Ben's Travel Diary, Scrapbooks and Bad Luck

William’s giddy after finding a silver spoon (and no, it wasn’t in his mouth), whereas Jordan is left rueing missed opportunities after failing to get ahead of the competition and invest in a padel court. The boys also tackle a new word from Urban Dictionary and stumble across th ...  Show more

It was bound to happen. The law catches up with us all eventually, and Jordan North is no exception to that rule. What none of us could have expected was for the law to barge in and confront him in the middle of the podcast!Luckily for all of us, William and Jordan can still solv ...  Show more

Tim Key is a poet, a comic and someone who I developed an unlikely friendship with through various television appearances together. A few months ago, I went to see The Ballad of Wallis Island and was totally blown away by Tim who not only starred in the movie, but wrote it too. H ...  Show more

Today, Jonathan joins his fellow Pushkin hosts for a special episode all about mistakes. Jonathan speaks with his friend, the writer Sheila Heti. Together, they muse on the cost of mistakes and whether we're really in control of how many we make. Plus, Nate Silver and Maria Konni ...  Show more

August 24, 1914. A train pulls up to the lumber town of White River, Ontario, carrying a regiment of Canadian troops on board. On the tracks where they disembark is a small black bear cub. An army veterinarian decides to buy the bear and name her Winnipeg—Winnie for short—after t ...  Show more

Elon musk's million dollar cheques, Christopher Columbus & drug dealing snowboarders. This week we plunge deep into the weird (and not so wonderful) with quite literally a mountain of global headlines to wade through. Andy is with Alice Fraser and Josie Long in a podcast that is ...  Show more