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John Batchelor Show.

The John Batchelor Show is a hard news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. Based in New York City for two decades, the show has travelled widely to report, from the Middle East to the South Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula and East Asia.

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Monday · 17 min
ISRAEL - -Israeli Elections Amid Turmoil - MALCOLM HOENLEIN 110226
1942 MASADA Israeli Elections Amid Turmoil Malcolm Hoenlein analyzes Israel’s complex election process following the completion of the government’s four-year term. President Herzog interviews party representatives to assign leadership, with General...
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Monday · 12 min
LONDINIUM - Democracy Illusion Power Dynamics - GAIUS & GERMANICUS DEBATE
79 AD AT HERCULANEUM Democracy Illusion Power Dynamics The analysis contrasts Athenian democracy, with its limited citizenry, ostracism, and exile, and the Roman Republic’s distinct social orders against modern usage, arguing that elites now wield...
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Monday · 17 min
LONDINIUM - Military Strategy Cold History - GAIUS Z GERMANICUS DEBATE
DEAD ALARIC Military Strategy Cold History The discussion examines the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, arguing that Russia’s methodical attrition and drone strikes, slowed by mud-season weather, belie the stalemate narrative, and that NATO...
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Monday · 28 min
LONDINIUM - Elite Betrayal Imperial Decline - GAIUS & GERMANICUS DEBATE.
1890 TOURISTS Elite Betrayal Imperial Decline The conversation draws parallels between the Cambridge Five spy ring, shielded by Britain’s elite “chapocracy,” and a modern American elite that the speakers argue places universalist progressive ideology...
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Monday · 39 min
USA - Saving Champion Tree Genetics - JIM-ROBBINS-MAN-WHO-PLANTED-TREES
Saving Champion Tree Genetics Jim Robbins, author of The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet, explores David Milarch’s mission to clone America’s largest champion trees, particularly ancient...
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Monday · 37 min
EGYPT - eopatra Reign Roman Conquest — Part TwR - TOBY-WILKINSON-THE-LAST-DYNASTY
eopatra Reign Roman Conquest — Part TwR Toby Wilkinson, author of The Last DynastyR Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra, details the internal feuds, incestuous marriages, and political ascension of powerful Ptolemaic queens like...
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Monday · 37 min
EGYPT - Ptolemaic Empire Cultural Synthesis — Part One - TOBY-WILKINSON-THE-LAST-DYNASTY
Ptolemaic Empire Cultural Synthesis — Part One Toby Wilkinson, author of The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra, charts the establishment of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, beginning with Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt...
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Monday · 39 min
EARTH-MOON SYSTEM - Extinction Events Deep History — Part Two - THOMAS-HALLIDAY-OTHERWORLDS
Extinction Events Deep History — Part Two Thomas Halliday, author of Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds, journeys further back into geological history, examining Jurassic glass sponge reefs, Carboniferous coal swamps, and the...
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Monday · 39 min
EARTH-MOON SYSTEM - Prehistoric Ecosystems Deep Time — Part One - THOMAS-HALLIDAY-OTHERWORLDS
Prehistoric Ecosystems Deep Time — Part One Thomas Halliday, author of Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds, details ancient landscapes from the Pleistocene mammoth steppe of Beringia to the Eocene temperate rainforests of Antarctica....
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Monday · 37 min
CHRISTIANITY - St. Augustine Early Life — Part One - CATHERINE-CONYBEARE-SUGUSTINE-THE-AFRICAN
St. Augustine Early Life — Part One Professor Catherine Conybeare, author of Augustine the African, explores the early life and intellectual journey of St. Augustine in fourth-century North Africa. Raised in Tagaste, Augustine studied rhetoric in...
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November 1 · 6 min
AUSTRALIA - Australian Cricket Test Slump - JEREMY ZAKIS IN NSW
Australian Cricket Test Slump Jeremy Zakis reports that the Australian cricket team is suffering an unprecedented performance slump during its Test series against South Africa. Officials are weighing strategy overhauls and roster changes while...
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November 1 · 7 min
AUSTRALIA - Venomous Snake Territorial Battles - JEREMY ZAKIS IN NSW
Venomous Snake Territorial Battles Jeremy Zakis explains how volatile El Niño conditions have sparked a population boom among Australian wildlife. He details intense territorial conflicts between venomous red-bellied black snakes and eastern brown...
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November 1 · 7 min
AUSTRALIA - El Niño Spring Chaos - JEREMY ZAKIS IN NSW
El Niño Spring Chaos Jeremy Zakis reports that unusual El Niño weather patterns are driving a tumultuous Australian springtime marked by severe atmospheric conditions. He describes a rare inland tornado in New South Wales, stark climate divides across...
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November 1 · 37 min
AENEID - Hannibal and the Punic Wars — Part Two - EVE-MACDOLAD-CARTHAGE
Hannibal and the Punic Wars — Part Two Professor Eve MacDonald, author of Carthage: A New History, describes how Hannibal Barca launched an ambitious campaign against Rome, leading thousands of soldiers and war elephants across the Alps. Despite...
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November 1 · 37 min
AENEID - Founding Ancient Carthaginian Empire — Part One - EVE-MACDONALD-CARTHAGE
1907 CARTHAGE Founding Ancient Carthaginian Empire — Part One Professor Eve MacDonald, author of Carthage: A New History, explores the early origins and naval empire of ancient Carthage. Founded by Phoenician colonists in North Africa, Carthage grew...
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November 1 · 39 min
COSMOLOGY - Cosmic Theories and Experiments — Part Two - GOVERT-SCHILLING-THE-ELEPHANT-IN-THE-.UNIVERS
1960 Cosmic Theories and Experiments — Part Two Govert Schilling, author of The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter, explains how scientists continue evaluating alternative gravitational theories like MOND while...
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November 1 · 39 min
COSMOLOGY - Search for Dark Matter — Part One - GOUVERT-SCHILLING-THE-ELEPHANT-IN-THE-UNIVERSE
1959 Search for Dark Matter — Part One Govert Schilling, author of The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter, traces a century of astronomers’ evidence for unseen mass in the cosmos, beginning with Jacobus Kapteyn and Jan...
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November 1 · 37 min
AI - Sam Altman Artificial Intelligence - KEACH-HAGEY-THE-OPTIMIST
1957 Sam Altman Artificial Intelligence Journalist Keach Hagey, author of The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future, chronicles Sam Altman’s trajectory from his St. Louis upbringing and Stanford tech ventures to leading Y...
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November 1 · 37 min
EGYPT - Proxy Wars in Canaan — Part Two - ERIC-CLINE-P0VE-WAR-DIPLOMACT
1909 Proxy Wars in Canaan — Part Two Professor Eric H. Cline, author of Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed, explores proxy conflicts between Egypt and the Hittite Empire across Canaan...
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October 31 · 37 min
EGYPT - Discovering Amarna Letters Archive — Part One - ERIC-CLINE-LOVE-WAR-DIPLOMACY-
1909 CAIRO Discovering Amarna Letters Archive — Part One Professor Eric H. Cline, author of Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed, recounts how ancient cuneiform clay tablets surfaced at...
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