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Things I Probably Shouldn’t Share is true stories that prove the strangest, most ridiculous moments in life are the ones that stick. Inside are the kinds of stories you only admit in passing: crying because you never got to be the Monopoly dog (and always ended up the thimble), practicing Wonder Woman spins until a ceramic goose lost its wing, hauling cartons of Winstons out of a concert at age eight, getting fired and replaced by an actual stick, and watching a little girl scream “Piglet, it’s me—Trina!” in a Disney parade meltdown you’ll never forget once you picture it.

Before it was a cigarette. Before it was a vape. Before it was a pouch in your lip. Nicotine was a sacred tool, a spiritual key, and a global empire waiting to happen. This is the full story — of how one tiny molecule rewired the human brain, built fortunes, funded nations, and turned ritual into addiction. From jungle ceremonies to tobacco plantations, filtered lies to fruit-flavored vapes, nicotine has been at the center of culture, power, craving, and capitalism for centuries. This isn’t a self-help book. It’s a history of control — and what it takes to take it back.

A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Raymond Chandler mystery featuring private eye, Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is now married, living in the resort town of Poodle Springs. Once again, he sets himself up as an investigator and soon finds himself in the middle of blackmail and murder....