Agora Podcast Network

Guest Host Roifield Brown talks with Alison Gerlach, The Unapologetic Capitalist. Alison is a seasoned, strategic management consultant, serial entrepreneur, investor, business executive, and lecturer with expertise in, and a passion for, building businesses. In other words she is smart and knows just about everything when it comes to the world of business and her podcast is rather good too.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode Steve fills in for Thom and talks with the creator to the Renaissance English History podcast, Heather Teysko!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today we pivot from the US and we look at the left of UK politics with commentator and pundit Sunny Hundal, who is best known as the founder and editor of the centre-left group blog Liberal Conspiracy a ferocious tweeter Hundal has also written for publications including The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Independent. In a week that has seen Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States, in Britain Owen Smith formally laid out his platform to become the next leader of the Labour Party, simply ask Sunny why is the labour party in such as mess, how did we get here?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Agora Presents: An Interview with Bobby Adair. Mr. Adair is a professional independent self-publishing author of almost 2 dozen books. He is the author of the Slow Burn series, Ebola K, The Last Survivors (with TW Piperbrook) and the newly released Black Rust series. Bobby talks about his path to becoming an self published author. We also discuss the Zombie and post-apocalyptic genre and how his novels are helping to expand the genre. The Agora Podcast Network: www.agorapodcastnetwork.com The History of the Papacy Podcast: http://atozhistorypage.com/ To learn more about Bobby's books, check out his author's page: http://www.bobbyadair.com/ “Procession of the King” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we look at Trump the good, a force of restructuring the right of American politics. To look at how 2016 could reshape the US political map going forward, Roifield Brown is joined by Sam Tanenhaus. Sam was an assistant editor at The New York Times from, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, the editor of The New York Times Book Review. His biography of Whittaker Chambers won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for both the National Book Award for Nonfiction.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today we will turn the microscope on each other and ask simply who are we and why with the aid of 23 and Me The kit that collects your DNA through a small sample of saliva and provides you with over 100 genetic reports and importantly for for us history geeks our ancestry. Roifield Brown from How Jamaica Conquered the world and 10 American Presidents, David Crowther from the History of England, Travis Dow from the Bohemican and History of Germany podcasts and Elias Belhaddad from the history of Islam have have their spit collected and their racial ancestry traced, this is a show about the results.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Roifield Brown joins Thom to talk about the state of podcasting, 50 year old radio soap operas and more!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Roifield Brown - 10 American Presidents Travis Dow - History of Germany Ben Jacobs Wittenberg-to-Westphalia The team look at the reasons for Britain's vote to leave the EU  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode Thom talks with the creator to the History of China podcast, Chris Stewart!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Agora Presents: Warrior Bishops. Today Steve and Ben Jacobs of the Wittenberg to Westphalia Podcast sit down to discuss one of the more strange institutions to come out of the early medieval period, the political or warrior bishop. If you have questions or comments on this episode you can reach us at: The Agora Podcast Network: www.agorapodcastnetwork.com The History of the Papacy Podcast: http://atozhistorypage.com/ Wittenberg to Westphalia Podcast http://wittenbergtowestphaliapodcast.weebly.com/ “Procession of the King” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Agora Presents. Today we will talk with Pete and Broc of the Lands of Leviathan podcast on the current events of the diplomatic crisis in Ukraine. Your host today is Steve Guerra of the History of the Papacy Podcast. If you have questions or comments on this episode you can reach us at: The Agora Podcast Network: www.agorapodcastnetwork.com The History of the Papacy Podcast: http://atozhistorypage.com/ The Lands of Leviathan Podcast: https://landsofleviathan.com/ Edited by: Andrew Pfannkuche “Procession of the King” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Thom is joined by special guests Daniel and Glen from The Lesser Bonapartes! Just a heads up this interview contains adult language and themes!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pete Collman and Travis Dow stop by!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Thom talks with David Crowther of the History of England and the History of Anglo-Saxon England podcasts, Agora's featured podcasts for March!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Roifield Brown - 10 American Presidents, Heather Buettner Teysko - Renaissance English History Travis Dow - podcastnik Alison Gerlach - The Unapologetic Capitalist We at Agora have a smorgestboard of talking talent and this month we are going pivot away from strictly talking about just history to look at how the culture, economics and business has shaped team sport and its institutions on both sides of the pond. Specifically we will look at the sporting traditions of The UK, Europe and the US, how the economic and social cultures of each area has influenced the way sport has evolved, is played and is consumed.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Guest host Roifield Brown interviews American Biography's Thom Daly!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this very special episode, Steve from the History of the Papacy Podcast, Thom of the American Biography Podcast and journalist Steve Sterling of the New Jersey Star Ledger about the recent visit of Pope Francis the First to the United States. We look at the history of Papal visits to the United States and then get a firsthand perspective of the Papal visit and the whole experience from Stephen Sterling. http://www.acast.com/historyofthepapacy http://www.acast.com/americanbiography http://www.acast.com/theagorapodcastnetwork http://www.agorapodcastnetwork.com/  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Two men born to impoverished petty noble families at the fringes empire at the twilight of the established world order. Two men who would command revolutionary armies and lead revolutionary civil governments. But there can only be one "greatest" so now a panel of Agora podcasters: Zack Twamley, Stephen Guerra, Travis Dow and Thomas Daly will try to answer the question of who was greater, George Washington or Napoleon Bonaparte? Musical attribution: opening and exit music by Brandon Liew (edited) used under a Creative Commons license (link below). Collection 1 (Brandon Liew) / CC BY 4.0  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Steve Guerra, host of the History of the Papacy Podcast discusses his show.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We hope you enjoy this collection of brief descriptions about the podcasts which make up the Agora Podcast Network!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.