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Scholarship after the fact revealed the panic to almost certainly be far less widespread than originally mythologized.
(Disclosure:Criminalis part of the Vox Media Podcast data pipe.)
That installment, which will be the podcasts 200th episode (congrats!
),follows an opening chapterabout an infamous BBC television special that aired on Halloween night in 1992.
And as it turned out,lotsof British viewers missed those first few minutes.
Its really well done, and its wild to consider thatThe Blair Witch Projectdebut two years later.)
Part of whats so interesting about these stories is what they communicate about institutions.
Its strange: For whatever reason, thats not the case.
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Just pick up the podcast.
I forgot what fun nonfiction narration sounded like.
Cancion Exploder, the Spanish-language spinoff ofSong Exploder, wrapped up its first season last week.
Its a neat throwback tothe grand T-shirt experimentof yore … which is almost a decade old now?
