She put the hot dumpling, dripping with Apricot syrup, in my mouth and I struggled to roll it around in my mouth to stop it burning. “Now bite.” When I did as I was told,… The hot dumpling erupted in my mouth dripping syrup
William Dalrymple in The Anarchy describes the English envoy’s ungracious acknowledgement that the Indian Mughals were less than impressed by the fledgling nation’s glory. The painting by court artist Bichitr shows the Sultan listening attentively… Jahangir prefers Sufis to kings
Unusually, The Partisan is someone else’s song made famous by Leonard Cohen. We are used to other people covering his songs – in fact many people have no idea who wrote Halleleujah, for example. The… The Partisans
We run from the priest’s house to the cobbler’s house. His windowpanes are broken; his door is smashed in. Inside, everything has been ransacked. Filthy words are written on the walls. An old woman is… Grandmother’s Apples
We breathe the air. It’s kinda important. Three items from the Radio Cut The Bee Gees – Have you seen my wife Mr Jones about miners stuck on a coal mine. The first written account… 02 Air – Part 2
It had to happen. Dad puts air on-air. Here’s the radio cut. As well as sound pieces about air, wind, storms and the like I have lined up contributions to our regular segments, Blazer of… 02 Air – Radio cut pt 1
The venerable ancient ticks off another element. This week it’s water. The blazer of glory is the hi-vis vest. It’s Time 4A StoryTime Story is the tale of the crusading kayak going up the flooded… MetaDad does Water
Geoff Ebbs uses Twiggy Forrest and Barnaby Joyce, in their respective cow paddocks, to tell the truth on greenhouse gas emission. “Always an instant conversation killer,” Geoff says. An irreverent overview of the topic, Geoff… Men with cows
So, 502 years ago in Technotitlan (now known as Mexico City) Cortes met Montezuma in a major episode of the European conquest of the globe with the pope’s blessing in the form of the Doctrine… Cortes & Montezuma