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18/06/2026

This week on Memento Morbid, our founder Joanna Ebenstein welcomes photographer and author Shannon Taggart. Listen to this fascinating conversation exploring Lily Dale—the world’s oldest Spiritualist community—along with séances, spirit communication, ectoplasm, and the enduring question of what it means to believe in the spirit world. Together, they reflect on Taggart’s experiences documenting Spiritualist practices and the people who dedicate their lives to communicating with the dead.

Check out Memento Morbid on your favorite streaming platform! New episode out now and every Thursday!

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16/06/2026

Have you ever been to a seance?

Joanna Ebenstein's guest on our podcast Memento Morbid this week is photographer and author, Shannon Taggart. They chat communicating with the dead, ectoplasm, and believing in the spirit world (but only on weekdays!).

This episode drops on Thursday.

12/06/2026

Our new series "The Other Shostakoviches: takes a look at the life and legacy of five lesser-known contemporaries of the most famous Soviet symphonist - who each had their own, very personal and turbulent relationship with the authorities.

Authored by writer, satirist and lover of Russian classical music Chris Addison, the series features contributions from musicologist and expert on Soviet music, Marina Frolova-Walker.

Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as part of The Essay, and out now on BBC Sounds.

11/06/2026

This week on Memento Morbid, our founder Joanna Ebenstein welcomes religious studies scholar Jeffrey Kripal. Listen to this insightful and intriguing conversation exploring mystical experiences, the queerness of religion, dreams of becoming a saint as a child, his declaration that “Freud saved my life!,” and his experience training in a monastic seminary as a young adult. Together, they reflect on how these experiences have shaped his understanding of religion and the mystical.

💀 New episode out now!

Be sure to check out Jeffrey Kripal’s upcoming course with Morbid Anatomy, Biological Gods: Evolution and the Coming Superhumans, beginning August 12.

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Mysticism

09/06/2026

I want to be a saint when I grow up!

Religious studies scholar Jeffrey Kripal is Joanna Ebenstein's guest on Memento Morbid this week. Listen in for deep conversation around mystical experiences, the queerness of religion, and how doing psychedelics was a boring experience!

Episode 8 drops on Thursday.

02/06/2026

Asti Hustvedt, scholar of the 19th century, draws parallels between then and now...

This week, Joanna is joined by Asti Hustvedt as they learn about the history of hysteria in the 19th century.

Episode drops on Thursday on your favourite podcast app.

Morbid Anatomy

27/05/2026

Imagine doing some work on your house, and discovering an ancient graveyard, with an awful history...

In 1996, the bricklayer renovating Merced dos Anjos’ home in Rio de Janeiro told her something strange had happened. Bones appeared as he was breaking ground. As she inspected the site, she found they were human. But why so many bones? Was it the work of a serial killer?

The answer was more macabre. They had unearthed an ancient cemetery. The discovery shed light on the brutal history of Brazil’s slavery past – and Rio’s role as the biggest slavery port in the Americas.

The neighbouring Valongo Wharf, today a World Heritage Site, received roughly one million African captives by 1831. Many were too weak after the transatlantic crossing and died soon after arriving. They were buried in the so-called New Blacks Cemetery.

Merced dos Anjos tells Julia Carneiro how the discovery upended her life and led her to create a research centre to shed light on Rio's painful past.

Julia Dias Carneiro brought us this fascinating story, and produced this unique, 9 minutes documentary for BBC World Service Witness History strand. Listen now on BBC Sounds.

An Overcoat Media production.

26/05/2026

When you find your (morbid) people 🥰

This week Joanna Ebenstein is joined by John Troyer - death studies scholar and writer. They chat about growing up in a funeral home, studying death and dying, and how all his knowledge couldn't prepare him enough for the deaths of his sister and his parents.

Out this Thursday on your fave podcast app 🎧

Morbid Anatomy
Centre for Death and Society (CDAS)

19/05/2026

Darkness is healthy and holy🙏

Certified Witch, Pam Grossman joins Joanna Ebenstein on this week's episode of Memento Morbid. Get ready for stories about spells gone wrong, the concept of justice magic, and why witches are some of the most loving and caring people Pam has ever met.

Listen to Pam and Joanna's conversation this Thursday via your favourite podcast platform.

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13/05/2026

Step into a photo booth and relive the magic: the swoosh of the curtain, the spin of the stool, and four bright flashes capturing moments forever. As the photobooth turns 100, join presenter and oral historian Alan Dein as he explores its journey from quirky amusement to state tool to pop culture icon.

As previewed in the Radio Times and The New Stateman.

Listen to 'A Century in a Click: 100 Years of the Photobooth' now on

Presenter: Alan Dein
Producer & Sound Mix: Katie Hill
Executive Producer: Jeremy Grange

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