Latest Mediaeval history Podcast Episodes
How can we fix our oceans?
Future Imperfect - December 01, 2023 11:11 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsProfessor Guy Standing is an economist who has a radical way to fix the problems in our oceans, one from the past. He wants to see them held in common, as mediaeval resources often were. He talks to Jason about how this would work. Producer: Natt Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Hosted on Acast. Se...
What does genetic engineering mean for our futures?
Future Imperfect - November 23, 2023 10:42 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGene editing therapies are just starting to be used to treat conditions. In this episode, Jason talks to Matthew Cobb, Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester about how we got here, and what it could mean for each of us in the future. Producer: Natt Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Hos...
How did gift-giving work in the past?
Future Imperfect - November 14, 2023 13:24 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen European settlers arrived in the Americas they found many economies based on gift-giving. Jason talks to Brian Owensby about how this worked, how it didn't work, and how this could have led to conflict between the Old World and the New. Producer: Natt Tapley Sound: Pete Dennis Hosted on...
What is the digital mediaeval?
Future Imperfect - November 07, 2023 11:19 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJeremy Silver is the CEO of Digital Capital, and he believes that we are living in our 'digital mediaeval period'. He joins Jason today explain what he means by that, what problems it poses, and what we need to do to move to a 'digital renaissance'. Producer - Natt Tapley Sound - Pete Dennis ...
How did they deal with pandemic disease in the 1660s?
Future Imperfect - October 16, 2022 23:38 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJason talks to Rebecca Rideal about 1666, and pandemics, great fires, and wars. Producer: Natt Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How big were mediaeval warhorses?
Future Imperfect - September 12, 2022 15:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJason talks to Alan Outram and Oliver Creighton who have done the most extensive study of mediaeval warhorses ever made. Producer: Natt Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Why are our trees going north?
Future Imperfect - August 10, 2022 21:38 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBen Rawlence joins Jason to explain how the tree-line is moving, what that means for us, and what we can do about it. Produced by: Natt Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How can we bring back action comics?
Future Imperfect - June 17, 2022 00:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJason talks to comics legend Garth Ennis about war, computer games, history, and how to bring back comics of the past. Producer: Natt Tapley Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson Audio: Pete Dennis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Can we geo-engineer our way out of climate change?
Future Imperfect - June 02, 2022 14:39 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode Jason talks to Gernot Wagner about the damage we're doing to our limate and whether or not it's on our power to reverse it. Producer: Natt Tapley Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson Audio: Pete Dennis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Are we going to run out of soil?
Future Imperfect - May 21, 2022 13:45 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJason talks to Jo Handelsman, the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at University of Wisconsin, about the role soil has played in the historical invasions of Ukraine, how fast we're running out of soil and what will happen when we do. Presenter: Jason Kingsley Producer: Natt Ta...
Is the world coming to an end?
Future Imperfect - April 28, 2022 14:11 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsProfessor Nicholas Guyatt joins Jason to talk about apocalyptic cults, beliefs in the end of the world, and what that might look like. Producer: Natt Tapley Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson Audio: Pete Dennis Image: St Jean de Montmartre 4th Horseman of Apocalypse by Peter Haas licensed unde...
Were the Dark Ages dark?
Future Imperfect - April 01, 2022 13:54 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJason talks to David Perry & Matt Gabriele about their new book, The Bright Ages, which tries to reassess the period after the fall of the Roman empire (if that even happened). Producer: Natt Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson Photo by Ali Khalil from Pexels: https://...
When did we invent love?
Future Imperfect - March 13, 2022 10:45 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJason talks to Professor Suzannah Lipscomb about how we find out about mediaeval women in the past, how marriages worked, and whether or not Henry VIII was the ultimate romantic? Producer: Natt Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
How does bias change the world?
Future Imperfect - March 06, 2022 14:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJason talks to Jessica Nordell , who showed how small amounts of bias can have huge impact on large organisations. Producer: Natt Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Do we have to work?
Future Imperfect - February 28, 2022 00:26 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode, Jason talks to Professor Jan Lucassen about the different roles work has played in human history. Have we always worked? Will we always work? How do we define work? Producer: Nathaniel Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson Photo by Yury Kim from Pexels ...
Are we all going to die in World War III?
Future Imperfect - February 14, 2022 10:47 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded last month, Jason talks to Cold War historian Alex von Tunzelmann about tensions between Russia and the West, and whether or not we're all likely to die in a Third World War. Producer: Natt Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
Do plants have souls?
Future Imperfect - January 30, 2022 13:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHildegard of Bingen was a mediaeval abbess who was famous in her own time for her thoughts about the natural world. Michael Marder talks to Jason about what her philosophy can teach us today about the way in which we interact with plants and what it could mean for our future. Producer: Natt Tap...
Are we entering new Fire Age?
Future Imperfect - January 21, 2022 12:45 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAre we entering a new Age of Fire? Emeritus Professor Stephen Pyne believes that we have altered the geological age through our control of fire. Jason talks to him about our past manipulation of fire, and what the world is likely to look like in this new Fire Age. Producer: Natt Tapley Audio: ...
How can we beat our unconscious biases?
Future Imperfect - January 17, 2022 13:41 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJason talks to Pragya Agarwal about unconscious bias, brain structures and what we can do to combat our own unconscious biases. Producer: Natt Tapley Sound: Pete Dennis Photo by Daniel Reche from Pexels Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is there life on Mars?
Future Imperfect - January 01, 2022 15:19 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOne of the designers of the Mars Rover, Larry Crumpler, who has been involved in space exploration for forty years joins Jason to talk about the history of space exploration, and where it goes next. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How can we communicate science better?
Future Imperfect - December 23, 2021 13:58 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSimonyi Professor for the Understanding of Science, Marcus du Sautoy joins Jason to talk about what we need to know about science, why it's important, and how we can improve our understanding. Producer: Natt Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What can ancient Greeks teach us about resisting tyranny?
Future Imperfect - December 12, 2021 23:20 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOverbearing governments have been with us throughout time. Professor Emily K. Anhalt believes that the ancient Greeks left us good advice in their poetry to tell us how to resist tyranny, and tells Jason all about it. Producer: Nathaniel Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...
What does ancient Egyptian bread taste like?
Future Imperfect - December 05, 2021 18:13 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJason talks to Seamus Blackley, the father of the Xbox about gaming, technology, being fascinated with the past, and how to collect ancient Egyptian yeasts. Producer: Natt Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How do the aristocracy hold onto political power?
Future Imperfect - November 26, 2021 07:22 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week, Jason is joined by Hannah Greig to discuss how the aristocracy have held onto their land and power for almost a millennium in England. Produced by: Natt Tapley Audio by: Pete Dennis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Will artificial intelligence make us happy?
Future Imperfect - November 19, 2021 16:40 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMo Gawdat was the Chief Business Officer for Google[X], creating some of the most advanced artificial intelligences in the world. Now, he devotes himself to increasing human happiness. He talks to Jason Kingsley about algorithms, AIs and whether we can learn to live with the machines. Produced:...
What can we learn from the Vikings' teeth?
Future Imperfect - November 11, 2021 07:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat we know about the mediaeval period comes, in large part, from what people wrote down about themselves and others. How do we find out about less-literate societies, like the Vikings? Cat Jarman has spent the last few years working on the the remains of the Great Army at Repton and the materi...
What can we predict and what can we not predict?
Future Imperfect - November 03, 2021 01:05 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJason talks to Margaret Heffernan about what use prediction is in an unpredictable world. What can we predict, and what can we just not know? Produced by Natt Tapley Sound by Pete Dennis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Should we still have trial by combat?
Future Imperfect - October 31, 2021 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday the law can feel arcane, complicated, and forbidding. In the past - with trial by ordeal and trial by combat - it could be simpler and more direct. Today, Jason talks to Daniel Shen Smith, a barrister and expert in martial arts, about trial by combat, how it worked, and what remnants of it...
Why is race science making a comeback?
Future Imperfect - October 20, 2021 12:11 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat role do theories of race play in science? For years, we thought that eugenic ideas about race had fallen out of fashion, but recently they seem to be making a comeback. In today's podcast, Angela Saini talks to me about why this is happening. She's speaking to us from New York, so excuse th...
What do we get wrong about the Middle Ages?
Future Imperfect - October 13, 2021 05:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJason talks to Dr Eleanor Janega about how fascinating and compelling the mediaeval period is. They talk about jousting, battles, and exactly how colourful everyone's trousers were. Produced by: Natt Tapley Audio: Pete Dennis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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