Episode summary: Tyler considers Diarmaid MacCulloch one of those rare historians whose entire body of work rewards reading. This work includes his award-winning Cranmer biography, his sweeping histories of Christianity and the Reformation, and his latest on sex and the church, which demonstrates wh...

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Episode summary: A young designer faces an impossible brief and discovers the spark that will define his legendary career.

Episode summary: This is one of the best pieces of fashion reporting I have ever heard: it’s a reworked version of a story that originally aired on the NPR podcast Planet Money. And to get my recommendations of well made, relatively ethically produced t- shirts, head to articlesofinterest.substack.c...

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Episode summary: We’re starting the new year with an antidote to 2025 — two episodes featuring inspiring early-career producers. On this episode, 28-year-old Anna Van Dine from Vermont who deployed an unusual storytelling maneuver that Rob hasn’t heard in years.

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Episode summary: Sheila Dillon goes foraging for wild mushrooms in the Peak District in Derbyshire to find out what common fungi are easy to find - and delicious to eat. She hears from expert foragers, mushroom buyers and fungi fanatics about how the supply chain for this wild food works, from the f...

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Episode summary: At 22, Brendan Foody is both the youngest Conversations with Tyler guest ever and the youngest unicorn founder on record. His company Mercor hires the experts who train frontier AI models—from poets grading verse to economists building evaluation frameworks—and has become one of the...

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Episode summary: Tyler Cowen returns to continue his conversation in Part Two. Tyler Cowen is a leading economist, author, and professor, currently holding the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University, where he also serves as chairman and faculty director of the Mercatus Cente...

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Episode summary: When people think of oil rich nations their mind generally goes to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the US. But according to international statistics, the country with the largest oil reserves is Venezuela, with 300 billion barrels worth. At their peak they produced over 3.5 million barrels o...

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Episode summary: Here’s your New Year’s resolution: Attend a Transom Traveling Workshop. That’s right. You know you wanna. The year 2026 is the year to give yourself a treat — a little radio self-love. For inspiration, here are two stellar stories produced by new and emerging audio producers at a Tr...

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Episode summary: This hour long special celebrates a quarter of a century of the programme and charts the course of a human life through pieces of music. Cerys Matthews introduces a compilation of some of the diverse pieces of music we’ve featured throughout the years - together with stories of the...

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