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!

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.

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’s for dinner? A handful of grated cheese? Some olives and a croissant? A whole crab, eaten in bed? This one goes out to all the exhausted girlies who can’t be arsed to cook. What wonders emerge when women find moments of freedom from compulsory and unpaid domestic labour? Ladies, gentlemen and nonbinary pals, welcome to the cursed/blessed super-trend that was, and is, GIRL DINNER.

CO is back, with a dream guest for Dan and Kasia: Professor Patrick Wright, author of On Living in an Old Country and The Village That Died for England, joins us for an urgent and vital conversation about Englishness, heritage, national decline, landscapes, Brexit and Reform, historical memory, and social and cultural disintegration.

Only 3000 people are invited to Davos, home of the World Economic Forum - and you’re one of them!

New year, new you, new Cursed Objects - let’s dive in! This week, Kasia breaks the ice and takes us on a plunge into the cursed and blessed world of wild, outdoor and cold water swimming – while Dan nervously dips a toe in to see if he can hack the chills and spills.

Luke Skywalker, shut up and eat your jelly! As everyone knows, Christmas is like Cursed Objects Christmas, and so sure enough: it’s the long-awaited CO Christmas Special. REJOICE!

What would Christmas be without a tour of London’s lights? For the first of our free xmas podcasts, Kasia and Dan go UP TOWN for an outside (!!) walking tour through Covent Garden, Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus.

Not the Queen of Hearts! Greetings, England's roses, and welcome back to the People's Podcast - this week, it's the original parasocial relationship: ROYALTY. 

"Escape to the King's Cross Riviera," said the sign on the construction hoardings - so we did! And it forced us to ask questions like: 'What if you threw a major urban regeneration zone and lots of people came, but then they wanted a branch of All Bar One when they got there?'

We are back with another brand new episode, another very special guest, the brilliant Fearghus Roulston, and another fascinating assembly of some very Cursed Objects subjects – histories of conflict, conviviality, getting pissed, listening to punk and misremembering our own lives and favourite counter-cultural spaces. 

This week, Dan and Kasia forage for meaning in the fertile terrain of culinary "movements", globalisation, multiculturalism and identity, megabucks fine dining, and the desperate search for authenticity in food.

“I have been objectified as a vehicle”. We are delighted to welcome back our most-returning guest, as the brilliant historian and author Charlotte Lydia Riley talks us through the cursed world of being pregnant in public; about the way pregnant women – and, in different ways, mothers! – are treated by a frequently confused society.

Sit down please. We have something very serious to tell you. We have made a severe and continuous lapse in our judgement. We are sorry if you feel offended, for some reason.

Our final event, Coming to you LIVE from the Cursed Objects in Museum Shops exhibition..

Coming to you LIVE... we are joined by two very special friends of the pod

Back by popular demand, our second-ever live show!!