KRAKEN: Exploring the depths of culture, politics, technology, and that

KRAKEN: Exploring the depths of culture, politics, technology, and that


Latest Episodes

Death / Where do we go?
June 18, 2017

The Debilitating Strokes world-tour, decapitation versus getting shot into the sun versus falling asleep on the bus, banned Buddhist nursery classes, and why every funeral needs the Thong Song

Hung Parliament / What's next?
June 11, 2017

The Schadenfreude Olympics, how the Tories accidentally followed through, The Corbyn Boys singing ‘Go Left’, and one demented fascist grandma

The Kraken Manifesto / How would you win the election?
June 04, 2017

The Airbnb fascism filter, delays on the Maginot Line, the Libertines' new smackhead, and how to pull hope from the jaws of defeat

Hominids / What's your favourite invention?
May 28, 2017

Getting our science from bonk-busters and techno, alternative theories for why Neanderthals went extinct, language being invented by one really chatty monkey, and the importance of each ear having an iPod

The Malt-right / Is genocide the new counter-culture?
May 21, 2017

Alliot and the far-right gentlemen's drinking club, how logic and reason don't extend to climate science, the paradox of a virgin's fear of cuckoldry, and booting our guest to the murder staircase

Flat Earth / What's wrong with being wrong?
May 14, 2017

Dinosaurs knocked into space, finding the g-word, a new respect for facts from a surprising place, and what to do when you reach the edge of the world

UK Snap Election 2017 / Is Tim Farron a sin?
April 30, 2017

Borges’ “Snap Election of Babylon”, sleeping with people with tie-dye sheets, the incoming reign of Mad King Charles, and Kraken standing for MP

John C Lilly / Would you dispose of your body?
April 23, 2017

Recorded live from inside an isolation tank, fearing our dolphin and whale competitors, the bad dubstep boyfriend, and calling the President at 4am

Nationalism / What are you so proud of?
April 16, 2017

Dishonourable discharges, the end of the British union, the drunk Telegraph admirals in the cupboard, and being conscripted into the Great Gibraltar Monkey War

Stephen King / What makes a story spooky?
April 09, 2017

The director’s director’s cut of E.T., Japanese versus American horror, going a bit Garth Marenghi, and the eater of worlds, and children