Episodes

  • Daniel-Day Lewis Returns!
    Nov 4 2024

    Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English actor.[1][2]Often described as one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema,[3][4][5][6] he is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2014, Day-Lewis received a knighthood for services to drama.[7]



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    19 mins
  • "Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better." Creating from Intelligent Failure with Professor Laurence Knell!
    Oct 14 2024

    Professor Laurence Knell has over 25 years' experience working in the consultancy, academia and the multinational sector in Ireland, Europe and Australia, delivering organizational change, strategic realignment and innovation. He is a director of Strategic Innovation Partners, a Dublin-based consultancy, and host of the Brain for Business podcast, an initiative exploring current research from the brain, behavioural and organisational sciences.


    Laurie has worked internationally with leaders and executives in a wide-range of sectors including technology, transportation, finance, pharmaceutical, FMCG, and agri-business. He has worked in an advisory capacity with organisations ranging from Irish SMEs and multinationals through to semi-state and statutory bodies.


    Laurie is an Adjunct Teaching Fellow at Trinity College teaching in the area of Leadership and Organisational Behaviour and is a Programme Director with the Irish Management Institute where he leads a number of graduate and executive education programmes.


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    51 mins
  • The Qawwali Jazz Connection: Explore the Combined Genius of John Coltrane and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan!
    Sep 17 2024

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    Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan PP (Punjabi: نصرت فتح علی خان, Punjabi pronunciation: [nʊsˈɾət̪ ˈfət̪e(ɦ) əliː ˈxɑːn]; born Pervez Fateh Ali Khan; 13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997), popularly abbreviated as NFAK was a Pakistani singer, songwriter, and music director. He was primarily a singer of qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music.[1] Often called the "Shahenshah-e-Qawwali" (the King of Kings of Qawwali),[2][3] he is considered by The New York Times to be the greatest Qawwali singer of all time.[4]


    John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.


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    19 mins
  • How to Prevent the Loss of Culture by the Upheaval of Political Machinations!
    Aug 28 2024

    The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture,[1] is a concert overture in E♭ major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The piece commemorates Russia's successful defense against the French invasion of the nation in 1812.


    The overture debuted in Moscow on 20 August [O.S. 8 August] 1882,[2] conducted by Ippolit Al'tani under a tent near the then-almost-finished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, which also memorialised the 1812 defense of Russia.[3]


    The fifteen-minute overture is best known for its climactic volley of cannon fire, ringing chimes, and a brass fanfare finale. It has also become a common accompaniment to fireworks displays on the United States' Independence Day.[4] The 1812 Overture went on to become one of Tchaikovsky's most popular works, along with his ballet scores to The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, and Swan Lake.[5]


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    19 mins
  • The Romance of the Troubadour and the Wildness of the Road with the Von Erichs and the Iron Claw!
    Aug 12 2024

    The Iron Claw is a 2023 biographical sports drama film written and directed by Sean Durkin about the Von Erichs, a family of professional wrestlers who are "cursed" by tragedy. The film depicts the struggles of wrestling company owner Fritz Von Erich's sons to achieve the success for which their father groomed them, from 1979 to the early 1990s.


    The film stars Zac Efron as Kevin Von Erich alongside Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, Stanley Simons, Holt McCallany, and Lily James as other members of the family, and is titled after the "iron claw," an in-ring signature move of the Von Erichs.


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    19 mins
  • Lessons in Vision Creation and Stoic Persistence from the Godfather!
    Aug 1 2024
    The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title. The film stars an ensemble cast including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy, chronicling the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) from 1945 to 1955. It focuses on the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.

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    15 mins
  • Beethoven in the Sheldonian with Vitto Bruni!
    Jul 15 2024
    Bagatelle No. 25[a] in A minor for solo piano, commonly known as "Für Elise" (For Elise), is one of Ludwig van Beethoven's most popular compositions.[1][2][3] It was not published during his lifetime, only being discovered (by Ludwig Nohl) 40 years after his death, and may be termed either a Bagatelle or an Albumblatt. The identity of "Elise" is unknown; researchers have suggested Therese Malfatti, Elisabeth Röckel, or Elise Barensfeld.

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    11 mins
  • The Godfather of Ireland; Douglas Hyde!
    Jun 24 2024
    Douglas Ross Hyde MRIA (Irish: Dubhghlas de hÍde; 17 January 1860 – 12 July 1949), known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn (lit. transl. the pleasant little branch), was an Irish academic, linguist, scholar of the Irish language, politician, and diplomat who served as the first President of Ireland rom June 1938 to June 1945. He was a leading figure in the Gaelic Revival, and the first President of the Gaelic League, one of the most influential cultural organisations in Ireland at the time.

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    23 mins