The John Batchelor Show

The John Batchelor Show

The John Batchelor Show is a hard news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. Based in New York City for two decades, the show has travelled widely to report, from the Middle East to the South Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula and East Asia.

Episodes

July 4, 2025 10 mins
WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 8/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)
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WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 7/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)
1911 THE NOTORIOUS AGRIPPINA MINOR
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WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 6/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)
UNDATED ROMAN WOMEN
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IVES OF THE ROMANS: 5/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)
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WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 4/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)
1573 THE CELEBRATED ROMAN WOMEN
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WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 3/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)
1802 ROMAN WOMEN
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WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 2/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)
1530 SABINE WOMEN
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WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 1/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Missing-Thread-Womens-History-Ancient/dp/0593299663

Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and...
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WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 8/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

1860 COOK MONUMENT
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WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 7/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

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WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 6/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

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WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 5/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

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WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 4/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

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WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 3/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

1904 MERCURY BAY NEW ZEALAND
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WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 2/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

1909
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WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 1/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

1930 COOK

https://www.amazon.com/Wide-Sea-Imperial-Ambition-Contact/dp/0385544766/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xvSnWMwZwkRk3nB_oha-u7YL0k9kTC4voIQCoSWDz75eZXBRk_ZvRqUZ_P...
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PREVIEW CLEOPATRA: Author Daisy Dunn, "The Missing Thread," comments on the fact that Cleopatra was powerful not because of her beauty but rather because of her "aura". More.
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PREVIEW FATE: Author Daisy Dunn, "The Missing Thread," explains how the weaving talent by women in the home became a metaphor of fate.
1896 ROMAN MATRON
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Preview: Author Hampton Sides, "The Wide, Wide Sea," observes the gradual breakdown of Cook among the Society Islanders -- foreshadow of the end. More.
1781
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PREVIEW NORTHWEST PASSAGE: Author Hampton Sides, "The Wide, Wide Sea," presents the British Empire ambition to solve the fabled Northwest Passage by approach from the Pacific where there was open sea, according to a strange theory about ocean water. More.
1930. COOK IN THE IMAGINED ARCTIC

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