Random Context Podcasts

Join Shane and Patrick as they remove bias and sensationalism from the latest news from Canada, Alberta, British Columbia, and beyond. Delivered weekly with the context and information needed to put you on the right side of the news.

Categories: Government, History, News

Tags: alberta, bc, bias, british columbia, canada, context, free enterprise, mainstream, media, News, right, Right Side, Right Side News, roundup, run down, sensationalism, summary, The Right Side, weekly, western

Amid the nuclear threat of the Cold War, America’s prized secrets were falling into the hands of its sworn enemy. The FBI’s hunt for the leak led to an astonishing discovery—the mole was one of its own, special agent Robert Hanssen. For two decades, Hanssen masqueraded as a devoted patriot while ruthlessly selling out his country, trading classified intelligence to the Soviet Union and later Russia, in exchange for cash and diamonds. He was a whirlwind of contradictions—a self-proclaimed patriot and a traitor; a family man who sexually betrayed his wife; an ardent man of God and a sinner. Through interviews with Hanssen’s family, friends, and colleagues, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett (Host of “The Takeout”) delves into the double life of Robert Hanssen and unravels the chilling truth about the most damaging spy in FBI history in “Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen”.

Categories: Government, History, True Crime

Tags: America, analysis, CBS, CBS News, Chuck Schumer, congress, context, coronavirus, covid-19, Culture, Democrats, diversity, donald trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci, elections, GOP, History, house of representatives, international, Joe Biden, law and order, Major Garrett, Mitch McConnell, nancy pelosi, national, Politics, President, Republicans, senate, Vice President, voting, White House, white house press briefings

We live in a complex, fast changing and highly social world. One of the most compelling questions we face is how to understand ourselves and other people. The video tracks on this album introduce the four main theoretical perspectives in social psychology – cognitive, psychoanalytical, discursive and phenomenological. The album also explores interrogative themes that help in the understanding of key topics in social psychology. This material forms part of The Open University course DD307 Social psychology: critical perspectives on self and others.

Categories: Education

Tags: conscious, context, Desire, emotion, environment, feelings, Identity, interpretive, psyche, qualitative, social, Society, theory, unconscious

It’s not just a day, it’s a podcast! Join host and National History Day Executive Director Cathy Gorn as she explores the annual NHD contest theme through field trips to museums, libraries, and archives.

Categories: Education, History

Tags: Cathy Gorn, context, critical thinking, Field Trip, learning, museum, National History Day, NHD, research, skills, students, teaching

A Kids Podcast About Words. How we use them. What they mean. And why they’re so darn important. Learn a new word every week. Words that you can use every day, both big and small. Words that help define the world around you and even help make sense of, well, you!

Categories: Education, Kids & Family

Tags: context, language, Meaning, power, understanding, usage, word of the day, words

These Small Hours podcast is the direct outlet for essays written and read by Russell Cordell Staker. Here are short-form pieces of thought about life and letters, art and humanity in the small hours of living. The language and voice of this writer blend into a naturally melodic emotional depth and resonance.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: Arts, context, dialogue, EmotionalIntelligence, essays, Expression, humanity, Insightful, kindness, letters, Literature, narrative, nobility, perspective, Philosophy, Reading, russellcordellstaker, spiritual, story, storytelling, thesesmallhours, thoughtful, viewpoint, writing

This album contains extracts from interviews with a wide range of people talking about family history. Some history is recalled in oral form, some in photographic and some in written form, as biographical or autobiographical evidence. Many aspects of this approach to writing are discussed in illuminating and perceptive depth, giving wide-ranging yet informative coverage of the topic. This material forms part of the course A173 Start writing family history.

Categories: Education

Tags: autobiography, Biography, context, creative-writing, family-tree, genealogy