Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat Happened to the Mary Celeste?
Episode 1246
The ‘ghost ship’ Mary Celeste was discovered drifting in the Atlantic by Captain David Morehouse of the Dei Gratia on 4 December 1872. On board there…
4 months ago
The Potato-Porting Polymath
Episode 1245
Renaissance Man Thomas Harriot was noted for many things - devising the theory of refraction, creating mathematical symbols including ‘greater than’ …
4 months ago
Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madam
Episode 1244
Tinseltown’s most notorious pimp was convicted of providing high-class ‘call girls’ to undercover police officers on 2nd December, 1994.
It followed …
4 months ago
The Vietnam Lottery
Episode 1243
Which young men should be sent to fight in Vietnam? Amidst a growing public outcry against the biases in the system, the United States instituted a l…
4 months ago
The Sound of Luxury
Episode 1241
In the annals of automotive innovation, November 28th, 2018 marked a peculiar milestone: the birth of the Lincoln Chimes. The brainchild of Jennifer …
4 months, 1 week ago
Alger Hiss and the Pumpkin Papers
Episode 1240
The most notorious accused spy of the early Cold War, Alger Hiss, emerged from Lewisburg Penitentiary on 27th November, 1954; calm, composed, and det…
4 months, 1 week ago
Signal-Jamming Aliens
Your TV signal wobbles. An alien voice (albeit one with a Southern English accent...) seizes control of your set. And, instead of newsreader Andrew G…
4 months, 1 week ago
Elizabeth of Russia's Bloodless Coup
Episode 1238
Wearing an armoured breastplate, clasping a silver cross and seizing an Army spontoon, 31 year old Elizabeth Petrovna appeared at the HQ of the elite…
4 months, 1 week ago
The First Boob Job
Episode 1237
Dr. Vincenz Czerny performed the world’s first breast augmentation in Vienna on 24th November, 1893. After removing a benign tumour via a mastectomy…
4 months, 1 week ago
The First Hanukkah
Episode 1235
When the Maccabees celebrated the recapture of Jerusalem from the Macedonian emperor Antiochus IV, they lit a menorah in the city's holy temple. The …
4 months, 2 weeks ago