A Time for Horses

Recent Episodes

Nov. 24, 2023

Into the Mouth of Hell

A special episode of A Time for Horses, recorded live on the campus of Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut, on October 25, 2023, the 169th anniversary of the Battle of Balaclava.

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May 8, 2022

On the Hoof

At 37, Jesse McNeil - at times carpenter, commercial fisherman, dabbler in real estate - decided to buy an untrained horse, make himself into a horseman, and ride all the way across the United States, from the Pacific to the …

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Jan. 8, 2019

Hiatus

News, of sorts.

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Jan. 8, 2019

Hiatus

News, of sorts.

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March 12, 2018

The Horse at War

“A horse, a horse! My Kingdom for a horse!” Having lost his mount, standing amid the chaos of war that August day in a Leicestershire field, Richard Plantagenet, third of that name to sit on the throne of England, knew …

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Dec. 7, 2017

Vagabond

The Life, Adventures, Travels and Sufferings of Henry Tufts; Formerly Notorious in the Region of New England, in Part, as Compiled from His Own Book.

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Dec. 7, 2017

Vagabond

Across cultures and throughout time, tales and legends from around the world show us a clear set of universal character types, or archetypes. These characters are so universal that the psychologist Carl Jung developed his theory of personality around t...

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Sept. 27, 2017

Lightning in a Bottle

The story of the horse who won the genetic jackpot, and then captured the hearts and minds of his owner, his handlers, and an adoring public.

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Sept. 27, 2017

Lightning in a Bottle

We know that genetics is the science of heredity. It’s likely common knowledge that in the last half-century, human understanding of that science has exploded. Each year, the pool of knowledge grows, so that now, humans, working in a laboratory,

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July 10, 2017

Regulatory Discretion

The story of the Great Pergolide Scare of 2007 and the horse owners who took on the FDA.

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July 10, 2017

Regulatory Discretion

This is the story of how a decision was made, with all the best intentions and for all the right reasons, to withdraw the prescription drug pergolide mesylate from the market in 2007. The United States Food and Drug Administration …

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April 12, 2017

Persistence of Vision

The conclusion of a two part story about the man who changed the way we see horses.

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