SQPN: Catholic Insider

In this show, I talk about the important role of the BBC worldservice during my youth and about video-podcasting and video iPods. Some new podsafe music in this show as well. I've almost no voice because of a severe cold I caught in the middle of summer!

In today's episode, you can listen to 'The Power of the Pod': An interview I did on Vatican Radio about podcasting and about all the new and exciting possibilities it offers to the Vatican and to the Catholic Church.

In this episode, we will discover the story behind the central fountain on the beautiful Piazza Navona in Rome, and we will walk up to the magnificent Colosseum where gladiators fought and christian martyrs died almost 2000 years ago.

In this episode, I will take you on two soundseeingtours in Rome. We will visit a beautiful, opulent building that, ironically, commemorates someone who wanted to be as poor as possible, and a hospital constructed by a pope after a horrible nightmare.

Horrific bombings in London have killed and injured countless people. Once again our world is in shock, confronted with the horror of such incomprehensible violence. In this podcast I'll share my thoughts and prayers.

Today, I'll take you back to the huge building of Vatican Radio for a short soundseeing tour. When I first visited Vatican Radio earlier this year, I helped the people over there to start podcasting. So let's revisit some old friends over there!

Another soundseeing tour in the city of Rome! This time, we'll travel with the metro to a meeting with Stefano, an Italian listener to the show. He's in the communications business, and we'll talk about video podcasting, technology and the Catholic faith.

Live from Saint Peter's Square, the Catholic Insider let's you experience a general audience with Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday June 22. Listen to the sounds, and feel the warmth of both the sun and the hearts of the 30.000 people present!

In this show I will take you on a soundseeing tour through the streets of Rome. From Piazza Navona we'll go to the church where the only Dutch pope is buried, and we'll head over to the Vatican in search for tickets for an audience with pope Benedict XVI.

In this 'travelcast' I'll take you with me on a plane from Germany to Rome, where I will stay for the next couple of days. A podcast with great music, bad airplane-coffee and heavenly cappucino when we arrive in the Eternal City...

The second part of my podcast about Batman's Belief on the occasion of the premier of Batman Begins. I'm taking you to the theater to give you my first impressions of the movie. Which belief motivates the choices and the actions of the Caped Crusader?

What is Batman's belief? The question about Batman's religion is not as silly as it might seem. In this podcast, I'll take you on a soundseeingtour to the premiere of the movie Batman Begins, while we talk about this subject. Oh, and there's icecream too!

In this podcast, we will continue our search for movies about exorcism during our ongoing inquiry into this phenomenon. We'll do some soundseeing of the medieval city of Amersfoort in the process. We'll also meet apodcasting priest with a Taco Bell-problem.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has recently started his own podcast. In this episode of the Catholic Insider, he talks with fr. Roderick about the rise of podcasting, about his motivation to jump on the bandwagon, about his own personal favorite podcasts and about the financial side of podcasting

In this episode, Doc Brown will take us back once again to the future of podcasting and of the Catholic Insider. Which secret plans does Steve Jobs have up his sleeve? And how is the Catholic Insider preparing for the future?