Episodes

  • Deracinate

    Deracinate
    Jan 7 2026
    What do uprooted trees, conquered nations, and the unsettling feeling of being cut off from everything familiar have in common?
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  • Manager

    Manager
    Dec 31 2025
    Occam's Razor states that when you hear hoofbeats, you probably shouldn't think of zebras...
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  • Courtship

    Courtship
    Dec 17 2025
    We humans are strange creatures. We still shake hands with complete strangers, even though we don't carry swords anymore — well, most of us anyway. We ask, "How are you" — when we are definitely not expecting an answer...
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  • Investment

    Investment
    Dec 10 2025
    Today we begin not in the banking boardrooms on wall street, the city, or even in the square mile; but rather, in the back of your closet... or wardrobe.
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  • Wormhole

    Wormhole
    Dec 3 2025
    Is it just me, or are we more prone to looking for shortcuts, nowadays?
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  • Numb

    Numb
    Nov 26 2025
    Today, let me gently cajole you out of your literary lethargy. Your ectomological ennui. Apoplexy, anesthetized, stupefied, and - okay. Enough of that.
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  • Gloomy

    Gloomy
    Oct 1 2025
    What does a fierce, french firebrand have in common with a Roman general's daughter and a virtuous Roman noblewoman? On the surface, very little.
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  • Swagger

    Swagger
    Sep 24 2025
    Today we move from drunkards in a London tavern deep into the magical Athenian woods, on to the summer retreat of Windsor, and rounding ourselves out with a trip down the catwalk to a hip-hop soundtrack, and arriving back in North London.
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