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Marquis de Lafayette

Lantern Lessons - April 26, 2024 23:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
Let's discuss America's favorite fighting frenchman!

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Alan Cumming and Catherine Cohen: Peacock’s The Traitors

92NY Talks - April 26, 2024 16:39 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 211 ratings
In this episode of 92NY Talks, join Alan Cumming, the host of Peacock’s The Traitors - a nail-biting psychological adventure in the Scottish Highlands in which treachery and deceit are the name of the game - and Catherine Cohen as they discuss the killer reality series. Get the lowdown on the...

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Bakari Sellers | The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now

Free Library Podcast - April 26, 2024 11:59 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 106 ratings
In 2006, Bakari Sellers defeated a twenty-six-year incumbent State Representative to become the youngest member of the South Carolina state legislature and the youngest African American elected official in the nation. The state's 2014 Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, he currently heads...

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Ep.02 - The History Of Condoms

Casenotes - April 26, 2024 06:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this talk Dr Kate Stephenson explores the strange and fascinating history of condoms. You can also watch this talk on our website: https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/talks/history-condoms Twitter: twitter.com/RCPEHeritage Instagram: instagram.com/physiciansgallery/ Facebook: facebook.com/Physi...

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Rebel Wilson in Conversation with Rennae Stubbs: Rebel Rising — A Memoir

92NY Talks - April 19, 2024 14:47 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 211 ratings
In this episode of 92NY Talks, join actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer Rebel Wilson, known for her roles in Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids, and Isn’t It Romantic, for a discussion on her new memoir, Rebel Rising, with  fellow Aussie, tennis legend Rennae Stubbs. The book chronicles her ...

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David E. Sanger | New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

Free Library Podcast - April 19, 2024 09:36 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
In conversation with Robert E. Hamilton, Head of Eurasia Research - Eurasia Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture The White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times, David E. Sanger has been a member of three Pulitzer...

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R. Jisung Park | Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World

Free Library Podcast - April 18, 2024 07:50 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
In conversation with Patrick Behrer, Research Economist, Development Economics, World Bank How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun-from lower test scores to higher crime rates-and how we might tackle them today. In Slow Burn, R. Jisung Park draws upon v...

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Hebrews 12:12-17 "Strengthening Your Weak Knees" - James Crampton

Parish Presbyterian Church Podcasts - April 17, 2024 00:11 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Hebrews 12:12-17 12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. 14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord....

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Healing Our Divided Nation: Jamie Raskin, Steve Israel and David Jolly with Richard Salomon

92NY Talks - April 15, 2024 19:47 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 211 ratings
In this episode of 92NY Talks, join Congressman Jamie Raskin, former Congressmen Steve Israel and David Jolly, and moderator Richard Salomon for a discussion on how to overcome existential threats to our democracy. Hear this distinguished bipartisan group of lawmakers on the threats we face, the...

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Dennis Yi Tenen | Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write

Free Library Podcast - April 15, 2024 10:11 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
Dennis Yi Tenen is an associate professor of English at Columbia University, where he also serves as co-director of the Center for Comparative Media. Affiliated with Columbia's Data Science Institute, he is a former fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and worked as a Microsoft e...

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Tricia Rose | Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives-and How We Break Free

Free Library Podcast - April 12, 2024 12:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 106 ratings
In conversation with award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey Matisak Acclaimed for her study of the intersections of pop music, contemporary Black U.S. culture, and sex and gender, sociologist Tricia Rose is the author of Longing to Tell, The Hip Hop Wars, and, most notably, Black Noise...

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Ep.01 - An Untold History Of Tattooing

Casenotes - April 12, 2024 06:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this talk Dr Matt Lodder presents an overview of his new book ‘Painted People’, and argues that through the history of tattooing, we can glean unique insights into forgotten areas of human history. You can also watch this talk on our website: https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/talks/painted-peop...

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Lydia Millet | We Loved it All: A Memory of Life

Free Library Podcast - April 10, 2024 10:43 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
Praised for her ''darkly funny and painfully sharp'' (Los Angeles Times) fiction, Lydia Millet is the author of the novel A Children's Bible, shortlisted for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top 10 book of 2020; the story collection Love in Infant Monkeys, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; a...

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Julia Alvarez | The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel

Free Library Podcast - April 09, 2024 11:10 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
Barbara Gohn Day Memorial Lecture In conversation with Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, Professor of Latinx Studies, Temple University Awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama in 2013, poet, essayist, and fiction writer Julia Alvarez is renowned for her lyrical, poignant, politically insigh...

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Stacey Abrams | Rogue Justice: A Thriller

Free Library Podcast - April 08, 2024 08:38 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
In conversation with award-winning journalist and broadcaster, Tracey Matisak Introduced by State Rep. Donna Bullock Stacey Abrams is the Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics at Howard University. After serving eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives-seven a...

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Hebrews 12:3-11 "God’s Gift of Discipline" - Mike Fennema

Parish Presbyterian Church Podcasts - April 08, 2024 01:40 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Hebrews 12:3-11 3 Consider Him who endured from sinners such hostility against Himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as...

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Sloane Crosley | Grief is for People

Free Library Podcast - April 05, 2024 08:52 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
''A fountain of observations'' (The Boston Globe), Sloane Crosley is the author of three New York Times bestselling essay collections, How Did You Get This Number, Look Alive Out There, and I Was Told There'd Be Cake, which was a finalist for the 2009 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Exploring v...

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Casenotes - April 05, 2024 05:59 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
We're off on a new journey into the muddy marshes of medical history! Website: www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage Twitter: twitter.com/RCPEHeritage Instagram: instagram.com/physiciansgallery/ Facebook: facebook.com/PhysiciansGallery

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M. Nzadi Keita | Migration Letters: Poems

Free Library Podcast - April 04, 2024 09:24 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
In conversation with Herman Beavers M. Nzadi Keita is the author of the poetry collection Brief Evidence of Heaven, a finalist for the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Prize that explored the life of Anna Murray Douglass, Frederick Douglass' first wife. Her other poems and essays have appeared in such p...

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James Monroe

Lantern Lessons - April 01, 2024 13:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
You may not be as familiar with the name James Monroe as you are George Washington, but this man was dynamic. He was gifted physically, intellectually, and spiritually. He was a Secretary of State, Secretary of War, the Governor of Virginia, a U.S. Diplomat, and two term President of the United ...

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Fareed Zakaria | Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

Free Library Podcast - April 01, 2024 07:03 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture Fareed Zakaria is the host of CNN's flagship domestic and international affairs program Fareed Zakaria GPS, which has aired around the world since its debut in 2008. Also a weekly columnist for the Washington Post, he formerly served as editor of Newsweek In...

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Hebrews 12:1-2 "Looking to Jesus" - Jamie Crampton (Easter Sunday)

Parish Presbyterian Church Podcasts - March 31, 2024 20:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy tha...

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Hebrews 11:32-40 "Something Better" - Dr. George Grant (Good Friday)

Parish Presbyterian Church Podcasts - March 30, 2024 03:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Hebrews 11:32-40 32 And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets— 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, esca...

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Carol Burnett in Conversation with Joy Behar

92NY Talks - March 29, 2024 20:24 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 211 ratings
In this episode of 92NY Talks, we go back into our archives for a newly released recording from 1999 featuring comedians Carol Burnett and Joy Behar in our long-running Funny People series. They discuss Burnett's career, life in show business, and much more. The conversation was recorded on De...

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Ep.27 - Head To Toe - Feet

Casenotes - March 29, 2024 07:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
This is the last episode in our Head to Toe series finishing, of course, with the feet! We set off on the right foot, put our best feet forward and jump in with both feet. We explore why ancient Egyptians had two left feet, why witches had flat feet, why ancient Greeks had one foot longer than th...

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Hanif Abdurraqib | There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Free Library Podcast - March 28, 2024 11:35 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 106 ratings
In conversation with Airea Dee Matthews Hanif Abdurraqib is the author of A Little Devil in America, a sweeping look at Black music, art, and culture that won the Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burns Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His other works include the essay collecti...

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Rahul Mehta | Feeding the Ghosts: Poems

Free Library Podcast - March 27, 2024 10:21 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
Rahul Mehta's debut poetry collection, Feeding the Ghosts, explores the solace to be found in the everyday beauty sometimes overshadowed by larger calamity, as well as the author's identities, relationships, and culture. Also the author of the novel No Other World and the short story collection Q...

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Rebecca Serle | Expiration Dates: A Novel

Free Library Podcast - March 26, 2024 11:13 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
In conversation with Jo Piazza Acclaimed for her ''knack for writing beautiful stories that speak to the anxiety of forging a new road for oneself'' (Bustle), Rebecca Serle is the New York Times bestselling author of One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and the young adult novels...

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Jenny Jackson | Pineapple Street: A Novel

Free Library Podcast - March 25, 2024 11:08 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
In conversation with Lexy Bloom ''A delicious new Gilded Age family drama-almost a satire-set in the leafy enclaves of Brooklyn Heights'' (Vogue), Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street tells the story of three women navigating the shoals of forbidden love, gender expectations, family money, and too ...

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Hebrews 11:8-16 "Looking To The Reward" - Jamie Crampton (Palm Sunday)

Parish Presbyterian Church Podcasts - March 25, 2024 00:05 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Hebrews 11:8-16 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 25 choosing ra...