Episode summary: Sweden offers some lessons on meals better for the health of pupils and the planet
Episode summary: Welcome back to The British Food History Podcast. Today I am talking with Deborah Albon and Amy Palmer about the history of children’s food. Deborah Albon is a former early years professional and Amy Palmer is a former infant teacher, and both are lecturers at the University of Roeh...
Episode summary: Zephyr Prusinski, Steve MacLaughlin, and Richard Green were interviewed by Milan Parker for a segment about reclaiming digital identity on ‘the old web’ on the Block by Block program presented by PhillyCAM.
Episode summary: Toby Wilkinson is one of the world’s leading Egyptologists, whose books have ranged across the full sweep of pharaonic history. His latest, The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra, covers the 300-year Ptolemaic period — stranger and more modern-feeling...
Episode summary: Misha Glenny and guests discuss how, after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833, sugar planters recruited workers from India to replace or compete with their formerly enslaved labourers. Over the next 90 years, more than a million people in India travelled under fi...
Episode summary: Americans have access to a flood of news, and yet we’re in a deep information crisis. What’s really wrong with the news media? Is it what we think it is? And what about news consumers? Most of us don’t trust the media, but can we trust ourselves? By John Biewen with co-host Chenjera...
Episode summary: The episode centers on the dilemma of a man with an advanced, metastatic case of prostate cancer. His name is Dan. Every doctor he spoke to had a different opinion on what he should do — or whether it was even worth doing anything at all. His question was: which of these many opinio...
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