TechStuff Lights Some Fireworks
How do fireworks work? From the basics to fully choreographed displays, we take a look at the tech of making stuff go boom. Learn more [Read more]
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Battle of Blair Mountain
In 1921, coal miners fed up with unfair labor practices and exploitation took up arms against their employers. The resulting conflict lasted five days and [Read more]
TechStuff Looks at e-paper
What is e-paper? TechStuff looks at the properties of e-paper and how it’s used. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy [Read more]
Les Filles du Roi
While the building of a population in a new colony seems like a tricky endeavor, France’s King Louis XIV launched a scheme to do just [Read more]
The World War Two French resistance and British holidays
Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown talks to Matt Elton about his new book on French resistance fighters who took on the Nazis during the Second World War. Meanwhile, Kathryn Ferry takes a trip to Hastings and St Leonards, in the company of Ch…
TechStuff Gets Meta(material)
What are metamaterials and what gives them their nifty properties? We look at materials science and how metamaterials might transform our world. Learn more about [Read more]
The Doctors’ Riot of 1788
In the late 1700s, medical colleges needed cadavers for educational dissection, but there were no legal means for obtaining them. This led to some unorthodox [Read more]
Cosmetics From Ancient Egypt to the Modern World
Makeup has a rich and lengthy history that spans the globe and crosses cultures. From 10,000 B.C.E. to the 20th century, people have been using [Read more]
TechStuff Goes to a Better Place
What was Better Place and why did it fail? Guest host Ben Bowlin gives TechStuff his perspective. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See [Read more]
Cold War smuggling and First World War veterans
Peter Finn and Petra Couvee reveal how the CIA tried to change the course of the Cold War by smuggling banned literature into the USSR, including Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago. Plus, in the second instalment of a series of extracts of…