The John Batchelor Show

Schedules

Monday 10 June 2013

  Photo, above:  Portfolio » Trade Show and Exhibit Photography » I ITSEC 2009 - Booz Allen Hamilton - Rear JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday  10 June  2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor; Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: gang warfare in Kabul;...

Sunday 9 June 2013

Photo, above: Scythian gold belt plaque, 5th-4th century BCE; Western Siberia. See: Hour 3, Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith. Note a theory that Gautama Buddha was Scythian; this derives from a Sanskrit text.  JOHN...

Saturday 8 June 2013

Painting, above: The Victory of Alexander the Great, 1529, by Albrecht Altdorfer.  See: Hour 4, Block D: Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire by James Romm   JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 8 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Between Man and...

Friday 7 June 2013

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 7 June 2013  / Hour 1, Block A: Jim McTague, Barron's Washington, in re:   U.S. Payrolls Rise 175,000; Jobless Rate Climbs to 7.6%  Employers added 175,000 jobs in May, in a sign that the economy continues to grow at a moderate pace despite higher taxes, federal...

Thursday 6 June 2013

Photo, above: Second Infantry Division landing at St-Laurent-sur-Mer, 7 June 1944 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, WSJ; Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Hour One Thursday  6 June  2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Patrick K. O’Donnell, Back to the Front  Wounded Warriors visit Belleau...

Wednesday 5 June 2013

Photo, above: Filipinos protest in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles, as part of a global protest over an escalating territorial row in the South China Sea. The territorial row centres on Scarborough Shoal, a tiny rocky outcrop in the South China Sea which the Philippines says is part...

Tuesday 4 June 2013

Photo, above: A longtime companion of reputed mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger will be buried Tuesday.  Teresa Stanley was the woman who started out, in the mid 1990s, on Bulger’s run as a fugitive, but soon returned home. In her place, Bulger picked up a younger companion, the now-jailed Catherine...

Monday 3 June 2013

Photo, above: Japan woos Vietnam amid shared China concerns     Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and his wife Akie, second from left, pose with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his wife Tran Thanh Kiem for a group photo at the Government Office in Hanoi, Vietnam, Wednesday,...

Sunday 2 June 2013

  Photo, above: The aftermath of the infamous Malmedy Massacre.  See: Hour 3, Block A:  Fatal Crossroads: The Untold Story of the Malmedy Massacre at the Battle of the Bulge by Danny S. Parker. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 2 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A:  The Blood of Free Men: The...

Saturday 1 June 2013

  Photo, above: Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass, wearing his trademark Indiana Jones hat, supervises the removal of the mummy of King Tutankhamen from the stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. (Reuters) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 1 June ...

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