Episodes

  • Inventions Episode 7: Concrete

    Inventions Episode 7: Concrete
    Mar 2 2025
    Concrete is, unbelivably, the second-most-used substance in the world - second only to water - and has a truly fascinating history, its secrets lost to time for a millennia or so before re-emerging in the modern era.

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    37 mins
  • Update: Apologies for Ongoing Delays; Upcoming AMA

    Update: Apologies for Ongoing Delays; Upcoming AMA
    Mar 1 2025
    I've returned from my overseas trip feeling a bit unwell, so have had trouble getting episodes out the door on time - also, I'm planning to do an AMA (Ask Me Anything) episode for QAH next week, so send in any questions you want answered!

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    8 mins
  • Episode 348: The World Series Cricket Crisis

    Episode 348: The World Series Cricket Crisis
    Feb 23 2025
    In this week's episode, get across a crisis that posed a potentially existential threat to official international cricket in the 1970s, when media mogul Kerry Packer established a private, unofficial cricketing competition known as World Series Cricket.

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Update: Inventions Episode 7 Will Be Slightly Delayed, Sorry Mate

    Update: Inventions Episode 7 Will Be Slightly Delayed, Sorry Mate
    Feb 21 2025
    Apologies - I didn't manage to get today's episode recorded and edited in time before leaving on a brief overseas trip. I'll be back next week and should have the show up by the 1st or 2nd of March.

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    4 mins
  • Inventions Episode 6: Rubber

    Inventions Episode 6: Rubber
    Feb 19 2025
    Rubber has a history that is a lot longer than you might expect - it dates back over 3,500 years, to ancient Mesopotamia, and has had a long and interesting journey to become the commonplace material it is today.

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    25 mins
  • Episode 347: Xerxes the Great, King of Kings

    Episode 347: Xerxes the Great, King of Kings
    Feb 16 2025
    In this week's episode, get to know Xerxes I of the Achaemenid Empire, and think about why his historical legacy is perceived in the way that it is today.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Inventions Episode 5: Glass

    Inventions Episode 5: Glass
    Feb 14 2025
    Glass, technically, may be a naturally-occuring material, but the way that humans have learn to create, shape, and change it over the millennia has had a strong influence on the way we live our lives - an influence that we take for granted.

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    38 mins
  • Inventions Episode 4: Soap

    Inventions Episode 4: Soap
    Feb 12 2025
    Soap has been used by humans for thousands and thousands of years to keep our things clean, and for hundreds and hundreds of years to keep our bodies clean. By most people, anyway.

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    25 mins