165 / 18th June 2017

THING: Death 
QUESTION: Where do we go?

CONTAINS: The Debilitating Strokes world-tour, decapitation versus getting shot into the sun versus falling asleep on the bus, banned Buddhist nursery classes, and why every funeral needs the Thong Song

LINKS: Death / The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad / BROCKHAMPTON Is the Most Exciting Group in Hip-Hop Right Now / Steve Jobs - Official Trailer (HD) / Walk with Wildlife / The Death Clock / Afterlife / Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui UXO (Full Album) [1080p]

164 / 11th June 2017

THING: Hung Parliament 
QUESTION: What's next?

CONTAINS: The Schadenfreude Olympics, how the Tories accidentally followed through, The Corbyn Boys singing ‘Go Left’, and one demented fascist grandma

LINKS: UK election 2017: Conservatives lose majority / THE LEFTOVERS - Season 1 | Full TRAILER | HD / Furious 7 - Official Trailer (HD) / A Different Country by Richard Seymour / Corbyn Won Because Hope Turned the Unthinkable Into Reality /
All Worked Up and Nowhere to Go The ever more futile politics of left protest / Where We Go From Here by Richard Seymour /

163 / 4th June 2017

THING: The Kraken Manifesto
QUESTION: How would you win the election?

CONTAINS: The Airbnb fascism filter, delays on the Maginot Line, the Libertines' new smackhead, and how to pull hope from the jaws of defeat

LINKS: General election 2017: The non-Brit's guide to the UK election / THE LABOUR PARTY MANIFESTO 2017 A manifesto for a better, fairer Britain. / 1000 Manifesto List / How to Win an Election Op-Docs By SARAH KLEIN and TOM MASON  / London Graphic Novel Network Book Club / Not Just about Being Cool / Crows / What's the dividing line between humans and animals? / The Left, Corbyn and Labour’s Future: An Interview with Alex Nunns

162 / 28th May 2017

THING: Hominids
QUESTION: What's your favourite invention?

CONTAINS: Getting our science from bonk-busters and techno, alternative theories for why Neanderthals went extinct, language being invented by one really chatty monkey, and the importance of each ear having an iPod

LINKS: HOMINID AND HOMININ – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? / How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out / The Land of Painted Caves Book 6 of the Earth's Children® Series / James Holden The Inheritors / William Golding The Inheritors / Homo Floresiensis: Facts About the 'Hobbit' / Top 10 Inventions that Changed the World / Crossed: Badlands – Homo Tortor / ‘Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?’ movie review 

161 / 21st May 2017

THING: The Malt-right
QUESTION: Is genocide the new counter-culture?

CONTAINS: Alliot and the far-right gentlemen's drinking club, how logic and reason don't extend to climate science, the paradox of a virgin's fear of cuckoldry, and booting our guest to the murder staircase

LINKS: Whisky / What Is The ‘Alt-Right’? / ASSHOLES ARE LIKE OPINIONS, EVERYONE’S GOT ONE, AND EVERYONE’S IS JUST HIS OPINION / Charles Murray AUTHOR OF THE BELL CURVE; SCHOLAR AT THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE /

160 / 14th May 2017

THING: Flat Earth
QUESTION: What's wrong with being wrong?

CONTAINS: Dinosaurs knocked into space, finding the g-word, a new respect for facts from a surprising place, and what to do when you reach the edge of the world

LINKS: The Flat Earth Society / Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds / As the crow flies Andrew Motion finds poetry in Crow Country, Mark Cocker's attempt to rehabilitate one of nature's most maligned birds / Know Your Meme Flat Earth Theory / When Being Wrong is Right You can be right or you can have a relationship / Dinosaur Hoax - Dinosaurs Never Existed!

159 / 30th April 2017

THING: UK Snap Election 2017
QUESTION: Is Tim Farron a sin?

CONTAINS: Borges’ “Snap Election of Babylon”, sleeping with people with tie-dye sheets, the incoming reign of Mad King Charles, and Kraken standing for MP

LINKS: BBC Election 2017  / THE HANDMAIDEN Trailer (PARK CHAN-WOOK - 2016) / The Lottery in Babylon / How the Election Fraud Scandal Could Destroy the Tory Party / Why Tim Farron’s Record on Gay Marriage Matters / General Election Most Seats Betting Odds / What Corbyn Already Won TOM MUNDAY

158 / 23rd April 2017

THING: John C Lilly
QUESTION: Would you dispose of your body?

CONTAINS: Recorded live from inside an isolation tank, fearing our dolphin and whale competitors, the bad dubstep boyfriend, and calling the President at 4am

LINKS: John Lilly / The Elephant Man Movie Trailer / KRISHA Official TRAILER (2016) / John Lilly, Ketamine and The Entities From ECCO / The Mind-Body Problem / Floatation.com / Does Nature Make Us Happy? Connections with nature are linked to happiness and ecological sustainability /

157 / 16th April 2017

THING: Nationalism
QUESTION: What are you so proud of?

CONTAINS: Dishonourable discharges, the end of the British union, the drunk Telegraph admirals in the cupboard, and being conscripted into the Great Gibraltar Monkey War

LINKS: Nationalism / Crabs / Chinchilla / Brexit: Lord Howard accused of 'sabre-rattling' over Gibraltar / Gibraltar row: Spanish warship disrupts British Navy training / The problem of patriotism and the left

156 / 9th April 2017

THING: Stephen King
QUESTION: What makes a spooky story?

CONTAINS: The director’s director’s cut of E.T., Japanese versus American horror, going a bit Garth Marenghi, and the eater of worlds, and children

LINKS:  Stephen King.com / IT - Official Teaser Trailer / PENNYWISE CLOWN - THE BEST OF / A book for the beach: Duma Key by Stephen King / Is Stephen King a great writer? / How Media Scares Us: The Work of Junji Ito

155 / 2nd April 2017

THING: Marxism
QUESTION: Nothing but chains?

CONTAINS: Richard Barbrook, in defence of Labour's digital comms, the boring day after the revolution, and being a Never Flush

LINKS: Dr Richard Barbrook / Corbyn promises to 'democratise the internet' - Politics live / Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village / Class Wargames / Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey / Marxism lecture by Prof. Raymond Geuss 1/8 / Karl Marx Early Writings / Karl Kautsky

154 / 26th March 2017

THING: Red Nose Day Podathon
QUESTION: Is charity part of the problem?

CONTAINS: The longest-ever podcast recording, seizures live on air, the wankchurian candidate, and Red Balls Day sponsored by Red Bull and Ed Balls

LINKS: Comic Relief / R-Type / Ex-Elmo Voice Actor Kevin Clash Cleared of Sexual Abuse Charges / Weiner Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Anthony Weiner Documentary HD / Africa deserves better from Comic Relief David Lammy / Longest marathon, radio DJ / Brain Zaps: Causes & Treatments For Electrical Shock Sensations

153 / 19th March 2017

THING: UKIP
QUESTION: Will any English revolution always be reactionary?

CONTAINS: Richard Seymour, the rise of the spiteful class, analysing Nigel Farage's victory love-making, and the real meaning of bronies

LINKS: LENIN'S TOMB / Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics by Richard Seymour / Salvage / The UKIPisation of English politics by Richard Seymour / Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit / Logan | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX / It's the Beginning of the End For Ukip by Sam Kriss / This isn’t the end of Ukip; it’s just the beginning / Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase / NEW BOOK: Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman / A Radical History of Britain. Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries: the Men and Women who Fought for Our Freedoms