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The Splendid Table has always connected people through the common language of food and eating. Now with award-winning food journalist Francis Lam at the helm, we’re bringing forward even more fresh voices and surprising conversations at the intersection of food, people and culture – covering everything from the global appeal of sesame to the impact of Instagram on everyday eating. It’s a food show where everyone is welcome. Produced by American Public Media. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network
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Making Cents

Frances Cook

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The podcast for people who want financial freedom, without giving up their coffee. That means it's time to make the money world make cents. Join Frances Cook, best-selling author and award-winning journalist, to talk about the proven ways to invest your way to financial independence, buy your first home, or just get your spending under control. Every Monday we have the week's feature interview, with someone who's done something interesting with their money. From paying off a mountain of debt ...
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The simple sophisticate is someone who prefers quality over quantity, sensible living over mindless consumption, personal style instead of trendy fashions, has an insatiable curiosity for life’s endless questions and a desire to live a truly fulfilling life rather than being led around by the nose. Inspired by her lifestyle blog The Simply Luxurious Life, Shannon Ables (the original Simple Sophisticate) shares with listeners tips on how to live a refined life on an everyday income, a life of ...
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SciDance

Jasmine Cook

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An evidence based, research informed podcast presenting dance science discussions with global industry leaders. New episode every Monday at 6AM GMT.
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Go To Health with Frances Cook

New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB

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A summer podcast series from the New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB. Go to Health looks at a different health issue each week, from pregnancy to medical marijuana, with the help of an expert. Hosted by Frances Cook. New episode every Tuesday.
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Historian Dan Snow investigates the 'how' and 'why' of history's defining moments. From the Colosseum of Ancient Rome and the battlefields of Waterloo to the tomb of Tutankhamun, Dan journeys across the globe to share the greatest stories from the past that help us understand the present. New episodes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. You can get in touch with us at [email protected] A podcast by History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts The An ...
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History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

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For history lovers who listen to podcasts, History Unplugged is the most comprehensive show of its kind. It's the only show that dedicates episodes to both interviewing experts and answering questions from its audience. First, it features a call-in show where you can ask our resident historian (Scott Rank, PhD) absolutely anything (What was it like to be a Turkish sultan with four wives and twelve concubines? If you were sent back in time, how would you kill Hitler?). Second, it features lon ...
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vBrownBag

vBrownBag

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BrownBags are a series of online webinars held using GotoMeeting and covering various datacenter & datacenter Certification topics. These BrownBags are held live at various dates and times around the globe and each covers a different bit of datacenter related specialization.
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Discover the heartwarming, inspiring, and sometimes heartbreaking stories behind the walls of Cook Children's. Join us as we delve into the lives of patients, families, staff, and physicians who are making a difference in the lives of children. From tales of resilience and hope to the unwavering dedication of healthcare professionals, Untold offers a glimpse into the extraordinary work happening at Cook Children's. Listen to hear stories of: Patient journeys: Discover the challenges, triumph ...
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The Cycling Podcast

The Cycling Podcast

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The Cycling Podcast takes listeners to the heart of professional cycling with weekly episodes and daily coverage of the Grand Tours. Join journalists Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie – and a few special guests along the way – as they podcast about the latest cycling news and the world of professional cycling. Founded by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie in 2013, The Cycling Podcast is one of the longest-running independent sports podcasts. To support The Cycling Podcast, subscrib ...
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San Francisco Used Cooking Oil Solutions

San Francisco Used Cooking Oil Solutions

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We are proud to be a home town used cooking oil recycling company serving the entire San Francisco Bay area. After years of working in the restaurant industry we saw a legitimate need for a reliable and dependable used cooking oil collection company. Many used cooking oil generators complained about how many of the large corporate service providers operated. We here at San Francisco Used Cooking Oil Solutions started hearing about the negative experiences other companies were providing to th ...
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We want to explore and dive deep into the world of Mysteries, Conspiracies, Scandals, Covert Operations, Folklore, Legends & More. We never claim to know everything, we never claim our opinion is correct, we simply put the evidence we have on the table and allow the audience to decide for themselves.
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The Gumbo Show

The Gumbo Show

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An audio love letter to the greatest combination of flour, fat, proteins and spices ever put in a ladle. Three non-chef Louisianans stir the pot on everything from oils to okra, sausage to seafood, from Cajuns to curry.
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The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia

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The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. Deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From powerhouse NPR producers The Kitchen Sisters (The Keepers, Hidden Kitchens, The Hidden World of Girls, The Sonic Memorial Project, Lost & Found Sound, and Fugitive Waves). "The Kitchen Sisters have done some of best radio stories ever broadcast" —Ira Glass. The Kitchen ...
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“Strength from Stardust” – comes from the idea that we come all come from the stars. Humans, plants and animals are made up of the same material stars are made of. We are all connected and we get our strength from that connection. Listen to Susan and her Mi’kiju (grandmother) Serena talk to fellow Indigenous peoples about our connection to the stars, and more. Some themes highlighted throughout are: Dreamtime, Ceremonies, Wampum Belts, Petroglyphs, Sacred Sites, Our Relatives and Language.
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Modern Mindset

Modern Mindset

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Modern Mindset investigates how our beliefs, values, and psychology influences our modern life and emotions. From business and finance to relationships and communication, we talk to experts from around the world to provide practical ways in which psychology and mindset can give you the edge in the minefield of modern life.
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GrownUpLand

BBC Radio 4

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"Now I’m a grown up… do I have to get married? Do I have to scrimp and save?? Do I have to host a dinner party??? GrownUpLand poses the most frustrating questions. Luckily, Sophie Duker, Heidi Regan and Ned Sedgwick are here to guide you through the bewildering pursuit of adulthood. Through stupid challenges, useful facts and personal stories of rich victory and miserable failure, your guides will ensure you don’t feel alone in your hopeless endeavour to be a legit grown up. Plus, every week ...
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I am French

Karen French

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I am French with Karen French is a podcast where I talk to other immigrants/expats who have moved to France (I moved from London to rural France in 2014). I have honest and open conversations about the joys and challenges of what it's really like to move to France and build a life here. Do you live in France? Have you always wanted to live in France? Are you a die-hard Francophile? Then grab a coffee and a croissant and have a listen. This podcast is for you!
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Well, that wasn’t your average Champs-Élysées parade. Wout van Aert rode Pogacar off his wheel—yes, really—to win solo in soaking wet conditions, with Matteo Jorgenson playing the perfect decoy. The sprinters got stitched, the GC was neutralised, and Pog lit it up just because he could. Cyrus and Aidan break down what made this year’s Paris finale …
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We travel to the Mississippi Delta and the world of Lebanese immigrants, where barbecue and the blues meet kibbe, a kind of traditional Lebanese raw meatloaf. Lebanese immigrants began arriving in the Delta in the late 1800s, soon after the Civil War. Many worked as peddlers, then grocers and restaurateurs. Kibbe — a word and a recipe with so many …
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In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or private property. Militant and sometimes violent, anarchists were heroes to many working-class immigrants. But to many others, anarchism was a terrifyingly foreign ideology. Determined to crush it, gover…
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Napoleon Bonaparte dreamed Paris would be the 'capital city of the universe' and much of what we see - and love - about Paris is thanks to him. The long straight boulevards, the fountains, the galleries and museums- even the bread that comes with European cuisine were brought in by Napoleon. He wanted to make it a city that reflected his imperial a…
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What if the worst happened, but you were financially ready? When Caroline Gordon was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer, everything changed. But because she’d already built financial independence, she had something many people in crisis don’t: options. In this episode of Making Cents, we dive into how financial freedom became Caroline’s safety …
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I must’ve been a kid when I first heard the palindrome “Able I was ere I saw Elba”. Napoleon didn’t mean a lot to me at the time. “Elba” meant even less. Decades later, I had learned a little more about Napoleon and his time there, but not that all that much it turns out. And then came Mark Braude’s The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empi…
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Will your mortgage rate go down soon, or will banks keep them higher for longer? In this episode of Making Cents, financial journalist Frances Cook joins RNZ’s Nights on 14 August, to break down everything you need to know about New Zealand interest rates right now. We cover: How the Official Cash Rate (OCR) works and what it means for home loans T…
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In this bumper episode of The Cycling Podcast, Lionel Birnie, Graham Willgoss and Brian Nygaard ask where Ineos Grenadiers go from here? Thymen Arensman saved a disappointing Tour de France with two memorable stage wins in the mountains, but Carlos Rodriguez crashed out when his bid for a high finish looked like it had stalled on the cusp of the to…
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Charly Coleman's latest book, The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment (Stanford University Press, 2021) is at once a history of ideas, the economy, religion, and material culture. Pursuing the imbrication of the economy and theology with respect to both worldly and spiritual value and wealth, the book explores…
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This week, we talk about cuisines from opposite ends of the world. We start by diving into the first, traditionally-published cookbook about Salvadorian cuisine with Karla T. Vasquez. She collected traditional recipes and techniques while documenting stories from the hands that made the dishes. Karla is the author of The SalviSoul Cookbook: Salvado…
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Warning: this episode contains explicit language and discussions of sex. Pompeii is a city frozen in time and shows us exactly how the Romans really lived. Buried by volcanic ash and debris from a catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, visitors to the Roman town can still see eerily preserved homes, bathhouses, the notorious brothel, and plast…
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Why we choose Lotto over investing, even when it’s irrational, and how to flip the script so investing feels just as exciting. A replay of a conversation with Wallace Chapman on RNZ's The Panel, from 11 August. Making Cents is supported by our friends at Kiwibank. Links Follow Frances Cook on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, or join the Money Memo n…
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Etholle Davies fills in for Daniel Clewlow & Rory McGowan. She speaks to Milly Dyer, a Student Success Manager at Le Wagon and Ellis Whaley, a former student of Le Wagon. They discuss alternatives to university and the benefits that Le Wagon can provide as A Level students get their results. https://www.lewagon.com/…
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Horse racing was the most popular sport in early America, drawing massive crowds and fueling a cultural obsession with horses’ speed and pedigree. In the early 1800s, every town in America with a few thousand people had a horse racing track, with major cities drawing crowds of up to 50,000. In the midst of this was Alexander Keene Richards (1827–18…
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Are you enjoying the freedom of self-employment - or just underpaid, overworked, and financially stressed? Running your own business can give you freedom, flexibility, and the chance to build something that truly works for you. But without the right systems in place, it’s also easy to end up burnt out, broke, and completely unprepared for the futur…
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The journey of learning anything new, putting in the hours, the practice, and progressing in a controlled environment eventually must make its way into the real-world to ensure any confidence we have gained is sound. Over the past three years, as many TSLL riders and listeners of the podcast know, I enrolled in French language classes (12 in total)…
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On the morning of August 15th, 1945, Emperor Hirohito's voice crackled over Japanese airwaves to announce the unthinkable - the surrender of Japan. Today we delve into the complex story behind that surrender, examining Japan's fierce military code, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. We're joined by …
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It took little more than a single generation for the centuries-old Roman Empire to fall. In those critical decades, while Christians and pagans, legions and barbarians, generals and politicians squabbled over dwindling scraps of power, two men – former comrades on the battlefield – rose to prominence on opposite sides of the great game of empire. R…
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From its origins as a Bronze Age settlement, to a battleground for Robert the Bruce’s men during the Wars of Independence, and a refuge for Mary, Queen of Scots, this castle has stood witness to thousands of years of Scottish history. Dan joins Senior Guide Mhairi Summers at Edinburgh Castle to tell the tales of the kings, queens, rebels, and priso…
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She hit financial freedom at 51, by downsizing to a caravan and selling the family trade business. It wasn’t a tech salary. It wasn’t an inheritance. It was good old-fashioned DIY thinking, property investment, and a whole lot of planning. In this episode of Making Cents, you’ll meet Charmaine Hands, who “re-lifed” in her 50s and built a whole new …
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Send us a text “Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. … The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.” — Harold Innis From the fur-clad frontiers of Rupert’s Land to the corridors of British colonial power, the Hudson’s Bay Company stood as one of the most influential a…
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In The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Harvard University Press, 2022), Dr. Megan Brown details the surprising story of how Algeria joined and then left the postwar European Economic Community and what its past inclusion means for extracontinental membership in today’s European Union. On their face, the mid-1950s …
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This week, we turn up the ovens and test our baking skills with two incredible bakers. First, we talk to LA-based cookbook author and star baker, Nicole Rucker, on why summer is peak pie season, the fruit and flavor combinations that elevate her pies (imagine toasted fig leaves!) and making the best out of her leftover cookies for pie crusts. Nicol…
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Did the "heist of the century" really happen the way the robbers say it did? In the summer of 1963, a gang of masked robbers executed a daring plan to intercept a Royal Mail train carrying millions of pounds in cash. But the robbery itself was just the beginning - what came after - the most wanted men on the run, the jailbreak, the betrayals, fake …
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In our first episode since the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes, Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss are joined by Brian Nygaard to recap a busy week of racing during this in-between period before attention turns to the third and final grand tour of the season, the Vuelta a España, gets underway later this month. The week's news has been domi…
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The 1news Breakfast team have questions about how we can beat the guilt, and create systems to help us feel better about our money. A replay of the TVNZ segment from 5 August. Making Cents is supported by our friends at Kiwibank. Links Follow Frances Cook on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, or join the Money Memo newsletter for a free weekly money t…
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It's been 80 years since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the question of whether or not those bombings were justified has never been more contentious. That wasn't the case in the immediate aftermath: 85% of the American public approved the decision to bomb the cities in 1945, but this has dropped to 56% in more recent years, particularl…
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Michael Storer jumps into the Domestique Hotseat with Aidan Burgess after one of the most active and talked-about performances of the 2025 Tour de France. In this episode, Storer opens up about what it’s like to be the guy Julian Alaphilippe rides for, and how he navigated leadership status at Tudor Pro Cycling. He talks about his decision to leave…
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Are house prices about to drop more, or is this the bottom of the market? In this episode of Ask the Experts, we dig into what’s really going on with New Zealand’s housing market in 2025. Whether you’re a first home buyer, property investor, or current homeowner, understanding the true drivers behind NZ house prices is essential to making smart mon…
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“'I think that’s just how life panned out. I had children and it was difficult to have a relationship with a man who was not the father. And I started thinking, OK, I’ll take care of the children and then when they’re grown up, I’ll be available for a partner. But then I found, I have to say, the great serenity of being single.'” She pauses, as if …
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This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence and may not be suitable for all listeners. On the morning of August 6th, 1945, a single American bomber unleashed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen - Little Boy, the first atomic bomb used in war. In a blinding flash, the city of Hiroshima was levelled. In this episode, we chart …
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“Some people might think that honesty boxes are from the past, from a different age, a simpler age, a more honest age, but I would say they're a future thing as well.” – Mark Cousins Throughout the islands and out of way places in Scotland, along the rural roads, at the end of driveways, out on their own with no house nearby, you'll find fresh bake…
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