Episodes
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Bad Words & Concealed Carry at Your Own Black Risk
The last two days I have been disgusted by the bad words on the videos of Alton Sterling being killed by police officers in Baton Rouge. What disgusts me is that I can’t hear the...
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Episode 13: First Step, Longest Stride – Exoneration
Jeffrey Deskovic is a New York State exoneree, who was released in 2006. He has spent the last four years directing a unique foundation to help other wrongfully-convicted prisoners gain release, exoneration, and find their...
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Episode 12: I’m a Muslim, Bruv – Gulamshabir Arif
In December 2015, a 29-year-old British man of Somalian origin attacked three passengers with a knife at Leytonstone Underground station in east London, severely injuring one of his victims by cutting his throat, as he...
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Episode 11: Adnan Syed – Caged Under a Waxing Crescent Moon
Impressions and reflections on attending part of Adnan Syed’s second Post-Conviction Relief hearing, which took place in Baltimore, Maryland from February 3rd – 9th 2016. Contrasts and parallels with a court appearance of another young...
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Episode 10: Making a Murderous Good Evening
Following Amanda Knox’s recent acquittal on slander charges brought by 7 Perugia police officers, who she claimed yelled, slapped at and threatened her during interrogations in November 2007 after her house-mate, Meredith Kercher, had been found murdered, we examine how the simple text message…
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Episode 9: Making a Murderer Parallels – Manipulation, Double Bind & Blind Faith
We look at the parallels between the Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey cases from Making a Murderer and those of other high-profile defendants such as Adnan Syed, Amanda Knox and the West Memphis Three, and at some of the defendant characteristics and police and prosecution tactics that heighten…
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Episode 8: A Star Wars Virgin
You won’t believe it, but somehow our narrator has managed to get through decades of life without ever having watched a single Star Wars movie from beginning to end…. till now. Hear her irreverent observations...
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Raised Eyebrow: Making a Murderer – “We Did it Before!”
An elderly couple, Allan and Dolores Avery, stoically marching on…….
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Episode 7: Serial… Podcasting… Talk to White People!
Did the response to "Serial"’s first season reinforce the already developing notion that podcasts and podcasting was a “white people” thing? How did this idea get propagated into a social media meme, and what message did it imply? We look at what led up to "Saturday Night Live"’s sardonic take on...
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Raised Eyebrow: Serial Season Two
November has come and gone. So? Where is it??
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Episode 6: Beard Kultur
Are beard-wearers all muscularly-challenged hipsters in gender-identity crisis? Bearded philosopher and writer Dr. Carsten “Baal” Müller, owner of the beard products website Bartkultur, talks about the history of the beard, and its resurgence in popularity in recent years. He shares his…
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Episode 5: Pagan Fall – Samhain
Pagan…… a word that, for some, sums up negative assumptions about morbid people practising dark and unwholesome rituals. But is this the true nature of Pagan ritual, and the people who practise paganism? What do pagans celebrate in their ceremonies, and what attitudes, emotions and preoccupations...
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Episode 4: Halloween and Death
Many who regard Halloween as an unwholesome, even evil festival cite its focus on death. We explore the origins of the relationship between Halloween and death, who has been preoccupied with death through the ages, and how. We look at the meaning of death from the perspective of the Romans…
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Episode 3: Adnan Syed, What Serial Fans Forget
The case of Adnan Syed, the subject of the podcast “Serial”, has been followed and analysed predominantly from the perspective of its possibly being a wrongful conviction. That Adnan was a minor charged as an adult in draconian Maryland is an issue that is barely pondered. This is borne out when…
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Episode 2: Tattoos, Taboos and a Eureka Moment
No matter how mainstream having tattoos has become, there still remain some designs that give cause for pause, not just for viewers, but for tattoo artists themselves. We explore the relationship between artist and client, and how sensitive and provocative designs are negotiated.... or even…
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Episode 1: Midwestern Millennial Meets Tattooed Dude
A twenty-something Midwestern Millennial living in Washington DC has an unexpected and ambiguous encounter with a strangely-tattooed man, triggering a chain of assumptions, judgments, speculations, behavioural reactions…….. and a numerical conundrum. How would you have reacted to this meeting? We...
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