This show will detail the biographies and interesting facts of the Papacy of Rome. It will start in the beginning, but will not go straight through. There will be many side tracks and detours along the way. We will investigate the backstreets of the Papacy where the tour normally doesn't go. Support this show
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History through Pope-Colored Glasses
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The BBC is the largest broadcasting organisation in the world. Its mission is to enrich people's lives with programmes that inform, educate and entertain. BBC World Service broadcasts to the world on radio, on TV and online, providing news and information in 32 languages.
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Join controversial scholar and author Michael Hoffman on a stimulating and edifying excursion into forbidden and suppressed history covering an extraordinary range of subjects and topics. Revisionist History® is a registered trademark of Independent History and Research, Box 849, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83816. All Rights Reserved.
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The latest podcast feed searching 'Church History' on SermonAudio.
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A Survey of Church History
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This American President delves into the lives and legacies of U.S. presidents through long form stories and interviews. It will challenge the way you look at American history. Hosted by Richard Lim and produced by Michael Neal. Art by NipRogers.com.
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Stephen Nolan's no nonsense approach to confronting the biggest issues of the day: an unmissable mixture of news, phone ins and entertainment. From BBC Radio Ulster
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Walter Russell Mead, a historian, pundit, and popular author, is encyclopedic about politics, culture, and history. On What Really Matters, Mead and Tablet deputy editor Jeremy Stern help you understand the news, decide what news matters and what doesn’t, and enjoy following the story of America and the world more than you do now. Check out Walter Russell Mead’s Tablet column at https://www.tabletmag.com/columns/via-meadia.
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My name is Darrick Taylor, and I am the founder and proprietor of Controversies in Church History, a podcast that takes an in depth look at difficult, even disturbing, issues in the history of the Catholic Church. My perspective is unique, in that I am a faithful Roman Catholic, yet trained as a secular historian. Designed for Catholics but accessible for anyone interested in history, it balances storytelling with an academic sensibility.
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Nightlife with Phil Clark and Suzanne Hill has everything you need to get you through the night, seven nights a week.
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The unvarnished, non-boring history of the popes of the Roman Catholic Church – told in a way to remind us that the world and the Church’s problems today have happened plenty of times before. For early access and extra bonus stuff, check out patreon.com/thepopecast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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For the Irish historian John Bagnell Bury, history should be treated as a science and not a mere branch of literature. Many contemporary histories written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century were poetic and heroic in tone, blending fact and fiction, myths and legends. They sometimes relied on sources from Shakespeare and classical poets. For Bury, the facts of history may be legendary or romantic in nature, but they should be recounted in a scholarly and non-judgmental manner, ...
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This is an educational podcast that explores two people's (Luke and Ezra's) capacity for ignorance. We draw a random subject out of a hat and then talk a little about that subject regardless of how much we know about it. Then, in the second half of the episode, we come back after having done a little research, see what we got right, what we got wrong, and anything else we've found that's interesting. [INDEFINITE HIATUS FOREVER]
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Bonus: Good Bad Billionaire: Minecraft’s maker
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49:13A bonus episode from Good Bad Billionaire - the award-winning podcast from the BBC World Service. You can find more episodes by searching for ‘Good Bad Billionaire’ wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Minecraft is the most successful computer game ever. It's sold 300 million copies, built an active community of fans and there's now even a Minecraft…
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World leaders and faithful mourners bid solemn farewell to Pope Francis
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5:56Pope Francis was laid to rest Saturday after a solemn Requiem Mass outside Saint Peter’s Basilica. On the same day, President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy met at the Vatican to discuss hopes for lasting peace. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports from Rome. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/…
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What to expect as the College of Cardinals prepares to elect a new pope
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4:45Saturday’s funeral and burial of Pope Francis mark the beginning of nine days of official mourning at the Vatican, with cardinals leading masses each day. The words of their homilies will be closely examined and analyzed for clues about what’s on their minds as they prepare to elect a new pope. John Yang speaks with John Allen, editor of Crux, for …
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News Wrap: Iranian port rocked by massive, deadly explosion
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3:05In our news wrap Saturday, there was a deadly explosion at a Persian Gulf port in southern Iran, India said Pakistani soldiers shot at Indian posts for a second straight night in the disputed Kashmir region, a federal judge wants the Trump administration to explain why a 2-year-old U.S. citizen was deported, and Virginia Giuffre, a key figure in th…
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How NIH staffing cuts may delay a promising cancer treatment’s implementation
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6:19Earlier in April, doctors at the National Institutes of Health made a promising step in the fight against cancer, announcing an immunotherapy treatment was able to shrink gastrointestinal tumors for about a quarter of patients. But NIH staffing shortages, layoffs and cuts are threatening to delay the rollout of this promising development. William B…
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Coral bleaching is affecting nearly all the world’s reefs, new NOAA report says
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3:22Coral reefs are a crucial part of the marine ecosystem, providing habitats for all sorts of marine life and protecting coastlines from storm damage. But scientists say rising ocean temperatures are posing a grave threat to the future of the world’s reefs. Ali Rogin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders…
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Pope Francis buried at his favourite church in Rome
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47:26Pope Francis has been laid to rest at his favourite church in Rome, Santa Maria Maggiore, after a funeral attended by hundreds of thousands of people. Many lined the streets to see his coffin being taken there from the Vatican on an adapted popemobile. He is the first pontiff in more than 120 years to be buried outside the Vatican. Also in the prog…
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From refugees he championed to world leaders he rebuked, a quarter of a million people gather in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis. Former Vatican spokeswoman under Francis, Paloma Garcia Ovejero, tells us he was a kind and tireless leader who changed the church forever. Also in our programme: Pakistan’s prime minister calls for a ‘neutral inves…
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The Fifth Floor: Tackling Nigeria's skin bleaching problem
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25:58According to the World Health Organisation, 77% of Nigerian women have used skin-lightening creams. When BBC Hausa’s Madina Maishanu decided to look into this, she uncovered an even more worrying trend: mothers using potentially harmful products on their babies. Madina spoke to the campaigners trying to stop these practices. Plus, how human activit…
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Nightlife's own Cannes Film Festival juror takes you through the history of the Palm D'Or
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40:54CJ Johnson's off to Cannes next month to serve as President of one of the juries for the main competition at the Cannes Film FestivalBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The genre of 'yacht rock' may be an invented one, but there are still strict rules about what's considered 'yacht' or 'nyacht'By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Nightlife Pop Quiz Saturday 26th April
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47:52Are you into your trivia? Calling all connoisseurs of cryptic to the ONLY quiz played live, all around Australia...Join the host of Weekend Nightlife Suzanne Hill for The Pop Quiz!By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Bed bugs may have once fed on dinosaurs, now they feed on us
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40:14A form of bed bugs have been around for around a hundred million years, and have been plaguing humans for at least five thousand of those.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The cost of just about everything we need to run a home will be more expensive for millions of households from Tuesday. Switching on the lights, turning on the heating, turning on the tap, calling your mum or your best friend, logging on to emails, will all cost more with rises usually well above the rate of inflation. We'll have tips on how to tac…
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BBC OS Conversations: Remembering the life of Pope Francis
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26:05Mark Lowen in Rome brings people together to share their memories of the Pope, who died on Easter Monday. In our conversations, Mark hears from Catholics in Argentina, including one of Pope Francis’ friends who knew him when he was a priest in Buenos Aires. We also bring together three people from Northern Ireland who had a private audience with th…
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Bonus facts to make up for the earlier error: when the 1378 conclave rolled around, it had been 74 years since a Papal conclave taken place in Rome. Many of the participating Cardinals hadn't been born yet, with the only reasonably confirmed exception being the aged Pierre Flandrin, who had been a toddler. Testament of the Holy Father Francis: http…
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A new survey by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research has revealed that consumer confidence in the United States has seen its largest drop since 1990. In Canada voters go to the polls on Monday, and a big issue will be the country’s future relationship with the US. Rahul Tandon discusses the growing economic divide in North Ame…
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Judge charged with obstructing immigration agents, escalating Trump’s fight with judiciary
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6:55The Trump administration escalated its battle with the judiciary and local authorities over the president's deportation agenda. FBI agents arrested Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan on charges of obstructing immigration agents as they attempted to arrest an undocumented migrant at a courthouse. White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López reports…
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News Wrap: U.S. envoy meets with Putin for talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine
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4:16In our news wrap Friday, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff sat down with Vladimir Putin for talks to end Russia's war in Ukraine, Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged gunfire across the border of Kashmir, Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to federal murder charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and George Santos was sentenced to se…
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Vatican readies for Francis’ funeral and potentially polarizing papal conclave
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6:45At the Vatican, a last chance for the faithful to view Pope Francis in his casket before his funeral on Saturday. More than a quarter-million people over three days of public viewing processed by Francis, resting in a simple wood coffin. Fifty-four Heads of state, including President Trump, will attend the service in St. Peter's Basilica. Special c…
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How U.S. business leaders are shifting plans amid tariffs and uncertainty
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7:25With tariffs in effect around the world, corporate leaders are raising concerns about the uncertainty already created. Many are now asking the White House to reconsider new tariffs that are set to come into play next month. The CEOs of Walmart and Target reportedly warned President Trump there could be empty shelves within weeks. Amna Nawaz discuss…
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‘Food is not political,’ WFP head says as U.S. cuts aid and Israel blocks help to Gaza
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7:39The World Food Programme says it has delivered the last of its food in Gaza and warned the kitchens it has been supporting would run out of food in days. Nick Schifrin spoke with Executive Director Cindy McCain who says a lack of funding has forced WFP to cut 30 percent of its staff as it faces unprecedented challenges in feeding the hungry in Hait…
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Brooks and Capehart on Trump’s reaction to public pressure
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9:32New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including the Trump administration walking back decisions on trade and student visas amid public pressure, the FBI arresting a judge in Wisconsin and dysfunction at the Pentagon. PBS News is supported by - ht…
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Political cartoonists on navigating a changing media landscape
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7:56"A picture is worth a thousand words." It's a well-worn phrase but there is special resonance when applied to editorial cartoons, a centuries-old tradition that is evolving as the media landscape itself does. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown takes a closer look for our series, Art in Action, exploring the intersection of art and democracy an…
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Putin and Trump envoy meeting 'constructive'
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46:27The Kremlin says high level talks between the United States and Russia have been constructive. Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and President Putin attended the three-hour meeting in Moscow. Also today: the UN's World Food Programme says it's run out of food stocks for families in Gaza; and is a male protuberance in an ancient tapestry …
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The News Quiz: Ep 1. Space, Steel and Strikes
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28:34Andy Zaltzman is joined by Zoe Lyons, Mark Steel, Athena Kugblenu and Hugo Rifkind to unpack bin workers strikes in Birmingham, pop stars popping to the stars, talks of tariffs, steeling oneself in Scunthorpe, and how Toby took his carvery one step too far. Written by Andy Zaltzman. With additional material by: Mike Shephard, Christina Riggs, Eve D…
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What are the economic implications of deep-sea mining?
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28:15Donald Trump has signed a controversial executive order aimed at stepping up deep-sea mining within the US and in international waters. The Thursday order is the latest issued by the US president to try to increase America's access to minerals used by the aerospace, green technology and healthcare sectors. Andrew Peach hears from Gerard Barron, Cha…
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Why did South Africa reverse a VAT increase?
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33:31South Africa's finance minister drops plan to increase value-added tax (VAT), in a major climbdown to prevent the collapse of the coalition government. 10,000 illegal settlers reportedly removed from Ghana's largest forest reserve. And why is Uganda’s treasured shea butter becoming harder to harvest ? Presenter: Charles Gitonga Producers: Frenny Jo…
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Kyiv mayor says Ukraine may need to 'give up territory' for truce
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47:30The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, has become the first leading Ukrainian politician to say the country might have to recognise Russian control of key regions of Ukraine, including Crimea, in exchange for a temporary truce with Russia. The comments come after Russian missiles and drones killed twelve people and injured hundreds in Kyiv. We speak …
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Pratical tips for reducing the microplastics in your life
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27:52Washing your rice and checking whether your teabag contains plastic are just two of the steps you can take to reduce your explosure to microplasticsBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Australia's contribution to the war poetry of World War One
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23:13Adelaide poet Leon Gellert's poem the Night Attack remembers a brutal assault on the ANZACs at GallipoliBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Waste Not Want Not: Is product stewardship the way forward for reducing Australia's waste?
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15:51From oil to mobile phones, there are plenty of products where the industry that makes them steps up to have a hand in recycling themBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Nightlife Mighty Challenge Friday 26th April
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46:00Are you into your trivia? Calling all connoisseurs of cryptic to the ONLY quiz played live, all around Australia...Join the host of Weekend Nightlife Suzanne Hill for The Mighty Challenge!By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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All swimming, all dancing: welcome to the Aqua Musical
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22:37Million Dollar Mermaid, celebrating the story of Australia's Annette Kellerman was a huge hit for film star Esther Williams in the 1950s, and the most popular aqua musical of its dayBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Fermanagh & Omagh Council first to say they will implement provisions of Supreme Court ruling on same sex spaces
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1:20:18John Campbell gets reaction from political representatives and the publicBy BBC
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Fermanagh & Omagh Council first to say they will implement provisions of Supreme Court ruling on same sex spaces
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1:20:18John Campbell gets reaction from political representatives and the publicBy BBC Radio Ulster
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The Cardinal-Electors (ft. Pontifacts)
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1:29:06Apologies for getting ahead of things, but this is something I have ready, which really helps it jump ahead in line. Plus I want you to know how to join in Adopt-A-Cardinal fun, starting on Saturday! Thanks to Bry and Fry from Pontifacts for joining me to talk about about 135+ cardinals all at once!By Gregg Gassman
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