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The Wu-Tang Scamster
Episode 248
Martin Shkreli, ‘the most hated man in America’, purchased the one extant copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s concept album ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ for …
3 years, 8 months ago
The Swedish Meatballs Controversy
Episode 247
Where are meatballs from, and why does it matter? Social media users frenziedly grappled with these very questions on 29th April, 2018, when Sweden’s…
3 years, 8 months ago
The First Space Tourist
Episode 246
Dennis Tito, a 60 year-old investment manager from California, blasted into orbit onboard a Russian Soyuz rocket on 28th April, 2001 - becoming the f…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Duel That Shocked France
Episode 245
King Henri III of France had a favourite group of young courtiers - his ‘mignons’ (or ‘cuties’, ‘sweeties’, or ‘‘darlings’) - known for dressing in a…
3 years, 8 months ago
Killing Lincoln's Killer
Episode 244
John Wilkes Booth was on the run for twelve days before being tracked down to a tobacco barn at Garrett’s Farm in Port Royal, Virginia, and shot in t…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Band of Gold Mystery
Episode 243
Freda Payne’s banger ‘Band Of Gold’ sounds like a Motown record, but actually isn’t. Although written by Berry Gordy’s hit-making trio Holland-Dozier…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Man Who Cycled The World
Episode 242
Riding a Penny Farthing bicycle from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Yokohama, Japan, Thomas Stevens began his epic two-and-a-half year journey around…
3 years, 8 months ago
Not The Loch Ness Monster
Episode 241
The ‘Surgeon’s Photograph’, as it came to be known - a supposed glimpse of Nessie papped from the lochside - was debated by Loch Ness Monster aficion…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Truth About Timbuktu
Episode 239
No European had returned alive from Timbuktu until French adventurer René Caillie, who arrived in the ‘City of Gold’ on 20th April, 1828 after an ard…
3 years, 8 months ago
Meet Shirley Temple
Episode 239
Child star Shirley Temple made her feature film debut aged six in ‘Stand Up And Cheer’, released at the height of the Depression, on 19th April, 1934…
3 years, 8 months ago