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Why Miners See Ghosts | Halloween Season

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Introducing... Unexplained: Lying in Wait

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The Pedlar and the Witch | Halloween Season

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A Tale of Blood and Ashes: The Exeter Vampires | Halloween Season

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When Aliens Landed in Wiltshire | Halloween Season

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The Mummy's Curse (Halloween Classic)

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When Muhammad Ali Met Henry’s Hammer

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How a Broken Arm Improved my French - with David Epstein

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Talent, Time and Money: The Curse of General Magic

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Evel Knievel Faces the Abyss

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Dumm und Dümmer: Hitler Invades Florida

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The DeLorean Saga: Fraud, Drugs and Marty McFly's Car - with Business History

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Proceed with Caution - Pascal's Guide to Podcasts

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The Weight of Fame: A Hollywood Tragedy

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Arsenic and Lace: The Trial of the Yorkshire Witch - with Maddy Pelling

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The Doors of Death: The Herald of Free Enterprise

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"What a Bloody Mess we're in" - Britain's [REDACTED] Accident

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Attack of the Night People

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LIVE: We Are Not Machines - with Sarah O'Connor

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Treacle Tears: The Boston Molasses Disaster

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The Thief, the Jewels, and the Dublin Castle Conspiracy

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The Dunning Canoe-ger Effect

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Presenting...This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

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How Civilizations Die - with Paul Cooper

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Can You Make a Sherman Tank Float?

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The Inventor who Almost Ended the World (Classic)

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From Drilled: The Carbon Gold Rush

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Angels, Gold and Lust: John Dee and the Philosopher's Stone (Part 2)

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The Queen's Astrologer: The Price of Prophecy (Part 1)

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Beware Tech Tycoons with Piranha Tanks - with Katie Prescott

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Finding Grace in a Burger Bun: An Incrediburgible Quest

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Run, Switzer, Run: The Women who Broke the Marathon Taboo (Classic)

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The Lovestruck Explorer's Deadly Guessing Game

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The Refugee Who Led a Software Revolution - with Ben Walter

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The Mad Mystic and the Last Battle on English Soil - with Ian Breckon

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The Sightseeing Flight and the Invisible Mountain

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Presenting: Drug Story - On Xanax and Anxiety

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"And it went click" - Dawn of the Working Dead

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Explosives or Sugar? The Deadly Art of Distraction in Putin’s Russia - with Helena Merriman

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Flight of the Fantasist: The Race Around the World - Part 2

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The Philosopher and the Handyman: The Race Around the World - Part 1

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Presenting... American Criminal: The Great McDonald's Monopoly Heist

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Sphygmograph Be Damned: The Science of Love

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The Angels, The Stones and The Dead

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Powered by Orgasm: The Rise and Fall of a Sex Cult - with Ellen Huet

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The WOW Machine Stops (Pt 2)

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Shoes, Booze and the Pursuit of Happiness (Pt 1)

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Liar, Bigamist, Brute: How Isaac Singer Liberated Women

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Fritterin' Away Genius (Classic)

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Photographing Fairies (Classic)

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"They fall behind and are slowly crushed" - Board Games and Economics with Richard Garfield

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Flixborough: The Factory that was Wiped off the Map

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The Disappearance of Grace Oakeshott

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Your Chance to Attend a Cautionary Tales Table Read

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Homo deceptus: Science's Dirty Little Secret

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Kyoto: The Battle that Defined Climate Politics - with Joe Robertson

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Presenting: Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Treasure Hunt that Broke America (Part 2)

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The Treasure Hunt that Broke America (Part 1)

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The Truth About Hansel and Gretel (Classic)

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On Fire from the Inside - Lethal Injection Up Close with Malcolm Gladwell

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Derek Bentley Must Hang

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The Canal, the Crash and the Ketamine - Pushkin's Reign of Error

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Schrödinger's Spy: Businessman, Fraud, or Russian Agent? - with Sam Jones

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Missing Fish and Fatal Feasts: Ritual and Ruin at the Sun King’s Table

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Don't Panic! Douglas Adams' Guide to Tomorrow - with Arvind Ethan David

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A Deadly Day at the Races: What Radical Protest Can and Cannot Do

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True Lies and Genuine Fakes

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Stalling for Survival - A Lonely Fight Against a Deadly Medicine

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Announcing: The Cautionary Club

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Disaster Favours the Daring: Shipwreck at Honda Point

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Paradise Poisoned: How Utopias Fall Apart

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"Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World

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Office Hell: The Demise of the Playful Workspace (Classic)

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Number Fever: How Pepsi Nearly Went Pop (Classic)

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Fire at The Beverly Hills Supper Club (Update)

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"Captain Kirk Forgot to put the Machine on Stun"

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"I get in trouble when I say things like this" - Michael Lewis on Sam Bankman-Fried

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Grand Theft Automated: How to Save a Trillion Lives

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The Man who Solved Kindness

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The Shark That Ate Hollywood: Jaws at 50

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Le Mans 55: The Deadliest Race

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The Nazis, the Bomb, and the Woman that Science Forgot

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Give Politicians a Raise, Smuggle Smartphones into School, and go Full Donk! Cautionary Questions with Risky Business

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Roosevelt and the Renegade (Panama Disaster 2)

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The Great Frenchman's Folly (Panama Disaster 1)

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Lab Leak: Could Smallpox Come Back?

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"Dangerously Near to Absolute Perfection"

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Buried by the Wall Street Crash (Classic)

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Presenting: You Must Remember This - Alfred Hitchcock

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“I love being the person who doesn’t know anything” - Why Steven Levitt has swapped academia for podcasting

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The Old Man and the Wrecking Crew

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Houdini: The Phone Call from the Coffin (Part 3)

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Houdini's Detective and her 1500 Dead Husbands (Part 2)

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Houdini: A Message from the Spirits (Part 1)

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Would You Trust a Gangster Nanny? - Cautionary Questions with Rachel Botsman

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Lights, Camera, Tax Break

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The Nursery Rhyme That Ruined a Rock Band

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The Widow Who Disrupted Champagne (with Ben Walter)

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The Thrill and the Drop: A First Date Rollercoaster