How long have humans been dyeing their hair? How did people manage it in the time before store-bought bleach and box dye?

This week, we're diving into the colourful history of hair dye to investigate the ingredients people across time have used to colour their hair, from the expected, the strange, the scientific, to the disgusting and dangerous.

NOTE: Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, mentioned in this episode, is reported to have memorised one million hadiths!

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It's our first birthday! In this episode, we explore the 2026 Met Gala and Natalie shares an excerpt from her very first published short story!

Find Natalie's short story, SWALLOWED WHOLE, here: https://clawsoutliterary.wordpress.com/swallowed-whole/

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Thank you so much to everyone who has supported our podcasting journey throughout the last year. It's been an exciting (and challenging!) time for the two of us, juggling things like full time work, motherhood, illness, and general life issues. Every like and comment means the world.

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Happy Easter & Καλό Πάσχα! We're (finally) back this week with a brief look into the origins of some of the most common Easter traditions such as chocolate bunnies and decorated eggs, including a throwback to some of our other episodes with things like syncretism and, surprisingly, the penny post!

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