Episode summary: Join 5x15 for an online event with the acclaimed historian Sarah Churchwell in conversation with Today presenter Justin Webb to delve into American myth-making and denialism past and present. In THE WRATH TO COME: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells, historian Sarah Church...

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Episode summary: In 1895, Blanche Chesebrough moved into a small apartment in Gramercy Park, in New York City. She brought a portrait of her parents, a vase for flowers, and her piano. She later said, “music had been my one absorbing interest,” and that she wasn’t interested in getting married. But...

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Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest and arguably the most astonishing religious structure on Earth, built for Suryavarman II in the 12th Century in modern-day Cambodia. It is said to have more stone in it than the Great Pyramid of Giza, and much of the surface is intricately...

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Episode summary: Limelight is the best podcast for thrilling audio drama box sets. Subscribe now on BBC Sounds. Narrator: Becky Ripley

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Episode summary: There is a cave in the middle of the Mojave Desert called Devil’s Hole. It’s home to a small iridescent blue fish, called the Devil’s Hole pupfish - and you can’t find them anywhere else in the world. There are fences, cameras, and motion sensors for security. In 2016, three men ram...

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Episode summary: Why a more peaceful India requires its people to become more like khichri than a thali.

Episode summary: Cereals provide their offspring with a long-lived supply of energy to power the first growth spurt of the seed. Thousands of years ago, people discovered that they could steal some of the seeds to power their own growth, taking advantage of the storability of seeds to move the food...

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