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👻 The Evolution of Horror

A long-running podcast that treats horror cinema as cultural archaeology. Host Mike Muncer guides listeners through slashers, ghost stories, folk horror and body horror, tracing how our fears mutate across time, technology and society. Each episode pairs a film deep-dive with thoughtful gu

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🕰️ All the Calendars That Ever Were

The Library of Time gathers — or tries to — 'every calendar with a verifiable date at a specific point in time,' alongside a survey of timekeeping across civilisations. A virtual museum of temporal imaginaries: ancient non-Gregorian calendars, eclipses, cycles, cultural variations — an int

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🐸 What Knows You?

Not all knowledge nourishes. Three frogs face a dilemma: open the mysterious box, or leave it closed? They argue, hesitate, and give in to curiosity — and find knowledge, but not the kind they can integrate. A short parable about the difference between information and wisdom, and the cost

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🖼️ A Short History of Theft at the Louvre

What happens when priceless jewels vanish from one of the world's most visited museums? This piece traces a history of art theft at the Louvre, centred on the 1911 disappearance of the Mona Lisa — a theft that turned a modestly appreciated portrait into the world's most famous painting. It

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✍️ The Translator Who Made the Story His Own

A translator who may have written more than he ever translated, Zabihollah Mansouri was one of the most widely read literary figures in Iran — yet many of the works he 'translated' were wildly embellished, or entirely invented. Amir Ahmadi Arian traces his improbable legacy into a meditati

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