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Microscope

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Join Mat Ewins and John Kearns – in the guise of different characters each week – as they attempt to explain the unexplainable and put some of the world’s biggest mysteries under the Microsc...

Episodes

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Case 35: Prison Break

Case Thirty Five. Someone call the cops, an escaped prisoner has somehow made it on to the podcasts. Want to help us solve more mysteries? S...

34:19Dec 9, 2022

Case 34: Postman Patrick

Case Thirty Four. Early in the morning, just as day is dawning Postman Patrick, Postman Patrick and his absolutely not black and white disco...

32:10Dec 2, 2022

Case 33: Animatronics

Case Thirty Three. Mat Ewins talks to a modern day Geppetto whose creations have been coming to life… Want to help us solve more mysteries?...

28:39Nov 25, 2022

Case 32: Titanic 2

Case Thirty Two. Can Mat Ewins sink the case of the presumably ill-fated Titanic 2? Ewins talks to Captain Eyebirds about his cheeky ship. W...

33:42Nov 18, 2022

Case 31: Hell FC

Case Thirty One. This week Mat Ewins scores an interview with football manager of the occult, Peter Keys. Pull up your socks and shine your...

23:52Nov 11, 2022

Case 30: Benjamin Mutton

Case Thirty. Mat Ewins picks up a pitch fork and digs in down at the farm to interview Farmer Mutton on his son's very unusual condition. Th...

29:23Nov 4, 2022

Case 29: Self-Driving Car

Case Twenty Nine. Constable Gladstone gets a grilling from Mat Ewins about his crime-solving car, Sally. Want to help us solve more mysterie...

33:44Oct 28, 2022

Series 3 - Trailer

After nearly two years away, Mat Ewins and John Kearns are back solving more of the world's biggest mysteries in Microscope. Series 3 starts...

0:30Oct 24, 2022

Case 28: Centaur

Case Twenty Eight. Centaur? Centaur! Mat Ewins dons his best silks and climbs into his stirrups as he launches into Hoof Hefner, convicted f...

36:28Dec 4, 2020

Case 27: Traffic Warden

Case Twenty Seven. Poop! Poop! Mat Ewins dons his driving gloves and shows us his clutching feet as he joins traffic warden Geoffrey Pinto o...

32:48Nov 27, 2020

Case 26: Shakespeare’s Sequels

Case Twenty Six. Mat Ewins pulls up his tights, pulls down his ruff and soliloquises with Bill Bulbs, a librarian (libearian) who discovered...

28:31Nov 20, 2020

Case 25: 5G

Case Twenty Five. Mat Ewins gives BT engineer Greg Gloves a call about the power of 5G, mind control and has his head spun 360 on the revela...

29:47Nov 13, 2020

Case 24: The Crown Jewels

Case Twenty Four. Mat Ewins swoops cloak and dagger to give head of Security at the Tower of London, Robert Cromwell, the heebie jeebies. Wh...

29:38Nov 6, 2020

Case 23: Ghost Writer

Case Twenty Three. A Halloween Special. The Case of the Haunted Tappy Tap Machine. Mat Ewins spell checks Sam McCartney, a hammer horror wri...

31:02Oct 30, 2020

Series 2 - Trailer

Microscope is back for series 2! Join Mat Ewins and John Kearns – and a fresh batch of weirdo characters – as they once more attempt to expl...

1:36Oct 13, 2020

Case 20: Pirates

Case Twenty. Mat Ewins’ timbers are shivered as he learns how savant psychiatrist Dr Bertrand Wolf was taken hostage by pirates. How would b...

34:42Jul 24, 2020

Case 19: Space Station

Case Nineteen. Mat Ewins speaks with Francis Hamilton about life on the space station and what happened when it was overrun by “little green...

33:38Jul 17, 2020

Case 18: Dinosaur Carnival

Case Eighteen. Mat Ewins sits slack jawed as Peter Dumplings blows the lid on a disastrous attempt to create a fairground of cloned dinosaur...

30:42Jul 10, 2020