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RetroRecommends... Patented: History Of Inventions
When did humans first start to farm? What was the first murder solved by forensic science? Who invented the battery?
The answer to all these questions…
2 years, 11 months ago
Meet Tom and Jerry
Episode 461
Hanna-Barbera’s classic cat-and-mouse cartoon series Tom and Jerry kicked off when their debut short, ‘Puss Gets The Boot’, was released by MGM on 10…
2 years, 11 months ago
Horseracing Hits Britain
Episode 460
Rerun. Chester Racecourse hosted Britain’s first ever recorded horse-racing meet on 9th February, 1539. The winner received a set of silver bells to …
2 years, 11 months ago
I'm Too Sexy For This Chart
Episode 459
Right Said Fred’s novelty single ‘I’m Too Sexy’ reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 on 8th February, 1992. The playful earworm, which had …
2 years, 11 months ago
Bring Out Your Vanities!
Episode 458
Controversial friar Girolamo Savonarola supervised the mass destruction of Renaissance art, literature and other priceless items he deemed as ‘frippe…
2 years, 11 months ago
Here Come The Minstrels
Episode 457
Blackface performers The Virginia Minstrels - replete with white clown mouths, oversized tailcoats, and bookended by tambourine and bones players - f…
2 years, 11 months ago
RetroRecommends: History Daily
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst was kidnapped by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. In this episode from our friends at History Daily, host…
2 years, 11 months ago
The £21,000 Masque
Episode 455
With a cast of over 800, and a budget equivalent to £3 million, James Shirley’s extravagant masque ‘The Triumph of Peace’ was performed on 3rd Februa…
2 years, 11 months ago
Christian Bale's Terminator Freakout
Episode 454
Rerun. TMZ posted leaked footage of Christian Bale’s infamous meltdown on the set of ‘Terminator Salvation’ on 2nd February, 2009.
Triggered by the fi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Killing King Carlos
Episode 453
The only Portuguese monarch to be assassinated, King Carlos I, was shot through the neck by Republican activists on 1st February, 1908, as his open c…
2 years, 11 months ago