Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today those objects are usually housed in genteel institutions across the UK and the world. But what’s the full story?
Each episode of Stuff The British Stole hones in on one contested artifact and takes you on the wild, evocative, sometimes funny and often tragic adventure of how it got to where it is today.
The podcast of Stuff The British Stole launched in 2020 and immediately shot to the #1 spot on the Apple Podcasts chart and was named one of the best podcasts of the year by Broadsheet, Junkee and Gizmodo. In 2021 it became the #1 history podcast in nations all around the world with over 5 million downloads.
In 2022, Stuff The British Stole became a hit television series with over 1 million average total viewers on ABC TV. It aired on CBC Canada in 2023. Season 2 launched in Australia on ABC in June 2024 with CBC airing early 2025.
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AWARDS
NOMINEE · WALKLEY MID-YEAR ARTS AWARD · 2023
NOMINEE · ROCKIE AWARDS · 2023
NOMINEE · SIGNAL AWARDS · 2022
NOMINEE · BUZZIES WORLD CONGRESS AWARDS · 2022
WINNER · ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTERS AWARD · 2022
GOLD MEDAL · NEW YORK FESTIVALS RADIO AWARDS · 2022
NOMINEE · ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTERS AWARD · 2022
NOMINEE · AIDC AWARDS · 2022
NOMINEE · KENNEDY JOURNALISM AWARDS · 2022
GOLD MEDAL · NEW YORK FESTIVALS RADIO AWARDS · 2021
WINNER · AUSTRALIAN PODCAST AWARDS · 2021
NOMINEE · WALKLEY ARTS JOURNALISM AWARDS · 2021
NOMINEE · ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTERS AWARD · 2021
“I completely fell in love with the show. I love it”
“The antidote to A History of the World in 100 Objects. Marc Fennell, fab Aussie podcaster of It Burns and Nut Jobs, investigates a single cultural artefact in each episode of his new podcast, thus exposing what he calls the “not-so-polite history” of the British empire. The latest show uses pekinese dogs to take us to 1860 and the British-Chinese opium wars; previous episodes explain the British theft of Benin’s bronzes, and how Tipu’s Tiger ended up in the V&A. Fennell is immensely entertaining, his podcasts are always gripping and this is an excellent series that uses history, colonialism and art to examine where we are today. Recommended.”