Podcasts about Swansea

Al G7 di Evian le due guerre dominano la scena. Per quella in Medio Oriente, con la previsione di firma dell'intesa venerdì 19 in Svizzera, il focus della missione per la riapertura di Hormuz è stata al centro delle discussioni. Del conflitto in Ucraina, invece, ha parlato direttamente il presidente Volodymyr Zelensky che, dopo un confronto con i presidenti Macron e Trump, ha sottolineato le difficoltà di Mosca e ribadito la necessità per entrambi i Paesi di arrivare a un accordo di pace. Ne parliamo con Sergio Nava, giornalista di Radio 24 inviato a Evian, e con Michele Marchi, professore di Storia contemporanea all'Università di Bologna.Intorno alle 10 del mattino di ieri Semyon Skrepezkij, artista russo noto per le caricature di Putin e degli altri esponenti del governo di Mosca, è stato ucciso in una cittadina polacca a pochi chilometri dalla Bielorussia. Ne parliamo con Luca Trenta, professore di Relazioni internazionali all’Università di Swansea, autore di "The President’s Kill List".

Returning to Swansea after the blitz, Dylan Thomas is overwhelmed by memories of his childhood and adolescence.From summers at Fern Hill, to failed camping trips on the beach; from plagiarised poetry to drunken first love, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is a story of what it is to grow up.Comic, nostalgic, with a host of vivid characters, Dylan Thomas's masterpiece is adapted by Joe Dunthorne (Submarine, Children of Radium) and stars Gerran Howell (The Pitt) as Dylan Thomas.Based on the short stories by Dylan ThomasAdapted by Joe DunthorneDylan Thomas… Gerran HowellAunt Annie/Gwyneth/ Mrs Evans/ Mother… Carys EleriUncle Jim/ Mr Thomas/ Mr Matthews/ Mr O'Brien… Ben AddisMrs Williams/ Mrs Thomas/ Mrs Franklin/ Female Stranger… Melanie WaltersDan Evans… Iwan DaviesLou/Jean/Nancy… Mia KhanBrazell/ Gwilym/ Older Sidney… Jacob IfanGeorge Hooping/ Barman… Gwïon Morris JonesSkully/ Chauffeur/ Male Stranger… Shaheen JafargholiYoung Dylan… Leon Raphael MullinsYoung Sidney…. Toby FoundsProduction Co-Ordinator… Eleri McAuliffeSound Design by Rhys MorrisProduced and directed by Fay Lomas, BBC Audio Drama Wales

Behind the walls of H.H. Holmes' "World's Fair Hotel" waited trap doors, gas chambers, and a basement of acid vats — and more than a century after the Murder Castle burned, something still lingers at 63rd and Wallace.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HHHolmesHotelREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/57djvd7fFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: It's one of the most infamous and macabre subjects of Chicago history – it even served as inspiration for TV's “American Horror Story: Hotel”. It's what has become known as “The Murder Castle” where serial killer H.H. Holmes committed his monstrous crimes. But even today, Holmes continues to terrify… in spectral form. (H.H. Holmes' Hellish Hotel And Lingering Haunting) *** A woman tries to save the soul of her daughter, believing her to be possessed… but her solution to drive out the demon was to murder her daughter using a holy crucifix. (Murder By Crucifix) *** What's worse than proclaiming yourself to be a supernatural being and starting your own cult? How about telling your followers you are God so you could do drugs and have sex with teenage girls? It's the disturbing true story of the cult called “The Group”. (Theodore Rinaldo – The Drug Cult Rapist) *** Shrunken heads – believe it or not, they are real. And some tribal peoples create them even today – from real human heads. But why do it at all? We'll look at the reality behind shrunken heads, the reason they are created… and even how they are created. (The History and How of Shrunken Heads) *** A terrifying series of paranormal activities invade a family's home in Wales. (The Swansea Entity) *** Tenome is a Japanese Urban Legend about a blind man who was robbed and murdered. His dying wish? To have eyes on his hands so he could see. (The Seeing Hands of Tenome) *** Unsolved mysteries are intriguing simply because they are unsolved. That's why we are so fascinated by stories of people disappearing without a trace. But one man's disappearance is so bizarre, so weird, that upon hearing the story you'll be scratching your head wondering what the heck you just heard. (The Strangest Disappearance at Sea in History) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:27.539 = Show Open00:04:09.416 = H.H. Holmes' Hellish Hotel and Lingering Haunting00:22:02.613 = The Seeing Hands of Tenome ***00:25:29.843 = The Strangest Disappearance at Sea In History00:36:31.904 = Murder By Crucifix ***00:42:31.316 = The Swansea Entity00:52:22.872 = The History and How of Shrunken Heads ***00:58:56.160 = Theodore Rinaldo: The Drug Cult Rapist01:05:34.000 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Swansea Entity” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3pt262t4“Murder By Crucifix” by Inigo Gonzalez for Ranker's Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4h6mjabw“The Strangest Disappearance at Sea in History” from Strange Company: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/nsrhjdew“Theodore Rinaldo – The Drug Cult Rapist” by Matthew Lavelle for Ranker's Unspeakable Times:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yx2hmzus“The Seeing Hands of Tenome” from The Scare Chamber: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y4dnxee6“The History and How of Shrunken Heads” by Bipin Dimri for Historic Mysteries: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4wdznwwc“H.H. Holmes' Hellish Hotel and Lingering Haunting” from Chicago Hauntings: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/pvthp98(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: November, 2021This episode of Weird Darkness moves from the haunted ground of H.H. Holmes' Chicago Murder Castle to a flesh-eating Japanese yokai, a millionaire's impossible vanishing at sea, an Oklahoma exorcism that ended in murder, a violent Welsh poltergeist, the real-world practice of shrinking human heads, and the Washington State drug cult led by a man who claimed to be God.It opens in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, where Herman W. Mudgett — better known as H.H. Holmes, America's first serial killer and the inspiration for the Hotel Cortez in American Horror Story: Hotel — built his three-story "World's Fair Hotel" at 63rd and Wallace to prey on visitors to the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The building held sixty rooms riddled with trap doors, hidden staircases, gas chambers, and a basement furnished with a dissecting table and vats of acid and lime. Holmes confessed to 27 murders before his hanging in Philadelphia on May 7, 1896, though some historians put his victim count at 200 or more, and the strange deaths that followed his execution — a poisoned forensics expert, a suicidal prison superintendent, a priest beaten to death in his own churchyard — fed talk of a Holmes curse for decades. The site was never excavated, and employees at the Englewood post office built beside the old Castle property still report stacking chairs, a singing woman no one can find, and apparitions on the grass where the hotel once stood. Even Holmes' own descendant, Jeff Mudgett, author of Bloodstains and the figure behind the History Channel's American Ripper, walked out of that basement a changed man.From there the episode crosses to Japan and the legend of Tenome, a blind old man robbed and beaten to death in a field who returned as a vengeful yokai with eyes on the palms of his hands. First recorded in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, the creature hunts graveyards and open fields by scent, feeds on fresh human bones, and inspired the Pale Man of Pan's Labyrinth. The segment ends with the Kyoto tale of a young man who hid from the Tenome inside a locked temple chest — and was found afterward as an empty sack of skin, his bones sucked out through his flesh.Next comes the 1931 disappearance of Hisashi Fujimura, the Japanese-born silk millionaire who vanished from the Red Star liner Belgenland somewhere between Halifax and New York on the night of August 13. Fujimura had told a friend he feared gamblers would follow him aboard, his mistress Mary Reissner was registered under a false name as a governess, and his bank account had dropped from over $333,000 to $2.65 in five months. The ship's captain saw him talking to an unseen person at 2:45 a.m.; by morning his bed was unslept-in and his seven-year-old daughter was alone in the stateroom. Federal investigators closed the case without answers, a dust-free wallet bearing his name later surfaced in an empty Manhattan flat, and Fujimura was declared legally dead in 1938 — leaving murder, suicide, accident, and a staged escape all equally possible.The darkness turns domestic with the 2016 killing of 33-year-old Geneva Gomez in Oklahoma City, beaten to death by her own mother, Juanita Gomez, who claimed she was performing an exorcism to drive Satan from her daughter. Juanita punched Geneva repeatedly, forced a crucifix and religious medallion down her throat, then arranged the body in the shape of a cross with a wooden crucifix on her chest. A forensic psychologist concluded she was feigning incompetence, the insanity plea collapsed, and in January 2018 a jury needed only 20 minutes to convict her of first-degree murder and recommend life without parole.The episode then travels to Rhondda Street in Swansea, Wales, where in 1965 Marcia and David Howells, their two small children, and Marcia's grandmother endured a poltergeist that began with choking sensations in the night and escalated to bottles flying off mantelpieces, rooms ransacked in minutes, the gas stove turning itself on, and a double bed found hurled on top of the baby's empty cot behind a barred door. Police, reporters, and a priest all came to the little house; the only room ever left untouched was the grandmother's. The family finally moved out, the activity stopped, and no tragedy in the home's history was ever found to explain it — leaving psychokinesis, spirit attachment, and Marcia's own verdict, a demon, on the table.From haunted houses the show turns to a practice that is grimly real: the shrunken heads, or tsantsas, of the Jivaro people of northern Peru and southern Ecuador. Warriors severed the heads of slain enemies in the belief that shrinking them enslaved the victim's vengeful spirit, then boiled the skin free of the skull, packed it with hot stones and sand, blackened it with charcoal ash, and sewed the lips shut to seal the spirit inside — reducing a human head to a third of its size. Genu

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Swansea Jack Memorial Dog Swimming Competition is a documentary film of an event conceived by Shimabuku as an art project, made in 2003. Duration 58 minutes 2 seconds. When Shimabuku visited Swansea to research for his solo exhibition at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, he learned the story of Swansea Jack, the celebrated dog who saved 27 drowning victims in the Swansea harbour area during the 1930s, and became fascinated. As he researched Swansea Jack, he noticed the local memory of him was fading. To revive the memory of Swansea Jack, the local hero, Shimabuku invited residents to host the “Swansea Jack Memorial Dog Swimming Competition”. On a cloudy autumn afternoon in October 2003, at Langland Bay beach, the dog swimming competition saw 70 participating dogs called out one by one with a megaphone by Karen MacKinnon, a white woman in her thirties who was the curator at the time, and guided to their starting positions. Each dog's favourite ball or stick was thrown into the sea, and footage shows the dogs swimming out into the surging waves to retrieve them. When each dog's turn came, its name appeared in the bottom left corner of the screen. The footage then captures the crowd – spectators, dogs, owners, and supporters mingling together – cheering on the competitors, applauding them, and raising their voices in celebration. Shimabuku is a Japanese artist, who, from the beginning of the 1990s, has travelled to various places in Japan and overseas, creating performances and installations that consider the daily lives and cultures of people he encounters, as well as new forms of communication. He also works in a diverse range of media including sculpture, film and photography. Full of poetic sentiment and humour while also inspiring people in metaphorical ways, his style has gained a worldwide reputation. His process often involves a journey or quest through a previously unknown place in which he documents his experiences along the way. At its core the artist's practice centres around ideas of communication between self and others, and between art and its audience. Shimabuku attempts to create challenging and fluid works, which engage directly with diverse audiences in the community in which he is working. His gentle re-invention of local stories aims to break down often-rigid boundaries between inside and outside the art institution, his natural warmth encouraging people to enjoy participating in his imaginative projects. His works are always touching and often funny, yet his humour belies the seriousness and integrity which lay at the core of his work and the respect he has for the stories he finds and the people he meets and places he visits.

A Day at the Hunt by Ingrid Murphy, made in 2016, is a white and gold ceramic Staffordshire flatback with interactive companion film linked by QR code. It is 33 cm high and 20 cm wide and depicts Ingrid and her father Brendan as two hunters. The uncanny likeness was created through the 3D scanning & 3D printing of Ingrid and her father's heads and slip casting them onto a replica of the original Hunter flatback from the 19th Century. A flatback is a sculptural decorative figure that is three dimensional from all sides except the back, which is flat, designed to be positioned on a mantlepiece. Ingrid and Brendan's heads have been printed in proportion to the rest of the work, and don't seem out of place. Both figures are wearing traditional hunting costumes, consisting of knee length tunics, knee high boots, sashes across the body, and hunting horns. There are gold leaf highlights at the top of the collars of the coats, the top of the boots, belt buckles, and hunting horns. In the background between the two figures is a textured old tree trunk. Brendan is seated on the left, he has short, cropped hair and looks to be quite elderly, with a kind and thoughtful face. He gazes directly ahead, his left hand on his knee. Ingrid stands on the right, she has short, bobbed hair, and her body is turned towards her father, her eyes are gazing down at him in admiration. Her right arm is raised, holding up a square sign, onto which a black QR code is printed. The piece is interactive, as when you scan the QR code, a five-minute companion colour film plays of Ingrid and Brendan visiting the Hunt Museum, Ireland, in June 2016. The car journey with her father was central to this work. Initially, Ingrid had thought it would be about the museum visit, but watching the footage she realised it was actually about the journey, because that was their life together. The light-hearted film is punctuated with humorous interactions between father and daughter. For instance, there is a miscommunication when they pass a shop called Mace next to a church; Ingrid is looking at the shop and Brendan is looking at the church and she speaks about Mace and he comments on Mass. They get lost on the journey; there are touching moments of Ingrid's dad just being himself, he walks into a room and looks around as if he's going to say something amazing. Then he says ‘Jesus, they got new carpets I'd say', oblivious to the beautiful objects they are surrounded by on the walls. On the drive home, a farmer is trying to catch cattle which have escaped a field onto the road. Brendon was a butcher and in Ingrid's family there is a running joke whenever something happened with cattle, they would always say it was their revenge, they were coming back for him! Ingrid Murphy's work focuses on augmenting ceramic artefacts with a range of interactive technologies. She exploits and plays with the boundaries of ceramic material to create innovative and playful interactions and experiences. She uses sound, humour and autobiographical elements, creating engaging and playful ceramic works, which also bring to life the deeper historical and social histories of ceramic objects and their intended uses. A Day at the Hunt was commissioned by the Hunt Museum, Ireland, to be part of the Irish Contemporary Ceramics Collection. A version of this work was acquired by Glynn Vivian Art Gallery through the Wakelin Award 2022 in partnership with the Friends of the Glynn Vivian, selected by Swansea based artist and lecturer, Catrin Webster.

Wavy Gravy is a 2014 film by Alex Duncan, duration 1 minute 10 seconds. This silent film was created from found and reworked video footage, depicting a sea of undulating forms with wave movements that track from the top of the screen to the bottom. It is not immediately clear what the multicoloured abstract mass is made from, its repetitive movement instead giving an almost sculptural quality. The scene is in fact an upside-down densely packed tsunami wave pool swimming experience, with bodies rising and falling, engaged with their own weightlessness and loss of self within the swell, exploring realities and artificialities of motion and perception. The proximity of something fun and something ominous occurs. Alex Duncan said: “I am fascinated by where and how we place ourselves in the world, what we react to as human beings and our relationship to materials, objects and situations. “What is real and what is imitating the real has always fascinated me, and how subjectively, we respond to something that is both, or rather, something that sits between these two diverging states”. Within the Glynn Vivian's collection, the companion work, Like Swimming, is an installation of cast concrete ‘life-saving flotation aids'. Their surfaces bitten into and scratched at, contrasting the levity of youth with the uncertainty of real life. Swansea-born, Alex Duncan graduated from Swansea Metropolitan University in 2007 and gained his master's degree from the Royal College of Art in London. Making work that intersects sculpture, drawing, video and installation, his work has been exhibited both in the UK, notably the Whitechapel Gallery, V&A, MOSTYN, Camden Arts Centre and Ferens Art Gallery; and internationally, including Milan, Italy; Bilbao, Santander; Spain and Mauritius.

Only Your Eyes Are Unclosed is a 2008 film by Anthony Shapland, duration 60 minutes. The film depicts sixty urban locations around Swansea city in the hour before sunrise, radiating from a geographical centre point. The hour begins in the dead of night with a due north location in Mount Pleasant, and each subsequent location moves around the city like the hands of a clock, with a minute spent in each place before moving ever closer to dawn. The locations featured span a large area of Swansea. They begin with empty streets in Mount Pleasant, lit only by the glow of streetlights, and move on to the deserted train station entrance where a lone zebra crossing flashes in the dark. Moving on to the brightly lit high‑rise car park off New Cut Road, the calm surface of the River Tawe, and the distant, steel works viewed from Port Tennant, with continuous plumes of smoke rising into the early morning crimson sky. The journey continues across the iconic Sail Bridge, to the Maritime Quarter, where flats overlook the quiet marina. Followed by the former GWR stone Revetment Wall on the north side of Victoria Quay, and the coastal steps swallowed by high tide, travelling on to an unusually still Oystermouth Road lined with parked work vans. Locations across the road feature the prison's barbed‑wire‑topped walls, the stately Brangwyn Hall, and the very steep, cobbled street of Constitution Hill. As the sun rises through St James Crescent Park and the residential streets of Sketty, the film ends with views across the city from Mayhill and Townhill as dawn breaks. A silent semi-fictional narrative is conveyed through subtitles that accompany each scene, for example: “A fox finds a curry carton. It licks the polystyrene clean before walking away. Carl Seers reminds himself to take the blue wrench tomorrow. Mrs Watkins' sink is set right back against the wall.” Despite the romantic construction of the work these texts are only part fiction, built on real names, occurrences and observations. The title of the film is a nod to Under Milk Wood by Swansea born, Dylan Thomas, which was published in 1954, shortly after Thomas's death in 1953. In an in-conversation with curator and writer, Lisa Le Feuvre, Anthony Shapland once said about returning to the period between night and day throughout his practice: “Early morning in a city before normal activities take place - it feels as if you are experiencing ‘non-hours'. In the city the streetlamps extend twilight which creates a situation where anything can happen, where possibilities are infinite. It's as if the entire rules of engagement for the day have been replaced and new rules are waiting to be made up.... “I grew up in a rural area and moving to the city opened up a new sense of the night. There is a certain point in the city at night when you can feel as if you are on your own - you can possess the space in some way. The urban early morning can be incredibly peaceful. There is a sense that everything has stopped for a while, that everyone is sleeping. You can rest in that waiting moment before it all starts again. When I was filming in the city I discovered there is one hour when it is OK to be polite to people - when you can say ‘good morning' to strangers and it is acceptable. It is that moment when it starts to get light - the first time I experienced it I was really taken by surprise, and I realised that the healthy dog-walkers and workers were assuming I had got up early, rather than stayed out late.” Anthony Shapland is a Welsh artist, founder of artist-led space g39, and novelist. He grew up in Bargoed in the Rhymney Valley. Within his writing and artistic practice, he blends documentary and fiction, drawing on his lived experience of rural queerness and growing up performing straight.

Ffilm ddogfen 58 munud a 2 eiliad o hyd a wnaed yn 2003 yw Swansea Jack Memorial Dog Swimming Competition. Mae'n ymwneud â digwyddiad a grëwyd gan Shimabuku fel prosiect celf. Pan ymwelodd Shimabuku ag Abertawe i wneud gwaith ymchwil ar gyfer ei arddangosfa unigol yn Oriel Gelf Glynn Vivian, dechreuodd ymddiddori yn stori Jac Abertawe, y ci enwog a achubodd 27 o bobl rhag boddi yn ardal harbwr Abertawe yn ystod y 1930au. Wrth iddo ymchwilio i Jac Abertawe, sylwodd fod y cof lleol amdano'n pylu. I adfywio'r cof am yr arwr lleol hwn, gwahoddodd Shimabuku breswylwyr i gynnal cystadleuaeth nofio cŵn er cof am Jac Abertawe. Ryw brynhawn hydrefol cymylog ym mis Hydref 2003, ar draeth Bae Langland, galwyd drwy uchelseinydd ar 70 o gŵn yn eu tro i gymryd rhan yn y gystadleuaeth nofio gan Karen MacKinnon, menyw wen yn ei thridegau a'r curadwr ar y pryd, a chawsant eu tywys i'w safleoedd cychwynnol. Taflwyd hoff bêl neu ffon pob ci i'r môr, ac mae'r lluniau'n dangos y cŵn yn nofio yn y môr tonnog i'w casglu. Pan ddaeth tro pob ci, ymddangosodd ei enw yng nghornel chwith isaf y sgrîn. Mae'r lluniau'n dangos y dorf – gwylwyr, cŵn, perchnogion a chefnogwyr yn cymysgu â'i gilydd – yn annog y cystadleuwyr, yn eu cymeradwyo ac yn codi eu lleisiau i'w dathlu. Artist o Japan yw Shimabuku sydd wedi teithio i leoedd amrywiol yn Japan a thramor ers dechrau'r 1990au, gan greu perfformiadau a gosodweithiau am fywydau beunyddiol a diwylliannol pobl wrth iddo gwrdd â nhw, yn ogystal â mathau newydd o gyfathrebu. Mae ei waith hefyd yn cynnwys amrywiaeth eang o gyfryngau, megis cerfluniau, ffilmiau a ffotograffiaeth. Mae ei arddull yn llawn ymdeimlad barddonol a hiwmor, gan ysbrydoli pobl yn drosiadol ac ennill bri byd-eang. Mae ei broses yn aml yn cynnwys taith i rywle a fu gynt yn anhysbys lle mae'n cofnodi ei brofiadau. Mae syniadau am gyfathrebu rhwng yr hun a phobl eraill, a rhwng celf a'i chynulleidfa, wrth wraidd gwaith yr artist. Mae Shimabuku yn ceisio creu darnau heriol a llyfn, sy'n ymgysylltu'n uniongyrchol â chynulleidfaoedd amrywiol yn y gymuned y mae'n gweithio ynddi. Mae'n ail-greu straeon lleol mewn modd cynnil er mwyn chwalu'r ffiniau, sydd yn aml yn anhyblyg, rhwng pobl y tu mewn i'r sefydliad celf ac y tu allan iddo, ac mae ei wres naturiol yn annog pobl i fwynhau cymryd rhan yn ei brosiectau dychmygus. Mae ei waith bob amser yn emosiynol ac yn aml yn ddoniol, ac eto mae'r hiwmor hwn yn rhoi camargraff o'r difrifoldeb a'r uniondeb sydd wrth wraidd ei waith, a'r parch sydd ganddo tuag at y straeon y mae'n eu darganfod, y bobl y mae'n cwrdd â nhw, a'r lleoedd y mae'n ymweld â nhw.

The boys are joined by one of Swansea's most well travelled men Mitchell Williams and talk about algorithms putting holiday prices up, signing up to Trusted Housesitters, listening to podcasts while running and how Lee Trundle should be on Soccer Aid. Mitch talks about getting sacked from Peppermint and moving to London, getting married the day after getting home from Glastonbury, going to watch the Lions in New Zealand, travelling South East Asia, the massive scale of Australia, getting lost at Machu Picchu and being at the Champions League Final when Gareth Bale scored an over head kick plus much much more…..@ambitioniscritcal1997 on Instagram @TheAiCPodcast on Twitter

Today's episode is a race recap from Swansea half marathon where I was running for Northern Ireland masters alongside clubmates Andrew and Dawn.Running 5 weeks after pacing Belfast was always going to be a different challenge in finding some fitness and plan without having any structured half marathon prep behind me.I talk through the logistics of getting to and from the race which weren't straightforward, my plan going into the race and how it panned out and what I enjoyed most about the experience.I share the takeaways including the things that worked well and what I can improve on next time.I have a few slots still available for one to one coaching which takes the guesswork out of your training and racing. Find out more here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.therunningrules.com/coaching

Russell T Davies has spent a career changing what British television can be, moving from children's drama to fearless queer storytelling and one of the nation's most enduring cultural institutions, Doctor Who. Whether reinventing Saturday night television, capturing the emotional truth of the AIDS crisis in It's a Sin, or turning the anxieties of modern Britain into gripping drama in Years and Years and his new series Tip Toe, his work has consistently shaped the conversation as well as entertained millions.In this episode of Full Disclosure, James O'Brien sits down with Russell to explore the childhood in Swansea that first formed him: a home full of books, teachers and respect for television, a huge comprehensive school where he learned to keep his head down, and the youth theatre that gave him both his tribe and his future.Russell reflects on the early obsession with Doctor Who, the long road into writing, and the Manchester years that changed everything, professionally and personally. He talks about finding his voice through queer characters, the shock of Queer as Folk becoming a cultural flashpoint, and why television has always felt like the natural home for the stories he wants to tell.They also discuss politics, backlash, imagination, gay identity and the darker mood shaping modern Britain. Along the way, Russell explains why storytelling is a form of witness, why no childhood is too happy to produce serious art, and how the obsessions of youth can become the work of a lifetime.Watch Tip Toe on Channel 4 from May 31st here Full Disclosure is a Global ProductionListen or watch every Friday on Global Player, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal -> https://nordvpn.com/fulldisclosure Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee

For most financial planners, the point of entry into the industry is either from an adjacent field or by working up from admin through paraplanning roles.But not Tim. His route stands out as unconventional, but it's far from hindering his professional success. Law school. A year in Swansea chasing training contracts that never materialised. A sales recruitment firm. And then, a client engagement role at a financial planning firm in Cheltenham, a job he recruited for without really knowing the industry. On day one, his main question was: What exactly is financial planning?In this episode of Financial Planner Life, Sam sits down with Tim Brienza, a self-employed financial planner with Montpelier Asset Management, to trace the full arc of his career, from that accidental entry point to managing close to £50 million in assets under management as a chartered fellow in his mid-thirties.Tim talks with Sam about how the unique first role that gave him a bird's-eye view of the profession, before he ever gave a piece of advice, how he leapt into advice and got chartered within 12 months of his first client meeting, but most importantly, his deliberate approach to networking that built his client base over a decade without him ever chasing the wrong people in the wrong rooms.He also breaks down the reality of going self-employed and what it's like to help build a firm from scratch. He shares the tips and ambitious approach he's adopted to propel him into a career as a financial adviser, now managing £50AUM. Tim also explains his voluntary role with the Personal Finance Society and how their inaugural New Gen programme aims to bring more young people into a profession he believes is one of the best-kept career secrets going.The episode's key takeaways

Across continents and centuries outsider poets have made a bold stand for the life of the body, contemplative ecstasy, sexual liberation, and the sacredness of nature, often in the face of religious and political repression.  From Rajasthan to New York, Ancient Persia to London, and Swansea in Wales to Balkh in Afghanistan, ecstatic poets have broken taboos around sex, death, gender, social caste, and religious dogma. In a follow-up to last week's interview with Britt Hartley of No-Nonsense Spirituality, Julian reflects on how poetry has always lit up his inner world as a form of embodied spirituality that transcends religious frameworks or supernatural metaphysics. He shares favorite pieces that span 800 years and three continents from Mirabai, Walt Whitman, Mary Oliver, Kabir, David Whyte, Dylan Thomas, and Rumi, along with stories from their lives, and his own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Avsnitt 517 av Sveriges nyfiknaste podd gästas av Melker Widell. Swansea-proffset talar om första säsongen i Championship, om den tuffa första tiden när tränaren inte alls trodde på honom, om besvikelsen när Kim Hellberg nobbade klubben, om lyftet efter tränarskiftet som gav Widell rejält med speltid, om hur det sliter med tätt matchande och långa bussresor, om psykningarna och fulspelet i ligan, om det speciella med Snoop Dogg och andra kändisägare och om chocken på julfesten som utklädd till Power Ranger.Dessutom berättar Widell om den ständiga kampen med lillebrorsan Casper, om varför han valde Malmö FF framför hemstadens Landskrona Bois som ung, om de viktiga besluten att gå på lån till Olympic och byta till Landskrona, om succén i Ålborg sedan Oscar Hiljemark handplockat honom, om landslagschansen under Jon Dahl Tomasson, om vetskapen att Graham Potter följer honom, om drömmen om Premier League och om känslan att ha något ogjort i Malmö FF. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The boys are joined by Chris Hardie the owner of Swansea's iconic Sandwich shop Grandad Needs His Medicine and talk using social media to build the business, the importance of branding, the evolution of the GNHM menu, getting excessive parking tickets and the Sketty community working together. Chris talks about being a classically trained Chef, the origins of the GNHM name, his obsession with creating new sandwiches, the crazy process that makes GNHM food what it is and the dream of one day working alongside his son plus much much more….@ambitioniscritcal1997 on Instagram @TheAiCPodcast on Twitter

Mike Gray's path to dentistry was anything but straightforward — and that's precisely what makes this conversation so compelling. A former semi-professional mountain biker who raced the World Series across three disciplines, a musician who once had the head of Universal Publishing sitting in his living room in rural Wales, and a dentist who spent years doing everything he could to avoid dentistry, Mike has lived several lives before arriving at the one he clearly loves. Payman and Mike cover the full sweep — grief, therapy, surgical war stories, and an obsessive, self-taught approach to digital restorative dentistry that culminates in his POISE Protocol: a no-prep veneer workflow that he believes makes truly minimally invasive ceramics available to the vast majority of patients, not just a lucky five per cent.In This Episode00:00:55 – Introductions and first impressions00:01:20 – Mountain biking career00:09:15 – A friend's suicide, guilt and stepping back from maxfax00:12:15 – Therapy00:14:10 – Life on the World Series circuit00:19:25 – From maxfax to music00:28:10 – Blackbox thinking00:33:45 – Music career — Alabama Three, Peppa Pig and Covid00:49:25 – NHS dentistry debate00:51:50 – Falling in love with dentistry00:54:40 – Self-taught restorative and the digital workflow01:00:25 – Ditching the articulator01:01:20 – Prototypes, not temporaries01:05:10 – Into implants01:11:00 – Compassion fatigue01:13:40 – POISE protocol and no-prep ceramics01:25:10 – The Lodge and the course01:29:05 – Resilience and failure01:34:20 – Practice ownership01:41:10 – Instagram01:49:20 – Fantasy dinner partyAbout Mike GrayMike Gray is a dentist based in Wales, working at Parkway Clinic in Swansea and The Lodge — a referral and education centre where he hosts his sold-out POISE Protocol course on minimally invasive ceramic veneers. His background spans maxillofacial surgery, semi-professional mountain biking at World Series level, and a music career that attracted interest from Universal Publishing and, improbably, Peppa Pig. He teaches himself CAD, machines his own surgical instruments, and has spent five years developing a digital workflow for no-prep ceramic restorations that he believes renders feldspathic and heavy preparation largely redundant.

In the May 7, 2026 UK elections, Reform won biggly. They did so well that they even stole the show from the ascendent Celtic nationalists in the periphery. Gaining thousands of councillors in England, becoming the second largest party in Wales and the joint second biggest in Scotland. Meanwhile, in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland the biggest parties (Plaid Cymru, SNP, and Sinn Fein) are all separatists. This has ushered in disorderly ‘five party politics' in England and a real threat to the union emanating from a Celtic periphery led by parties that wish to break up the UK.  On this special episode of Disorder we ask: does the UK have a future at all anymore? Will it be very disorderly? And what are Reform's actual policies? To find out – and in our attempt to present a range of views on Disorder – Jason and Mark are joined by Alan Mendoza, Chief Advisor on Global Affairs to Reform UK. The duo push Alan to clarify Reform's actual policies around local government, migration, and Reform's attitudes to Brexit. Jason sees Reform as Disorders, but Alan makes a full throated and quite eloquent case as to why he sees Reform as Orderers rather than Disorderers.  Hopefully the debate is podcasting at its best, filled with respectful disagreements that elucidate the underlying differences in world views. Either way, Reform UK is here to stay so we might as well understand them. To join our Mega Orderers Club for ad free listening, early episode releases and exclusive access to live events, visit disordershow.com/club To tell us more about Disorder, visit disordershow.com/survey  Producer: George McDonagh Subscribe to our Substack - https://natoandtheged.substack.com/ Disorder on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@DisorderShow Show Notes Links: To join our Mega Orderers Club for ad free listening, early episode releases and exclusive access to live events, visit disordershow.com/club How the winner-takes-all voting system has turned on Labour and the Tories: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxpqyndqwlo How Reform won votes from Swansea to Sunderland  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy2nz4gwj5o Hear Alan's previous appearance on Disorder: https://pod.link/1706818264/episode/YTk0MzNmZDQtY2JhMS0xMWVmLWJjYTQtOGJjMjMxNmNhZTli  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to experience something every single one of us has always wanted to - live a year in the life of Ashley Williams. Thanks to the former Wales and Swansea captain's 2012 book 'My Premier League Diary'.Featuring Ashley and Swansea's attempts to survive their debut season in the premier league, his hatred of Andrey Arshavin, the time Nathan Dyer wore some funny headphones, and what he did on World Kidney Day 2012. PLUS plenty of Garry Monk.But do they manage to hit the magic 40 point barrier? Find out now!Want an exclusive, bonus Book Club episode every week? Join the Football Book Club *Club* at www.patreon.com/footballbookclubFollow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/footballbookclub/X - https://twitter.com/FootieBookClubBluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/footballbookclub.bsky.social Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Watch the Q&A session: https://youtu.be/gj4d75_ClggIn this lecture, we look at proposals to limit AI powers and impacts, so bad outcomes are outweighed by social benefits from the technology. I'll explain design processes (such as Human-Centred AI and Responsible AI) and technological approaches for AI system qualities like trustworthiness, explainability and “human in the loop”.  We will explore how we, as individuals, can use AI based systems in discerning ways; and look at what governments can do to help their citizens thrive in an AI-future.This lecture was recorded by Professor Matt Jones on the 21st of April 2026 at Barnard's Inna Hall, LondonMatt Jones is a computer scientist at Swansea University - and a Fellow of the British Computer Society - who works alongside colleagues from many other disciplines and directly with everyday folk across the world to explore the future of digital technologies. Over the last 30-plus years, this human-centred approach has led to novel approaches for, amongst other things,  mobile phone-based information searching and browsing, pedestrian navigation, voice assistants and deformable displays.  Much of his work has been driven by intense and sustained engagements with “low resource” communities from informal settlements in India, South Africa, and Kenya. Through their generous and gracious participation, these extra-ordinary users with the fresh and diverse perspectives have stimulated insights into the future of digital technologies for everyone, globally. In all this work, Matt works as part of a long-standing collaborative team with Jen Pearson, Simon Robinson and Thomas Reitmaier (from Swansea) and colleagues in India (including Dani Raju) and South Africa (including Minah Radebe). His work has been supported by the UK's science funders (EPSRC and UKRI). Currently, this funding includes a Fellowship to explore the future of interactive AI and leadership roles in responsible AI and inclusive digital technologies. This funding has led to a series of impactful publications, talks and influences on people, policies, and practices. Matt has collaborated with private, public and third sector organisations, including Microsoft, the NHS, Google, IIT-B, the BBC and IBM. He is a member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office's Research Advisory Group and Welsh Government's AI reviews.The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/ai-tamingGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/Website:  https://gresham.ac.ukTwitter:  https://twitter.com/greshamcollegeFacebook: https://facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: https://instagram.com/greshamcollegeSupport the show

Join us as we look back at the final game of the 2025/26 campaign at Swansea, hearing from Nathan Jones and Conor CoadyThanks to everyone who has joined us throughout the season! We'll see you again in the summer as we get ready for our 2026/27 Championship campaign.Thanks to our sponsors PSF Steel Ltd for making this show possible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us as we gear up for the final day trip to Swansea City, hearing from Nathan Jones.Thanks to our sponsors PSF Steel Ltd for making this show possible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

South Wales has been a Labour heartland since the party formed over a century ago, but speak to people there today and you'll find support leaving in droves. So can Labour avoid an electoral car crash? Could the other main parties capitalise? Ahead of the Welsh Senedd elections next week, we travelled to Swansea to take the political temperature.This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestoryGuests: Professor Matthew Wall, professor of politics, philosophy and international relations at Swansea University and principal investigator of the 2026 Welsh election study.Grant Berni, head of the Osprey's supporters club.Host: Manveen Rana.Producer: Harry Stott.We want to hear from you - email: thestory@thetimes.comRead more: A walk round Pembroke Dock shows why Labour will lose Welsh electionFurther listening: Get ready for a pub brawl, it's local election timePhoto: Getty Images.This podcast was brought to you thanks to subscribers of The Times and The Sunday Times. To enjoy unlimited digital access to all our journalism subscribe here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andy, Ant and Dun dissect the final double game week of the season and a pair of disappointing home games for different reasons- A mid & weak performance midweek against Swansea.- Yet another slow start not helping the accusations of being on the beach.- Captain Cook's 100th and final game for the R's off to an inauspicious start.- Tylon Smith's 100% record, as he pays the penalty for a rash tackle...- ...So outside of the box, it was practically on the Uxbridge Road- RND's late consolation gives a modicum of false hope- Rangers Sexy Football does not provide a happy finish at Loftus Road- Dun's got a Bennie Boner after a Bonny display vs Derby- The best ability is Vale ability, Harvey avails himself of a goal- Derby pull one back with assist of the season- Olympicoh-no! R's goal straight from corner chaled off for a foul- Anything Kelman can do, Kone can do better with a goal of the season contender.- R's fail to make the pressure count as Zetterstrom weathers the storm- Of course Derby equalise, as Nardi goes missing- Bernel's brilliance keeps Derby in the Play Off hunt- Right on cue, Rangers rue a ton of missed chances - R's Stars hamstrung by hamstrings - Vale and Bennie hopes for next season- Dunne Done? - Stephan Steppin' away?- Nardi's Leaving Party and Varane's an ASSE? - Is Dun buying everything with Luna's name on it? Is Diego heading to London? Is Pierce Charles joining the Keeper Carousel?- Musical Interlude.... - Louis moves over from the Manophere to being the man for the voice over for next year's season tickets- Talking of which...- Moving swiftly on...Player of the season awards!- Good luck Dev Squad vs Dulwich Hamlet- Oxford down, but who the hell is going up? Play offs and automatic promotion up from grabs (As long as Ipswich down't beat the Saints on Tuesday)- The Kling is in town- Knicks throw 2 games away in stunningly Rangers fashion- Sanch joins the ever growing injury list. Get well soon mate!- New York teams actually draft good players!- Our opponents on Saturday and their Orwellian influence. Flash or Trash?- I'm not going to lie, this is not the most optimistic of predictions this week- Jacob's stands up a stanza challenge for Dun- Thank you all for the purple trousers, No wait...Thank you all for your donations to our PanCAN Purple Stride charity walk. It was wet, it was cold but it was well worth it. Over $2,500 raised thanks to your support. Now that really is lovely stuff.- Join us at the Factory on Saturday morning for all of the carnage in Championship Corner?Rate, review, follow etc You know the drill...

Norwich City's faint play-off prospects are over, but the overriding emotion is one of hope ahead of next season. Philippe Clement has taken the Canaries on a fairytale ride from the relegation zone to the top 10 and after their 1-1 draw with Swansea to sign off at Carrow Road, it is now about what comes next to build for next season. Join Connor Southwell and Paddy Davitt on the latest episode of the Pink Un podcast - the penultimate of the 2025/26 campaign.**For more details on our live Pink Un podcast event, and to purchase your tickets: https://www.pinkun.com/sport/norwich-city/25988459.pink-un-pod-live-join-us-may-3rd-yard-norwich/***Picture: Focus Images Ltd***You can also hear the Pink Un Podcast on Norwich's Community radio station, Future Radio 107.8FM.***To get in touch with the podcast now and in future, send any comments and questions into the crew with an email to norfolksport@archant.co.uk or get in touch with us @pinkun on Twitter, where our direct messages are open.And if you're interested in sponsoring the pod, or placing an advert in one of our shows, email connor.southwell@newsquest.co.ukALSO FIND US AT THE FOLLOWING:Subscribe: pinkun.com/podcastTwitter: twitter.com/pinkunFacebook: fb.me/thepinkunInstagram: instagram.com/the_pinkunFind more details on how you can sign up to Pink Un + here: https://www.pinkun.com/pinkunplus/#ncfc #norwichcity #podcast

Andy, Dun and Ant bring you another early start for the R's, and another slow start.- Millwall perform like Lions, QPR were much tamer- Defensive Horror Show see QPR 2-0 down in 17- If the bar was 6 inches higher, it could have been 6 at the half.- The lesser spotted quadruple substitution- Madsen and Chair returns!- Shot shy Rangers finally test the keeper in the 89th minute- Barry Bloody Bannon Sighting- What can Julian do to wake this lot up for early kick offs?- RND was better off on loan, but next season will Joe?- Steve Cook to leave at end of the season, his goodbye note bring a tear to the eye- Cookie to play his last and 100th game vs Swansea.- Leicester to join Wednesday in League 1 Lounge?- Zohran's Trash Revolution, NJ Transit's Pricing Solution, Trade Destitution for (Giants fans)- Knicks in Play off action, Giants and Jets to be busy on day 1 of the draft- Blighty Bulletin's consumer alert. Beware moody knock offs of QPR kits from Wales- Ant's Kit Korner. A real rarity - an Adidas atrocity- Predictions for Swansea and Derby - Jacob's Poem's made fresh to order- Lovely Stuff: Derby Days, Charity Walks and The Long Game- Don't forget to cancel your monthly plus pass!- No meet up for Swansea, definite meet ups for Derby and IpswichRate, review, and donate! https://secure.pancan.org/site/TR/PurpleStride/PurpleStride?pg=team&team_id=73185&fr_id=3122

Episode 374 of the Total Saints Podcast looks back on Southampton's dramatic late victory at Swansea, where Saints came from behind and still found a way to take all three points thanks to a huge late finish from Cameron Archer. It was not the most polished Southampton performance of the run, but perhaps one of the most important, with Saints showing the kind of character, resilience and squad depth that can define a promotion push.The panel discuss the balance between control and chaos in this game, whether Downes was fortunate to stay on, and how much the second-half changes shifted the momentum. There is praise too for the impact of Shea Charles and Archer from the bench, plus a wider look at what the latest results mean in the race for automatic promotion.With Bristol City up next at St Mary's and Wembley also on the horizon, the run-in is starting to feel very real indeed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The ITN crew are back after a number of weeks on the bench just in time to celebrate the form and our trip to Wembley. After incredible wins against Arsenal, Wrexham and Derby, Ray & Tim celebrate further wins against Blackburn last Tuesday and our comeback win in South Wales against Swansea. The fun doesn't stop there. Another heavy week looms large with the visit of Bristol City and our return to Wembley for an FA Cup Semi Final against Manchester City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Saints are off to Wembley in yellow — and you can be too.Use code YELLOWS for 10% off the ‘Yellows!' Collection until 25th April.Shop here: https://shop.totalsaints.co.uk/collections/yellowsWe're doing Benali on Tour, please sponsor us if you can! https://saintsfoundation.enthuse.com/pf/total-saints-podcast-x-daily-echoAnother week, another win — and suddenly the table is starting to look very interesting indeed.In Episode 373 of the Total Saints Podcast, Neil Crespin steps in for Martin and is joined by Steve Grant, Glen de la Cour and Alfie House to reflect on Southampton's 3-0 win over Blackburn Rovers at St Mary's. Saints barely had to get out of second gear at times, but still got the job done comfortably, with Cyle Larin, Ryan Manning and Cameron Archer on the scoresheet as the unbeaten run stretched to 18 matches in all competitions.The panel discuss a performance built on control, pressing and squad depth, and ask whether Cameron Archer's best display in a Saints shirt could yet give him an important role to play in the final weeks of the season. There's also discussion around rotation, game management, and whether Southampton are now handling this stage of the campaign like a team that knows exactly what it's doing.And then there's the wider picture. With Ipswich slipping up, Saints are now just three points off the automatic promotion places. So has the conversation changed? Is this now a genuine charge for the top two rather than simply protecting a play-off place?The episode also looks ahead to Saturday's trip to Swansea, with score predictions, selection talk, and a sense that momentum is building at exactly the right time.We also share a quick update on the Yellows collection in the TSP Shop, plus the latest on Benali on Tour, which has now gone beyond its fundraising target for Saints Foundation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well that's surely that folks. We can't beat Sheffield Wednesday, then Swansea come to town and the inevitable ensues too. A truly appalling squad of Leicester City players all but deliver what they've promised all season. We talk about where it all went wrong, look back on some of our worst Managers ever, and delight in the fact that the Fosse Arms has a new cat.

Former Foxes Steve Howard, Gerry Taggart and Matt Elliott assess our defeat to Swansea at King Power Stadium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mass. House passed a social media ban for minors, a Swansea couple faces weapon and child endangerment charges, and lawmakers consider a statewide plastic bag ban. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carl Roberts and former Wales internationals Sam Vokes and Iwan Roberts discuss Wales captain Aaron Ramsey's retirement and the weekend's results. The team reflect on Ramsey's glittering career, a tough night at the office for Wrexham, Swansea's draws, Cardiff's stuttering promotion push and Newport's relegation battle.

The story today comes from Swansea and looks at the case of Brian Whitelock, a man who was sent to prison for murder and manslaughter. Despite the appeals against his release from the families of his victims who feared he wasn't safe to be in the community, Whitelock was released from prison back to live in Swansea. Within a year of his release, Whitelock had killed again.I release episodes of the UK True Crime Podcast every Tuesday and Friday, so please do join me for the next episode on Friday.Buy My New True Crime Content Creators Online Coursehttps://adam-s-site-be58.thinkific.com/products/courses/true-crime-content-creation-courseWriting Credit: Chris WoodYou can buy Chris's second book, 'Death in the Theatre' here: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Theatre-Chris-Wood/dp/1399009117Watch my YouTube channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@Adam-uktruecrime/videosListen/Watch the True Crime Catch Uphttps://audioalways.lnk.to/TrueCrimeCatchUpFind Our More About Mehttps://uktruecrime.comJoin UK True Crime Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oli rates each players performances from 1-10 for our disappointing draw at home to Swansea City. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The boys are joined by Willy and Jimmy Gilheaney and talk about the Gilheaney family leaving Ireland and settling down in Swansea, Jimmy talks about training with Mario Macarinelli and Willy talks about becoming a 2 weight Welsh Champion. Jimmy talks about the evolution of Bare knuckle boxing from fields to currently being one of the worlds fastest growing sports, the origins of his YouTube channel, writing a book and his battles with depression. Willy talks about his huge weight loss before making a return to boxing after a 9 year lay off, having Gary Lockett as his new manager, his love for studying boxing and a future career as a trainer and his biggest fight yet on May 30th plus much more….@ambitioniscritcal1997 on Instagram @TheAiCPodcast on Twitter

Dieciséis minutos fue el tiempo que estuvo sin pulso el exfutbolista Andrea Orlandi tras sufrir un infarto jugando al tenis. Este episodio llevó a Ilie Oleart, fundador de La Media Inglesa, a iniciar un libro recorriendo la atípica y trepidante carrera de Andrea. Charlamos en el Hotel sobre el éxito y el fracaso, aciertos y errores, Ronaldinho y Piterman, hacerse pequeño en vestuarios grandes, deshacer nudos, mudanzas, restaurantes de dudosa reputación, viajes inolvidables, camisetas olvidables, talentos díscolos, jugadores en paradero desconocido y la importancia de un buen secador de pelo.Andrea Orlandi (Barcelona, 1984) jugó en el Alavés, el Barça, el Swansea, el Brighton, el Blackpool, además de pasar por Chipre, la India e Italia.El libro Dieciséis minutos (Panenka) está disponible en todas las librerías.

#542 Old Skool On Speed. Richard Porter joins us to discuss 3 cars that we've notice recently that are worth comment and a Jaguar that we can't talk about. Plus, Adrian Newey's “energy” and cars in space. New music: the On Speed remix of DVLA by ADO88.

In this lecture, we glimpse our best selves and compare that to a world where we lose everything of ourselves to AI. We are glorious creations that revel in agency, freedom and creativity. What do innovations such as cars that don't need us to drive and creative AIs that remove the effort of, say, writing or music making mean in this context? Further, with a future being forged by limited perspectives, how can human diversity inform better AI for all?  This lecture was recorded by Professor Matt Jones on the 17th of March 2026 at Barnard's Inna Hall, LondonMatt Jones is a computer scientist at Swansea University - and a Fellow of the British Computer Society - who works alongside colleagues from many other disciplines and directly with everyday folk across the world to explore the future of digital technologies. Over the last 30-plus years, this human-centred approach has led to novel approaches for, amongst other things,  mobile phone-based information searching and browsing, pedestrian navigation, voice assistants and deformable displays.  Much of his work has been driven by intense and sustained engagements with “low resource” communities from informal settlements in India, South Africa, and Kenya. Through their generous and gracious participation, these extra-ordinary users with the fresh and diverse perspectives have stimulated insights into the future of digital technologies for everyone, globally. In all this work, Matt works as part of a long-standing collaborative team with Jen Pearson, Simon Robinson and Thomas Reitmaier (from Swansea) and colleagues in India (including Dani Raju) and South Africa (including Minah Radebe). His work has been supported by the UK's science funders (EPSRC and UKRI). Currently, this funding includes a Fellowship to explore the future of interactive AI and leadership roles in responsible AI and inclusive digital technologies. This funding has led to a series of impactful publications, talks and influences on people, policies, and practices. Matt has collaborated with private, public and third sector organisations, including Microsoft, the NHS, Google, IIT-B, the BBC and IBM. He is a member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office's Research Advisory Group and Welsh Government's AI reviews.The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/ai-humanityGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/Website:  https://gresham.ac.ukTwitter:  https://twitter.com/greshamcollegeFacebook: https://facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: https://instagram.com/greshamcollegeSupport the show

Welcome to another episode of the Sky Blues Extra Podcast! Dean & Matt look back at perhaps a pivotal day in the race for promotion, as the Sky Blues take advantage of points dropped elsewhere to take a step closer to the Premier League. They discuss the win over Swansea, look at the key performances during the match and look ahead to a big easter weekend post the international break.This podcast is sponsored by the Sky Blue Tavern. Let's all sing together... Don't forget to follow us on all of our social channels, just search 'SkyBluesExtra'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sky Sports duo Simeon Gholam and David Prutton take a look ahead at Gameweek 39 of the Sky Bet Championship season.Running order… Preston vs Stoke, Ipswich vs Millwall, Blackburn vs Middlesbrough, Derby vs Birmingham, Swansea vs Coventry, Rest of the Saturday 3pmsEssential EFL is a Sky Sports podcast. Listen to every episode here: skysports.com/essential-eflYou can also listen to Essential EFL on your smart speaker by asking it to "play Essential EFL".For more EFL news, head to skysports.com/footballFor advertising opportunities email: skysportspodcasts@sky.uk

We've got two political interviews for you on Rosebud this week, and this is the first. In the week of his 93rd birthday, Gyles is talking to Lord Heseltine - one of the so-called "big Beasts" of the British political scene at the end of the twentieth century. Heseltine was a prominent cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, Deputy Prime Minister under John Major, and is now a member of the House of Lords. In fact, he's been a significant figure in British politics for half a century. Michael speaks to Gyles about his childhood, growing up in the Swansea in a loving family. He talks about his love of nature - of gardening, birdwatching, and about how he founded the "Tit Club" at school. He talks about his early entrepreneurial drive - selling lemonade to fellow pupils, charging his dad to clear his garden, and how this later developed into early adult success in business. This business acumen led Heseltine to become a politician of rare efficiency - known for his skill at cost-cutting and fixing big issues. He talks about his relationship with Thatcher, his experience regenerating the Docklands of East London and Liverpool, and how he met and married his wife, Anne. This episode was recorded live at the Concert Artistes' Association in London. Our thanks to them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Late at night on Thursday, 18th November 1943, an unconscious woman was found lying on her back in a lane in the Brynmill area of Swansea. Rather than seeking medical help, a police officer took her to a hotel to recuperate, but, within a matter of minutes, she had died. At first, the identity of the woman was a mystery, but the post-mortem determined her death had been the result of foul play. Key witnesses then came forward and told of the bizarre and harrowing events of that night. Sources for the episode can be found here Support the showFollow Persons Unknown: Instagram and FacebookEmail: personsunknownpod@gmail.comWebsite with Transcripts:https://personsunknown.buzzsprout.com/

Welcome to another episode of the Sky Blues Extra Podcast! Ross Cooper leads this one, alongside Ross Spence and Wardy to look back at the agonising defeat at the CBS at the hands of Southampton. The chaps discuss the big talking points from the game, the current state of the automatic promotion race as well as look ahead to a trip to Swansea on SaturdayThis podcast is sponsored by the Sky Blue Tavern. Let's all sing together... Don't forget to follow us on all of our social channels, just search 'SkyBluesExtra'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hugh and Freddie return to break down a frustrating week for Pompey. The lads discuss two points dropped late against Blackburn and a disappointing performance in the defeat to Swansea. Chris Holt from Rams Review Podcast (@ramsreview1) joins the show to give the lowdown on Derby ahead of Monday night's clash.

Ryan Dilks and Justin Peach preview the weekend's action in the Championship.A Welsh derby between Wrexham and Swansea!Can Middlesbrough bounce back from defeat in midweek?Will Millwall continue the top 2 hunt?Four wins on the bounce for Oxford?!It's the Second Tier.Sign up to our Patreon here for ad-free episodes, bonus content and access to the Discord for $4 a month.You can also join our brand new YouTube Membership here!Watch this episode on YouTube here!Follow us on X, Instagram and email us secondtierpod@gmail.com.**Please rate and review us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. It means a lot and makes it easy for other people to find us. Thank you!** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are Swansea City suddenly in the Championship play-off picture? A rare away win means the Swans are now just five points adrift of the final play-off place - currently occupied by Wrexham. And with the two sides set to meet at the Cae Ras on Friday night, there is suddenly some extra significance on the match. Wrexham's injury list continues to grow - with Kieffer Moore's hamstring injury a cause for concern for Wales with the World Cup play-offs just a fortnight away.Having been top of League One since 22 November, Cardiff City were dethroned by Lincoln City on Saturday and are now four points adrift of the new leaders after a midweek draw in Barnsley. A blip, or something more concerning?

Wales Under-19 coach Chris Gunter discusses his role developing the next generation, and the significance of hosting the Euro U19 finals in north Wales this summer. He shared his views on all the Welsh EFL clubs, with specific insight into the revival at Cardiff City, where he held a short-term coaching role alongside Aaron Ramsey at end of last season.Snoop Dogg's astonishing visit to Swansea obviously gets a mention, and so too does some goal Chris helped create for Sam at Euro 2016 (but they don't really like to talk about it).

Ryan Dilks and Justin Peach are back to discuss a bumper round of midweek fixtures in the Championship.Coventry City go five points clear at the top!No wins in three for Middeslbrough - time to panic? Impressive wins for Millwall and Southampton.The latest setback in the Sheffield Wednesday saga.And Snoop Dogg touches down in Swansea!It's the Second Tier.Sign up to our Patreon here for ad-free episodes, bonus content and access to the Discord for $4 a month.You can also join our brand new YouTube Membership here!Watch this episode on YouTube here!Follow us on X, Instagram and email us secondtierpod@gmail.com.**Please rate and review us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. It means a lot and makes it easy for other people to find us. Thank you!** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bodo/Glimt claimed another big Champions League scalp, beating Inter Milan 5-2 on aggregate to reach the last 16, with Newcastle also through after a 9-3 win over Qarabag. Julien Laurens and Dwight Gayle are with Kelly Cates for reaction to all the night's action. We're at St James' Park where John Muray and Chris Sutton watched Eddie Howe's side secure their passage to the knockout stage, and Norwegian Journalist Marius Guttormsen joins us from the San Siro on another famous night for Bodo.We ask what this means for Italian football as well with the very real possibility there will be no Italian team in the last 16 after Inter Milan's exit and with Juventus and Atalanta trailing going in the second legs of their respective ties. Plus, there's reaction to Middlesbrough missing the chance to go level on points with Coventry at the top of the Championship, and Snoop Dogg stealing the show at Swansea.TIMECODES: 00:40 – A famous night for Bodo/Glimt 08:38 – What does Inter's exit mean for Italian football? 16:09 – Newcastle wrap up their place in the last 16 23:12 – Eddie Howe reaction 24:40 – Can defending champions PSG progress? 27:40 – Championship reaction