The John Batchelor Show

Friday 14 April 2023

Air Date: 
April 14, 2023

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915 

#Taiwan: #Ukraine: Will the US "sell out" democracy in Taipei and Kyiv

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-democracy-a-dirty-word-now-taiwan-mccarthy-transit-russia-putin-ukraine-china-xi-foreign-policy-df730159.

915-930

#PacificWatch: The snow starts to melt. @JCBliss

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/historic-california-snow-starts-to-melt-but-is-just-a-taste-of-what-may-come/ar-AA19MiBp

930-945

#POTUS: Ronald Reagan's two track plan to defeat the Soviets and make peace. Nery Nau, The Claremont Review.

https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/we-win-they-lose-2/

945-1000

#DoD: The leaks and the embarrassed. Steve Herman, Chief National Correspondent, Voice of America.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-looking-into-how-accused-leaker-accessed-top-secret-documents-6c6b0972

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#MrMarket: Sticky noodles of Lancaster County  of the USA.and sticky inflation. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor Barron's Magazine.

https://lancasteronline.com/business/local_business/nissin-foods-usa-adds-workers-new-production-line-to-east-hempfield-plant-in-multi-million/article_d112eb84-d57d-11ed-9531-6b7d27b1d3e9.html

1015-1030

#Italy: Po River drought worse than 2021. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/po-drought-already-worse-than-last-year/ar-AA19OITd

1030-1045#SpaceX: WEbcasting announced for Satrship/Superheavy launch. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-announces-it-will-be-providing-a-webcast-for-starships-first-orbital-flight/

1045-1100

#Mars Ingenuity's 5oth flight. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ingenuity-completes-its-50th-flight-on-mars/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

1/4: Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller Hardcover – March 14, 2023 by  Oliver Darkshire  (Author)

 

https://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Misadventures-Rare-Bookseller/dp/1324092076/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

 

Welcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, poisoned books, and some things that aren’t even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice.
Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store’s resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram).
A novice in this ancient, potentially haunted establishment, Darkshire describes Sotheran’s brushes with history (Dickens, the Titanic), its joyous disorganization, and the unspoken rules of its gleefully old-fashioned staff, whose mere glance may cause the computer to burst into flames. As Darkshire gains confidence and experience, he shares trivia about ancient editions and explores the strange space that books occupy in our lives―where old books often have strong sentimental value, but rarely a commercial one.
By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a Tome is the colorful story of life in one of the world’s oldest bookshops and a love letter to the benign, unruly world of antiquarian bookselling, where to be uncommon or strange is the best possible compliment.

1115-1130

2/4:  Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller Hardcover – March 14, 2023 by  Oliver Darkshire  (Author)

1130-1145

3/4:  Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller Hardcover – March 14, 2023 by  Oliver Darkshire  (Author

1145-1200

4/4:  Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller Hardcover – March 14, 2023 by  Oliver Darkshire  (Author

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

1/2: DoD: Leaks & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Education Center

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-looking-into-how-accused-leaker-accessed-top-secret-documents-6c6b0972

1215-1230

2/2: DoD: Leaks & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Education Center

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-looking-into-how-accused-leaker-accessed-top-secret-documents-6c6b0972

1230-1245

1/2: #ScienceMagazine: Chemistry Theory of the Origins of  Life on Earth. Dustin Trail, University of Rochester

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adc8751

1245-100 am

2/2: #ScienceMagazine: Chemistry Theory of the Origins of  Life on Earth. Dustin Trail, University of Rochester

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adc8751