Artichoked and Bibles Gone Wild
In this episode Suzie finds out why the artichoke caused a kerfuffle and Trevor reads some very unfortunate typos in one of the world’s most famous books.
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REFERENCES
THE ARTICHOKE WARS
Food Passages n.d., ‘The Artichoke Wars’ http://www.foodpassages.com/jottings-by-joel/jottings/the-artichoke-wars/
Lum L 2020, ‘Exploring Artichokes’ https://delishably.com/vegetable-dishes/Exploring-Artichokes
Smith N 2018, ‘When Marilyn Monroe Reigned as California’s Artichoke Queen’ https://medium.californiasun.co/when-marilyn-monroe-reigned-as-californias-artichoke-queen-3017ce58c1a5
Stradley L 2021, ‘Artichokes History’ https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/ArtichokeHistory.htm
The Kitchen Project n.d., ‘The History of Artichokes’ http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/Artichoke/index.htm
BIBLE TYPESETTING ERRORS
Good Omens – neilgaiman.com
The 10 worst typos in the Bible – The Guardian 22 Oct 2015
History’s Worst Biblical Misprints – history.com 29 Aug 2018
Printing errors in the Bible – didyouknow.org
The Bible Museum’s ‘Wicked Bible’: Thou Shalt Commit Adultery – The Washington Post 19 Nov 2017
The ‘Wicked Bible’ Exists Thanks to a 17th Century Typo – Gizmodo 15 Feb 2021
Other stuff:
The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…
History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)
History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)
Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)
You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)
Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)
Fade out – On The Bible – Deuce
All music used under fair use provisions.
