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Retrospectors Quiz Of The Year 2023
Episode 725
It’s been a hell of a year at Retrospectors HQ - from Clyde Barrow's first scrape with the law to the installation of Camp Snoopy at the Mall of Amer…
2 years ago
Mariah's Christmas Hit
Episode 724
Rerun: All I Want For Christmas Is You has made Mariah Carey a fortune - but it took an astonishing 25 years for the song to finally reach Number One…
2 years ago
Panto's Greatest Dame
Episode 723
Victorian music hall star Dan Leno, creator of Widow Twankey and Mother Goose, was born on 20th December, 1860. A child prodigy of the stage, Leno ki…
2 years ago
The War on Christmas
Episode 722
England’s Puritan Parliament attempted to purge Christmas of Catholic influences on 19th December, 1644, by passing The Ordinance for the Better Obse…
2 years ago
Introducing The Nutcracker
Episode 721
The premiere of Tchaikovsky’s seminal ballet ‘The Nutcracker’, on 18th December, 1892, at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg. It was NO…
2 years ago
Spice World!
Episode 719
At the height of the ‘Cool Britannia’ craze, the Spice Girls released their first movie, ‘Spice World’, with a glittering premiere at the Empire Leic…
2 years, 1 month ago
Dubya Dodges A Shoeing
Episode 718
Rerun: When George W Bush flew to Baghdad for a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on 14th December, 2008, he had hoped the h…
2 years, 1 month ago
The ‘Pop Goes The Weasel’ Craze
Episode 717
The undisputed viral hit of Christmas 1852 was the country dance ‘Pop Goes The Weasel’, still taught to children today. On 13th December, 1852, the c…
2 years, 1 month ago
Is That Mary Magdalene?
Episode 716
Inspired by a dream, Prince Charles of Provence ordered an excavation that uncovered a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of Mary Magdalene …
2 years, 1 month ago
The Man Who Sold The Eiffel Tower
Episode 715
On this day we recall the Police operation to ensnare prolific conman Victor Lustig.
The ‘Catch Me If You Can’-style manhunt intensified on 11th Dece…
2 years, 1 month ago