Sri Lanka
island country in South Asia
Episodes
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#5819: What Happens to Retired London Buses?A field guide to 50 Routemasters and their strange afterlives — tea rooms, circuses, a bus called The Potato Story. -
#5135: When Reluctant Travelers Make the Best TVWhat An Idiot Abroad gets right about comedy, travel, and authenticity — and the rare shows that pull off the same trick. -
#5700: Did the Internet's Pioneers Know What They Were Building?Vint Cerf says they didn't know — and they did. How early internet subculture formed, where it lived, and whether it survived. -
#5640: When Going to the Gym Meant Saving Your SoulThe word "asceticism" started as Greek for athletic training. How did it end up on top of a pillar — and why does Judaism push back? -
#5148: How the WHO Essential Medicines List WorksFive days in 1977, eight experts, one list that now shapes what billions of people can get from their pharmacies.