Photo, above: Rival football fans in Egypt have protested over sentences handed down over riots at a match in Port Said in February last year. The court upheld 21 death sentences and handed down prison terms to other defendants over the violence, which claimed 74 lives. Most victims were supporters...
Photo: San Francisco Opera dusted off its vivid 28-year-old sets for a new, hilarious production of Mozart’s comic opera The Marriage of Figaro led by acclaimed British stage director John Copley JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 10 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering...
Photo: Piegan Encampment (Edward S. Curtis, courtesy of Cardozo Fine Art) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball 1 of 4 Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: The...
Photo: Erden Eruç is a Turkish adventurer attempting a human-powered circumnavigation which is to include summitting the tallest mountains on six continents.[1]mEruç departed Seattle, WA and rode his bicycle to California. He departed California July 11, 2007 bound for Mooloolaba, Australia in a...
Photo, above: Satmar family in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, and Ed Hayes, defense attorney par excellence Hour One Thursday 7 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board, in Sydney...
Photo, above: Sigiriya - The Rock Fortress, also known as the Lion’s Rock, is a massive stone and an ancient rock fortress. The palace ruins sites on the top of this massive rock, in the central Matale District of Sri Lanka, is surrounded by the remains of an extensive network of gardens,...
Photo, above: A walkway on the island of Lamu, Kenya. Cast into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Kenya, the island and town of Lamu are heir to a distinctive tradition over a thousand years old. The Swahili culture and style of Lamu are a mix of East African, Omani, Yemeni, Indian, and some...
Poster, above: said to be the "Answer to questions about the Sultanate of Sulu Darul Islam." See: Monday 4 March 2013 / Hour 3, Block A, Michael Auslin, on Sulu. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 4 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: Jihadi opera....
Photo, above:The US government is seeking fines of almost $18bn (£11.8bn) from BP over the Gulf of Mexico disaster Photo: Rex Features JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 6 Jan 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right by Thomas...
Photo, above: Soviet POWS in an improvised camp, 1941. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One USSR, An SS Obersturmfuehrer. Saturday 2 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher B. Krebs; 1 of 4 Harvard classics...