#102 City Planning (Part 2)
Episode Date: March 25, 2025This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!Ever wondered how cities were planned? Then wonder no more with this week’s subject! We’re heading...
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149 episodes transcribedThis is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!Ever wondered how cities were planned? Then wonder no more with this week’s subject! We’re heading...
Ever wondered how cities were planned? Then wonder no more with this week’s subject! We’re heading back to 100BC to check out the pre-Aztec c...
It’s another bonus episode! Featuring a couple of excerpts from our legendary 4th part megasode for OWAT: Full Timers - that famous episode w...
Just when you thought it was safe to relax, we surprise you with a bonus episode featuring a couple of excerpts from our legendary 4th part m...
This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!Grab your quill, a notebook and some candlelight, as this week we’re looking at some of the finest...
Grab your quill, a notebook and some candlelight, as this week we’re looking at some of the finest diarists history has to offer. We’ve got E...
This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!This week we’re not building walls or tearing them down, in fact, we’re simply talking about them....
This week we’re not building walls or tearing them down, in fact, we’re simply talking about them. But what a collection of walls we have: th...
This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!This week on the show we’re discussing regents who were, let’s say, a bit different. We’ll be meet...
This week on the show we’re discussing regents who were, let’s say, a bit different. We’ll be meeting the 11th century Norwegian King Magnus...
This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!Who doesn’t love a good tree? This week we’ll discuss the awesome spectacle of the American sequoi...
Who doesn’t love a good tree? This week we’ll discuss the awesome spectacle of the American sequoia, the slightly less massive Bonsai tree an...
Just when you thought it was safe to relax, we surprise you with a bonus episode featuring a couple of excerpts from our legendary 4th part m...
This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!Finally, AN EPISODE ON ARTIFICIAL WATERWAYS. Come with us as we dig our way through the jungle to...
Finally, AN EPISODE ON ARTIFICIAL WATERWAYS. Come with us as we dig our way through the jungle to form the Panama Canal, we traipse back to G...
This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!We’ve touched on conspiracies on the show, but this week we have for 100% true conspiracies that r...
We’ve touched on conspiracies on the show, but this week we have for 100% true conspiracies that really did happen - it’s Cover Ups! We’ll ha...
This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!This week we’re looking at horror throughout literature. Come with us as we meet the undead of Anc...
This week we’re looking at horror throughout literature. Come with us as we meet the undead of Ancient Greece, Werewolves and the absolutely...
This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!This week we’re trawling through history to discover how people got cancelled in the past. We’ll h...