Andy and Will round off the year with a show on intoxicants: real or fantastical, legal or outlawed, poison or cure (or sometimes both…).
James Bond’s heart, curare, Charles Waterton’s donkey- and bellows-based hobbies, counteracting poisons with poisons, deadly beauty treatments, glass swans, penicillin, recycling a policeman's urine, K-Pax, alkaloids, opiates, the works of Jeff Noon, Hofmann, tripping babies, Equilibrium, mood stabilizers, and a surprisingly large number of emails!
The claim that Dolophine, a brand name for methadone, was chosen in honour of Hitler was sadly too good to be true.
This is a fantastically interesting show!
an anonymous listener
Plus, if you were listening live:
Belladonna (Atropa Belladonna) (Deadly Nightshade)
by Paul Belson
Donkey-Face
by Rachael
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