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Randell Jones

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True, personal stories from new voices and experienced writers resonating with the themes of the Personal Essay/Story Publishing Projects: "Bearing Up" (2018) and "Exploring" (2019).
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The Soul Qurators

ChristinaCurates, MistaGoodBar, Soops Kitchen

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It’s all about three tastemakers that have the conversations surrounding music and the culture. The hosts ChristinaCurates, MistaGoodBar, and Soops Kitchen discuss new album releases, upcoming tours, and more. Tune in to add dope music to your playlists!
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Inside Learning | Unlocking human potential

The Learnovate Centre, Trinity College Dublin

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How do we reach our potential in work and life? The Inside Learning podcast explores the science of learning and the future of work with expert guest speakers and research-based insights from The Learnovate Centre in Trinity College Dublin, a global research centre focused on learning technology. Hosted by author, consultant and coach Aidan McCullen. Get in touch: info@learnovatecentre.org / https://www.learnovatecentre.org
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– “Don’t panic. Keep your feet up.” It bucks and dips, pitches and plunges while cold water slams you every few seconds. A retired English professor, Kenneth Chamlee still enjoys teaching workshops on humor in poetry, writing in personae, and the remarkable connections between poetry and painting and photography. His poetic biography of 19th-centur…
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In a continuation of last week's episode, Christine and Jessica discuss THE 1619 PROJECT by Nikole Hannah-Jones, the New York Times Magazine, and others, especially "Democracy" (by Hannah-Jones), "The Creation of Race" (by Dorothy Roberts), and "Sugar" (by Kahlil Gibran Muhammad). They talk about why this book is controversial, what it means for it…
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– Should I tell my mother what I decided to do? A 5-year-old, less than one meter tall, I slipped through the turnstile without being noticed. Akira Odani lives in the ancient city of St. Augustine, Florida. He belongs to Taste Life Twice Writers and the Florida Writers Association. Born in Tokyo, he had written extensively for the Japanese media. …
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Matthew Bannister on General Sir Mike Jackson, the Chief of the General Staff at the time of the Iraq War. Lily Ledbetter, whose campaign for equal pay led to an Act of Congress. Safeya Binzagr, the pioneering Saudi Arabian artist whose career flourished despite the cultural restrictions on women in her society Steve Piotrowski, the ornithologist w…
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– We were trying out young adulthood, but there were rules. What I recall is moonlight through a picture window until we heard his door open, Marshall’s deep, slow Tennessee twang. Caroline Kane Kenna lives in Huntersville, North Carolina. A newspaper reporter before the internet. Stay at home Mom to three boys, trailing spouse for a corporate husb…
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In this mini-episode, Christine and Jessica have a live conversation at the Brooklyn Public Library's first ever Freedom to Read Rally at the Grand Army Plaza! On October 19, the BPL organized a nationwide rally with more than 200 libraries across the country celebrating our freedom to read. Jessica and Christine talk about The 1619 Project and the…
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– I had a layover in Elmira, New York—six hours long. Warblers, whistlers, and trillers sang. Joe and Maybe Dave knew when not to talk, too, when beauty itself was the conversation. Maureen Ryan Griffin has loved words and stories since her “Cat in the Hat” days and leads writing workshops and retreats (www.WordPlayNow.com). She’s published in nume…
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Kirsty Lang on Alex Salmond, the former First Minister of Scotland. Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F Kennedy who went onto become a campaigner for Human Rights. Ratan Tata, the businessman who led the Tata Group for more than two decades. Fleur Adcock, the poet who's conversational, irreverent style made her one of the most popular voices in British…
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– I began to pass little crosses made of sticks and string. It was fully dark outside now, a blackness unrelieved by any shaft of human-created light. Suzanne Adams has been an actor, director, teacher, and archenemy of Mountain Pine Beetles in the Rockies. She didn’t take writing semi-seriously until moving to Charlotte, in this “writingest state.…
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ON SATURDAY, OCT. 19, JOIN CHRISTINE AND JESSICA AT THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY! Stay tuned for the end of the episode for all the details about Saturday's "Freedom to Read Day of Action Rally," and see if one of the other 300 events that day throughout the country is happening near you! This episode is a little different: inspired by last week's e…
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– We had our audience! Fierce when necessary, and sometimes maybe just a little bit witchy Fascinated with every big and little thing, Jamie Cheshire has long been an avid student of design and structure. Having worked together with giants, he has had the extreme good fortune to practice his craft for most of the last four decades and has seen his …
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John Wilson on Lord Ouseley, the co-founder of the anti-racism football campaign ‘Kick it Out’ and former Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality. The landscape artist and printmaker Norman Ackroyd whose work celebrates some of the most remote and inhospitable areas of the UK. Lore Segal, the author whose book ‘Other People’s Houses’ told the s…
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– “Quick! Let's get the oars!”. Traveling fast, the tanker’s bow tossed large white-capped waves. Edward von Koenigseck, relocated from Florida, resides in Ticonderoga NY. Having a 40-year career in Technical Publications, he also published two books (Technical Writing for Private Industry and Island Park, a Memoir, and four short stories. He creat…
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THIS EPISODE, y'all. Christine and Jessica have an absolutely fascinating conversation with Courtney Gore, a school board member from Granbury ISD. Courtney ran on a campaign to change what was happening in public schools because she'd heard that there were groups actively trying to sexualize children, particularly through the "Social and Emotional…
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Join us for a special episode of the Inside Learning Podcast, recorded at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, with Elliot Masie, a key innovator in e-learning since the 1990s. Elliot discusses the evolution of digital learning, the intersection of learning and innovation, and the role of creativity and storytelling in education. The conversation also cove…
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A Soul Qurators first! This episode we welcome back as our first returning guest the super-talented and amazing friend of the show Tamisha Waden!!! We had to do a quick check in with our friend following the release of her incredible single “Happy For Me” that is featured on the soundtrack of the Lifetime movie “Tempted By Love” by the legend Terry…
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– What was I doing here? I’d been a fool to come. Too much of the past haunted the rooms. Bruce Spang, former Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine, is the author of two novels, The Deception of the Thrush and Those Close Beside Me. His most recent collection of poems, All You’ll Derive: A Caregiver’s Journey, was just published. He is the poetry and fi…
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John Wilson on Kris Kristofferson, the singer, songwriter and actor who appeared with Barbra Streisand in ‘A Star is Born’ Camilla Carr, the aid worker who along with her partner was kidnapped and held hostage for 14 months in Chechnya. Hassan Nasrallah, for over 30 years he was the leader of Lebanon’s militant Shia Islamist movement, Hezbollah. Th…
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The Bottle Rocket War by Richard L. Davis, Elk Grove, CA – firecrackers on a stick, launched from tequila bottles! We had no Francis Scott Key to record our glory and legacy. Richard (“Rick”) Davis is a retired Air Force colonel with an extensive professional writing history, including some non-fiction material published over the past 40 years. To …
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Christine tells Jessica about Fahrenheit 451 the Musical...oh, wait, no, that's just what she invented on the spot. This is about the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury, a staple of high school and college classrooms that eerily predicts our own ban-happy, screen-happy times. Come for the discussion of one of a canonical banned book, stay for Christine's e…
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– Not what we expected Hell-bound for a summer of adventure in France, we didn’t care. David Collins holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and taught English/Creative Writing for forty years. His work has appeared in numerous journals, reviews, magazines, and newspapers. His first full-length book, Accidental Activists: …
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Matthew Bannister on Peter Jay, who was economics editor at the Times and the BBC and also Britain’s Ambassador to the United States. Ed Johnson, the CIA agent who played a key role in the Argo operation to smuggle US diplomats out of Iran – but kept his involvement secret until his death. His wife tells us she had no idea what his work involved. D…
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– Is love worth the pain? My belief in immortality for the people I adored did not pan out. Terri Kirby Erickson of Pfafftown, NC, is the author of seven poetry collections, including her latest book, Night Talks: New & Selected Poems (Press 53), a Finalist for the International Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in “American Life in Poet…
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Jessica interviews Charley Rejsek, the CEO of BookPeople, the largest independent bookstore in Texas (and Jessica's hometown bookstore in Austin). This incredible conversation sheds light on what is happening in Texas, which is, in many ways, the epicenter of the fight for the freedom to read. Recent legislation in Texas demands that bookstores--al…
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Forty-five writers share their personal stories of courage and daring, rashness and folly, incited by intention, imprudence, or circumstances. These are tales provoked by reasoned confidence or aggravated by recklessness, some pivoting on inattention to what could go wrong. We choose what to do next, how to live, based on what we think we know and …
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The SQ3 returns to “rock this mfer like three the…….”, oh some of you may catch the Run-DMC reference, some won’t lol! We get back together to lay down some more flowers for the legend Mr. Frankie Beverly. We discuss the possible tributes that will inevitably be on the way and what we expect to see. We also put on our thinking caps to try to create…
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Matthew Bannister on Dr George Berci, the surgeon who pioneered the use of miniature cameras in operations to minimise cutting and accelerate patients’ recovery times. Olga Craig, the respected journalist from Northern Ireland who reported from war zones and covered the aftermath of the bombing in Omagh. Michaela Mabinty DePrince, the orphan from w…
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In Episode 3, Jessica tells Christine about Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo. This fast-paced book--which shows "what life might have been like for a queer Asian American girl who dreamed of rocket ships, growing up in the 1950s"--is a coming-of-age narrative with a love story. However, it's also a deeply poignant book that tells a st…
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