Q-90.1's Lifelines With John Augustine
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Synopsis
John Augustine reviews biographies and recounts the lives of the people featured in them. From Q-90.1 FM, Delta College Quality Public Radio.
Episodes
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Alan Turing - The Man Who Knew Too Much
29/03/2024 Duration: 04minMany people contributed to the idea of a computer being a machine rather than an occupation, but the biggest leap forward came from Alan Turing.
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Michael Servetus - Out of the Flames
20/03/2024 Duration: 04minAuthors who spread the Protestant Reformation risked censorship, imprisonment, or even death, including Michael Servetus, who was burned alive along with most copies of his book.
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John Howard Griffin - Black Like Me
15/03/2024 Duration: 04minIn the late 1950s, white author John Howard Griffin disguised himself as a Black man to experience the state of race relations in the segregated South from the other side.
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The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
29/02/2024 Duration: 04minWhile Kosciuszko's family was part of Poland's upper 10%, this military leader's sympathies were for the disenfranchised.
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Hiram Bingham - Cradle of Gold
04/08/2023 Duration: 04minMachu Picchu was built mere decades before the Spanish invasion of South America, yet almost no one knew about it until the ruins were discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham.
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Sir Thomas Browne - In Search of Thomas Browne
01/08/2023 Duration: 05minReturn with us now to a time when bright and ambitious students studied vocabulary lists to enhance their erudition and learn about a man responsible for bringing many of these words into the English language.
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Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
20/07/2023 Duration: 04minThere is a select group of people who have become prominent in history because of one brief moment in their lives. For abolitionist Congressman Charles Sumner, that moment was being assaulted with a cane by a furious Southern senator.
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Robert the Bruce: King of Scots
20/07/2023 Duration: 04minKing Edward of England's brutal execution of William Wallace was meant to intimidate the Scots, but instead it inflamed them and a new leader arose: Robert the Bruce.
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John Hay - All the Great Prizes by John Taliaferro
14/04/2023 Duration: 05minJohn Hay would serve every Republican administration from Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt even though he was never elected to office himself.
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Frida Kahlo by Jack Rummel
14/04/2023 Duration: 04minThere is a cliché that artists must struggle, but Frida Kahlo must hold the world record.
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Socrates - The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone
26/01/2023 Duration: 05minHow could the famously enlightened city of Athens execute one of its most outstanding citizens? A reporter covers a trial held 2,400 years ago in this book.
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Walt Disney - The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler, Pt. 2
11/01/2023 Duration: 04minToday's review covers the second half of Walt Disney's career, following up on the success of Mickey Mouse and Snow White.
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Dr. Martin Couney - The Strange Case of Dr. Couney by Dawn Raffel
16/12/2022 Duration: 04minA century ago you could see many bizarre sideshows on the boardwalk at Coney Island. But one of these was not an act, but a system that saved thousands of premature babies.
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George Gershwin by Walter Rimler
26/09/2022 Duration: 04minYears ago, I read a fine biography of Gershwin, but I decided to read a more recent one and, sure enough, I'm impressed by Gershwin all over again.
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Dylan Thomas - Dylan the Bard by Andrew Sinclair
26/08/2022 Duration: 04minDylan Thomas wasn't just a star. He was a supernova blazing before us before flaming out.
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Dashiell Hammett by Diane Johnson
18/08/2022 Duration: 05minThe American detective story with its hardboiled protagonist walking the mean streets was invented by Dashiell Hammett.
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Johnny Appleseed by Howard Means
12/08/2022 Duration: 05minJohnny Appleseed might be the best known figure from America's past that most people know almost nothing about (and one that many believe to be a myth).
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Walt Disney - The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler, Pt. 1
09/08/2022 Duration: 05minThere are many people with TV shows named after them, but only a few have entire networks, and only Walt Disney transformed American culture.
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Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln at Gettysburg by Gary Wills
01/08/2022 Duration: 05minThe story of Abraham Lincoln is best take in small doses and today's book focuses on the events leading up to and including the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg.
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Frank Lloyd Wright by Robert Twombly
23/06/2022 Duration: 05minIt seems wrong to call Frank Lloyd Wright a "modern" architect - he was born just two years after the end of the Civil War. But he lived a long life and some of his buildings still look something that landed from outer space.