The Listener

The refined smell of Helvetica

Issue Listener Plus 4th Dec 2013

The famous font now has its own perfume - and it smells like nothing.

Issue Listener Plus 3rd Dec 2013

A groundswell of education experts are backing a British campaign to increase the starting age to seven.

Issue Listener Plus 2nd Dec 2013

KickFailure collects the "funniest and saddest" crowdfunding projects.

Issue Listener Plus 30th Nov 2013

Redditors create new movies by making their titles ever so slightly longer.

Issue Listener Plus 3836 30th Nov 2013

Analogue TV was switched off at 2am on Sunday morning; Peter Griffin outlines the options.

Issue Listener Plus 29th Nov 2013

You have to go to German for the lovingly rude “Von hinten Lyzeum, von vorne Museum” (“From behind a girls’ school, from the front a museum”).

Issue Listener Plus 28th Nov 2013

The toy-maker has been challenged by a NZ scientist on its gender portrayal - and not for the first time.

Issue Listener Plus 3827 28th Nov 2013

Will the deep-sea oil and gas exploration boom herald an economic bonanza or an environmental disaster?

Issue Listener Plus 26th Nov 2013

Canada’s debt to its elephantine, crack-smoking Toronto mayor.

Issue Listener Plus 26th Nov 2013

"I like to put a humidifier and a dehumidifier in the same room and let them fight it out." - Steven Wright