Month: April 2023
Greg Poppleton shares the origins of his interests in swing and jazz music of the early twentieth century and archival radio broadcasts of the era that he carefully curates and presents in non-stop mixes for his long running radio program The Phantom Dancer. Greg is a singer in that style and leads a Roaring 20s speakeasy dinner show, and he's an actor on film, TV and stage and currently featuring as Joe Keller in a production of Arthur Miller's play All My Sons
An introduction to neural circuits and brain chemistry with behavioural neuroscientist Dr Christina Perry.
In part two of this chat with author Nicholas Graham we hear about his vocational pathway to becoming a novelist of historical fiction, and what horse riding and reading Latin have to do with this vocational pursuit. This follows an earlier episode about Nicholas' debut novel The Judas Case which is set in the first century with a biblical backdrop and told as a master detective story.
Author Nicholas Graham shares some of the thinking behind his genre bending debut novel The Judas Case which imagines: what if Judas had been working for the Temple police all along? It is both a work of historical fiction set in the first century with a backdrop of the gospels and a reimagining of the narrative of the Passion as a master detective story. This is not a work of religious faith, but this conversation has been shared in time for your Easter listening.