This week, we examine Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem about a strange voyage as told by an ancient mariner to a man on the street. It starts of as amusing, but then grows darker...
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Sep 2024
Important Show Update + Variable Winds
There is a very important show update at the top of this week's episode. Beginning next week, Nighty Night will be ending, but The Mystery Hour will be taking its place. With a similar format, and in some ways a return to form from the original season of Nighty Night, the new sho ... Show More
36m 29s
Aug 13
415: Aesop's Fables: Bray it Ain't So
🫏One little rent-a-donkey, one big journey🫏 Actually he's a full-grown rental donkey but the journey is a big one because, when you're a poorly treated rental donkey and you have a chance to escape, you take it. Then, spend the rest of the time trying to get back to captivity b ... Show More
52m 46s
Feb 2024
Death-Wish by Ray Bradbury - Ray Bradbury Short Stories
They wandered the dead and fragile cities, looking for the legendary Blue Bottle–not knowing what it was, nor caring, not really wanting to find it… ever… Death-Wish by Ray Bradbury, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.
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32m 44s
Apr 2024
Andrés Reséndez, "Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery" (Mariner Books, 2022)
The Pacific Ocean is twice the size of the Atlantic, and while humans have been traversing its current-driven maritime highways for thousands of years, its sheer scale proved an obstacle to early European imperial powers. Enter Lope Martin, a forgotten Afro-Portuguese ship pilot ... Show More
1h 8m