folding pocket. Welcome to another episode of the Rabbit Hole Detectives, a podcast where I, Professor Kat Jarman,

Richard Coles and Charles Spencer, chase the provenance of historical objects both real and metaphorical.

Each episode we set one another the task of finding out as much as we can about a particular subject to present a comprehensive understanding of the origin

stories of stuff. After all everything has a history. It just depends on how

far down the rabbit hole you're prepared to go. And at the end of it all, our disembodied voice

pronounced as a winner.

So hello again, Rabbit Hole is.

Hello, Cat.

Hi, Cat.

And how are we all this week?

Well, feeling pretty good, actually.

I mean, these are, they're challenging these ones when you get set a subject I think.

I was thinking about last week with all those contrasts of subjects and it sort of sums up the rabbit hole detectors for me you know to go from

St Peter's bones to Satanism and merch. I like the modern ones actually but I

think merch, it was from one of our listeners probably. I think it was Charles, yes.

Yes.

I really enjoyed the listener suggestions.

So what happens is that we get them and they get put into a big

spreadsheet and then we can look through them and come up with them. And they're great because there's some things I'd never even thought of looking into.

It's good as it's serendipitous for us actually because if you pick the stuff you're interested in you tend to just go to the same places over and over again so it's good to be directed somewhere else.

I totally agree it's so fresh and also that they find a line of thinking that is just not obvious to us so it's really welcome.

Now I think we should go straight into it

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