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New York New York
Episode #259 on March 24th, 2013

New York New York

One of my favourite places in the world is New York city. Sadly I am too young to have been caught in the whirl wind of excitement that the big apple provided back in the fifties and sixties, but I can go there in my mind with the large number of songs written about the big apple. So this week it’s an all New York...

World’s Greatest Parties
Episode #258 on March 17th, 2013

World’s Greatest Parties

I’ve always loved parties, big parties, little parties, swank parties. To me it’s the expectation of wonderful stories and friendships strengthened by the occasion. New friends and old friends coming together. Parties can be held for lots of reasons or no reason at all so tonight we will talk about the forty greets parties in Literature with society gal Suzette Field from London and we...

Bible Storyland
Episode #257 on March 10th, 2013

Bible Storyland

My favourite time is late night, when the noise of the city settles down to a a dull roar, the phone doesn’t ring and the night goes on forever. The tinkling of piano jazz on the hi-fi fills the background void and thinking becomes more clear, work gets done, thoughts are formed and ideas generated This week on the show we talk to a man...

The Guide For The Married Man
Episode #256 on March 3rd, 2013

The Guide For The Married Man

Sometimes the modern world can be too much, often it’s not just the painful pop culture that can grind you to a pulp with its incessant screeching like finger nails down a chalkboard. Often you can want to get away from it all, to get into that time machine of your mind. The best way, movies, music and books. Tonight we head back to 1967 to...

The Way You Wear Your Hat
Episode #255 on February 24th, 2013

The Way You Wear Your Hat

We are talking about the humble lid on this weeks show with John Penman from Penman Hats. There’s some Mad Men Season six news, plus we are talking Modernism Week and a look at the world of swank as we check out the best parties from across the globe....

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