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  1. Welcome to Development Hell

    The untold stories about Hollywood projects that never left the page.

  2. The Variable Man with Gary Goldman and Angus Fletcher | Development Hell

    Why did Gary and Angus have so much trouble selling another Philip K. Dick adaptation?

  3. The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion

    This your invitation to the greatest award show no one’s heard of: the Pushkin Prizes

  4. The Lady Vanishes

    In the late 19th century, a painting by a virtually unknown artist took England by storm.

  5. The Birthday Party with Charles Randolph | Development Hell

    A masterclass on a screenwriter's many minefields.

  6. Tempest in a Teacup

    Malcolm tells the real story on what happened in Boston on the night of December 16, 1773

  7. Star Struck

    A pop culture what-if experiment about the 1937 version of A Star is Born.

  8. Saigon, 1965

    In the 1960s the Pentagon set up a research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon.

  9. Project Dillard

    Part two of a two-part series.

  10. Outliers, Revisited

    Revisionist History runs a mysterious experiment at the University of Pennsylvania.

  11. McDonald’s Broke My Heart

    They made the world’s greatest French Fry. Then they threw it away.

  12. Lord of the Rankings

    US News & World Report has been using a secret formula to rank the best universities.

  13. Labour of Love with M. Night Shyamalan | Development Hell

    In this episode, M. Night Shyamalan tells Malcolm about the script that haunts him.

  14. Introducing... The Science of Happiness

    The Science of Happiness is available now on BBC Sounds.

  15. In Triplicate

    A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat.

  16. I Am Superman with Patty Jenkins | Development Hell

    Between her big hits, Patty Jenkins wrote an R-rated fairy tale, starring a dog.

  17. Hitler’s Olympics, Part 9: A Plague on Both Your Houses.

    Content acquired for BBC Sounds

  19. Hallelujah

    How does genius emerge?

  20. Guns Part 6: “Sin is the failure to bother to care”

    At the end of our series, we offer a lesson on the obligations and costs of compassion.

  21. Guns Part 5: The Footnote

    In a forgotten study of convicted murderers, the author left a devastating footnote.

  22. Guns Part 4: Moral Hazard

    Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1968. Today, would he have lived?

  23. Guns Part 3: A Shooting Lesson

    Malcolm goes to a shooting range in North Carolina to get a tutorial on the AR-15.

  24. Guns Part 2: Getting out of Dodge

    The justices of the Supreme Court may have watched too much gun smoke growing up…

  25. Guns Part 1: The Sudden Celebrity of Sir John Knight

    In the battles over gun rights, a 17th century English nobleman has taken center stage.

  26. Divide and Conquer

    The complete, unabridged history of the world’s most controversial semicolon.

  27. Chutzpah vs. Chutzpah

    You thought that there was only one kind of chutzpah. Wrong. There’s two.

  28. Bubbles with Isaac Adamson | Development Hell

    The story behind a biopic about a chimpanzee named Bubbles, sidekick to the King of Pop.

  29. Board Game Season

    How life shows up in games and what games teach us about risk, life, love and ... farming

  30. Blue Seattle with Cameron Crowe | Development Hell

    Cameron tells the story behind “Blue Seattle” for the very first time.

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