1087 Episodes

  1. ‘You reach a point where you can’t live your life’: what is behind extreme hoarding?

    Published: 7/21/2023

  2. From the archive: Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire

    Published: 7/19/2023

  3. How Ukraine’s national dish became a symbol of Putin’s invasion

    Published: 7/17/2023

  4. ‘Why I might have done what I did’: conversations with Ireland’s most notorious murderer

    Published: 7/14/2023

  5. From the archive: Life after deportation: ‘No one tells you how lonely you’re going to be’

    Published: 7/12/2023

  6. ‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’

    Published: 7/10/2023

  7. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature

    Published: 7/7/2023

  8. From the archive: A 975-day nightmare: how the Home Office forced a British citizen into destitution abroad

    Published: 7/5/2023

  9. The planet’s economist: has Kate Raworth found a model for sustainable living?

    Published: 7/3/2023

  10. ‘I knew the terror of lost time’: how my father’s dementia echoed my own alcoholism

    Published: 6/30/2023

  11. From the archive: Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride

    Published: 6/28/2023

  12. The backlash: how slavery research came under fire

    Published: 6/26/2023

  13. Can humans ever understand how animals think?

    Published: 6/23/2023

  14. From the archive: History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future

    Published: 6/21/2023

  15. The strange survival of Guinness World Records

    Published: 6/19/2023

  16. Out of our minds: opium’s part in imperial history

    Published: 6/16/2023

  17. From the archive: The great American tax haven: why the super-rich love South Dakota

    Published: 6/14/2023

  18. The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us

    Published: 6/12/2023

  19. Dark waters: how the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy

    Published: 6/9/2023

  20. From the archive: How Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprising

    Published: 6/7/2023

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