Episode summary: For today’s episode in Politics on Trial it’s two trials for the price of one, which between them changed the course of British and Irish history. In 1889 the leading Irish politician Charles Parnell was cleared of any involvement in the notorious Phoenix Park murders by Irish repub...

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Episode summary: Are 12,000 nukes safer than zero?

Hard to decide whether she was being evasively defensive or standing up to Tyler’s hectoring questions. On balance, I’m going to go with standing up for herself.

Episode summary: Episode 2: Sin City

Ahah! So that's why Pat Conroy's Beach Music is called Beach Music. I mean, he kinda sorta alludes to what it is in the book, all that falling in love to The Drifters and the Carolina Shag, but he never quite spells it out, at least for a foreigner like me.

Episode summary: In 1976, Harvard University wanted to build a specialized lab for recombinant DNA research. But first, it had to get permission from the city of Cambridge. The resulting city council hearings drew TV stations and captured the attention of the whole…

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Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that Civility, in one of its meanings, is among the most valuable social virtues: the skill to discuss topics that really matter to you, with someone who disagrees and yet somehow still get along. In another of its meanings, when Civility des...

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Episode summary: Alondra Nelson is arguably the most important sociologist of science in America. She isn’t just a brilliant researcher of how race and racism has shaped public health in America, nor just a thoughtful, savvy tech policy maker. She is also someone with a gift for communicating resear...

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Episode summary: In this episode, Sarah Kernan talks to Victoria Flexner [https://www.victoriaflexner.com/], food historian and founder of the historical dining collective, Edible History [https://www.ediblehistorynyc.com/]. She is the author of A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years,...

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Episode summary: Episode 1: Whispering Pines

Episode summary: Introducing Charlie’s Place

Episode summary: A rock icon sets out to save music with a strange yellow gadget that almost no one understood.