The John Batchelor Show

The John Batchelor Show

The John Batchelor Show is a hard news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. Based in New York City for two decades, the show has travelled widely to report, from the Middle East to the South Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula and East Asia.

Episodes

July 19, 2025 11 mins
ANNEXING GREENLAND AND THE VIKING GHOSTS:     3/8: Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age Hardcover – August 29, 2024 

1890 GREENLAND
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ANNEXING GREENLAND AND THE VIKING GHOSTS:     2/8: Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age Hardcover – August 29, 2024
1874 GREELAND 

https://www.amazon.com/Embers-Hands-Eleanor-Barraclough/dp/1788166744

magine a Viking, and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless, faceless warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorise the hapless local population of a northern Europe...
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ANNEXING GREENLAND AND THE VIKING GHOSTS:     1/8: Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age Hardcover – August 29, 2024
by  Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough  (Author)

1770 GREENLAND

https://www.amazon.com/Embers-Hands-Eleanor-Barraclough/dp/1788166744

magine a Viking, and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless, faceless warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terror...
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PREVIEW: "EMBERS OF THE HANDS: HIDDEN HISTORIES OF THE VIKING AGE" BY ELEANOR BARRACLOUGH answers the question, why did the Norsemen go "viking"? More to come.
1790 GREENLAND
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PREVIEW: "EMBERS OF THE HANDS: HIDDEN HISTORIES OF THE VIKING AGE" asks to consider the Norsemen were not heathen but rather rational actors. Why were Norsemen called "heathen"? More to come.
1777 GREENLAND
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BEFORE ANNAPOLIS:  4/4: Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation by  Richard Snow  (Author)

1865 JULES VERNE, "THE BLOCKADE RUNNERS"
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BEFORE ANNAPOLIS:  3/4: Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation by  Richard Snow  (Author)

1840
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BEFORE ANNAPOLIS:  2/4: Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation by  Richard Snow  (Author)


1861 HMS GEORGE 91 GUNS.
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BEFORE ANNAPOLIS:  1/4: Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation by  Richard Snow  (Author)


https://www.amazon.com/Sailing-Graveyard-Sea-Deathly-Gripped/dp/1982185449

On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in the New York Harbor at the end of a voyage intended to teach a group of adolescents the...
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SHOW SCHEDULE 7-18-25. THE SHOW BEGINS IN A BORING COMPANY TUNNEL IN LAS VEGAS...

1955 SANDS

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 #PACIFICWATCH: #VEGASREPORT: BORING COMPANY AT WORK. @JCBLISS 9:15-9:30 ITALY: MONA LISA BACKGROUND. Lorenzo Fiori. 9:30-9:45 IRS: WEALTH LEFT OUT. Richard Epstein.9:45-10:00 TARIFFS: BEFORE THE COURTS. Richard Epstein.

SECOND HOUR 1...
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INTERSTELLAR. 31/ATLAS BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
SUMMER 1940
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AXIOM: AND TICKET PRICES. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
OCTOBER 1957
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TRINITY TEST: AND NONPROLIFERATION. HENRY SOKOLSKI CONTINUED
1945 TRINITY TEST
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TRINITY TEST: AND NONPROLIFERATION. HENRY SOKOLSKI
1945 TRINITY TEST

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FOUNDERS; PAINTED BY JOHN TRUMBULL. WILLIAM ANTHONY HAY, CIVITAS. CONTINUED
1790 DEATH OF GENERAL MERCER, TRUMBULL
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FOUNDERS; PAINTED BY JOHN TRUMBULL. WILLIAM ANTHONY HAY, CIVITAS.
JEFFERSON, FRANKLIN
1820
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UKRAINE; CONTINUES IS THE EASIEST. ANATOL LIEVEN. CONTIN1859UED

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UKRAINE; CONTINUES IS THE EASIEST. ANATOL LIEVEN, QUINCY.
1854 ODESA
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AMERICA: AND THE YOUNG DOUBTERS. DAVID ROSE, CIVITAS CONTINUED
1910 HARVARD 0, YALE 0
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AMERICA: AND THE YOUNG DOUBTERS. DAVID ROSE, CIVITAS INSTITUTE,
1920 HARVARD YARD
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