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Was mediaeval armour for defence or for show?
Season 2 · Episode 8
vendredi 4 octobre 2024 • Duration 43:50
Jason Kingsley, CBE, talks to armourer Toby Capwell about their time spent jousting against each other, how you know when to give up jousting and how armour worked in the Middle Ages.
Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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What was the best Old English word?
Season 2 · Episode 7
dimanche 29 septembre 2024 • Duration 39:42
In this episode, Jason is joined by Dr Hana Videen, who has been collecting early mediaeval words and their meanings. She talks about what we can learn about the way people in the early mediaeval period dealt with animals from the way they wrote and talked about them.
Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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How did gift-giving work in the past?
Season 1 · Episode 31
mardi 14 novembre 2023 • Duration 44:19
When European settlers arrived in the Americas they found many economies based on gift-giving. Jason talks to Brian Owensby about how this worked, how it didn't work, and how this could have led to conflict between the Old World and the New.
Producer: Natt Tapley
Sound: Pete Dennis
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What is the digital mediaeval?
Season 1 · Episode 30
mardi 7 novembre 2023 • Duration 37:34
Jeremy Silver is the CEO of Digital Capital, and he believes that we are living in our 'digital mediaeval period'. He joins Jason today explain what he means by that, what problems it poses, and what we need to do to move to a 'digital renaissance'.
Producer - Natt Tapley
Sound - Pete Dennis
Photo by Bingqian Li: https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-near-castle-and-scaffolding-16105790/
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How did they deal with pandemic disease in the 1660s?
Season 1 · Episode 29
dimanche 16 octobre 2022 • Duration 37:19
Jason talks to Rebecca Rideal about 1666, and pandemics, great fires, and wars.
Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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How big were mediaeval warhorses?
Season 1 · Episode 28
lundi 12 septembre 2022 • Duration 55:35
Jason talks to Alan Outram and Oliver Creighton who have done the most extensive study of mediaeval warhorses ever made.
Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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Why are our trees going north?
Season 1 · Episode 27
mercredi 10 août 2022 • Duration 38:43
Ben Rawlence joins Jason to explain how the tree-line is moving, what that means for us, and what we can do about it.
Produced by: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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How can we bring back action comics?
Season 1 · Episode 26
vendredi 17 juin 2022 • Duration 38:17
Jason talks to comics legend Garth Ennis about war, computer games, history, and how to bring back comics of the past.
Producer: Natt Tapley
Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson
Audio: Pete Dennis
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Can we geo-engineer our way out of climate change?
Season 1 · Episode 25
jeudi 2 juin 2022 • Duration 35:28
In this episode Jason talks to Gernot Wagner about the damage we're doing to our limate and whether or not it's on our power to reverse it.
Producer: Natt Tapley
Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson
Audio: Pete Dennis
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Are we going to run out of soil?
Season 1 · Episode 24
samedi 21 mai 2022 • Duration 40:04
Jason talks to Jo Handelsman, the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at University of Wisconsin, about the role soil has played in the historical invasions of Ukraine, how fast we're running out of soil and what will happen when we do.
Presenter: Jason Kingsley
Producer: Natt Tapley
Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson
Audio: Pete Dennis
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