Episode summary: The real reason he “jumped ship” from the Harvard Economics Department.

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Episode summary: On October 4, 1960, Eastern Airlines Flight 375 took off from Boston’s Logan airport, and then, two minutes later, it crashed. 62 people died. Investigators couldn’t figure out what had happened, and they decided to ask a scientist working at the Smithsonian for help. Roxie Laybourn...

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Episode summary: How an ultra-marathon called The Comrades became a national obsession in South Africa and a model for inclusion during some of the most divided moments in the country’s history

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Episode summary: Three years after the UK left the EU, and two years after the end of the transition period, Jaega Wise speaks to some UK food producers about if and how Brexit is still affecting their businesses. The Trade and Cooperation Agreement signed with the EU allows UK businesses tariff-fre...

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Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Austen’s last complete novel, which was published just before Christmas in 1817, five months after her death. It is the story of Anne Elliot, now 27 and (so we are told), losing her bloom, and of her feelings for Captain Wentworth who she was eng...

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Episode summary: Paul Salopek is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic fellow who, at the age of 50, set out on foot to retrace the steps of the first human migrations out of Africa. The project, dubbed the “Out of Eden Walk,” began in…

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Episode summary: Who doesn’t like a good story from Down Under? When the Australian government tried to kill two birds with one stone by helping World War I vets grow large amounts of wheat, they never anticipated the third bird: more than 20,000 emus. Find out how farmers in Western Australia and t...

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Episode summary: Hannah Ritchie on Eating Local - Econlib

Episode summary: On Background from Against the Rules

Episode summary: From the producers of Nuremberg, the story of how in just 13 years, Adolf Hitler led a fringe sect with less than a hundred members and outlandish ideas to be the dominant force in German politics. It is also about the forgotten players from these early years who played crucial role...

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