Episode summary: A peek into the life of a fit model: one of the stranger jobs in fashion. For images, details, and more head to articlesofinterest.substack.com

Episode summary: Today’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Science Festival: David talks to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about what we can learn from the astonishing success of an encyclopaedia built by its users. When and how did people realise they could trust Wik...

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Episode summary: Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian who has made a career out of explaining Germany to the world—and, just as importantly, to Germans themselves. Born in East Germany in 1985 and now based in Britain, she has written acclaimed histories of the German Empire, the GDR, and most...

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Episode summary: In “American Barbecue’s European Adventure,” Gravy reporter Eve Troeh takes us to meet restaurateurs in Prague, Czech Republic (Big Smokers) and Berlin, Germany (Big Stuff Smoked BBQ) who have gone to great lengths to import the techniques and equipment needed to bring American barb...

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Episode summary: How powerful can audio storytelling be? So powerful that distraught listeners stand-up, wave their arms, and yell “Turn it off! Turn it off!” That’s how good the documentary we’re featuring on Sound School is.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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