Podcast Episodes

#103 Your Letters - March 2025 (BONUS EPISODE)

Season 1 Episode 220

While we're off on our Christmas holidays, please enjoy ANOTHER bonus episode!

AND DON'T FORGET! The comedy history podcast that has spent as much time talking about the invention of custard as it has…

Published on 7 hours ago

#116 The Nation’s Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1 by Simon Garfield (BONUS EPISODE)

Season 1 Episode 219

While we're off on our Christmas holidays, please enjoy this bonus episode!

AND DON'T FORGET! The comedy history podcast that has spent as much time talking about the invention of custard as it has th…

Published on 1 week ago

#154 Christmas Special (Part 2)

Season 1 Episode 218

This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

This week we have a Christmas special for you in which we’ll take a good look at a whole array of festive traditions. This history of the Christmas annual, …

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago

#154 Christmas Special (Part 1)

Season 1 Episode 217

This week we have a Christmas special for you in which we’ll take a good look at a whole array of festive traditions. This history of the Christmas annual, the history of the Christmas film and how a…

Published on 2 weeks ago

#152 Maps 1 (Part 2)

Season 1 Episode 216

This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

This week we’re here with the first of two episodes on the history of maps! We’ve got 27,000 year old maps carved onto tusks, maps in ancient Egypt and, the…

Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago

#152 Maps 1 (Part 1)

Season 1 Episode 215

This week we’re here with the first of two episodes on the history of maps! We’ve got 27,000 year old maps carved onto tusks, maps in ancient Egypt and, the big one, the Mappa Mundi.

Elsewhere this we…

Published on 3 weeks ago

#151 Mega Corps (Part 2)

Season 1 Episode 214

This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

This week we’re taking a good look at some of the biggest companies ever to grace the planet; expect to hear from The Hudson’s Bay Company, the greatest (an…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

#151 Mega Corps (Part 1)

Season 1 Episode 213

This week we’re taking a good look at some of the biggest companies ever to grace the planet; expect to hear from The Hudson’s Bay Company, the greatest (and most pungent) fish sauce company you neve…

Published on 4 weeks ago

#150 Short lived Presidents (Part 2)

Season 1 Episode 212

This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

This week we’re discussing US Presidents who, through various interventions of fate, weren’t actually President for any great length of time. We’ve got poor…

Published on 1 month ago

#150 Short lived Presidents (Part 1)

Season 1 Episode 211

This week we’re discussing US Presidents who, through various interventions of fate, weren’t actually President for any great length of time. We’ve got poor old Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), unlucky Ja…

Published on 1 month ago