Photo: A lovely Christmas in Norwegian to you from the John Batchelor Show
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Monday 24 December  2018 / Hour 1, Block A: Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty, by John M. Barry (1 of 4)
A revelatory history of the founding of Puritan settlements and how the unique Roger Williams— theologian, humanitarian, exceptional linguist, diplomat, and unshakably ethical Christian—helped lay the foundations of true liberty in North America.
Monday 24 December  2018 / Hour 1, Block B: Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty, by John M. Barry (2 of 4)
Monday 24 December  2018 / Hour 1, Block C: Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty, by John M. Barry (3 of 4)
Monday 24 December  2018 / Hour 1, Block D:  Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty, by John M. Barry (4 of 4)
* A Key into the Language of America, by Roger Williams (1643)  Key was the first dictionary of any Indian language [largely Narragansett, an Algonquin/ Algonkian language], and it fed the great curiosity of English people about the American Indians. It was printed by John Milton's publisher, Gregory Dexter, who had become a resident of Providence Plantations, and it quickly became a bestseller and provided Williams with a large and favorable reputation.
 
Hour Two
Monday 24 December  2018 / Hour 2, Block A:  West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, by Claudio Saunt (1 of 4)
Adventures, exploration, geopolitics and economics among First Nations and Europeans in 1776, in what are now the United States and Canada.
Monday 24 December  2018 / Hour 2, Block B:  West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, by Claudio Saunt (2 of 4)
Monday 24 December  2018 / Hour 2, Block C:  West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, by Claudio Saunt (3 of 4)
Monday 24 December  2018 / Hour 2, Block D:  West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, by Claudio Saunt (4 of 4)
 
Hour Three
Monday 24 December  2018/ Hour 3, Block A: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown and Edward Herrmann  (1 of 4)
Monday 24 December  2018/ Hour 3, Block B: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown and Edward Herrmann  (2 of 4)
Monday 24 December  2018/ Hour 3, Block C:  The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown and Edward Herrmann  (3 of 4)
Monday 24 December  2018/ Hour 3, Block D:  The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown and Edward Herrmann  (4 of 4)
 
Hour Four
Monday 24 December  2018/ Hour 4, Block A: Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power, by Susan Hertog (1 of 2)
Monday 24 December  2018/ Hour 4, Block B: Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power, by Susan Hertog (2 of 2)
Monday 24 December  2018/ Hour 4, Block C: Knights of the Sea: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812, by David Hanna (1 of 2)
Monday 24 December  2018/ Hour 4, Block D:  Knights of the Sea: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812, by David Hanna (2 of 2)..  ..  ..