The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 28 December 2022

Air Date: 
December 28, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

1/4: Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong Hardcover – by  Greg Brennecka  (Author)

 

https://www.amazon.com/Impact-Rocks-Space-Culture-Donkey/dp/0063078929/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

The Solar System. Dinosaurs. Donkey Kong. What is the missing link? Surprisingly enough, it's meteorites. They explain our past, constructed our present, and could define our future.
Impact argues that Earth would be a lifeless, inhospitable piece of rock without being fortuitously assaulted with meteorites throughout the history of the planet. These bombardments transformed Earth’s early atmosphere and delivered the complex organic molecules that allowed life to develop on our planet. While meteorites have provided the raw materials for life to thrive, they have radically devastated life as well, most famously killing off the dinosaurs and paving the way for humans to evolve to where we are today.
As noted meteoriticist Greg Brennecka explains, meteorites did not just set us on the path to becoming human, they helped direct the development of human culture. Meteorites have influenced humanity since the start of civilization. Over the centuries, meteorite falls and other cosmic cinema have started (and stopped) wars, terrified millions, and inspired religions throughout the world. 
With humor and an infectious enthusiasm, Brennecka reveals previously untold but important stories sure to delight and inform readers about the most important rocks on Earth.

915-930

2/4: Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong Hardcover – by  Greg Brennecka  (Author)

930-945

3/4: Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong Hardcover – by  Greg Brennecka  (Author)

945-1000

4/4: Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong Hardcover – by  Greg Brennecka  (Author)

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

1/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy  

https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Folly-History-Missile-Crisis/dp/0393540812/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis.

1015-1030

2/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy 

1030-1045

3/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy 

1045-1100
4/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

5/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy  

https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Folly-History-Missile-Crisis/dp/0393540812/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis.

1115-1130

6/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy  

1130-1145

7/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy  

1145-1200

8/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy  

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

1/4: No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs Hardcover – May 10, 2022 by  Nury Turkel  (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/No-Escape-Chinas-Genocide-Uyghurs/dp/1335469567/ref=sr_1_1?crid=36H2537B46Y50&keywords=no+escape&qid=1662137888&s=books&sprefix=no+escape%2Cstripbooks%2C70&sr=1-1

 

 As a human rights attorney and Uyghur activist who now serves on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, Turkel tells his personal story to help explain the urgency and scope of the Uyghur crisis. Born in 1970 in a reeducation camp, he was lucky enough to survive and eventually make his way to the US, where he became the first Uyghur to receive an American law degree. Since then, he has worked as a prominent lawyer, activist, and spokesperson for his people and advocated strong policy responses from the liberal democracies to address atrocity crimes against his people. 

The Uyghur crisis is turning into the greatest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century, a systematic cleansing of an entire race of people in the millions. Part Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, No Escape shares Turkel’s personal story while drawing back the curtain on the historically unprecedented and increasing threat from China.

1215-1230

2/4: No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs Hardcover – May 10, 2022 by  Nury Turkel  (Author)

1230-1245

3/4: No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs Hardcover – May 10, 2022 by  Nury Turkel  (Author)

1245-100 AM

4/4: No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs Hardcover – May 10, 2022 by  Nury Turkel  (Author)