Episode summary: Her biography of Girard drew critical praise — why did it have to be written outside academia?

Episode summary: Dr. David Starkey: A Boswell in the House of Windsor

Episode summary: There’s a particular one-kilohertz tone that is universally understood to be covering up inappropriate words on radio and TV. But there are other options, too, like silence — so why did this particular bleep sound become ubiquitous?

Episode summary: Videos on TikTok have been claiming that so-called “natural” birth control methods can be 99% effective. We examine what we really know, and how we know it.

Episode summary: In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to quietly break the law and help facilitate abortions. They established a phone number. When you called it, a recording of a woman’s voice would tell you what to do next. Who was behind this number? The Clergy Consultation Serv...

Episode summary: What does Francesca Tripodi have in common with the Evangelical Christians she studied? They both do their own research, and they find lots of propaganda. This week on Reimagining, Francesca gives us a crash course on the sprawling conservative disinformation ecosystem.

Episode summary: The opinion polling industry’s reputation has taken a battering in recent years, as high profile slip-ups in the US presidential election exposed frailties. So should we write them off? Not according to Economist data journalist G Elliot Morris, who’s written a book called Strength...

Episode summary: In this episode, Rose and David explain some of their favorite small automation tools and how they work.

Episode summary: Citizens armed only with Molotov cocktails battle with Russian tanks on the streets of… Budapest. In November of 1956 Russian troops invaded Hungary. The revolution was crushed and thousands of Hungarians fled. Will history repeat itself? We talk with Réka Pigniczky about her memory...

Episode summary: We go through the other Supreme Court decisions that were released the same week Roe was overturned.