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HM008. Phantom Terrains

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2015 13:44


By the age of 25, Frank Swain had lost most of his hearing - forcing him to wear electronic aids to listen to the world around him. Instead of allowing his isolating condition to get him down, he decided to turn his "disability into a superability" This is his story. Music: Evenings - '[I] Softly, We Go..' Evenings - 'Friend [Lover]'

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HM007. The Shipping Forecast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2015 11:56


BBC Radio 4's daily Shipping Forecast has become somewhat of a British Institution since it was first issued via Telegraph in 1861. But what can the historical meteorological broadcast tell us about our own modern-day society? Regular reader Zeb Soanes attempts to decipher. Music: Spring 0 - Max Richter Forces of Attraction - Jóhann Jóhannsson

HM006. An Olfactory History Of London

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2014 15:50


Often overshadowed by its fellow senses, Dr Alex Rhys-Taylor explains the role smell has played in the foundation and history of London.

HM005. London Riots

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2014 11:40


What can the London Riots of 2011 tell us about Human Behaviour? Dr. Hannah Fry used mathematics to find out. Music: Oasis - Fucking in the Bushes

HM004. San Seriffe

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2014 10:40


Peter Preston was editor on the Guardian Newspaper in 1977 when, on April 1st, they printed a story on San Seriffe - a fictitious island nation.

HM003. Hearing Voices

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2014 13:49


Professor Chris French has spent a large chunk of his academic life looking at the Psychology of Paranormal Phenomena - but what can these beliefs teach us about ourselves?

HM002. The Man Who Could Taste the Tube

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2014 7:58


James Wannerton has Lexical Gustatory Synesthesia, which means he can taste words. Last year, he made a very special tube map. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10257633/What-do-London-Underground-stops-taste-like.html

HM001. Send In The Clowns

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2014 6:37


The Life & Times of a Giggle Doctor

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