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Actor Dominic Gerrard hosts an exciting new series that explores the Life and Times of Charles Dickens: his extraordinary novels, who he was as a person, his career as a performer, and his activism. Guests include: Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Armando Iannucci, Alice Loxton, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Lucinda Hawksley, John Mullan, Pen Vogler, Andrew Davies, Rosie Holt, Bernard Cornwell .... and many more academics, writers, actors, directors and descendants of the great man himself! Along ...
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The Night Mail Podcast

Gerry Marletta & Tony Pikramenos

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According to Yankee Dictionary: A Compendium of Useful and Entertaining Expressions Indigenous to New England, by Charles Haywood, “night mail” is the name “given to a New England through train that rattles across the countryside during the hours of darkness with its sleeping cars, mail, express, a smoker, and a coach with a few dozing lumberjacks and college boys traveling cheap, with perhaps a milk car or two on the head end.”In that same amiable spirit, we’d like to present The Night Mail ...
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The Counterflow Podcast is a weekly show featuring discussions and interviews with people who are outside of and critical toward mainstream liberal and conservative politics. Counterflow challenges the conventional narratives sold to us as truth. The show features thinkers from all backgrounds, who do not fit into the narrow framework of fashionable opinion. The show addresses cultural, spiritual and lifestyle issues as well as philosophy and geo-politics. Host Buck Johnson (formerly of the ...
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Super Necessary

Super Necessary Podcast | Age of Radio Melee

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Combat sports podcast coming out of Liverpool, Merseyside. Just two mates, hosts Kieran and Jay, discussing various combat sports topics and events.
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Christopher Lasch's famous exposition of the false claims of progress, and of what the alternatives are to an unthinking slavish devotion to "progress." A book that was before its time in 1991, but the moment of which may have come. The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/03/04/the-true-and-only-heaven-…
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My guest this week is Maximum Leader over at TheWorthyHouse.com, Charles Haywood. I still enjoy chatting about politics, and this current moment we are in is like no other in my lifetime. Charles is here to help break it all down, from the massive defeat of the Left, to Trump, Elon, Vance, Gabbard, and the whole new facelift of the political power …
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My guest this week is the priest at https://www.sttimothy.net and the head man at https://deathtotheworld.com. We are discussing the battleground where unseen and spiritual warfare takes place. We also talk about the weapons the Church gives us in this battle. Fr. John gets into the soul after death, Fr. Seraphim Rose, the Saints, Great Lent, and t…
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TIMETABLE: Intro: 0:00 Opening Theme: 0:51 Welcome Mat: 1:33 Town Meeting History: 2:27 History of Rap: 4:09 Happenings & House Cleaning: 5:06 Fiscal Year Confusion: 11:01 Tax Exempt Orgs: 12:09 Okemo Valley TV: 17:55 World Record: 22:15 See-Sawing Budget: 23:39 The Informer: 25:28 Delinquent Tax Report: 36:31 Grasshopper Lane Bridge: 44:13 Selectb…
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My guest this week writes at and is a priest in the Orthodox Church. He is Father Zechariah Lynch. Fr. Zechariah and I get into the issue of Christians resisting evil... or not. If we call out something as wrong, evil, or dangerous, some are quick to tell us that we are being judgmental and not very Christian. Are we to be pacifists and let people …
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A classic work about religion, law, and governance in pre-history, and how those structures formed the Greece and Rome we know. The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/02/18/the-ancient-city-numa-denis-fustel-de-coulanges/). We strongly encourage, in these days of censorship and deplatforming, all reade…
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Why the golden calf of Gross Domestic Product should be rejected as a measure of America's flourishing. The written version of this review was first published in The American Mind, and can be found here (https://americanmind.org/salvo/golden-calf-of-the-grand-old-party/) We strongly encourage, in these days of censorship and deplatforming, all read…
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Kara Mosher is our guest this week, and we are discussing her wild journeys that ultimately led her to the Orthodox Church. Her new book, "Here Comes Trouble", is a very good read filled with interesting stories, some of which we cover in this episode. Kara was deep into the occult as well as being a psychic medium. Once she discovered the reality …
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TIMETABLE: Intro: 0:00 Opening Theme: 0:38 Welcome Mat: 1:23 Mailbag: 2:30 Ephemerals (w/ Stephen D'Agostino): 4:24 Recs & Reviews: 33:10 Extinct Local Products: 42:17 Local Egg Shortage: 43:21 Challenger Feed Is What You Need: 44:24 Reading Review Review: 45:14 Intermission: 58:24 Happenings: 59:19 Reader’s Corner: 1:02:36 Public Domain Performanc…
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Send us a text Today’s episode is A Tale of Two Podcasts where Dominic teams up with Jordan Evans-Hill: creator and host of the Charles Dickens Museum’s Inimitable podcast. Here Jordan takes the listener on a tour inside number 48 Doughty St - the house where Dickens lived and worked as he completed Pickwick, wrote the entirety of Oliver Twist & Ni…
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Today, my friend George Michalopulos is back on the show to discuss the themes in his new book, "For Fear of the Angels: Who Were the Sons of God in Genesis 6 1-4?" We get into the main theories regarding this question. We discuss how angels have come and interacted with humans, what these angels were about, the Nephalim, the giants, Cain, The Book…
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The second volume in Ronald Hutton's trilogy biography of Oliver Cromwell. And of how England could sure use a new Cromwell as of this moment. The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/02/03/oliver-cromwell-commander-in-chief-ronald-hutton/). We strongly encourage, in these days of censorship and deplatfo…
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Today, I have Fr. John Whiteford and Jim Jatras back on the show. We are breaking down and answering critiques that were presented by Pastor Joel Webbon, Pastor J. Chase Davis, and others in a podcast from Right Response Ministries called "Why Young Men Are Flocking To Eastern Orthodoxy" (). Right Response Ministries is a Protestant group, and they…
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Of the life and death of the Leviathan state of Thomas Hobbes, and much else besides, as always with Carl Schmitt, including how the end of that state led to the administrative/managerial state and the triumph of destructive, soulless technique. The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/01/29/the-leviatha…
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TIMETABLE: Opening Theme: 0:00 The Welcome Mat: 0:44 Pastor Christian Huebner Intro: 1:30 Where He Grew Up: 3:13 Calling to the Ministry: 4:46 His Parent’s Faith: 7:07 Love of Music: 8:40 College & Seminary: 10:14 Brownsville Church: 14:25 The War of the Bells: 15:11 More on the Brownsville Church: 16:50 Five Ways to Measure Church Health: 19:07 A …
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Father Peter Heers is back on the show, and we are discussing the themes in the book, "On the Reception of the Heterodox Into the Orthodox Church", published by Uncut Mountain Press. There are some converts to Orthodoxy who want to be baptized into the Church, yet they are told their previous baptism was just fine, so they only need Chrismation. Is…
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Of empires and their fall, and whether America can or should remain an empire, or become just a nation again. The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/01/21/the-martian-generals-daughter-theodore-judson/) We strongly encourage, in these days of censorship and deplatforming, all readers to bookmark our ma…
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TIMETABLE: Intro: 0:00 Opening Theme: 0:14 Chew the Fat: 0:59 Happy Anniversary: 2:55 Welcome Mat: 3:28 Twixmas Recap: 4:24 Loose Threads: 11:12 The Reading Rambler: 13:24 The Reading Rambler Hits the Road: 52:59 Bumper: 53:13 The Boys Are Concerned about Their Health: 53:16 Extinct Local Products: 1:03:45 Reading Review Review: 1:04:55 From the At…
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My guest this week runs the fantastic YouTube channel, Unto Ages. We are discussing a much used term that is based in an obvious contradiction: Judeo-Christianity. Why are these two words combined to mean something coherent when they aren't at all the same? It may seem trivial to some, but it's having very negative effects on geopolitics. It's also…
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Send us a text Dominic has helped create a sister podcast to mark the 250th Anniversary of Jane Austen's birth! A Jane Austen Year is told by the people that work at Jane Austen’s House - the idyllic Hampshire cottage, in the south of England, where Jane Austen wrote her world famous novels. On the first of every month a new episode of letters, sce…
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Happy new year! I'm happy to bring you the first episode of 2025, and I'm glad to have Joe Gillespie joining me. Joe is the writer over at . We are discussing a theme that runs through a few of his pieces there ( and ), and that is the culture of narcissism that is rampant in our modern society. Because of social media, we see it much more often th…
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Send us a text Welcome to Part Two of Dominic and John Bowen's journey through A Christmas Carol ... With readings again from Hollie Hales and violin parts performed by Alexis Bennett. HAPPY CHRISTMAS !!! Support the show If you'd like to make a donation to support the costs of producing this series you can buy 'coffees' right here https://www.buym…
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Of the Red Stick War of 1813, and of the American Indian, past and future. The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2024/12/28/a-brutal-reckoning-andrew-jackson-the-creek-indians-and-the-epic-war-for-the-american-south-peter-cozzens/) We strongly encourage, in these days of censorship and deplatforming, all r…
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Send us a text It’s Christmas Eve, and Dominic takes a deep dive with you all through A Christmas Carol. Returning to the series is the inimitable Prof. John Bowen (who recently worked on David Edgar’s Carol adaptation for the RSC) and who like many of us, re-reads this ghostly little book every Christmas and has pondered its power and meaning for …
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Send us a text *This episode focuses on the theme of domestic violence* Dominic shares a bonus fragment from his last interview with Dr. Lydia Craig on The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain ... It is a moment in the story where Redlaw comes across ‘a woman sitting on the stairs, either asleep or forlorn’ and ‘whose head’ is ‘bent down on her hand…
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