Rise and Fall of Cinema
What was the first cinema? When were the heydays of cinema-going and where are we now? How has the experience of going to the cinema changed?Today’s show is about the rise and fall of cinema. Or shoul...
5 Jul 202329min
Dogs: Domesticating Wolves, Inventing Breeds (& Killer Beavers)
How do we go from wolves to modern dogs? And where do Killer Beavers fit into the story?Humans domesticated wolves long before any other animal (or even any plants). Yet what exactly happened is shrou...
2 Jul 202339min
Ejector Seats: Death Defying Invention
"Eject! Eject!" Imagine hearing that and the next second flying out into the sky at hundreds of miles an hour, your life in the hands of a chair. Luckily it's a very special chair that has rockets, re...
28 Jun 202336min
McDonald's: Roadside Stand to Worldwide Brand
Every second McDonald’s sells 75 hamburgers. It serves 70 million customers each day (more than the population of the UK). All this began at a roadside stand manned by two brothers: Dick and Mac McDon...
25 Jun 202334min
Kitchens
Who invented the Kitchen? It might seem silly to ask that but there is in fact one kitchen that people point to as the mother-of-all-kitchens. It was built in 1926 in the middle of a German housing cr...
21 Jun 202335min
Pride Flag: Birth of a Rainbow
The first ever Pride Flag was 30 ft high and 60 ft wide. A suitably epic beginning for a flag that has had a massive impact on the world.Who design that first flag? Why? And is Judy Garland involved i...
18 Jun 202333min
Pencils: A Surprising History
Is the pencil an example of perfect design? What is the greatest pencil of all time? What does a fallen down tree in the Lake District have to do with its invention? Dallas talks to Caroline Weaver, p...
14 Jun 202331min
Locks and the Great Lock Controversy
In Victorian England, a prisoner was promised their freedom if only they could pick a lock...This week on Patented it's the history of locks and the wild stories of the race for perfect security durin...
11 Jun 202332min
