Episode summary: Your host escapes the island, and returns to New York. Plus writer Tim Kreider on Vaccine side effects.

Episode summary: Giancarlo Granda, AKA “The Pool Boy” reveals the predatory nature of the Falwells. Exclusive audio reveals another side, and another character in the middle of this story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode summary: We are hard at work on the bonus episode about decolonising coffee history.But…in the meantime, here’s an episode from a sister podcast we think you’ll enjoy.You can listen to more episodes from Adventures in Coffee here: https://bit.ly/300V4jS

Episode summary: How shared objectives can flip risks into value creation.

Episode summary: In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told her she would have to have her appendix removed. He never examined her abdomen. She later told papers that when she woke up from surger...

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Episode summary: We talk to the historians Robert Tombs and Robert Saunders about the history of England and the future of the Union. Is the size and complexity of England the real problem in holding the UK together? What can England’s past teach us about the present state of British politics? Does...

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Episode summary: Grace felt everything deeply from an early age. She was having panic attacks at 9 years old, and separation anxiety in middle school. The anxiety came to a head when she was 12, and nothing she tried helped in any meaningful way. Until one night she looked out her window.

Episode summary: This series of time-centric stories challenges what you know (or think you know) about the way time works around the world.

Episode summary: Fitness & fatness: Laurie Taylor asks if they are two sides of the same coin. He’s joined by Jürgen Martschukat, Professor of North American History at the University of Erfurt and author of a new book which looks at the history of self-optimisation from the Enlightenment to the pre...

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Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great novels of China’s Ming era, and perhaps the most loved. Written in 1592, it draws on the celebrated travels of a real monk from China to India a thousand years before, and on a thousand years of retellings of that story, especially th...

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