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All That Glitters (Part 2)
Demystified - April 15, 2020 04:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome to part two of the two-parter... Last week we explored what happens when a gold rush gets out of hand. But most people forget there was another place famous for it’s gold rushes, one whose cultural history was just as shaped by outlaws and mining towns. This time, we go to the other great...
All That Glitters (Part 1)
Demystified - April 08, 2020 04:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome to the two-parter... We all love a good Western - Sergio Leone’s ‘no name’ trilogy propelled Clint Eastwood to new stardom, and Tarantino’s modern adaptations make great films. But what’s at the centre of any good Western? Old weathered prospectors panning the rivers and traversing desert...
An Antique Land
Demystified - April 01, 2020 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingStraight roads, bathhouses, sewers and plumbing, fresh-water readily available, underfloor heating, city-planning, and public works. If those all sound like the trappings of modernity, or at the very earliest the Roman Empire, you’d be right at first glance. But what if an apparently pacifist soc...
We Float
Demystified - March 18, 2020 04:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s no surprise that ships are the source of so many mysteries. As Eric Idle famously quipped: worse things happen at sea y’know! We sail off into the mists, with a song in our hearts and holds full of cargo, and our loved ones pray for our safe return. Well, sometimes you’ve got to be careful w...
Night Lights
Demystified - March 11, 2020 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSteven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, James Cameron - all directors whose visions of life from other worlds captivated us and inspired us to think bigger. Alien fiction goes all the way back to the turn of the 20th Century, where H.G. Wells horrified us with visions of tripods and heat-rays. Nowadays a...
Hell-Hound
Demystified - March 04, 2020 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDogs are a man's best friend for good reason - loyal, brave, loving, empathetic. But many young children are scared of dogs, and it's stories like this, deep in the dark forests of enlightenment-era France, that show you exactly why. They’re serving man, in more ways than one... Learn more about ...
The Crossroads
Demystified - February 26, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDeath is a natural part of life. On a cosmic scale, it’s believed the universe will one day collapse in on itself, and be reborn in another big bang. On a smaller scale, we humans are born, live our lives, and then die. It’s a cycle so old and ubiquitous that many cultures have even enshrined it ...
A Scandal In The Court
Demystified - February 19, 2020 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAh, the court of a king. Nobles in all their finery, servants waiting on hand and foot; grand castles and splendid balls. But behind that facade of civility lies a dark underbelly of backstabbing and politics - so dark in fact that some would even turn to what they would consider sacrilege to get...
Night Fever
Demystified - February 12, 2020 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere are many occurrences in history that may make you take a second look. Some things are worth a double take, they seem so strange that it makes it almost impossible to believe. Sometimes you've just got to put on your red shoes and dance the blues - but what about when a whole city of people ...
Cold and Hungry
Demystified - February 05, 2020 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe winds whip down from the north, biting at the edge of the small cabin. An emaciated man sits at a table, the lone candle flickering. In the darkness, his stomach starts to growl. And in his mind, a demon starts to take hold. Or so they say - to some, it’s madness; to others however, the hunge...
Salt and Spray
Demystified - January 29, 2020 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere are many places in the world that stand apart - literally. They’re isolated, completely cut off from the rest of the world. To some, that seems like heaven; no noisy neighbours, just peace and quiet. To others though, it’s a nightmare - you’ve heard hell is other people, but it’s often the ...
The Ninety Nine
Demystified - January 22, 2020 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEveryone has a hero, whether we admit it or not. Someone we look up to, someone who we aspire to be like and emulate. Oftentimes they’re people who’ve indelably made their mark on human history - pioneers, the first of their kind. Sadly though, we don’t always get closure on their extraordinary t...
The Big Bang
Demystified - January 15, 2020 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHumans, in general, like explosions - they’re cool! Fireworks are a pivotal part of celebrations across many cultures. Sometimes, however, that event is out of our control; sometimes it flattens thousands of kilometers of forest without warning, an explosion over 1,000 times greater than the Hiro...
Northwest Orient, Flight 305
Demystified - January 08, 2020 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAudacity is a word that gets tossed around a lot. We call people who wear something unusual ‘gutsy’ and someone who haggles in shops has ‘bravado’. So what do you call a man who uses what might have been a fake bomb to hijack a plane, then parachutes out, at night, in the rain, with the equivalen...
Ciphers
Demystified - December 18, 2019 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHumans like to think we can solve every mystery - that’s partly why I do this show! We have an obsession with patterns, codes, and strange symbols. Evolutionarily it meant seeing the tiger in the long grass, now it mostly means magic-eye books. But what happens when a mystery we think is solved, ...
The Hidden City
Demystified - December 11, 2019 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWriters will often borrow a concept from mythology for their work - there’s no copyright on a culture, even if it isn’t yours. But sometimes people take these things a little too far. Some people become so obsessed with these mysterious foreign ideas that they spend millions organising genuine ex...
Bird's Eye View
Demystified - November 27, 2019 07:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingArt is interesting - it tells us about the person who made it. Where they came from; what they’re interested in; how they see the world. Some art is grand in scale, so grand that you can’t help but stand back and marvel. Some art however is so grand that you need to stand *really* far back. At th...
Nothing Beside Remains
Demystified - November 20, 2019 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe greatest legends of ancient civilisations are steeped in the trappings that come with a story told and retold. Larger than life characters, brave heroes and evil villains, great battles and wars that never end, with the gods themselves personally invested. But in all these great stories, ther...
Run Through the Jungle
Demystified - November 13, 2019 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSome people are driven by a singular purpose - creating, building, discovering, and much more. Those who are driven by the singular desire to explore are often those who we remember the most, but this legacy comes with a certain amount of danger. Because sometimes that drive to go out means you d...
Croatoan
Demystified - November 04, 2019 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingKeeping in contact is important - as someone who’s lived overseas from my family before, I can attest to that. It helps us keep track of those who mean the most to us, our friends and families. When we lose contact it can make us anxious; when we lose *all* contact, we’re simply left in bewilderm...
The Great White Nothing
Demystified - October 28, 2019 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCivilisation is an interesting concept-we often see it as a bulwark against the wild. And with the advent of things like *glamping*, we like to think we can take it with us, to civilise those wilds. But nearly 180 years ago, when the greatest equipped and most advanced expedition in the history o...
Inscrutable
Demystified - October 21, 2019 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn a small, dark cell deep within the walls of the bastille, a lone man sits in his cell, silently. Nobody knows his name. Nobody knows what he looks like. He’ll die and be buried in a pauper’s grave, with nobody to mourn him, and pass into history. But everyone has heard of him - he’s one of the...
Radio Silence
Demystified - October 14, 2019 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe like to think we know what’s going on in our backyard - that things couldn’t just disappear from right under our noses. So, what happens when hundreds of people vanish into thin air, all under the nose of the world’s most formidable nations, and when millions of dollars turn up nothing? Learn ...
Spirits In The Hold
Demystified - September 30, 2019 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSome places, things, and people just seem to be naturally unlucky - some would say they’re ‘cursed’. When one ship sees three captains die whilst on board, and ruins the careers of everyone who touches it, people start to wonder. But what happens when a ship is found hundreds of miles from it’s l...
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