Episode summary: Unveiling the dangers of just trying to muddle through

Episode summary: Dan Pashman embarks on an epic trip across Italy in search of lesser-known pasta dishes — and to learn about the evolution of pasta more broadly.

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Episode summary: ‘Jaw-dropping’, ‘gripping’, ‘bingeable,’ ‘thrilling’ – Dramatic true stories and investigations that reveal how the world really works.Catch up on the previous series and be the first to hear about what’s coming up.

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Episode summary: In the penultimate episode in this series David and Lea discuss two twentieth-century philosophies of freedom and the human psyche. What can existentialism teach us about the nature of free choice under conditions of despair? Is there any escape from bad faith? And what can individu...

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Episode summary: Bright, flamboyant central African fashion

Episode summary: Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking 15 cigarettes per day? That’s the claim circulating on social media.We trace this stat back to its source and speak the scientist behind the original research on which it is based, Professor Julianne Holt-Lunstad.Presenter / series producer: T...

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Episode summary: When people started saying that John D. Rockefeller Jr. was responsible for the deaths of two women and 11 children near a coal mine in Colorado, he decided to do something unusual. He hired “the father of public relations.” Scott Martelle’s book is Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacr...

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Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dance which, from when it reached Britain in the early nineteenth century, revolutionised the relationship between music, literature and people here for the next hundred years. While it may seem formal now, it was the informality and daring that d...

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Episode summary: ToE’s Cultural Cold War miniseries concludes with three stories about containment and death. Richard Wright delivers his final lecture on Black Spies in Paris, Dwight Macdonald’s Mass Cult & Mid Cult finally debuts & flops, and Kenneth Tynan discovers the limits of social and cultur...

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Episode summary: Blue Seattle with Cameron Crowe | Development Hell