Episode summary: Campaigners are calling for the ingredients of sourdough to be laid out in law. So are there too many loaves on sale that are more sourfaux than sourdough? Leyla Kazim investigates.This programme features a visit to the Batch event at the Long Table in Stroud to meet baker and autho...

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Episode summary: Why natural gas markets were easier to master than human nature

Episode summary: In “Oh, Snapper! Mislabeled Mississippi Seafood,” Gravy producer Boyce Upholt takes listeners to Biloxi, Mississippi—a town that has long called itself the Seafood Capital of the World. But in May 2024, shocking news hit the community: Mary Mahoney’s Old French House, an iconic rest...

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Episode summary: Send us a text Adam Smith’s pin factory example from “The Wealth of Nations” demonstrates how dividing labor into specialized tasks dramatically increases productivity. Ten workers specializing in different aspects of pin-making could produce 48,000 pins daily, while individually th...

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Episode summary: Patrick Radden Keefe: From the New Yorker to the bookstore to the screen

Episode summary: Since the late aughts, Bahraini activist Esra’a Al Shafei has been building spaces where Arab and Middle Eastern queer folk, dissidents, and migrants can safely gather online, often amid governmental suppression. In part one of our interview with Esra’a, we talk through some of the...

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Episode summary: What a life spent inside other people’s heads reveals about free will

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Episode summary: Nooks & Crannies

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