Imagine ‘show and tell’, but about how humanity has gone wrong. A podcast about big ideas, weird history - and tat. Join Dr Kasia Tee and Dan Hancox as they get drunk in the gift shop with the Angel of History.
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New year, new you, new Cursed Objects - let’s dive in! This week, Kasia breaks the ice and takes us on a plunge into the cursed and blessed world of wild, outdoor and cold water swimming – while Dan n...
Christmas - It’s For The Kids, ft. Mr Beatnick (00:50:41)
Luke Skywalker, shut up and eat your jelly! As everyone knows, Christmas is like Cursed Objects Christmas, and so sure enough: it’s the long-awaited CO Christmas Special. REJOICE!
This year, we are ta...
Lit up like a Christmas tree (00:55:25)
What would Christmas be without a tour of London’s lights? For the first of our free xmas podcasts, Kasia and Dan go UP TOWN for an outside (!!) walking tour through Covent Garden, Leicester Square an...
The Princess Diana Memorial Beanie Baby (00:50:38)
Not the Queen of Hearts! Greetings, England's roses, and welcome back to the People's Podcast - this week, it's the original parasocial relationship: ROYALTY.
Kasia is being pursued by a stream of La...
Art, Swings and Industry - King's Cross Magical History Tour (00:12:54)
"Escape to the King's Cross Riviera," said the sign on the construction hoardings - so we did! And it forced us to ask questions like: 'What if you threw a major urban regeneration zone and lots of pe...
Belfast Pubs, Punk and Gentrification ft. Fearghus Roulston (00:56:04)
We are back with another brand new episode, another very special guest, the brilliant Fearghus Roulston, and another fascinating assembly of some very Cursed Objects subjects – histories of conflict, ...
So Scandilous - Fermenting Revolution in the Kitchen (00:16:30)
This week, Dan and Kasia forage for meaning in the fertile terrain of culinary "movements", globalisation, multiculturalism and identity, megabucks fine dining, and the desperate search for authentici...
Baby on Board! Ft. Charlotte Lydia Riley (00:58:57)
“I have been objectified as a vehicle”. We are delighted to welcome back our most-returning guest, as the brilliant historian and author Charlotte Lydia Riley talks us through the cursed world of bein...
The Rollneck of Contrition (00:56:01)
Sit down please. We have something very serious to tell you. We have made a severe and continuous lapse in our judgement. We are sorry if you feel offended, for some reason. We are sorry if you feel l...
War, Memory and Tat, LIVE - with Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley, Luke Turner and Kate Clements (00:58:44)
Coming to you LIVE from the Cursed Objects in Museum Shops exhibition, with three very special guests: Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley, Luke Turner and Kate Clements.
It's another lively live show, exploring...
Millennium Tat: New Labour and the Neoliberal Gift-Shop (00:48:34)
Coming to you LIVE... we are joined by two very special friends of the pod – artist Darren Cullen (aka Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives) and journalist and author Imogen West-Knights – as they explore the...
Live show #2: Exhibitionary complex (00:54:07)
Back by popular demand, our second-ever live show!!
Dr Kasia Tee and Dan Hancox take you behind the scenes of their recently opened exhibition ‘Cursed Objects in Museum Shops’ at the Peltz Gallery. Wh...
Cursed Objects in Museum Shops - live exhibition extravaganza (00:14:02)
To celebrate the launch of our first ever IRL exhibition, Cursed Objects in Museum Shops (2 May-26 June), we have several events coming in May and June. All of them are FREE, all are at Birkbeck Uni, ...
Big in Japan (00:50:09)
The Simpsons are going to (have just been to) Japan! And they’re here to tell you about what they did on their holidays – to discuss sustainable Japanese craft techniques, heated toilet seats, and a p...
YESisode - Yoko Ono fridge magnet (00:50:34)
YES you can! SI se puede! Say YES to adventures. Say YES to life. Say YES to your boss (however dumb and awful their suggestion!). This week, Kasia and Dan are taking on 21st century positivity cultur...
Straight off the Dome ft. Imogen West-Knights (00:59:35)
Roll-up, roll-up for the biggest tent of all! We’re launching into 2025 with a very special guest, Imogen West-Knights, and an absolutely vast cursed object, containing lots of smaller ones. That’s ri...
Cursed Objects on Location! At a Haunted Seaside Hotel (00:18:10)
It's a Spooky Christmas special! This week's Cursed Objects is a little bit less Stuart Hall, and a little bit more Derek Acorah, with an episode recorded on location in St Leonards, from the musty he...
Happy Trad-mas ft. Mr Beatnick and Archie Bashford (01:14:02)
Back by popular demand, it's our annual Christmas party! And this year we’re wrestling with TRADITION.
Are you making a list, and checking it twice – just as you always do? Have you demanded figgy pud...
UNLOCKED - Magna Darta dart board (01:02:33)
From Patreon to main feed: Welcome all free-born Englishmen, sovereign citizens, rebel barons and new patrons! We're talking about myths of Englishness, why the state has such a fragile ego, a Covid-d...
Subversive Coffee (00:14:39)
This week, it's a deep dive into a steaming mug of cawfee. Hot java. A cup of Joe. Black gold. This is an episode about "the abominable, heathen-ish liquor" they tried to ban (they really did), and th...
Multitudes - Live From the Crowd! Ft. Hettie O’Brien (00:17:16)
As a Cursed Objects bonus, without an actual cursed object, we present a live recording of Dan in conversation about his brand new book Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World, recorded with frie...
Every Breath You Take ft. Dr Alice Bell (01:08:56)
Air isn't an object, right? Wrong. This week, climate comms expert and historian Dr Alice Bell makes Dan and Kasia think hard about ephemerality via a jam jar of polluted air, captured 'fresh' from th...
Kill the Boss in Your Head (00:14:30)
Is there actually any moral value to hard work? From the Dignity of Labour to CEO Mindset, Girlbossing and Instagram Hustle propaganda, our entire culture is full of messages that working hard and 'lo...
Crap Towns and Caffs (not Cafes) ft. Isaac Rangaswami (00:46:42)
The early 2000s were a fever dream: why was pop culture so mean? Specifically, why was it acceptable to write off entire cities - and the people within them - as crap? This is the question posed by ou...
Airbnb: Prints of Thieves (00:18:40)
They are marketed as democratised holiday rentals, where you get an ‘authentic’ experience by literally living in someone's home - so why are Airbnb’s full of crap, generic art? The answer is obvious ...
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