If you’ve ever yelled at someone on social media about, say, cancel culture or mask-wearing, then you are a soldier in the culture wars – those everyday battles for dominance between conflicting values. The acclaimed writer and podcaster Jon Ronson has seen friends swallowed up in them to the extent that it’s ruined their lives. Jon was curious to learn how things fell apart, and so he went back into the history of the culture wars to find some of the origin stories: the pebbles thrown in the pond, creating the ripples that led us to where we are today. He had no idea what he’d find, but he’s uncovered some extraordinary people and the strangest, yet most consequential tales.
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The Search for King Richard III – University of Leicester
In August 2012, the University of Leicester, in collaboration with the Richard III Society and Leicester City Council, began one of the most ambitious archaeological projects ever attempted: a search for the lost grave of King Richard III. On 4th February 2013, after a battery of scientific tests, the University announced to the world’s press that these were the remains of Richard III, England’s last Plantagenet monarch.
Brown Girls Do It Too
From Dirty Talk to the A to Z of Sex Toys, Poppy and Rubina confess all the funny and intimate details of their sex lives. A South Asian woman still can’t talk openly about her sex life, but Poppy and Rubina are determined to change that, beginning with their own experiences.
In this new series of Brown Girls Do It Too, Poppy is experiencing online dating for the first time ever after ending a decade long relationship and Rubina is navigating her relationship with sex after having her first child.
They continue to break taboos and ask difficult questions such as “Has BDSM become passé?” “Are younger men better in bed?”, or “Is the baby monitor the ultimate mood killer?”.
Brown Girls Do it Too is a raucous celebration of sex, love, heartbreak and friendship.
I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?
Josh Baker enters a dangerous world of fear, greed and betrayal as he sets out to uncover the truth behind one of the biggest missing-person cases of our time – the abduction of American journalist Austin Tice.
Josh – creator of two of the BBC’s most award-winning and widely listened-to investigative podcasts, I’m Not a Monster and The Shamima Begum Story – returns for his most ambitious chapter yet, in a major new series from BBC Radio 4 and NPR’s Embedded.
This is not the retelling of a closed case. It is a real-time investigation into a disappearance that has remained unsolved for more than a decade, conducted in close contact with Austin’s family.
What started out as a personal effort to help a mother find her son has turned into a multi-year journalistic investigation stretching from the corridors of power in Washington DC to the depths of the Syrian security state.
Austin Tice is a journalist, law student and former Marine officer, who vanished in Syria in 2012. Since then, competing stories have emerged about his fate. In some, he is alive – held in a cell and waiting to be rescued. In others, he was smuggled out of Syria and hidden away. In the darkest versions, he died long ago.
His disappearance has reached the highest levels of power – from presidents to popes – yet remarkably little is known about what happened to him.
Investigative journalists Josh Baker and Sara Obeidat begin following Austin’s trail long before the fall of the Syrian regime. Then everything changes. The regime collapses, and the black box of Syria’s intelligence state opens. Sources step forward, unprecedented leaks arrive and doors to secret bases that had been sealed for years open. Josh and Sara speak to spies, search secret prisons and track down alleged war criminals in hiding, uncovering information that has never been made public and making discoveries that generate international headlines. The audience follows every breakthrough as the investigation closes in on those who may know the truth – while Syria is transformed and powerful interests compete to shape what happens next.
Some claim Austin was working for the CIA. Others say he was simply a young journalist trying to make his name in war reporting.
His fate has become entangled in secret negotiations and geopolitical power struggles that are still unfolding. At the centre of it all is his mother, Debra Tice, who has never stopped searching for her son.
There are people who know exactly what happened to Austin.
Some of them do not want the truth to come out.
So where is Austin Tice?
Julie’s Library
Join beloved icon Julie Andrews for story time! Julie and her daughter, children’s author and educator Emma Walton Hamilton, invite you into their library to read their favorite children’s books. Every story comes to life with sound, music and activities. Authors, kids and other special guests chime in, too! It’s a show that will inspire lively conversations and a lifelong love of reading. Produced by American Public Media.
The World in Brief from The Economist
The World in Brief tells you what’s on the global agenda in the coming day, what to look out for in business, finance and politics and, most importantly, what to make of it.
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Disorganized Crime: Smuggler’s Daughter
Host Rainbow Valentine discovers her artist mom and ‘businessman’ dad were deeply involved in the illegal drug trade and unknowingly spent her childhood among a massive pot distribution operation. As she talks with her father in intimate interviews, Rainbow Valentine uncovers a history of her childhood that causes her to reassess everything — and gives us a unique personal window into the infamous counter-culture of Marin County in the 70s and 80s — from Ken Kesey’s acid tests and the birth of the Grateful Dead to a drug culture that hardened and became more dangerous in response to the War On Drugs.
This Is Life with Heather & Cornelius
This is Life is a fun, interactive and conversational podcast where we discuss real issues with a positive and wholesome perspective. Engage with Cornelius and Heather Lindsay during their special segment, “Ask the Lindseys,” where you can ask real questions and receive real answers. We’re talking about everyday issues that affect everyday people with personal insight and our own mix of straight-talk and humor.
New episodes every Friday morning. Hope you join us! Subscribe today!
Artie Lange’s Podcast Channel
Step inside the world of Artie Lange.
The Jeffrey Epstein I Knew
Who was Jeffrey Epstein, really? Where did he get his money? And why do so many questions linger after his death? CNN’s Vicky Ward has reported on Jeffrey Epstein for almost two decades. In this 7-part series, she takes listeners behind the scenes in a way no other reporter could. From her first encounter with Epstein in 2002, to new one-on-one interviews with people who knew him well, join Vicky as she continues to piece together the jigsaw puzzle of Epstein’s life. You’ve seen the headlines, now go behind the story.
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