Sunstone is the longest and perhaps the most extraordinary poem by the extraordinary poet Octavio Paz. Sunstone is an epic poem, long and passionate, like a golden mantle in which to take shelter. A hypnotic torrent of images and signs dazzle and enchant us as we pass through each verse. The imagination is left spinning, intoxicated with pleasure. Sunstone is made up of hendecasyllables because hendecasyllables are the measure of the sonnet, the love poem par excellence in Latin languages. And they are 584 hendecasyllables because the planet Venus covers a cycle of 584 days to return to the same point in relation to the sun. This peculiarity was highly valued and studied by the Aztecs, who placed it at the centre of their cosmogony. And of that portentous and complex machine for reading the cosmos, the Sunstone, the Aztec Calendar.

Let the music, the images and the many lights of the 584 lines of this prodigious love poem to life and its fragility carry you away.

Credits:
Poem by Octavio Paz
Translation  1987, 1991 by Eliot Weinberger
(New Directions Paperbook NDP735, ISBN 0-8112-1195-9, 1991)
Read by Gabriel Porras, professional voice artist 

Music:
Horizon, by Josh Leake at artlist.io
With our own atmosphere, by Kris Keogh, from his album Processed Harp Works, Vol. 1 at  freemusicarchive.com

Horizon - Processed Harp Works

Horizon - With our own atmosphere

Sunstone, by Octavio Paz

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy, it's a beautiful book!) 
Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

artlist.io

The Ice Cream Booth

Cinderella, by Roald Dahl

Little Red Ridding Hood and the Wolf by Roald Dahl

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy, it's a beautiful book!) 

Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

Music: 
"Happy to be happy", by Dapun, at artlist.io

Happy to be happy

Little Red Ridding Hood and the Wolf, by Roald Dahl

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy, it's a beautiful book!) 

Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

Music: 
"Kazoo Zoo” by Down Old Country Lane, at artlist.io

Kazoo Zoo

Goldilocks and the three bears, by Roald Dahl

Written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Music: 
“Wants to know”, by Bodysurfer at freemusicarchive.org
Stings from Orange Free Sounds, orangefreesounds.com

Links that will give you 
a much better picture of this topics:

Fight the New Drug is a non-religious, non-legistlative, not for profit organisation producing fantastic materials: https://fightthenewdrug.org

Exodus Cry is a channel with more than one hundred videos on YouTube. Watch their documentary “Raised on Porn” about the effects of porn on children’s development and behaviour: https://youtu.be/hzPylqS01qU
And their documentary “Nefarious: Merchant of Souls” on human trafficking and the sex industry: https://youtu.be/MFaDHgXPbUg

Let’s talk porn, a TEDx Talk by Maria Ahlin: https://youtu.be/DBTb71UzPmY

A study by Natalie Purcell, UCSF, on Aggression in Hardcore Pornography (2012): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325226069_Violence_and_the_Pornographic_Imaginary_The_Politics_of_Sex_Gender_and_Aggression_in_Hardcore_Pornography

A study by Dr Valerie Voon, of Cambridge University Neuroscience Department, showing the similarity in brains of porn and drug users: https://fightthenewdrug.org/cambridge-neuroscientist-valerie-voon-porn-drug-addict-brain/

Brain, Heart, World – documentary series on the harmful effects of pornography: https://brainheartworld.org

Testimonies of former sex slaves and porn actors: https://fightthenewdrug.org

Testimonies of Trafficking survivors: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHHuC2LQ_SskEzqGCTS4nZDqOcEK9z35t

Jeffrey, Transgender with regret: https://youtu.be/r09cDPsQ1wI

A medical article about sexually transmitted diseases of the colon, rectum and anus: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2780056/
...and another on the type of bacteria that live in the anus:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2770471/

Wants to know

The Lessons Of Porn

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy, it's a beautiful book!) 
Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

Music: "Piggyback” de Dan Pundak, en artlist.io

Piggyback

The Three Little Pigs, by Roald Dahl

Written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Music: 
"Wants to know", by Bodysurfer, at freemusicarchive.org.
"Morning Mist", by We Dream of Eden, at artlist.io
Stings by Orange Free Sounds, orangefreesounds.com

Links that will give you
a much broader perspective on this issue:

Read the stories of people who have had gender reassignment surgery and have lived to regret it every day. You can start here:

Jeffrey, repentant transgender: https://youtu.be/r09cDPsQ1wI

Scott Newgent has devoted his life to denouncing the irresponsibility of the many doctors who operated on him and the psychologists who should have warned him of the devastating consequences of the changes brought about by the surgery. His life as a transgender person has become a living hell. Scott has a whole website about it: www.trevoices.org
Learn about his story and his struggles here:

https://www.trevoices.org/post/this-time-i-will-rise-up-years-later-what-i-would-say-to-the-therapists-that-pushed-me-to-med-trans

and another one:

https://thepostmillennial.com/transman-twitter-banned-for-speaking-against-gender-transition-of-children-fights-back?s=04

"Wants to know"

If gender is fluid, why not age too?

A masterpiece of the Latin-American imagination. Juan José Arreola is one of the greatest writers of the XX Century in Spanish, one of the first to dare to abandon realism. He is the greatest precursor of Magical Realism. As Professor George D Schade says:

Whatever the subject of his satire, Arreola most often achieves his effects by a deliberate jumbling of phantasy and reality, a mingling of the logical and the absurd, a blend of imaginative frivolity and Orwellian grimness. 

CREDITS

Produced and recorded by Gabriel Porras, professional voice artist at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com

Translation by George D Schade for the University of Texas Press

Sound effect by Pixabay

For more of Arreola, listen to his “Bestiary”, also recorded by Gabriel Porras as "A book of fabled creatures" for radiantwhispers.com and available on all podcast platforms and at Soundcloud and YouTube.

The Switchman, by Juan José Arreola

A programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional philosopher, journalist and voice actor. 

Music:
"Gone with the winds", by Veaceslav Draganov on artlist.io

*******

Learn more about this URGENT topic by following these links:

The Story of Helena Kerschner, who regrets having “transitioned” as a teenager:
https://youtu.be/Ibq3ld087Y4

The Irish Bill to remove the words "woman", "mother", and more from legal language:
https://4w.pub/ireland-to-strip-maternity-law/

New Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown cannot bring herself to say what a woman is:
https://youtu.be/BWtGzJxiONU
…and she then refuses to answer clear questions about self-definition as a woman:
https://youtu.be/BWwx-UrL0e4

Documentary “What is a woman?” by Matt Walsh:
https://youtu.be/8wlZWZoqRlo

Disability statistics in the UK:
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9602/CBP-9602.pdf

Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Act (Transgender Trend):
https://www.transgendertrend.com/scotland-gender-recognition-act-reform-bill/

The SNP’s Gender Recognition Bill is a threat to women (Spiked Online):
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/05/the-snps-gender-recognition-bill-is-threat-to-women/

Ministers face public backlash over gender recognition reforms (The Times):
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ministers-face-public-backlash-over-gender-recognition-reform-plans-dvgljmqrf

Brit Awards 2023: Why no women were nominated for Best Artist  (BBC)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64264069

The nonsense of nonbinary (Spiked online):
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/16/its-time-to-call-out-the-nonsense-of-nonbinary/

"Toxic feminism is the ONLY kind of feminism": https://youtu.be/mOSS8yBp3go

"Biology trumps gender," says the president of the World Athletics Association:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10934773/World-Athletics-president-Sebastian-Coe-backs-FINAs-ruling-transgender-athletes-banned.html

The "triumph" of transgender athlete Lia Thomas:
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/ncaa-title-for-lia-thomas-is-joke-with-biological-women-as-punchline-hardly-a-laughing-matter/

Transgender martial arts "champion" Fallon Fox punches her female opponent so violently that he (she) breaks her skull: 
https://www.bjjee.com/articles/transgender-mma-fighter-who-broke-female-opponents-skull-are-we-getting-too-politically-correct-with-reality/

Why female athletes should raise their voices every time a transgender athlete tries to compete against them:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sharron-davies-the-trans-debate-is-toxic-its-made-my-life-hell-but-female-athletes-must-speak-up-xllplkmp3

Toilets in new public buildings should be separate for men and women:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/02/single-sex-lavatories-mandatory-new-public-buildings/

But transgender activists consider this "transphobic":
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a40497357/new-buildings-must-have-single-sex-toilets/
 
It is "unfair" to force someone "who is already facing exclusion" to use toilets that are not "neutral" or "gender neutral":
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/17/gender-neutral-toilets-public-buildings-single-sex-uk-robert-jenrick/

The alarming "gender dysphoria" among minors, which jumped from 138 cases in 2010 to 2,383 in 2020: 
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/10/nhs-gender-identity-service-for-children-cant-cope-with-demand-review-finds

Bullying and violence against girls who dare to question the transgender agenda in their schools:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/girl-driven-out-of-school-for-questioning-trans-ideology-ls790krdh

Gone with the winds

The Disappearance Of Women

Paul Kingsnorth is an English intellectual and environmentalist who has written novels, essays and poetry, contributing to publications such as The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Le Monde, New Statesman, Granta and BBC Radio and Television. His spiritual quest was passionate and diverse. As he says, The Cross and the Machine is "an essay-length account of my journey from atheism to Orthodox Christianity, via Buddhism, witchcraft and other strange twists." 
It is a beautiful, lyrical and revealing text.
The Cross and the Machine originally appeared in First Things magazine: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/06/the-cross-and-the-machine

To read more from Paul Kingsnorth, visit his website paulkingsnorth.net and his YouTube channel. 

Programme recorded, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional broadcaster at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com.

Music: 
The Last Train, by David Roy, on artlist.io
Morning Mist, by We Dream of Eden, on artlist.io

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The Last Train

The Cross And The Machine, by Paul Kingsnorth

A billion women live under the shadow of Islam today (that's almost one in eight human beings walking the planet today). And all the evidence from fourteen centuries of Islamic history and theology points to the uncomfortable fact that Islam hates women. We examine numerous texts from the Qur'an and hadiths of Sahih al-Bukhari to illustrate the thesis. 

Credits and references:
Programme written, produced and hosted by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com

Cover:
Carte Portale 532 - Jeunes Filles Arabes, by Lehnert & Landrock at zeno.org/bildpostkarten/m/

Music:
"Broken", by Michael Vignola at artlist.io
"The Art of Listening", by Gnawledge, from their album Granada Doaba at freemusicarchive.org

Texts quoted from the Koran: 
Distribution of inheritances: 4:11 and 12.
Islam is the "perfect" religion for all mankind: 5:3 
What to do with women "who commit unlawful sexual acts" (and those who are raped): 4:15 and 24:2 
Men are superior to women: 4:34

Commentaries (tafsir) of Al Qurtubi, Al Tabari, Ibn Hajar:
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Wife_Beating_in_the_Qur%27an

https://www.al-islam.org/tags/tafsir

Hadiths of al-Bukhari:
Most of the inhabitants of Hell are women, and they are deficient in intelligence and devotion:
Sahih Bukhari 1:6:301

It is not permissible to mourn a woman for more than three days:
Sahih Bukhari 1:6:310

Not to whip the wife as a slave:
Sahih Bukhari 7:62:132

The beaten woman who sought help from Aisha:
Sahih Bukhari 7:72:715

Hadith on the benefit of drinking camel urine:
Sahih Bukhari, Hadith: 233, and Sahih Muslim, Hadith: 1671.

Hadith on the wings of flies:
Sahih Bukhari 4:54:537 and also Sahih Bukhari 7:71:673. 

You can learn more about Bukhari here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahih_al-Bukhari

Ayaan Hirsi Ali:  
Ayaan has written several books, among them "Infidel", about her own story and her flight from Islam, and "Heretic", about the reformation that Islam needs today. Visit his website here: https://ayaanhirsiali.com
The quote read comes from:
"Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now", http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/why-islam-needs-a-reformation-now

Broken

Islam Hates Women

According to Islam, Paradise is a luxury brothel. As many as six Suras (chapters) of the Quran are devoted to this notion, with sensuous descriptions of steamy pleasures for those who gain entrance. And these descriptions are further enhanced by numerous hadiths. Sadly for all of us, only terrorists who die in jihad qualify for immediate access, which explains why they are so eager to blow themselves (and others) up. And Muslim women are not invited to Paradise because they would only spoil the party for the men.


Credits and references:
Programme written, produced and hosted by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and murmullosradiantes.com

Cover:
"The Believer's Dream", by Achille Zo (1870). Musée Bonnat, Bayonne

Music:
"Qanun al-Tarab" and "El Arte de Escuchar" by Gnawledge, from their great album Granada Doaba on freemusicarchive.org. Buy it on Bandcamp!
"Undeniable", by Ketsa, on freemusicarchive.org.
"Devotion", from The Pilgrimage Series, Part 1 on artlist.io.
"Reflections Eastern", from Master 1, on freemusicarchive.org.

Texts quoted from the Qur'an: 
"those who deserve paradise occupy themselves with delightful things": 36:55.
Description of paradise and the Huris: 55:66-76
"The pious will be in a place of safety": 44:51-57
Description of paradise and the Huris: 56: 15-37
Eternal mancebos "like hidden pearls": 52:24

For the original sources of the Qur'an:
W. Tisdall, The Original Sources of the Quran





Hadiths of al-Bukhari and others:
Paradise is in the shadow of the sword: 
Sahih al-Bukhari 4:52:73 
Muhammad is not guaranteed salvation:
Sahih al-Bukhari 5:58:266
Women with "desirable frontal passages" and men with penises that do not become flaccid: 
Sunah Ibn Majah, 5:37:4337
Believers will receive the sexual potency of a hundred men:
Jami at-Tirmidhi 4:12:2536
What will the Day of Judgment be like?
Sahih al-Bukhari 8, Book 76, hadith 577; Bayhaqi
Every pacifist Muslim is a hypocrite:
Sahih Muslim; Sunah Abu Dawud 2502. Book 15, hadith 26

Official Islamic biography of Muhammad:
The Life of Muhammad, a translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, with introduction and notes by A. Guillaume. Karachi, Ameena Saiyid, Oxford University Press, 23rd impression 2010. 

History of the invasion of Kaybar in which Muhammad has a Jewish leader tortured and burned:
Sirat p. 510-19; History of al-Tabari VIII, p. 122, 123.

Tafsir of Ibn Kathir:
To occupy oneself with "delightful things" means "deflowering virgins":
Ibn Kathir IX, 383
Tafsir al-Khalalalayn, Surah Jaseen verse 55
https://i.redd.it/ga0ox7sd2a851.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/12frh1x/deflowering_virgins_quran/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CritiqueIslam/comments/hjec12/proof_that_men_are_rewarded_virgins_that_they/

The story about Ayatollah Khomeini’s thesis on copulation with chickens I read in the wonderful and very moving book Reading Lolita in Teheran, by Azar Nafisi. Read it!

A very interesting article on the religion of the Vikings:
https://scandinaviafacts.com/did-vikings-have-to-die-with-sword-in-hand-to-reach-valhalla/

"Qanun al-Tarab" and "El Arte de Escuchar"

Is paradise a luxury brothel?

A lucid and easy-to-understand view of how ground-breaking Jesus' message was in his world (and ours). Jesus once said that the greatest display of love is sacrificing oneself for your friends, but by "friends," he meant every single person, regardless of our differences in nationality, race, religion, opinion, age, gender, blindness, or wisdom. Understand how and why we all fit in his comforting embrace.

Credits:
Programme produced and recorded by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com

Cover:
Jesus walks on the waters, image generated by artificial intelligence ai-generated-7922881_1280 at pixabay.com 

Music:
"Devotion", from The Pilgrimage Series, Part 1 on artlist.io

Text: 
"What Jesus taught and why" is a chapter from the beautiful book Jesus: a biography from a believer, by Paul Johnson. 
Copyright © Paul Johnson, 2010 ISBN 978-0-670-02159-8

Biblical passages taken from The Message, Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson

Devotion

What Jesus taught and why, by Paul Johnson

A much funnier version of the children's story we all know...and written in rhyme! Only the fantastic Roald Dahl could twist the end like this. Get ready for a hilarious adventure!

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy. It's a beautiful book!) 

Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

Music: 
"Gypsy Bill”, by Ofer Koren and The Hill Bullies, at artlist.io

Gypsy Bill

Snow White and the seven dwarves, by Roald Dahl

Jack and the Beanstalk,
 by Roald Dahl


This version of the classic children's story is way funnier... and it rhymes!
Roald Dahl is a genius: his plot twists are mind-blowing, and that ending too! Brace yourself for a laugh-out-loud journey.

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor (gabrielvoice.com).

Cover design: Ricardo Gil (ricardo@scrav.com).

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy. It's a beautiful book!) 

Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

Music: 
"Jay C”, by Synthet from the album Free Synthet! at freemusicarchive.org Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Sound effect: bbc.co.uk – © copyright BBC

Free Synthet

Jay C

Jack and the Beanstalk, by Roald Dahl

My atheist friends love to cite Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Voltaire as leading thinkers who opened new horizons for humanity, freeing it from the religious prejudices that had enslaved it for centuries. But things were very different, and the writings of these three influential thinkers provided a framework that supported the slavery and exploitation of non-European races more than anyone else. We examine the great ambiguities of the Enlightenment and the main myths of atheism, such as The Myth of Progress, The Myth of Human Rationality and The Myth of Human Goodness, with a discussion of Steven Pinker's  "Enlightenment Now".

Programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor (gabrielvoice.com).

Cover design: Ricardo Gil (ricardo@scrav.com).

Music: 
"Joking Together", by Michele Nobler/Memory Tapes @artlist.io
"Alive and Well", by Campagna/Hello Love @artlist.io

The inspiration for this programme comes from a debate between Steven Pinker and Nick Spencer, titled "Have science, reason and humanism replaced faith?", available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ssf5XN5o9q4?feature=shared

Nick Spencer published a well-argued article entitled "Atheist Fairy Tales: exposing secularism's major myths" on Premier Unbelievable: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/topics/atheist-fairytales-exposing-secularisms-major-myths/12200.article 

Francis Collins, the director of the Human Genome Project, published a book entitled "The Language of God", in which he makes a strong case for the existence of God.

Joking Together

The Daydreams of Atheism

Reducing the conflict in Gaza to a question of Palestinian-Israeli differences is an unforgivable mistake. The conflict that has been raging in Gaza for decades is the conflict between Islam and world civilisation, that is, between Islam and you and me, and each and every one of us who are not yet under Islam: not only Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Newagers and Hindus. Also homosexuals, transsexuals, feminists, atheists, agnostics, science, education, technology and progress and welfare for all. All this is lost if Hamas wins, and Islam advances.

Programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, at murmullosradiantes.com. 

Cover created by Ricardo Gil, ricardo@scrav.com
Image by Vectonauta at www.freepik.es

Music: 
"Gone with the winds", by Veaceslav Draganov (Picture) on artlist.com.
"Jericho at Dusk", by Alon Peretz (Three Middle Eastern Cities), on artlist.com
"Ruhi", by Meriem Ben Amor, on artlist.com

Links and references:
On how Hamas rewards its soldiers with girls as young as nine years old, see these photographs: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hamas-wedding-girls/

On Islam's hatred of women, and how it promises a paradise of luxury and sex to Hamas soldiers and Islamism, listen to these past episodes:
"Islam hates women": https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-islam-odia-a-las-mujeres
"Is paradise a luxury brothel?": https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-paraiso-es-un-burdel-de-lujo
On the dangerous stupidity of the masses:
https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-peligro-de-la-estupidez-mr-sc-esp

A long and detailed collection of Hamas abuses on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Hamas#Press_restrictions

On the despicable sexual violence of Hamas’ attack on 07 October: https://youtu.be/2l3EbRiDATE?feature=shared

Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of one of the founders of Hamas, appears in multiple YouTube videos, such as this one:
https://youtu.be/H9WEcvrWvyo?feature=shared
His experiences and perspectives on the workings of Hamas appear in a book entitled "Son of Hamas": 
https://amzn.eu/d/ff29BB7
and a film entitled "The Green Prince": 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B00YRUA3QU/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
 
On Hamas soldiers shouting "Allah is victorious" as they behead and rape innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023: https://youtu.be/SmivUM0tlwc?feature=shared

A passionate article by Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, which inspired me to write this episode: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20126/hamas-nazis

Photos of Mufti Husseini reviewing troops and having tea with Hitler can be seen here: https://youtu.be/ou0EgaK49Ak?feature=shared

If Hamas Wins, We All Lose

Every year, Christmas is the greatest celebration around the globe. No other event makes us get together as families and friends like Christmas. And yet, Christmas is also the worst time of the year for millions of lonely, hurting people. Commandeered by businesses and restaurants, Christmas celebrations often obscure Christ, whose birth is the original and best reason to celebrate Christmas. Find out why the birth of Christ deserves to be celebrated with all your heart.

Programme presented and produced by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and musmullosradiantes.com

Text: Nicky Gumbel
Nicky Gumbel is the creator of the Alpha Course, which is a beautiful and warm introduction to Christianity. Over 26 million people have taken the Alpha Course in over 100 countries. Nicky graduated in Law at Cambridge and in Theology at Oxford. He worked as a barrister before becoming a writer and preacher. 
Join an Alpha Course near you here: https://alpha.org.uk/try
You can also do it online.

Cover created by Ricardo Gil, ricardo@scrav.com with AI at www.bing.com by Microsoft

Music: 
"Handpanophone" by David Charrier is from his album Ephemeral on artlist.io.
Sound effect: 
Clean high bell ring, license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://orangefreesounds.com/

Handpanophone

Why celebrate Christmas?, by Nicky Gumbel

A jewel of Spanish-language literature, quintessentially Mexican and universal at the same time. The story of a town that is all dust, loneliness and silence “where sorrow makes her nest”. 


Original story by Juan Rulfo read by Gabriel Porras
Translation by Stephen Beechinor
Production: Gabriel Porras and Andre Sosa @drorangeacademy
Cover design by Ricardo Gil ricardo@scrav.com
Music: La Guanábana, by Los Parientes de Playa Vicente, from the album América Afroíndigena at freemusicarchive.com

América Afroíndigena

La Guanábana

Luvina, by Juan Rulfo

Psalm 27 from the Bible was written over three thousand years ago by King David, "the sweet singer of Israel". It is a profound prayer of praise to God and a plea for protection and comfort in the most troubled and challenging of times. David contemplates the most outrageous and cruel destiny he can imagine: that of a child deliberately abandoned by his parents. "Even if my father and mother abandoned me, you will take care of me"... even if something as unimaginable and unnatural as being deliberately abandoned by his parents were to happen to him, even if the natural and biological order were to be so twisted, God would take care of him. Even if his father and mother conspired to abandon him.

That is why I put his prayer on the lips of every aborted baby boy and girl.

Text:
The Voice (VOICE)The Voice Bible Copyright © 2012 Thomas Nelson, Inc. The Voice™ translation © 2012 Ecclesia Bible Society All rights reserved.
Adapted and read by Gabriel Porras for radiantwhispers.com and gabrielvoice.com.
Production: Gabriel Porras and Andre Sosa @drorangeacademy
Cover by Ricardo Gil ricardo@scrav.com
Music: "Purify" by Embrace at artlist.com. Used with license.

Purify

Psalm 27, Prayer Of The Aborted Baby

Join me to pray together every morning this powerful prayer known as "The Breastplate of St. Patrick," which was written in the 9th century in Ireland. I invite you to pray this prayer every morning with passion, surrender, and eagerness, believing that God will transform your day. This prayer is not for the timid or half-hearted, as it requires genuine conviction and a belief that our prayers can reach beyond the walls of our room.

How big is your faith? How big are your goals and aspirations? Pray this prayer with all your heart for seven days and be amazed. 
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Programme voiced, recorded and produced by Gabriel Porras at www.gabrielvoice.com and www.radiantwhispers.com
Music: The circle of life, by The Circle of Life @artlist.io. Used with license.

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I Bind Unto Myself Today (St Patrick's Breastplate)

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Today we talk about the thorny issue of identity and race in Latin America. In 2019 we remember 500 years since the beginning of the conquest of America at the hands of the Spanish conquistadores, and the new Mexican government is demanding from Spain today an apology for the events that occurred 500 years ago...

The King of Spain, my cousin

Today I have the pleasure of reading you a story by the great Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti. It is a great example of Benedetti's genius to create in just four or five pages a world of great emotional intensity. I sincerely hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed recording it.

The Night of the Ugly Ones, by Mario Benedetti

Today I am going to read you a fragment of an old text that is considered -and I quote-  "one of the most noble works of world literature": the Book of Job. This is the story of a very wealthy man who lived 3,000 years ago, in the Bronze Age (the days of King David and King Solomon, the Iliad and the Odyssey 3,000 years ago)... The Book of Job is so splendidly well written that many experts place it on the same exalted plane as the works of Aeschylus and Sophocles, Dante, Milton and Goethe. Tennyson claimed that the Book of Job is "the greatest poem of ancient or modern times."
Clearly a masterpiece, then.

This is the intimate story of a good man who suffers so much that in his pain he will be driven to the extreme of cursing the day he was born. Job has no idea that he's at the centre of a contest between God and Satan; he wonders but ignores what God's purpose is in everything that happens to him, neither does he imagine that in maintaining his personal integrity in the midst of overwhelming suffering he is not only disproving, but even defeating Satan himself, because it is Satan -and not Job- who ends up humiliated.

Job — Calamity is not a punishment

The story we read today is by a true giant of Latin American and world literature, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges. The Circular Ruins is a masterpiece of fantasy literature, and deals with how dreams are manifested in reality… Borges' launching pad is a passage from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll in which  Tweedledee draws Alice's attention to the sleeping Red King, and claims that she is nothing but a character in the King's dream. 

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Translation: James E. Irby and Gabriel Porras
Music: "Sihouette of Time's Idea", by Mid-Air Machine, from their album So We Telepathy: freemusicarchive.org 
"The Return", by Ketsa,  from their album Different Angles: freemusicarchive.org

The Circular Ruins, by Jorge Luis Borges

Today we open our space to a brilliant Franco- Argentinian writer: Julio Cortázar. We listen to one of his most celebrated stories, inspired by one of the most beautiful and enigmatic amphibians on Earth: the tiny Axolotl.

Axolotl is a meditation on that mortal danger that loneliness is for us human beings. We see a lonely man disintegrate; we are witnesses to the way loneliness, the lack of friends and relationships that keep us mentally sane, can precipitate us into a pit of alienation when we lose our sense of identity and only our ghosts and the voices in our mind seem real.



Translation by Paul Blackburn
Music: 
"Sihouette of Time's Idea", by Mid-Air Machine, from their album So We Telepathy: freemusicarchive.org 
"Rainy going mad", by J Myles: freemusicarchive.org

Axolotl, Cortázar

Arreola BESTIARY intro & credits


Juan José Arreola is one of the greatest Latin-American writers of the XX Century, one of the first to dare to abandon realism. This is how Professor George D Schade introduces Juan José Arreola and Bestiary, his "Book of Fabled Beasts": 

Arreola jabs at complacency and ruthlessly exposes pompous and hypocritical attitudes. 
He takes a depressing view of most human relationships, and in a large number of his stories and satires he chips away at love and its illusions… Whatever the subject of his satire, Arreola most often achieves his effects by a deliberate jumbling of phantasy and reality, a mingling of the logical and the absurd, a blend of imaginative frivolity and Orwellian grimness. 
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One of the most ingratiating and delightful parts of Arreola's collected works is his "Bestiary," consisting of twenty-six brief sketches. Here Arreola harkens back to that form which was so fashionable in medieval times with moralists and allegorizers, where certain virtues or characteristics were popularly attributed to certain beasts, real or imaginary. All of Arreola's beasts are real, their humanlike foibles and defects uncomfortably real too. Though Arreola's general outlook and some of the details in his bestiary will probably horrify the overly sentimental, still there are lyrical and poetic touches to offset to some degree the refined savagery of his satire. 


CREDITS
Translation:
 George D Schade for the University of Texas Press

Music:  
"Sihouette of Time's Idea" and "Roar of the Wild", by Mid-Air Machine, from their album So We Telepathy: freemusicarchive.org
"Tu Enamorado"por José Alfredo Jiménez, arr. José Luis Espinosa V.

A book of fabled creatures

Buenos días and welcome back to Radiant Whispers! Today it's all sheer fun and wild imagination with the big and spiky Roald Dahl, surely one of the most beloved writers of all time. And rightly so - who hasn't been thrilled, amused and delighted by his stories? They're just so quirky, vibrant and delightful that they stand on a class of their own. Dahl is one of those geniuses that are so ahead of the game that everybody else -Hollywood included!- is out of breath trying to catch up with them.
You must have read or seen the movie and/or theatre adaptations of The Gremlins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda and of course The BFG - the story we read together today!



CREDITS
Translation:
 George D Schade for the University of Texas Press
Music:  
"Sihouette of Time's Idea", by Mid-Air Machine, from their album So We Telepathy: freemusicarchive.org
"The Chase" by Blaehubb, from his album The Fun and The Twisted, Artlist.io
"Gypsy Dance", by Ziv Moran, from his album Créme Brulée, Artlist.io

The Big Friendly Giant by Roald Dahl

This is the Easter story: the last days of the most influential character in history, narrated with masterful detail and emotion by the Greek physician Luke, in chapters 22 to 24 of his Gospel. A dramatized reading in contemporary English that brings to the text nuances and drama that you may not have noticed before.
Whether you have read it many times, or never, take this opportunity to remember -or discover for the first time- the meaning and significance of Jesus' last days on Earth.

Credits:
Written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras

Music:
SIHOUETTE OF TIME’S IDEA, by Mid-Air Machine, www.freemusicarchive.org
PURIFY, by Michael FK at Artlist.io
DON’T LEAVE ME, by New Beginning at Artlist.io

Text:
The Message (MSG)
Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson

Love conquers death - The last days of Jesus on earth

All we have to comfort, guide us and sustain us in this straggling path called life are the radiant whispers that we grasp as a distant “sunrise of wonder” in our spiritual practice, in great works of literature, music, art, and in nature and blue skies. These are the Radiant Whispers. That's what this podcast is about. We will talk about culture and society, about ancient and modern history, literature and art with dramatized readings of poetry, fables, theatre, novels and stories. Subscribe -let's find radiant whispers everywhere.

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