Podcast Episodes

540 - The Ni'ihau Incident

After Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbour, Japanese Pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi needed a place to conduct an emergency landing. He had been told tha…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

539 - The Piddler on the Roof (and Other Tales of Criminal Mischief)

In this episode we hear about some of the silliest criminals of recent times, including the man known as the 'piddler on the roof'! Recorded live at …

6 months, 4 weeks ago

538 - The Batavia Shipwreck

This week we hear the wild story of the Batavia - it's a story of a shipwreck, murder, mutiny and madness.

This is a comedy/history podcast, the repo…

7 months ago

537 - Magic Alex, The Beatles' Electric Guru

In the mid 1960s, Alexis Mardas met John Lennon from The Beatles, and the self-professed inventor made an immediate impression. With outlandish ideas…

7 months, 1 week ago

536 - FedEx Flight 705

On the 7th of April 1994, at just after 3pm, FedEx Flight 705 departed Memphis, Tennessee for a flight to San Jose, California. What followed was one…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

535 - The Hopkinsville Goblins

This week, we hear the story of a Kentucky family, who were just trying to have a nice family dinner one night in 1955, when they suddenly found them…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

534 - Spain's 2000 Paralympics Scandal

At the Sydney 2000 Paralympics, Intellectually Disabled Basketball was included for the first time. Spain easily won the gold medal, but not all was …

8 months ago

533 - El Chupacabra

In 1995 eight sheep were found dead in Puerto Rico... each completely drained of blood and with strange puncture wounds in their chests. This is the …

8 months, 1 week ago

532 - Dashcon Failure

In 2014, a group of Tumblr users decided to put on a Tumblr convention. Except they had no idea how to organise a convention ...

This is a comedy/his…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

531 - The eBay Stalking Scandal

This is the frankly unbelievable story of how far eBay employees went in 2019 to deal with both a small company and a Twitter user being critical of …

8 months, 3 weeks ago