Abolish Restaurants!
Service! This week, we are hovering around ‘the pass’, checking our plating is okay, and asking how a simple labour-saving device, a coffee shop palette knife, caused Kasia so much angst and strife – ...
28 Nov 202324min
Bed, bugs, and hedgehogs
Mice, lice, moths…and prehistoric-looking ‘weta’ grasshoppers. We are in the grips of a pest control moral panic. Could the humble hedgehog be the solution to the bedbug APOCALYPSE that newspapers kee...
20 Nov 202350min
Detectorists vs Time Team
Recorded on a hungover rainy Sunday, it's a history-on-TV episode, and it's an episode about HISTORY IN THE FIELD. Literally in the field, or rather in a field: metal detecting, archeology, and a litt...
30 Okt 202316min
Beans Clock - 50th Episode Extravaganza
It's our 50th episode! Sort of. There's an asterisk. But it's sort of our 50th episode! To mark the occasion, Dan and Kasia are tackling their own logo, the Cursed Objects avatar and icon: the beans c...
16 Okt 20231h 8min
Pyramid Schemes and Revolutions ft. Jack Shenker
What happens when a revolution dies? Jack Shenker witnessed firsthand the phenomenal Egyptian strike waves of the late 2000s that led to the toppling of the Mubarak regime, reporting from Tahrir Squar...
18 Sep 20231h 1min
Rainy Empire Island ft. Charlotte Lydia Riley
Welcome to a new series of Cursed Objects! For the first episode back, very special guest historian Charlotte Lydia Riley brings in a souvenir mug commemorating the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 –...
5 Sep 20231h 4min
Cursed Summer Sessions: The Revolutionary Potential of Antiques Roadshow
For the next Patreon-only Cursed Summer Session, Dan and Kasia get stuck into a decades-old British institution, with a TV review of Antiques Roadshow - comparing the huge gulf between the show in 199...
25 Aug 20237min
Still Trippin’ on These Shrooms
Sit up straight, hippies! Kasia and Dan have some questions for you, and it's high time you answered. Where did all this magic mushroom merch come from? What makes tye-die and flares swing in and out ...
31 Juli 202320min
