All Episodes

#622 | A Short History of Fire

#619 | Wyatt Earp | The Man Behind the Legend (English Listening Practice)

#617 | Bob Denard: The Mercenary Who Ruled the Comoros (English Listening Practice)

#614 | The Conquest of Ireland: How England Never Left (English Listening Practice)

#612 | Should Britain Abolish Jury Trials? (English Listening Practice)

#609 | A Short History of Blasphemy in Britain (English Listening Practice)

[From The Vault 🔐] Penny Dreadfuls | “The Victorian Video Game”

#607 | The Life of JD Vance (English Listening Practice)

#604 | Otto Warmbier: The American Tourist Who Never Came Home (English Listening Practice)

[From The Vault 🔐] Flight 571: Survival in the Andes

#602 | AI & Learning English in 2026 (English Listening Practice)

#599 | Man's Best Friend: The Remarkable History of Dogs (English Listening Practice)

#597 | The Global Housing Crisis Explained (English Listening Practice)

#594 | Mohammed Bin Salman & The Rise of Saudi Arabia (English Listening Practice)

#592 | A Beginner’s Guide To British Politics (English Listening Practice)

#590 | The Unabomber | The Story of Ted Kaczynski (English Listening Practice)

#587 | The Curious Tradition of Words of the Year (English Listening Practice)

#585 | Is AI Really Destroying the Planet?

#582 | Piazza Fontana & The Accidental Death of An Anarchist

#580 | Operation Valkyrie & The Plot To Kill Hitler

#577 | A Short History Of Universities

#575 | The Science of Happiness: Can It Be Measured?

#572 | Caligula | Psychopath, Sadist, Emperor

#570 | DOGE | Elon Musk's Quest to Shrink the US Government

#567 | Ross Ulbricht & The Silk Road | Drugs, Bitcoin & Digital Outlaws

#565 | How I Make Podcast Episodes

#563 | The Curious Origins of The Nobel Prize

#560 | What Makes An Italian?

#558 | General Hannibal | Rome’s Greatest Enemy

#555 | Mobutu Sese Seko | The King of the Kleptocrats

#553 | A Short History Of The Minimum Wage

#550 | The Egyptian Revolution

#548 | The Salem Witch Trials

#545 | The Life of Lawrence of Arabia

#543 | From Temples to Duty-Free | The Ancient History of Modern Perfume

#540 | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | The Father of Modern Turkey

#538 | Percy Fawcett | The Real Life Indiana Jones

The Freezer Door [Easy Stories In English]

#536 | A Brief History of Mercenaries

#533 | The Science of Leap Years

#530 | Vladimir Putin: Russia’s Modern Tsar

#528 | The Stanford Prison Experiment

#526 | Space Mining | The Future or Science Fiction?

#523 | The Mysterious World of Secret Societies

#521 | “A Heartbeat Away” | The Role Of The US Vice President

#518 | Atoms For Peace | The Early Years of Nuclear Power

#516 | Journey to the Deep: A Short History of Underwater Exploration

#513 | The UK University Crisis

#511 | The Death Of Princess Diana

#508 | A Short History of Crime and Punishment in Britain

#506 | Citizens of Nowhere: The Stateless Bidoon of Kuwait

#504 | Liquid Gold | The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Robbery

#501 | George Best: The Wild Life of Football's Lost Star

#500 | This is Episode #500

#498 | Ozempic - The Weight Loss Miracle Drug?

#496 | Labour Won The Election. Now What?

#494 | The Haitian Revolution

#492 | Cool Britannia | 1990s Britain

#490 | JK Rowling & Transgenderism

#488 | John Stonehouse | The Politician Who Faked His Death

#486 | North vs. South | The Great English Divide

#484 | Robert Fortune: The Man Who Stole Tea From China

#482 | Ayn Rand & The Philosophy of Objectivism

#480 | Marcus Aurelius | The Philosopher Emperor

#478 | The UK General Election (2024)

#476 | The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars

#474 | The Trial Of Amanda Knox (pt1)

#472 | Nayib Bukele | “The World’s Coolest Dictator”?

#470 | The Collapse Of Venezuela

#468 | I Lived In Malta For 7 Years (Part 1)

#466 | Adnan Khashoggi | The Richest Man On Earth?

#464 | Will Scotland Ever Be Independent?

#462 | Fried Mars Bars, Bagpipes & Unusual Scottish Traditions

#460 | Prince Andrew | The Black Sheep of The Royal Family

#456 | Fredric Tudor | The Ice King

#454 | The Future of Fertility

#452 | The World’s Shrinking Population

#450 | The 1978 World Cup in Argentina

#448 | Modern Slavery

#446 | Slavery In The Ancient World

#444 | The Amazing Story of Christian The Lion

#442 | Shamima Begum | ISIS Bride

#440 | The Korean Wave: How K-Pop Conquered the World

#438 | Bad Science | When Scientists Got It Wrong

#436 | Transhumanism & The Rise of The Superhumans

#434 | Edward Snowden | American Patriot or Traitor?

#432 | The Most Unusual New Year's Eve Traditions

#430 | What Is Effective Altruism?

#428 | Sanctions: Do They Even Work?

#426 | K-Pop, Zelensky & Cricket | 21st Century Soft Power

#424 | A Brief History of Salt

#422 | Jeffrey Epstein | American Sex Offender

#420 | The Economics of Chicken

#418 | The Race To The South Pole

#416 | The Quest To Find The Origin of The River Nile | Henry Morton Stanley

#414 | The Quest To Find The Origin of The River Nile | Burton vs. Speke

#412 | A Short History of Mental Health

#410 | (Keeping Up With) The Kardashians

#408 | Upstairs, Downstairs: The Lives of British Servants

#406 | What Does “Lord” Really Mean? An Exploration Of The British Aristocracy.

#404 | The Rise And Fall Of The Vanderbilts

#402 | The French Foreign Legion

#400 | Degrowth vs E/Acc | How To Save The World

#398 | Ernest Shackleton | Antarctic Explorer

#396 | The Extraordinary Life of Kim Dotcom: Hacker, Entrepreneur, Fugitive

#394 | What Is Hell?

#392 | Homes, Homelessness & Evolving English

#390 | Edward VIII | The King Who Said No

#388 | Vardy vs. Rooney | The Battle Of The Footballers’ Wives

#386 | The Creation of The Modern Office

#384 | Napoleon Bonaparte

#382 | Geli Raubal | Hitler’s Murdered Lover?

#380 | Marc Rich: The King of Oil

#378 | [2023] Meet the English Learning for Curious Minds podcast

#376 | Porn & Big Money

#374 | The Rise And Fall of “The Fake Sheikh”

#372 | The War on Milk

#370 | FIFA: The Most Corrupt Name in Sport

Killing Hitler [episode 1 of Pioneers Of The Continuum]

#368 | Britain's Tabloid Culture: A Love-Hate Relationship

#366 | New York’s Five Families and The Business of Crime - Part I | History & Creation

⚡️Trailer: Pioneers Of The Continuum

#364 | Do Idioms Really Matter?

#362 | Anna Delvey | The Fake German Heiress

#360 | Fyre Festival | The Worst Festival In The World

#358 | Poker Island | How Malta Became A Gambling Hub

#356 | The Ku Klux Klan: A History of Hate

#354 | The Disappearance of Lord Lucan

#352 | Lee Harvey Oswald | The Man Who Killed A President

#350 | The Unusual Names of Cocktails

#348 | The Cambridge Five Part III | Beer & Betrayal

#346 | The Cambridge Five Part I | The Recruitment

#344 | Adolf Hitler | Der Führer

⚡️ Bonus episode from Easy Stories in English // Sisters, Sisters

#342 | Josef Stalin | The Grey Blur

#340 | Catherine The Great | Russia’s Fearless Empress

#338 | The Tragic Life of Anne Boleyn

#336 | “The British Disease” | A Short History of Football Hooliganism in the UK

#334 | The Magical Life of Roald Dahl

#332 | The Bizarre Life of Lewis Carroll

#330 | A Short History of Measurements

#328 | The Unusual British News of 2022

#326 | How TikTok Took Over The World

#324 | Artificial Intelligence & Language Learning

#322 | A King in Waiting | The Life of Charles III

#320 | The Florida & Munich Hostage Disasters

#318 | A Job From Hell | Slaves in Ancient Rome

#316 | The World Cup’s Five Biggest Controversies

#314 | Michael Jackson | The Troubled Life of The King of Pop

#312 | A History of Witches | Misogyny, Magic and Murder

#310 | A History of Vampires | Fangs, Fear and Fiction

#308 | The Murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia Part 3 | A Culture of Impunity

#307 | The Murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia Part 2 | Crooks Everywhere You Look

#306 | The Murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia Part 1 | Cocaine, Corruption, and Filthy Money

#304 | The Life of Donald Trump

#302 | The Bloody History of Bullfighting

#300 | Plastic Recycling - Is It Worth It?

#298 | A Brief History of Climate Change

#296 | Osama Bin Laden | The World's Most Wanted Man

#294 | By Ballot Or By Bullet | The Life of Malcolm X

#292 | Chess & The Cold War

#290 | Sigmund Freud | Father of Psychoanalysis

#288 | Albert Pierrepoint | Britain’s Most Famous Executioner

#286 | The Atomic Bomb Part 3: The Aftermath

#284 | The Atomic Bomb Part 1: The Manhattan Project

[BONUS: REPLAY] The Rise of Air Conditioning

#282 | Joe Rogan & Spotify | The Most Expensive Podcast In The World

#280 | The Tower of London

#278 | Londongrad: Why Russian Oligarchs Fell In Love With Britain’s Capital

#276 | Oxbridge: Why Two Universities Dominate Britain

#274 | The Rise of The Great Fashion Houses

#272 | Apollo 13

#270 | The Inimitable Charles Dickens

#268 | Grigori Rasputin - The Mad Monk

#266 | What’s Happening In San Francisco?

[BONUS] A Conversation with Lindsay from All Ears English

#264 | Meyer Lansky: The Mafia's Accountant

#262 | JK Rowling & The Battle To Publish Harry Potter

#260 | The Cambridge Analytica Scandal

#258 | The War Of The Currents

#256 | Where Does All Our Rubbish Go?

#254 | En Garde! A History Of Duelling

#252 | Five Surprising Food Origins

#250 | A History of Smoking

#248 | The Antarctic Treaty

#246 | Cornish Smugglers

#244 | The Scandalous Life of Lord Byron

#242 | Operation Pied Piper: The Evacuation of British Cities in World War II

#240 | The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson

#238 | A Short History Of Tea

#236 | How To Use Podcasts To Improve Your English [My Favourite Strategies]

#234 | The Future of The British Royal Family

#232 | When Britain Killed Its King

#230 | The Opioid Crisis

#228 | The Crazy Life of Elvis Presley

#226 | The Amazing Life Of Ray Charles

#224 | Predictions Of The Future From The Past

#222 | John Dillinger - American Bank Robber

#220 | The Real Peaky Blinders

#218 | The Rise Of Fast Food Part 3: Today & Tomorrow

#216 | The Rise Of Fast Food Part 1: The Early Years

#214 | Robert Baden-Powell & The Boy Scouts

#212 | A Short History of Childhood

#210 | The Illogicality of The English Language

#208 | A History of James Bond

#206 | Queen Elizabeth II

#204 | Brexit: Part 2

#202 | A History of Fake News

#200 | Stéphane Breitwieser: The Greatest Art Thief of All Time

#198 | A History of Pirates

#196 | Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around The World

#194 | Occupy Wall Street

#192: A History of Wikipedia

#190: The National Rifle Association

#188: Bonnie Prince Charlie

#186: William Wallace

#184: Banned Books

#182: The Crazy Life of John McAfee

#180: Winston Churchill & The English Language

#178: The Space Race - Part Three | The New Space Race

#176: The Space Race - Part One | The Early Years

#174: 3D Printing

#172: The Curious Taste of British Food

#170: A Brief History of Scientology

#168: The Curious History of Spice

#166: Theranos: When Blood Testing Goes Bad

#164: The Rise And Fall Of WeWork

#162: The Genius of William Shakespeare

#160: Politics & The Olympic Games

#158: George Orwell

#156: The Grand Tour

#154: Las Vegas

#152: The French Revolution

#150: The Industrial Revolution

#148: Tax

#146: Diego Maradona

#144: Whaling

#142: Scotland

#140: Cockney Rhyming Slang

#138: Disney Part III: The Magic

#136: Disney Part I: The History

#134: A Short History of The English Language

#132: Valentine's Day

#130: Rose Island

#128: The Art of War

#126: Chocolate

#122: Bitcoin

#120: Vespa

#118: 9 Things That Happened on Christmas Day

#116: Jeremy Bentham & Utilitarianism

#114: Charles Darwin & On the Origin of Species

#112: Personality Tests

#110: Black Friday & A Short History of Discounting

#108: Penal Colonies

#106: Superstitions

#104: Survivalism

#102: Daylight Saving Time

#100: Leonardo Da Vinci

#98: GDP & Measuring Growth

#96: The Vikings

#94: Cryptozoology | The Hunt for Mystery Animals

#92: The English of Boris Johnson

#90: The House of Medici

#88: The Amazing Life of Whales

#86: Electric Cars

#84: Tito | The Man Who Stood Up To Stalin

#82: The English of Donald Trump

#80: 1MDB & The Missing Malaysian Billions

#78: Modern Pirates

#76: The World Bank

#74: QAnon | America's Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory?

#72: The War on Drugs

#70: Human Rights

#68: What Happens When Languages Die?

#66: The Weird History of Madame Tussauds

#64: The Hidden Cost of Food Delivery Apps

#62: The Resource Curse

#60: The British Sense of Humour

#58: Plastic

#56: Turkmenistan

#54: Harrods | The Playground of London's Rich & Famous

#52: The Guinness World Records

#50: A Service Announcement

#49: Fair Trade

#47: Fox News // The Presidential Propaganda Machine

#45: Guy Fawkes // The Man Who Tried To Blow Up Parliament

#43: Tulipmania // When Flowers Cost More Than Houses

#41: The Great Train Robbery

#39: The Story Of A Fantastic Dictionary

#37: London’s Gin Craze // Mother’s Ruin

#35: Is The World Really Running Out Of Sand?

#33: Universal Basic Income

#31: How Google Works

#29: Palantir: The Most Important Company You’ve Never Heard Of

#28: Help!

#27: North Korea - The Hermit Kingdom

#25: What's The Difference Between Great Britain and The United Kingdom?

#24: Part 2: The Most Common Mistakes People Make When Learning English (and How To Avoid Them)

#23: Part 1: The Most Common Mistakes People Make When Learning English (and How to Avoid Them)

#21: Conspiracy Theories

#19: British Food Part 4 - The (Earl of) Sandwich

#18: British Food Part 3 - The English Breakfast

#17: British Food Part 2 - Fish & Chips

#16: British Food Part 1 - Oysters

#15: Why Is All The News So Negative? And What If It Wasn't?

#13: Why is New Year, New Year?

#11: The Book That Made Christmas, Christmas

#9: Who Owns Space (And Why Does It Matter)?

#8: Who Owns The Sky (And Why Does It Matter)?

#7: Who Owns The Sea (And Why Does It Matter)?

#5: What Is Soft Power (And Why Does It Matter)?

#4: How To Use Podcasts To Learn English (Like A Boss)

#3: The Most Amazing Prison Escapes in History

#2: The Places In The World Where Planes Can't Fly

#1: Meet the English Learning for Curious Minds podcast

Trailer: English Learning for Curious Minds