The John Batchelor Show

Tuesday 1 January 2019

Photo: Artist’s conception of a possible habitation or workspace for initial Mars settlement.  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW  Hour OneTuesday 1 January 2019/ Hour 1, Block A:  The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro Turned Baseball's Ugliest Brawl into a Story of Forgiveness and...

Monday 31 December 2018

Photo:  An early Christmas cardPermissions: This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less.  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW  Hour OneMonday 31 December  2018 / Hour 1, Block A: Ike's Bluff: President...

Friday 28 December 2018

Photo: Cover of the book whose author is so skillfully interviewed by Francis Rose (Hour Four, below).    JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW  Hour OneFriday 28 December 2018 / Hour 1, Block A:  Wilson, by Scott Berg (1 of 12)Friday 28 December 2018 / Hour 1, Block B:  Wilson, by Scott Berg (2 of 12)Friday 28...

Thursday 27 December 2018

Photo: Caton d'Utique lisant le Phédon avant de se donner la mort (Cato of Utica reading the Phaedo before committing suicide). Carrara marble, 1840. Artist: Jean-Baptiste Roman (1792–1835), François Rude (1784–1855) Commissioned in 1832, the work was unfinished at Roman's death. Rude carried it on...

Wednesday 26 December 2018

Photo: Polar Bear jumping, in Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway (author: Arturo de Frias Marques; edited by K Abdelhamid).Permissions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the...

Tuesday 25 December 2018

 Photo:    Beginning of a Byzantine copy of the Gospel of Luke, 1020    Byzantinischer Maler um 1020 - The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202. The text shown is the beginning of the Gospel of Luke, verse 1:3-...