Are you sitting comfortably? Then why not begin this series from the public historian Greg Jenner on sitting through the ages, available now to Audible subscribers. “Every person we spoke to, without fail, laughed when we told them the idea for this series,” he says. “How on earth would we fill eight episodes with such a niche, mundane topic which we all ignore for a reason?” But Jenner persuasively makes the case that the story of “who gets to sit, and on what, and when, and why, is often a microcosmic glimpse into society’s rules”.
[See also: Armando Iannucci’s Why Time Flies is a delightful radio documentary]
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