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benrutter ◴[04 Sep 25 06:50 UTC] No.45124330[source]▶

I looked, and there's more than 1000 available episodes of IOT on the BBC, they're all (at least every one I've heard) brilliant.

I'm curious if anyone here has any particular favourites?

I remember really enjoying the Plankton episode because it took me the classic IOT route of "That doesn't sound interesting, but I'll give it a listen" to looking up all the reading list.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001r1t5

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pncnmnp ◴[04 Sep 25 08:10 UTC] No.45124883[source]▶

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I recently listened to the episode on The Antikythera Mechanism and found it quite fun - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024x0g

Also, I wanted to mention something interesting - back when LLM-driven applications were just emerging, someone posted on Hacker News about how they categorized In Our Time episodes using the Dewey Decimal System with LLMs. Cool stuff - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35073603

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1. aosaigh ◴[04 Sep 25 08:56 UTC] No.45125135[source]▶

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I love this one and actually posted the wiki to the The Antikythera Mechanism here (although didn't get traction unfortunately).

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2. antognini ◴[04 Sep 25 20:39 UTC] No.45131970[source]▶

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Shameless plug, but I have a podcast about the history of astronomy and did an hour long episode on the Antikythera Mechanism a little while back if you're interested in more detail: https://songofurania.com/episode/022

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