大象传媒

A Polite Word for Liar

What could possibly go wrong?

• 37 mins

Analysis, Parapraxis, Elvis

The one song The King couldn鈥檛 sing.

• 51 mins

Tempest in a Teacup

Malcolm tells the real story on what happened in Boston on the night of December 16, 1773

• 36 mins

Chutzpah vs. Chutzpah

You thought that there was only one kind of chutzpah. Wrong. There鈥檚 two.

• 38 mins

A Good Walk Spoiled

Rich people and their addiction to golf: a philosophical investigation.

• 34 mins

Guns Part 1: The Sudden Celebrity of Sir John Knight

In the battles over gun rights, a 17th century English nobleman has taken center stage.

• 46 mins

Guns Part 2: Getting out of Dodge

The justices of the Supreme Court may have watched too much gun smoke growing up鈥�

• 43 mins

Guns Part 3: A Shooting Lesson

Malcolm goes to a shooting range in North Carolina to get a tutorial on the AR-15.

• 40 mins

Guns Part 4: Moral Hazard

Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1968. Today, would he have lived?

• 43 mins

Guns Part 5: The Footnote

In a forgotten study of convicted murderers, the author left a devastating footnote.

• 38 mins

Guns Part 6: 鈥淪in is the failure to bother to care鈥�

At the end of our series, we offer a lesson on the obligations and costs of compassion.

• 29 mins

Board Game Season

How life shows up in games and what games teach us about risk, life, love and ... farming

• 48 mins

Lord of the Rankings

US News & World Report has been using a secret formula to rank the best universities.

• 32 mins

Project Dillard

Part two of a two-part series.

• 34 mins

The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion

This your invitation to the greatest award show no one鈥檚 heard of: the Pushkin Prizes

• 40 mins

Welcome to Development Hell

The untold stories about Hollywood projects that never left the page.

• 3 mins

Blink with Stephen Gaghan | Development Hell

A failed vampire love story, Leonardo DiCaprio鈥檚 Prius and an unexpected turn.

• 42 mins

The Variable Man with Gary Goldman and Angus Fletcher | Development Hell

Why did Gary and Angus have so much trouble selling another Philip K. Dick adaptation?

• 40 mins

Bubbles with Isaac Adamson | Development Hell

The story behind a biopic about a chimpanzee named Bubbles, sidekick to the King of Pop.

• 45 mins

The Birthday Party with Charles Randolph | Development Hell

A masterclass on a screenwriter's many minefields.

• 45 mins

I Am Superman with Patty Jenkins | Development Hell

Between her big hits, Patty Jenkins wrote an R-rated fairy tale, starring a dog.

• 40 mins

Labour of Love with M. Night Shyamalan | Development Hell

In this episode, M. Night Shyamalan tells Malcolm about the script that haunts him.

• 35 mins

Blue Seattle with Cameron Crowe | Development Hell

Cameron tells the story behind 鈥淏lue Seattle鈥� for the very first time.

• 49 mins

In Triplicate

A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat.

• 34 mins

Star Struck

A pop culture what-if experiment about the 1937 version of A Star is Born.

• 35 mins

鈥淚 Was A Stranger and You Welcomed Me鈥�

Do we underestimate the value of ordinary acts of kindness?

• 33 mins

Outliers, Revisited

Revisionist History runs a mysterious experiment at the University of Pennsylvania.

• 35 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Introducing... Hitler's Olympics

Hitler swept to power in the mid-1930s and set out to stage the most extravagant Olympics

• 4 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Part 1: The Blue-Eyed Tornado

In the early 1930s, Hitler granted a rare interview to US journalist Dorothy Thompson.

• 36 mins

Hitler's Olympics

Part 2: Pangloss, Polonius, Prufrock

Faced with a moral dilemma, America needed the wisdom of Solomon. But it got Sherrill.

• 32 mins