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Best of 2023: Captain Kidd: Pirate or Privateer?
Episode 728
We’re back with new episodes on New Year’s Day, but, before we finally turn our backs on 2023 for good, here’s Olly’s choice for his favourite episod…
2 years, 7 months ago
Best of 2023: Richard I's Awkward Wedding Night
Episode 727
Arion’s favourite episode from 2023 is this romp from May 12th, the day on which, in 1911, Richard the Lionheart finally got hitched. His Bride? Bere…
2 years, 7 months ago
Best of 2023: The Counterfeit Queen of Soul
Episode 726
This week we’re revisiting our favourite episodes of 2023, and Rebecca has chosen to replay our episode from 15th February, the day in 1969 when Mary…
2 years, 7 months ago
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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months ago