Can we improve the shipping container?
It's a simple metal box that moves nearly all of our goods around the world. Designed for uniformity and interchangeability, the shipping container has reshaped global trade and our lives in the nearly 70 years since its creation.
But listener Paul wants to know if these heavy steel containers cou…
The Female Con Artist
Today we're looking at the female con artist.
Have you watched Inventing Anna, the series about Anna Sorokin who duped New York's banks, hotels and high society into believing she was a multi-millionaire heiress?
Or The Dropout, about Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes who claimed she ha…
Deep ocean exploration
UCL oceanographer Helen Czerski explores life in the ocean depths with a panel of deep sea biologists. They take us to deep ocean coral gardens on sea mounts, to extraordinary hydrothermal vent ecosystems teeming with weird lifeforms fed by chemosynthetic microbes, to the remarkable biodiversity i…
The James Webb Space Telescope
The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is only days away. Scheduled for lift off on 24 December, the largest and most complex space observatory ever built will be sent to an orbit beyond the moon.
James Webb is so huge that it has had to be folded up to fit in the rocket. There will be…
A new space age?
Dr Kevin Fong convenes a panel of astronautical minds to discuss the next decade or two of space exploration.
2021 was an eventful year in space. Captain James Kirk a.k.a William Shatner popped into space for real for a couple of minutes, transported by space company Blue Origin's tourist rocket N…
A Trip around Mars with Kevin Fong
The planet Mars boasts the most dramatic landscapes in our solar system. Kevin Fong embarks on a grand tour around the planet with scientists, artists and writers who know its special places intimately- through their probes, roving robots and imaginations.
As we roam Mars' beauty spots, Kevin expl…
Victim or a threat? The story of ISIS bride Shamima Begum
Shamima Begum, a British national who left England to join ISIS forces in Syria when she was 15, lost the fight to restore her U.K. citizenship on Wednesday.
Begum, who is now 23, had her citizenship stripped on national security grounds in 2019.
Begum's legal team argued that she is a victim of …
Staggering Stories Podcast #341: Disco Countermeasures
Summary:
Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith, Jean Riddler and the Real Keith Dunn review Big Finish’s Counter-Measures: Series 3 and The Mandalorian: Season 1, discuss what make Star Wars Star Wars, find some general news, and a variety of other stuff, specifically:
00:00 – Intro and the…
#44 - The Sin of Nora Moran, The Metrograph, and Streaming Reality Television...
Crank up that AC and settle in for a brand new episode of the BSV Podcast!
This week, Justin does a deep dive on the new The Film Detective release of Phil Goldstone's pre-code classic THE SIN OF NORA MORAN, while both of your hosts sings the praises of Metrograph Pictures on the occasion of their …
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