Episode 13 – D!@kheads and Dictators

Summary: Ant and Tom try to revert back to the tighter format they had before they had guests and illnesses with interesting results. They spend the best part of 18 minutes introducing the podcast and the remainder of the time discussing the Boston Marathon Bombers and North Korea and the strange family that have run it since 1948. Not the most varied podcast this week, but we think it’s interesting! Here’s the video that Tom mentioned of the TED conference speech by Hyeonseo Lee, an escapee from North Korea. And here is the book Ant mentioned about the man who escaped from a North Korean political prison. Here’s that picture of the Korean penninsula at night, I think you’ll agree it’s certainly striking. As you can see, the lights are on in the South, but only Pyongyang has any electricity at night in the North.