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

August 29, 2025 4 mins
CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor

Show Schedule 8-28-25

Good evening. The show begins in the rich harvest in Lancaster County, PA.

First Hour

9:00-9:15

Lancaster County: Sweet corn and boomtown house building. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barron's. @McTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsOfHistoryDebatingSociety

9:15-9:30
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Climate: Belief system. Tim Kane, University of Austin

1943 POPE PIUS 

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Russia: Laundering through Trump Toronto. Craig Unger, author "American Kompromat" and "House of Putin, House of Trump"

1959 CUBA                           

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Puerto Rico: Ten years of failed oversight. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
18981 PUERTO RICO


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Italy: Recipes for high tariff cheeses Parmigiano Reggiano and Grana Padano. Lorenzo Fiori, Milan

1872 VESUVIUS
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Photography 4/4: Flashes of Brilliance. Anika Burgess
The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them.

PARIS 1860

Today it’s routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, watch a movie, or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and somet...
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Photography 3/4: Flashes of Brilliance. Anika Burgess
The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them.

1890 SAXONY

Today it’s routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, watch a movie, or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and some...
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Photography 2 /4: Flashes of Brilliance. Anika Burgess
The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them.

11871 COMMUNE

Today it’s routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, watch a movie, or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and s...
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Photography 1/4: Flashes of Brilliance. Anika Burgess
The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them.

1870 PARIS

Today it’s routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, watch a movie, or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and somet...
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Webb: Analysis interstellar comet 3I/Atlas. Bob Zimmerman BehindTheBlack.com

1952

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SpaceX: Test No. 10 success. Bob Zimmerman BehindTheBlack.com



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NPT: Answering with the Nonproliferation Enforcement Initiative. Henry Sokolski, NPEC continued

1958

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NPT: Answering with the Nonproliferation Enforcement Initiative. Henry Sokolski, NPEC

1957

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Early days of AI uses. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
1957


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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Steelmakers welcome AI data center contracts. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

1958

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AI: Integrating with AI in the workplace. Brandon Weichert



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Lancaster County: Sweet corn and boomtown house building. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barron's. @McTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsOfHistoryDebatingSociety

1950 ALLENTOWN

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Preview: Parmigiano Reggiano. Colleague Lorenzo Fiori in Milan provides recipes for the success of two Italian made cheeses, Parmigiano and Grana Padano, that are in the news for higher tariffs. More later.
1790 MILAN
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Preview: Steel & AI. Colleague Gene Marks comments that steelmakers are cheered by AI because of the vast build out of data centers needing steel. More later.
1959
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Preview: Lancaster County. Colleague Jim McTague comments on the local facts of the county that do not stem the young consumers from complaining about food prices. More later.
1945 Lancaster County
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