Episode summary: There’s an idea in city planning called “informal urbanism.” Some people call it “do-it-yourself urbanism.” Informal urbanism covers all the ways people try to change their community that isn’t through city planning or some kind of official process. If you’ve put up a homemade sign...

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Episode summary: Malcolm Gladwell presents the newest podcast from Pushkin Industries: The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos. To listen to all episodes of The Happiness Lab, visit https://megaphone.link/CAD5602975937 or www.happinesslab.fm/.

Episode summary: Were a third of those that fought for Britain in WW1 black or Asian?

Episode summary: David and Helen take a step back to unpick the tortuous history of how we got to the Brexit referendum in the first place. Does the justification Cameron offers in his new memoirs stack up? What was he trying to achieve? And why did we end up with an in/out vote when the political r...

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Episode summary: In honor of back-to-school season, we asked the Radiotopia producers: what’s one thing you’ve always wanted to learn or do, but haven’t done yet? In this episode, you’ll hear: Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva of The Kitchen Sisters Present; Roman Mars of 99% Invisible and What Trump Can...

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Episode summary: Get the bonus materials for this episode: joyoflanguages.com/how-to-say-jealous-in-italian/ Practise your Italian in our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/5.minute.italian Today’s Italian words Sono geloso = I’m jealous (a man talking about “love” jealousy) Sono gelosa = I’m j...

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Episode summary: A Spanish woman becomes the president of a survivors group in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001. Prelude: Fred Parisi, a New York City police officer, creates a foundation to support 9/11 first responders. Support the show by becoming a Valuedlist...

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Episode summary: David talks to novelist Ian McEwan about his new Brexit parable, The Cockroach, and a lot else besides: counterfactual history, Labour party conferences, eighteenth-century satire, humanising judges and turning the economy on its head. But yes, it’s all about the Brexit nightmare. F...

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Episode summary: Five years ago, StartUp began chronicling the life of a fledgling Brooklyn-based podcasting company called Gimlet Media. This year, the streaming giant Spotify bought that company. In the final season of StartUp, what it’s really like to sell a business.