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Star of Mock The Week, Milton Jones ends up in prison for committing a True Crime podcast and asks the question “Sound effects and soundproofing - which came first, the chicken or the eggbox?”

Complete with his unmissable jokes and a fully-working cast.

“The best one-line merchant in British comedy...” - Chortle "King of the surreal one-liners" - The Times “Milton Jones is one of Britain’s best gagsmiths with a flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners” – The Guardian

Written by Milton Jones, James Cary and Dan Evans

Starring Milton Jones, Tom Goodman-Hill, Josie Lawrence, Dan Tetsell and James Akka

With music by Guy Jackson

Produced and directed by David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches. Featuring Lucy Porter on Laura Kenny’s retirement, Alasdair Beckett-King on the state of our nation’s health and an original song from Mitch Benn. With voices from Ed Jones and Katie Norris.

The show was written by the cast with additional material from Cody Dahler, Zoe Tomalin, Katie Sayer and Peter Tellouche.

Producer: Sasha Bobak Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Coordinator: Caroline Barlow

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.

Producer’s note: This was recorded on Thursday, April 18, before Israel’s strike on Iran, hence us releasing this earlier than usual.

It’s the world news roundup with the ever loyal Danny and Derek. This week: Israel plans a retaliation for Iran’s strike last week, Iran floats the possibility of developing nuclear weapons in response (0:31), and plans for an IDF Rafah operation in Gaza are underway (8:09); the US is still pursuing Saudi normalization with Israel (10:40) and vetoes a Palestinian statehood resolution at the UN (13:38); the US is trying to create an “independent” sanctions monitor for the DPRK/North Korea (15:11); in climate news, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering the “worst” bleaching event ever (17:19); in Sudan, the fighting expands into North Darfur (19:46); the UN’s Libya envoy quits in frustration (21:18); a whistleblower says that the US is ignoring the order to withdraw from Niger (23:44); the US pushes back over oil refinery attacks in Ukraine (26:41) while the House of Representatives will take up military aid bills (30:01); and the US will reinstate sanctions on Venezuela’s energy sector (32:12).

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Danny and Derek update you with what we know so far about Israel’s strikes on Iran last night.

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Recorded late morning Eastern Time, Friday, April 19, 2024.

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Josh a.k.a. Ettingermentum joins us for a survey of the political parties of the greatest Democracy of the Middle East, and perhaps, the World: Israel. From Likud to Shas, the New Hope to There Is A Future, we give you a full look of the current political state of Israel and their burning political questions of the day: Should women be taught to read? Are gay people animals? Just how thoroughly should Palestinians be eliminated? Discover the not-so-wide range of opinions of Israel’s dozens of political organizations within.

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the last pagan ruler of the Roman Empire. Fifty years after Constantine the Great converted to Christianity and introduced a policy of tolerating the faith across the empire, Julian (c.331 - 363 AD) aimed to promote paganism instead, branding Constantine the worst of all his predecessors. Julian was a philosopher-emperor in the mould of Marcus Aurelius and was noted in his lifetime for his letters and his satires, and it was his surprising success as a general in his youth in Gaul that had propelled him to power barely twenty years after a rival had slaughtered his family. Julian's pagan mission and his life were brought to a sudden end while on campaign against the Sasanian Empire in the east, but he left so much written evidence of his ideas that he remains one of the most intriguing of all the Roman emperors and a hero to the humanists of the Enlightenment.

With

James Corke-Webster Reader in Classics, History and Liberal Arts at King’s College, London

Lea Niccolai Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, Trinity College

And

Shaun Tougher Professor of Late Roman and Byzantine History at Cardiff University

Producer: Simon Tillotson

Reading list:

Polymnia Athanassiadi, Julian: An Intellectual Biography (first published 1981; Routledge, 2014)

Nicholas Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher (eds.), Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian the Apostate (Classical Press of Wales, 2012)

Nicholas Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher (eds.), The Sons of Constantine, AD 337-361: In the Shadows of Constantine and Julian, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

G.W. Bowersock, Julian the Apostate (first published 1978; Harvard University Press, 1997)

Susanna Elm, Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome (University of California Press, 2012)

Ari Finkelstein, The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch (University of California Press, 2018)

David Neal Greenwood, Julian and Christianity: Revisiting the Constantinian Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2021)

Lea Niccolai, Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power: Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Stefan Rebenich and Hans-Ulrich Wiemer (eds), A Companion to Julian the Apostate (Brill, 2020)

Rowland Smith, Julian’s Gods: Religion and Philosophy in the Thought and Action of Julian the Apostate (Routledge, 1995)

H.C. Teitler, The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2017)

Shaun Tougher, Julian the Apostate (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)

W. C. Wright, The Works of Emperor Julian of Rome (Loeb, 1913-23)

Paul Merton interviews a variety of guests from the world of comedy and entertainment to find out what they would send to Room 101, as well as the one item they cannot live without.

In this episode, Hannah Fry tries to convince Paul to send complicated toilet flushes and exams to Room 101, and discusses her particular devotion to a daily ritual that she cannot live without.

Additional Material: John Irwin and Suki Webster Produced by Richard Wilson A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4

Danny and Derek bring you stories from around the globe. This week: Iran warns of an imminent response to Israel bombing the IR’s embassy in Syria (0:31); Gaza ceasefire talks remain tenuous (6:15) while the IDF’s “withdrawal” has not yet enabled sufficient aid to enter the Strip (10:47); in Myanmar, rebels seize a key border town (15:27); battlefield dynamic shifts in Sudan with a supply of Iranian drones (19:00); in Ukraine, Russia strikes destroy a major power plant (21:17) and the Ukrainian parliament passes a new conscription law (23:17); international fallout ensues after the Ecuadorian goernment raids the Mexican embassy in Quito (25:36); a New Cold War update featuring Biden hosting Japanese PM Kishida and Philippine president Marcos Jr. (29:28); and in climate news, March continues a 10-month streak of the hottest respective month ever recorded (32:43).

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Danny and Derek give an update on what we know about Iran’s attack against Israel in response to Israel’s April 1 strike on an Iranian embassy in Syria.

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Recorded early evening ET, April 13, 2024

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Danny and Derek are back with updates on the situation after last night’s bombardment on Israel, including international reactions, the potential Israeli response, and more.

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Recorded early afternoon ET, April 14, 2024

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Alex is back on with us today to catch up on MMA libertarians, bad DJs, and a rudely interrupted Billy Joel. We then discuss Iran’s weekend missile attack on Israel, and get Donald Trump’s somber and thoughtful remarks on the hallowed battle ground of Gettysburg. All this and some Valerie Bertinelli news on today’s show.

NYC, MAY 4th: Join Will & Hesse for a Movie Mindset Season 2 kickoff screening & talkback of DEATH WISH 3 at Littlefield, tickets now available:

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The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) is remembered as a dress rehearsal for World War 2, a class struggle, a religious struggle, a battle between left and right, between fascism and communism. While the conflict left deep scars on Spanish society, the impact of the war went far beyond its borders. To document and discuss the conflict and the international response, a new  Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil war is being created by historians from some 30 countries.

Judith Keene: Association Professor, History department, University of Sydney.

It's the eurovision analysis miniseries from eurovision freak Ciarán. Joined by council members Chris Wade and Jackie. Do not watch Eurovision.

Find our guests:https://twitter.com/saywhatagainhttps://twitter.com/Horse_Jeans

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Headlines for April 16, 2024; Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down Palestinian Conference; “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism”: Yanis Varoufakis on New Book & Why Assange Should Be Freed; Under Cover of War in Gaza, Assault on West Bank Intensifies: Palestinian Journalist Dalia Hatuqa; “I’m Jewish, and I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”: Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza

Pro-capitalist ideologues in politics, media and academia have been hard at work slandering the left in an effort to subvert any true understanding of socialist history. They do this by constructing narratives around socialism, communism and leaders of socialist states to lead people to dismiss the idea that there can ever be an alternative to capitalism. 

To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek was joined by Henry Hakamaki and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, co-translators and editors of Domenico Losurdo’s “Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend.” 

Henry Hakamaki is an educator, activist and co-host of the Guerrilla History Podcast. Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, is a professor in the Geography Department and Environmental Studies at SUNY-New Paltz.

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First, James Li looks at the recent Boeing whistleblower death and speaks to an investigations editor at The American Prospect, then Matt Stoller does a Big breakdown on Livenation Ticketmaster's control of the live industry so corrupt it verges on criminal conspiracy.

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Our old friend Jacob Bacharach steps in on the pod today. First, we check in on the election, looking at the continued actual and electoral disaster of the Republicans’ abortion policies, as well as Donald Trump’s non-existent campaign. We finish with a reading series from Jonathan Chait, who’s still banging on about “the authoritarian left” impinging on peoples’ rights to hear Jamie Raskin speak. And in the middle, we check in on the ever-expanding universe of Taylor Sheridan shows, this time with Lawman: Bass Reeves.

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Middle East analyst and co-editor of Jadaliyya Mouin Rabbani joins Bad Faith to discuss his epic debate with politics streamer Destiny/Benny Morris, the post-World Central Kitchen "vibe shift" on Israel, and the gruesome revelation that Israel is using an AI program to generate "targets" to strike while they are at home with their families -- a.k.a. program "Daddy's Home."

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Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

The Tor Project announced the release of version 0.4.8.11 of the Tor server, which meant it was time for me to upgrade the two relays I run, one of which I set up last week.

In brief

Here’s my Conforguration method:

• I upgrade the version number to 0.4.8.11
• I hit C-c C-v t to “tangle” a shell script
• On a code block for copying scripts, I hit C-c C-c
• I ssh to the remote machine
• I run conforg/scripts/tor-install-system.sh
• I run conforg/scripts/tor-run.sh

Aside from the time to compile the code, this takes under one minute.

The explanation

As I said in my earlier post, I use my own Conforguration tool to handle this sort of thing. It uses Org to edit and manage shell scripts that I can run locally or on remote servers. The list above is a great example of how Org can make things much easier if you’ve set things up just the way you want them, while remaining cryptic to non-Org users. Here’s an explanation of most of what’s going on.

In the Tor section of Conforguration, first I set a variable with the version number I want to install. Today I updated it.

#+NAME: TOR_VERSION
| 0.4.8.11 |

Under Install, I have this code block:

#+begin_src shell :tangle conforg/scripts/tor-install-system.sh :shebang "#!/bin/bash" :var TOR_VERSION=TOR_VERSION
cd /usr/local/src/tor/
curl --location --remote-name https://dist.torproject.org/tor-${TOR_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file tor-${TOR_VERSION}.tar.gz
cd tor-${TOR_VERSION}
./configure && make && sudo make install
echo "Now run ~/conforg/scripts/tor-run.sh"
#+end_src

(I say tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file instead of tar xzvf because I like to use the most readable arguments in scripts. I do use short forms when I’m typing at the command line.)

The :tangle argument to the code block is covered under extracting source code in the manual. When I hit C-c C-v t (which runs org-babel-tangle) then that chunk of code is exported to the file named by the argument. It’s given a shebang and the TOR_VERSION variable is passed into it, resulting in this:

#!/bin/bash
  unset TOR_VERSION
  declare -a TOR_VERSION=( '0.4.8.11' )
  cd /usr/local/src/tor/
  curl --location --remote-name https://dist.torproject.org/tor-${TOR_VERSION}.tar.gz
  tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file tor-${TOR_VERSION}.tar.gz
  cd tor-${TOR_VERSION}
  ./configure && make && sudo make install
  echo "Now run ~/conforg/scripts/tor-run.sh"

Now I need to get that script to one of the machines where I run a Tor relay. In my ssh configuration it’s aliased to the name tor, so I go down to this section of Conforguration and hit C-c C-c on the code block to execute:

In plain text:

:PROPERTIES:
:header-args: :var hostname="tor"
:END:

#+begin_src shell :results silent :noweb yes
<<install-conforg-remotely>>
#+end_src

The angle bracket thing is noweb syntax, which allows me to use this snippet of code that’s set up earlier in the file, with the hostname variable passed in:

#+NAME: install-conforg-remotely
#+begin_src shell
rsync --archive --compress --delete ~/src/conforguration/conforg/ ${hostname}:conforg/
ssh ${hostname} "conforg/dotfiles/link-dotfiles.sh"
#+end_src

That pushes the scripts and dot files to the other machine and freshens the symlinks for all the dot files. In other words, it refreshes everything on the remote machine—all by hitting C-c C-c.

Now ~/conforg/scripts/tor-install-system.sh is on the other machine. I could execute it remotely from inside Conforguration, but it takes a while to run, so I like to log in to the other machine and do it locally. I ssh over and run:

conforg/scripts/tor-install-system.sh

It downloads the source code and compiles it. When it’s done, it finishes up by installing files on the system, and then ends with:

make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/tor/tor-0.4.8.11'
Now run ~/conforg/scripts/tor-run.sh

I run:

conforg/scripts/tor-run.sh

This detects that a Tor tmux session is running, kills it off while waiting for the Tor daemon to die nicely, then sets it up again. When it starts fresh, the new Tor server is running.

Another way

For my bridge running on another machine, I could do the upgrade the same way, but to match how I’d installed it I did it like this (after upgrading the version number and pushing the commit to the repository):

• cd src/conforguration
• git pull
• install/install.sh
• ~/conforg/scripts/tor-install-system.sh
• ~/conforg/scripts/tor-run.sh

There are other ways to handle configuration management and upgrading servers, but I’ve built one I really like.

Uma and Nick chat stupid local drama, an update of Julian Assange's trial and Europe reacts to Israeli airstrikes on WCK workers.

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Headlines for April 10, 2024; Arizona Supreme Court Revives 1864 Abortion Ban Passed Before Women Could Even Vote; Israel’s Ultimate Goal Is to Make Gaza Unfit for Human Habitation: Middle East Analyst Mouin Rabbani; Breaking the Silence: Israeli Army Veterans Tour U.S. & Canada to Speak Out Against Occupation

Danny and Derek again chat with Penny Von Eschen, William R. Kennan Jr. professor of American studies and professor of history at UVA, about her book Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989. This second part of the conversation picks up with Cold War nostalgia in American pop culture, the 90s search for a new “bad guy” in places like the DPRK/North Korea and the Balkans, the “kitschification” of the Cold War, ways this nostalgia manifested throughout the War on Terror, how U.S.-Russia relations were reshaped in the 1990s and 2000s, and the influences of this refracted view of the Cold War on the “New Cold War” dynamic we’re seeing today.

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Danny and Derek chat with Penny Von Eschen, William R. Kennan Jr. professor of American studies and professor of history at UVA, about her book Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989. In this first part of the discussion, the group explores the affective dimension of nostalgia, how the “end of history” and “clash of civilizations” narratives influenced U.S. policy starting in the 1990s, the post-Cold War malaise that took hold, and the proliferation of anti-government ideologies amidst a massive increase in military spending.

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