Golden Beryl

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As heard on BBC Radio. New episode 26/07 - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/golden-beryl-2049606/episodes/to-vice-industrious-283876021

I know he was king of kings and the longest-reigning pharaoh of all, but there's something in those eyes that suggests a slight anxiety to me. It probably doesn't help matters that they misspelt his name on the poster. Poor chap.

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I've decided that I'd like this to be played at my funeral, in its entirety. My plan is that after a few minutes, the church will have emptied and it'll just be dead me, listening to dead Lou doing the most rock and roll thing ever done by anyone, for nearly an hour. Even the vicar will have left.

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Rest Energy Marina Abramović 1980 All well and good but it becomes significantly less impressive when you learn that the artist had an arrow pointed at her heart from six inches away for four minutes, with nothing but the strength of the other artist preventing her from being killed instantly.

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Seems as though the current blockade of the Straits of Hormuz has lead to a surge in prices on impulse items at the WH Smith self-checkouts. Another story the mainstream media won't touch.

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Question - What do these two drawings have in common? The first, from 2003, is a drawing of Osama Bin Laden's fortress in the Tora Bora caves in eastern Afghanistan. The second, from today, is a drawing of an "underground missile city" hidden somewhere in Iran. Answer - Neither of them exist.

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