Sinead O’Connor – Famine (Official Music Video)
Okay, I want to talk about Ireland Specifically I want to talk about the "famine" About the fact that there never really was one There was no "famine" See Irish…
CuriosiD: Why are there so many Coney Islands in Detroit? – WDET 101.9 FM
The short answer Coney Island restaurants started to smother the nation’s car capitol in the early 20th century. Some Greek immigrants who arrived in the U.S. at that time passed…
Napster With Niko Stratis
This week, a tale of two Shawns/Seans, their impossible dream, and the file sharing service that lived fast, died young, and helped create the internet as we know it. Plus,…
One Year: The Day the Music Stopped – 99% Invisible
The problem seems not to be new technology but who owns the means of production.
Making a Spectacle: A Fashionable History of Glasses, an interview with Jessica Glasscock, part 1
Fashion historian Jessica Glasscock joins us for a two-part episode on the fascinating, 750 year history of eyeglasses and eyewear. Jessica is the author of the new book Making a…
The Octagon House – 99% Invisible
99 Percent Invisible producer emeritus Avery Trufelman traveled from New York to San Francisco recently, and took host Roman Mars to see an unusually shaped old building on the west…
Where Have All the Preppies Gone? with Avery Trufelman
Put on your Docksiders for a stroll through history with Avery Trufelman, who shows us how Ivy style became “preppy,” and how preppy fashion escaped the campus and took over…
The Movie Rating System with Karina Longworth
How did Poltergeist get that PG rating? Podcast legend Karina Longworth, host of You Must Remember This, takes us on a wild ride through a century or so of Hollywood…
“A serial killer of civilisations”: a history of climate change
From the Justinian plague to the fall of the Maya, climate change has been connected to many of history’s great catastrophes. Environmental journalist Eugene Linden speaks to Rhiannon Davies about…
True Crime Fairy Tale
Was the tale of Hansel and Gretel inspired by a real crime in German history? It would make for a great story, if it were true. This week’s episode comes…