Future Imperfect

By Jason KingsleyScience History Natural Sciences

Future Imperfect episodes

October 22, 2025 Who were the Carolingians?
Jason talks to Matt Gabriele and David Perry about who the Carolingians were. What relationship were they to Charlemagne? Where did they live? They discuss all of this, and their new book, Oathbreakers.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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51 min
October 04, 2025 What did people in the Middle Ages use for money?
In this episode, Jason speaks to Dr Rory Naismith about how people in the MIddle Ages used money. Did they have money? Did they use cash? And what did they do when there was no money?

Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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52 min
September 23, 2025 Did people get murdered in the Middle Ages?
How violent were the Middle Ages? What was life like before there were police? In this episode, Jason talks to Annie Whitehead about murder in the age of the Anglo-Saxons.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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42 min
September 12, 2025 Who are the Vikings we don't talk about?
Welcome to the third season of Future Imperfect! In this episodeJason talks to Alex Harvey about the sorts of Vikings we don't often mention nowadays.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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47 min
January 28, 2025 Who were the knights of the Islamic world?
Jason Kingsley talks to Dr Rachel Schine about her new book, Black Knights.

Produced by: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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55 min
January 10, 2025 What were medieval warhorses like?
Jason talks to Emma Herbert-Davies about her research into the mediaeval warhorse.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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40 min
December 13, 2024 What were ordinary Vikings really like?
On this episode Jason talks to Eleanor Barraclough about her new book, Embers of the Hands, about the day-t-day lives and material culture of ordinary Vikings.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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51 min
December 03, 2024 What is Jason's new book about?
In this episode, Jason talks about his new book, out now on Kickstarter with the host of Legends and Lectures, Michelle Franklin.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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1 hr 13 min
November 20, 2024 How to get someone to fall in love with you (in the Middle Ages)
We learn lots about of the facts of the Middle Ages, but what did the people themselves believe about the ways in which the world worked, and the intersections between religion and magic? Jason talks to Tabitha Stanmore about practical magic, cunning folk, and the ways in which magic was threaded through mediaeval life.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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31 min
November 07, 2024 Can mediaeval knowledge save the world?
In a world of limited resources, people in the Middle Ages knew how to exploit the natural world in a way that was sustainable. Jason talks to Annette Kehnel about sustainability in the Middle Ages.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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47 min

About Future Imperfect

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Jason Kingsley is a technologist who started one of the UK's most exciting games companies, Rebellion. He's also fascinated by the past. In this podcast he talks to historians, scientists, and experts…