The lightbulb, Willy Wonka, The Beatles & even the screen you’re reading this on would not exist without neurodivergent minds. 20% of the population is considered neurodivergent (ADHD, Autism, Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, & Tourettes etc.) and yet waiting times for diagnosis are at an all-time high. Join Ben Branson (Autistic/ADHD), the visionary founder of Seedlip, as each week he sits down with great minds that think differently: from neurodivergent entrepreneurs & talented creatives to renowned authors, psychologists & experts. As a society we need more awareness, understanding & support of neurological conditions that have silently contributed so much to the …
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February 2024
From ghostly phantoms to UFOs, The Battersea Poltergeist’s Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of paranormal encounters. BBC Radio 4 Danny Robins divides listeners into either ‘team skeptic’ or ‘team believer’. I am firmly team skeptic, but that doesn’t mean I don’t find the inexplicable stories he shares fascinating and very very entertaining. It’s a bit weird, spooky, and sometimes downright confounding. Robins himself hosts the show with bucketfuls of drama and barely suppressed excitement. It’s hard not to smile at his enthusiasm. If nothing else, this show is fun. And the musical score provides a lyrical catchphrase which can be …
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How much do you know about the person you love? Sweet Bobby is the #1 chart-topping, award-winning investigative series in search of the world’s most sophisticated catfisher. Tortoise Media Don’t Google this show. So much has been written and part of the pleasure of listening to it is the suspense from plot twists and revelations. Alexi Mostrous, the journalist who tells this story, does so with deft skill, gently leading the listener through a series of rolling emotions, but without ever minimising Kirat Assi’s experience. It is an extraordinary story about catfishing and the long lasting impacts on Assi’s life, …
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It was the perfect day Until someone shat on the floor. Karen Whitehouse and Helen McLaughlin got married on Saturday the 11th of August, 2018. The mystery of the crime has been tormenting them ever since. They have to know who, out of their closest friends, family (or staff) were audacious enough to loosen their bowels… on the floor… on their special day. Join the brides, Helen Mclaughlin and Karen Whitehouse, and the extremely under-qualified ‘Detective’ Lauren Kilby, as they interrogate wedding guests, hook bridesmaids up to polygraph machines and speak with top forensic experts in an attempt to crack …
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“I truly believe that motors were used to win bike races” – Greg LeMond, three-time winner of the Tour de France. In January 2016, 19-year-old Belgian cyclist Femke van den Driessche was caught with a collection of wires, motors and batteries buried deep inside her spare bike at the Cyclo-cross World Championships. She was then suspended for six years and bore the wrath of global media as the only rider ever to be banned by The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) for having a motor in her bike, despite numerous previous suspicions of other competitive cyclists that have never been confirmed …
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The latest season of the wildly popular con-themed podcast Chameleon takes place in the summer of 2003 when two half-starved young men turned up in a small Canadian town telling an incredible story. They’d been raised in the British Columbia wilderness, and this was their first-ever contact with society — they’d never seen a TV, gone to school, or registered for IDs. So the community took them in and set about introducing them to the modern world. Before long, the international media descended on the town, enthralled by the mysterious “Bush Boys.” There was just one problem: not a word …
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In Hackney, 2007, 15-year-old Abraham saves a stranger from a brutal attack. That split-second decision and act of astonishing bravery changes his life forever. Journalist Sam Holder has been following Abraham’s story for years. Together with Abraham’s friends and family, they retrace how this young boy finds himself in fear of his own life. This multi-award-winning series explores the protections in place for witnesses of violent crimes, the obligations for witnesses to give evidence in court, and what can be done if someone feels their life is at risk. BBC Radio 4 I’m not sure if I will ever forget …
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My beloved aunt died last week. I have said the most important things I want to say about her – thoughts I knew would be shared, understood, and similarly articulated by every single person who knew her – at her funeral. And these words were heard by everyone who knew her personally because her service was live-streamed around the world. So I won’t write about her beautiful soul specifically here, but instead reflect on how her sudden absence has upturned my thoughts now. I went to bed late on the night of Monday 19th with my head organising my tasks …
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In life most of us will have at least one moment that can be a turning point. It could be a decision or incident that at its most intense can make or break us. John O’Hegarty had an extreme version of that experience. It broke him. “It’s like a crack emerged. I just floated away,” he says on a new podcast ‘I’m Not Here To Hurt You’. What happened next is scarcely believable. A man destined for great things in academia went on to raid 16 Dublin banks. He earned the nickname ‘the polite bank robber’ – but ultimately became …
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When Elizabeth Short, also known as The Black Dahlia, was brutally killed in 1947, it gripped the entire country. More than 70 years later, it remains America’s most infamous unsolved murder. Many believe Dr. George Hodel was the killer, thanks to an investigation by Hodel’s own son. But murder is just part of the Hodel family story, one filled with horrifying secrets that ripple across generations. Now, through never-before-heard archival audio and first-time interviews, the Hodel family opens up to reveal their shocking story. In this eight-part documentary series, sisters Rasha Pecoraro and Yvette Gentile, the great grand daughters of …
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