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In this episode, David Horlock shares insights on agricultural and manufacturing standards, ISO certifications, and their impact on global supply chains. The discussion dives into practical examples, such as environmental standards (ISO 14001) and occupational health standards (ISO 45000), and how they align with the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (UNSDG). David emphasizes the importance of managing processes over people, institutionalizing habits, and prioritizing critical issues to achieve business goals. This episode is a treasure trove of advice for C-suite leaders and boards on leveraging standards to build trust, achieve compliance, and drive continuous improvement. Episode Highlights: 01:05 Meet David Horlock: A Leader in Compliance 02:59 David's Global Journey and Career Highlights 09:38 The Importance of Standards in Business 16:42 Implementing Standards for Success David Horlock is a seasoned executive with 40 years of leadership in the Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) sector. He has overseen global operations, ensuring compliance and quality across Agri-Food, FMCG, and sustainability industries. Managing 14 country directorships across 50 countries, he specializes in carbon project development, ESG initiatives, and monetizing natural capital. With expertise in governance, strategy, and business scaling, he drives growth while fostering resilience. A dual UK-Australian citizen, born in Thailand and educated in Australia, David brings deep cultural and commercial insights to global leadership, building high-performing teams and sustainable enterprises in an evolving world. Connect with David: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-horlock-7947602/ For more insights: Book a call: https://bit.ly/4cToGDs Follow me on my YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/47GgMdn Sign up for my Weekly Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3T09kVcSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In This Weeks Cannabis News and Events we Cover the Following Stories | Monkey: Minnesota lawmaker argues against marijuana legalization because sniffer dogs would lose jobs | Macky: Surrey woman fined after neighbours complain about 'pungent' cannabis smell | Bubble: Australian Cannabis Nurses Association launches to educate, advocate for medicinal cannabis | TG: Canadians purchased $4 billion worth of cannabis in 2021-2022 | Marge: Few if any harms associated with moderate cannabis use and lung damage | Come and join in the discussion about any of these news articles on our cannabis growing forum, Discord server, or any of your favourite social networks. Visit our website for links.  Website: https://highonhomegrown.com Discord: https://discord.gg/sqYGkF4xyQ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/highonhomegrown Thank you for downloading and listening to our cannabis podcast! I hope you enjoy this episode. 

We invite UK-Australian key opinion leader and media commentator Jerry Grey for a discussion of China's rebound. We talk about China's feverish December hibernation and then rebound in consumerism. If you want the truth about life in China today, this episode will set the record straight. Who got COVID? Did Beijing turn into a ghost town? How did the biggest New Year's Eve in years kick off after three weeks of hibernation across the fastest growing major economy in the world? Join in the discussion on The Bridge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Of the big three, we're now two Upfronts in. Nine went first, back in mid-September, and yesterday it was the turn of Ten's owner, Paramount, which took over the ICC for the afternoon to tell us its plans for 2023.Returning from the pandemic live event hiatus, there have been new Upfronts themes. Both Nine and Ten opened with performances from indigenous Australians. Both leaned into the dry ice. Nine went for flames, while Ten had glitter cannons in the ceiling. Both gave almost as much prominence to their tech partnerships as they did the content slate. And both emphasised the scale of their wider companies.This is where they begin to diverge.In Nine's case, the scale comes from width - the multi-platform nature of the company, with TV, radio and publishing offerings. In the case of Paramount, the scale comes from depth - being the only free to air network that's part of a global media organisation. Being the people who brought you Top Gun is quite the halo.While Nine's theme last month was “Australia belong here”, Paramount's was “See tomorrow”.As you'll see from the top of this page, there's also audio embedded, and available as a podcast to accompany this post. Earlier this week, I interviewed Paramount's content boss Beverley McGarvey and commercial boss Jarrod Villani and we talked not just about 2023, but the company more widely.I realised that I had automatically labelled the file where I stored my interview notes “Paramount”, not “Ten”. Five years after Ten was bought out of administration by CBS (which quickly became Viacom-CBS and then Paramount), it now feels like a company that adds up to more than Ten-and-the-other-bits.Paramount owns not just the pay TV brands of MTV and Nickelodeon, but also the subscription streaming platform Paramount Plus and, as the company announced yesterday, the free ad supported TV channels offering of Pluto TV.The hot new acronym is FAST - free ad-supported streaming television. FAST will be as important to the next phase of the TV networks as the launch of BVOD (broadcast video on demand) was five or six years ago. It's the next TV battleground.Viewers consume FAST channels differently to video on demand. For anyone who's lost half an hour dithering over a menu of shows, FAST restores the curation of broadcast, and that means more video consumption.The point of FAST channels is that, like broadcast television, the choice is made for the viewer. It's lean back, not lean forward. Channel surfing is back too.I wrote about the likely arrival of Pluto TV late last year, so it's not a surprise to see it coming.As you'll hear in the podcast, Paramount is being cagey about how many Pluto channels will be offered initially as part of its free 10play streaming platform. When I pushed Villani on it a couple of times, all he'd share was “a number”. Although he wouldn't say so, I understand that number will be initially be between 10 and 20. In terms of timing, Villani said it would be this side of Christmas.My guess is that just as Ten All Access rebranded to Paramount Plus, in time 10play will fully rebrand to Pluto TV. Pluto is big business for Paramount globally, already writing a billion dollars in revenues.Nine announced at its Upfront that it will launch its own FAST channels, but had so little detail my guess is that it is some way off launch. For something so strategically important that feels like a miss.Meanwhile, Seven West Media - which holds its Upfront in just over a fortnight from now - was actually first mover in this market and already offers 50 FAST channels on Seven Plus in addition to its broadcast brands.Another point of difference for Ten was that unlike Nine, it revealed its programming grid for the year. Curiously, it broke 2023 into two uneven halves - the eight months up to August, and the final four from September onwards.In recent years Ten has started its main schedule early, while Nine and Seven are still airing their summer sports of tennis and cricket. But I'm A Celebrity will no longer kick off Ten's year, shifting back to Easter, with production returning to Africa rather than the rain forest of Murwillumbah.Instead, Ten will start the year with The Bachelors, as it remixes the format with three Bachelors instead of one. It will also be resting companion series The Bachelorette this year. The revised format had previously been announced, but footage from the show got one of the strongest reactions in the room yesterday. I could see myself enjoying hate watching these nitwits.Conversely, I suspect that the Paramount team would have been more disappointed with the in-room reaction to the announcement of a local version of the UK show Taskmaster. It is well cast with Tom Gleeson as the local Taskmaster, but it's one of those shows that unless you've seen it, it's hard to understand the appeal. Although it will run in the first half, it's not yet in local production, so there were no clips. Extracts from the UK version didn't do much to advance that understanding. The Ten promo department usually does a better job.That said, the chase format Hunted, which launched last year, was similarly hard to capture in a sizzle reel beforehand, but that didn't stop it from being one of Ten's successes of 2022.Other detail for the first half included a shorter series of Masterchef than usual, and a UK-Australian co-production of cop-out-of-water comedy drama North Shore.The other trailer which got a big reaction was Last King of the Cross, the Underbelly-style glorification of the less than savoury John Ibrahim. This will run in the second half of 2023.There are more new formats in H2.Ten will offer a spin-off from Masterchef, Dessert Masters. It will also air The Traitors, a murder mystery guessing game hosted by Rodger Corser. There was already footage in the can of this one which suggests Ten isn't exactly itching to rush it on air as soon as possible. The trailer felt more like a dinner party game than primetime.Bravely, Ten also announced a second season of The Real Love Boat. In an awful piece of timing, it made its debut on Wednesday night to poor ratings of just 215,000 metro viewers. Unless those improve dramatically over the next couple of weeks, there seems little prospect of that making the 2023 schedule despite what the grid said.Meanwhile, the announcements about technology were tactical rather than strategic.A shop-the-tweet integration between Ten and Twitter called The Checkout felt a few years late. remember companion apps?And a number of announcements around connected television advertising integration and measurement came across as necessary but not particularly exciting plumbing.The See Tomorrow theme was appropriate for a number of reasons. The major one is that we are yet to see the Paramount spending power unleashed on sport. The company only narrowly missed out on AFL rights last month. Imagine how different yesterday's event would have been if it had won.Instead Villani referred on stage a couple of times to the $12bn parent company's financial strength. You don‘t have to read too far between the lines to see that as a willingness to continue to chase big sports rights. As the network that made Big Bash a hit in the first place, Ten is a more natural home for short form cricket than Seven. And to a global company like Paramount, the Olympics must be of major interest too.Sport is the major missing piece for Paramount. In the last financial year, Ten's revenue share of the metro broadcast advertising market was less than 24%, while Nine and Seven did about 38% each. Ten can only grow that by growing its audience.See tomorrow? We will eventually.Tim Burrowestim @unmade.media This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unmade.media/subscribe

This podcast was produced on the unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation, and the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Always was. Always will be. Aboriginal Land.In this episode, we're unpacking intersectionality. What is it? Why is it important, and what does it mean to live an intersectional life?In London, freelancer, editor and novelist Sharmilla Beezmohun (Co-founder of independent literature organisation Speaking Volumes) unpacks the question with Sydney filmmaker Pearl Tan, a lecturer in directing at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, who is studying for a PhD looking at the intersectional experience of diversity workers in the screen industry. Later on in the show, UK based independent producer and curator Melanie Abrahams chats to poet and playwright Chérie Taylor Battiste on the lived experience of intersectionality.Guests (in order of appearance): Pearl Tan, Sharmilla Beezmohun, Chérie Taylor BattisteInterviewers: Lena Nahlous and Melanie AbrahamsHost: Lena NahlousProducer: Nadyat El GawleyMusic: GetawayCredits: Co- written by MC Trey (Australia) and Savuto (Fiji) / TAPASTRY © Recorded at Treehouse Productions, FijiVideo shot by Only Ideas Studio, Fiji.More information:Intersectionality: Ask the other questionHow intersectionality can help storytellersHow to be a good Indigenous allyNot quite right for usSpeaking Volumes - What Reflecting Realities means to you?This podcast is a collaboration with This Is Who We Are, a UK-Australian movement of intergenerational & intersectional women artists, producers and creatives of colour who are transforming sectors, thinking and spaces. Co-directors Melanie Abrahams (Director. Renaissance One), Paula Abood (Director of The Third Space), Lena Nahlous (Executive Director of Diversity Arts Australia and host of The Colour Cycle podcast), Nur Shkembi (Melbourne based curator, writer and scholar). Festival Curator Melanie Abrahams Project Manager: Sarah Dara. Producer Renaissance One.

This podcast was produced on the unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation, and the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Always was. Always will be. Aboriginal Land.In this episode, we're peering a little into our personal lives today with some quick vox pops from artists and creatives. Our question: What is something we learnt about later in life, that we wish somebody in our lives had told us about? It could have come from our mothers, fathers, extended family, or people we came across growing up.UK performance artist Aleasha Chaunte considers becoming a parent and what she learned from her mother and family; and Sharmilla Beezmohun talks about how she wishes she knew that the older we get, the less we know.Guests (in order of appearance): Aleasha Chaunte, Jennifer Lee Tsai, Dj Sarah Love, MC Trey, Maya Jupiter, Sharmilla Beezmohun, Pearl TanInterviewers: Lena Nahlous and Melanie AbrahamsHost: Lena NahlousProducer: Nadyat El GawleyMusic: GetawayCredits: Co- written by MC Trey (Australia) and Savuto (Fiji) / TAPASTRY © Recorded at Treehouse Productions, FijiVideo shot by Only Ideas Studio, Fiji.This podcast is a collaboration with This Is Who We Are, a UK-Australian movement of intergenerational & intersectional women artists, producers and creatives of colour who are transforming sectors, thinking and spaces. Co-directors Melanie Abrahams (Director. Renaissance One), Paula Abood (Director of The Third Space), Lena Nahlous (Executive Director of Diversity Arts Australia and host of The Colour Cycle podcast), Nur Shkembi (Melbourne based curator, writer and scholar). Festival Curator Melanie Abrahams Project Manager: Sarah Dara. Producer Renaissance One.

This podcast was produced on the unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation, and the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Always was. Always will be. Aboriginal Land.In this episode we're speaking to three award-winning women of the Hip Hop world across three continents. These pioneers discuss working across regions, why community is integral to Hip Hop, and what resilience means to them.In Australia is MC Trey, a pacesetter in the world of hip hop whose legacy spans 20 years of music about everyday life, love and her Pacific community. In London is one of the busiest award-nominated aficionados of hip hop, DJ Sarah Love who's also a broadcaster, TV presenter and journalist. In California is Maya Jupiter who was born in La Paz to a Mexican father and Turkish mother. She grew up in Australia where she fell in love with Hip Hop, later dropping three albums and hosting music shows on TV and radio.Guests (in order of appearance): MC Trey, DJ Sarah Love, Maya JupiterHost and Interviewer: Lena NahlousProducer: Nadyat El GawleyMusic: InshallahCreditsSongwriter: Maya JupiterVocals: Maya Jupiter, Mia Xitlali and Sandino González-Flores.Qanoon and Oud: Halim Al-khatibDrums: Evan Cristo,Bass: Juan “El Unico” Perez,Keyboard: Quincy McCraryGuitar: Quetzal Flores.Video Production: Abby VanMuijen of RogueMark Studios, Art by Eliza Reisfeld and Animation by Marisa RafterMore informationSupporting the arts can increase our resilienceThe Complex Intersection of Gender and Hip-HopLife and Hip Hop : women's role in the industryDJ Sarah Love Juice Crew interviewThis podcast is in collaboration with This Is Who We Are, a UK-Australian movement of intergenerational & intersectional women artists, producers and creatives of colour who are transforming sectors, thinking and spaces.

This podcast was produced on the unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation, and the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Always was. Always will be. Aboriginal Land.This episode brings together Professor Deborah Cheetham AO, First Nations Creative Chair of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and producer of Australia's first Indigenous opera, and Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE, founder of the first professional orchestra in Europe to be made up of a majority of Black, Asian and ethnically diverse musicians. These two trailblazing women talk about their decades-long careers, decolonising systems and breaking down doors in Australian and UK classical music.Both speak to Melanie Abrahams who is our partner on this project, creative director and curator with Renaissance One in the UK.Guests: Chi-chi Nwanoku OBEProfessor Deborah Cheetham, AOInterviewer: Melanie AbrahamsResearch and presentation: Lena Nahlous, Diversity Arts AustraliaHost: Lena NahlousProducer: Nadyat El GawleyMore information: Short Black OperaEnsemble DutalaChineke!Music: Threads of Existence, part three of a composition from Deborah Cheetham's Woven Song – Pukumani series.Credits:Music composer: Deborah Cheetham AOGuzheng: Mindy Meng Wang (guest musician)Flute: Lisa-Maree AmosOboe: Joshua De GraafClarinet: Justin BeereAudio recording courtesy ABC ClassicWoven Song - Pukumani on YouTubeFilmed on location at NGV AustraliaCinematography and Production: David WardMore background information:The Chineke! Effect – if you can see it, you can be itClassical Drive with Chi-chi Nwanoku Classical Drive with Deborah CheethamThis podcast is a collaboration with This Is Who We Are, a UK-Australian movement of intergenerational & intersectional women artists, producers and creatives of colour who are transforming sectors, thinking and spaces. Co-directors Melanie Abrahams (Director. Renaissance One), Paula Abood (Director of The Third Space), Lena Nahlous (Executive Director of Diversity Arts Australia and host of The Colour Cycle podcast), Nur Shkembi (Melbourne based curator, writer and scholar). Festival Curator Melanie Abrahams Project Manager: Sarah Dara. Producer Renaissance One.

Lauren St. James is a dual UK/Australian citizen who spent 2 weeks in one of Australia's quarantine camps, Howard Springs. She shares details of her time there. https://www.instagram.com/laurenstjames/?hl=en

T. Kyle and Bradley discuss Christina Aguilera's incoming Spanish album era, as well as the biggest news of the week: her customizable Happy Birthday messages for American Greetings (SAY!), plus the UK/Australian minute with Rachel Stevens on ‘Dancing on Ice,' Kylie Minogue's ‘Disco: Guest List Edition,' STEPS coming to ‘Drag Race UK,' and Holly Valance possibly-maybe coming to ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,' Madonna's ‘Madame X Tour' visual experience and late night shenanigans, High Fashion Editorial! featuring Adele for ‘Vogue' US and UK, breaking Facebook and Instagram, “Easy on Me,” '30,' TikTok Talk featuring Fergie's flip and Hilary's dance, new music from Little Mix's Jesy Nelson (choices), RuPaul, Aespa, Kelis and Kylie Minogue and Olly Alexander, Britney's thank you to #FreeBritney and “Brave New Girl” appreciation, and the Adelepocalypse causing the industry to panic. Hang on to your tits, girls - she is coming!We have merch! http://merch.legendsonlypodcast.com Listen to bonus episodes & join our Discord: http://patreon.com/legendsonly See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As we move through the Winter months and into the Spring of 1960 (July-September), we will again meet a range of artists and much diversity of style. The Allen Brothers, who weren't brothers at all, make their chart debut. More fruits from Johnny O'Keefe's US sojourn are plucked from the vine to produce another No.1 hit. We'll hear Barry Stanton's 2nd 45 release that may have inspired a future premier of QLD and a big instrumental hit from Rob E.G., inspired by a TV series that was a massively expensive UK/Australian co-production! And...Noeleen Batley's Barefoot Boy rounds out the episode!

In this week's episode Rob Parsons speaks to former Leeds city council leader Judith Blake, now known as Baroness Blake of Leeds after being elevated to the Lords this year. How's she been finding life in her new surroundings?And Westminster Correspondent Caitlin Doherty has been talking to International Trade Secretary Liz Truss about the UK-Australia trade deal and what it might mean for Yorkshire farmers.

UK Australian based singer-songwriter Poppy WS shares her busking experiences on the streets of cities like Melbourne and Manchester. Interview recorded on October 28, 2020 (Zoom recording) by Daniel Bacchieri. Music excerpts from the songs "Bella", "Drown", "Risky Business", "Someone Else". All songs written by Poppy WS. https://poppyws.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/poppyws https://www.instagram.com/poppyws/ https://www.facebook.com/poppyws https://open.spotify.com/artist/54TrVhukv6MXxisfFMVJXJ

Tony Mahar, National Farmers' Federation Chief Executive Officer, joins Michael following the deputy leader of the National Party saying it has reached a deal with the Prime Minister that would see more foreigners come to Australia to work on farms.       Federal Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management David Littleproud has hinted the deal could include a new agriculture visa following farmers lobbying to recruit more people to harvest crops… with the deal expected to be announced separately to the UK-Australian free trade agreement.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Damien speaks with Steven Thomson, agricultural economist and lecturer at Scotland’s Rural College to assess the impact on Irish beef farmers on the new UK Australian fair trade deal

This week on Countrywide ; women in farming, The covid impact on the food production sector, young farmers struggle to find land, the impact on Irish beef of the new UK /Australian free trade deal and the joy of planting potatoes.

On The Town sits down for an early chat with UK/Australian Comedian, Actor and Musician, Kym Nash on his multiple personality characters developed during pandemic, his Lockdown Comedy Podcast and what comics were doing in the UK during the lockdown to prepare for our coming out party...Out of lockdown..

In this episode of Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond, Annalee Atia speaks with Dr Rachel Reed about the history and her story of midwifery and its evolution to the modern day midwife, UK & Australian differences in practice and care both in Midwifery and maternity care and the call for midwives to reclaim their expertise and rights of protection. “Instead of locating all of the risks in the women and all our job is to identify how wrong her body is and to fix it, how about looking at what we’re doing and how that may or may not influence how her body functions and her experience of birth.”Dr Rachel Reed is a midwife, academic, author, and international speaker who focuses on childbirth physiology, midwifery practice, and women’s rights (and rites). She has provided midwifery care for many women and has attended births in a wide range of settings and circumstances. Rachel is the author of the award-winning blog MidwifeThinking and the co-host of The Midwives' Cauldron podcast. She has published widely in journals and magazines, and her first book Why Induction Matters is a popular resource for women and care providers. Her most recent book Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: weaving ancient wisdom with modern knowledge will be published early 2021. Her blog MidwifeThinking has been accessed by over 5 million readers from every country in the world. It currently has over 10,000 subscribers and around 1000 visitors per day; and is archived by Pandora (National Library of Australia and Partners). Posts have been translated into a number of languages including French, Russian, German and Spanish; and a number of posts have been published in magazines.In 2019 MidwifeThinking was awarded the International Maternity Expo – Practice Innovation Award for an ‘outstanding contribution to maternity and midwifery services’.Access MidwifeThinking here: https://midwifethinking.comFurther information about Rachel and her work is available at www.rachel-reed.websiteWe'd love to hear from you, if you have any questions about this interview or our work at PBB Media, shoot us a line at hello@pbbmedia.org.Produced, edited and presented by Annalee AtiaThe Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond show is part of a wider nonprofit community media and journalism project, PBB Media.All rights reserved. www.pbbmedia.orgPregnancy, Birth and Beyond comes to you from Bundjalung Country at Cavanbah or Byron Bay and we acknowledge with respect and reverence the Arakwal people of the Bunjulung nation, neighbouring clans and people for caring for this country since time immemorial.

"Send in the clowns"In a matter of minutes, the Squiz Today podcast will get you across the news headlines. Published each weekday at 6.00am, this short daily news podcast is designed to fit into your morning routine – perfect for the commute, the gym or over a morning coffee.Australian Mushrooms recipes and tips (sponsored): https://australianmushrooms.com.au/Love The Squiz? Why not become a Squizhead: https://www.thesquiz.com.au/squizheads/Sign up to The Squiz Today email: www.thesquiz.com.auContact us: hello@thesquiz.com.au

   Born in Ely (1944) dragged up in Littleport with two sisters. Difficult times as a child. A defining moment aged 9, I looked around and thought "there must be something better." A major daydreamer at school, I wanted adventure and found it in Scouting to become a Queens Scout. Later apprenticed as a design draughtsman, after 2 years of being qualified I decided it was not for me, could not earn enough and no great stimulation. Hobbies, fishing, rally driving, rock climbing and mountaineering. Went into sales with a US Multinational Co., life got much better, salary, commission and a car. Realised it was a numbers game and saw more customers than anyone else, became the top salesman in the UK and Europe. Was noticed and climbed through the ranks, asked to assist other group companies into profit through increased income. Lived in Switzerland, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, worked in 20 countries. Became Managing Director of PNG and NZ Co's, retired at 54, (the first time). Later became a business consultant and then a Director of a Telecommunications company in Sydney, later owned and ran a restaurant. Married to my sweetheart Elisabeth 46 years, we met in Amsterdam. Started writing training and instruction manuals while formally employed. In Australia I wrote magazine articles and a regular news paper piece about fishing, was also a regular on local radio. Loved the Outback. As an exercise to learn Microsoft Word I wrote verses about growing up in The Fens of East Anglia immediately after WW2, I was persuaded to send them to a publisher, "Raising Fen Tigers" was the result. This success, the storeys of people I met motivated me to write "I Will Find You." (See magazine article already provided). I currently live in Folkestone, have dual UK/Australian citizenship and intend to return to Aus. to live permanently. Book Publishing Store: I Will Find YouYouTube: Author John TaylorAmazon Book: I will Find YouIf you have a story to share then please head over to our website at Talk about it Friday

Australian and Canadian English don’t sound much alike, but they have one big similarity: they’re both national varieties that tend to get overshadowed by their more famous siblings. In this episode of Lingthusiasm, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch use Lynne Murphy’s new book The Prodigal Tongue as a guide to the sometimes prickly relationship between the globally dominant British and American varieties of English, give a mini history of English in our own countries, and discuss our national quests to find space between and around US and UK nationlects. On the way, we ask the big, country-dividing questions like, is soup more likely to be brothy or puréed? Does “please” make a request ruder or more polite? What’s a prototypical bacon? Where on your face is a frown? This month’s bonus episode on Patreon is about what you should know if you’re considering linguistics grad school: whether to apply, tips on applying and choosing a school, and some of the differences between the North American and UK/Australian systems. We also announced that our Patron goal bonus art will by done by Lucy, who is not only a great artist but also an English language teacher with a Masters in Applied Linguistics. Go to patreon.com/lingthusiasm to listen to the bonus episodes and see behind-the-scenes updates about the art. To see this episode's shownotes, go to https://lingthusiasm.com/post/173999864106/lingthusiasm-episode-20-speaking-canadian-and

UK-Australian defence collaboration has always been strong, supported by a shared history, alliance, commonality of objectives and a deep understanding of purpose. Opportunities to capitalise on increased Australian government defence spending is attracting international interest from companies seeking to enter our domestic supply chain. The UK government and UK businesses are particularly active in this regards, leveraging the connectivity between our two nations to win defence work. Join Defence Connect host Phil Tarrant as he speaks with a range leading UK SMEs British Forces Broadcasting Service, Copper Alloys, Analogue Military Systems, Westley Group and Atlas Electronik that are exploring business opportunities in Australia. http://www.defenceconnect.com.au

UK-Australian defence collaboration has always been strong, supported by a shared history, alliance, commonality of objectives and a deep understanding of purpose. Opportunities to capitalise on increased Australian government defence spending is attracting international interest from companies seeking to enter our domestic supply chain. The UK government and UK businesses are particularly active in this regards, leveraging the connectivity between our two nations to win defence work. Join Defence Connect host Phil Tarrant as he speaks with a range leading UK SMEs including Marine Data & IMI Critical Engineering, that are exploring business opportunities in Australia. http://www.defenceconnect.com.au

UK-Australian defence collaboration has always been strong, supported by a shared history, alliance, commonality of objectives and a deep understanding of purpose. Opportunities to capitalise on increased Australian government defence spending is attracting international interest from companies seeking to enter our domestic supply chain. The UK government and UK businesses are particularly active in this regards, leveraging the connectivity between our two nations to win defence work. Join Defence Connect host Phil Tarrant as he speaks with head of the Defence and Security Organisation within UK Trade & Investment Stephen Phipson CBE, who gives insight into UK trade expansion strategy, and how his department is promoting UK interests abroad. http://www.defenceconnect.com.au

Star Trek Into Darkness. The wait is finally over, and for some international fans it ended sooner than expected. In this episode of Trek News & Views, Colin is joined by Shervin Sabeghi, Kate Walsh, and Steve Roberts to discuss the latest J.J. Abrams film. The get-together took place just two days after the UK/Australian openings. We talk about the film, our thoughts on the plot, performances, and effects, how much of a “Trek” movie it was, and what we thought about the concept of the story. WARNING: This is, of course, very spoiler heavy so please make sure you’ve seen the movie before listening.