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, haunting and tragic legacies: Slenderman.
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 documentary ever…
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, and only kept…
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 pandas aren’t bad a…
Lorraine Bowen singer, songwriter, comedian and musician presents her favourite organs, or more particularly her favourite Casio organs.
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 Pearson. Robin was his…
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…
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 different musicians and is…
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…
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…
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 adventuress, Baroness Von…
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 cultures and individuals are traditionally…
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 is filled with humour,…
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 confused…as per usual.…
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 the practices of training…