Cursed Objects

Cursed Objects

Imagine ‘show and tell’, but about how humanity has gone wrong. A podcast about big ideas, weird history - and tat. Join Dr Kasia Tee and Dan Hancox as they get drunk in the gift shop with the Angel of History. Find us also on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Episoder(100)

Kill the Boss in Your Head

Kill the Boss in Your Head

Is there actually any moral value to hard work? From the Dignity of Labour to CEO Mindset, Girlbossing and Instagram Hustle propaganda, our entire culture is full of messages that working hard and 'lo...

3 Okt 202414min

Crap Towns and Caffs (not Cafes) ft. Isaac Rangaswami

Crap Towns and Caffs (not Cafes) ft. Isaac Rangaswami

The early 2000s were a fever dream: why was pop culture so mean? Specifically, why was it acceptable to write off entire cities - and the people within them - as crap? This is the question posed by ou...

19 Sep 202446min

Airbnb: Prints of Thieves

Airbnb: Prints of Thieves

They are marketed as democratised holiday rentals, where you get an ‘authentic’ experience by literally living in someone's home - so why are Airbnb’s full of crap, generic art? The answer is obvious ...

4 Sep 202418min

Racist Mugs and Legitimate Concerns with Labour

Racist Mugs and Legitimate Concerns with Labour

If smart, humane, pro-migration Ed Miliband really hated Labour’s infamous ‘Controls On Immigration’ coffee mug – both of his parents were Jews who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Britain – then...

25 Jul 202422min

The Museum of Neoliberalism ft. Darren Cullen

The Museum of Neoliberalism ft. Darren Cullen

How do you start collecting objects for a cursed museum? Kasia and Dan spend all of their money in the gift shop of the Museum of Neoliberalism (well, it wouldn’t be a Museum of Neoliberalism if you l...

10 Jul 202450min

Cursed Objects, Live! #1 Notes from the museum shop

Cursed Objects, Live! #1 Notes from the museum shop

Troubling war merch, Van Gogh bucket hats, Soviet space dogs and the scourge of ‘world’ history - Kasia and Dan stage their first-ever live show to celebrate 100,000 downloads! They tell a sell-out cr...

28 Jun 202415min

Bone music, Soviet outlaws and X-ray rock ‘n’ roll ft. Stephen Coates

Bone music, Soviet outlaws and X-ray rock ‘n’ roll ft. Stephen Coates

A record etched onto an x-ray of a (probably, now) dead Soviet citizen’s head. That is the uniquely cursed object Stephen Coates came across in a Russian flea market in 2014. Weird, eerie, and almost...

13 Jun 202456min

The Unstoppable Many vs. The Immovable Few (Emergy P for the Snappy G)

The Unstoppable Many vs. The Immovable Few (Emergy P for the Snappy G)

Oh god, not another one! When BREAKING NEWS bursts through the wall, we spring, gently and apologetically, into action, with a (cough) emergency p for the snappy g. That’s right guys, we’ve got a boot...

30 Mai 202422min

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