Hi folks, I can’t believe it’s been over three months since our last episode! I feel terrible about that.

Well we’re back with a ripper - part one of our series on Julius Caesar!

I hope you enjoy it!

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As David is now retired from teaching, I would love to be able to pay him a modest salary for his invaluable contribution to these shows. As those of you who have listened to our Napoleon podcast know, David is a wonderful teacher of history and he puts a huge amount of time and energy into preparing these shows. If you feel inclined to support this, please consider paying a voluntary subscription fee for the Biography podcast for $20.00 per month.

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If you enjoyed this podcast, you might also like the our other podcast Napoleon 101.

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As some of you know, the main source of my income at the moment is producing podcasts for companies and government departments. Check this site for the basic pitch. I can produce podcasts for anyone anywhere in the world. Obviously video podcasts are limited to where I can get with my camera, but I’ve been recording audio interviews with international guests since 2004.

Who needs a podcast? Anyone in:

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Especially in this time of financial tightening, podcasting is a tool more companies should be using. It’s a very cost-effective way to reach the key members of your audience on a weekly basis. And, of course, if you’re going to produce social media, you should work with someone who has actually some experience producing media for large audiences and isn’t just all talk.

So, here’s how you can help - if you know of anyone who might be interested in using my services, make sure you point them in my direction. In addition, if you email me the names, email addresses and telephone numbers of the people in your company that fulfill the above roles, I’ll contact them directly and give them the pitch (ideally using you as a point of introduction but, if you’re not comfortable with that, I’ll leave your name out of it).

Here are my contact details to make it easy:

Cameron Reilly
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Okay, I know, I know - we said we’d stop doing fictional characters. But this one is too good to give up!

Where does the Santa Claus story come from?

I asked that question over lunch with my sister’s family on the weekend and her 6 year old son said “The North Pole!”.

On today’s show, David and I take you through the genesis of the Santa Claus story - from ancient Norse traditions involving Odin and his eight-legged flying horse Sleipnir, to a 4th century Greek bishop Nicholas of Myra, to the people who created the modern version in the 19th and 20th centuries, including Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Clement Clark Moore, Thomas Nast and the Coca Cola company.

Wood carving of Odin and his Ravens, flanked by a Napoleon clock and a Caesar tree ornament (who else would have that!) on David’s mantle.

You can subscribe to this and future episodes of The Biography Show through iTunes with this link.

As David is now retired from teaching, I would love to be able to pay him a modest salary for his invaluable contribution to these shows. As those of you who have listened to our Napoleon podcast know, David is a wonderful teacher of history and he puts a huge amount of time and energy into preparing these shows. If you feel inclined to support this, please consider paying a voluntary subscription fee for the Biography podcast by clicking on one of the below buttons. You have a choice of subscribing for $1.00 per month or you can make a lump-sum payment of either $20 or $50.

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If you enjoyed this podcast, you might also like the our other podcast Napoleon 101.

The theme music for this show is:

Black Violin
“Brandenburg” (mp3)
from “Black Violin”
(Di Versatile, Inc)

Buy at iTunes Music Store
More On This Album

Subscribe now to the TPN update email (fill in the below box) to get a weekly list of all of the new episodes on TPN in one easy-to-read format!

 

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In case you didn’t notice, we’ve been down for a couple of days. As you can read on the TPN blog, it was due to a hard drive failure on one of the servers. We’re in the process of re-building and it might take a few more days. At the moment we’re missing all of the media files (audio and video). I’ll get these re-uploaded asap. Stay tuned.