English Learning for Curious Minds

#318 | A Job From Hell | Slaves in Ancient Rome

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#316 | The World Cup’s Five Biggest Controversies

The FIFA World Cup is full of controversy, on and off the pitch.  In this episode, we look at...

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#314 | Michael Jackson | The Troubled Life of The King of Pop

He was the undisputed King of Pop, with 13 number-one hits, hundreds of millions of fans and a...

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#312 | A History of Witches | Misogyny, Magic and Murder

For centuries, a woman could be accused of being a witch for the simple crime of being too poor,...

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#310 | A History of Vampires | Fangs, Fear and Fiction

For hundreds of years, people have been afraid of blood-sucking creatures that rise from the...

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#308 | The Murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia Part 3 | A Culture of Impunity

It has been 5 years since the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. In part three of this three-part...

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#307 | The Murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia Part 2 | Crooks Everywhere You Look

A few months after Daphne's brutal assassination, the Maltese police raided a potato shed....

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#306 | The Murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia Part 1 | Cocaine, Corruption, and Filthy Money

On October 16th, 2017, a 52-year-old journalist was blown up in a car bomb outside her home in...

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#304 | The Life of Donald Trump

He was the 45th President of the USA and the most controversial in recent history. In this...

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#302 | The Bloody History of Bullfighting

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#300 | Plastic Recycling - Is It Worth It?

We have been recycling for decades, yet only 9% of the world's plastic has ever been successfully...

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#298 | A Brief History of Climate Change

For thousands of years, humans have had ideas about mankind's potential impact on the climate....

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#296 | Osama Bin Laden | The World's Most Wanted Man

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#294 | By Ballot Or By Bullet | The Life of Malcolm X

He was the American civil-rights leader who was a prominent spokesman for the Nation of Islam....

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#292 | Chess & The Cold War

The game of chess played a vital role during the Cold War, allowing Russia and the United States...

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#290 | Sigmund Freud | Father of Psychoanalysis

To some, he was a visionary who helped us understand our unconscious mind. To others, he was a...

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#288 | Albert Pierrepoint | Britain’s Most Famous Executioner

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#286 | The Atomic Bomb Part 3: The Aftermath

Part three of our three-part mini-series on The Atomic Bomb. Ever since the atomic bomb was...

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#284 | The Atomic Bomb Part 1: The Manhattan Project

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[BONUS: REPLAY] The Rise of Air Conditioning

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