A Brief History of Failure

About A Brief History of Failure

The things we take for granted in today's world are typically the result of one lucky break, one person’s point of clarity that managed to rise above the efforts of others. However, it is those who have fallen at the last hurdle, via back luck or ignorance, which A Brief History of Failure celebrates. And this group is legion. From the earliest days of civilisation to the political turmoil of modern politics, this podcast shines a light on those who fall into the classification of losers. Research on the world's silver and bronze medalists and total wooden-spooners has been painstakingly conducted to produce this definitive, groundbreaking broadcast.

Publisher

Ade Cory

Category

comedy · fiction

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

5 Oct 2024

Latest episode

8 Dec 2024

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Dec 2024

   A Brief History of Failure. Episode 6

   Historian and author, Doris Kearns Goodwin, examines how humanity's failures in the late 19th century, including the failure to support X-rays, set the stage for global war.

2. 

   2 Nov 2024

   A Brief History of Failure. Episode 5

   The Age of Reform. From 1830 to 1850, people were doing some remarkably stupid things to ensure social reform continued to drive forward. From the unwanted release of cartographers by the Abolitionists to suffragettes storming courthouses in turkey costumes, the great awakening had its share of hopeless failure.

3. 

   25 Oct 2024

   A Brief History of Failure. Episode 4

   Science and Stamps. At beginning of the 19th century, science was all the rage but the ability to confirm the simplest of things such as the mass of Planet Earth or concoct a rudimentary chemical fertiliser seemed beyond the wit of most cretins.

4. 

   16 Oct 2024

   A Brief History of Failure. Episode 3

   The Renaissance. From mankind's early disasters trying to circumnavigate the globe to misguided revolutionary tactics in both America and France as the lunatics take over the asylum.

5. 

   10 Oct 2024

   A Brief History of Failure. Episode 2

   Anno Domini. From the tribute acts failing to follow the deeds of Queen Boudicca to the inept cures for the Black Death, episode 2 spotlights worrisome failures across the Middle Ages.

6. 

   5 Oct 2024

   A Brief History of Failure. Episode 1

   Before Christ. From the earliest artistic failures in Persian caves around 200,000 BC to the losers who followed the wrong shiny thing to the Magi.

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