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When The Beatles Crossed The Road
Episode 913
Rerun: Abbey Road was a street known only to North Londoners until The Beatles posed on the zebra crossing outside EMI Studios on 8th August, 1969. P…
1 year, 5 months ago
California's Courtroom Siege
Episode 912
Jonathan Jackson, teenage brother of imprisoned black power activist George Jackson, entered the Marin County Courthouse concealing three guns under …
1 year, 5 months ago
Meet The Addams Family
Episode 911
The Addams Family debuted as a one-panel cartoon in The New Yorker on 6th August, 1938.
Created by Charles Addams, the family (who for decades were e…
1 year, 5 months ago
Let's Revive Welsh
Episode 910
Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Nationalist Party, was founded on 5th August, 1925, with a principal mission to revive the Welsh language.
Despite boasting a h…
1 year, 5 months ago
Who Killed William II?
Episode 908
Rerun: William II, son of William The Conqueror, took a hunting trip to the New Forest on 2nd August, 1100 - and was shot dead by an arrow, which pun…
1 year, 5 months ago
Let's Do The Twist
Episode 907
Rerun: Chubby Checker's "The Twist", the most popular single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, was released on 1st August, 1960.
It was just a …
1 year, 5 months ago
Little Hugh and the Blood Libel
Episode 906
Nine year-old ‘Little Hugh’ went missing in Lincoln on 31st July, 1255. A popular narrative emerged that local Jews (in fact gathering for a wedding)…
1 year, 5 months ago
Goodbye Top of the Pops
Episode 905
The final episode of ‘Top Of The Pops’ aired on 30th July, 2006.
Co-hosted by necrophiliac paedophile Jimmy Savile, the BBC institution ended after 42…
1 year, 5 months ago
Bienvenue à l'Arc de triomphe
Episode 904
King Louis Philippe unveiled an iconic Parisian monument, the Arc De Triomphe, on 29th July, 1836. But, due to fears of an attack, only 11 people att…
1 year, 5 months ago
Let's Build A Language
Episode 902
Rerun: Linguist L. L. Zamenhof published ‘Dr. Esperanto's International Language’ on 26th July, 1887 - and in so doing launched Esperanto, the most p…
1 year, 5 months ago