Podcast Episodes

Signal-Jamming Aliens

Your TV signal wobbles. An alien voice (albeit one with a Southern English accent...) seizes control of your set. And, instead of newsreader Andrew G…

8 months ago

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Elizabeth of Russia's Bloodless Coup

Episode 1238

Wearing an armoured breastplate, clasping a silver cross and seizing an Army spontoon, 31 year old Elizabeth Petrovna appeared at the HQ of the elite…

8 months, 1 week ago

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The First Boob Job

Episode 1237

Dr. Vincenz Czerny performed the world’s first breast augmentation in Vienna on 24th November, 1893. After removing a benign tumour via a mastectomy…

8 months, 1 week ago

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The First Hanukkah

Episode 1235

When the Maccabees celebrated the recapture of Jerusalem from the Macedonian emperor Antiochus IV, they lit a menorah in the city's holy temple. The …

8 months, 1 week ago

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Microsoft's Windows Gamble

Episode 1234

Windows 1.0 came out on 20th November, 1985, introducing graphical user interface to the masses for the first time. Well, that was the concept, anywa…

8 months, 1 week ago

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London's First Olympics

Episode 1233

After Mount Vesuvius erupted - and original hosts Rome pulled out - the British Olympic council sent a letter, dated 19th November, 1906, agreeing to…

8 months, 1 week ago

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William Tell's Apple Adventures

Episode 1232

Switzerland’s most famous archer shot fruit off his own son’s head on 18th November, 1307. Or did he? 

‘Chronicon Helveticum’ by Aegidius Tschudi, f…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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The Star Wars Holiday Horror

Episode 1231

The bizarre, incoherent ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’ was broadcast only once, on 17th November, 1978. Despite CBS signing up the stars of the origina…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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Let's Go On Strike

Episode 1299

Workers involved in tomb construction in the Valley of the Kings staged the earliest recorded strike in history on 14th November, 1157 B.C. Having no…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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Big Ben's First BONGGGG

Episode 1298

Westminer’s most famous landmark, Big Ben, bongggged for the first time on 13th November, 1856, outside the not-yet-finished House of Commons. London…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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