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Filing Cabinets: How They Changed the World
<p>It’s perhaps the most overlooked invention of all time. Consigned to a forgotten corner in the basement of history. The Filing Cabinet.</p><br><p>Yet the humble Filing Cabinet was at the centre of an information revolution and became cri
Instant Noodles
<p>In the year 2000 Japan was asked what its greatest invention of the twentieth century was. They had a LOT to choose from. The Walkman. The bullet train. Digital Cameras. Pokemon. But the winner was Instant Noodles.</p><br><p>Today Dallas
The Rise and Fall of the BlackBerry
<p>At its peak, the BlackBerry was the world’s most popular smartphone with almost 50% of the US market. They were called the ‘CrackBerry’ so many people wanted one. Now they have a 0% share of the market. This is the story of their rise-an
God
<p>If God invented Heaven and Earth, then who invented God? To explain how gods ‘are invented’, how they evolve and why so many seem to have vanished, Dallas is joined by Francesca Stavrakopoulou, author of ‘God: An Anatomy’. They explore t
Archimedes & the Eureka! moment
<p>It’s the most famous bath of all time. But what exactly was Archimedes so excited about?</p><br><p>We discover the truth behind the legend of Archimedes, and find out about the industrial revolution that almost happened in Ancient Greece
Snakes & Ladders: Tantric Mysticism, Cosmic Serpents and the Meaning of Life
<p>It turns out that all those times you played Snakes and Ladders (Chutes and Ladders) as a child you were playing a game that once symbolised the whole universe and our place in it. Instead of crying when you landed on a snake you should
Farming
<p>Exactly when, where, how, why our ancient ancestors ‘invented’ farming is one of the great questions of archaeology.</p><br><p>Surely if we can answer it we will understand something profound about humanity and the journey we are on.</p>
Spam: Birth of a Monster
<p>Spam Spam Spam, glorious Spam! Who invented Spam Emails? Just how much Spam activity is there online? And how will we survive once Spam AI gets going?</p><br><p>Spam has been the nemesis of the internet since its earliest days. And soon
Fonts
<p>Fonts are usually invisible to us; we absorb the written word without noticing the medium (unless someone sends you an email in <em>comic sans</em> and then you can’t see past the choice of font!)</p><br><p>But every font is a piece of d
The IQ Test
<p>How would you feel if you found out you had a very high or a very low IQ? Would it change you? The IQ test has an awful allure to it. A single number that ranks your mental ability against everyone else’s, for better or for worse.</p><br
Toilets
<p>It’s time to talk about the toilet, or crapper, or bog, or the john, head, the comfort station, khazi, dunny, can, throne, pissoir.</p><br><p>Join Dallas and his guest, Rose George - author of <em>The Big Necessity</em>, on a trip down t
Caesarean section
<p>A hundred years ago next to no one was born via Caesarean Section. Today, one in five new arrivals on planet earth come via a Caesarean. Its meteoric rise is down to an invention most people won’t know. The Foetal Heart Monitor.</p><br><
Sawing Someone in Half Trick
<p>When this trick was first performed, ushers poured buckets of blood down the gutter outside the theatre to entice people into the macabre spectacle. Today Dallas is joined by Jim Steinmeyer to talk about the invention and development of
Levi's Jeans
<p>150 years ago a patent was lodged for the first ever pair of jeans (what we’d think of as jeans today at least). There were two names on it. One was the inventor Jacob Davis. The other was the company he was going into business with: Lev
Sex (and the fish who invented it)
<p>250 million years ago the armour-plated Placoderm fish invented the act of sex as we know it. Hubba Hubba. Dive in the historical sack as we go in search of the origins of nature’s greatest ever invention.</p><br><p>Dallas’s guest on thi
Plastic
<p>You can argue that plastics were invented to save nature from human depredation…that plan backfired a bit!</p><br><p>Early plastics were designed as substitutes for scarce natural products like ivory and shellac or the shells of endanger
Open Plan Office
<p>The Open Plan Office. A little bit of you might die inside every time you hear those words. But we promise you the history of how they came to be is worth hearing.</p><br><p>Born at the same time as the counter cultural revolution of the
Timekeeping
<p>Today we’re bringing you an episode from Dan Snow’s History Hit. Normal Patented service will resume in the New Year.</p><br><p>Accurate timekeeping is at the very root of all of the technological advances in the modern world, but how di
Christmas Crackers
<p>Ho ho ho! Come with us on a Christmas tale of invention as we talk to the world’s only Christmas Cracker historian, Peter Kimpton of Norwich.</p><br><p>🎄Hear about Tom Smith the inventor of the Christmas Cracker</p><p>🎁Discover the str
Monopoly
<p>There’s so many versions of Monopoly these days. Which one is the original? London? No. Atlantic City? Uh uh. The original had property names like ‘Poverty Place’ and ‘La Swell Hotel’ and was designed as an anti-Capitalist game.</p><br><
Tupperware
<p>Today it’s a Tupperware party and you’re all invited! Tupperware epitomises the post-war suburban dream. But pop open the lid and peep inside and not all is as it seems. There was a battle for the soul of Tupperware. A battle fought betw
Emojis 😊💩🍆
<p>The hieroglyphs seem to hold a lot of secrets about Ancient Egyptians. What do emojis say about us? What on earth is their story?</p><br><p>Emojis originate in the notebooks of 1970’s Japanese schoolgirls obsessed with adding cute illust
Chickens
<p>Why did the chicken cross the road? What came first, the chicken or the egg? Who invented the chicken anyway?</p><br><p>We answer at least one of these questions on today’s show.</p><br><p>We follow the chicken from the time of the dinos
LEGO
<p>Who invented LEGO, the world's favourite toy? To find out we have to head to a Danish fishing village where a family of toy makers live. A family who over the course of three generations, created the LEGO world we know today.</p><br><p>D
Croissants
<p>CROISSANTS WEREN’T INVENTED IN FRANCE. Mon dieu! C’est pas vrai!</p><br><p>Today Dallas finds out about the person responsible for bringing the croissant to France.</p><br><p>It wasn’t Marie Antoinette and it has nothing to do with the T
Aliens
<p>Who invented aliens? We did. Each age invents its own. When we invented robots, aliens became robotic beings. In the Cold War, intergalactic peacemakers appear. Aliens came to abduct us in a decade when the news was full of kidnappings.<
Roller Coasters
<p>The world’s first Loop-the-Loop roller coaster gave so many people whiplash that they kept a medical team on the payroll.</p><br><p>Find out where roller coasters began; why your hands sweat when you’re on them; and how long it takes the
Frozen Food
<p>The Frozen Food industry was invented by the Birdseye company. And that company was started by a living breathing Birdseye; Clarence Birdseye.</p><br><p>Clarence Birdseye was a small, bespectacled New Yorker who lived a life somewhere be
Warhammer
<p>***Real life inventor alert*** We speak to Rick Priestley the co-creator of the weird world of Warhammer where valiant humans, noble elves, savage orcs and a variety of monstrous creatures battle eternally. How on earth do you invent som
Batteries
<p>Hold onto your fishing rods guys. We’re tracking down the origins of batteries and it turns out it has a lot to do with a fish with a nasty sting in its tail. Zzzaaap!!</p><br><p>Human’s have known that an electrical force existed for th
