There's a small matter I trip over quite regularly in The Allusionist: dates.

Not the fruit.

Specificially the terminology BC and AD - Before Christ and Anno Domini ('the year of the Lord' ('the Lord' also being Christ)). How did Jesus Christ get to be all up in our system of counting the years?

This month, all the shows in the Radiotopia collective are releasing episodes interpreting Doing Time, to welcome our newest member: Ear Hustle, stories from inside prison, told and produced by those living it at San Quentin. Click here to listen to all the Doing Time episodes, and visit earhustlesq.com to subscribe to Ear Hustle - the first episode arrives on 14 June, and you can hear a preview at the end of this episode.

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I'm returning to the London Podcast Festival this September, with a brand new live show! Get your tickets HERE. Fellow Topes will also be appearing at the festival, including Criminal, The Memory Palace, and Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything. Come along! We'll have a lovely time.

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