Map, above:  South Stream (Russian: Южный Поток) is a proposed gas pipeline to transport Russian natural gas through the Black Sea to Bulgaria and further to Greece, Italy and Austria. The project is seen as rival to the planned Nabucco pipeline

Signed in November 2012, the investment agreement between Gazprom, France’s EDF, Germany’s Wintershall and Italy’s Eni signalled the launch of the South Stream gas pipeline. Transit countries including Slovenia, Serbia and Bulgaria also signed proposed plans and paved the way for construction to begin. The pipeline will run fromt the Pochinki compressor station in Russia, under the Black Sea to Bulgaria and on to Italy and Austria, effectively bypassing Ukraine – a country widely regarded as an unstable transit route for Russian gas.  See below: Hour 4, Block A,  Robert Cutler, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada, on Russian gas, European integration, and the fate of Ukraine.

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Sunday  19 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962 by Megan Prelinger  (1 of 2)

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 1, Block B:   Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962 by Megan Prelinger  (2 of 2)

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 1, Block C: . Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes  (1 of 2)

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 1, Block D:  Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes  (2 of 2)

Hour Two

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 2, Block A:  . Upper Cut: Highlights of My Hollywood Life by Carrie White  (1 of 2)

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 2, Block B:  . Upper Cut: Highlights of My Hollywood Life by Carrie White  (2 of 2)

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 2, Block C:  . An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science by Edward J. Larson  (1 of 4)

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 2, Block D:  An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science by Edward J. Larson  (2 of 4)

Hour Three

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 3, Block A:  An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science by Edward J. Larson  (3 of 4)

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 3, Block B:  . An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science by Edward J. Larson  (4 of 4)

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 3, Block C:  The Gun by C. J. Chivers  (1 of 2)

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 3, Block D:  The Gun by C. J. Chivers  (2 of 2)

Hour Four

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 4, Block A:  Robert Cutler, Institute of

European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada, in re: Russian gas, European integration, and the fate of Ukraine. (See the end of this schedule.)

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 4, Block B:  Peter Coy, in re: jobs recovery delayed

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 4, Block C:  Ron Radosh, in re: perjury by Allen Weinstein in the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers case. (1 of 2)

Sunday 19 May  2013 / Hour 4, Block D:   Ron Radosh, in re: perjury by Allen Weinstein in the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers case. (2 of 2)

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