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Don't Wear Orange
Episode 278
Dutch patriots are now regularly spotted sporting orange wigs, orange clothes, orange banners and orange face paint. But, on 16th June, 1784, they we…
3 years, 6 months ago
Don't Eat The Ice Cream
Episode 277
Typhoid Mary - real name Mary Mallon - was the first ever asymptomatic carrier of typhoid to be identified. A cook for wealthy New York families, her…
3 years, 6 months ago
Zsa Zsa and the Beverly Hills Cop
Episode 276
Slapping a police officer is rarely a great idea, but it somewhat revived the career of actress and Hollywood personality Zsa Zsa Gabor, whose trial …
3 years, 6 months ago
Let’s Censor Hollywood
Episode 275
The Production Code Administration - which policed standards of decency on all US cinema releases for twenty years - was established on 13th June, 19…
3 years, 7 months ago
Dmitry The Undead
Episode 274
Three imposters claimed to be the assassinated son of Ivan the Terrible, Prince Dmitry - but the first of the fraudsters got the furthest, actually b…
3 years, 7 months ago
Goodbye, Alexandra Palace
Episode 273
A huge fire ravaged Alexandra Palace in Muswell Hill, London on 9th June, 1873 - just 16 days after it had opened, on Queen Victoria’s birthday, as ‘…
3 years, 7 months ago
Meet The Vikings
Episode 272
Northumbria’s ‘holy island’, Lindisfarne, was invaded by Vikings on 8th June, 793 in a smash-and-grab, ‘shock and awe’ attack that left locals reelin…
3 years, 7 months ago
Sony’s Betamax Blunder
Episode 271
VHS won the so-called ‘format wars’ of the 1980s - but before JVC unveiled their VCR system, Sony created the market, with their innovative Japanese …
3 years, 7 months ago
It's Fun To Found The YMCA
Episode 270
George Williams, 22, created the Young Men’s Christian Association to provide somewhere for London’s young men to escape the vices and stress of rapi…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Quintessential Whisky Drinker
Episode 269
An entry in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland on 1st June, 1495, records that Friar John Cor was given charge of eight bolls of malt, ‘wherewith to mak…
3 years, 7 months ago