Imagine ‘show and tell’, but about how humanity has gone wrong. A podcast about big ideas, weird history - and tat. Join Dr Kasia Tee and Dan Hancox as they get drunk in the gift shop with the Angel of History.
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3rd Oct FREE live show & new ep: The Coming of Age review
We have a FREE upcoming live show at Whitechapel Gallery (Zilkha Auditorium) on Saturday, 3rd October, 13:00 - 14:10. We are going to be joined by two very special guests, Anindya Bhattacharyya and Ben Rogaly, to discuss what happens when radical histories get commodified, how the Cable Street mural shapes memory in East London, and how the history of local grassroots resistance to Mosley and the BUF has been deployed in more recent anti-fascist struggles via a Cable Street commemorative tea towel. Come through!
For more information and to book a ticket click here or google 'The Strength Between Us, Whitechapel Gallery'. In order to book, simply click 'Book Now' and select 3rd October, 12:00 - which will give you access to our event, and the other events that are taking place that day (including one by pal of the show Biz K!). Please don't be late, as we will be recording the event as a live show. This means that if you can't make it, you'll still be able to hear it on our feed at a later date :)
Please do also enjoy this bonus episode, an exhibition review of The Coming of Age at the Wellcome Collection which is still on until the 29th November. It is well worth a visit! The episode engages with some of the key questions of the exhibition about the perceptions and experience of aging, including: who gets to age? What does 'ageing' mean on both a personal and societal level? Why are some people trying to defy time and the ageing process? And will Dan still be listening to dubstep is in his 90s?
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23 Jul 2026
The GLC Nuclear Bunker Party! Ft. Nick Bano and Biz K
It's a spontaneous Cursed Side Quest, outside and on main! We're in the pub with dear friends and returning guests Biz K and Nick Bano, diving into the recent history of socialist government (!!) in London, after a very fun trip to the London Archives for an open day showcasing their GLC collection - propaganda posters, Thamesmead brochures, letters, flyers, guides to 'combating heterosexism', memos, all sorts of gold. This covers the period 1981-86, when London surged into the future under the bold leadership of Mayor 'Red' Ken, a very fighty bulwark against Thatcherism - and the heyday of the 'loony left'. What lessons are there to be learned? What should we be excavating from that period to guide us now? What would the Angel of History have us do with the rubble?
So after a fascinating hour or two in the archives we went - feeling inspired - to the pub, and ambushed our friends into recording with us.
For more from barrister and writer Nick Bano, check out his episode with us about his brilliant book Against Landlords: https://www.cursedobjects.co.uk/episodes/against-landlords
For more from writer and multimedia mogul Biz K, check out his episode with us and pal Jonathan Nunn, discussing Jamie Oliver's extremely cursed CD compilation album: https://www.cursedobjects.co.uk/episodes/jamies-cursed-cookin
If you can afford £4 a month and want our many exclusive bonus episodes, do please support our Patreon! We both have jobs and we need a little bit of financial support for CO to justify carving time out to record, edit, etc - we do this all ourselves <3
And if you are in or visiting London, go and check out the London Archives! These resources are there for us all: https://www.thelondonarchives.org/
6 Jul 2026
CLEGGMANIA!
Remember in 2010 when 10 million Brits watched the first ever televised leader debate, and we collectively lost our minds?
We ponder the moment of madness that was ‘Cleggmania’, and the associated phrases ‘Cleggstacy’ and political fandoms ‘Milifans/ Milibaes’. What was it about Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, a formerly stuffy party that no one could even get excited enough to hate, that drove everybody wild? What was behind the national hallucination that he ‘wasn’t like the others’? And why were people taken in by his neat haircut and near-identical class background to Tory leader David Cameron? Little did we know he was destined for a life even greater than politics (working for Meta).
In a rare three-object episode, we follow the trajectory of Westminster’s former golden boy Nick Clegg; from students sporting home-made yellow ‘I agree with Nick’ t-shirts at flash-mobs, to royal marriage-style mugs commemorating the union of Nick and ‘call me Dave’ Cameron in the Coalition government, to finally, inevitably, Clegg’s transition from ‘the UK’s Obama’ to his lucrative multi-million pound life after politics. There is lots to read about Nick Clegg and the Coalition years, but this LSE blog by Katy Parry and Kay Richardson was especially thought provoking.
This episode turned out way more ranty than we intended it to, sorry about that!
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