Introducing: The Curious History of Your Home - The Fridge

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A brand-new podcast from the Noiser network. Join domestic historian Ruth Goodman as she explores the remarkable, often epic, tales behind everyday objects. This taster episode is all about the fridge. In Ancient Persia, ingenious ice houses refrigerate food in one of the hottest deserts on earth. Bronze Age sites on Orkney reveal the secrets of early cold storage systems. A well-known sea captain becomes the face of a frozen food brand, with a little help from the Inuit of northern Canada. And cooling technology becomes a matter of life and death when US President James A. Garfield is shot… If you enjoy this taster episode, search ‘The Curious History of Your Home’ in your podcast app and hit follow to get new episodes every Tuesday. Or follow this link: https://podfollow.com/the-curious-history-of-your-home Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, listeners. We wanted to bring you an episode from Noiser's brand new podcast. It's called
0:05.8	The Curious History of Your Home. Look around your home. It's full of items that you probably take
0:10.9	for granted. Bed, bath, fridge,
0:13.6	wallpaper, dishwasher, toothpaste.
0:16.3	In fact, hiding in plain sight, these things have extraordinary histories.
0:21.0	Join domestic historian Ruth Goodman as she guides you through the remarkable, often epic
0:26.3	tales behind everyday objects.
0:29.1	If you enjoy this taste episode, search The Curious History of your Home in your podcast app of choice, and hit
0:34.2	follow for weekly episodes, or click the link in the episode description.
0:37.8	The year is 400 BC.
0:42.8	We're in the Dash-de-Lude desert in Persia, modern-day Iran.
0:47.2	A fierce sun blazes overhead.
0:50.4	There's not a single cloud in the sky to soften the relentless heat. Surface temperatures reach 70 degrees Celsius or 159 degrees Fahrenheit.
1:01.0	It is one of the hottest and driest places in the world.
1:08.0	From time to time a wind whips across the barren landscape, casting a fine grit into your eyes.
1:15.0	If the wind takes hold, it could turn into a sandstorm.
1:19.0	Mountains shimmer in the distance.
1:22.0	In the spring, water flows down from the heights, but it's summer now,
1:26.7	and the streams are all dried up. Sweat leeches from your body then quickly evaporates. Your mouth and throat feel dry. A raging
1:37.1	thirst comes over you. Suddenly you feel overwhelmed by exhaustion, your legs buckle as you stagger, a wave of dizziness washing over you.
1:46.7	Dehydration is setting in. A vulture circles the sky.
1:53.4	If you don't get out of the sun soon,
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