This week we will make a musical tribute to one of the great figures of the scientific revolutions: Galileo Galilei. He was a remarkable scientist and managed to produce great breakthroughs in the fields of physics, astronomy and mathematics. Here is today’s playlist and audio: Deutsch Nepal – The Silent Earth (The Silent Container) Serenity…
This episode of Between Birds of Prey is inspired by the current revolutions and counter-revolutions in Egypt. With this events in mind I created a playlist – using real historical events, songs and speeches – that represents a fictitious fascist regime, a people’s revolution that brings it down, the forming of a new government and its…
The episode of Between Birds of Prey for this week is inspired in the book “Crime & Punishment” by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoievsky. There are free digital editions of this book, so here is one from the Gutenberg project: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2554 Note that on the right we have a photograph of the first edition as a…
In the 14th of August 1385 took place the Battle of Aljubarrota between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile. We celebrate one of the most important moments in the History of Portugal with a program dedicated to the “Quinto Império” – a concept of a global Portuguese empire with spiritual and temporal…