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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, 6 months ago
Birth of The Breastaurant
Episode 962
Rerun: Hooters, the beach bar chain famous for its flirtatious waitresses, first flung open its doors in Clearwater, Florida on 4th October, 1983. It…
1 year, 6 months ago
The End Of Siegfried & Roy
Episode 961
Rerun: The Roy half of Siegfried and Roy was mauled on October 3rd, 2003, by a 380-pound white tiger live on stage in Las Vegas.
Roy lived, but was pa…
1 year, 6 months ago
Creating Opus Dei
Episode 960
Secretive Catholic sect Opus Dei was founded on 2nd October, 1928 by the young, energetic priest Jose Maria Escriva, who believed his divine mission …
1 year, 6 months ago
Screening The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Episode 959
Tobe Hooper’s legendary low-budget horror film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, first screened in Austin on 1st October, 1974.
The movie was an internati…
1 year, 6 months ago
Time For Tea ☕
Episode 958
How did tea become Britain’s national drink? Its story begins in China, where it was first popularised during the Han and Tang dynasties - but it fir…
1 year, 6 months ago
When 3-D First Flopped
Episode 956
Journalists, exhibitors and producers packed the Ambassador Hotel Theater, Los Angeles on 27th September, 1922 - to see the first ever paid-for scree…
1 year, 6 months ago
The French King of Sweden
Episode 954
Rerun: Jean Bernadotte’s dad, a local prosecutor in the southwestern French city of Pau, intended for his son to follow in his footsteps as a lawyer.…
1 year, 6 months ago
Praise The Lord, It's Billy Graham
Episode 953
Billy Graham’s Los Angeles Crusade started modestly on 25th September, 1949. But after newspaper giant William Randolph Hearst told his editors to "p…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sexing Up Jane Austen
Episode 952
The ‘Austenmania’ craze of the mid-90s kicked off with the BBC’s production of ‘Pride and Prejudice’, which first aired on 24th September, 1995.
Now p…
1 year, 6 months ago