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History’s favourite sex toys
*CONTENT WARNING* This episode explores mature themes such as sex and masturbation.
When the wooden object was unearthed, the archaeologists were stum…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The houseplant that changed the British Empire
On the face of it, it’s just a box. It has wooden slats, a peaked roof and glass panels. But inside this box is something that will breathe, grow, an…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Stop blaming rats for the plague
If you were asked where the plague came from you’d probably say rats. Or fleas. And you’d say it swept across Europe killing up to half of the popula…
5 months ago
A teenager’s party created Hip-Hop
It started with two turntables and a microphone and became a worldwide movement. Today, Hip hop is one of the biggest music genres in the world - and…
5 months, 1 week ago
The vote that shocked the world
In the week before Christmas 1894, a man in the South Australian parliament rolls the dice.
He makes a gamble that he thinks will pay off. It’s incred…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Beware gifts from Soviet spies
After the Second World War, relations between America, Britain and the Soviets were frosty and as the Cold War rivalry intensified, they were watchin…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Met Gala began in a dead woman’s closet
The Met Gala’s 2026 theme is Costume Art. But rewind almost 100 years ago, and the fight was to get costumes to be called art at all.
And if a handfu…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The telegram that caught a killer
When he got on the train to London, he thought he got away with it. He thought he got away with murder. But little did he know that something was rac…
6 months, 1 week ago
Clogged sink doomed a space mission
It’s 1926 and two men are working in a lab trying to create antifreeze. Instead, they make a thick, black goo that stinks out the lab and blocks the …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Ancient Greek built a steam engine for dinner parties
Long before steam trains, before factories, before the Industrial Revolution, someone figured out how to turn steam into motion. And he did it almost…
6 months, 3 weeks ago