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Season 1 · Episode 1

Wallpaper

The Curious History of Your Home

March 26, 202434m 45s

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Show Notes

A wasp leads to the invention of paper in ancient China. Rich Europeans have to find another way to decorate their walls when coal fires ruin their valuable tapestries. Anger over wallpaper helps ignite the French Revolution. And a silent killer is found hiding in plain sight on nursery walls across Victorian Britain…

A Noiser production, written by Roger Morris.

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