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#622 | A Short History of Fire
16.07.2026 | 24 min.A million years ago, in a cave in South Africa, our ancestors did something no other animal has ever done: they controlled fire.
Fire cooked our food, shrank our guts, grew our brains, and gave us the deep sleep and fireside stories that made us human.
This is the story of our species' oldest technology, and how the same flames that built the modern world may now threaten it.
Wonderwerk Cave evidence of controlled fire by Homo erectus
Early humans managed fire for warmth, light and safety
Cooking increased calories, shrinking guts and growing brains
Chimps prefer cooked food but cannot make fire
Fire enabled deep sleep on the ground, improving memory
Night fires fostered storytelling, language, imagination and community bonds
Fire shaped domestic roles and early pair bonding theories
Humans learnt to make fire by striking and friction
From wood to coal and oil, powering industrial transformation
Environmental costs from burning fossil fuels
Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/history-of-fire
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02.07.2026 | 23 min.In 1881, a 30-second gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona made Wyatt Earp a legend of the Wild West.
Earp was a gambler, a lawman, a fugitive, and later a showman who told his own legend for cash.
So who fired first at the OK Corral, and how did Hollywood turn a frontier opportunist into a symbol of American justice?
The gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone
Background on the Wild West and fast-growing frontier towns
Wyatt Earp was hunter, driver, gambler, brothel keeper
The Cowboys held power and feuded with the Earps
Conflicting accounts of who fired first and surrender attempts
Trial cleared the Earps but the town stayed divided
Attacks on Virgil and Morgan, then Wyatt Earp took revenge
Earp fled Arizona, wandered West running saloons and gambling
Boxing scandal damaged his name across the country
Hollywood and a book remade him as a hero
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18.06.2026 | 25 min.In 1975, a French mercenary landed in the Comoros, a chain of small islands off East Africa, and decided he was going to run the place.
Bob Denard staged four coups, converted to Islam, built a farm, and controlled the country from the shadows for over a decade.
It was a story of Cold War deals, shifting loyalties, and one last coup that ended his run.
Location and poverty of the Comoros Islands
French rule and 1975 independence under Ahmed Abdallah
First coup by French mercenary Robert Denard
Denard's mercenary past and French Africa links
Ali Soilih's radical rule and the Moissy youth militia
1978 coup restores Abdallah and Soilih killed
Denard becomes Comorian farmer and leads Presidential Guard
1989 power struggle and suspicious death of Ahmed Abdallah
1995 final coup and French Operation Azalee intervention
Denard's trial and death in 2007
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04.06.2026 | 31 min.How did a small band of Norman soldiers in 1170 begin 800 years of English control over Ireland?
It started as a deal between rival Irish kings. It ended in plantation, dispossession, and a divided island.
This is the story of how a short-term alliance became a centuries-long occupation, and why it still shapes politics in Ireland today.
Anglo-Normans enter Ireland: Diarmait seeks Strongbow’s help.
Henry II claims authority; Dublin-centred foothold established.
The Pale forms; Normans adopt Irish ways, Old English.
Henry VIII breaks with Rome; declares himself King of Ireland.
Surrender and regrant changes land and inheritance rules.
Elizabeth I’s conquest; Nine Years’ War threatens English control.
Battle of Kinsale defeat; O’Neill’s submission follows.
Flight of the Earls ends Gaelic political power.
Plantation of Ulster seeds division leading to later partition.
Cromwell’s massacres; “To Hell or to Connacht” resettlement.
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21.05.2026 | 23 min.Who should decide if you are guilty: the state, or a group of 12 ordinary citizens?
England is now considering getting rid of jury trials for thousands of cases. It would be the biggest change to the justice system since the Middle Ages.
Crown Court backlog: years-long waits for trials.
Government bill to limit juries for mid-level offences.
Serious crimes still keep juries: murder, rape, terrorism.
Legal community warns against losing a key safeguard.
How jury trials work in England and Wales.
England uses juries; Europe uses judge-led trials.
History: Athens, Assize of Clarendon, Magna Carta.
Purpose of juries: legitimacy, independence, protect against state power.
Jury nullification shown: Penn, Ponting, Bristol Colston statue.
Debate: efficiency versus rights, slippery slope concerns.
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