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Introducing: The Rest Is Science

12/12/2025 • 13 min

Forget what you think you know about reality. The Rest Is Science is a mind-bending new show from Goalhanger that tears down familiar ideas… time, randomness, beauty, it will reveal just how bizarre the world truly is. Join Professor Hannah Fry and science creator Michael Stevens (Vsauce) twice a week to explore big, small and surprising questions as they… Play episode

315. Controversy, Colonialism, & V.S. Naipaul
314. Rudyard Kipling: Villain or Visionary? (Part 3)
313. Rudyard Kipling: Escaping India & Writing The Jungle Book (Part 2)
312. Rudyard Kipling: Son of Empire (Part 1)
311. Cricket In India: Beating The Brits At Their Own Game (Part 2)
310. The Origin of The Ashes & The Killer Cricket Scandal (Part 1)
309. Tintin, Nazis, & Soviets
308. Asterix and Obelix, Babar The Elephant, & Colonial Cartoons
307. Austen vs Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
306. Joseph Conrad: From Russian Exile To The Heart of Darkness
305. Orwell: Dark Secrets, The CIA, & His Forgotten Failures (Part 4)
304. Orwell: Animal Farm, 1984 & Totalitarian Dystopia (Part 3)
303. Orwell: Fighting Fascism In The Spanish Civil War (Part 2)
302. Orwell: The Anti-Imperialist In India & Burma (Part 1)
301. Gaza: The First Arab-Israeli War & The Creation of The Gaza Strip (Pa…
300. Gaza: The 1948 War (Part 10)
299. Gaza: The Palestinian Revolt, The Black and Tans, & Bomber Harris (Pa…
298. Gaza: The British Occupation of Palestine (Part 8)
297. Gaza in WW1: A Rematch For Gallipoli (Part 7)
296. Ottoman Gaza: Gunpowder Conquests & Rising Nationalism (Part 6)
295. Crusader Gaza: Saladin & Richard The Lionheart (Part 5)
294. Gaza & The Islamic Conquest (Part 4)
293. The Gaza Erotic Literature Festival: Byzantine Gaza (Part 3)
292. Ancient Gaza: From The Assyrians to The Romans (Part 2)
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines (Part 1)
290. Medieval India’s Alexander The Great: The Cholas (Part 2)
289. Medieval India’s Game of Thrones: The Cholas (Part 1)
288. Suez Crisis: The End of The British Empire (Part 5)
287. Suez Crisis: Lies, Cyanide Pills, & Soviet Tanks (Part 4)
286. Suez Crisis: Hungary Revolts & Britain Bombs Egypt (Part 3)
285. Suez Crisis: The Secret Meeting Between Israel, Britain & France (Par…
284. Suez Crisis: The British Imperialist vs The Arab Nationalist (Part 1)
283. Partition: East Pakistan Becomes Bangladesh (Part 6)
282. Partition: The Birth of The Kashmir Conflict (Part 5)
281. Partition: Why Was India Split In Two? (Part 4)
280. Partition: The Creation of Pakistan (Part 3)
279. Partition: How Dubai Almost Became Part of India (Part 2)
278. Partition: India’s Break With Burma (Part 1)
277. America Drills Through Hell’s Gorge (Part 5)
276. The Biggest Corruption Scandal in French History (Part 4)
The Great Fire of London
275. The Battle To Build The Panama Canal (Part 3)
274. Pirates of Panama: Francis Drake Strikes Spain's Empire (Part 2)
273. Panama’s Brutish Conquistador Who Found The Pacific and Lost His Head…
272. Solving The Mystery of America's Lost Colony
271. Canada’s Dark Secret: Stolen Children, Unmarked Graves, & Survival St…
270. The Day The Brits Burned The White House (Ep 4)
269. Colonising Canada: The Truth Behind ‘The Last of The Mohicans’ (Ep 3)
268. Colonising Canada: Why Does Quebec Speak French? (Ep 2)

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