Unburied S2E4: The Myth of the Explorer

Sound Africa by ARC

Oct 16, 202540:49Society & Culture

Whips, fedoras and cliff-hangers make for great cinema, but they also shape how we tell real scientific stories. In our Season 2 finale, we trace the “explorer” myth from colonial expansion to modern paleoanthropology: w...

Related Episodes

Continue listening to more episodes from Sound Africa.

Unburied S2E3: The Dark Side of Dart

Oct 9, 2025 - 41:52

Behind one of science’s greatest breakthroughs lies a darker story of skulls measured, bodies taken, and...

Unburied S2E2: Pride and Prejudice

Oct 2, 2025 - 35:33

In 1924, a mineworker in Taung likely held the fossilized skull of a three-year-old child before anyone e...

Unburied S2E1: When Humanity Became African

Sep 25, 2025 - 30:33

100 years ago, a tiny fossil skull in Taung, South Africa rewrote human history. The Taung Skull proved t...

Unburied S2 Trailer: The Taung Child

Sep 18, 2025 - 3:17

Unburied is back for season 2: The Taung Child. A century after the fossilised skull of a three-year-old...

ARC Interview: What's real about race?

Sep 3, 2025 - 44:17

In this ARC Interview: " What’s Real About Race?" we speak with Dr. Phila Msimang , a philosopher at Stel...

ARC Interview: "Never let this happen to anyone, anywhere" - Professor Steven Robbins

Jul 31, 2025 - 41:33

In his book Letters of Stone professor Steven Robbins tells the deeply moving story of his quest to find...

ARC Interview: "They will continue to call out until the last one has been put to ground" Brain Miennies

Jul 16, 2025 - 29:47

This is the first in our new episode format: ARC Interviews — conversations with people whose stories and...

Unburied S1E4: The Return

Jul 2, 2025 - 31:47

As Rudolf Pöch prepared to leave Southern Africa in 1910, he left behind a legacy of exhumed graves, stol...