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01 Dec 2023

🎧 Episode 242: Interrogation Room

Episode summary: After a 17-hour-long interrogation, a woman confesses to a murder. But then, evidence surfaces proving that she can’t have actually done it – and that it was a false confession. Today, we’re looking at what goes on in an interrogation room – and hear a recording from inside. Maurice...

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29 Nov 2023

🎧 93. Reddit is powered by community moderators. We asked former senior mod Kethryvis if that can last.

Episode summary: When we call Christine Moelleberndt “queen of the moderators” we mean it. She just finished a 7-year stint at Reddit as a moderator of its moderators where she went by the user name kethryvis, and she’s been doing work like that since her days overseeing the community around the ’90...

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29 Nov 2023

🎧 Can maths prove the existence of aliens?

Episode summary: Are we alone in the universe – and if not, how many other civilisations might there be? Remarkable images and data sent back to Earth by the James Webb telescope have given a new impetus to a well-worn debate. We ask how far mathematics – and in particular a famous equation called t...

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29 Nov 2023

🎧 Listen As I Get Financially Planned from Other People’s Pockets

Episode summary: Listen As I Get Financially Planned from Other People’s Pockets

26 Nov 2023

🎧 34. Francophone Pt. 2

Episode summary: When is a breakup not a breakup? When your ex controls every aspect of your life. After walking through the freedom struggles of Ghana and the Congo in previous episodes, George turns his attention towards the “former” French colonies of West and Central Africa. What happens when fr...

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25 Nov 2023

🎧 Episode 243: The Liverpool Exchange

Episode summary: In the 1980s, Liverpool was having what journalists called a heroin epidemic. The chairman of a local organization where people would go for drug counseling told a reporter, “We are on the brink of complete catastrophe.” Then a small group of people decided to try something. Maia Sz...

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25 Nov 2023

🎧 The Federalist Papers

Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay’s essays written in 1787/8 in support of the new US Constitution. They published these anonymously in New York as ‘Publius’ but, when it became known that Hamilton and Madison were the main authors, the e...

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23 Nov 2023

🎧 Brian Koppelman on TV, Movies, and Appreciating Art

Episode summary: What is it about film that some smart people just don’t seem to get?

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21 Nov 2023

🎧 559- The Six-Week Cure

Episode summary: How Reno became the go-to place to get a quick divorce and how divorce laws have changed over time

21 Nov 2023

🎧 141: Keyboard Maestro Goes to 11

Episode summary: Keyboard Maestro got a big update, and the Automators are here to report on the new features.

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