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Back to SearchSinatra's Slapstick Kidnapping
19 year-old singer Frank Sinatra, Jr was snatched from his casino dressing room on 10th December, 1962. His famous father was willing to pay the kidn…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Welcome To Wetherspoons
Episode 1250
Now a 900 strong pub chain, with an annual turnover of £1.6 billion, J.D. Wetherspoon is a big name on the British high street. But when entrepreneu…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Britain's First Actresses
Episode 1249
A woman played a female role on the London stage for the very first time on December 8th, 1660, as Desdemona in a revival of Shakepeare’s Othello. Th…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Who Needs A Switchboard?
Episode 1247
Queen Elizabeth II made Britain’s first long-distance automated phone call on 5th November, 1958 - when, from Bristol, she spoke directly to the Lord…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
What Happened to the Mary Celeste?
Episode 1246
The ‘ghost ship’ Mary Celeste was discovered drifting in the Atlantic by Captain David Morehouse of the Dei Gratia on 4 December 1872. On board there…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
The Potato-Porting Polymath
Episode 1245
Renaissance Man Thomas Harriot was noted for many things - devising the theory of refraction, creating mathematical symbols including ‘greater than’ …
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madam
Episode 1244
Tinseltown’s most notorious pimp was convicted of providing high-class ‘call girls’ to undercover police officers on 2nd December, 1994.
It followed …
7 months, 4 weeks ago
The Vietnam Lottery
Episode 1243
Which young men should be sent to fight in Vietnam? Amidst a growing public outcry against the biases in the system, the United States instituted a l…
8 months ago
The Sound of Luxury
Episode 1241
In the annals of automotive innovation, November 28th, 2018 marked a peculiar milestone: the birth of the Lincoln Chimes. The brainchild of Jennifer …
8 months ago
Alger Hiss and the Pumpkin Papers
Episode 1240
The most notorious accused spy of the early Cold War, Alger Hiss, emerged from Lewisburg Penitentiary on 27th November, 1954; calm, composed, and det…
8 months ago