1097 Episodes

  1. From the archive: The false positives scandal: how thousands of innocent Colombians were killed so soldiers could get more holiday

    Published: 2/5/2025

  2. The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

    Published: 2/3/2025

  3. Endless work, little money, occasional UFOs: my father’s five decades driving Brazil’s roads

    Published: 1/31/2025

  4. From the archive: How one man spent 34 years in prison after setting fire to a pair of curtains

    Published: 1/29/2025

  5. The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation

    Published: 1/27/2025

  6. Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain

    Published: 1/24/2025

  7. From the archive: Inspired by nature: the thrilling new science that could transform medicine

    Published: 1/22/2025

  8. ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?

    Published: 1/20/2025

  9. Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process

    Published: 1/17/2025

  10. From the archive: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder

    Published: 1/15/2025

  11. The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank

    Published: 1/13/2025

  12. The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia

    Published: 1/10/2025

  13. From the archive: Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken heart

    Published: 1/8/2025

  14. Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother

    Published: 1/6/2025

  15. The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter

    Published: 1/3/2025

  16. From the archive: The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?

    Published: 1/1/2025

  17. The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride

    Published: 12/30/2024

  18. Best of 2024: ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books

    Published: 12/27/2024

  19. Best of 2024: As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released?

    Published: 12/23/2024

  20. Best of 2024: ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s

    Published: 12/20/2024

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