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Someone Decided
Every ordinary thing around you exists because someone decided it should be that way: the bus you ride, the light you wait at, the ball you hit. Each week one object, one person who chose its shape, and what that choice quietly did to everyone who came after.
Hosted by Owen and Felix, performed by synthetic voices. Sources are in every episode's notes.
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Three Steps Up: The Bus Built for a Factory
Why millions of people from Budapest to Moscow climbed into the Ikarus 280 for fifty years: the floor height came from a factory's tooling budget, and a low-floor bus was built, tested and left under the dust.
