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Shooting 'Dr. No'
Episode 1274
It had a budget of just $1 million, a lead actor wearing a toupee, and the baddie in the first draft of the script was a monkey. But the first James …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Death By Molasses
Episode 1273
A roaring wave of syrup swept through the North End of Boston on 15th January, 1919, in an event that claimed 21 lives, including 2 children, and cam…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
New York meets Snow White
Episode 1272
Disney’s long-awaited feature ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ was rapturously received at Radio City, New York, inspiring three-hour queues for tic…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Henry IV and the Philosopher's Stone
Episode 1271
It was today in history in 1404 that Henry IV issued the Act Against Multipliers, a ban on the mysterious art of creating or duplicating gold, more c…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Creating The National Trust
Episode 1270
Octavia Hill, Hardwicke Rawnsley, and Sir Robert Hunter founded The National Trust on January 12, 1895, with an intention to preserve Britain’s natur…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Let's Bury Nelson
Episode 1268
Naval commander Horatio Nelson became the first non-Royal to receive a full British state funeral on 9th January, 1806, when tens of thousands of mou…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Britain's First Black MPs
Episode 1267
John Stewart was elected MP for Lymington, Hampshire on 8th January, 1833.
On paper, he seemed a textbook member of Britain’s elite: wealthy, well-c…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Here Come the Harlem Globetrotters ⛹🏾♂️
Episode 1266
All-Black basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters travelled to Hinckley, Illinois on 7th January, 1927 - setting them on a barnstorming journey thro…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Rink-O-Mania!
Episode 1265
Roller skates, most readily associated with the 1970s, were actually first patented in the US on 6th January, 1863, by New York furniture salesman Ja…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Alfred Dreyfus: From Officer To Outcast
Episode 1264
An angry crowd hurled abuse and antisemitic slurs at Captain Alfred Dreyfus on 5th January, 1895, as he stood in the courtyard of the École Militaire…
6 months, 3 weeks ago