:00 Jack Wilshere INTERVIEW 23:30 Clubs returning to ‘old flame' managers 27:00 Maldon & Tiptree's war of words with Port Vale 31:40 Soup-er Lyle Taylor 34:00 Chris Powell for the Ultimate EFL XI? 37:20 Goal music in 72PLUS 72MINUS 41:30 Aaron gives his team time off in Fantasy EFL5 Live / BBC Sounds commentaries: Wed 15 Oct 2000 Chelsea v Paris FC in UWCL, Sat 18 Oct 1500 Man City v Everton in Premier League, Sat 18 Oct 1500 Crystal Palace v Bournemouth on Sports Extra, Sat 18 Oct 1730 Fulham v Arsenal, Sun 19 Oct 1400 Tottenham v Aston Villa, Sun 19 Oct 1630 Liverpool v Man Utd.

* 01.  Stacy Kidd, Tiffany Jenkins - Free (Afro Jazz Mix)* 02.  Sean Ali & Andre Espeut - Love What You Do To Me (Bang The Drum Vocal Mix)* 03.  Daniel Dutton, Mr. Eclectic - The Rhythm (Helped Me) (Extended Mix)* 04.  Ralf GUM, Clara Hill - Higher Better Faster (Ralf GUM Main Mix)* 05.  Ari Lashell, Karizma, Coflo, Stephen Carmona - Deny (Coflo's Extended Play Remix)* 06.  Franck Roger, Rona Ray - I Don't Wanna Feel (Original Version)* 07.  Bebe Winans - Father In Heaven (Right Now) (Two Soul Fusion 523 Remix) * 08.  Coflo - Yewnite* 09. Alton Miller, Doug Gomez - Movin shadow (Doug Gomez remix)* 10.  Groove Junkies, Reelsoul, Paris Cesvette & Nina Lares - Happy (Groove N' Soul Classic Vox)* 11.  Boomclap,  Akemi Fox  - Weightless (Ft. Matthew) * 12.  Masaki Morii - Sweet (Masaki Morii Nu One Remix)* 13.  Brian Jackson, Masters At Work, J. Ivy, Moodymann, Josh Milan - Racetrack in France* 14.  Troy Denari, N'dinga Gaba - Je M'envole* 15.  Tom Manzarek - Golden Child (Tom's Refix)* 16.  SoulFreakah, NutownSoul - Thank You (Original Mix)* 17.  Tee Smith, Roxane Bishop - Don't Try To Change Me (Original Mix)* 18.  Soulbridge, Tessa Lane - Reaching For The Stars (Original Mix)* 19.  Lovetempo - The Right Way (Fouk Remix)* 20.  Reggie Steele - Hello

My longtime drum pal, JOHN "PUGWASH" WEATHERS is back on The ProgCast! It's always fun and revelatory to chat with JP and this time around we get into John's life before, during and after GENTLE GIANT. Lots of drummer talk as we delve into John's work with MAN, EYES OF BLUE, GRAHAM BOND, THE GREASE BAND and of course, GIANT. Only here, on The ProgCast!PROGCAST PATRONS get bonus episodes  / theprogcast  Study Drums/Composition/Music with Gregg: https://www.bendianmusic.com GREGG BENDIAN is a percussionist/composer/producer/educator/podcaster from Teaneck, New Jersey. During his wide-ranging career he has toured internationally and recorded with Todd Rundgren, Jan Hammer, The Mahavishnu Project, Keneally-Bendian-Lunn, The Musical Box, John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Nels Cline, Cecil Taylor, Pat Metheny, Ornette Coleman and Zoot Horn Rollo. On the academic front, Gregg develops and teaches courses in studio production aesthetics, music history, and composing/arranging at William Paterson University of New Jersey. For the Yale Oral History of American Music, he has contributed over 100 expansive interviews with major figures including Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Carla Bley and Steve Reich. Bendian is archivist/producer for the Bottom LIne Archive of historic concerts. Recorded over 30 years at the Greenwich Village venue, the series features discs by Jack Bruce with Billy Cobham, The Brecker Bros, Lou Reed/Kris Kristofferson, Pete Seeger/Roger McGuinn, and Doc Watson. An accomplished percussionist and a composer of over 200 works, he has created a body of innovative music for jazz, rock, percussion (solo and ensemble) and mixed chamber groups, which include his Interzone and Trio Pianissimo bands. Gregg's music is published by Iamuziks (ASCAP). Begun in August of 2020, The ProgCast explores the creative process and musical history of a diverse assortment of cutting edge artists. You can also find us on:SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0x9bzb0...APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...https://www.bendianmusic.comhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/0HBmV...https://www.bottomlinearchive.comhttps://guides.library.yale.edu/oham/...https://www.mahavishnuproject.comhttps://www.wpunj.edu/coac/department...

01  MERLIN BOBB - N UR EYES (Vocal REMIX)02  Nathan Thomas, Vic Laos, DJ Spen - Slow Down (DJ Spen's Extended Mix)03  Rochelle Fleming, Terry Hunter - Balls 2 Bounce (Terry Hunter Main Mix)04  Sean Ali & Andre Espeut - Love What You Do To Me (Bang The Drum Vocal Mix)05 Soul II Soul - A Dream's A Dream (Ron Trent Re-fix)06  Cafe 432, Aaron K. Gray - Another Day (Original Extended Club Mix)07  Prefix One, Nambi, Reelsoul - Grateful (Reelsoul Remix)08  Kathy Brown, Risk Assessment - I Had Enuff (Risk Assessment Remix)09 Kindred The Family Soul - I Need You (Terry Hunter Remix)10. OKPLUS, Rona Ray - Dancing On The Clouds (Extended Mix)11.  Alex Ander, Esther - Meant To Be (DJ Spen & Gary Hudgins Remix)12. Fish Go Deep, Elaine Dowling - Are You In This With Me13. Inaya Day, Seb Skalski - Hung Up (Extended Mix)14. Robin S, TheFREEZproject - Don't Let Go (Original Mix)15. Andrea Conforti, Gianni Bini - Remedy (Groove Assassin Extended Mix)16. Groove Junkies, Lisa Shaw - Falling Hard For You (Groove Junkies & Distant People Vintage Soul Vox)17  Kings Of Tomorrow, Lorenzo Mancillas, Amber Liekhus - Save Me (Sandy Rivera's Club Remix)18  SanXero, Katarina G, N.W.N. - Walk By Me (N.W.N. Remix)19  David Bailey, Sean McCabe - Baby Don't Make Me Wait (Sean McCabe Vocal Remix)20 Skydoll - Summertime (Richard Earnshaw Extended Sugarsoul Remix)

This episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast features a highly entertaining conversation between XTC guitarist Dave Gregory and fellow musician Thomas Walsh (Pugwash) recorded at the 2025 XTC Fan Festival in Swindon. The interview covers everything from facial hair to inspirational guitarists.The episode also includes a round-up of the weekend's events from first-timers Gayle Ramage and Alison Eales who loved every minute of it. XTC-inspired music comes courtesy of Jeff Norman, aka Monkey Typing Pool.  Thomas Walsh  Monkey Typing Pool What Do You Call That Noise? An XTC Discovery Book available from www.xtclimelight.com  If you've enjoyed What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, please show your support at https://www.patreon.com/markfisher Thanks to the Pink Things, Humble Daisies and Knights in Shining Karma who've done the same. Pictures courtesy of Tim Bourne ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Gli Usa hanno bombardato i siti nucleari iraniani. La Guerra si allarga e si teme un'escalation. Ospiti della puntata: Guido Olimpio, giornalista del Corriere della Sera, Ugo Tramballi, giornalista e scrittore in collegamento da Gerusalemme, Manuela Dviri, giornalista e scrittrice da Tel Aviv, Renzo Guolo, docente universitario, esperto di Iran, e Paolo Cotta Ramusino, già segretario generale di Pugwash, Ong con sede in Canada, Premio Nobel per la Pace 1995. A cura di Michele Migone

Broadcast live the first Thursday of every month with DJ Pugwash on www.vocalboothradio.com  TRACKLIST STARTS AT NUMBER 0NE TO 20.  Rochelle Jordan – Crave   Distant People – Sweetest Love  Michele Chiavarini – Staring at the Sun (feat. Pete Simpson)  Last Nubian – Dance Together (feat. Goldbar & Josh Leon Wray)  Paris Cesvette – Love Drug (Reelsoul Remix)  Daniele Busciala – Sunshine  (feat. Muzikman Edition & Earl W. Green)  Moodymann – Seven Mile (feat. Louie Vega)  Merlin Bobb – Dark Rose  Cafe 432 – Wishing  (feat. Nina-Jayne)  Josh Milan – Starlight  Shaun Benn – Latitude (feat. Omar)  Tyler Stone – Don't Count Me Out (feat. The Gem Fatales)  Offshore – Show ‘Em Up (feat. Ernesto & The Basement Gospel)  Riva Starr – House of Mirrors (feat. Harry Stone)  Crackazat – But I Do  Rico Herrera – Ready (feat. Jane Hamilton) Sabrina Chyld & Atjazz – Protection  Randolph Matthews – All Night (Paul Frazer Clarke Remix) Abel – Come and Save Me (feat. Sabrina Chyld) Vencer Cafe – Called to Say Hi** (Rumba Mix)

Broadcast live the first Thursday of every month only on www.vocalboothradio.comCompiled and presented by DJ Pugwash

 J- Ivy, Anthony Hamilton, Tarrey Torae, HBCU Symphony - No Words (Terry Hunter Club Mix)  Nathan Haines, Vanessa Freeman, Marcus Begg, - U See That (Atjazz Love Soul Mix)  Charles Stepney, Kitty Haywood - You Make Me High (Terry Hunter - James Poyser Club Mix)  Zo! feat. Monica Blaire - Make Love 2 Me  Kayenne, DJ Spen, Michele Chiavarini - Bliss (They Call It Love) (DJ Spen - Michele Chiavarini Remix)  Sahib Muhammad - Shine (Jihad Muhammad Bang the Drum Remix)  RAH & The Ruffcats - Wake Up (they are the people of the myths) feat. King Khan (Yoruba Soul Mix)  Omar - Can We Go Out (Zed Bias Remix)  Reelsoul - All That I Can Say (Lonnie-s Groove) (DJ Spen Remix feat - Tasha LaRae)  Shaun Ross - Learning Something New (Mark Francis Remix)  DJ Rae, DJ Spen - The Vision (Original Mix)  B Ross - Me And You (Main Mix)  Miss Malevich, Kali Mija, Doug Gomez - The Difference (Doug Gomez Remix  Sonic Soul Orchestra, Camden Rose, Eric Kupper - Luv High (Eric Kupper Extended Remix)  Crackazat, lovetempo - But I Do (Crackazat Extended Remix)  Abi Flynn - To the Sun (Laroye Classic Soulful Mix)  Anthony Nicholson - ZION (The Arrival)  MERLIN BOBB, Masaki Morii - Pink White (Remix Vocal)   Steven Stone, Angela Johnson - Right One (For You) (Extended Mix)  Dark Horse, Soulfreakah, Faith Nakana - Envy (Main Mix)

 Franck Roger, Rona Ray - Seek Discomfort (Original Mix)  Charles Stepney, Kitty Haywood - You Make Me High (Terry Hunter & James Poyser Club Mix) Sol Brown, Lifford - Resist You (Main Mix)  Groove Junkies pres. B. Valentine - New Day (Groove N' Soul New Day Vocal)  BoomClap & Sabrina Chyld - Come Home  Maurice Joshua Feat DeiSelah - Filled With Love  Diplomats Of Soul, Incognito, Vanessa Haynes - Sweet Power Your Embrace (Terry Hunter & Emmaculate Remix)  Anané - Let Me Be Your Fantasy (Moplen Remix)  Clavis feat. KUBA - Drifting  Ben Westbeech, RAHH - Times Are Changing (Two Soul Fusion Extended Remix)  Nathan Haines, Ruby - Night Moves (Crackazat Remix)   Gary Adams, Corey Holmes, Larry La Birt - Best Of Me (David Anthony Club Remix)  June Jazzin, Rona Ray - Chameleon (Original Mix)  Aaron K. Gray, Conway Kasey - You  Ellis Aaron - Got It Bad (Sean McCabe Vocal Mix)   Coflo, Nimiwari - Visions  Derrick Ricky Nelson, DJ Monster, Venessa Jackson - Im Staying (Original Mix)  Wipe The Needle & Venus Beats, Shezar X JayBay - We Shall Overcome (Frankie Feliciano Remix)  Funkatomic, Tracy Hamlin, Derrick Mckenzie - Ride On The Moon (Funkatomic Revenge Extended)  Su Denim - Step Back (Original Vocal Mix)

Thomas Walsh in conversation with David Eastaugh https://pugwashtheband.bandcamp.com/ https://westhampsteadarts.com/events/ Pugwash are an Irish pop band fronted by Drimnagh-born musician Thomas Walsh. Pugwash has released six albums since its debut LP Almond Tea in 1999. Influences on the band's sound are regularly cited as including XTC, Electric Light Orchestra and Jeff Lynne, the Beach Boys, the Kinks, Honeybus and the Beatles, though Walsh dismisses the Beatles comparisons as "lazy"    

This week's Suburban Underground show is about songs that look to a positive outcome and songs that expect the worst.  You'll hear the artists Midget, AC/DC, Pugwash, Difford & Tilbrook, Gang Of Four, The Accidentals, Soul Asylum, The Dons, Paramore, Caddy, Faith No More, Radiohead, The Scruffs, The Hold Steady, The Red Button. AI-free since 2016! On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio      *** 5pm Friday ***      *** 10am Sunday ***      *** 8pm Monday *** Stream live at http://209.95.50.189:8178/stream Stream on-demand most recent episodes at https://wbnh1051.podbean.com/category/suburban-underground/ And available on demand on your favorite podcast app! Facebook: SuburbanUndergroundRadio   ***    Instagram: SuburbanUnderground   ***    #newwave #altrock #alternativerock #punkrock #indierock

 Adam Rios - What I'd Do (Vocal Mix)  Franck Roger, Rona Ray - Seek Discomfort (Original Mix)  Alexander Flood - Can't Get Enough (feat. Vivian Sessoms)  Ezel & Rona Ray - History Repeating (Markus Enochson Remix) MERLIN BOBB, Mark Francis - Process (Main Version)  Joseph Junior & MAQman - Let It Go (GUakaCVO Remix)  Melchyor A - Drifting Away (Masaki Morii Remix)  Pat Bedeau, Rona Ray - Lost & Found (SoulLab Extended Remix)  Michele Chiavarini, The Jazzcodes - I'm Gonna Live Till I Die (Saison Remix Extended)  Ledisi - Like It Was (Terry Hunter Remix)  Kayenne - Feeling Some Kinda Way (Jimpster Vocal Remix)  Daniele Busciala, Muzikman Edition, Earl W. Green - Sunshine (Coflo's Straight Up Remix)  Scott Wozniak - Beautiful  Susan Esthera, Miranda Nicole - Dreamin' Love (Main Vocal) Dave Anthony, Aleysha Lei - I Feel For You (Yoruba Soul Mix)  Ronnie Herel, Shay Jones - Hidden Part Of Me (Original Mix)  Jaemus, Sen-Sei, Becka, Jeff Straw - The Rain Has Stopped (GhostLife Remix Feat. Adrian Balletto)  Dave & Maurissa, Dave Lee ZR, Maurissa Rose - You Decide (Extended Mix)  Anna Ling - Butterfly (Lucky Sun Midnight Dub Mix)  Aaron Smith, Lauren Ritchie - I Love You (Ezel Extended) Broadcast live on www.vocalboothradio.com with DJ Pugwash

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01. Paris Cevette,Muzikman Edition, Lifford - Your Smile (Michele Chiavarini Remix)02. Wipe The Needle - Skyscrapers03. Audrey Powne - Feed The Fire (Atjazz Remix)04. Fouk ft. Debórah Bond - Loving At First Sight05. Celestial Being, Citizens of the World Choir - Raise The Vibration (Crackazat Remix)06. Anthony Nicholson, Swaylo Consuela Ivy - Cover Me07.  Aaron K. Gray - I Need You Now (DJ Spen & Mark Francis Remix)08. Deep Soul Syndicate, MissFly - Little Girl09. Guinny - What Am I10. Ralf Gum, Monica Blaire - AWA11. Jerome O, Rona Ray - Making Things Clear (SOA Remix)12. Aberton, Lee Wilson, Marco Nevano - Still I Stand13. Jose Carretas, Consuela Ivy - Under The Water14. Maysa - I Dont Mind (DJ Spen & Reelsoul Traxsource Exclusive Remix)15. Robert Owens - Tonight (Anthony Nicholson Dancing In Space Vocal Mix)16.  Turbojazz, Rona Ray - Like You17. Tom Noble, House of Spirits - Please Take Me There (Makèz Remix)18. Sofia Rubina - Great Life (Ezel Remix)19. Inaya Day, Mike Cruz - Inside Out20. MrMilkDee, Jill Rock Jones - 2 Positions (Sean McCabe Remix)

Terry Angus is a puppeteer from Pugwash, now living in Spryfield. He ended up working with some of the iconic Muppet characters.

Pra muitos, o maior gênio da humanidade! Separe trinta minutos do seu dia e aprenda com o professor Vítor Soares (@profvitorsoares) sobre a biografia e a trajetória do cientista Albert Eistein - Se você quiser ter acesso a episódios exclusivos e quiser ajudar o História em Meia Hora a continuar de pé, clique no link: www.apoia.se/historiaemmeiahora Compre o livro "História em Meia Hora - Grandes Civilizações"! https://www.loja.literatour.com.br/produto/pre-venda-livro-historia-em-meia-hora-grandes-civilizacoesversao-capa-dura/ Compre meu primeiro livro-jogo de história do Brasil "O Porão": https://amzn.to/4a4HCO8 Compre nossas camisas, moletons e muito mais coisas com temática História na Lolja! www.lolja.com.br/creators/historia-em-meia-hora/ PIX e contato: historiaemmeiahora@gmail.com Apresentação: Prof. Vítor Soares. Roteiro: Prof. Vítor Soares e Prof. Victor Alexandre (@profvictoralexandre) REFERÊNCIAS USADAS: - BARROS, Fernando de Souza. “O Manifesto Russell-Einstein e as Conferências Pugwash”. Física na Escola, v. 6, n. 1. 2005.  - HELENE, M.E.M. A radioatividade e o lixo nuclear. São Paulo: Scipione, 1996.  - HOBSBAWM, E.J. Era dos extremos O breve século XX: 1914 - 1991. 2ª ed. Trad. M. Santarrita. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1995

It was fun seeing Fox Butterfield, the first New York Times correspondent in China since 1949, in Portland, Oregon back in July. I last visited Portland in 2022, and you never quite get over the sight of Mount Hood dominating the horizon on a clear summer day in its awesome fashion.Fox welcomed me to his home, perched on a small hill in a modestly upscale suburb. A history enthusiast, he has lived through and witnessed some of the most pivotal moments in modern history: from meeting Harry Truman as a teenager with his grandfather, to studying under John Fairbank, the progenitor of Chinese studies in America, to reporting on the Vietnam War and helping expose the Pentagon Papers, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize. Though trained as a China specialist, he only began his reporting inside China in the late '70s, culminating in his book China: Alive in the Bitter Sea. This bestseller set a benchmark for generations of China correspondents. Later in his career, Fox shifted his focus to domestic issues of race and crime, writing acclaimed works like All God's Children and In My Father's House.Talking to Fox was a breeze. I was pleasantly surprised that his spoken Chinese remains impressively sharp — his tones and pronunciations are still spot-on. Of course, we did most of our chatting in English. This piece will explore his early experiences, particularly his family background, his time at Harvard, and his reporting during the Vietnam War. While the bulk of the piece may not focus directly on China, it offers a glimpse into the intellectual formation of one of America's most prominent China watchers and how both domestic and global forces shape U.S. perceptions of China.Enjoy!LeoIndexSeeing China with Joe Biden and John McCain in the 70sCyrus Eaton, Lenin Prize and family legacy in Cold War“Rice Paddies”, and studying under John Fairbank at HarvardFrom Pentagon Papers to VietnamReporting on the frontlines in Vietnam Seeing China with Joe Biden and John McCain in the 70sCould you talk about your first trip to China?I was the Hong Kong correspondent for The New York Times from 1975 to 1979 because that's where we covered China in those days. I couldn't go to China until 1978, when I attended the Canton Trade Fair. That was my first trip to China; I can barely remember it.My second trip to China was much more memorable. In 1979, when the U.S. and China were about to normalize relations, China invited the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to visit, and I was invited as a New York Times correspondent. In those days, China had a shortage of hotel rooms, at least for foreigners, so they made everybody room with somebody else. The Chinese government assigned me to room with the naval liaison to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who was a Navy captain named John McCain.For two weeks, John McCain and I were roommates. We had breakfast, lunch, and dinner together and traveled everywhere. McCain's best friend on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was Joe Biden. So, the three of us did almost everything together for two weeks. That one is easy to remember. What was your impression of Joe Biden?Joe Biden was a nice man, very earnest, but he was a typical career politician that when he approached somebody, he always grabbed them by the hand. He was tall, had a strong handshake, and would give them a big smile and grab their hands. He kept doing this to the Chinese, who didn't really know what was going on because they're not used to being touched that way, especially not somebody almost breaking their hand.So I finally said to him, “Senator.” And he'd say, “No, call me Joe.” I said, “Okay, Joe, please don't grab Chinese by the hand. It's kind of rude and offensive to them, and they don't understand it.” He would say, “Well, why not?” And I said, “Because that's not their custom.” He'd say, “Okay, thank you very much.” And then, five minutes later, he'd do the same thing over and over again.John McCain and I became good friends, especially because I had seen McCain in prison in Hanoi when I first started working for The New York Times, and we bonded over that shared history during our trip to China. They allowed me to go into his prison in 1969, and I was the first reporter to find out that John McCain was still alive when his jet fighter was shot down over Hanoi.I saw him then and as roommates 10 years later in China. We had a great time, and I would take him out and say, “Let's sneak away from our handlers and see how Chinese really live and what they really say.” We just went out and talked to people, and he thought this was a lot of fun.“He said something straightforward and obvious, but I had never thought about it. He said China is the oldest country in the world with by far the largest population. It's a big, important place.”That's a wonderful tale. What made you initially interested in China?When I was a sophomore at Harvard as an undergraduate in 1958, there was a fear that the United States was going to have to go to war with China over those two little islands, which Americans call ‘Quemoy' and ‘Matsu' and Chinese people call ‘Jinmen' and ‘Mazu'.America's leading sinologist and Harvard professor of Chinese studies, John Fairbank, decided to give a public lecture about the danger of the United States going to war for those two little islands.I attended his lecture. He said something straightforward and obvious, but I had never thought about it. He said China is the oldest country in the world with by far the largest population. It's a big, important place. Why would the United States want to go to war with China over those two little islands? It made no sense logically. And we had just finished the war in Korea. As I listened to him, I realized, “Gee, I don't know anything about that place.”So I began to audit his introductory class on the history of East Asia. And in the spring, I decided to take a second class in Chinese history that Fairbank was teaching. As a Harvard undergraduate, I would find out my exam grades at the end of year from a postcard you put in the exam booklet. When I received my postcard back from the final exam, it said: “please come to see me in my office, tomorrow morning at 10.” “Oh no,” I thought I really screwed up my exam. So I went to see John Fairbank. I was nervous, especially because he was a great man, a big figure on campus, and the Dean of Chinese studies in the United States. So I went in, and he said, “Fox, you wrote a wonderful exam. Have you considered majoring in Chinese history?” I went, “oh, no, I had not considered it.” I was so relieved that I had written a good exam.He said, “Well, if you are, you must immediately begin studying Chinese.” At that time, Harvard did not teach spoken Chinese, only classical written Chinese, and there were just about 10 people, all graduate students.So Fairbank said, “here's what you do. Going down to Yale, they have a special program that teaches spoken Chinese in the summer because they have a contract with the Air Force to teach 18-year-old Air Force recruits how to speak Chinese so they can listen to and monitor Chinese air force traffic.”So I spent the summer at Yale studying Chinese with air force recruits. I took classical written Chinese classes when I returned to Harvard that fall. Luckily, I got a Fulbright Fellowship to go to Taiwan after I graduated, so I studied in the best spoken Chinese program at the time run by Cornell University.Cyrus Eaton, Lenin Prize and family legacy in Cold WarI wonder whether there's any family influence on your China journey. Your father was the historian and editor-in-chief of the Adams Papers, and your maternal grandfather, Cyrus Eaton, was one of the most prominent financiers and philanthropists in the Midwest. Could you speak on the impact of family legacy on your China journey?My father certainly instilled a love of history in me. That was always my favourite subject in school and the one I did best in. Eventually, my major at Harvard was Chinese history. My father didn't know anything about China and never went. My mother visited Taiwan and stayed with me for ten days in the 60s.My maternal grandfather, Cyrus Eaton, would fit the Chinese notion of a rags-to-riches success story. He grew up in a small fishing village in Nova Scotia, Canada, and went to college in Toronto with the help of an older cousin. This cousin went on to become a Baptist minister in Cleveland, Ohio, across the lake. Among the people in his parish was a man named John D. Rockefeller — yes, the original John D. Rockefeller.The cousin invited my grandfather and said he had a job for him. So my grandfather started off as a golf caddy for John D. Rockefeller and then a messenger. Ultimately, he founded his own electric power company in Cleveland — Ohio Electric Power — and became quite influential. He had multiple companies but then lost everything in the Great Depression.During World War II, my grandfather heard about a large iron ore under a lake in Ontario through his Canadian connections. By then, he had already formed connections with President Roosevelt and then Truman, so he said, “If you can give me some money and help underwrite this, I can get Canadian permission to drain the lake for the iron ore deposit,” which became the world's richest iron ore mine, Steep Rock Iron Ore. That's how he got back into business. Truman and my grandfather ended up having a close connection, and he used my grandfather's train to campaign for re-election in 1948. My grandfather was an unusual man. He had a real vision about things.He was trading metals with the Soviet Union as well.I don't know the details, but when Khrushchev came to power, my grandfather became interested in trying to work out some arrangement between the United States and Russia, which is where the Pugwash movement came from. He was inviting Russian and American scientists to meet. They couldn't meet in the U.S. because it was against American law, but he arranged for them to meet in his hometown of Pugwash, Nova Scotia. We had American and Russian nuclear physicists meeting to discuss nuclear weapons in this little village. Eventually, he invited some Chinese people to come.At one of these conferences, I met Harrison Salisbury, an editor of The New York Times and the first NYT Moscow Correspondent. I was just starting out as a stringer for The Washington Post, but Salisbury saw something in me and suggested I send him a story. That connection eventually led to my job at The New York Times.He must have known people pretty high up in China too.I don't know the China connections; he didn't know Mao or Zhou Enlai. He did have a close relationship with Khrushchev, to the extent you could. It started with the Pugwash movement.He just sent a telegram to Khrushchev and became friends?Yes. What do you call that, guanxi?I guess so. Do you remember when he won the Lenin Peace Prize?I do. I think I was in Taiwan at the time. I didn't go to the ceremony.How did you feel about his activities growing up?I was never too sure what was going on. My mother had the intelligence of her father—in fact, she looked remarkably like him—but she was skeptical because she always felt that he was making all these big deals but wasn't looking out for his own family.What was your mom like?My mother was a smart woman. She went to Bryn Mawr during the Depression, but my grandfather refused to let her take a scholarship because it would signal he had no money. She worked full-time while in school and graduated near the top of her class. She was angry at him for making her life difficult for his own pride.My mother worked all her life. By the time I reached college, she was working at Harvard University, which was unusual for the time. She started as a secretary but eventually became the registrar in charge of all the records. When she died in 1978, the Harvard Crimson published a tribute saying she had been the most helpful person to many undergraduates.What did you want to become as a teenager?I wanted to be a baseball player. Yes, for a long time my life revolved around baseball. I thought I was pretty serious. Some time in college, I realized I wasn't going to become a major league baseball player, and I became much more interested in the life of the mind.“Rice Paddies”, and studying under John Fairbank at HarvardDid you think of Asia growing up?There was really almost nothing until I mentioned, in my sophomore year, when I was 19, beginning in 1958 as an undergraduate at Harvard studying with John Fairbank. No courses offered at high school that I could have gone to. Even at Harvard, the Chinese history class was almost all graduate students. Harvard undergraduates could take an introduction class to the history of East Asia, which included China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Harvard students nicknamed this course “Rice Paddies.”That's the famous course by Fairbank and Reischauer. What was it like studying with those two legends?Well, they were both significant people in every way. Fairbank helped start the field of Chinese history in the United States. Reischauer certainly started studying Japanese history.In my first year, they had just finished a textbook for the Rice Patties course. It had not been published as a book yet, just a mimeograph form. They gave us these big books you had to carry around, like carrying one of those old store catalogues with hundreds of pages printed on one side. You would bring these things into class. One was called East Asia: The Great Tradition, and the other East Asia: The Modern Transformation.What was John Fairbank like as a person?Intimidating. He was a tall, bald man, always looking over his glasses at you. But he was charming and friendly, and if he sensed that you were interested in his field, he would do almost anything for you. He reached out to students in a way that few other faculty members did.“He was an academic entrepreneur and missionary for Chinese studies, and was creating the field of Chinese history in the United States. Before him, Chinese history didn't exist for most Americans to study.”And he had regular gatherings at his house.Yes. His house was a little yellow wooden house dating back to the 18th century, right in the middle of the campus. Harvard had given it to him, and every Thursday afternoon, anybody interested in China who was in Cambridge that day was invited. You never knew who you were going to meet. Fairbank was a kind of social secretary. When you walked in, he'd greet you with a handshake and then take you around to introduce you to some people. He did that all the time with people. He was an academic entrepreneur and missionary for Chinese studies and was creating the field of Chinese history in the United States. Before him, Chinese history didn't exist for most Americans to study. I always wanted to major in history. That subject appealed to me and was my strongest area of study. I took some American history and intellectual history classes, but the Chinese history class became the one that I really focused on. I couldn't tell you exactly why, but it was interesting to me. The more I read, the more I liked it. After that first Fairbank class, I signed up for the more intensive modern Chinese history class and whatever else Harvard had. I signed up for a Japanese history class, too. At the end of my senior year, John Kennedy named my professor Edwin Reischauer his ambassador to Tokyo. So, on my way to Taiwan as a Fulbright scholar, I stopped in Tokyo to meet Reischauer at the US Embassy, and two of Reischauer's grown children took me around Tokyo. I reported in Tokyo later in my career.Was Ezra Vogel working on Japan at the time?Yes, Ezra had. Ezra was in my Spanish class in the first year. He hadn't yet decided what he would focus on then. We sat next to each other. We were always personal friends even though he was a bit older. He was a nice man and became a professor later. I sat in the same classroom with several other older people who went on to teach about China, including Dorothy Borg. Even then, she had white hair. She worked for the Council on Foreign Relations in New York but was taking classes at Harvard. When I first went to China, she was still involved with China.So, from that group of Americans studying China at Harvard at that time, many went on to do things related to China, including Orville Schell, Andy Nathan and me. I did not know Perry Link while in Harvard.Many major figures in China studies today were at Harvard with you.Yale had Mary and Arthur Wright, but they were graduate students at Harvard with me and went on to become full professors at Yale. This must be because that was a place where Fairbank was an evangelical figure that people gravitated towards, and he was preaching this new faith of Chinese studies.From Pentagon Papers to VietnamWhat did you do after Harvard?I spent a year in Taiwan when I graduated. I wanted to stay, but Fairbank hurried me up to get back to graduate school.Did you listen to Fairbank?I was going to get my PhD at Harvard and teach Chinese history, but after five years, I became less interested in actually studying Chinese history.During the 1960s, the Vietnam War happened. Vietnam is kind of a cousin of China, so I started reading everything I could about Vietnam. I even started a course on Vietnam so that Harvard undergraduate and graduate students could learn about Vietnam.I got a fellowship to return to Taiwan to work on my dissertation about Hu Hanmin. At that time, many American GIs were coming to Taiwan on what we call R&R — “rest and recreation.” The U.S. government made a deal with the American military that anyone who served in Vietnam for a year had an automatic R&R, a paid week leave to go anywhere in Southeast Asia. Many chose Taiwan to chase pretty young Chinese girls. So, GIs would show up in Taiwan and didn't know what they were doing. I would see them on the street, go up and talk to them.I became more interested in Vietnam over time. A friend told me, “You're spending so much time reading newspapers about Vietnam, you should become a journalist.” It hadn't occurred to me. By chance, I met a correspondent from The Washington Post, Stanley Karnow, who was the Hong Kong correspondent for the Post and covered Vietnam for quite a while. He asked me to be his stringer, a part-time assistant. So I would send my story to him, but he'd never do anything with it.I was discouraged, and that's when I met Harrison Salisbury through my grandfather in Montreal. Salisbury asked me to send stories to The New York Times. I thought I was a traitor to my job with The Washington Post. But it wasn't really a job; it was in my imagination. When I sent Salisbury my first story, I received a cable from the foreign editor of The New York Times saying they had put my story on the front page and given me a byline. My parents at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts saw it that morning, and they wondered, what is Fox doing?” They thought I was working on my PhD dissertation.“Oh, that looked like our son there.”The story was about Chiang Kai-shek's son, Chiang Ching-kuo, who was becoming Chiang Kai-shek's successor. I wrote about how he was going about it. That was a good news story, so The New York Times sent me a message and said, “If you'd like to work for us, we'll be happy to take more stories.”So I started sending them stories once or twice a week, and after four or five months, they gave me a job offer in New York. That was just one of those lucky breaks. I guess The New York Times correspondent who made that initial contact with me, Harrison Salisbury, who had won several Pulitzer Prizes, must have seen something in me.What's your relationship with your editors over the years? Generally pretty good. They certainly intimidated me at the beginning. The person who actually hired me was the foreign editor at The New York Times, James Greenfield. When I returned to New York, it was New Year's Day, the end of 1971. James asked me about my training and asked me to spend the next couple of months sitting at the foreign desk to watch how they do things. I couldn't even write stories for a while; I just handed them the copy that came up. I later got promoted to news assistant and was asked to find something interesting and write one story a week. I wrote some stories about Asia for the newspaper. They wouldn't give me a byline at first as I wasn't a reporter. My first assignment was to Newark, New Jersey, which had gone through a series of terrible race riots in the late 1960s. I was going to be the correspondent in Newark.This was after they hired you and during those two years of training? Yes. One day, I was covering a story. The new mayor of Newark — the first black mayor of a major American city — called a meeting in city hall to see if he could stop the riots.He was trying to bring people together: white, black and Hispanic. Within ten seconds, everybody was having a fistfight. People were knocking each other out with the police and mayor in front of them. The mayor yelled at people to stop, and they still kept punching and hitting each other with big pieces of wood right in City Hall. And I was there. Two very large black men grabbed my arms behind my back. The nasty term for white people in those days was “honky”. They said, “What are you doing here, honky?” They began punching me in the stomach and hitting me in the head. I thought I was going to die right there before I finally broke free. I got to my office to send my story of the city hall by telephone across New York City. And they put that story on the front page.Your second front page at The New York Times. So the editor of The New York Times was a very intimidating man, Abe Rosenthal, a gifted correspondent who'd won several Pulitzer Prizes. He won a Pulitzer Prize in Poland and Germany. I got this message saying, “Mr. Rosenthal wants to see you in his office immediately.”I thought, “oh jeez I'm getting fired.” I just got beaten up in City Hall and they're going to fire me. So I walked in, and he said, “Fox, that was a really nice story.” He said, “you did a really good job on that story. We have another assignment for you. I want you to go over to the New York Hilton Hotel”, which was about ten blocks away.He told me that one of our correspondents, Neil Sheehan, had gotten a secret government document, the Pentagon Papers, which were boxes and boxes of government documents. Neil couldn't read all that by himself, so I had to go and read it with him. Besides, I knew about Asia. By that point, I had read as much as I could about Vietnam. I also knew Neil Sheen because I had helped him come to Harvard to give a talk about Vietnam while I was a graduate student. So we actually had a good relationship. I spent the next two months in Neil's hotel room reading documents, but two of us were not enough, so a third and eventually a fourth correspondent were brought in. Did you understand the risk you were taking working with the classifieds? You could be arrested. Right, yes. I had to tell my parents, “I can't tell you anything about what I'm doing.”When we finally started publishing, I wrote three of the seven installments, which was amazing because I was a junior person. Abe Rosenthal called me back into his office after we finished, and said, “Fox, you did a nice job on this, so we're sending you somewhere. We're sending you to Vietnam.” He said, “I want you to go immediately.” So I went from the Pentagon Papers to Saigon. That was a surprise. That was not where I wanted to go. In fact, what I really wanted was to go to cover China, but that would have meant Hong Kong. But Vietnam turned out to be fascinating. There was always something happening.Reporting on the frontlines in VietnamCan you talk about your Vietnam experience?It was an experience at many levels. Intellectually, it was seductive because there was so much going on, people getting shot every day. The only way to truly understand it was to be there.You could divide the correspondents into those who stayed in Saigon and those who went out to the field. I wanted to be in the field as much as possible. I spent time on Navy ships and even in a fighter plane, hitting what appeared to be factories.The GIs, or “grunts”, wanted to know what we wrote about them, and some would come to our office in Saigon. Sometimes they were angry. A few correspondents received threats, but we mostly had a good relationship. The more you were willing to go out into the field, the more respect you earned. I was out there from the beginning.Vietnam was more complicated than I initially thought. If you were strictly anti-war or pro-government, you missed the full picture.You had been against the war before. How did you feel once you were there?I was part of the anti-war movement and then found myself in the middle of the war. I got to know many ordinary Vietnamese who were actually happy to have Americans there because the communist soldiers would threaten to confiscate their property. Vietnam was more complicated than I initially thought. If you were strictly anti-war or pro-government, you missed the full picture.What was the relevance of the Pentagon Papers then?The Pentagon Papers showed that the U.S. government was deceiving the public, but we were also helping some people. It was more complex than the extreme positions made it seem.Were you at risk of being arrested for the Pentagon Papers?Possibly, yes. My name was on the case, but by that time, I was in Vietnam. I put it out of my mind.How long were you in Vietnam?I was in Vietnam from 1971 to 1975, with breaks in Japan. The New York Times didn't let anyone stay more than two years at a time because of the exhaustion of war. But I kept going back and stayed until the last day of the war in 1975 when I left on a helicopter to a Navy ship.I took the place of a brilliant female correspondent, Gloria Emerson. I inherited her apartment, and Vietnam was as exciting a place as it could be. There was always something to do, something to see, something that you shouldn't see but wanted to see. Vietnam was all that I talked about for four years. I stayed until the last day of the war, April 30th, 1975.Did you get hurt during the war?I was hit by mortar fragments and lost my hearing for almost a month. Once, I was left behind after the unit I accompanied ran into an ambush. I had to walk three hours to get back to safety.Vietnam absorbed all parts of your brain, your mind, your body, and your psyche. It just took over.How did the war experience change you?It depends on the individual. Some correspondents loved Vietnam and never wanted to leave. Others were terrified and left without a word. Even today, I still belong to an online Google group of ex-correspondents in Vietnam, and I still get dozens of messages every day. They always want to discuss Vietnam.Back in the day, some got afraid and just left. I had several friends who would literally just leave a message at their desk saying, “Please pack my belongings and send them back to New York.” It's hard to generalise and have an ironclad rule about. It was different from regular assignments in most other countries.Well, Vietnam was certainly special.Vietnam absorbed all parts of your brain, your mind, your body, and your psyche. It just took over. When the war ended, I came out on a helicopter that landed on a Navy ship. The captain said I could make one phone call. I called my editor in New York and said, “I'm out, I'm safe.” He replied, “Good, because we're sending you to Hong Kong.”Recommended ReadingsFox Butterfield, 1982, China: Alive in the Bitter SeaJohn Fairbank, Edwin Reischauer and Albert Craig, 1965, East Asia: The Modern Transformation, George Allen & UnwinEdwin Reischauer & John Fairbank, 1958, East Asia: The Great Tradition, Houghton MifflinAcknowledgementThis newsletter is edited by Caiwei Chen. The transcription and podcast editing is by Aorui Pi. I thank them for their support!About usPeking Hotel is a bilingual online publication that take you down memory lane of recent history in China and narrate China's reality through the personal tales of China experts. Through biweekly podcasts and newsletters, we present colourful first-person accounts of seasoned China experts. The project grew out of Leo's research at Hoover Institution where he collects oral history of prominent China watchers in the west. Peking Hotel is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Lastly…We also have a Chinese-language Substack. It has been a privilege to speak to these thoughtful individuals and share their stories with you. The stories they share often remind me of what China used to be and what it is capable of becoming. I hope to publish more conversations like this one, so stay tuned!Correction note: An earlier version of this piece incorrectly referred to sinologists Mary and Henry Wright as "Fords." We thank reader Robert Kapp for bringing this to our attention. Get full access to Peking Hotel at pekinghotel.substack.com/subscribe

A group of activists who have been walking for two weeks - over 200 km from Pugwash to Halifax - think we could do a lot more when it comes to peacekeeping and peacebuilding. Host Jeff Douglas spoke with two of the participants. Rajagopal P.V., who came all the way from India to participate in this walk. He is a former Vice Chairman of the Gandhi Peace Foundation, he trains young people in social action, and he promotes Gandhian philosophies of peace and non-violence.Lia Holla, a McGill student, youth advocate and the Executive Director of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada.

Meet some of the people who have come to Nova Scotia from across the globe for Walking Together for Peace. The 200-kilometre trek is a grassroots initiative to address climate justice, militarization, colonization and racism. Information Morning's Feleshia Chandler caught up with the walkers, as they passed through a wooded area in Tatamagouche.

A group of peace activists will begin walking from Pugwash to Halifax in support of nuclear disarmament beginning on Sunday. The walk is being led by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. Mainstreet spoke with the group's co-chair Lyn Adamson on Friday.

For the next two episodes Ads is exploring one of the most debated and decisive topics when it comes to climate breakdown. Nuclear power. In recent years many have seen nuclear power as a keystone technology that can help produce bountiful clean energy to get humanity off fossil fuels. For others, when nuclear power is mentioned the images of Fukushima, Chernobyl and the threat of apocalyptic war are front and center and believe that this incredibly powerful energy source should remain a relic of the 20th century, it is too dangerous.  This week we are joined by M.V Ramana, author of "Nuclear is not the solution", and a member of the international nuclear risk assessment group. Ads discusses with Ramana the main arguments against pursuing nuclear power.  Who currently has access to it? Is it a viable technology on our climate timeline? Are Small Modular Reactors a real innovation? Are we aware of all the risks posed? What do we do with the waste? How are different countries approaching nuclear power and where do Nuclear weapons fit into this picture?in Part Two Ads is joined by Mark Nelson to discuss the positive vision for nuclear power. LinksDismantling Sellafield Article https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site Get a copy of Ramana's book: Nuclear is not the Solution, from Verso.https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3013-nuclear-is-not-the-solution?_pos=2&_psq=nu&_ss=e&_v=1.0World Nuclear Status Report https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/International Panel on Fissile Materials https://fissilematerials.org/International Nuclear Risk Assessment Grouphttps://www.inrag.org/Pugwash grouphttps://pugwashgroup.ca/Shout out  Ramana's co-authors at the  world nuclear report Mycle SchneiderAntony FroggattJulie HazemannSupport the Show.

Ross Hamilton —  in drag known as Marjorie  — was born in Pugwash in 1889. He performed in shows for the troops during wartime and helped pioneer the drag scene that exists around the world today. Queer historian Sarah Worthman shares his story.

In episode 77, I interviewed William Lanouette about Leo Szilard's work on the atom bomb, with a discussion of the roles that Szilard played until the end of World War II. Today, in part two of my interview with Bill, we focus on Szilard's achievements after the war. Bill is a writer and public policy analyst who has specialized in the history of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. He received an A.B. in English with a minor in Philosophy at Fordham College in 1963, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science at the London School of Economics and the University of London in 1966 and 1973, respectively. Bill then worked as a journalist for Newsweek, The National Observer, and National Journal, and he was the Washington Correspondent for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He has also written for The Atlantic, The Economist, Scientific American, The New York Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, and many other outlets. Bill also worked as a Senior Analyst for Energy and Science Issues at the US Government Accountability Office. Bill's first book was Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb, published by Scribner's in 1992, with later editions published by the University of Chicago Press and Skyhorse Publications. Bill also published, in 2021, The Triumph of the Amateurs: The Rise, Ruin, and Banishment of Professional Rowing in The Gilded Age.

Registration for the Camp for the Blind in Pugwash, Nova Scotia is open! Moncton community reporter Natalie Fougere tells you all about it! She also shares her experience with a DIY Studio in Moncton and the Aboiteau Choir. From the March 21, 2024, episode.

Singer/songwriter Thomas Walsh (previously of Pugwash and The Duckworth Lewis Method with Neil Hannon ) chats about making music, mental health and he also performs from his new solo album ‘The Rest Is History' (for copyright reasons the full tracks performed during this interview cannot be made available in the podcast)

Thomas Walsh of Pugwash and The Duckworth Lewis Method joins Sodajerker to discuss his new album The Rest is History and his songwriting process. In this in-depth conversation, the Irish power pop legend talks about his origins in music, his collaborations with The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon, and his reverence for his musical heroes like Michael Penn and Jeff Lynne.

It's the 200th episode of Baxie's Musical Podcast! This time we welcome back one of the greatest songwriters alive--Thomas Walsh (formerly of Pugwash and the Duckworth Lewis Method). Thomas has just released his first album in six years---the insanely wonderful "This Rest is History" on Curations Records. Thomas talks about the making of the album, recording at the Abbey Road Studios, and about getting help from people like Joe Elliott from Def Leppard, Michael Penn, Neil Hannon from the Devine Comedy, and Dave Gregory from XTC! The music of Pugwash has been praised by the likes of Brian Wilson, Ray Davies from The Kinks, Jeff Lynne from ELO, and Andy Partridge from XTC. This is an incredibly gifted artist that well deserves your attention! Just amazing! Listen on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, and on the Rock102 website!

The Thinkers Lodge in Pugwash, N.S., was founded in the 1950s as a home for deep and brave conversations. Its first conversation brought together top international scientists concerned about the prospect of nuclear war. Host Jeff Douglas spoke with Bob Cervelli, the executive director of the Centre for Local Prosperity, about an upcoming reunion at the Thinker's Lodge.

It was a scientific discovery that changed the world forever. The nuclear bomb was largely a brainchild of left wing scientists who were determined Nazi Germany would not win the race to build this terrible weapon. The recent Hollywood biopic focuses on the role of Robert Oppenheimer in this fascinating period in history, the man who led the team working under the direction of the American government in this top secret project, who would become a prominent victim of the McCarthyite purges in the 1950s.  In this podcast, Luke Cooper and Zoe Williams talk to LSE professor and Another Europe Is Possible member, Mary Kaldor, about this fascinating history. While she never met Oppenheimer himself, Kaldor met a number of other figures in the film and others that didn't make it into the script, particularly at the Pugwash conferences on disarmament that created a unique space for dialogue between scientists on either side of the Cold War divide.

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Retired history teacher Teresa Kewachuk helps run The Thinkers Lodge in Pugwash. It's a think-tank of sorts formed in the 1950s connected to Joseph Rotblat, The Manhattan Project, and the international movement to ban nuclear weapons.

Quando mal pode-se fazer, em nome de um bem maior? Aliás, pode-se fazer algum mal em nome do bem? Separe trinta minutos do seu dia e aprenda com o professor Vítor Soares (@profvitorsoares) o que foi o Projeto Manhattan. - Se você quiser ter acesso a episódios exclusivos e quiser ajudar o História em Meia Hora a continuar de pé, clique no link: www.apoia.se/historiaemmeiahora - Compre nossas camisas, moletons e muito mais coisas com temática História na Lolja! www.lolja.com.br/creators/historia-em-meia-hora/ - PIX e contato: historiaemmeiahora@gmail.com Apresentação: Prof. Vítor Soares. Roteiro: Prof. Vítor Soares e Prof. Victor Alexandre (@profvictoralexandre). Edição: Victor Portugal. REFERÊNCIAS USADAS - BARROS, Fernando de Souza. “O Manifesto Russell-Einstein e as Conferências Pugwash”. Física na Escola, v. 6, n. 1. 2005. - HELENE, M.E.M. A radioatividade e o lixo nuclear. São Paulo: Scipione, 1996. - HOBSBAWM, E.J. Era dos extremos O breve século XX: 1914 - 1991. 2ª ed. Trad. M. Santarrita. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1995 - SMITH, P.D. Os homens do fim do mundo: o verdadeiro dr. Fantástico e o sonho da arma total. (trad. José Viegas Filho). São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2008. - SILVA, Isabelle de Oliveira Ensino de Física contra a barbárie: discutindo as barreiras hegemônicas no contexto do projeto Manhattan. Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), 2023. Disponível em: . - Armas Nucleares | Canal Nerdologia (@filipefigueiredoXV)

Slept deep and woke up tired…  The Music Authority Podcast...listen, like, comment, download, share, repeat…heard daily on Podchaser, Deezer, Amazon Music, Audible, Listen Notes, Mixcloud, Player FM, Tune In, Podcast Addict, Cast Box, Radio Public, and Pocket Cast, and APPLE iTunes!  Follow the show on TWITTER JimPrell@TMusicAuthority!  Please, are you listening? Please, are you sharing the podcast?  Please, has a podcast mention been placed into your social media?  How does and can one listen in? Let me list the ways...*Podcast - https://themusicauthority.transistor.fm/   The Music Authority Podcast!  Special Recorded Network Shows, too!  Different than my daily show! *Radio Candy Radio Monday Wednesday, & Friday 7PM ET, 4PM PT*Rockin' The KOR Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 7PM UK time, 2PM ET, 11AM PT  www.koradio.rocks*Pop Radio UK Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 6PM UK, 1PM ET, 10AM PT!  *The Sole Of Indie  https://soleofindie.rocks/  Monday Through Friday 6-7PM EST!July 12, 2023, Wednesday, set two…The Grip Weeds - All Tomorrow's Parties [DiG - Deluxe Edition] (Jem Records)Gail George - 04 Follow Your Bliss [Follow Your Bliss]GLITTER TRASH - 04 Hustlin' [Wassup Rocker Radio Presents- Sick Sounds 1]Orbis 2.0 - The North@The Hi-End - Get In Touch [If it ain't Rum Bar Records it ain't worth the shot vol 2] (Rum Bar Records)The Crushing Violets - SuperflowerThe Weeklings – I'm On Fire (Jem Records)The Goners - 100 Times [The High St. Station Performance II]Triptides - Moonlight Reflection [Alter Echoes]The Half/Cubes - 01 Spinning The Wheel (With The Girl You Love) (Big Stir Records)Jesse Malin - Brooklyn [The Fine Art Of Self Destruction]The Lost Patrol - On The Run [Midnight Matinee]The Sails - 13_Liar [BANG!] (koolkatmusik.com)Pugwash - 08. Hung Myself Out To Dry [Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends)]Sue Bachner & SUPER 8 Music - Right In The Middle Of SummerSurf katz - Time Won't Let MeMark Helm - Milkyway

We are so very excited to welcome Matt Berry's longtime friend and collaborator Thomas Walsh to the show! Thomas is the mega talented singer/songwriter of Pugwash and half of the cricket pop duo, the Duckworth Lewis Method, with Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy. Along with many stories, Thomas shared with us an exclusive sneak peak of a track from his upcoming album featuring Matt on vocals and keyboard. You don't want to miss this! Leave us a comment @obsessedobscure on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok Join our Discord Server and chat with us about the music Stuff we talked about this episode: Pugwash: Listen and buy it on ⁠⁠Bandcamp. You can also find it on ⁠Spotify⁠ or ⁠Apple Music⁠  The Duckworth Lewis Method: You can find it on ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠Apple Music⁠⁠  Join Thomas Walsh's Patreon: Here and stay up to date on the new album release information as well as exclusive content and tutorials Music from this episode: The Duckworth Lewis Method - "Mason on the Boundary" - The Duckworth Lewis Method "Mystery Man" - Sticky Wickets Pugwash - "Dear Belinda" - The Olympus Sound "What Are You Like" - Silverlake "Anyone Who Asks" - Almanac "Apples" - Almanac "It's Nice To Be Nice" - Jollity "Finer Things In Life" - Almond Tea "Nearly The Same As Before" - Almond Tea Thomas Walsh -  "This Is My Fortress" exclusive sneak peak from the upcoming Album The Rest is History Intro/Outro music "Obsessed and so Obscure - Phil Scragg Remix" originally from The Small Hours - 2016, Written and Performed by Matt Berry, Acid Jazz Records/Witchazel Ltd --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/obsessedobscure/message

We end the week tomorrow, Friday, with the spotlight artists from these last five days… Loose Change, @Sydney Sherwood, and Sam Wickens. The show will continue with “100% Random Access Play Selection!” ALONG with an introduction to NEXT weeks featured artists Your Academy, Apache Rose, and Jim McHugh!  Everything else will be a mystery surprise!  The Music Authority Podcast... listen, like, comment, download, share, repeat…heard daily on Podchaser, Deezer, Amazon Music, Audible, Listen Notes, Google Podcast Manager, Mixcloud, Player FM, Stitcher, Tune In, Podcast Addict, Cast Box, Radio Public, and Pocket Cast, and APPLE iTunes!  Follow the show on TWITTER JimPrell@TMusicAuthority!  Please, are you listening? Please, are you sharing the podcast?  Please, has a podcast mention been placed into your social media?  How does and can one listen in? Let me list the ways...*Podcast - https://themusicauthority.transistor.fm/   The Music Authority Podcast!  Special Recorded Network Shows, too!  Different than my daily show! *Radio Candy Radio Monday Wednesday, & Friday 7PM ET, 4PM PT*Rockin' The KOR Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 7PM UK time, 2PM ET, 11AM PT  www.koradio.rocks*Pop Radio UK Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 6PM UK, 1PM ET, 10AM PT!  *The Sole Of Indie  https://soleofindie.rocks/  Monday Through Friday 6-7PM EST!May 25, 2023, Thursday, for the week hour twelve…Jaimie Vernon - 02 I Bet [So You Are A Star] (Bullseye Records of Canada, Inc.)Kevin Fisher - 1. You Want Me [Pop Rocks]@Scott Roberts - 03 The Big Sky [Hounds of Love-The Sensual World - The TM Collective]Jackopierce – 06 I Gotta Know@Dentist - 09 Koko B. WareLoose Change - 2. Gravity [Fun Stuff]Bittersweet Machines - 03 Screaming Underwater [Momentary Lights]Youth Chairs - I Want You DifferentWill Dailey - HandsDrifting Sand - Santa Cruz'n [Summer Splash]@Sydney Sherwood - 01 Wolves [Head Space]Fireking - Built To Last [IPO Vol 14]Pugwash - 03 Why Do I [Silverlake]The Galileo 7 - Send Me A Postcard [Decayed] (State Records)Sam Wickens - StrangeThe Red Button - Picture [Now It's All This!] (Jem Records)Shake Some Action! - 07 Wings [Full Fathom Five]The Nautical Theme - 8 - Four, Five, Six [Lows And Highs]Keith Klingensmith - 31 I Wanna Thank You [If It Feels Good Do It - A Sloan Tribute] (Futureman Records)

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How major governments can help with the most important century, published by Holden Karnofsky on February 24, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. I've been writing about tangible things we can do today to help the most important century go well. Previously, I wrote about helpful messages to spread; how to help via full-time work; and how major AI companies can help. What about major governments1 - what can they be doing today to help? I think governments could play crucial roles in the future. For example, see my discussion of standards and monitoring. However, I'm honestly nervous about most possible ways that governments could get involved in AI development and regulation today. I think we still know very little about what key future situations will look like, which is why my discussion of AI companies (previous piece) emphasizes doing things that have limited downsides and are useful in a wide variety of possible futures. I think governments are “stickier” than companies - I think they have a much harder time getting rid of processes, rules, etc. that no longer make sense. So in many ways I'd rather see them keep their options open for the future by not committing to specific regulations, processes, projects, etc. now. I worry that governments, at least as they stand today, are far too oriented toward the competition frame (“we have to develop powerful AI systems before other countries do”) and not receptive enough to the caution frame (“We should worry that AI systems could be dangerous to everyone at once, and consider cooperating internationally to reduce risk”). (This concern also applies to companies, but see footnote.2) In a previous piece, I talked about two contrasting frames for how to make the best of the most important century: The caution frame. This frame emphasizes that a furious race to develop powerful AI could end up making everyone worse off. This could be via: (a) AI forming dangerous goals of its own and defeating humanity entirely; (b) humans racing to gain power and resources and “lock in” their values. Ideally, everyone with the potential to build something powerful enough AI would be able to pour energy into building something safe (not misaligned), and carefully planning out (and negotiating with others on) how to roll it out, without a rush or a race. With this in mind, perhaps we should be doing things like: Working to improve trust and cooperation between major world powers. Perhaps via AI-centric versions of Pugwash (an international conference aimed at reducing the risk of military conflict), perhaps by pushing back against hawkish foreign relations moves. Discouraging governments and investors from shoveling money into AI research, encouraging AI labs to thoroughly consider the implications of their research before publishing it or scaling it up, working toward standards and monitoring, etc. Slowing things down in this manner could buy more time to do research on avoiding misaligned AI, more time to build trust and cooperation mechanisms, and more time to generally gain strategic clarity The “competition” frame. This frame focuses less on how the transition to a radically different future happens, and more on who's making the key decisions as it happens. If something like PASTA is developed primarily (or first) in country X, then the government of country X could be making a lot of crucial decisions about whether and how to regulate a potential explosion of new technologies. In addition, the people and organizations leading the way on AI and other technology advancement at that time could be especially influential in such decisions. This means it could matter enormously "who leads the way on transformative AI" - which country or countries, which people or organizations. Some people feel that we can make confident statements today a...

The city or the county…SOMEBODY is supposed to be coming through and sealing the roadway in front of our house sometime over the next two days.  There is a sign in the corner of our yard prohibiting on-street parking.  There was also a door hanger flyer stating the same with all the pertinent details of what to expect between 7AM & 5PM.  Here it is after 9AM and no work has been started on my street yet!  The Music Authority Podcast... listen, like, comment, download, share, repeat…heard daily on Podchaser, Deezer, Amazon Music, Audible, Listen Notes, Google Podcast Manager, Mixcloud, Player FM, Stitcher, Tune In, Podcast Addict, Cast Box, Radio Public, and Pocket Cast, and APPLE iTunes!  Follow the show on TWITTER JimPrell@TMusicAuthority!  Please, are you listening? Please, are you sharing the podcast?  Please, has a podcast mention been placed into your social media?  How does and can one listen in? Let me list the ways...*Podcast - https://themusicauthority.transistor.fm/   The Music Authority Podcast!  Special Recorded Network Shows, too!  Different than my daily show! *Radio Candy Radio Monday Wednesday, & Friday 7PM ET, 4PM PT*Rockin' The KOR Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 7PM UK time, 2PM ET, 11AM PT  www.koradio.rocks*Pop Radio UK Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 6PM UK, 1PM ET, 10AM PT!  January 26, 2023, Thursday, section two…Pugwash - 03 Why Do I [Silverlake]Randy Klawon With Jim Bonfanti - Marlo MaybeJohn Hunter Phillips & The Hurricane Beach Band - Stay In KaneohePapa Schmapa - Take Me As I Am [What You Gonna Do - EP] (Joe DelVecchio)Elvis Monroe - Call OutThe Mommyheads - 08 Sunfish Sunflower [Coming Into Beauty]Andy Brown - 09 Ida Lupino [Zazel]Nic Armstrong & The Thieves - I'll Come to You [The Greatest White Liar]@Rogers & Butler - Other Side Of Midnight [Poets & Sinners] (Zip Records) (Edward Rogers Steve Butler)Eric Peter Schwartz Music - 02 Sweetness [Mustard On My Sexy Dress]Kid Gulliver - Kiss and TellThe Reverberations - 05 Left Behind [Changes] (Beluga Records)Laurie Biagini Music - Run To The SunAdeline Um - A Little OverwhelmedMuck and the Mires - Mint Condition [Greetings From Muckingham Palace] (Rum Bar Records)Neil Sturgeon & The Informaniacs - I Just Wasn't Being MyselfThe Bookends - Let It Go [Far Away But Around]Smitt E. Smitty & The Fezztones - Rebel Rebel (Code213 Records)

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Pugwash Conferences and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty as a case study of Track II diplomacy, published by rani martin on September 16, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Track II (unofficial) diplomacy is potentially a useful intervention for reducing risks of great power conflict. In this post, I discuss what a paradigmatic case of track II diplomacy tells us about the value of this intervention. This case is the influence of the Pugwash Conferences on the Soviet government agreeing to place limitations on anti-ballistic missiles. I first motivate interest in track II diplomacy as an intervention. I then identify two important theories of change for track II diplomacy and claims about its effects which support these theories of change. I test these claims using the Pugwash case - largely discussing and scrutinising the evidence and narrative about the impact of Pugwash from political science Professor Matthew Evangelista's authoritative work on the subject, 'Unarmed Forces'. I argue that this case suggests high quality access to official decision makers, windows of opportunity for influence over policy, and the development of trusting communities of non-officials are important to the success of track II diplomacy. This case should make us more enthusiastic about using track II diplomacy to reduce risks of great power conflict. 1. Introduction 1.1 Risks from great power conflict Great power conflict is an existential risk factor: the probability of an existential catastrophe grows as a major conflict becomes more likely. There are several pathways by which great power conflict raises existential risk. For example, a war between great powers could cause or accelerate the deployment of weapons with catastrophic potential, including bioweapons and nuclear weapons. Tensions or war between great powers would make it harder to coordinate on the safe development of artificial intelligence and other destabilising emerging technologies.¹ If, as seems plausible,² great power conflict significantly contributes to total existential risk, interventions to reduce the probability of such conflict could significantly decrease existential risk. 1.2 Track II diplomacy and great power conflict Track II diplomacy is a potentially-effective intervention to reduce risks from great power conflict. It is unofficial policy discussion, usually between parties from different sides of an international conflict or representing groups that are in tension with each other.³ Though they are not officials themselves, Track II participants can influence official actions by sharing information and policy ideas, and by advocating for their preferred approach to their contacts back home. Their non-official status distinguishes Track II diplomacy programs from Track I (official) diplomacy. Track 1.5 dialogues are unofficial discussions which include official participants.⁴ Philanthropists have funded Track II diplomacy,⁵ suggesting that, if effective, it could be a good way to use philanthropic funding to reduce risks from great power conflict. However, few formal evaluations of the effectiveness of Track II diplomacy programs exist. In this report, I present a case study of a paradigmatic example of Track II diplomacy: the influence of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs on the Soviet government's decision to sign the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.⁶ While a case study approach raises concerns about generalisability, it can be useful when it is not feasible to conduct more systematic evaluations, such as randomised controlled trials. I use this case to test several assumptions about the effect of Track II diplomacy on relations between the countries involved. In the rest of this post, I first briefly discuss existing work on the effectiveness and theory of change of Track ...

Baxie welcomes back Thomas Walsh of Pugwash! Thomas is one of the greatest songwriters alive! And it's not just me who is saying this! Some of his biggest fans include Ray Davies from The Kinks, Andy Partridge from XTC, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, and Jeff Lynn from ELO! Is Thomas that good? Yes! He is THAT good! We talk about his health, the Beatles, playing live, making music, and all about his new album which is due out next year! A great conversation with one of my favorites! Listen on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, and on the Rock102 website.

And now for the thrilling conclusion to this Fans On The Run episode with the man behind Pugwash and The Duckworth Lewis Method, Thomas Walsh! Will we talk about The Beatles? Yes! Will we talk about other bands? Also yes! What else will we talk about? You'll just have to tune in and find out for yourself! This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!   Keep up with Thomas: https://twitter.com/pugwashofficial https://www.facebook.com/thomaswalshsongwriter https://pugwashtheband.bandcamp.com/   Follow us elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/fansontherun   Contact fansontherunpodcast@gmail.com

It's once again time for Fans On The Run, the show by, for, and about Beatles fans! Joining me for the first of a two-parter show (first in almost two years!) that almost sticks to the show's premise, is the man behind Pugwash and The Duckworth Lewis Method, Thomas Walsh! Will we talk about The Beatles? Yes! Will we talk about other bands? Also yes! What else will we talk about? You'll just have to tune in and find out for yourself! This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!   Keep up with Thomas: https://twitter.com/pugwashofficial https://www.facebook.com/thomaswalshsongwriter https://pugwashtheband.bandcamp.com/   Follow us elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/fansontherun   Contact fansontherunpodcast@gmail.com

It's never easy writing the show notes when you weren't present for the podcast itself and consequently don't have the overall tone of the discussion to guide you. For instance, the guys talked about the Top 5 Hacking or Computers Scenes, but was any of it interesting? Almost certainly not. And what will special guest Rupert have to say about it all? And who is Rupert anyway?THE HISTORY OF FUTURE FOLK (2012) has sat unwatched in my Netflix queue since I first joined the service, so I was delighted when listener Pearcey suggested we should watch it. Charming, low-budget sci-fi which sees Nils d'Aulaire as Bill aka General Trius who came to Earth many years in search of a new home for his fellow Hondonians but decided to stay after hearing music for the first time and falling in love. Soon his blissful and peaceful new life is disturbed by the presence of another of his race, the not quite right Kevin. With a refreshing lack of cynicism and a strong alien bluegrass soundtrack, I'm hoping the rest of the Dads and the enigmatic Rupert feel the same about this indie treasure. CAPTAIN PUGWASH is the spineless and stupid animated pirate captain of the Black Pig and is renowned for being awash with sexual innuendo. Everyone knows for instance about the characters Seaman Stains, Master Bates and Roger the Cabin Boy, and that ‘Pugwash' itself is derived from an Irish word for rimming except of course none of that is true, and reality is far less exciting though there is a character called Willy if you really love that sort of thing. Hopefully the mysterious Rupert will set us all straight.We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. Try us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

Chapter 106 has a real sense of climax, a feeling of crescendo if you prefer, as we build up themes from the Somewhere Else episodes to the pitch of fever. Firstly I take name-dropping to a whole new level, this is out-of-the-park stuff and you will know exactly what I mean when the moment arrives. Secondly, if you thought the Pugwash-inspired oceangoing crooncast was good, then look out... This week's, mention of Amazonian poison-dart frogs may well have inspired my Magnum Opus. And finally, this may be the best example of the post-diary chat being clearly undertaken by two blokes who hadn't actually read the diary entries in question, as we go on to repeat everything I had read out loud a moment earlier. Love'n'buffalo (they're bison really), and keep on croakin' h https://www.marillion.com/shop/corona/index.htm (TCD Merch Store) https://www.patreon.com/coronadiaries (Become Purple and support the show) http://marillion.com/shop/merch/hogarthbook01.htm (The Invisible Man Volume 1: 1991-1997) http://marillion.com/shop/merch/hogarthbook02.htm (The Invisible Man Volume2: 1998-2014) https://www.facebook.com/IceCreamGenius/ (Facebook) https://www.instagram.com/stevehogarthonline/ (Instagram) http://www.stevehogarth.com/ (Website)

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 11 of Song Chronicles. Our special guest today is Thomas Walsh, an Ivor Novello-nominated songwriter who is the front person and songwriter behind the Irish pop-rock project Pugwash. As a band, Pugwash released six albums and toured through the UK and Ireland before Thomas returned Pugwash to its roots as a solo project with the most recent album Silverlake. He's currently at work on a new solo album. Pugwash in 2015 We also talk about The Duckworth Lewis Method, his collaboration with Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy, and what it's like working with a true partner in co-writing.  The Duckworth Lewis Method Thomas is an incredible writer of melodies. We talk about the songwriting process, how he often dreads the process but loves the result, and how he usually writes from his own experience. Though he feels the need to be modest about his own songwriting, I get him to share his favorites of his own songs that he's written throughout his career. As he shares, it's often the songs that come to you quickly that turn out the best. Thomas performing in 2015 Thomas is a walking encyclopedia of music with the biggest record collection I've ever seen. He shares his obsession with the labels printed on records and the sense memories he associates with 70s music. He talks about getting to work with many of his influences, including Jeff Lynne, co-founder of Electric Light Orchestra, who told him a funny story about how George Harrison found his awards to be highly valuable — in the garden. You'll also hear a fun story about singing Kinks songs with Ray Davies in the pub. Thomas with Jeff Lynne Enjoy this in depth conversation with a true lover of music.

In 2002, in the big Tent in Pugwash Junction conference in Nova Scotia, Canada, Albert Hull (1936-2015) preached the gospel powerfully, majoring on the theme of “the precious blood of Christ”. He read 4 scriptures and heralded the gospel to those who are “without strength” (Rom 5:6), “without excuse” (Rom 1:20), who will die “without mercy” (Heb 10:28-29), unless the are saved through the precious blood of Christ, for “without the shedding of blood” is no remission of sins (Heb The post Albert Hull – Pugwash Conference gospel message (25 min) first appeared on Gospel Hall Audio.