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Otro Mundo - Episode 35: The Battle of Bermuda
Brothers Pimm - October 28, 2020 12:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe battle is joined! As boarders leap onto the Virgin Snow seemingly from the sea itself, the Caliban and the Ariel are both closing in... as is William Warmgore and his fleet of pirates, hell-bent on taking the drops of demon's blood Sam Axe and Thomas Edge have collected. With a chance for re...
Otro Mundo - Chapter 34: Return to the Sommers Isles
Brothers Pimm - October 21, 2020 15:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe thrilling conclusion of season two is here! As the crews reconvene in Bermuda, Mary struggles to keep the flickering flame of her escape attempt lit in the face of Captain Goodrich himself—and a ship full of his loyal sailors. As Barks struggles to learn more about the spirits, Tarquin rushe...
Otro Mundo - Chapter 33: From Hell's Heart
Brothers Pimm - October 14, 2020 11:50 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsNow that Tortuga is in better condition--and the rum is well on its way--Captain Crowe and Sorrowful Barks let their eyes turn northward to Bermuda as they wonder what has become of their crewmates. Thomas Edge and Tarquin Cartier learn something more of their host, Sam Axe... and Mary Tucker, d...
Otro Mundo - Episode 32: Going Home
Brothers Pimm - October 07, 2020 12:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe Caliban has finally returned to Tortuga after a long and successful expedition, and both Captain Crowe and Sorrowful Barks are eager to make the most of their newfound allies and supplies. The Virgin Snow makes its way to Bermuda to learn what became of Mary--while Mary herself begins to hat...
Episode 11 - Sir Thomas Fairfax.
CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words - October 01, 2020 23:00 - 43 minutesSend us a Text Message. This podcast looks at anything and everything to do with the War of the three Kingdoms. In this episode I speak to 3 expert guests about the overshadowed Sir Thomas Fairfax, General of Parliament's New Model Army. Professor Andrew Hopper, Colonel Nick Lipscombe and MJ ...
Sir Thomas Fairfax - Episode 11.
CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words - October 01, 2020 23:00 - 43 minutesThis podcast looks at anything and everything to do with the War of the three Kingdoms. In this episode I speak to 3 expert guests about the overshadowed Sir Thomas Fairfax, General of Parliament's New Model Army. Professor Andrew Hopper, Colonel Nick Lipscombe and MJ Logue discuss who he isn'...
Otro Mundo - Episode 31: Bound Inside A Bubble
Brothers Pimm - September 30, 2020 13:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsWhile the rest of her crew begin planning their journeys home, Mary Tucker sits in the brig with her hated brother Snapper--both close to the breaking point. But on both the Caliban and Sam Axe's Virgin Snow, the call of supernatural mystery beckons. Both Thomas and Sorrowful want to dive deeper...
8. The window of opportunity closes - Monteverdi and his constellation
Monteverdi and his constellation - September 25, 2020 04:00 - 59 minutesMonteverdi’s swan-song, L’incoronazione di Poppea (1643),is a high-water mark of the new genre of public opera, Shakespearean in its contrasts of high and low-life characters, political chicanery and outrageous theatricality. It coincides with the death of the last two in this constellation of g...
Otro Mundo - Chapter 30: Midnight of the Soul
Brothers Pimm - September 23, 2020 11:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsLong-lost but not forgotten, our tale returns to the island of Bermuda to learn what became of Mary that fateful day that the Tucker's house burned and Captain Goodrich took her captive. Thomas Edge and Tarquin contend with their new Puritan enemies and wily new ally Sam Axe, while the crew of t...
7. Celebrating the self - Monteverdi and his constellation
Monteverdi and his constellation - September 18, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutesThe focus here is on the growing awareness of the physical, mental and psychological attributes of the individual, and the development of a new philosophy which leads ultimately to Descartes’ formulation: cogito ergo sum. A growing awareness of the physical, mental and psychological attributes o...
Civil War Atlas - New Publication. Episode 10.
CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words - September 17, 2020 23:00 - 37 minutesThis podcast looks at anything and everything to do with the War of the three Kingdoms. In this episode I speak to Colonel Nick Lipscombe, whose new book (published by Osprey) has just been released. An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms maps the various sieges and bat...
Episode 10 - Civil War Atlas - New Publication.
CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words - September 17, 2020 23:00 - 37 minutesSend us a Text Message. This podcast looks at anything and everything to do with the War of the three Kingdoms. In this episode I speak to Colonel Nick Lipscombe, whose new book (published by Osprey) has just been released. An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms maps t...
Otro Mundo - Episode 29: Delivered from Evil
Brothers Pimm - September 16, 2020 11:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe scattered crew of the Caliban are facing two terrible tests a thousand miles apart. In what remains of Merrymount outside Boston, Thomas and Tarquin lie hunkered in the ruins of the exile Morton's house with the puritan militia waiting for them to surrender or be surrounded--with none other ...
6. “More beautiful than the truth” - Monteverdi and his constellation
Monteverdi and his constellation - September 11, 2020 04:00 - 46 minutesVisual art – and especially the work of Caravaggio and Rubens (in different but complementary ways) now aimed to intensify sensory experience and drama. What Monteverdi called the “natural path to imitation” was a radical bid to represent, magnify and even ‘improve’ upon nature through song and ...
Otro Mundo - Chapter 28: On Rivals and When They Strike
Brothers Pimm - September 09, 2020 11:28 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsAs the crew reach the farthest point of their journey they've crossed seas and won valuable allies to their cause--but they're injured and near the end of their ropes with the chaos of their voyages. Will Tarquin and Edge manage to help Sam Axe and Tarquin find Morton's hidden treasure, or will ...
5. The anatomy of melancholy - Monteverdi and his constellation
Monteverdi and his constellation - September 04, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutesThe young star chosen and coached by Monteverdi to sing the title role in his second opera, Arianna, died of smallpox just days before the scheduled première in 1608. Her replacement, an experienced singing actress, held strong views on the character of the abandoned heroine, Ariadne. This podca...
Otro Mundo - Chapter 27: On Exiles Returning
Brothers Pimm - September 02, 2020 11:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsCaptain Crowe and Barks have saved the Taino captives--and several Englishmen besides--and discuss with Waccam how to return them to their nation. Off the coast of New England, Thomas Edge meets an old associate and man of letters exiled from Boston Colony after his trading settlement was forcef...
4. How music catches up - Monteverdi and his constellation
Monteverdi and his constellation - August 28, 2020 04:00 - 49 minutesMusic can help us to grasp the true modernity of this enormous shift in human consciousness. Monteverdi’s first opera, L’Orfeo (1607), is almost a manifesto for the power of music now elevated to a level of virtuoso craftsmanship and universal human emotion far beyond anything previously attaine...
Otro Mundo - Chapter 26: The Tangled Web
Brothers Pimm - August 26, 2020 10:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe crew of the Caliban continues their quest to assemble English outlaws against the treasure fleet without their Mary Tucker at their sides. In Barbados, Sorrowful Bark's distraction for Crowe's effort to free the Taino captives gets off to a bad start, but turns around when he mentions the Be...
Royal Armouries Interview - Episode 009.
CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words - August 22, 2020 22:00 - 40 minutesThis podcast looks at anything and everything to do with the War of the three Kingdoms. In this episode I speak to Keith Dowen, deputy-curator of the Royal Armouries, about the Littlecote Collection (the most important surviving civil war armoury) and the individual civil war artefacts in the ...
Episode 9 - Royal Armouries Interview.
CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words - August 22, 2020 22:00 - 40 minutesSend us a Text Message. This podcast looks at anything and everything to do with the War of the three Kingdoms. In this episode I speak to Keith Dowen, deputy-curator of the Royal Armouries, about the Littlecote Collection (the most important surviving civil war armoury) and the individual ci...
3. The new art of science - Monteverdi and his constellation
Monteverdi and his constellation - August 21, 2020 04:00 - 47 minutesBacon’s formulation of the inductive method - the study of the empirical fact of antecedents and consequences - gave voice to the scientific advances being made by Galileo and Kepler in the face of widespread incredulity, opposition and persecution. The mind of Europe was now poised for a new ve...
Otro Mundo - Chapter 25: On Captives and Escapes
Brothers Pimm - August 19, 2020 07:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsIn Barbados, Captain Crowe and Sorrowful Barks have won a famous victory over the beast that haunted the warring English settlements there, but their crew is shaken and uncertain after the monstrous encounter. Meanwhile, an ocean away in Bermuda, Thomas Edge has prepared an escape for Tarquin as...
Family Men: The King & Cromwell - Episode 008.
CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words - August 17, 2020 00:00 - 52 minutesThis podcast looks at anything and everything to do with the War of the three Kingdoms. In this episode I'll be joined by two very special 17th century authors; Dr Linda Porter (author of Royal Renegades) and Miranda Malins (author of The Puritan Princess). We'll be at home with Charles and Ol...
Episode 8 - Family Men: The King & Cromwell.
CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words - August 17, 2020 00:00 - 52 minutesSend us a Text Message. This podcast looks at anything and everything to do with the War of the three Kingdoms. In this episode I'll be joined by two very special 17th century authors; Dr Linda Porter (author of Royal Renegades) and Miranda Malins (author of The Puritan Princess). We'll be at...
Family Men: The King & Cromwell
CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words - August 17, 2020 00:00 - 52 minutesThis podcast looks at anything and everything to do with the War of the three Kingdoms. In this episode I'll be joined by two very special 17th century authors; Dr Linda Porter (author of Royal Renegades) and Miranda Malins (author of The Puritan Princess). We'll be at home with Charles and Ol...
2. The “Intertrafficke of the minde” - Monteverdi and his constellation
Monteverdi and his constellation - August 14, 2020 04:00 - 49 minutesA meeting of far-flung minds and a vigorous exchange of ideas occurred more frequently in these years than at any time hitherto. The paths of Galileo, Rubens, and Monteverdi crossed at the Gonzaga court in Mantua in March 1604. What might they have talked about and what can we learn about the in...
Otro Mundo - Chapter 24: A Beast in its Lair
Brothers Pimm - August 12, 2020 11:11 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsThe crew's missions have hit snags--the hated Snapper Bennett, Mary's putrid brother, plans to slander Mary's late husband to keep hold of her salt interest forever. Captain Crowe used the distraction Sorrowful Barks provided to broker a peace on Nevis, but their new hosts on Barbados have quest...
Clubmen - Neutrals of the Civil War - Episode 007.
CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words - August 10, 2020 20:00 - 22 minutesThis podcast looks at anything and everything to do with the War of the three Kingdoms. Clubmen. A third force. Neutrals. They are an overlooked party in a war when the main choice was given as King or Parliament. Yet many thousands did not make that choice and formed 'clubmen' associations ag...
Episode 7 - Clubmen - Neutrals of the Civil War.
CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words - August 10, 2020 20:00 - 22 minutesSend us a Text Message. This podcast looks at anything and everything to do with the War of the three Kingdoms. Clubmen. A third force. Neutrals. They are an overlooked party in a war when the main choice was given as King or Parliament. Yet many thousands did not make that choice and formed ...
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