ITV Tour de France 2011 podcast

As every year in the summer I follow the Tour de France and go look for podcasts about this legendary sporting event. Unfortunately the supply has been steadily going down over the past years and now, in 2011 I am down to one: ITV's Tour de France podcast (feed)

Too bad there is only this one, as this years Tour is off to a promising start. In case you had expected Alberto Contador to reign as a true patron, that may still happen, but so far has has begun a minute and a half down. The predicted number two, Andy Schleck doesn't seem so strong thus far and the one old favorite I thought had left the scene, Cadel Evans, emerged as a force to reckon with. And then what about Bradley Wiggins or Robert Gesink. No, this could be a very exciting and eventful tour as it has already been in six stages so far.

Take a listen to ITV's issue about stage 5 and you will even find an unexpected dissenting opinion on the issue of rider Nicky Sorensen who was hit by a motor cycle, thrown off his bike and left deprived of his equipment as it remained stuck to the motor cycle. Every commentator unequivocally bashed the motor rider's carelessness, but ITV brought some words to his defense.

A Podcast Playlist for 7 July 2011

Thinking Allowed
Comedy and Work
Comedy is often seen as a social leveller. But new research by Sam Friedman suggests comedic taste is linked to cultural snobbery. Also, Melissa Gregg's new book explores the the blurring of boundaries between work and home.
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New Books in Public Policy
Yuval Levin (editor), “National Affairs”
Public policy ideas make their way into the conversation in a variety of ways. Typically, New Books in Public Policy looks at how books influence the debate, but in this episode we talk to the founding editor of National Affairs magazine, Yuval Levin. Levin has a wealth of experience to draw on, having previously served as Executive Director of the President’s Council on Bioethics under President Bush and as an Associate Director on the White House Domestic Policy Council. Levin is also the Hertog Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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ITV Tour de France Podcast
TDF Stage 5 2011
On the day when the Manx Missile finally launched, others crashed & burned. The boys sift through the wreckage of an action-packed stage.
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In Our Time
The Minoans
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient civilisation of the Minoans. The Minoans flourished for around two thousand years, long before Ancient Greek civilisation had begun. The most famous Minoan site is the Palace of Knossos on Crete which was famously excavated by Arthur Evans in 1900 and controversially reconstructed by him. But what do we really know about the Minoans and why did they eventually disappear? Melvyn is joined by John Bennet, Professor of Aegean Archaeology at Sheffield University; Ellen Adams, Lecturer in Classical Art & Archaeology at King’s College London; and Yannis Hamilakis, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
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OVT podcast
Gouden Jaren 2: Herman Brood’s muziekcursus
Maandag 11 juli 2011 is het tien jaar geleden dat popartiest en beeldend kunstenaar Herman Brood overleed. Hij maakte een einde aan zijn leven door van het dak van het Amsterdamse Hilton-hotel te springen.
In deze tweede aflevering van de nieuwe OVT zomerserie De Gouden Jaren (fragmenten uit het archief van de VPRO radio) een compilatie van zijn cursus “hoe maak je een hit”, afkomstig uit het culturele programma De Suite van 6, 13 en 20 april 1979. In drie achtereenvolgende uitzendingen van De Suite legt Herman Brood uit hoe je een hit maakt.
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Putney Debates - BTHP and Yale

The Putney Debates turned up in the history course about Early Modern England (Yale) I am about to finish. (feed) Previously and more extensively, they were discussed on the Binge Thinking History Podcast. (feed)

During the 17th century when the English both beheaded their king, as well as reinstated and also replaced him, the Putney Debates were a sign of the times how they were looking for a befitting constitutional order, with both a monarch and with an influential parliament. Both podcasts give great insight in this subject.

(A quick posting in order to keep up with the ideas I have and the little time available to post)

A Podcast Playlist for 6 July 2011

Reith Lectures 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi: Dissent
Aung San Suu Kyi examines what drives people to become dissidents in the second of her 2011 Reith Lectures, entitled Dissent. The Burmese pro-democracy Leader reflects on the history of her own party, the National League for Democracy and explores the meaning of opposition and dissidence. She also explains her reasons for following the path of non-violence.
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SALT - Seminars About Long Term Thinking
Peter Kareiva
Conservation in the Real World - As chief scientist of one of the most highly respected conservation organizations, The Nature Conservancy, Peter Kareiva is surprisingly radical. "Look," he says, "we're in nature. The deal is how to work with it and how to help it work for us. The better we are at ensuring that people get nature's benefits, the better we'll be at doing conservation." Through his insistence on "evidence-based conservation," he finds most ecosystems far less fragile than people think and none that can be protected as pristine, because pristine doesn't exist any more. His focus is on working the human/nature interface for maximum benefit to both.
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The Economist
Thailand's elections
Who wins Thailand's election matters less than how the loser copes with defeat
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Oxford Biographies
Diana, princess of Wales
The late Diana, Princess of Wales was born Lady Diana Frances Spencer on 1 July 1961 in Norfolk. Lady Diana Spencer married The Prince of Wales at St Paul's Cathedral in London on 29 July 1981. She died on Sunday, 31 August 1997 following a car crash in Paris.
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The Memory Palace
episode 38
(a stretch)
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Anne is a Man on Podcast

Here is a quick post to draw your attention to the latest edition of the SFF audio podcast on which Jesse and Scott discuss several kinds of audio, mostly SciFi and Fantasy narrative, but on this show, I appeared as a guest and we discussed podcasts - The SFFaudio Podcast #115 – Scott and Jesse talk to Anne Frid de Vries of the Anne Is A Man blog for a talk about podcasts and podcasting..(feed)

One of the subjects that come up is how listeners of podcasts these days use Huffduffer and their on-line file storage to assemble their own feeds. I find it t he next step in modern media where the consumer more and more is a producer.

Also, I recommend a story that is podcast thru Librivox: a novel by Rose Macaulay Mystery at Geneva, which is a very witty and elegant description of the coming together of politics, lobbyists and journalists. (feed)

A Podcast Playlist for 5 July 2011

Analysis
Scotland
Defying the downturn, Scotland seems to have free public services the rest of the UK is denied. Anne McElvoy assesses SNP plans to defy austerity Britain and assert independence.
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London School of Economics: Public lectures and events
Moving Social Security Online (Conference)
Speaker(s): Sir Michael Bichard, Matt Briggs, Guy Ker, Simon Boniwell | LSE Public Policy Group, LSE Moving Social Security Online Conference, Wednesday 29 June 2011. In the present fiscal climate, governments must cut the costs of delivering services at the same time as maintaining quality. They must also cope with the demands of increasing numbers of the unemployed and the aging. A key imperative therefore is to move the bulk of social security processes and transactions online. Introduction: Designing Social Security, Sir Michael Bichard, Design Council. Session 1: Moving social security online: the current UK view, Matt Briggs (Programme Manager, Tell Us Once, Department for Work and Pensions), Guy Ker (Publishing Director, Directgov), Simon Boniwell (Strategy Unit, Department for Work and Pensions). Session 2: Government services online: other policy areas, Nick Chapman (Chief Executive, NHS Direct), David Dinsdale (ex Director of Businesslink), Patrick Dunleavy (Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, LSE). Session 3: Designing technology changes to social security, Harry Metcalfe (The Dextrous Web), Ivo Gormley (Thinkpublic) – Case study on transforming public services. Session 4: Information and citizen focused innovation, William Heath (Chairman, Mydex), Teresa Perchaud (Director of Policy, Citizens Advice Bureaux), Kevin McLean (UK Online Centres). Session 5: Designing online social security for the future, Mark O’Neill (Head of Skunkworks and CIO, CLG and DCMS), Jerry Fishenden (Advisor, PASC IT inquiry and ex Head of Technology, Microsoft).
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Documentary on One - RTÉ Documentaries
DocArchive: Vietnam Wall
The Vietnam War was fought from 1955 to 1975 with a death toll exceeding 2 million soldiers and civilians. This is an essay in music and voice on the American experience of that war - centred around the War Memorial Wall in Washington DC (Broadcast 1988)
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Het Marathoninterview
Wim Kok
Onder leiding van Wim Kok schudde de socialistische Partij van de Arbeid haar ideologische veren af. De socialisten zijn de schok nog altijd niet te boven.
Wat vertelde Wim Kok op vrijdag 3 januari 2003 over zijn doen, denken en laten aan A.J. Heerma van Voss?
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