Episode 65: Paper

6, 4, 2018 - Paper “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart” (William Wordsworth). Welcome to .... Read More

Episode 64: Lists

6, 4, 2018 - ‘Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience’ (Ernest .... Read More

Episode 63: Snow

6, 4, 2018 - “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”  Carl Reiner .... Read More

Episode 62: Christmas 2017

6, 4, 2018 - “What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!”   (Dr Seuss, How the Grinch Stole .... Read More

Episode 61: Dust

6, 4, 2018 - ‘Pelvis et umbra sumus’  (We are but dust and shadow – Horace, The Odes (23BC))   Welcome .... Read More

Episode 60: Our Books

6, 4, 2018 - “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”   (Winston Churchill) Welcome to .... Read More

Episode 59: The Book

14, 11, 2017 - . “The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading old ones.”  .... Read More

Episode 58: Codes

7, 11, 2017 - “Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech .... Read More

Episode 57: Handwriting

31, 10, 2017 - Welcome to Histories of the Unexpected where you will discover the history of things that you .... Read More

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