Can you hear me ok . No. Do i turn up the volume here . Get friendlier with the microphone. [laughter] joe now as far as pulling of your chairs, that sounds like unpaid labour to me, so i dont know. Can we turn off the lights . I will just start. What im going to do is run you through the first day of the battle of the somme and talk a little bit about it. This is lord kitchner of Great Britain in the first part of world war i. He was quite prescient. He predicted that the war would go on for years. Many people thought it was going to be over by christmas. You have always heard that line , but he heard of what it would manpower so heof built up a volunteer army. He started this recruitment process. The british professional army was small by confidential standards, about 100,000 people. 100,000 troops and mostly in , 1914 the british army was pretty much spent. In the territorial space to the 1915, National Guard the british National Guard took over and volunteers started to come into p
This is a little under an hour. Thank you for coming out. Can you hear me okay . No. Do i turn up the volume here or elsewhere . Get friendlier with the mic. How is that . That friendlier . As far as pulling up your chair. It sounds like unpaid labor to me. So i dont know. Like unpa can weid turn off the light oron turn down the lights . Re ill just start. What im going to do is run yout through the first day of the go battle and talk a bit about it the first day of the battle of the somme and talk a little bit about it. This is the word kitchner of Great Britain in the first part of world war i. He was quite prescient. He predicted that no more would go on for years. Many people thought it was going to be over bye christmas. You have always heard that line but he heard of what it would require is a lot of manpower so he built up a volunteer army. He started this recruitment process. The british professional army was small by confidential standards about 100,000 people, 100,000 troops
A supermarket roof collapse in latvia. I feel like im down out of the tree. Im still in the forest, but its a big step. And bail for all but one of the green peace activists held in russia. And it was 50 years ago to the hour, remembering the day president kennedy was shot. Well be live in dallas for the memorial service. A ten year old boy and a teenager are the latest victims of violence on the streets of egypt. During protests against the interim government. There have been confrontations in cities across the country, between police and protesters, supporting the deposed president mohammed morsi. There were several protests across the country on this friday as it usually happens on friday since the ousting of the former president. Here in cairo there were two standoffs that lasted a few hours. The first one happened as protesters were heading to the intersection that was the ep center of the sitin. The protesters were trying to reach that area, according to the interior ministry. Se
She shares that essay in the book. Tell me about finding a publisher. The publisher found me so Johnny Temple is the incredible rock star, literally rock star publisher of caution books. He is a friend and we are both progressive activists in the publishing world that i had done a book a couple of years ago about this project that was working on about abortion and did something actually on that bug. He called and said i want to do a book that captures this incredible trajectory. I think you should do speeches by politicians. Can you think of anyone who edit it . And i said i would. I got Madeline Keown and to be involved as well to add her gravitas and it was really just a pleasure to do and its a very like i say a happy story. Thank you for your time. That sounds like unpaid labour to me, so i dont know. Can we turn off the lights were turned down the lights . I will just start what im going to do is run you through the first day of the battle of the somme and talk a little bit about
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