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524 - The British Post Office Scandal
Between 1999 and 2015, over 900 British subpostmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting. The thing is, they were all innocent and …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
523 - Hidden Figures: NASA's Human Computers
This week's episode is about the human computers of NASA, focussing on the main three featured in the book Hidden Figures, heading deep into NASA's h…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
522 - The Legend of King Arthur
The sixth most voted for topic for Block 2025 is King Arthur - man or legend? We find out the truth behind the man at the head of the Round Table (ex…
5 months ago
521 - The Tiananmen Square Massacre
Over nearly two months in 1989, student led protests erupted across China as people called for reforms. The centre of the movement was Tiananmen Squa…
5 months, 1 week ago
520 - The Surprisingly Interesting History of Ketchup
Ketchup - it's America's favourite condiment and close cousin of Australia's fave: tomato sauce, but its history goes back a long long way before eit…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
519 - The 1996 Mount Everest Disaster
We're kicking of Block 2025 with a disaster episode. Specifcally, one of the worst Mount Everest seasons ever.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
518 - The Dewey Decimal System
This week, Josh Earl tells us the wild and troubling story of Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System.
This is a comedy/history podcas…
6 months ago
517 - The History of Frankenstein
This week we look at the tragic and fascinating life of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley and explore how the novel she started writing as an 18 year …
6 months, 1 week ago
516 - Spring-Heeled Jack
In 19th Century London, a bizarre figure terrorised the streets, lashing out with metal claws and blowing fire in people's faces before leaping over …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
515 - The Tenerife Airport Disaster
“Tenerife is an example of the 'Swiss Cheese' Model: dozens of individual events, each of them incredibly unlikely in their own right, aligning again…
6 months, 3 weeks ago