The John Batchelor Show

Sunday 14 April 2013

Air Date: 
April 14, 2013

Photo, above: Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798; by Thomas Luny (1759-1837); see:  Hour 1, Block C: Legacy of Leadership: Lessons from Admiral Lord Nelson, by Joseph F. Callo 

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Sunday  14 April 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wilber

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 1, Block B:   Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wilber

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 1, Block C: . Legacy of Leadership: Lessons from Admiral Lord Nelson by Joseph F. Callo and Joseph Metcalf

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 1, Block D:  The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Bernard Cornwell

Hour Two

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 2, Block A:  When Gadgets Betray Us: The Dark Side of Our Infatuation with New Technologies by Robert Vamosi (Feb 5, 2013)

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 2, Block B:  When Gadgets Betray Us: The Dark Side of Our Infatuation with New Technologies by Robert Vamosi (Feb 5, 2013)

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 2, Block C:  Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129 by Norman Polmar and Michael White

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 2, Block D:  Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129 by Norman Polmar and Michael White

Hour Three

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 3, Block A:  Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129 by Norman Polmar and Michael White

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 3, Block B:  . Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129 by Norman Polmar and Michael White

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 3, Block C:  . Song Without Words: Discovering My Deafness Halfway through Life (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) by Gerald Shea

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 3, Block D:   Song Without Words: Discovering My Deafness Halfway through Life (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) by Gerald Shea

Hour Four

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 4, Block A:  Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys by Kay S. Hymowitz

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 4, Block B:  Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys by Kay S. Hymowitz

Left: Lake Tanganyika; see below: Hour 4, Block C:  Paths Without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa by James L. Newman

 

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 4, Block C:  Paths Without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa by James L. Newman   Few people have garnered so much enduring interest as Sir Richard Burton. A true polymath, Burton is best known today for his translations of the Kama Sutra and Arabian Nights. Yet, Africa stood at the center of his adult life. The Burton-Speke expedition (1856–59) that put Lake Tanganyika on the map led to years of controversy over the source of the White Nile. From 1861 to 1864 Burton served as British consul in Fernando Po and traveled widely between Ghana and Angola. He wrote prodigiously and contributed some of the first detailed ethnographic accounts of Africa’s peoples. In many ways, however, Africa proved to be Burton’s undoing. Injuries and sickness sapped his strength, he made enemies in high places, and, ironically, even the discovery of Lake Tanganyika worked to his disadvantage. Increasingly frustrated and bitter, he turned to alcohol as a frequent remedy.  In this fascinating story of the relationship between a man and a continent, geographer James L. Newman provides an intimate portrait of Burton through careful examination of his journals and biographers’ rich analyses. Delving deepest into Burton’s later life and travels, Newman pinpoints the thematic mainstays of his career as a diplomat and explorer, namely his strong advocacy of aggressive imperial policies and his belief that race explained crucial human differences. Historians and scholars of the golden age of empire, as well as armchair adventurers, will not only discover what defined this famously enigmatic figure, but venture, themselves, into the heart of mid-nineteenth-century Africa. – ABE Books

Sunday 14 April  2013 / Hour 4, Block D:   Paths Without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa by James L. Newman  James L. Newman is a professor emeritus of geography at Syracuse University's Maxwell School. His books include Imperial Footprints: Henry Morton Stanley's African Journeys (Potomac Books, Inc., 2006), The Peopling of Africa, Eliminating Hunger in Africa with Daniel Griffith, and Contemporary Africa with C. Gregory Knight. He lives in Syracuse, New York.

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Music

Hour 1:  Person of Interest

Hour 2:  The Thing

Hour 3:  Clash of Titans

Hour 4:  Burn after Reading