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Joe Questions
by Joe Chambers
My name's Joe, and I'm on a mission, asking questions to understand our real story on this planet and the truth about our place in this universe.I travel to the corners of the world, meet the people who live there, and chase the answers most of us never stop to ask for. If you're curious about the same things, come along for the ride.New episodes regularly. Ask questions, share what you love, and love each other.
Episodes
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Crop Circles: From Conversation to Creation?
In July 2006, a group of crop circle researchers sat in a Wiltshire pub looking through a tarot book and stopped at card zero, the Fool. The next morning, a formation resembling it appeared in a nearby wheat field.Coincidence? Maybe. But it isn't the only story like it. In 1997, Dutch scientist...
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Is this who's behind crop circles? | Karen Alexander, Temporary Temples
Karen Alexander has spent thirty-five years documenting crop circles. In this episode we talk about what they might be saying: the geometry, the mathematics, and what these formations do to the people who go and stand inside them. We talk about the Chilbolton formation of 2001, which appeared...
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Are We Ready for Disclosure? | Neil Nixon
Is society ready for disclosure? In this episode I sit down with writer, journalist, and academic Neil Nixon — a longtime Fortean Times contributor who's spent over 40 years investigating UFOs and the paranormal — to talk about where official disclosure actually stands, why he's skeptical of…
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The Chambers That Could Rewrite History | Gunung Padang | Danny Hilman Natawidjaja
Under a hill in West Java, geophysical scans show hollow spaces — chambers, twenty and fifty metres down. Nobody has ever been inside one. Before the end of the last ice age, Java, Sumatra and Borneo were joined into a single landmass. Geologists call it Sundaland. Then the ice melted, the sea…
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Crop Circles, Falling Lights, and the Limits of the Scientific Method | Klaas van Egmond
He spent nearly thirty years bringing instruments into a phenomenon that wouldn't hold still for science — magnetometers, thermal cameras, time-lapse rigs. Almost all of them came back with nothing. Klaas van Egmond is an emeritus professor of Environmental Science and Sustainability at Utrecht...
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Stonehenge Wasn't Built to Be Seen - It Was Built to Be Heard | Greg Moffitt
What if our ancient ancestors experienced the world through sound as much as sight? In this episode I'm joined by Greg Moffitt - writer, broadcaster and host of the long-running Legalise Freedom podcast - to talk about archaeoacoustics: the study of how ancient sites were built to sound, not just...
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Russia warns ‘consequences’ | Inside Swindon's Drone Boom: Jobs, Weapons and War | Will Stone MP
Drone warfare isn't a niche part of modern conflict anymore — it's becoming the main way wars are fought. And Britain's chosen my hometown, Swindon, as one of the places to build for it. In this episode I sit down with Will Stone, Labour MP for Swindon North, to talk about how a town with no...
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What Do We Get Wrong About Britain's Indian History? | Shrabani Basu
What really happened when an Indian-Muslim princess became a British spy in WWII — and paid for it with her life?In this episode, Joe Chambers interviews Shrabani Basu, an award-winning journalist, author and historian who has spent decades uncovering overlooked Indian stories at the heart of...
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Crop Circles Are Lining Up With Ones That Vanished Two Years Ago | Dan Vidler
2026 has been an extraordinary year for crop circles. More formations, more complexity, and more people asking questions that do not have easy answers. Dan Vidler has spent 23 years researching these formations at ground level, and he means that literally. While most of us are looking at drone...
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What's Happened to Britain? | Alan Mardghum & 140 Years of the Durham Miners' Gala
In 2017 I went to the Durham Miners' Gala for the first time. Jeremy Corbyn was Labour leader, socialism felt like it was breathing again, and tens of thousands of people packed into Durham with something that looked a lot like hope. Seven years later, more people voted for Corbyn in defeat than...
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Why Serious Researchers Won't Let the Crop Circle Mystery Die | Andy Thomas
Andy Thomas has spent 35 years reading the evidence on crop circles, and he still does not think all of them are man-made. He is one of Britain's most prolific authors on unexplained phenomena: Vital Signs, the standard reference on crop circles, along with The Truth Agenda, The New Heretics, and...
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He Films Unexplained Orbs Over Wiltshire - Watch and Decide | Simon Young
While the rest of the culture argues about whether the lights in the sky are real, Simon Young has spent years pointing a camera at them and pressing record. He films over the crop circles of Wiltshire: glowing orbs, plasma-like objects moving in formation, lights interacting with the formations...
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The Geometry Inside Crop Circles Is Too Precise to Dismiss | Bert Janssen
The same geometric pattern turns up in the Great Pyramid of Giza, in the crop circles of Wiltshire, in the Vatican, in Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, and in paintings made by Carl Jung's patients who had never seen any of it. Bert Janssen is a Dutch researcher who has spent decades studying crop…
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Egypt's Forgotten Revolution: Akhenaten & Tutankhamun | Professor Aidan Dodson
Uncover the mysteries of ancient Egypt through the lens of one of the world's leading Egyptologists. Professor Aidan Dodson takes us on a captivating journey from the grandeur of the Grand Egyptian Museum to the intriguing stories behind Tutankhamun, Akhenaten, and even Imhotep. Discover how...
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Changing Lives in Kenya: Cyndy B Waters and the Orbit Village Project
In this episode, I speak with Cyndy Waters, founder of the Orbit Village Project, a humanitarian initiative serving vulnerable children and families near Nairobi, Kenya. 🇰🇪Cyndy’s journey began in 1995 when she first visited a small quarry village outside Nairobi and was confronted with the...
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Why Reform Took Durham | A Labour Councillor on the Ground, Rob Crute
In this episode, Joe Chambers speaks with Councillor Rob Crute about the challenges facing the County Durham community, including housing instability, the impact of political changes, and the rise of Reform UK. They discuss the importance of local governance, the role of social media in shaping...
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There Were Multiple Arks of the Covenant? Professor Yigal Levin Explains
In this episode, Joe Chambers interviews Yigal Levin, a professor specializing in biblical history and teaches at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is currently working on a three-volume commentary on the Book…
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What is the lasting impact of German Colonialism? With Henning Melber
The conversation delves into the forgotten history of German colonialism, the genocide in German South West Africa, comparative colonial atrocities, acknowledgment and reparations, personal experience and legacy, economic motives and impact, and German influence and land ownership in Namibia. The...
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We Sent a Message Into Space. The Reply Appeared in a Field in England | Simon Young
In November 1974 we transmitted the Arecibo message from Puerto Rico towards a star cluster 25,000 light years away. Numbers, the atomic elements of life, a strand of DNA, a human figure, our solar system, and a diagram of the telescope that sent it. In August 2001 a formation appeared in a field...
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The British Empire's Enduring Impact: What the Evidence Actually Shows | Professor Corinne Fowler
🌍 Have you ever considered how your favorite countryside walks are intertwined with Britain's colonial past? 🇬🇧In our latest episode, Professor Corinne Fowler uncovers the surprising connections between English landscapes and the history of the British Empire. We discuss the contents of her...
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Thatcher's Legacy on Britain’s Broken Communities with Professor Stephen Farrall
In this episode, I speak with Professor Stephen Farrall, one of the UK’s leading experts on the long-term social and political impact of Margaret Thatcher’s government. Farrall, Professor of Criminology at The University of Nottingham, has spent decades researching how the policies of the 1980s...
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The Dutch East India Trading Company: Global Trade and Empire With Professor Jos Gommans
🎙️ In this episode, I sit down with Professor Jos Gommans, a leading historian of colonial and global history at Leiden University in the Netherlands. We dive deep into the rise and reach of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) — one of the most powerful and influential trading corporations in...
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How can humour save the U.K? With Attila the Stockbroker
In this episode, I spoke with Attila the Stockbroker, to explore the intersection of art, humour, and activism. We delve into the power of poetry and performance in driving social change, discuss the legacy of Brighton's football club, and reflect on the current political landscape in the UK....
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Not Every Crop Circle Can Be Made With a Board and String | Simon Young
Two people with a plank and a length of rope can flatten a field overnight. That has been demonstrated, repeatedly, and nobody serious disputes it. The argument is about what is left over once you have accounted for the ones that were. Simon Young has spent years filming formations from the air...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
My name's Joe, and I'm on a mission, asking questions to understand our real story on this planet and the truth about our place in this universe.I travel to the corners of the world, meet the people who live there, and chase the answers most of us never stop to ask for. If you're curious about the same things, come along for the ride.New episodes regularly. Ask questions, share what you love, and love each other.
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