Episode #83- Who Invented Your Favourite Food?
Some of the most enduring historical myths have to do with food and drink. Food history can sometimes be seen as frivolous, which makes it particularly vulnerable to myth-making. As a result some of t...
27 Feb 201955min
Episode #82- What Went Down in the Congo Free State? (Part III)
Recounting the atrocities that took place in the Congo Free State during the reign of King Leopold II is a daunting process. It was a state where sadism was the norm and severed human hands became a g...
12 Feb 20191h 5min
Episode #81- What Went Down in the Congo Free State? (Part II)
The creation of the Congo Free State was one part cheap hustle and one part military occupation. King Leopold II managed to convince Europe he was a noble humanitarian while he was secretly building o...
30 Jan 201952min
Episode #80- What Went Down in the Congo Free State? (Part I)
There are few colonial enterprises as infamous as the Belgian King Leopold II's Congo Free State. While most people have a vague understanding of the atrocities that took place there, many don't know ...
16 Jan 201949min
Episode #79- Who Are the Magicians of the Gods? (Part II)
Graham Hancock's hypothesis that an advanced global civilization was lost from history after a cataclysm at the end of the last ice age, sounds like it should be fun. It isn't. Wading through all of H...
19 Des 20181h 6min
Episode #78- Who Are the Magicians of the Gods? (Part I)
They are few researchers as controversial as Graham Hancock. He first found fame in 1995 when he published his international bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods. In that book he first proposed his hyp...
5 Des 201848min
Episode #77- Was There a Real Pied Piper?
The fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm can often surprise modern readers with their violence and cruelty. There is something particularly haunting about the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
21 Nov 201858min
Episode #76- How Does Jon Waterlow Make Sense of Stalin Jokes?
When I spoke to Jon Waterlow he reminded me that George Orwell once said that every joke is a tiny revolution. Well, it turns out jokes can be even more than that. In his fantastic new book, It's Only...
7 Nov 20181h 8min
