This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars. Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today those objects are housed in genteel institutions across the UK and the world.

They usually come with polite plaques.

The Australian podcast Stuff the British Stoll

is a six episode series about the not so polite history behind a few of those objects.

I completely fell in love with the show so we're going to play the first episode and talk

to the presenter and creator Mark Finel about the series. Here's Stuff the British Stoll.

His eyes seem kind of dead. Like he should be screaming. I mean the guy's being malled by a

tiger. Blood should be everywhere but the floor is completely dry and his eyes seem serene and his mouth curved to almost a smile.

Like even in death he knows he's won.

It's intrinsically a kind of, you know, dramatic and very bloody event.

The tiger's roaring, the man man screaming.

It's shameless. It's so blatant.

I mean if somebody you know literally dug your father's grave up

and put it on display in his backyard. I mean it's that kind of story you're talking about,

Yavant, Yav sunny, I mean bloody freezing, but the sky was this absolute crisp blue.

You could see high above the city, three, four plains, crisscrossing the sky.

One of which, I have to be on in a matter of hours.

The city was already decked out with tinsles and baubles and there were puffer jacketed office workers cramming themselves into ritzy department stores.

And then there was me.

Virtually alone in this cavernous museum hall,

struggling to understand why no one was taking notice of the almost life-sized soldier

with the dilated pupils of a career stoner lying supine as a wild orange tiger plunged its fangs deep into the side of his neck.

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