Depeche Mode “Enjoy the Silence” Part 2 | One Song
All you ever wanted and all you ever needed from Diallo and LUXXURY is here in this episode. Okay, well, not *everything,” but in Part Two of our Depeche Mode…
Shopping and snacking: a social history of the high street
Daring department store stunts. Warming cups of cocoa. Argumentative bartering with butchers. What can revisiting high streets gone by reveal about British social history? Historian Annie Gray takes listeners on…
“blah, blah, blah…”
“Blah, blah, blah” and “yada, yada, yada” have had plenty written about them. But there’s a longtime cousin of these phrases that’s much less understood. We use it all the…
Natalie Haynes on Medusa
the author of a fantastic book, Stone Blind, which retells the story of the gorgon Medusa, who, originally in mythology, was cursed by Athena who turned her hair into snakes…
Phones Are Good, Actually with Taylor Lorenz
This week, Taylor Lorenz fights our latest moral panic. Are phones really making kids anxious, or are kids just good at noticing what's going on? {listen}
The Jane Collective with Moira Donegan
This week, Moira Donegan takes us back to Chicago in 1969, when an underground feminist collective got fed up with doctors, and started providing abortions themselves. {listen}
Narrating Audiobooks From Other Worlds
The field of audiobooks has exploded since the introduction of mp3 players, and it continues to expand. But it takes a unique set of skills to voice audiobooks in sci-fi…
Michelle de Swarte talks comedy and Katherine Ryan
From the glamorous world of the New York modelling scene to London's comedy circuits, this week’s guest, Michelle de Swarte, has done it all. Rob finds out how Michelle was…