Parhaat Current Affairs Podcastit (2023)

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Current Affairs

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Lessons for Today's Movements from the Radical "Young Lords" (w/ Johanna Fernández) 52:32

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Johanna Fernández is a historian of social movements who is the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History, a deeply researched history of one of the most vibrant and fascinating social movements of the 20th century. From their origins as a Chicago street gang in the early 60s, the Young Lords became an effective grassroots radical movement, the …

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Almost three quarters of Slovaks were stressed last year (27.11.2023 16:00) 23:50

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In this show, Patrícia Arpášová talks to psychologist Slavomíra Trebuňáková about stress, its symptoms and what can help stressed people. We will provide travelling news and tips for trips around Slovakia. At the end of our show, we will continue with our Monday bonus feature called TOP SPOT.Kirjoittanut RTVS

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (27.11.2023 16:00)

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In this show, Patrícia Arpášová talks to psychologist Slavomíra Trebuňáková about stress, its symptoms and what can help stressed people. We will provide travelling news and tips for trips around Slovakia. At the end of our show, we will continue with our Monday bonus feature called TOP SPOT.

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Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

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Church of England Approves Gay Blessings 1:36:12

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Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the significant affairs of church and state. This time: - "Far right" anarcho-capitalist extremist Javier Milei is elected as Argentina's new President. - Ethnic Street Preachers share the message of Jesus's love with Anti-Israel protestors and are cond…

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Here's How ::: Ireland's Political, Social and Current Affairs Podcast

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Here’s How 167 – Holes in the Net 40:41

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Aubrey McCarthy is the founder and chairman of Tiglin, a charity that provides services to homeless people. ***** I listen to podcasts quite a bit in arrears. I’m not too worried about being current, I suppose, and I was just listening to a David McWilliams podcast from August, he was talking about the banks, not […]…

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MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs

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How Canada Diddles While The World Burns: A Climate Check-in (ep 333) 45:04

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This week, yet another ‘mini’ INDIGENA (the fast + furious version of MEDIA INDIGENA), with some world-wide words for our 333rd episode (!!!), recorded the evening of Sunday, November 12th. No doubt sub-consciously inspired by the recent 5-year(ish) anniversary of our deep discussion of the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) repo…

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Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs

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The Matrix 1:02:35

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In Episode 6 of Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs, Clare and Masha enter the world of the Matrix, considering the themes of AI, authenticity, authoritarianism, and aesthetic. Join in and decide whether you would dare to take the red pill.Kirjoittanut Clare Coombe

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (26.11.2023 16:00)

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Martina and Ben check out the preperations for the upcoming Christmas Market, they discuss what is happening in Slovakia Today, read your letters and of course play some music for you.

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (25.11.2023 16:00)

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Saturday pick of the week.

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Current Affairs

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How Right-Wing Propaganda Gives People "Brain Worms" (w/ Adam Glenn) 41:17

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Adam Glenn is a Current Affairs reader who has produced a free online book called Brain Worms: How Right-Wing Propaganda Destroys Reason, Conscience, and Democracy. Today he joins to discuss how (and why) to engage with conservative arguments (which Nathan does a lot as well). The text of Adam's book usefully explains in plain language the flaws in…

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (24.11.2023 16:00)

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Ben and Patka visit the gallery in the upside down pyramid, read letters from listeners and play some music for you.

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Listener's Tribune (24.11.2023 16:00) 24:08

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Ben and Patka visit the gallery in the upside down pyramid, read letters from listeners and play some music for you.Kirjoittanut RTVS

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (23.11.2023 16:00)

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Artist Maureen Shea talks about her residency in Slovakia, the homecountry of her grandparents. Late musician Igor Bazlik composed 2000 easy listening songs. Culture news feature Daniel Raiskin, the chief conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic, inviting to their concerts in South Korea.

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Artist Maureen Shea's Residency in Slovakia. Composer Igor Bazlik died. (23.11.2023 16:00) 24:53

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Artist Maureen Shea talks about her residency in Slovakia, the homecountry of her grandparents. Late musician Igor Bazlik composed 2000 easy listening songs. Culture news feature Daniel Raiskin, the chief conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic, inviting to their concerts in South Korea.Kirjoittanut RTVS

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Current Affairs

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Banishing the "Bootstraps" Mythology from American Life (w/ Alissa Quart) 37:16

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Alissa Quart is the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and the author of the new book Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream. Her book looks at the cruelty of the myths of being "self-made" or "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps." In the first part of her book, Quart examines the works of Emerson, …

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (22.11.2023 16:00)

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Interview with Martina Horňáková about Slovak and Romani linguistics and phraseology. Cultural and academic tips for events in middle and eastern Slovakia.

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Romani and Slovak linguistics. Events in middle and eastern Slovakia (22.11.2023 16:00) 22:22

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Interview with Martina Horňáková about Slovak and Romani linguistics and phraseology. Cultural and academic tips for events in middle and eastern Slovakia.Kirjoittanut RTVS

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (21.11.2023 16:00)

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Ben Pascoe sits down with historian Julia Itin to talk about her new book which looks at the tiles found all around Bratislava and what they teach us about the history of Bratislava.

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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If the tiles could talk (21.11.2023 16:00) 30:44

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Ben Pascoe sits down with historian Julia Itin to talk about her new book which looks at the tiles found all around Bratislava and what they teach us about the history of Bratislava.Kirjoittanut RTVS

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Current Affairs

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How Come "Everyone Is Beautiful But Nobody is Horny"? (w/ R.S. Benedict) 44:22

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R.S. Benedict is a speculative fiction writer whose popular 2021 essay "Everyone Is Beautiful But Nobody is Horny," published in Blood Knife, argued that the disappearance of sex from movies is linked to wider cultural trends toward the celebration of militarism and violence, the shunning of hedonistic pleasure, a utilitarian disdain for frivolous …

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Earthquakes in Slovakia (20.11.2023 16:00) 22:59

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Eastern Slovakia was struck by an earthquake at the beginning of October 2023. In this show, we will talk about earthquakes in the area of Slovakia with seismologist and Professor Peter Moczo as well as with eyewitnesses of the mentioned earthquake in 2023. We will provide travelling news and tips for trips around Slovakia. At the end of our show, …

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (20.11.2023 16:00)

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Eastern Slovakia was struck by an earthquake at the beginning of October 2023. In this show, we will talk about earthquakes in the area of Slovakia with seismologist and Professor Peter Moczo as well as with eyewitnesses of the mentioned earthquake in 2023. We will provide travelling news and tips for trips around Slovakia. At the end of our show, …

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (19.11.2023 16:00)

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Sundays are about our listeners. Ben and Patka visit the Rozhlas gallery, read letters, play music and talk about what is happening in Slovakia today.

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (18.11.2023 16:00)

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Saturday pick of the week.

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Current Affairs

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How the U.S. "War on Terror" Spread Islamophobia Around the World (w/ Khaled Beydoun) 46:58

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Khaled Beydoun is a professor of law at Wayne State and the author of two books, American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear and The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims. American Islamophobia is a definitive analysis of the roots and spread of anti-Muslim animus in the United States, but The New Crusades exp…

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (17.11.2023 16:00)

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A phone call linking Bratislava with Prague on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution opens a special program in which Martina, Ben and Martin are discussing not only the change of the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia but also revolutionary events in personal lives of listeners of Radio Slovakia International.…

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Nov 17 Special: Between Bratislava and Prague about the Velvet Revolution (17.11.2023 16:00) 22:02

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A phone call linking Bratislava with Prague on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution opens a special program in which Martina, Ben and Martin are discussing not only the change of the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia but also revolutionary events in personal lives of listeners of Radio Slovakia International.…

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Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

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Remembrance Ruckus 1:55:04

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Church of England revs with a difference Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about all the big issues of church and state. This time: - "Football Lads" and anti-Israel protestors clash in Remembrance Day controversy. - Astra-Zeneca vaccine branded "defective" in landmark legal case. - CofE General Synod continues debate on sex and mar…

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Invitation to queer films festival in Bratislava. Famous Martins. Culture news. (16.11.2023 16:00) 25:44

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Inviting to the festival of queer films in Bratislava through their feature film "We have never been modern" are director Matej Chlupacek and script writer Miro Sifra. "Slovak namedays" series present some of the most familiar Martins in this country. Culture tips of this week feature Dosky, the critics award for the top theatre production of the l…

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (16.11.2023 16:00)

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Inviting to the festival of queer films in Bratislava through their feature film "We have never been modern" are director Matej Chlupacek and script writer Miro Sifra. "Slovak namedays" series present some of the most familiar Martins in this country. Culture tips of this week feature Dosky, the critics award for the top theatre production of the l…

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Current Affairs

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Where "Effective Altruism" and "Longtermism" Go Wrong (w/ Émile Torres) 55:39

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Émile P. Torres is an intellectual historian who has recently become a prominent public critic of the ideologies of "effective altruism" and "longtermism," each of which is highly influential in Silicon Valley and which Émile argues contain worrying dystopian tendencies. In this conversation, Émile joins to explain what these ideas are, why the peo…

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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On becoming Slovak (15.11.2023 16:00) 26:48

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An interview with two foreigners, Richard Swales and James Stevko, about their experiences with Slovak citizenship. Richard, from the UK, acquired citizenship after 17 years of living in Slovakia. James from America is applying for citizenship based on his ancestry.Kirjoittanut RTVS

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (15.11.2023 16:00)

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An interview with two foreigners, Richard Swales and James Stevko, about their experiences with Slovak citizenship. Richard, from the UK, acquired citizenship after 17 years of living in Slovakia. James from America is applying for citizenship based on his ancestry.

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Interview with Peter Janura, a Canadian diplomat born in Slovakia (14.11.2023 16:00) 28:20

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Ben Pascoe has coffee with Peter Janura, a Canadian diplomat who was born in Slovakia and has returned with his family to spend his sabatical here.Kirjoittanut RTVS

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (14.11.2023 16:00)

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Ben Pascoe has coffee with Peter Janura, a Canadian diplomat who was born in Slovakia and has returned with his family to spend his sabatical here.

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Current Affairs

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How to Manipulate The Public Into Believing Corporate Lies (w/ Jennifer Jacquet) 42:10

15d ago42:10

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Jennifer Jacquet is not actually an evil corporate consultant. She's a professor in NYU's Department of Environmental Studies and deputy director of the school's Center for Environmental and Animal Protection. But you might think otherwise if you flipped open her book The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate…

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (13.11.2023 16:00)

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The analysis from October 2023 showed that Slovakia has the most expensive groceries within V4 countries. At the same time, Slovaks are wasting them. In this show, we will take a look at food wasting, possibilities of sharing or donating it and on sorting organic waste in Slovakia. Patrícia Arpášová talks to Eva Sadovská (analyst from Wood & Compan…

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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How much food is wasted in Slovakia? (13.11.2023 16:00) 21:52

15d ago21:52

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The analysis from October 2023 showed that Slovakia has the most expensive groceries within V4 countries. At the same time, Slovaks are wasting them. In this show, we will take a look at food wasting, possibilities of sharing or donating it and on sorting organic waste in Slovakia. Patrícia Arpášová talks to Eva Sadovská (analyst from Wood & Compan…

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (12.11.2023 16:00)

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In this mailbox show, we take you to now iconic places of the Velvet Revolution not only in Bratislava but also in Prague, the capital of 1989 Czechoslovakia. Ben picks out iconic Velvet Revolution tunes.

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

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Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (11.11.2023 16:00)

17d ago

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Saturday pick of the week.

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Current Affairs

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How U.S. Foreign Policy Is Making War With China More Likely (w/ Van Jackson) 50:46

18d ago50:46

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Van Jackson is a dissident among foreign policy intellectuals, a harsh critic of the infamous "Blob." His Un-Diplomatic newsletter is essential reading (and its accompanying podcast essential listening), and his analyses of U.S. policy in the Pacific in Foreign Affairs are very useful for those who want to understand what is going on in the region.…

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