The Boring Talks

By BBC Sounds

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Subscribers: 841
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 56

Pookie
 Dec 26, 2018
A great little series, fascinating. More please. But seem to be running out of genuinely 'boring' stuff.

JT
 Nov 22, 2018
Less boring than you would guess. e.g. what would possess someone to writ a taxonomy of cornfkes?! Not the brands, but the individual flakes.

Petit Parapluie
 Oct 4, 2018

Description

James Ward introduces another curious talk about a subject that may seem boring, but is actually very interesting... maybe.


Episode Date
#55 -Farts
Apr 28, 2021
Jigsaws
Jul 06, 2020
#53 - Car Boots
Jun 01, 2020
#52 - Breakfast Cereals
May 04, 2020
#51 - Oboe Reeds
Apr 20, 2020
#50 - Windows
Apr 06, 2020
#49 - Coal Holes
Mar 30, 2020
Data Centres
Mar 23, 2020
#47 - Crinoline Ladies
Mar 16, 2020
# 46 - Teletext
Mar 09, 2020
#45 - Box Certificates
Mar 02, 2020
# 44 - Swearing: a personal cross-cultural comparative study of Hindi and English
Feb 24, 2020
The Sounds Of Computer Games Loading
Feb 17, 2020
#42 - The Lexicon Of Breakups
Feb 10, 2020
#41 - Pencils
Feb 10, 2020
#40 - Thank You (again)
Feb 27, 2019
#39 - Doormats
Feb 25, 2019
#38 - Markham Moor Roof
Feb 18, 2019
#37 - Watergate Tape 'Silence'
Feb 11, 2019
#36 - Shanghai Architecture
Feb 04, 2019
#35 - How Tall Are Celebrities?
Jan 28, 2019
#34 - Sounds of Grassroots Football
Jan 21, 2019
#33 - Change
Jan 14, 2019
#32 - Roads That Don't Exist
Jan 07, 2019
#31 - Happy New Year
Dec 31, 2018
#30 - An Underwhelming Christmas
Dec 24, 2018
#29 - Animal Vaginas
Dec 17, 2018
#28 - Asterix Puns
Dec 10, 2018
#27 - Dutch Landscape Paintings
Dec 03, 2018
#26 - Call Centres
Nov 26, 2018
Jeremy Bentham's 'Auto-Icon'
Nov 19, 2018
#24 - The Taxonomy Of Cornflakes
Nov 12, 2018
#23 - NATO Phonetic Alphabet
Nov 05, 2018
#22 - Toilet Graffiti
Nov 05, 2018
#21 - Thank You
Jun 07, 2018
#20 - Carry On Shakespeare
Jun 04, 2018
#19 - Ice Cream Vans
May 28, 2018
#18 - Kinder Egg Linguistics
May 21, 2018
#17 - Gasometers
May 14, 2018
#16 - Toilet Roll Serial Numbers
May 07, 2018
#15 - Smell Walks
Apr 30, 2018
#14 - Name Change
Apr 23, 2018
#13 - Basalt
Apr 16, 2018
#12 - British Earthquakes
Apr 09, 2018
#11 - Sneezing
Apr 02, 2018
#10 - Lampposts
Mar 26, 2018
#9 - Sounding Gestalts
Mar 19, 2018
#8 - Danish Public Information Films
Mar 12, 2018
#7 - Green Belt Land
Mar 05, 2018
#6 - The Argos Catalogue
Feb 26, 2018
#5 - Model Villages
Feb 19, 2018
#4 - Wooden Pallets
Feb 12, 2018
#3 - Yellow Lines
Feb 05, 2018
#2 - Book Pricing Algorithms
Jan 29, 2018
#1 - The End Of The World
Jan 29, 2018
Boring Talks #00
Jan 07, 2018