Episode summary: Do you notice fewer insect splats on windscreens than you used to? There’s a study in the UK trying to measure this ‘windscreen phenomenon’, as it’s become known. We hear more about the study and whether we can draw conclusions about insect numbers in general, from reporter Perisha...

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Episode summary: Silicon Valley on the Couch

Episode summary: Devo’s first record and the fight over the arresting image of a flashy, handsome golf legend on the cover.

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Episode summary: S7 Ep2: The Price of Consistency (Good Bread #2)

Episode summary: With enemies lurking in every corner, Patrice Lumumba is trapped in his own home. As the first democratically elected prime minister of the Congo, he planned to use the country’s natural wealth to improve the lives of its people, but secret actions by the US and Belgian governments...

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Episode summary: Episodio 42: Capitalismo carnivoro con Francesca Grazioli (Stagione 3)

Very disappointed that after mustering all the usual anti-industrial-meat arguments both the guest and the hosts had nothing useful to say about cultivated meat except, more or less, bring it on. No thoughtfuln...

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Episode summary: Written by Dolly Parton… sent stratospheric by Whitney Houston; I Will Always Love You is a song that has a worldwide fanbase reflected by the diverse memories shared here: Nagham Kewifati tells how her mother, Mayada Bseliss, had a huge hit in Syria with an Arabic version. It was p...

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Episode summary: Harvard professor Claudia Goldin has become only the third woman to win the Nobel Economics Prize for her groundbreaking research on women’s employment and pay. Tim Harford discusses her work showing how gender differences in pay and work have changed over the last 200 years and why...

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Episode summary: Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert were once members of the radical activist group the Weather Underground. In 1981, they helped members of the Black Liberation Army rob a Brink’s armored car at the Nanuet National Bank. Their son, Chesa Boudin, was 14 months old at the time. He spent h...

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Episode summary: This week David asks Mary Beard what the Roman Empire can tell us about the nature of unaccountable power, then and now. How did Roman emperors rule when they had so little knowledge of the lives of their subjects? Can absolute personal power ever escape the limits of biology, from...

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