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Calling Andrew Sachs
Rerun: When Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross failed to reach their celebrity guest, 78 year-old ‘Fawlty Towers’ star Andrew Sachs, they instead left h…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Exploding Tank of Beer
Episode 973
Rerun: The London Beer Flood, which created a 15ft-high wave of booze, and claimed the lives of eight people, began on 17th October, 1814 - when an i…
1 year, 2 months ago
Crown The Concubine
Episode 972
Wu Zetian became China's first and only female Emperor on 16th October, 655 - cementing an extraordinary rise from Concubine to Secretary to Consort …
1 year, 2 months ago
Journey To Monkey Island
Episode 971
The Secret of Monkey Island, one of the best loved video games of the point-and-click era, was released on the 15th October, 1990, without, it must b…
1 year, 3 months ago
Meet Sherlock Holmes
Episode 970
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, published on 14th October, 1892, was the collection of 12 stories that took his much-loved ti…
1 year, 3 months ago
Branson's Cola Gamble
Episode 967
Rerun: Virgin Cola, Sir Richard Branson’s ultimately flawed contender in the Cola Wars, was certainly taken seriously by the competition. On 11th Oct…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Smell of the Big Screen
Episode 966
Rerun: Scent-o-Vision, an in-cinema olfactory experience, was unveiled at the New York World’s Fair on 10th October, 1940.
Accompanying a short film ‘…
1 year, 3 months ago
Killing Yugoslavia's King
Episode 966
King Alexander of Yugoslavia embarked on a state visit to France on 9th October, 1934 - and was shockingly shot dead by an assassin in the crowd, the…
1 year, 3 months ago
The World's First Constitution
Episode 965
The world's oldest oldest continuously surviving constitution, was adopted in the tiny country of San Marino on 8th October, 1600.
This was a good 187…
1 year, 3 months ago
Invasion of the Identical Twins
Episode 964
A boatload of Swedish identical twins, aged 11 to 80, descended into Felixstowe on 7th October, 1977 - wearing matching outfits - for a shopping trip…
1 year, 3 months ago