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Cursed Objects
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. Find us also on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes
Cursed ObjectsChairman Meow
Kasia and Dan address their toughest question yet: are cats left wing? Springing from a shared love of feline friends, they trace the history of cat-obsessed…
Cursed ObjectsBONUS episode - In the Guantánamo Bay Gift Shop
There is a gift shop in Guantánamo Bay. That’s it. That’s the episode. From ‘mindfulness’ mugs to lip balms, Kasia and Dan explore the extremely cursed…
Cursed ObjectsMaking a Meal of It - ft. Lucy Dearlove
A plain ham sandwich, a bottle of still water and a pack of ready salted crisps – it's a meal (deal) fit for a King, and a Cursed Objects x Lecker collab! This…
Cursed ObjectsBONUS episode - The One With The Long 90s
Could we BE any more cursed? This week, Dan and Kasia talk about the strange, mutant afterlife of Friends, the world's least cool situation comedy. On the…
Cursed ObjectsSwear Down!
Kasia and Dan explore the crisis in British swearing through Robert Peston’s very cursed book ‘WTF’. What does it say about our society that a leading…
Cursed ObjectsBONUS episode - Herbal Tea Advent Calendar
What happens to the space-time continuum if you open an advent calendar in April? What are the healing properties of "different flavours of damp twig"? This…
Cursed ObjectsMe and USSR and Everyone We Know
Go east! Kasia and Dan tackle a satirical boardgame about queuing in Cold War-era Poland and go deep into 'Ostalgie' -- how do people remember the Soviet era…
Cursed ObjectsCursed and Blessed Ghosts of Christmas Past - ft. Archie Bashford and Mr Beatnick
IT'S CUUUUUURSEDMAAAAAAAS! We're having a work Christmas party and you're all invited -- we've got some festive VKs and gingerbread milk stout, and we're going…
Cursed ObjectsAbject Pumpkinism
It's spooky season, it's harvest season, it's pumpkin season, it's nesting season, it's hygge season, it's cuffing season, it's christian girl autumn -- but…
Cursed Objects*UNLOCKED* The Walter Benjamin Escape Town
FROM PATREON TO MAIN FEED: it's a Hot Geist Summer episode where Kasia and Dan take a cursed journey into the darkest parts of the experience economy... from…
Cursed Objects*PREVIEW* - Marmalade Sandwiches and National Mourning
We've done our duties Paddington, now take us to straight to hell (boy). Two weeks of pent-up angst, hilarity and bewilderment comes out in a wild ride through…
Cursed ObjectsThere Goes The Neighbourhood ft. Les Back
Postcode paraphernalia – check! Neighbourhood nationalism – check! Commodified cities? All here. We are very excited to be joined by iconic sociologist Les…
Cursed ObjectsLost in the Supermarket - Bags for Life and Loyalty Fobs
Nectar selectors and club card members: where do your loyalty cards lie? This week, Dan and Kasia are discussing how supermarkets became so all-powerful that…
Cursed Objects*PREVIEW* - The Cybergoth International: day-glo ties, Gen Z and youth subcultures
This week, we're asking what Gen Z kids mean when they say "My aesthetic is looking like a terrible 90s market stall in Camden Town!"? (NB this may not be a…
Cursed Objects*UNLOCKED* Summer of strikes / when the lights go out
FROM PATREON TO MAIN FEED: Are we heading for a 'summer of discontent'? Are we going 'back to the 1970s'? Three day week and a four-day bender? What really…
Cursed Objects*PREVIEW* - The Walter Benjamin Escape Town
Celebrating Walter Benjamin's 130th birthday with a truly cursed journey into the darkest end of the experience economy... from yuppie ballpit bars in…
Cursed ObjectsBulldog Power Energy Drink
Health warning!!! Kasia and Dan are cracking through the radioactive, ever-expanding global energy drinks market LIVE ON AIR... From patriotic energy drinks…
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*PREVIEW* Summer of strikes / when the lights go out
Are we heading for a 'summer of discontent'? Are we going 'back to the 1970s'? Three day week and a four-day bender? What really happened when the lights went…
Cursed ObjectsA Jubilee Catastrophe
We’re BACK following two Patreon-only episodes – and we are celebrating! Bunting? Check. Tables? Check. Unelected head of state who costs the British taxpayer…
Cursed Objects*PREVIEW* - The secular church of the NHS
Crayons out for universal health care! Stay home, protect the NHS, make a sign to put in your window, clap for your doctors and nurses, give them all a badge -…
Cursed Objects*PREVIEW* - Magna Carta dart board aka Mythic Albion
Welcome all free-born Englishmen, sovereign citizens, rebel barons and new patrons! On this first of what will now be regular Patreon-only episodes - we're…
Cursed ObjectsGay Flags and Lavender Scares ft. Huw Lemmey
Series 2 ends with a bang, and some serious vexillology: talking homonationalism, gay villages, the commercialisation of Pride, the history of criminalisation…
Cursed ObjectsAlien Eggs, UFOs and Conspiracy Theories for the End of History
U-F-Whoa! It's the penultimate episode of Series 2, and this week Dan and Kasia consider the Wyrd 1990s, bedding down in Area 51 with Mulder and Scully (and…
Cursed ObjectsCanary Wharf, grime and the docks
'Wall Street's Guantanamo' or 'our Statue of Liberty'? This week Dan and Kasia grapple with a series of very large cursed objects, the sky-scraping…
Cursed ObjectsManly Gifts for the Man In Your Life
It's the end of another busy day running the patriarchy. You drop your designer briefcase in the hall, put on your football-shaped slippers, and place your…
Cursed ObjectsBrand Collabs (Travis Scott x McDonalds x Peppa Pig x Colgate x BAE Systems exclusive)
Cursed Objects sells out!! (Not really.) This week, Dan and Kasia investigate why every sinister corporation in the world has started obsessively pursuing…
Cursed ObjectsAbigail’s Aspic Asparagus Steamer (and other 70s dinner parties)
Class. Gender. Nuclear families. Savoury jelly. Fish paste. National identity. The 1970s. Innovation in post-war capitalist production. AND! Highly specific…
Cursed ObjectsVan Gogh ”Earaser” - ft. Alice Procter
Art and commerce, haunted ears, starving artists and the way galleries fetishise madness to make £££. Welcome back, and welcome to our first ever guest (!)…
Cursed ObjectsSUPPORT THE UCU STRIKE
This week's episode of Cursed Objects has been postponed - because we are supporting the University and College Union (UCU) digital strike. Please consider…
Cursed ObjectsMystical algorithms
When did our star signs start running our lives? According to horoscope app Co-Star, it has been downloaded by a quarter of all young women aged 18–25 in the…
Cursed ObjectsCeleb CASH-IN!! Unofficial Fearne Cotton biography
Celebrity gloss, celebrity GOSS! How do you write a 260-page biography of a young TV presenter who you've never met and never interviewed, and hasn't ever done…
Cursed ObjectsSexy Putin Calendar
If this is indeed a new Cold War, then when did it get so hot in here? Dan and Kasia are back with a bang, launching Series 2 of Cursed Objects with a bit of…
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Cursed Objects - Series 2 Trailer
A sexy Putin calendar. An unauthorised Fearne Cotton biography. A Van Gogh eraser shaped like his dismembered ear. Adorno takes on his horoscope, Stuart Hall…
Cursed ObjectsCursed Snacks - Omi-Christmas Special
Deck the halls with mince pie-flavoured Wensleydale, Dan and Kasia have both been shopping, opened some disgusting cans of seasonal beer, and are back for a…
Cursed ObjectsInspire A Generation
Series 1 closes with an Olympian nightmare. Kasia and Dan de-mythologise London 2012: surface-to-air missiles on east London rooftops, cops arresting…
Cursed ObjectsHoly Toast!
It's Episode 9, and this week Dan and Kasia are looking at the transcendental appeal of cheap religious tat, and the mass reproduction of images. There is…
Cursed ObjectsRainbow Rhythms and Neoliberal Blues
Kasia and Dan are struggling to feel ‘mindful’ despite using their fresh-off-Amazon colouring-in wallcharts, puzzles and self-help books. Interrogating the…
Cursed ObjectsWe Are Your Friends
Kasia and Dan dig into the cursed experience of being 'on the apps' - dating apps - and discuss 'tweevertising', why companies are more interested in 'driving…
Cursed ObjectsWhy Is The Left So Sad?
Dan and Kasia are having a kickabout and looking into the role of the Spanish Civil War in left-wing mythology. What connects lower league English football…
Cursed ObjectsDystopian Soft Play
It's episode 5, and this week Kasia and Dan are worrying about 'Agamben Toys': dystopian play-things for kids like Playmobil prisons and riot cops with tiny…
Cursed ObjectsCurry-Flavour Instant Ramen From Gdansk
Join Kasia and Dan as they take a walk down the 'world food aisle' of the Big Sainsburys - delving into the politics of flavour, globalisation…
Cursed ObjectsThe Case of the DVD Box Set
Dan and Kasia explore a distant memory – the DVD box set – through the nostalgic, dream-like world of the hit murder mystery Poirot. Get ready for debates on…
Cursed ObjectsBe Sad and Shut Up
This week Kasia and Dan delve into the concept of 'Austerity Nostalgia'. Why is the Second World War still so important to British culture, over 80 years after…