Straight off the Dome ft. Imogen West-Knights
Roll-up, roll-up for the biggest tent of all! We’re launching into 2025 with a very special guest, Imogen West-Knights, and an absolutely vast cursed object, containing lots of smaller ones. That’s ri...
23 Jan 202559min
Cursed Objects on Location! At a Haunted Seaside Hotel
It's a Spooky Christmas special! This week's Cursed Objects is a little bit less Stuart Hall, and a little bit more Derek Acorah, with an episode recorded on location in St Leonards, from the musty he...
27 Dec 202418min
Happy Trad-mas ft. Mr Beatnick and Archie Bashford
Back by popular demand, it's our annual Christmas party! And this year we’re wrestling with TRADITION. Are you making a list, and checking it twice – just as you always do? Have you demanded figgy pud...
17 Dec 20241h 14min
UNLOCKED - Magna Darta dart board
From Patreon to main feed: Welcome all free-born Englishmen, sovereign citizens, rebel barons and new patrons! We're talking about myths of Englishness, why the state has such a fragile ego, a Covid-d...
29 Nov 20241h 2min
Subversive Coffee
This week, it's a deep dive into a steaming mug of cawfee. Hot java. A cup of Joe. Black gold. This is an episode about "the abominable, heathen-ish liquor" they tried to ban (they really did), and th...
14 Nov 202414min
Multitudes - Live From the Crowd! Ft. Hettie O’Brien
As a Cursed Objects bonus, without an actual cursed object, we present a live recording of Dan in conversation about his brand new book Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World, recorded with frie...
31 Okt 202417min
Every Breath You Take ft. Dr Alice Bell
Air isn't an object, right? Wrong. This week, climate comms expert and historian Dr Alice Bell makes Dan and Kasia think hard about ephemerality via a jam jar of polluted air, captured 'fresh' from th...
17 Okt 20241h 8min
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
