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🦊 **How to Listen to Animals: What They’re Really Trying to Tell Us: Amelia Thomas Episode out now!** 🎙️Can we still und...
09/01/2026

🦊 **How to Listen to Animals: What They’re Really Trying to Tell Us: Amelia Thomas Episode out now!** 🎙️

Can we still understand what animals are trying to tell us — or have we forgotten how to listen?

In this episode, I’m joined by journalist and author Amelia Thomas to explore animal communication, intuition, and the lost human skill of truly listening to the natural world. From science to ancient tracking, this is a thoughtful conversation about what animals can teach us when we slow down and pay attention.

🎧 Listen now at https://www.undercurrentstories.com/ or Apple, Spotify etc.
📘 Featuring Amelia’s book 'What Sheep Think About the Weather link: https://eandtbooks.com/books/what-sheep-think-about-the-weather/

Let me know what you think — I’d love to hear your thoughts.

28/12/2025

Undercurrent Stories · Episode

28/12/2025

Podcast Episode · Undercurrent Stories · 12/23/2025 · 42m

History rarely begins where the headlines start.In our latest episode of Undercurrent Stories, Dr Thomas Leahy takes us...
18/12/2025

History rarely begins where the headlines start.

In our latest episode of Undercurrent Stories, Dr Thomas Leahy takes us back centuries before the Irish Troubles — to the laws, land seizures, religious divisions, and political decisions that quietly shaped everything that followed.

This conversation explores:
• How power and identity became intertwined in Ireland
• Why historical memory matters in modern conflict
• How unresolved pasts resurface decades — even centuries — later

If you’re interested in how history, politics, and long-term decision-making intersect, this episode offers valuable context — not just about Ireland, but about conflict more broadly.

🎧 New episode out now. Listen here: https://pod.link/1508727524/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xODM3ODY2OQ

In today’s episode, (the first of 3), we take a deep dive into one of the most defining and emotionally charged chapters...
11/12/2025

In today’s episode, (the first of 3), we take a deep dive into one of the most defining and emotionally charged chapters of modern British and Irish history — the Troubles. With the anniversary of the Downing Street Declaration approaching, this is a timely and gripping dive into the people, politics, and centuries-long tensions that shaped the conflict.

Many of us, myself included, were brought up during 'The Troubles' and never fully understood the long history of division and conflict associated with it. To help make sense I'm joined by Dr. Thomas Leahy, senior lecturer in British and Irish politics, who guides us through the centuries of division, identity, and power struggles that set the stage for the Troubles.

Look out for the next 2 episodes which complete our journey through the history of the Irish Troubles.

Links: https://drthomasdmleahy.com/ #/

11/12/2025

Podcast Episode · Undercurrent Stories · 10/12/2025 · 35m

How The English Language Will Never Be The Same Again with Anne Curzan. Episode Live!(LINKS IN COMMENTS)English is alway...
05/12/2025

How The English Language Will Never Be The Same Again with Anne Curzan. Episode Live!
(LINKS IN COMMENTS)

English is always changing and understanding that evolution opens a window into how we communicate, innovate, and connect.

Join Professor Anne Curzan as she unpacks the fascinating and often surprising ways our language adapts to culture, technology, and everyday life. From emerging slang to shifting grammar “rules,” each episode reveals how English reflects who we are and who we’re becoming.
With curiosity, clarity, and a sense of humour, this episode invites listeners to see language not as something fixed, but as a living system we all help shape—one word at a time.

Professor Anne Curzan is the Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professor of English, Linguistics, and Education at the University of Michigan, where she also served as the dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts from 2019 - 2024. Her most recent book is Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words (2024).

The Houses of Guinness - Unseen, Unheard, Until Now: Adrian Tinniswood - Episode Live!'Beer built the fortune but the st...
28/11/2025

The Houses of Guinness - Unseen, Unheard, Until Now: Adrian Tinniswood - Episode Live!

'Beer built the fortune but the stories and legacy that the Guinness's left behind are far richer.'

Most people know the beer few know the people or the houses. Join me in conversation with historian, Adrian Tinniswood as he takes us on a lavish journey through the Houses of Guinness. Footmen, lavish parties, eccentric rituals—Adrian takes us inside the world most of us only see in period dramas.

The Houses of Guinness weren't just beautiful homes, they were engines of power. Adrian reveals what they tell us about empire, class and ambition.

See comments for episode link and finding out more about the book.

How To Get Lucky. New Episode:If you’ve ever watched someone waltz into an amazing job, get a great house or win life's ...
21/11/2025

How To Get Lucky. New Episode:

If you’ve ever watched someone waltz into an amazing job, get a great house or win life's lottery without even trying, you may have quietly wondered…

“Did they make a deal with a wizard?” 🧙‍♂️✨
“Do they have a secret map?” 🗺️
“Is Mercury in retrograde AGAIN?” 😩

Well, plot twist: it’s none of that.
It’s something even wilder — hidden markets quietly deciding who gets what while the rest of us are out here fighting with online forms and refreshing waitlists like amateurs.

So I brought in Wharton Professor Judd Kessler, whose new book Lucky by Design basically exposes the Matrix.
We talked about the invisible rules of life… the ones that might actually explain why some people get tickets for Glastonbury or get frequent work promotions.

If you like mind-blowing insights, “OH COME ON” moments, and learning how to hack the universe just a little, you need this episode.

👉 Listen here before the hidden markets find out: [https://pod.link/1508727524/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xODIyMzUzOQ]

20/11/2025

Undercurrent Stories · Episode

IS CIVILISATION ABOUT TO COLLAPSE?Today, on Undercurrent Stories, we turn our attention to the grand sweep of human hist...
14/11/2025

IS CIVILISATION ABOUT TO COLLAPSE?
Today, on Undercurrent Stories, we turn our attention to the grand sweep of human history — from the hunter-gatherers of the Paleolithic to the great empires of Egypt and Rome, and onward to our interconnected, fragile world of today.

At the heart of our discussion lies a question as old as civilisation itself: why do societies rise — and why do they fall?

My guest is Dr Luke Kemp, a researcher at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and author of Goliath’s Curse. In it, he challenges many of the stories we tell ourselves about progress and civilisation — arguing that the very forces that built our modern world may also contain the seeds of its undoing.

We’ll explore the archaeological and historical evidence for collapse, the myths of Hobbesian human nature, and whether our global, technological Goliath can be restrained before it destroys itself.

So join us, as we ask: what can the past teach us about surviving the future?

Listen at https://pod.link/1508727524/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xODE4NTE0NQ

🌦️ **New Episode Out Now!** How Good is Your Weather Forecast, Really? We check the weather every day — but how much do ...
07/11/2025

🌦️ **New Episode Out Now!** How Good is Your Weather Forecast, Really?

We check the weather every day — but how much do we really understand about the forecasts we trust?

In this fascinating conversation, we are joined by journalist and author, Thomas Weber.
Thomas reveals the hidden world behind modern meteorology — from tornado warnings in the American Midwest to farmers in Ghana using text-message forecasts to double their crop yields. 🌍

Discover how far weather prediction has come, why it’s more accurate than ever, and how new technology (including AI) is reshaping our understanding of the skies above us.

🎧 *Listen now: https://pod.link/1508727524/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xODE0NDI3MQ

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