The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
A podcast about exactly what it says it is: examining the bad ideas, mistakes and accidents that misshaped our world.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 216
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Amateur Hour
Is this thing on?
I had a nice, fluffy, inconsequential story to tell you this week. Instead, here's this.
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00:57:39 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
It's Never Over
I had a nice, fluffy, inconsequential story to tell you this week. Instead, here's this.
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00:50:52 |
Tue 19 Nov 2024
1876 (Redux)
This is the story of the worst American presidential election (so far (arguably)).
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01:00:44 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
The Ghost of Cock Lane
A ghost story, a murder mystery, a romance, a tragedy, a farce and a con job, all rolled into one. What could make for a better Halloween?
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01:15:58 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
The Ghost Ship
The great thing about a ghost ship is that you can blame the ocean for your pants being wet.
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00:56:22 |
Tue 08 Oct 2024
Introducing: History Daily
On History Daily, we do history, daily.
Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous event that happened ‘on this day’…
00:21:43 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
Venus in Transit, Part Three
Just one more story to go. Unless we're forgetting somebody...
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00:55:10 |
Tue 24 Sep 2024
Venus in Transit, Part Two
Second verse same as the first. A little bit louder and a little bit worse.
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00:57:41 |
Tue 10 Sep 2024
Venus in Transit, Part One
In 1761, the world joined together to complete the most difficult, ambitious, important scientific project in history. It... didn't go great.
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00:57:44 |
Tue 27 Aug 2024
Crackpots
Some things are ordered and some are chaotic. This story is neither.
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00:41:41 |
Tue 13 Aug 2024
It's a Secret 3 Everyone
We're opening up the vault and giving you access to three stories from our secret feed. If you like what you hear...
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00:50:15 |
Tue 30 Jul 2024
A Cut Above
What's on the menu this week? Dick jokes and heresy, of course!
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00:50:33 |
Tue 16 Jul 2024
Everyone Can Sing
Here's a special 4th of July episode designed to make everybody happy and not upset anyone at all in anyway.
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01:13:15 |
Tue 02 Jul 2024
Listen Now: Legacy “J. Edgar Hoover”
From Wondery and Goalhanger Podcasts, Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the
wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived –
and ask whether they have the rep they…
00:12:14 |
Mon 24 Jun 2024
The Inconstant Moon
We're ending this pseudo-series on the golden age of hoaxes with the original mass media fake that started it all.
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01:05:32 |
Tue 18 Jun 2024
Of Heroes and Hoaxes
Napoleon is dead, the cry went out. But he wasn't.
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00:52:44 |
Tue 04 Jun 2024
Ducks, Half Sold
In the 18th century, something started happening to the news...
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00:50:21 |
Tue 21 May 2024
Two Islands
Two classic Constant episodes, re-edited, re-recorded and re-produced. "People this Isle" and "Do Good, Carefully."
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00:50:15 |
Tue 07 May 2024
Comfortably Numb, Part 3
Many men tried to claim the invention of anesthesia as their own. It didn't work out well for any of them.
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01:09:16 |
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Comfortably Numb, Part 2
What does every wild west shootout in every movie you've ever seen have to do with the history of anesthesia? You'll find out in the cold open! Then, stick around for the rest.
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00:45:56 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
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