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Eric Drass is an artist and curator whose work ranges from painting, to digital installation, to generative experiments which live on the net. Sometimes this work is political, frequently it is...
View ArticleEnd of Series 2
After a busy summer of creating interesting podcasts, the ever inquisitive duo head in search of the source of the biscuit. This episode may not be the longest in the series but it still contains the...
View ArticleSeries 3 Teaser
David and David discover they’ve been on holiday in the Polish Biscuit Mines now for six months. They do, however, have some exciting news for their two listeners, Wally and Jimbob, and decide that...
View Article34. Gastromancy with Daisy Campbell
Daisy Campbell, (daughter of the performer Ken Campbell) takes us on a rollercoaster adventure exploring the ancient practise of gastromancy – divination from the stomach. It’s one of the most...
View Article35. My BDSM Relationship with the Archers with Cara Courage
Dr Cara Courage has a love/hate relationship with the long-running Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. She shares her enslavement, the program’s appeal and why it irritates the shit out of most...
View Article36. Alan Moore
Author, magician and hirsute wonder, Alan Moore is, for many, the greatest living Englishman. Not easily lured from his home town of Northampton, Alan made a rare appearance at the Odditorium tent in...
View Article37. Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist with Diarmuid Hester
Dr Hester celebrates the life and work of the celebrated ‘supermasochist’ and performance artist Bob Flanagan. Find out how Bob fought cystic fibrosis with whips, chains, and self-carpentry. The two...
View ArticleThe No.9 Bus to Utopia: Episode One
Part one of a special six-part comedy drama series based on David Bramwell’s book, The No.9 Bus to Utopia. Starring the two Davids, Graham Duff and Emma Kilbey. After his long-term partner leaves him...
View ArticleThe No.9 Bus to Utopia: Episode Two
David heads to the north of Scotland to the caravan park community of Findhorn in search of giant vegetables and plant spirits. Instead he finds himself rooming with Karl, the bassist of the Belgian...
View ArticleThe No.9 Bus to Utopia: Episode Three
In search of a little carnal pleasure David dips his toe into the world of free love and polyamory. From here he heads to the Czech Republic to spend time in a BDSM-themed kingdom run by women and...
View ArticleThe No.9 Bus to Utopia: Episode Four
In the heart of the Italian Alps sits the community of Damanhur, creators of the world’s largest underground temple and home to singing plants. While David is moved to tears by their architectural...
View ArticleThe No.9 Bus to Utopia: Episode Five
David heads to California where he thinks maybe – just maybe – he’s found utopia in a New Age community conceived by Aldous Huxley and managed by Hunter S.Thompson. Does it have free wifi and stock his...
View ArticleThe No.9 Bus to Utopia: Episode Six
Nearing the end of his journey, David heads to the Arizona Desert in search of an entire eco-city built from scratch by Italian arhitect, Paolo Soleri. Arriving back at his home in Brighton after...
View Article38. Kling Klang vs Ding Dong with Mathew Clayton
Psychogeographer, author and acclaimed Alpinist, Mathew Clayton argues that, even more than the synthesiser, the cowbell, was the defining sound of the 20th century. Tying in everything from Kraftwerk...
View ArticleAn Odditorium Special: Watling Street
Something a bit different for our episode today! Odditorium co-presenter David Bramwell, together with author John Higgs, have made a special 4-part series exploring the hidden history of one of...
View Article39. Ritual and Pilgrimage with Rupert Sheldrake
We were delighted when Rupert agreed to come and speak at one of our live Odditorium events in 2016. Here the celebrated scientist explores the importance of ritual and pilgrimage and the rise of...
View Article40. Animal Sex and Death with Jules Howard
Zoology expert, Jules Howard gives his second Odditorium talk on the sex lives of animals, the extraordinary ways some creatures have learned to extend their lives and what we can learn from them. In...
View Article42. Down with Romance with Lynne Murphy
To paraphrase Monty Python, “What have the French ever done for us?”. Well, language wise, quite a lot or 74% to be precise. But is it all good? Dr Lynne Murphy asks us to reclaim our language and the...
View ArticleEnd of Series Three
We have now reached the end of our third journey through the portal labelled “Odditorium”. The two Davids reflect on the eclectic fare that has been offered and look forward to putting their feet up...
View ArticleNazis in Space with David Robinson
Uncovering the Nazi-space legend. Since the 1950s, In sci-fi, comics, and films, a secret Nazis space race has been a popular theme. But beyond crackpot conspiracy theories is there any evidence? David...
View ArticleThe Long Now with Rowan Dent
Do we actually believe in the future? How can think about 100, 1000 or 10,000 years in the future? How can plan for it? Writer and teachers, Rowan Dent introduces means of thinking beyond the end of...
View ArticleLittle Tiny Words with Dr Lynne Murphy
Those little words that glue our language together should never be forgotten.
View ArticleBird Fancier’s Delight with Sarah Angliss
A composer, inventor and historian of sound and the uncanny – Sarah’s music reflects her lifelong obsession with defunct technology, faded variety acts and English folklore. In this talk she discusses...
View ArticleEnd of Season One
Seventeen episodes in and all is going well. Or so we thought. David and David decide to take a holiday, Lance conscientiously prepares for the next podcast and Andrew wanders around looking...
View ArticleChumbawumba: The Belly of the Beast with Dunstan Bruce
Dunstan Bruce, singer for Chumbawumba, takes us on the rollercoaster ride journey that saw a group of anarcho syndicalists go from singer in squat to headlining Madison Square Garden. Dunstan’s story...
View ArticleBig Willies with Dr Alastair Goode
Dr Goode, bearded consumer psychologist, explores man’s greatest obsession and greatest insecurity. He asks why we the possession of an oversized phallus is considered such a asset, and why certain...
View ArticleThe Duchess and the Urinal with John Higgs
Odditorium favourite John Higgs returns to challenge the ‘truth’ of one of the most famous pieces of art of the 20th century: Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’. Higgs presents the case that a bohemian sexual...
View ArticleThe C Word with Sarah Warwick
Wrap your presents and get ready for Christmas with this special potty mouthed version of The Odditorium in which we explore the one word that is considered to be at the top of the swearing tree. Kate...
View ArticleThe Hand of Glory with Tim Pilcher
Tim Pilcher artist, author, lecturer and comic book expert introduces the legend of The Hand of Glory. Cut from the body of a hung man, and then dried and pickled The Hand of Glory was a talisman by...
View ArticleGloomy Sunday with Angie Mariani
To celebrate Monday 25th January, “Blue Monday”, apparently the most depressing day of the year, we present Angie Mariani’s talk about the ‘suicide song’. Gloomy Sunday has been performed hundreds of...
View ArticleIvor Cutler with Sandy Grierson
Dr Bramwell is on holiday in 1934, and has left his more funny sidekick Mr Mountfield in the studio to present the show. This episode concerns the idea, work and life of the extraordinary Scottish poet...
View ArticleStasi 2.0 with Donald Clarke
Something different for this episode of The Odditorium. Donald Clark presents a story about a friendship he formed at University with a fellow student, an intense and ardent Ulsterman called Robin...
View ArticleVital Organs with Lorraine Bowen
Lorraine Bowen singer, songwriter, comedian and musician presents her favourite organs, or more particularly her favourite Casio organs.
View ArticleAnimal Vaginas with Jules Howard
Zoologist Jules Howard gives a spirited and enlightening talk on the glamorous world of animal vaginas, revealing how female animals are not coy, as Darwin believed, but selective. We discover that...
View ArticleThe History of the Funerary Violin with Rohan Kriwaczek
The (pretend) Reverent Rohan Kriwaczek is the author of a book that controversially detailed the lost history of the funerary violin. A musical movement that has been suppressed since the 18th Century,...
View ArticleThe Mystery of Light with Gregory Sams
This episode starts with a crash, after an eclipse and power cut in the studio leave our presenters stumbling around in the dark while Mr Mounfield later reveals himself to be a Zoroastrian. It all...
View ArticleCrazy about One Direction with Daisy Asquith
In 2013 Daisy Asquith spent six weeks following the tour of global pop sensation One Direction, to make a film about their Twitter-tastic fandom. Crazy About One Direction became the most tweeted about...
View ArticleThe Internet will Destroy Us with James Burt
Blogger and psycho-geographer James Burt takes us on a journey into the darkest recesses of the internet, exploring its myths, superstitions and creepiest creations, including one of its most enduring,...
View ArticleCrime Free Future with Stevyn Colgan
QI elf, author and ex-policeman, Stevyn Colgan argues the case for a crime-free future, using only a wheelie bin and a football pitch for props. Meanwhile in the studio, Dave Mounfield is trying to...
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