Recorded
by The NationalRecorded is a podcast from The National with a collection of topical interviews, interesting discussions and sometimes random stories.
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Episodes
24: 30 years of The Undertaker
16m · Published
Wrestling legend The Undertaker sits down with Evelyn Lau of The National to talk about his 30-year career, his favourite wrestling moments - and unfinished business in the ring.
World Diabetes Day: Close to your heart for T2 diabetes
25m · Published
People with Type 2 diabetes have a higher risk of heart disease and stroke and despite advances in care, cardiovascular diseases are the top causes of death. Added to this, is that the relationship between diabetes and cardiovascular diseases is not always well understood. To help people know more, for World Diabetes Day 2020 on Saturday November 14, The National and leading pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, hosted an expert discussion exploring the link between Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. For World Diabetes Day our expert panel includes:
- Dr Mohamed Hassanein, a senior consultant in endocrinology
- Dr Abdallah Shehab, a consultant cardiologist
- Ousama Al Haj, general manager and head of human pharma, at Boehringer Ingelheim, Gulf.
Xbox Series X v PlayStation 5
20m · Published
PlayStation loyalist and social media journalist Faisal Salah goes toe-to-toe with Xbox aficionado and deputy chief sub-editor Michael Coetzee for a discussion on the coming console wars. Will Sony or Microsoft win the hearts, minds, and, ultimately, wallets of the public? Which exclusive games are going to rock the gaming world? Will Xbox's Netflix-style subscription service entice people away from PlayStation? And what are teraflops and will they make the difference?
21: Breaking period taboos
8m · Published
Menstruation is a subject that many people are squeamish about so when an Indian cricket team placed a sanitary pad advertisement on their jersey, people sat up and listened. The Rajasthan Royals is a cricket club playing in the wildly popular IPL or Indian Premier League tournament in the UAE. Their campaign Let’s Talk Periods in which cricketers call on men and women not to be embarrassed about menstruation has been seen by millions of cricket fans who tune in from across the globe. It has sparked conversations on social media about the shame surrounding the menstrual cycle and lack of access to menstrual products. Ramola Talwar Badam speak to three women about periods. Suzanne Al Houby, is the first Arab woman to have climbed Mount Everest (amongst a team of all men), Dr Rasha Rady is an assistant lecturer of paediatrics at Cairo University Children’s Hospital and Sarah Zipp, a lecturer at the University of Stirling in Scotland, who runs a project to coach the coaches. Zipp says talking about menstruation will stop young girls around the world from dropping out of sport.
Kaspersky: Cybersecurity for everyone
17m · Published
Employees are the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain. Most of all cybersecurity incidents in organizations are caused by the human factor - mistakes, negligence, low digital literacy, etc. Cyber attacks lead to enormous losses and damage to the company. That's why businesses globally are increasingly investing in staff training in information security skills. But the methods used are often ineffective. Emad Haffar, head of technical experts for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa, with cyber security firm Kaspersky tells us how the Kaspersky Automated Security Awareness Platform (ASAP) is created by leading cybersecurity experts to help protect small enterprises who cannot withstand the blow of a cyber attack. Hosted by Alan Griffin. Click here for more info .
19: UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini on the Covid-19 Palestinian poverty crisis
28m · Published
UN Palestinian aid agency head, Philippe Lazzarini, sits down with James Haines-Young to talk about how Covid-19 caused a poverty pandemic as well as a health pandemic. He called out for long-term support for a community hit hard by the virus.
18: Hazza and Dr Sultan's training for space travel at Nasa
11m · Published
On the 25th of September 2019 Hazza Al Manouri became the first Emirati in space. Four days before the 1 year anniversary of that event, Hazza and reserve astronaut Dr Sultan Al Neyadi arrived in the US to begin training with NASA. Sarwat Nasir of The National talks to the Emirati astronauts about the training they are going to receive and the plans for the UAE’s space programme.
120,000 year old footprints found in Saudi Arabia
9m · Published
Saudi Arabia’s Heritage Commission unveiled the discovery of a new archaeological site that dates back 120,000 years. The footprints of humans, elephants and predators were discovered around an ancient dry lake on the outskirts of Tabuk, in the kingdom's northwestern region. James Langton speaks to Richard Clark-Wilson of Royal Holloway University of London, the co author of the official report on the discovery, about why they were there and what makes them so important to the story of humankind.
The history of World Expos and why countries hold them
11m · Published
The National's James Langton talks to Urso Chappell, a world fair (or Expo) enthusiast and historian about the history of world fairs and how he is excited for the Expo 2020 in Dubai.
15: Tying the knot during a pandemic
10m · Published
Ramola Talwar, journalist at The National talked to Laura Daher and Elie Abi Daher about how their wedding that took months to carefully organise was arranged in less than two weeks after places of worship were permitted a limited opening with social distancing norms.
Recorded has 65 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 17:04:30. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 12th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on June 7th, 2024 22:40.
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