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Masters of the Impossible
Richard Wiseman explores the strange world of mind magic and the life of David Berglas.
Against the Current: The Great Gatsby at 100
Sarah Churchwell marks the centenary of F Scott Fitzerald鈥檚 The Great Gatsby.
Philadelphia's Forgotten Bomb
Why did the Philadelphia police drop a bomb on an occupied house in 1985?
The Braveheart Effect
Susan Morrison takes a cynical swipe at the most successful film about Scotland ever made.
Into the Sharkiverse
Jon Harvey celebrates 50 years of Jaws with a hilarious history of shark fiction.
Here We Go! The Art of the Football Chant
Les Back charts the history of football chants and asks if they鈥檙e modern-day folk songs.
We Were the Mods
Pete Townshend and Phil Daniels look back on Quadrophenia with their modern-day mirrors.
Simpson's Dictators
John Simpson looks back at the dictators he's met: the mad, the malign and the meek.
100 Years of Mein Kampf
John Kampfner read the world鈥檚 most notorious book so you don鈥檛 have to.
Time, Paper, Bone
The story of anti-apartheid activist James Booi's disappearance and reburial.
