Pod Trawlers Episode 2 of 2021 - The Cloud Appreciation Society, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Covid Vaccine Conspiracies, Your Sense of Smell, & MORE

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English - February 22, 2021 09:00 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MB
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Previous Episode: Pod Trawlers Episode 1 of 2021 - Two Million Years in 2 Hours, Yuval Noah Harari, Intelligence Squared, The Daily, For the Many& MORE

Next Episode: Pod Trawlers Episode 3 of 2021 - No Filter with Celeste Barber, how we fall prey to Scam Calls, The Battersea Poltergeist, and the fantabulous Esther Perel

Vic’s first choice is:

Headliners with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Hugh F-W, chef, campaigner, and writer, talks about how small changes to what we eat can make a big difference to our wellbeing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p093x0xd

Vic’s second choice is:

Two podcasts that dealt with conspiracy theories and the outcry against the UK’s supposed withholding of vaccines from the rest of Europe.

1) The Guardian’s Today in Focus
How the EU’s vaccine effort turned into a crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/todayinfocus

and

The Spectator’s The Edition: Vaccine Wars
https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcasts/the-edition

Veronika's Choices are:

The Daily: Sunday Reads: New York Times Magazine: Coronavirus and Smell

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/podcasts/the-daily/coronavirus-loss-of-smell-anosmia.html

“Smell is a startling superpower,” writes Brooke Jarvis. “If you weren’t used to it, it would seem like witchcraft.” For hundreds of years, smell has been disregarded. Brooke Jarvis writes about how this has changed due to the Coronavirus.

AND

The Daily: The Sunday Read: ‘The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community’

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/podcasts/the-daily/cloud-appreciation-society.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

This is the story of a true British eccentric and founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society: an online community, thousands strong, devoted to sharing images of clouds.

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