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The Night Boat by Robert McCammon on Audible:
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Summary:

The Night Boat, Robert McCammon's third published novel, first appeared as a paperback original in 1980. Following on the heels of Baal and Bethany's Sin, it offered further proof that a writer of great narrative power and limitless potential - a writer who would achieve a significant position in modern popular fiction--had arrived.

The story begins with a vividly written prologue in which a German U-boat--sometimes known as an 'Iron Coffin'--attacks an unsuspecting merchant vessel, and is itself attacked by a pair of Allied sub chasers. The action then shifts to the present day and to the idyllic Caribbean island of Coquina, where life is about to change in unimaginable ways. David Moore, a young man with a tragic and haunted past, is skin-diving in the waters off Coquina, searching for the salvageable remnants of shipwrecks. He accidentally detonates a long-unexploded depth charge, uncovering and releasing a submarine that has lain beneath those waters, virtually intact, for decades. The battered vessel that rises to the surface contains a bizarre and terrifying cargo that will transform a once peaceful island into a landscape of unrelenting nightmare.

The Night Boat is a story of cannibalism, ancient voodoo curses, and shambling, undead entities filled with a bottomless rage and an equally bottomless hunger. But it is also the story of a past that refuses to die, that lies in wait just beneath the surface of the unsuspecting present. Furiously paced and viscerally frightening, this horrific early gem is both an outstanding entertainment in its own right and a harbinger of the masterpieces to come.


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The Night Boat by Robert McCammon, Narrated by Ray Porter

Dark Alliance by Gary Webb on Audible:
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In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One - the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams about - without even looking for it. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, L.A. and Bay Area crack cocaine dealers, and the Central Intelligence Agency. For several years during the 1980s, Webb discovered, Contra elements shuttled thousands of tons of cocaine into the United States, with the profits going toward the funding of Contra rebels attempting a counterrevolution in their Nicaraguan homeland. Even more chilling, Webb quickly realized, was that the massive drug-dealing operation had the implicit approval - and occasional outright support - of the CIA, the very organization entrusted to prevent illegal drugs from being brought into the United States.

Within the this audiobook version of Dark Alliance, Webb produces a massive amount of evidence that suggests that such a scenario did take place, and more disturbing evidence that the powers that be that allowed such an alliance are still determined to ruthlessly guard their secrets. Webb's research is impeccable - names, dates, places, and dollar amounts gather and mount with every page, eventually building a towering wall of evidence in support of his theories.

After the original series of articles ran in the Mercury-News in late 1996, both Webb and his paper were so severely criticized by political commentators, government officials, and other members of the press that his own newspaper decided it best not to stand behind the series, in effect apologizing for the assertions and disavowing his work. Webb quit the paper in disgust in November 1997. This audiobook serves as both a complex memoir of the time of the Contras and an indictment of the current state of America's press; Dark Alliance is as necessary and valuable as it is horrifying and grim.


Dark Alliance by Gary Webb, Narrated by Christian Rummel

Season 1 Episode 6 of Cambridge PhDcasts with PhDcaster Michelle Wallis.

'Of Monsters and Mangled Tongues - Tales from Early Modern English Medical Advertising, 1660-1720'

Michelle Wallis is a PhD student in the department of history and philosophy of science working on cheap print and medical advertising in seventeenth and early eighteenth century England.

For more details, including links to additional materials, please see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/1193/michelle-wallis.htm 

To find out more about Cambridge PhDcasts, go to http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/phdcasts

Cambridge PhDcasts are presented by John Gallagher and produced by Richard Blakemore and Ruth Rushworth with thanks to CRASSH.

Michelle Wallis - Of Monsters And Mangled Tongues

The idea of music as a harbinger of future social trends is associated with French banker, economist, and all-purpose intellectual Jacques Attali, but the idea that music gives access to a time that is different from that of the everyday world seems to be as old as music itself. The conception of musical works as abstract objects, located in time but not intrinsically temporal, reflects Platonic and medieval thinking yet remains fundamental to the still dominant orthodoxies of modernist music aesthetics and theory: just as in a recording, time is translated into space, with the past always present and the future always already known. Such rationalising models do little justice to the varieties of musical time as experienced, performed, and indeed composed. As practice rather than theory, music is highly unpredictable, both at the micro-level of individual musical experiences and the macro-level of changes in musical style and in patterns of consumption. Hence the conspicuous lack of foresight that has devastated the contemporary record industry, which attempted to perpetuate an outdated business model rather than embracing the technological and social changes that Henry Jenkins, Lawrence Lessig, and Aram Sinnreich respectively call convergence culture, remix culture, and configurable culture. Sinnreich provides the most fully developed version of Attali’s idea of music as harbinger of social trends: networked patterns of musical production and consumption are seen as a template for democratised patterns of social interaction. But the linkage of musical micro-level and social macro-level remains unconvincing, and many aspects of Sinnreich’s configurable culture can be found in earlier musical cultures (it is only modernist aesthetics and theory that blind us to them). I conclude that, rather than seeing music as providing special insight into the future, it is more productive to see it as a privileged arena within which to understand aspects of the present.

Biography

Nicholas Cook took up the 1684 Professorship in 2009. He was formerly Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he directed the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM), and before that taught at the universities of Hong Kong, Sydney, and Southampton, where he also served as Dean of Arts. A musicologist and theorist, he holds separate degrees in music and in history/art history. His articles have appeared in leading British and American journals, and cover topics from aesthetics and analysis to psychology and pop.

His books, mostly published by Oxford University Press, include A Guide to Musical Analysis (1987); Music, Imagination, and Culture (1990); Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (1993); Analysis Through Composition (1996); Analysing Musical Multimedia (1998); and Music: A Very Short Introduction (1998), which is published or forthcoming in twelve other languages and to which a special issue of Musicae Scientiae was devoted. Oxford also publish Rethinking Music (1999), coedited with Mark Everist, and Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects, coedited with Eric Clarke (2004); he also coedited the Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music (with Anthony Pople, 2004) and The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (2009). His latest book, The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna (Oxford, 2007), received the Wallace Berry Award of the Society for Music Theory in 2010. A further collection is in press: Music as Performance: New Perspectives Across the Disciplines, coedited with the dramaturgue Richard Pettengill (Michigan University Press). Also nearing publication is a book on performance analysis, integrating computational approaches developed at CHARM with those of cultural musicology and inter-disciplinary performance theory, while he is currently working on a study of recordings of Webern’s Piano Variations funded by an AHRC Fellowship. Planned projects thereafter includes books on music as creative practice and on relational musicology.

A former Editor of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Nicholas Cook was Chair of the Music Panel in the Higher Education Funding Councils’ 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Academy of Europe.

Foresight in Music

Osama Bin Laden's death commemoration special! Plus Gingrich promises holograms and 32% of the people of Britain have spoken.

Bugle 193 - Happy Deathiversary!

So what's been happening at the ballot box in Mexico, Russia, Greece and France? The Bugle investigates. Plus, Obama shows Cameron how to inspire. 

Bugle 194 - Global Election Round Up

Some amazing clips from recent shows, in the wrong order

The Bugle - 194a - Too Good For Context

The latest news from the Egyptian elections, hosting it's 1st democratic election in 7000 years, and  from London 2012, where there are many missiles on buildings.

Bugle 195 - A drop of Reagan's Blood

Bankers are bad, mermaids don't exist and the Olympics are near.

Bugle 201 - Dirty bankers

It's London! It's 2012! That means one thing - SPORT! Oh, and more on the Romneyshambles and North Korea

Bugle 202 - Sport!

Andy and John provide the latest from Democrapalooza, offer the latest smart phone reviews, reveal what a vicar should never sing at a funeral, place lies into categories and discuss the latest waparazzi news

Bugle 206 - The President is not a gremlin

The latest from Cyprus, where Chris's parents have the economy in their hands, budget news from the UK and Barack Obama goes on holiday

Bugle 229 - Cyprus ready to go Mad Max

Some amazing as-yet-unheard clips from recent recordings of The Bugle.

The Bugle - The worst bits of 2013 (so far)

Andy Zaltzman answers your questions, with help from Producer Chris

Bugle Q&A - Andy Zaltor Zaltzman

What's an appropriate way to give Margaret Thatcher a send off? 

Not like this.

The Bugle - The Baroness bows out

Andy and John mark the passing of Margaret Thatcher, discuss their Aussie race-hate controversy and try to make sense of the gun laws fudge. Plus - who will love longer, Andy or John? The answer is revealed this week.

Bugle 231 - The Queen should play poker

Andy and John, and about a million Buglers have noticed that there is a penis on Mars. Get your telescopes out. In other news, MERCH IS LIVE(!), and Chechnya's leader is a Hilary Swanker.

Bugle 232 - Mars, Merchandise and Mad Men!

Hacking, Afghanistan and Andy introduces his lobsters

Bugle 233 - Baby got hack

Who the hell are UKIP and what do they want? Is making guns an act of libertarianism and why nuns and nuclear don't mix

Bugle 234 - Nuns, guns and nutters

Society set to force appliances and pets to marry. Plus, food news - get a sick bag.

Bugle 236 - Tennis racquet marries guinea pig

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