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He was a famous organised criminal known for his superior mathematical skills.

In this episode, we'll learn how Meyer Lansky took the American criminal underworld by storm, built an empire and managed to evade the authorities.

• The early life of Meyer Lansky
• Befriending Bugsy Siegel & Lucky Luciano
• The relationship between the Jewish & Italian mobs
• The mob & The Prohibition Era
• The Atlantic City Conference & the United Crime Syndicate
• The end of Prohibition & starting in the casino business
• Getting a reputation for "honesty"
• Moving to Florida and setting up casinos
• His relationship with Batista in Cuba
• Las Vegas & the Flamingo Hotel
• Returning to Cuba & The Havana Conference
• Fidel Castro takes power and Lansky loses everything
• His last years
• Where did all the money go?

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On 26 June 1997, an unknown author published a book called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. 

Harry Potter would go on to become the best-selling series in literary history, selling over 500 million copies worldwide.

The journey to get there, however, was far from simple.

• The early life of JK Rowling
• Her mother's illness
• Getting the idea for Harry Potter
• Losing her mother, moving to Porto and her unhappy first marriage
• Escaping to Edinburgh
• Writing Harry Potter in a cafe while her daughter slept
• Trying to find a publisher for Harry Potter
• Why Harry Potter was rejected by so many publishers
• The daughter of the boss of Bloomsbury Publishing reads one chapter
• Getting her first book deal
• The reception of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Seeing JK Rowling's personal story in Harry Potter
• Taking the book to the USA

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In March of 2018, it was revealed that 50 million Facebook profiles had been "hacked" and used to target American voters. 

The story involved Donald Trump, a supposed Russian spy, a Cambridge researcher and a political consulting company.

The only problem was, how much of it was actually true?

• The breaking of the story on March 18th 2018
• A summary of the Cambridge Analytica report in The Guardian
• The academic: Aleksandr Kogan
• The role of Facebook in 2012
• Quiz apps on Facebook (and their real purpose)
• The role of Cambridge Analytica (the company)
• Building "This Is Your Digital Life"
• How many people took the quiz?
• Was there really a "data breach"?
• What was Aleksandr Kogan's involvement in the story?
• The results come in: was the Facebook data effective at guessing someone's personality?
• Cambridge Analytica's message to its clients: "5,000 data points on over 220 million Americans"
• Working for Ted Cruz
• Working for the Donald Trump Campaign
• The news breaking in 2018
• Was Cambridge Analytica involved in Brexit?
• Conclusion: Did Cambridge Analytica actually have any involvement in the US election?

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In the late 19th century there was fierce competition to provide electricity to the rapidly industrialising USA. The winner would be rewarded with huge wealth and fame.

But who would claim the prize, and how dirty would the fight get?

• Difference between AC & DC
• The Golden Age in America
• Early electrical inventions
• The race to invent indoor electric lighting
• Thomas Edison's incandescent electric light bulb
• Why Edison pushed for DC
• The problems with DC
• The opportunity for a monopoly
• Creating a challenge for Edison's employees
• Breaking with Tesla
• What was better: AC or DC?
• The arrival of George Westinghouse
• The battle gets dirty as Edison fears he is losing
• The creation of the first electric chair
• The execution of William Kemmler
• Westinghouse's AC system wins the contract for the 1893 World Fair
• The legacy of The War of Currents

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Worldwide we produce over 2 billion tonnes of rubbish every year.

In this episode, we explore the history of rubbish collection and look at what happens to our rubbish after the truck comes to take it away.

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For much of human civilisation, people have fought each to the death as a way of resolving arguments.

In this episode, we'll explore the curious and bloody history of one-on-one combat, from ancient Rome to 20th century France.

• The most recent "modern" duel (1967, France)
• The ancient concept of "champion warfare"
• Trial by combat: a legal way to resolve a dispute
• How trial by combat worked: a practical perspective
• Why trial by combat died out
• Trial by combat in Scandinavia: "Holmgang"
• Renaissance duelling for honour
• The role of the "second"
• The two French officers who duelled against each other 30 times in 19 years
• Duelling in the USA
• Duelling goes all the way to The White House: Andrew Jackson & Alexander Hamilton
• Why (and when) duelling stopped being popular
• The legacy of duelling in books, poetry and film

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In this episode, we'll explore the weird and fascinating origins of five foods that you know and (perhaps) love.

From the sandwich to tomato ketchup, chicken tikka masala, fish & chips and even the teabag, discover the weird and wonderful stories behind these well-known dishes.

• Weird origin story #1: The Sandwich
• Weird origin story #2: Tomato ketchup
• Weird origin story #3: Fish & chips
• Weird origin story #4: Chicken tikka masala
• Weird origin story #5: The tea bag

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There are over a billion smokers across the world, and over 7 trillion cigarettes are smoked every year.

In this episode, we'll look at the history of smoking, from the "discovery" of tobacco by Christopher Columbus to how tobacco companies keep us smoking, even when we know the dangers to our health.

• Tobacco in indigenous societies in the Americas
• 1492 - the year Christopher Columbus discovers tobacco
• The etymology of "tobacco"
• Jean Nicot finds a tobacco plant in Lisbon
• Catherine de Médici tries "snuff" for the first time
• Smoking sweeps across Europe
• The invention of the cigarette
• The invention of the cigarette rolling machine
• Smoking during World War I & II
• The 1964 headline: "Cigarettes Peril Health, U.S. Report Concludes."
• Smoking & society
• Cigarette advertising
• Legal cases against Big Tobacco
• The future of smoking - can it really be "smoke-free"?

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It's an amazing piece of legislation that protects the Earth's most isolated continent.

In this episode, we'll learn all about the history of Antarctica, which countries tried to claim it as their territory, and how the situation was resolved to benefit all humankind.

• Background to Antarctica
• The early history of Antarctic exploration
• Antarctica and whaling
• The rush to discover the magnetic South Pole
• The Sixth International Geographical Congress
• Land claims on Antarctica
• The Cold War & Antarctica
• The International Geophysical Year
• The signing of the Antarctic Treaty
• What the Antarctic Treaty actually does
• The future of the Antarctic Treaty

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