Let Me Explain with Seán Defoe

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Let Me Explain with Seán Defoe episodes

September 28 AI Will Wipe Us All Out... Or Will It?
This week, Sean looks at the most recent technological moral panic: The Hugging Face Incident.
From this, Sean investigates whether Artificial Intelligence is something we really should worry about, or just another feature of a technology advancing so quickly.
The answer might not be so black and white.
Listen here.
19 min
September 21 Episode 250! How Did UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld Die?
For our milestone 250th EPISODE, we look back 65 years to the death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.
He died in a plane crash in the Congo while on a mission to negotiate a ceasefire.
Was it an accident, or was his plane deliberately brought down?
We examine his final mission and the unanswered questions surrounding his death.
17 min
September 14 How Star Trek Invented the Sound of Space
Star Trek helped shape the way we imagine the future should sound.
From the Enterprise and its strange electronic noises to the sounds that became staples of science fiction, its influence is still everywhere.
We look at how Star Trek built a soundscape for space, and why filmmakers are still borrowing from it today.
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14 min
September 09 Lindsay Clancy: Mental Illness and Murder
This week we take a deep dive into the Lindsay Clancy murder case.
A woman found guilty of murdering her three children, but could responsibility lie elsewhere, or how can we really understand cruel acts like this.
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18 min
September 07 247. The Woman Who Scammed 9/11
This week we go inside the story of a woman who posed for years as a 9/11 survivor, gained the trust of hundreds who thought she'd been in the Twin Towers that day - but who wasn't everything she seemed
17 min
August 31 246. The bank robbery that created Stockholm Syndrome
In August 1973 a man walks into a Swedish bank, demands three million kroner and takes four hostages. The six day standoff that followed would become the origin story for Stockholm Syndrome. Let Me Explain.
15 min
August 24 245. The day the Mona Lisa was stolen
You might never have heard of Mona Lisa if she hadn't been stolen from the Lourve 115 years ago. The two year manhunt and the resulting news coverage made her the most famous painting in history. Let Me Explain.
12 min
August 17 244. Inside the hardest day of the Battle of Britain
Immerse yourself in the 18th of August 1940 when the Luftwaffe tried to use overwhelming force to crush British resistance in the air. Follow the newly promoted RAF captain facing his hardest day yet - and the German destroyer squad looking to cripple British fighter command.
15 min
August 10 243. The woman hanged as a witch for speaking Gaeilge
This week we explore the sad case of Goody Glover who was denounced a witch in Boston just before the Salem witch trials kicked off in earnest
9 min
July 27 242. Sex, Superman and Lughnasadh
Lughnasadh: you’ve heard the name, but what exactly is it — and how does a Celtic harvest festival connect to Ireland’s very own “Superman”?
Sean Defoe dives into the myth behind the 1st of August, from the Tuatha Dé Danann and the fearsome Fomorians to Balor of the Evil Eye and the prophecy that finally catches up with him. Along the way, we meet Lugh: master of every craft, spear-throwing hero, and the figure at the heart of the festival.
Plus: a brilliant (and slightly outrageous) link to the Puck Fair — and a quick heads-up about our All Together Now dadhood special this Friday at 4.
12 min

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If you don't have the time to keep up with every twist and turn of the news agenda then sit back and Let Me Explain. Each week host Seán Defoe goes behind the scenes on one of the biggest stories…