The Commonwealth Matters is a 28-minute weekly program on issues and events that affect Kentuckians. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/commonwealth-matters/support
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Poetry from around the world! A fortnightly celebration of Poetry and The Commonwealth - where award winning podcaster Gyles Brandreth and his daughter Aphra visit each of the 56 countries of the Commonwealth, meeting poets, performers and people who love poetry and discovering new poems each episode.
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The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's largest public affairs forum. The nonpartisan and nonprofit Club produces and distributes programs featuring diverse viewpoints from thought leaders on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast — the oldest in the U.S., since 1924 — is carried on hundreds of stations. Our website features audio and video of our programs. This podcast feed is usually updated multiple times each week.
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Learn the real issues behind the headlines of legal hot topics with internationally-known faculty at Widener Law Commonwealth. Legal scholars break-down complex legal issues and provide insight about immigration, business law, and sustainability. Looking to go to law school? Valuable tips on topics ranging from law school admissions to financial aid and bar exam preparation will be given by our team of dedicated administrative staff. Visit commonwealthlaw.widener.edu/podcast for more informa ...
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The Commonwealth’s Emerging Tech and Ideas podcast is a show on how emerging technology is impacting people living on low and moderate incomes. In each episode, Tim Flacke the Executive Director of Commonwealth talks with a financial services leader who is innovating and thinking deeply on this topic.
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Two Native Kentuckians discuss Kentucky based true crime, urban legends, scandals, and more.
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World music from the Commonwealth countries for BBC Radio 3’s World on 3, Fridays. Musicians, sportspeople and cultural figures introduce music recorded on location.
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[This show is on hiatus.] In the meantime, check out our latest podcast project ’Dad to Me’ via: https://open.spotify.com/show/5MH7N6bLuXRROEq8R4Fith
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We are a church planting in downtown San diego, California. This podcast chronicles our learnings and stories as we journey toward planting Commonwealth this year.
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A podcast dedicated to those that use property investing to grow wealth in the great commonwealth of Kentucky, as well as the people that help make that happen. New episodes every Monday.
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Greetings and welcome. Be enthralled by traditional tales of fairies, pixies, ghosts, witches, devils and much more, taken from the traditional folklore books of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
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Parliamentary Conversations in the Commonwealth, a podcast by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), gives a voice to parliamentarians, civil society experts and activists across the Commonwealth to discuss common democratic challenges and share their ideas on what can be done to solve them. The CPA promotes knowledge of the constitutional, legislative, economic, social and cultural aspects of parliamentary democracy. Our work enables Commonwealth Parliamentarians and officials to ...
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“An important book that will transform how we think about being human. . . . that will inspire hope.”—Jane Goodall Many people in today’s world seek to reclaim the soul-deepening wildness that grounds them and energizes them when so much of the modern world seems designed to tame them. In his thrilling memoir of a life spent exploring the most incr…
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In this fortnight’s episode Gyles and Aphra Brandreth’s journey around the Commonwealth takes them to Togo, a West African country with a 32 mile coastline along the Gulf of Guinea. Togo is one of the newest members of the Commonwealth having joined in 2022. Speaking with award winning poet and playwright Dr Patron Henekou they discover more about …
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Politicians are now talking about taxes since it's an election year. Those on the right generally want to lower taxes, and those on the left want to raise them. And we as citizens usually think we pay too much. Joining us this week to talk about taxes is Dr. Brian Domitrovic, a scholar at the Laffer Center for Supply-Side Economics and a co-author …
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#67 | Cafecito with LALSA Episode 5 Featuring Widener Law Commonwealth Moms
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Cafecito with LALSA (Latin American Law Student Association) is a student run podcast where traditional and non-traditional law students come together to share their unique journeys through law school. Hear the voices of minority students as they discuss their challenges and triumphs, and listen to diverse perspectives on a wide range of topics. Tu…
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Nellie Bowles: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
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When the revolution comes . . . what next? As a Hillary voter, New York Times reporter, and frequenter of her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends—until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking…
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15th Annual Mineta National Transportation Policy Summit—Beyond the Pump: Rethinking Transportation Funding Without the Fuel Tax
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While the climate benefits from booming electric vehicle sales, the nation’s transportation system faces an unfortunate predicament: less gasoline and diesel purchased means dwindling fuel tax revenue. Fuel tax revenue provides a core funding source for operating, maintaining, and improving transportation systems, so policymakers must find a replac…
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Summer is coming soon, and for many that means vacation. While traveling far and wide can be an amazing experience, the carbon cost of traveling is significant. But what if we could rekindle a sense of awe in our own neighborhoods? After years of extreme expeditions all over the world, adventurer Alastair Humphreys spent a year exploring the detail…
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Climate Vanguard: Youth-Powered Litigation at Our Children's Trust
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Our Children’s Trust (OCT) was founded in 2010 on the idea that courts are vital to democracy and empowered to protect our children and the planet. Without a stable climate system, every natural resource we rely upon to exercise our basic human rights—life, liberty, home, happiness—is under threat. In this conversation, you'll hear from Mat dos San…
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Karen Valby and Karlya Shelton-Benjamin: The Swans of Harlem
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Learn about the forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their 50-year sisterhood, a legacy unknown—until now. At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Lydia Abarca was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company—the Dance Theatre of Harlem, a troupe of women and men who became each other’s chosen f…
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An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests. After years of biopsies, sociologist and bestselling author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy. But, after her reconstructive surgery, she was perplexed: What had she lost? And gained? An experienced sleuth, she resolved to ventur…
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Sean Carroll: Exploring Quanta and Fields
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Ready for an adventure into the “bare stuff of reality”? Join us for a special online program when theoretical physicist Sean Carroll returns to the Club on the occasion of the publication of his new book Quanta and Fields, the second book of his internationally acclaimed series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. Quantum field theory is how modern …
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Natalie Foster with Darrick Hamilton: The Guarantee
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Can you imagine an America where housing, health care, a college education, dignified work, family care, an inheritance, and an income floor are not only attainable by all but guaranteed, by our government, for everyone? But isn’t this pie-in-the-sky thinking? Not by a long shot, according to Natalie Foster, co-founder of the Economic Security Proj…
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Batya Ungar-Sargo: The Working Class and the American Dream
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Who is the American working class? Do they still have a fair shot at the American Dream? What do they think about their chances to secure the hallmarks of a middle-class life? Newsweek’s Batya Ungar-Sargon visited states across the nation to speak with members of the American working-class fighting tooth and nail to survive. In her new book Second …
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At age 9, Nalleli Cobo, suffering headaches, heart palpitations, nosebleeds, and body spasms, became an activist, driven to fighting to close the local oil well responsible for her ailments. In 2022, at age 20, she won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work shutting down toxic wells throughout the Los Angeles region. The same year…
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Ari Berman: Minority Rule and Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Democracy
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“The will of the people,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1801, “is the only legitimate foundation of any government.” But that foundation is crumbling. Join us as journalist Ari Berman describes what he calls a decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power―and the movement to stop them. The mob th…
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Early voting for the primary election begins tomorrow (May 16th) and primary election day is May 21st. How should Christians think through the important issues this election season, and how can Christians vote in a way that honors God? Joining us this week to talk about these questions is Brent Leatherwood, President of the Ethics & Religious Liber…
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In this episode Gyles and Aphra Brandreth meet Tanzanian poet Neema Komba. Neema shares her poetry journey, from a terrible event that took place as a teenage girl in a hospital, to the point that she discovered poetry as a way to express herself, to becoming the co-founder of La Poetista, a platform for poets and other performing artists to showca…
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Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that they’re massive climate polluters too. The production of plastics alone produces about 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. After what is often a single use, the resulting waste continues releasing the gr…
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Early voting for the primary election begins next week. How should Christians engage the public arena, and how should they form views on public policy and candidates? Joining us to talk about this important topic is Dr. Andrew T. Walker, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Public Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. We als…
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Week to Week Political Roundtable: February 22, 2024
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As usual with Week to Week, our panelists will discuss the latest political developments in an informed, civil (and fun) manner. See other upcoming Week to Week political roundtables, as well as audio and video of past Week to Week programs. This program contains EXPLICIT content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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The Philippines has traditionally been seen as a gateway to Southeast Asia and a strong ally of the United States in the Pacific. The country’s natural beauty and endowment have attracted many to its shores but have brought opportunities and challenges to the nation as well. Learn about its continued march toward economic development and as an arch…
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