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Sam Clements is curating a fictional film festival. He'll accept almost anything, but the movie must not be longer than 90 minutes. This is the 90 Minutes Or Less Film Fest podcast. In episode 134 Sam is joined by Seth Gordon, director of The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, Horrible Bosses, and Baywatch.   His new movie Back In Action is available to stream on Netflix now.  Seth has chosen Office Space (89 mins), Mike Judge's cult classic comedy from 1999. The film stars   Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, and Diedrich Bader. Sam and Seth discuss making The King of Kong, including the Thames Barrier in his new film, and what makes Office Space such an enduring iconic movie. Thank you for downloading. We'll be back in a couple of weeks! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/90minfilm If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. We're an independent podcast and every recommendation helps - thank you!  You can also show your support for the podcast by leaving us a top at our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/90minfilmfest Website: 90minfilmfest.com Blue Sky:  @90minfilmfest.bsky.social Instagram: @90MinFilmFest Tweet: @90MinFilmFest  We are a proud member of the Stripped Media Network. Hosted and produced by Sam Clements. Edited and produced by Louise Owen. Guest star Seth Gordon. Additional editing and sound mixing by @lukemakestweets. Music by Martin Austwick. Artwork by Sam Gilbey. 

This month's episode is dedicated to celebrating 40 years since Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Thames Barrier in London, the engineering marvel that protects London from disastrous flooding. We speak to two engineers who worked on its construction, which commenced nearly half a century ago. Rory O'Grady was a section engineer for Costain on the project between 1975 and 1980 and has just published a book called We Gave A Dam: The Epic Race To Build The Thames Barrier, which recollects the people, struggles and ingenuity that contributed to the creation of the landmark infrastructure. We also have future ICE president Richard Bayfield who spent six months in the very early part of his career on the barrier as an assistant planning engineer for Costain. Together they discuss the Thames Barrier's creation, its legacy and what its future looks like. Prior to that, host Rob Hakimian and NCE reporter Thomas Johnson briefly discuss the announcement of a General Election in the UK and what that means for the country's major infrastructure projects and policies.

I met Jan Davies at the beginning of April at the Cornwall Running Show. I was recording 2-3 minute snippets with show visitors. When I asked Jan about her plans she said she was running at the end of April the Thames Ring.How far is that I casually asked. 250 miles Jan casually replied! With 100 hours (that's 4 days and 4 hours) to complete it in. Even regular guest and huge distance runner Jim Spencer hasn't, as far as I know, tackled a 250 miler.In this episode Jan will tell us how it went and how after taking a wrong turn in the night which added 5 miles she made a decision she later regretted to withdraw. But she's planning to have another go in 2024 and as a 'warm up' Jan is tackling in September the Thames Barrier event. A mere 184 miles.In both events you can only receive outside help at a checkpoint / aid station. You can't use poles but you are allowed to buy food in shops - providing you buy it and not someone else. Sleeping tents are provided at certain points. This is episode 122 of the Running 44@60 podcast. You can access and download the previous 121 episodes via your usual podcast app or on the Running 44@60 podcast page. Host Trevor Lee ran his own first ultra in 2021 - the 44 mile Classic Quarter - hence 44@60.  Trevor has written a book about his buildup and adventure – it is both a business and running book and is available on Amazon via this link: 12 Business Lessons from Running an Ultra Marathon. Each sales generates £5 for Childrens Hospice South West. Trevor's big running goal currently is the Arc of Attrition 50 in January 2024. He's doing his first 24 hour race on July 8th  Hope 24, the Black Rat in August and the Endurance Life Suffolk 32 miler in October followed by the Bys Vyken lighthouse marathon at the end of October. He's planning to spend June doing more recce 's of the Arc 50 course. If you would like to come on this podcast and share your running experiences, tips, advice, plans, as well as specialist knowledge that will help runners then email Trevor via: podcast@trevorleemedia.co.uk The Running 44@60 podcast began as a learning / motivational tool for host Trevor Lee in his quest to run a first ever ultra - the Classic Quarter in 2021 - here's the story of Running 44@60 It now has over 100 episodes and is aimed at those thinking about and committing to their first ever ultra.Trevor wrote a book : 12 Business Lessons from Running an Ultra Marathon - all proceeds go to the Children's Hospice South West

In this conversation, we explore the theme for 2023 edition of the London Festival of Architecture (LFA)- 'In Common', in the context of two projects, which combine art, science, and history to think about how we create sustainable futures and equitable societies. The projects form part of Sea Change – a season of creative projects in Thames Barrier, Royal Docks (11th – 29th May). For the first conversation we're joined by Mala Yamey, Kate Liggins and Eleanor Wright to explore Flotilla, a film exploring the relationship of women to the docks, with a connected oral history project led by UCL MA Public History students. For the second conversation we're joined by Dana Olărescu and Dr Julia Tomei to explore Power In, an installation exploring energy and equity in the Royal Docks. - Mala Yamey works as Assistant Associate Curator with Invisible Dust. - Kate Liggins is an MA Public History student at UCL, with special interest in women's history, and using the medium of audio to encourage public engagement with history. - Eleanor Wright is a Public History MA student at UCL interested in oral history and radio documentary. - Dana Olărescu is a socially engaged artist commissioned by Invisible Dust to create the Power In art installation - Dr Julia Tomei is a social researcher and Associate Professor at the Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources, focusing on the human dimensions and governance of energy, natural resources, and land use in Low and Middle-Income Countries. Julia collaborated with Dana on the Power In art installation. To find out more about LFA, the 2023 theme -'In Common', or to explore the LFA2023 programme, head to lfa.london/LFA2023 To find out more about Sea Change, head to royaldocks.london/whats-on/sea-change This episode was produced and edited by Eliza Grosvenor. You can find a transcript of the conversation using the link below: Download the transcript   Image:  Melanie Manchot, Flotilla, 2023, Video still, © the artist, courtesy Parafin, London and Galerie m, Bochum Image description: Images of women and boats on Royal Victoria Dock.

Our episode today is about future flooding scenarios due to sea level rise. This year, we remember the 1953 North Sea flood on the night of 31 January/1 February 1953 that devastated Scotland, England, Belgium, and especially the Netherlands. In the UK, the east coast was particularly affected – especially Lincolnshire, Essex, Norfolk, and the mouth of the Thames area. The flood was caused by a storm combined with spring tides and severe gale force winds from the north.In the UK, 1600 km of coastline was badly affected destroying mile upon mile of sea walls and dikes and inundating 160,000 acres of land with seawater, rendering it unusable for a number of years for agricultural purposes. Livestock and domesticated animals were killed in the thousands and washed out to sea. Over 24,000 homes in the UK were seriously damaged. 40,000 people in the UK were left homeless and many people's livelihoods were ruined. Most shockingly over 300 people died in England – with about 50 deaths in Belgium, about 30 deaths in Scotland and nearly 2,000 deaths in the Netherlands in the area around Rotterdam.The flood caused a fundamental rethinking of coastal defenses including the commissioning of the Thames Barrier, and the introduction of weather prediction and storm surge warning systems – in modern parlance a “transformation”. Storms still threaten these coasts and the 5-6 December 2013 storm surge was in physical terms a more severe event than 1953. However, it was well forecast and with much better defences, damage was much smaller although significant problems still occurred, such as flooding at the port of Immingham. Importantly, no-one died. However, climate change and especially sea-level rise, is increasing the risk of flooding in the UK. The UK Climate Change Committee warned in 2021 that the most recent climate change risk assessment revealed 1.9 million people in England currently face a risk of greater flooding of any kind. Today's guests are Prof. Robert Nicholls and Prof. Ivan Haigh who will talk more about flood risks in the face of climate change. Professor Robert Nicholls is the Director of the Tyndall Centre and is a world-leading scientist and engineer who has studied coastal problems and solutions for 30 years, focusing on how increases in sea level caused by climate change result in coastal erosion and flooding, and how communities can adapt to these changes. He has studied the implications of sea-level rise in the UK and in many of the most sensitive regions of the world.(Royalty Free Music by Benjamin Tissot)

The Met Office takes a weekly look at the science behind the UK and global weather headlines. In this week's edition, as the Thames Barrier is lowered for the 200th time, we hear about the barrier's design and the conditions that bring it into operation. We also hear about plans to extend atmospheric weather models further out to space, we have the UK weather outlook for the next few days and last week's weather observation records Presenter: Alex Deakin Editor: Adrian Holloway The Met Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. Our website carries the latest UK and global weather forecasts, detailed information on weather types, climate science and UK weather records for previous months, seasons and years. www.metoffice.gov.uk

This episode of The Checkpoint podcast is sponsored by The North Face®️. In episode 20 we talk to ultrarunner, activist and BTR community member, Martin Johnson. The 38-year-old Londoner recently set the FKT (fastest known time) on the Thames Path National Trail from the Thames Barrier to the source, completing the 184-mile distance in 38 hours, 35 minutes. We talk about how Martin got into running and, ultimately, ultrarunning, diversity in the sport and we take a deep dive into his FKT journey and what kept him going through the dark times. Martin is a Patagonia Europe team member and recently took part in Patagonia's Running Up For Air challenge to raise funds for 18 European NGOs fighting for clean air. For more information on that head to: https://eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/stories/a-clean-run-in-the-city/story-100944.html https://www.patagonia-rufa.com/ Martin is also sponsored by Altra and is part of the Centurion Running Ultra Team. Follow Martin on Instagram @insearchofmj

New episode! We watched 2009’s Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey, Jr. as the famous detective. We discuss the Guy Richie-ness of the film, weigh the balance between Hollywood blockbuster and Holmes adaptation, decide if the anachronisms are acceptable due to the bohemian-steampunkiness of it all, ponder the science vs. supernatural elements, and love that Holmes and Watson are basically an old married couple. Katy trash talks Murdoch Mysteries (with love), Carrie gives Tower Bridge a TripAdvisor review, Maddy has problems with Watson’s blood pressure assessments, and Mack wants to recast Irene Adler with Fran Drescher. We also discuss Holmes’ fanny pack (or bum bag if you’re British), decide whether the Kellogg company can appoint you as a Lord, wonder if we own enough robes and cloaks to constitute a cult, reminisce about working in a small town movie theater, and contemplate how scared we are of being known. This episode also includes a lecture on mudlarking, bad Porky Pig impressions, cocaine facts, and more! Give it a listen! (Also we promise no more Holmes for a while.) TW: serial murder of women briefly mentioned, hanging, alcohol and drug abuse, animal cruelty CORRECTIONS: --The rules for mudlarking on the Thames river have changed since Katy did it. Don’t try without getting a permit and researching first. Per the Port of London Authority, “Anyone searching the tidal Thames foreshore from Teddington to the Thames Barrier - in any way for any reason - must hold a current foreshore permit from the Port of London Authority. This includes all searching, metal detecting, ‘beachcombing’, scraping and digging.” It’s £85 per year or you can buy a single day permit for £40 that must be used within one month of purchase. See here for more details. --We know Fran Drescher is not from New Jersey. It was a joke. --Ok fine. Remote controls and radio waves were technically around in the 1890s. Per Wikipedia the first time something was wirelessly controlled from a distance was in 1894, and the first time radio waves were demonstrated was in 1895. But they were BRAND NEW and really only used by INVENTORS and not EVERYONE. --OK again. The US Secret Service was created in 1865. Wiki --Alphonse Bertillon didn’t use ear shapes exclusively regardless of what Katy said. He basically created the standardized mug shot, and applied the system of anthropometry as a way to track and ID criminals. It was more about skull measurements, proportions, and photos. Here’s his Wiki page. --The trench coat design was popularized for soldiers in WWI (literally a “trench” coat) but two different clothing manufacturers claim the initial invention, and one of them says it goes back to the 1850s. Here’s the Wiki. We couldn’t clarify whether leather would have been used in the 1890s but probably not; they were mostly for soldiers in the beginning and used things like gabardine.

Royal Docks: Thames Barrier and KGV Flood Gate We hear from Sam Nicholson and Laura Littleton, from the Environmental Agency, […]

Royal Docks: Thames Barrier and KGV Flood Gate In this episode, we hear from Sam Nicholson and Laura Littleton, from the […]

What is the Thames Barrier based on? Why is vaccination called vaccination? Why is quarantine called quarantine? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Sooz Kempner find out in today's Date Fight! To support the podcast, go to www.patreon.com/datefight

With the sea level rising and storms strengthening thanks to climate change, will much of the world's most valuable real estate find itself underwater? Justin Rowlatt visits London's main line of defence against the sea - the Thames Barrier - a hugely expensive piece of engineering that will need to be replaced by an even larger barrier later this century, according to its operator Steve East, and coastal risk manager Cantor Mocke. The oceans will eventually rise by two metres at the very least, says climatologist Ben Strauss of US think tank Climate Central, putting many of the world's great cities at severe risk of inundation. The giant global real estate investment firm Heitman has been looking at which properties in its portfolio are most at risk. Company strategist Brian Klinksiek tells of his fear that the market has yet to price in the cost of the giant storms of the future. The biggest city in the world vulnerable to the rising waters is Shanghai in China, and flood risk researcher Qian Ke of the Delft University of Technology explains the work she is already doing with the Shanghai city authorities to prepare for the coming storm. Producer: Laurence Knight (Picture: People are taken ashore in a boat after being rescued from their homes in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005; Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Content note: mention of suicide   Joining Charles Adrian downriver of the Thames Barrier for the 87th Second-Hand Book Factory is writer and illustrator Donna Butlin. They reminisce about Donna’s project Storytape, dark comedy done really well, the familiarity of fables and how talking about death can make you think about life.   Website: pageonepodcast.com

David Fathers, author of The London Thames Path, joins N Quentin Woolf for a real time walk along the river from the Thames Barrier to Greenwich. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Listen to the end for an excellent description of what the Thames barrier is and why it was built.

Concluding my recordings from the Thames barrier in London, this one captures the movement of the gates into underspill mode, including an informative commentary on the structure. Thanks to all at the Environment Agency for making the day so interesting. #River #Thames #London #Barrier #Annual #Closure #Information

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Sue Nelson goes to the Thames Barrier to find out how engineers use science to decide whether or not to raise or lower it, helping to stop storm surges from flooding London; while Richard Hollingham meets a scientist who developed a technique that reveals the colour of truly ancient fossilised birds.

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Sue Nelson goes to the Thames Barrier to find out how engineers use science to decide whether or not to raise or lower it, helping to stop storm surges from flooding London; while Richard Hollingham meets a scientist who developed a technique that reveals the colour of truly ancient fossilised birds. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Sue Nelson goes to the Thames Barrier to find out how engineers use science to decide whether or not to raise or lower it, helping to stop storm surges from flooding London; while Richard Hollingham meets a scientist who developed a technique that reveals the colour of truly ancient fossilised birds. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

A train journey to forget

Transcript -- The history of flooding in the region and the threat of future surges that overwhelm our current defences.

The history of flooding in the region and the threat of future surges that overwhelm our current defences.

Transcript -- The history of flooding in the region and the threat of future surges that overwhelm our current defences.

The history of flooding in the region and the threat of future surges that overwhelm our current defences.