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Episode 943
Rerun: Kanye West was ejected from Radio City Music Hall at the MTV VMAs on 13th September, 2009, after drunkenly interrupting Taylor Swift’s accepta…
1 year, 10 months ago
Meet The Monkees
Episode 942
Rerun: NBC premiered ‘Royal Flush’ - the pilot episode of iconic Sixties pop-comedy show The Monkees - on 12th September, 1966. And the Daydream Beli…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Real Lord of the Flies
Episode 941
Captain Peter Warner and his crew made a startling discovery as they sailed past the uninhabited island of Atta in the Pacific on 11th September, 196…
1 year, 10 months ago
Leopold And Loeb: Life Plus 99 Years
Episode 940
Chicagoans gathered around their radio sets on 10th September, 1924 - to hear Judge John R. Caverly sentence wealthy teenagers and lovers Nathan Leop…
1 year, 10 months ago
OMG! From Churchill to Chatrooms
Episode 939
The viral phrase ‘OMG’ has a much longer history than you might think… first being recorded on 9th September, 1917, in a letter from Lord John Fisher…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Self Service Revolution
Episode 937
Rerun: Clarence Saunders opened the world’s first self-service supermarket, ‘Piggly Wiggly’, in Memphis, Tennessee on 6th September, 1916.
Calculating…
1 year, 11 months ago
Bring On The Beard Tax
Episode 936
Rerun: Peter The Great levied a tax on facial hair on 5th September, 1698, requiring every man in Moscow to shave or stump up some cash - although th…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Night The Earls Vanished
Episode 935
When 90 Irish nobles, led by the Earl of Tyrconnell and the Earl of Tyrone, fled for Normandy in the dead of night on 4th September, 1607, their inte…
1 year, 11 months ago
Introducing eBay
Episode 934
In today’s episode Arion, Rebecca and Olly look into the founding of the massive multinational e-commerce company eBay.
On the day it went live it was…
1 year, 11 months ago
Australia's Bikie Shootout
Episode 933
Millperra, a quiet suburb in southwest Sydney, is now best known for a tragic event that took place on 2nd September, 1984: a violent shootout betwee…
1 year, 11 months ago