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Saturday, March 19, 2005
North Sea mammoths at Schiphol
In Ice Age Britain on Radio 4, Howard Stableford met a mad Dutch customs officer who has 17,000 mammoth bones in his 3-story house near Schipol airport. They were dredged up by fishermen in the North Sea, which was a vast savannah 50,000 years ago during the last ice age. He even has a piece of mammoth skin from Siberia, which has preserved their smell!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/iceagebritain.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/iceagebritain.shtml
Niall Ferguson on the US dollar
Gerladine Dougue has one of the lovliest voices on radio, and she now has her own programme, Saturday Breakfast, on the ABC. Here she is talking to Prof. Niall Ferguson of Harvard Business School about the collapsing US dollar, with some interesting historical comparisons.
Friday, March 18, 2005
Is execution modern day lynching?
Here's Laurie Taylor listening to an American Prof. Kendall Thomas put forward his theory that Americans enjoy the execution of black men.
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
The Two Ronnies are back!
Here's a sample from the new Two Ronnies show broadcast on Ned Sherrin's 'Loose Ends' on BBC Radio 4 this week.
Monday, March 14, 2005
Vaclav Havel & the Velvet Revolution
I always assumed that the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia was so-named for its peacefulness. But in fact, Vaclav Havel was a great fan of Lou Reid's Velvet Underground. It was the trial of the band "The Plastic People of the Universe" that inspired him to form his party, Charter 77. This is from a fascinating series by the ABC, called Torn Curtain, about the Cold War.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/history/hindsight/features/torn/
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/history/hindsight/features/torn/
