Episodes

  • Episode 95: Prohibition (or "Wet for Hatchet Granny")

    Episode 95: Prohibition (or "Wet for Hatchet Granny")
    Jan 18 2024

    This year’s super-sized “Dry January” episode is an overview of the dreaded US Prohibition, why it went wrong, and how Britain avoided it.

    Check out this archive of British anti-prohibition posters:

    https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/archives_online/exhibitions/prohibition/
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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Episode 94: Last Orders (or "Deathbed Drinkies")

    Episode 94: Last Orders (or "Deathbed Drinkies")
    Dec 30 2023

    It’s the end of the year, so Tim and Eleri are calling Last Orders on time at the bar, funeral fun, and the hazards of embalming fluid.
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Episode 93: Gifts (or "Hampers and Champers")

    Episode 93: Gifts (or "Hampers and Champers")
    Dec 13 2023

    ‘tis the season for boozy gifting and Tim and Eleri have some facts to swap too.
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    52 mins
  • Episode 92: Berries - Part Two (or "A ramble through the bramble")

    Episode 92: Berries - Part Two (or "A ramble through the bramble")
    Nov 22 2023

    Eleri and Tim are Lingon around for part two of “Berries”. Take me to Kirsch!
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    41 mins
  • Episode 91: Berries - Part One (or "Blowing a raspberry")

    Episode 91: Berries - Part One (or "Blowing a raspberry")
    Nov 8 2023

    From Cassis to Chambord, Tim tastes blackcurrants and Eleri blows a raspberry in the first of the berry two-parter. 
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    42 mins
  • Episode 90: Poison - Part Two (or "Sucking the Sauce with Socrates")

    Episode 90: Poison - Part Two (or "Sucking the Sauce with Socrates")
    Oct 25 2023

    Spooktober the second sees Eleri and Tim sipping cyanide, speaking with Socrates, and suspecting seals.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Episode 89: Poison - Part One (or "Toxic Taints")

    Episode 89: Poison - Part One (or "Toxic Taints")
    Oct 11 2023

    Tim and Eleri get toxic over poisons in the first of this spooky season two-parter. This week: poison pens, phylloxera, and a snakebite.
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    49 mins
  • Episode 88: Hops (not "Scotch")

    Episode 88: Hops (not "Scotch")
    Sep 27 2023

    Tim and Eleri hop to it with some history and trivia of beer’s favourite accessory.
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    58 mins