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Pretend Room #22: Things We Don’t Love About Restaurant Etiquette | Mitchell and Webb
Robert Webb and David Mitchell go behind the scenes of two sketches, Bad Spy and Confused Teacher, while taking a few characteristically unexpected detours along the way.
Eat Like a Medieval Nun
Hildegard of Bingen's Cookies of Joy
The Artist Who Invented His Own Universe: William Blake
The art world had no place for William Blake and this great strength to resist categorization cost him immediate fame, but keeps his work intriguing hundreds of years later. In…
The World’s First Museums Were Weird
Before museums, there were rooms of wonder filled with unicorn horns, automatons, coral, coins, and relics from around the world.
The Art of Lotte Reiniger, 1970
Lotte Reiniger is known today for her extraordinarily elaborate silhouette animations. Her 1926 feature, “The Adventures of Prince Achmed,” is the oldest surviving full-length animated film. This short documentary provides…
The Noble Origins of Afternoon Tea
Max Miller recreates a historical recipe for Victoria sandwiches from Isabella Beeton’s 1861 book, Book of Household Management. The episode explores the origins of afternoon tea, tracing its custom to…
Why This Japanese Factory Refuses to Make Notebooks Faster
DAIGO has been making diaries and planners in Japan since 1944. At their factory in Nara, more than a hundred people turn sheets of paper into notebooks using Ito Toji,…
Getting Dressed as Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second queen, was a fashion icon of her time. Bringing the manners, etiquette, and wardrobe trends from the French court to England, she stood out amongst…