The Boring Talks
By BBC Sounds
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Subscribers: 842
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 56
Pookie
Dec 26, 2018
A great little series, fascinating. More please. But seem to be running out of genuinely 'boring' stuff.
JT
Nov 22, 2018
Less boring than you would guess. e.g. what would possess someone to writ a taxonomy of cornfkes?! Not the brands, but the individual flakes.
Petit Parapluie
Oct 4, 2018
Description
James Ward introduces another curious talk about a subject that may seem boring, but is actually very interesting... maybe.
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#55 -Farts
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Jigsaws
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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#53 - Car Boots
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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#52 - Breakfast Cereals
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May 04, 2020 |
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#51 - Oboe Reeds
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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#50 - Windows
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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#49 - Coal Holes
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Data Centres
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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#47 - Crinoline Ladies
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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# 46 - Teletext
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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#45 - Box Certificates
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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# 44 - Swearing: a personal cross-cultural comparative study of Hindi and English
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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The Sounds Of Computer Games Loading
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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#42 - The Lexicon Of Breakups
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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#41 - Pencils
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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#40 - Thank You (again)
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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#39 - Doormats
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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#38 - Markham Moor Roof
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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#37 - Watergate Tape 'Silence'
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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#36 - Shanghai Architecture
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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#35 - How Tall Are Celebrities?
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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#34 - Sounds of Grassroots Football
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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#33 - Change
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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#32 - Roads That Don't Exist
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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#31 - Happy New Year
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Dec 31, 2018 |
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#30 - An Underwhelming Christmas
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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#29 - Animal Vaginas
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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#28 - Asterix Puns
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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#27 - Dutch Landscape Paintings
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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#26 - Call Centres
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Jeremy Bentham's 'Auto-Icon'
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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#24 - The Taxonomy Of Cornflakes
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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#23 - NATO Phonetic Alphabet
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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#22 - Toilet Graffiti
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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#21 - Thank You
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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#20 - Carry On Shakespeare
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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#19 - Ice Cream Vans
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May 28, 2018 |
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#18 - Kinder Egg Linguistics
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May 21, 2018 |
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#17 - Gasometers
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May 14, 2018 |
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#16 - Toilet Roll Serial Numbers
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May 07, 2018 |
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#15 - Smell Walks
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Apr 30, 2018 |
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#14 - Name Change
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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#13 - Basalt
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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#12 - British Earthquakes
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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#11 - Sneezing
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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#10 - Lampposts
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Mar 26, 2018 |
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#9 - Sounding Gestalts
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Mar 19, 2018 |
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#8 - Danish Public Information Films
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Mar 12, 2018 |
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#7 - Green Belt Land
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Mar 05, 2018 |
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#6 - The Argos Catalogue
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Feb 26, 2018 |
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#5 - Model Villages
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Feb 19, 2018 |
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#4 - Wooden Pallets
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Feb 12, 2018 |
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#3 - Yellow Lines
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Feb 05, 2018 |
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#2 - Book Pricing Algorithms
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Jan 29, 2018 |
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#1 - The End Of The World
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Jan 29, 2018 |
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Boring Talks #00
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Jan 07, 2018 |