GUEST EPISODES
Episodes
Back by popular demand, it's our annual Christmas party! And this year we’re wrestling with TRADITION.
As a Cursed Objects bonus, without an actual cursed object, we present a live recording of Dan in conversation about his brand new book Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World.
Air isn't an object, right? Wrong.
The early 2000s were a fever dream: why was pop culture so mean?
How do you start collecting objects for a cursed museum?
A record etched onto an x-ray of a (probably, now) dead Soviet citizen’s head. That is the uniquely cursed object Stephen Coates came across in a Russian flea market in 2014.
What if there was an object so cursed that it was never even made?
The police just follow the law, right!? Our guest Melayna Lamb thinks we need to flip this thinking around - and see the police as a law unto themselves.
Forget everything you thought you knew about the housing crisis!
It's a classic Haunted Dickensian Cursed Objects Office Christmas Party! If you think Halloween is the spookiest time of year - you’re dead wrong.
What happens when a revolution dies?
Welcome to a new series of Cursed Objects!
Pukka! We’re dancing in the moonlight with the king of the English culinary world, Jamie Oliver.
A plain ham sandwich, a bottle of still water and a pack of ready salted crisps – it's a meal (deal) fit for a King, and a Cursed Objects x Lecker collab!
IT'S CUUUUUURSEDMAAAAAAAS!
Postcode paraphernalia – check! Neighbourhood nationalism – check! Commodified cities? All here.
Nectar selectors and club card members: where do your loyalty cards lie?
This week, we're asking what Gen Z kids mean when they say "My aesthetic is looking like a terrible 90s market stall in Camden Town!"?
Are we heading for a 'summer of discontent'?
Health warning!!! Kasia and Dan are cracking through the radioactive, ever-expanding global energy drinks market LIVE ON AIR...
Bunting? Check. Tables? Check. Unelected head of state who costs the British taxpayer £67 million a year? CHECK.
Crayons out for universal health care!
Series 2 ends with a bang, and some serious vexillology: talking homonationalism, gay villages, the commercialisation of Pride…
U-F-Whoa! It's the penultimate episode of Series 2, and this week Dan and Kasia consider the Wyrd 1990s, bedding down in Area 51 with Mulder and Scully…
Wall Street's Guantanamo' or 'our Statue of Liberty'?
It's the end of another busy day running the patriarchy.
Art and commerce, haunted ears, starving artists and the way galleries fetishise madness to make £££.
When did our star signs start running our lives?