How much do you really know about Iceland? In this episode Saoirse Siné talks three bizarre banns of the city of ice and fire with actor/writer Clara White.

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Episode Source Material

https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2009/07/03/article-on-why-there-are-so-many-cats-in-downtown-reykjavik/

https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2018/02/07/reykjavik-catwalk-a-brief-history-of-cats-in-iceland/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/intelligent-travel/2011/05/23/ten-more-reasons-iceland-is-astonishing/

https://guidetoiceland.is/connect-with-locals/nanna/iceland-s-christmas-cat-and-cats-of-reykjavik

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/echinococcosis

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/iceland/articles/x-unusual-bans-from-iceland-that-you-didnt-know-about/

https://www.iamreykjavik.com/beer-banned-in-iceland-why

https://beernbiceps.com/iceland-banned-beer/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/illegal-in-iceland-180957521/

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31622038

https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-should-know-about-iceland

https://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/1099965/

https://2seasagency.com/publishing-iceland-reading-national-sport/

https://icelandmag.is/article/april-3-marks-33rd-anniversary-reykjavik-lifting-its-ban-dogs-city

https://grapevine.is/news/2013/05/03/icelanders-read-more/

https://guidetoiceland.is/connect-with-locals/aldasigmunds/the-icelanders-and-their-big-love-of-books

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This week we talk about two petty palaeontologists who's rivalry created "The Bone Wars" during the great American dinosaur rush of the late 19th century, joined by the wonderful actress Laura O'Leary

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Episode Source Material

https://ansp.org/explore/online-exhibits/stories/bone-wars-the-cope-marsh-rivalry/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/04/15/battle-for-the-bone-wars-beasts/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kg2gw7PgE

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/dinosaurs/apatosaurus.htm

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/why-the-long-neck/

https://peabody.yale.edu/collections/archives/biography/othniel-charles-marsh

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/60125/edward-drinker-cope-and-story-paleontologists-wandering-skull

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/marsh.html

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/cope.html

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-bone-wars-1092038

https://interestingengineering.com/bone-wars-the-marsh-cope-feud-and-its-dinosaur-discoveries

https://books.google.ie/books?id=Z8Tj2HvfHRwC&pg=PA153&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/08/the-bone-wars-the-heated-rivalry-between-two-paleontologists-that-led-to-great-fossil-discoveries-and-their-own-social-demise/

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32205289

https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/07/14/4271550.htm

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Allow Saoirse Siné to give you a small snippet of some really weird reality TV shows that probably shouldn't happened.... Joined by special guest, performer and musician Hayley Solas

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Episode Source Material

https://www.wisegeek.com/how-did-reality-tv-begin.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xtwu0xOrls (Shattered)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/sep/04/shattered-legacy-of-a-reality-tv-experiment-in-extreme-sleep-deprivation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY2IR9I0jIk (I Wanna Marry Harry)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9BkcJXBlMU

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-wanna-marry-harry_n_5325452?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMkWbVGVMrJ7xq6zWNQHDUSSmYKyLOQumZ9myBSThoHB0hnJQAB4MjJQL2Qcl4t5F_tFwkZEA5Pc8LM-4A0rhel0wafOa_RmgNJY9W4bgH12ViK3XwF3bPfg9HeHCOxBp2ONjrMz7L_uB3-2HDWB4iSoFpaIl0JNKddMAffD10kN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueAAZ7ASkaM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpwWgzeQn7E

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/5/1/21243936/joe-millionaire-reality-tv-sensation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnXcYKmHUCM&list=PL7LrKko3XY_jeW8ArM29eBWFjHCxAgkK-

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/20/why-is-love-island-so-popular

https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a27631912/craziest-reality-shows-ever/

https://www.bustle.com/articles/57331-8-reasons-cbs-kid-nation-was-more-traumatizing-for-children-than-the-hunger-games

https://www.bustle.com/articles/57331-8-reasons-cbs-kid-nation-was-more-traumatizing-for-children-than-the-hunger-games

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1h6srx/i_was_on_the_childs_reality_tv_show_kid_nation/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p9jlbi91sk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Og2p65Trlsk

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This week Saoirse Siné is joined by real life Australian Lucy Haas to talk about the history of cunt and why it shouldn't be a swear word.

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Episode Source Material

https://medium.com/@minagreen/a-brief-history-of-the-cunt-f9d54e5b6a53

A Curious History of Sex, Kate Lister

https://www.thejournal.ie/c-u-next-tuesday-club-night-dublin-cunt-997597-Jul2013/

https://www.polysyllabic.com/?q=node/77

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lady-Chatterleys-Lover

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/art-and-censorship-portrait-outrageous-lady-6106427.html

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/aug/01/lady-chatterleys-legal-case-how-the-book-changed-the-meaning-of-obscene

https://newrepublic.com/article/148713/whats-bad-c-word

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/09/new-zealand-mp-uses-c-word-at-rally-in-call-to-reclaim-it-from-abusers

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/24/kick-ass-2-taboo-breaking

https://www.ravishly.com/2016/12/28/why-i-think-its-important-reclaim-word-cnt

https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2011/02/sexual-power-word-cunt-hint

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5402/pg5402.html

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This week Saoirse Siné talks of the famous french farter of Moulin Rouge fame with special guest comedian John Spillane.

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Episode Source Material

https://www.vintag.es/2017/12/the-amazing-story-of-joseph-pujol.html

https://www.johnbarber.com/joseph-pujol-le-petomane/

https://www.blowbacktrilogy.com/who-was-le-petomane/

https://professionalmoron.com/2020/12/10/le-petomane-life-story/

https://www.weirdhistorian.com/le-petomane/                

http://www.moulinrouge.fr/

https://www.cometoparis.com/secrets-and-stories-of-paris/history-of-the-moulin-rouge-s1053

https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2001/09/20/364725.htm?site=science/greatmomentsinscience

https://www.mrmethane.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rIXipAV6Fs

https://deskarati.com/2011/08/05/le-petomane/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tixKopGjn5s

https://www.straightdope.com/21341537/did-a-french-vaudeville-star-once-specialize-in-trained-flatulence

http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/07/bragetoir-an-unusual-medieval-jester/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258137098_The_spectacular_anus_of_Joseph_Pujol_Recovering_the_Petomane's_unique_historic_context

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gym81fY460

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This week learn all about the real inventor of Monopoly that history tried to make you forget. This week Saoirse Siné explains all about your new feminist icon - Lizzie Magie, with special guest comedian/writer Grace Mulvey.

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Episode Source Material

The Monopolists, Pilon, Mary. Bloomsbury, 2015.

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/gdc/dcmsiabooks/my/be/tr/ot/he/do/th/er/00/ma/gi/mybetrothedother00magi/mybetrothedother00magi.pdf

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081675658&view=1up&seq=19 (pg 548)

https://lvtfan.typepad.com/lvtfans_blog/2011/01/lizzie-magie-1902-commentary-the-landlords-game.html

http://www.theheroinecollective.com/elizabeth-magie/

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-misplaced-feminism-of-ms-monopoly?utm_brand=tny&mbid=social_twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter

https://landlordsgame.info/games/lg-1906/lg-1906_egc-rules.html

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ms-monopoly-lizzie-magie-creator-landlords-game

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17986457/1909-10-15-honesdale-citizen-hell/

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-misplaced-feminism-of-ms-monopoly

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/business/behind-monopoly-an-inventor-who-didnt-pass-go.html

https://landlordsgame.info/

http://www.henrygeorge.org/dodson_on_monopoly.htm

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/ms-monopoly-worlds-dumbest-board-game/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtug5an4L8E

https://landlordsgame.info/articles/berks2boardwalk.html

https://www.visitforgottonia.com/lizzie-magie-inventor-of-monopoly/

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WARNING! This one is not for the faint of heart and may be triggering to anyone who has suffered a miscarriage.

This week Saoirse Siné gets Mary Kirwan to tell her all about one of the greatest medical hoaxs in the world... The woman who in 1720's convinced the world she was giving birth to rabbits.

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Episode Source Material

The Impostress Rabbit Breeder - Karen Harvey, Oxford University Press, 2020

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/aug2009.html

https://www.historyhustle.com/mary-toft-gave-birth-to-rabbits/

https://www.urbo.com/content/heres-how-mary-toft-convinced-doctors-shed-given-birth-to-rabbits-and-why-she-did-it/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mary-toft-gave-birth-to-rabbits

https://allthatsinteresting.com/mary-toft

https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/mary-toft-rabbit-birth-hoax-when-why-real/

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This week Saoirse Siné is joined by comedian Steve Bennett to discuss one of the longest wars... in which not one shot was fired... and that everyone forgot about.

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Episode Source Material

https://www.visitislesofscilly.com/experience/things-to-do/history-and-heritage

https://www.britannica.com/place/Isles-of-Scilly-islands-England-United-Kingdom

https://www.scilly.gov.uk/

http://the-scilly-isles.com/

https://www.visitislesofscilly.com/

https://www.thedailystar.net/star-weekend/three-hundred-and-thirty-five-years-war-1288033

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RGR1LB52EM (Inside The World's Smallest Football League - The Isles of Scilly)

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2019/05/01/longest-wars-in-history/5/

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/magna-britannia/vol3/pp330-337

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/the-three-hundred-thirty-five-years-war-the-longest-war-in-history.html

https://factslegend.org/20-three-hundred-and-thirty-five-years-war-facts/

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/three-hundred-thirty-five-years-war-absurdity-inaction

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/18/world/dutch-proclaim-end-of-war-against-britain-s-scilly-isles.html

https://uk400clubrarebirdalert.blogspot.com/2014/09/tragic-news-roy-duncan-scilly-boatman.html

http://www.scillytoday.com/

http://www.scillytoday.com/2014/09/03/hundreds-of-islanders-bid-final-farewell-to-roy-duncan/

https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/news/isles-of-scillys-two-football-teams-allowed-4000-fans-but-attracted-just-12-last-week_428540.html

https://www.simplyscilly.co.uk/

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/isles-scilly-were-one-big-4693987

https://www.scilly.gov.uk/news/roy-duncan-1948-2014

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maarten-Harpertszoon-Tromp

 

 

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This week let Saoirse Siné take you, and performer Shane Robinson, back to ancient Greece to talk about the poop loving poster child of cynicism - Diogenes.

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Episode Source Material

https://iep.utm.edu/diogsino/

https://iep.utm.edu/antisthe/

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0258%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D2

https://www.rebresearch.com/blog/diogenes-the-cynic/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/hide-and-seek/201203/my-hero-diogenes-the-cynic

https://millionsofmouths.com/diogenes.html

https://medium.com/socrates-cafe/diogenes-of-sinope-the-philosopher-troll-a01e1fc4eb08

I think therefore I am: All the philosophy you need to know (Lesley Levene)

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The early days of the modern Olympic Games were ROUGH, here all about a particularly ridiculous year with Saoirse Siné and special guest Mark Cantan.

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Episode Source Material

https://www.britannica.com/event/St-Louis-1904-Olympic-Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWU0c9yNf4k

https://www.history.com/topics/sports/olympic-games

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/

https://library.wustl.edu/bizarre-but-true-happenings-1904-olympics/

https://everything-everywhere.com/the-1904-olympic-marathon/

https://www.history.com/news/8-unusual-facts-about-the-1904-st-louis-olympics

http://www.olympedia.org/editions/3/sports/SWI

https://mashable.com/2016/07/28/olympics-1904-st-louis/?europe=true

https://slate.com/culture/2008/08/remembering-the-anthropology-days-at-the-1904-olympics.html

https://thebiography.us/en/hicks-thomas

https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/olympic-games-1904

https://mg.co.za/article/2016-07-07-00-story-of-south-africas-first-black-olympians-keeps-us-guessing/

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