This week’s episode of Between Birds of Prey is dedicated to the Gaelic festival of the Samhain. The Samhain marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the “darker half” of the year. It is celebrated from sunset on 31 October to sunset on 1 November, which is nearly halfway between…
On the 6th of August 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Today we will remember that day 68 years ago and all its consequences, with an episode inspired by the life of Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist leader of the Manhattan Project and main responsible for the creation…
This episode of Between Birds of Prey is about the consequences of warfare and the ideology behind heroism. What is heroism? Is it still meaningful nowadays as it was in the past? What is the goal of the hero? Is its effort futile? Many of these questions will be answered, or at least focused, during the two…
This week we have a musical journey through the realm of despair, so this episode of Between Birds of Prey is dedicated to all those who have lost hope… Note that on the right we have a photograph of Pavel Tereshkovets that represents well this emotion. Without further ado, here is the audio and the playlist…