Apr 16: Science Museum Podcast

The Science Museum has a podcast devoted to the stories of everyday objects.

A Brief History of Stuff. There's a geography here too of course.

Each episode explores the past, present and future of an everyday object in your home, from bath toys to sticky tape and vacuum cleaners to the microwave oven, revealing how they changed science—and our world.

Here's the episode on bath toys - including perhaps the Friendly Floatees who entered the North Pacific in 1991 and who are still floating around even now...