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19 May 2022

🎧 491- The Missing Middle

Episode summary: What zoning out middle-sized housing options does to a city

19 May 2022

🎧 64- Ethics and Masks

Episode summary: What happens when a case in front of the Supreme Court involves the spouse of one of the justices?

18 May 2022

🎧 Tyler and Daniel Gross Talk Talent

Episode summary: Plus, the user guide to working with Tyler.

18 May 2022

🎧 Madhur Jaffrey: A Legacy

Episode summary: 40 years ago the BBC broadcast a new TV cooking series called “Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian Cooking”. It was a first, and showed audiences that Indian food did not rely on curry powder, and that dishes were different depending on what region of India they originated. But that’s not all,...

16 May 2022

🎧 Sri Lanka Protests Over Food Shortages

Episode summary: Sri Lanka is in the middle of a burgeoning crisis. With the island nation facing the worst economy crisis in its history, citizens have been left to bear the brunt — with fuel shortages, hours-long power cuts, and a critical shortage in essential commodities such as milk powder and...

16 May 2022

🎧 Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?

Episode summary: The World Health Organisation recently released some new estimates of the global death toll of the pandemic. But the figures for a few countries have caused controversy. Tim Harford speaks to Professor Jon Wakefield, who worked on the analysis - and Indian data journalist Rukmini S...

16 May 2022

🎧 Episode 188: John & Trooper

Episode summary: For 10 years, Detective John Reilly and his horse Trooper were the only mounted team assigned to Central Park. They rode the same route every day. John says Trooper didn’t like change. “If you changed the route, he got mad.” And then in 2019, they both retired at the same time. Say...

16 May 2022

🎧 Homo erectus

Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of our ancestors, Homo erectus, who thrived on Earth for around two million years whereas we, Homo sapiens, emerged only in the last three hundred thousand years. Homo erectus, or Upright Man, spread from Africa to Asia and it was on the Island of...

15 May 2022

🎧 Venice

Episode summary: Does art have anything to offer us in these trying times? Your host visits the 59th International Art Biennale in Venice, the world’s most important art fair and the first since the global pandemic. Plus Digital Ukranians, Sound Art, and NFTs.

15 May 2022

🎧 490- Train Set

Episode summary: Some of the most ambitious, fascinating, and downright crazy trains that the world has ever seen.

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