Episode summary: This week David and Rose come to us live from PodCon with a very enthusiastic audience where they take the opportunity to dive into some of their travel automation setups. Once back in the studio they then go through the feedback they’ve received.

Episode summary: When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they hadn’t prepared themselves for how hard it would be. They had trouble finding steady work. So, Fannie found a way to take care of her family. She started small, but built a robust and lucrative operation… a business that a lot of people knew about but no one talked about. Bridgett Davis’ book is The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers. Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. If you haven’t already, please review us on iTunes! It’s an important way to help new listeners discover the show: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for The Accomplice. If you’d like to introduce friends or family members to podcasts, we created a How to listen guide based on frequently asked questions. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Sponsors: Care/of For 50% off your first month of personalized Care/of vitamins, go to TakeCareOf.com and enter CRIMINAL50. Robinhood Robinhood…

Episode summary: For two months a year, in a small Norwegian city, the sun never goes above the horizon. One researcher visits to find out why its citizens are happy despite the lack of light.

Episode summary: The story of a person who wanted to change the world using the internet — by committing crimes on an unprecedented global scale.Check out Evan’s book on Paul Le Roux, The Mastermind, here.

Episode summary: In the 1930’s,Theodor Adorno fled Nazi Germany. In America, he studied the Authoritarian Personality. On YouTube, he’s the object of study in a massive conspiracy theory that many have tried (and failed) to debunk. Chapter two in the new ToE Failure miniseries.

Episode summary: Deep frying our food is a fast efficient way of cooking and it’s not new.The ancient Greeks staged comedies involving frying pans. The Romans fried fish in copious amounts of oil. But these days deep frying often gets a bad press. British chip shops compete to create ever more outrageous deep fried dishes. Deep fried chocolate orange anyone? American state fairs hold extreme deep frying competitions involving butter and cookies. And in the west of Scotland the ‘munchie box’ is a fearsome thing to behold. Rachel McCormack explores different cultures’ approach to deep frying asking why in Britain it’s often regarded as unhealthy and lower class, whilst in Italy and Spain fritto misto has its place in a balanced healthy diet. Producer: Maggie Ayre

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Episode summary: The music was written by Charlie Chaplin in 1935 for the film ‘Modern Times’, but the lyrics were only added thirty years later. Chris Philips tells the story of how his grandfather was inspired to write the words when he left his father at boarding school; Gemma Lowery talks about how her son Bradley loved the song; writer Bryony Rheam describes why she associates the song with her grandmother; Marine Lucas remembers flying to Michael Jackson’s memorial on hearing the news of his death and author Bob Williams remembers after his father died, his mother sitting on the floor listening to the Nat King Cole version and crying when he came home from school.

Episode summary: We know it’s almost February, but happy New Year, Citizens! In our first Radiotopia Plus episode of 2019, you’ll hear: Helen Zaltzman, Benjamen Walker, Dave Nadelberg, Phoebe Judge, Lauren Spohrer, Ian Chillag, Jen Poyant, Nate DiMeo, Jonathan Mitchell, Davia Nelson, Roman Mars, Manoush Zomorodi, and Joe Richman. Citizens, we want to hear about your New Year’s resolutions! Head over to the Radiotopia Citizens Facebook Group and tell us about them.

Episode summary: Ah, Paris. Unmistakeable, beautiful Paris. Paris: a place so unique – so authentic, so essentially itself – that it is truly irreplaceable. The eighth and final instalment in our Sound of the Cities mini-series – a sonic exploration of our urban environments and their cultural soundscapes – visits the French capital. There we meet two composers, Yann Coppier and François Bonnet, who both spend a lot of time thinking about sound and how it informs the nearly ungraspable sensations and feelings – the je ne sais quoi if you will – which makes a place seem real or not. But just how Parisian are the sounds of Paris, exactly?