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Future Imperfect
Jason Kingsley
55 episodes
4 weeks ago
Jason Kingsley is a technologist who started one of the UK's most exciting games companies, Rebellion. He's also fascinated by the past. In this podcast he talks to historians, scientists, and experts from all fields about what we the future might hold, and what we should do to prepare for it.

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Jason Kingsley is a technologist who started one of the UK's most exciting games companies, Rebellion. He's also fascinated by the past. In this podcast he talks to historians, scientists, and experts from all fields about what we the future might hold, and what we should do to prepare for it.

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Episodes (20/55)
Future Imperfect
What happened when animals got away in the Middle Ages

Jason talks to Jordan Claridge and Spike Gibbs about stray animals, the damage they could do, and what happened to them in the Middle Ages.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis


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4 weeks ago
44 minutes 18 seconds

Future Imperfect
Who were the Carolingians?

Jason talks to Matt Gabriele and David Perry about who the Carolingians were. What relationship were they to Charlemagne? Where did they live? They discuss all of this, and their new book, Oathbreakers.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis


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1 month ago
50 minutes 58 seconds

Future Imperfect
What did people in the Middle Ages use for money?

In this episode, Jason speaks to Dr Rory Naismith about how people in the MIddle Ages used money. Did they have money? Did they use cash? And what did they do when there was no money?


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis


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1 month ago
51 minutes 16 seconds

Future Imperfect
Did people get murdered in the Middle Ages?

How violent were the Middle Ages? What was life like before there were police? In this episode, Jason talks to Annie Whitehead about murder in the age of the Anglo-Saxons.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis


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2 months ago
41 minutes 35 seconds

Future Imperfect
Who are the Vikings we don't talk about?

Welcome to the third season of Future Imperfect! In this episodeJason talks to Alex Harvey about the sorts of Vikings we don't often mention nowadays.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis


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2 months ago
46 minutes 57 seconds

Future Imperfect
Who were the knights of the Islamic world?

Jason Kingsley talks to Dr Rachel Schine about her new book, Black Knights.


Produced by: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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10 months ago
54 minutes 17 seconds

Future Imperfect
What were medieval warhorses like?

Jason talks to Emma Herbert-Davies about her research into the mediaeval warhorse.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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10 months ago
39 minutes 43 seconds

Future Imperfect
What were ordinary Vikings really like?

On this episode Jason talks to Eleanor Barraclough about her new book, Embers of the Hands, about the day-t-day lives and material culture of ordinary Vikings.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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11 months ago
50 minutes 39 seconds

Future Imperfect
What is Jason's new book about?

In this episode, Jason talks about his new book, out now on Kickstarter with the host of Legends and Lectures, Michelle Franklin.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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12 months ago
1 hour 12 minutes 40 seconds

Future Imperfect
How to get someone to fall in love with you (in the Middle Ages)

We learn lots about of the facts of the Middle Ages, but what did the people themselves believe about the ways in which the world worked, and the intersections between religion and magic? Jason talks to Tabitha Stanmore about practical magic, cunning folk, and the ways in which magic was threaded through mediaeval life.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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1 year ago
30 minutes 41 seconds

Future Imperfect
Can mediaeval knowledge save the world?

In a world of limited resources, people in the Middle Ages knew how to exploit the natural world in a way that was sustainable. Jason talks to Annette Kehnel about sustainability in the Middle Ages.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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1 year ago
46 minutes 26 seconds

Future Imperfect
Who were the Anglo-Saxons?

In this episode, Jason talks to Marc Morris about his new book, Anglo Saxons.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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1 year ago
42 minutes 13 seconds

Future Imperfect
How do you make a mediaeval book?

Sara Charles is a researched into books and manuscripts, who has learned all of the processes that went into making books in the Middle Ages. She joins Jason to talk about manuscripts books, and all thinks ink and vellum!


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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1 year ago
40 minutes 48 seconds

Future Imperfect
Was mediaeval armour for defence or for show?

Jason Kingsley, CBE, talks to armourer Toby Capwell about their time spent jousting against each other, how you know when to give up jousting and how armour worked in the Middle Ages.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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1 year ago
43 minutes 50 seconds

Future Imperfect
What was the best Old English word?

In this episode, Jason is joined by Dr Hana Videen, who has been collecting early mediaeval words and their meanings. She talks about what we can learn about the way people in the early mediaeval period dealt with animals from the way they wrote and talked about them.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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1 year ago
39 minutes 42 seconds

Future Imperfect
What's the oldest pub in England?

On this episode, Jason is joined by James Wright a buildings archaeologist who specialises in mediaeval myth-busting. He talks us through the legends about a lot of England's old buildings, and what the truth actually is.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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1 year ago
57 minutes 1 second

Future Imperfect
HIGHLIGHTS EPISODE

We've had a lot of new listeners over the summer - so we thought we'd look back at some of the highlights of some of our older episodes.


Presenter: Jason Kingsley, CBE

Producer: Natt Tapley



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1 year ago
44 minutes 18 seconds

Future Imperfect
Did people in the Middle Ages believe in fairies?

Did people in the Middle Ages believe in fairies? Jason talks to Dr Francis Young about mediaeval beliefs in non-Christian entities and his book, Twilight of the Godlings.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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1 year ago
47 minutes 29 seconds

Future Imperfect
How many seasons were there in the mediaeval year? (The answer may surprise you!)

In this episode, Jason talks to Eleanor Parker about her book Winters In The World: A Journey Through The Anglo-Saxon Year.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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1 year ago
35 minutes 13 seconds

Future Imperfect
How did people in the Middle Ages think about sex?

Dr Eleanor Janega comes back to the podcast to talk to Jason Kingsley, CBE, about sex and gender in the Middle Ages and her new book The Once and Future Sex.


Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis



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1 year ago
44 minutes 35 seconds

Future Imperfect
Jason Kingsley is a technologist who started one of the UK's most exciting games companies, Rebellion. He's also fascinated by the past. In this podcast he talks to historians, scientists, and experts from all fields about what we the future might hold, and what we should do to prepare for it.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.