Future Imperfect – Details, episodes & analysis

Podcast details

Technical and general information from the podcast's RSS feed.

Podcast Future Imperfect

Future Imperfect

Jason Kingsley

History
Science
Science

Frequency: 1 episode/27d. Total Eps: 42

Hosting podcast Acast
Jason Kingsley is a technologist who started one of the UK's most exciting games companies, Rebellion. He's also fascinated by the past. In this podcast he talks to historians, scientists, and experts from all fields about what we the future might hold, and what we should do to prepare for it.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Site
RSS
Apple

Recent rankings

Latest chart positions across Apple Podcasts and Spotify rankings.

Apple Podcasts

  • 🇬🇧 Great Britain - history

    05/10/2024
    #95

Spotify

    No recent rankings available



RSS feed quality and score

Technical evaluation of the podcast's RSS feed quality and structure.

See all
RSS feed quality
To improve

Score global : 69%


Publication history

Monthly episode publishing history over the past years.

Episodes published by month in

Latest published episodes

Recent episodes with titles, durations, and descriptions.

See all

Was mediaeval armour for defence or for show?

Season 2 · Episode 8

vendredi 4 octobre 2024Duration 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


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What was the best Old English word?

Season 2 · Episode 7

dimanche 29 septembre 2024Duration 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


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How did gift-giving work in the past?

Season 1 · Episode 31

mardi 14 novembre 2023Duration 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


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is the digital mediaeval?

Season 1 · Episode 30

mardi 7 novembre 2023Duration 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/


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How did they deal with pandemic disease in the 1660s?

Season 1 · Episode 29

dimanche 16 octobre 2022Duration 37:19

Jason talks to Rebecca Rideal about 1666, and pandemics, great fires, and wars.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How big were mediaeval warhorses?

Season 1 · Episode 28

lundi 12 septembre 2022Duration 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


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why are our trees going north?

Season 1 · Episode 27

mercredi 10 août 2022Duration 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


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can we bring back action comics?

Season 1 · Episode 26

vendredi 17 juin 2022Duration 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


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can we geo-engineer our way out of climate change?

Season 1 · Episode 25

jeudi 2 juin 2022Duration 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


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are we going to run out of soil?

Season 1 · Episode 24

samedi 21 mai 2022Duration 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


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.


Related Shows Based on Content Similarities

Discover shows related to Future Imperfect, based on actual content similarities. Explore podcasts with similar topics, themes, and formats, backed by real data.
Podcast Beekeeping Today Podcast
Podcast The Cut Flower Podcast
Podcast History Film Club
Podcast Dr Janina Ramirez - Art Detective
Podcast Beekeeping Today Podcast
© My Podcast Data