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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another great podcast recommendation, with the safe return to Earth of Apollo 13 - conclusion delayed thanks to Covid, as the host was a working Doctor - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

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Apollo 13: 7. Resurrection

Podcast Episode · 13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble · S2 E7 · 1hr 1min

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another podcast recommendation from my extensive backlog - Radiolab review of the Reasonable Police Officer in the US after the George Floyd protests - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

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Podcast Episode · Radiolab · 7 June 2020 · 1hr

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So, in my podcast world, still in June 2020 - just heard a phenomenal episode of SawBones which is well worth a listen - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

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Sawbones: The Black Panthers and Public Health

Podcast Episode · Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine · 5 June 2020 · 42min

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

So, I’m slipping further and further behind on my podcasts. Currently in June 20 and the protests over the tragic death of George Floyd in Minneapolis triggered so many conversations about police brutality. Feels like the ICE playbook in retrospect.

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

So, finally got to 22/5/20 in my podcast listening, end of the first lockdown in the UK, heard those haunting words “Barnard Castle”. Remembering how dodgy this all was and how BJ undermined his entire single “Stay at Home” message, saying it was ok to follow instincts, when millions stayed put.

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

So, after getting so badly distracted in my podcast listening by the back episodes of Revolutions, ForePlay Radio and Pod Save America, I got back to my main May 2020 listening. However, now I have found the back catalogue of Curiosity Weekly, so here we go again. I’m not catching up anytime soon 🤔

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

2020 “Pod Save the World” about that time DJT took out Soleimani in Iran. Congress let him do it then and now he way over-reached again in Venezuela. You give him and inch, he’ll take a mile, so don’t give him an inch. Again with the slow boil DJT approach, the water is getting very hot, not normal

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Loving the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures again this year. I know it’s aimed at kids, but it’s landing so well with me, shame I can’t get my kids to watch it with me. #istherelifebeyondearth

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Listening to “Pod Save America” from Oct19 where they are working through the political outcomes of DJT’s Ukraine call when he asked them to investigate the Bidens. If they had a crystal ball to predict DJT’s 2024 re-elect, they would have absolutely lost their minds.

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

So, picked up Hannah Fry’s Deepmind podcast from the start. Really fascinating discussions on the development of AI learning, delivered by Hannah in her straightforward, easy to comprehend. Loving it!

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

So, STILL listening to the Revolutions podcast. Now on Season 10 on the foundations of the Russian revolution. So Mike Duncan introduces Ivan The Terrible, saying his moniker was a mistranslation, he wasn’t that terrible, then proceeds to describe some pretty grim personality traits 🧐 still hooked!

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - Getting really frustrated that Labour are going more right-wing on immigration. I want leadership in the other direction. I want the Gov to say Stop. Currently ashamed that my country is sliding Right to this degree and disappointed that my Gov is chasing lies.

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Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says

The home secretary is set to announce major policy reforms, including a 20-year wait before people granted asylum can apply to settle permanently.

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

So, still listening the the Revolutions Podcast, currently on Series 8, pretty successfully hooked. So, when you’re in a quiz and the question is what year was the French Revolution, the answer can only be “Which one?”

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Just finished watching all the series of “Bones” and looking for a familiar boxset to reignite my hope, so I am settling back into Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom”, which always restores my faith, right from the cold open. Highly recommended. Here comes Will McAvoy on vertigo meds….

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Still addicted to the Revolutions podcast. I’ve just finished listening to my 4th revolution (English, American, French & Haitian). Humans do truly horrendous things to each other when civilisation goes to hell. I really don’t think we are that far evolved, just a bad year from murderous chaos.

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

@daraobriain.bsky.social Wow, we just left your show in Eastbourne. You are an amazing story teller and you had us on the edge of our seats. Great show, but also I want to give you a massive hug for going on that journey. Thanks for sharing Dara. Just Wowzers xxxx

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The thing with being obsessed with podcasts, listening chronologically, is when I get a new show, I listen to all the backlog before falling back into my regular timeline - OCDish behaviour. I have discovered “Revolutions” podcast. Now fascinated by English Civil war and American original colonies

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Sit Rep Podcasts 11thMay2020 - Starting to discuss the secondary school kids won’t be back in school until Sept 2020, but nurseries & some primary years could be back soon. Social distancing won’t be possible there. Still a belief that immunity is gained permanently after a single infection.

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Sit Rep Podcasts 11thMay2020 - lockdown rules were being relaxed, depending on the “R number” but asked to stay off public transport if poss, but BJ’s Gov didn’t work it through with the devolved leaders in Scotland and Wales. You could now sit on a park bench with someone you don’t live with.

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Sit Rep Podcasts 5thMay2020 - Chem companies are urging people not to ingest bleach, thanks DJT. Emergency hospitals are looking like they weren’t needed(yet). The Isle of Wight is testing the new NHS COVID app. A lead of the Gov Sage group resigned for breaching lockdown rules.

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Sit Rep Podcasts 1srMay2020 - BoJo back to work in No10. Rumours were running around the health of the North Korea leader. We’re clapping Thursdays at 8pm for healthcare workers. Vaccine testing was underway. Captain Tom is doing his laps of his garden. Trump Covid guidance is all over the place

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Just heard this quote for the first time today and it sings to me. I will live this everyday

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Just done a long car journey which gave us the chance to listen to the fascinating podcast “We Have Ways of Making You Talk” and some of their mini-series on D-Day. Really well done Al Murray and James Holland #wehavewaysofmakingyoutalk

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I'd like to bring this video to your attention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco... It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.

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Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History

YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Read Amanda Grange’s Mr Darcy’s Diary in 2 days - to be clear, Elizabeth’s Mr Darcy, not Bridget’s Mr Darcy. Haven’t lost myself in a book that intensely for a while. Would have slowed down the family bits at the end, but otherwise a book I was reluctant to put down and sad to finish

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Just finished reading “The Colour of Time” by Dan Jones and Marina Amaral. Fascinating worldwide walkthrough the historical context behind recolourised photos, making linkages between events as I had never read before, through daily life and drama 1850-1960. Really worth it if you can get it.

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Sit Rep Podcasts 26Apr2020 - Covid is everywhere. BoJo is out of hospital. Trump just recommended bleach to fight the virus. Death rates are insane. PPE is a rare thing. Lockdown mental health concerns are foreseeable. Air is cleaner. People are discovering they can WFH pretty well, except with kids

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Caro @happytobeme5.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Hi Bluesky. I tend to post about history and my podcast listening. I am way way way behind chronologically, so currently at the crazy days of April 2020. Maybe you get nostalgic, maybe you roll you eyes…

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