Mark Fennell
speaker
177 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Mark Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's a brilliant report out from the World Inequality Lab.
45 authors, the name you'll probably most recognise is Thomas Piketty, but many other prominent thinkers in there, working from a database drawing on the information collected by more than 200 researchers.
And what they say, and it's a message of hope, and boy don't we need those, that we can raise living standards, dramatically reduce inequality, and live within the planet's boundaries.
What they say is we need to change our principles to focus on sufficiency, ensuring that everyone has a decent life.
Well, I'm back.
Whether you love her or hate her, truth is stranger than fiction.
Nelson Mandela, the symbol of black resistance in South Africa for more than a quarter of a century, is to be released from prison in a few hours.
There has to be something more nefarious going on.
It's 1992, and two archaeologists are digging in a second-century fort ditch in Northumberland.
And they're finding all kinds of stuff.
Shoes, clothing, tools.
And then they unearth an artefact that looked, well, different but also familiar.
No, but she might have been using it for something else.
My name is Mark Fennell, and be warned, this is a very fun and very adults-only story of how a series of mysterious artefacts have changed our perception of our ancestors' sex lives, starting with the Roman object, which was no tool for darning.
In fact, to those male archaeologists, that tool was very familiar.
Which gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, no one saw it coming.
So I get really irritated by this.
So this is the incredibly talented and, yes, somewhat irritated Dr Kate Lister.
Which brings us to the case of that Roman artefact, shaped like a member on one end and culminating with a sort of round handle on the other end.
Now, initially, when it was dug up, yes, they did assume that it was the sort of shape you could, like, wrap a sock over and therefore maybe was used for darning socks.
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