Photo, above: Chipping Norton is a market town in the Cotswold Hills in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about 12 miles southwest of Banbury and 18 miles northwest of Oxford. See: Hour 1, Block B: Amy Chozick, NYT JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 29 March 2013 / Hour 1,...
Engraving, above: Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians. Roger Williams (1603 – 1683) was an English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge...
Photo, above: Hale-Bopp comet over Joshua Tree; see below: Hour 1, Block C, David Livingston, The Space Show, and Alan Hale, founder of Earthrise Institute and discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, David Livingston Hour One Wednesday 27 March 2013 / Hour 1,...
Photo, above: 2014 Bentley Continental Flying Spur. (See below: Hour 2, Block B: LouAnn Hammond, Drivingthenation.com) Powertrain: The Flying Spur will again offer a twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter W-12 engine with output increasing from 552 hp to 567 for the normal sedan; the hi-po Speed model...
Photo, above: Apple Store: Beijing. See Gordon Chang, Second Hour: Apple under attack by PRC and CCTV. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 25 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, and Thomas Joscelyn, managing editor of Long War Journal, in re: Caliphate rising. al...
Photo, above: President Hoover escorting his successor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to the Capitol in 1933. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. The Federal National Mortgage Association, commonly known as Fannie Mae, was founded in 1938 during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal. It is a...
Photo, above: Five members of the People's Will were condemned for assassinating Tsar Alexander II and were executed April 1881. See Max Boot's "Invisible Armies." JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 23 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: The Myth of Martyrdom: What Really Drives Suicide Bombers,...
Map, above: The Eurasian Union is said to be the brainchild of Vladimir Putin in the wake of his third term as the President of Russia. If realised, it would comprise a number of states which were part of the former Soviet Union: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. According...
Photo, above: Pres Obama visits Israel; the first sight he's taken to see on his tour, moments after he sets foot on the tarmac, is an Iron Dome battery. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board; Edward Hayes, criminal defense attorney par...
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, and David Livingston, The Space Show Hour One Wednesday 13 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Walter Lohman, Director of Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, on North Korea and missile defense. Wednesday 13 March 2013 / Hour 1,...