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The ‘Windsor Shower Companion’ ($11.49) was the first product sold on home shopping network QVC, which made its debut on 24th November, 1986, quick...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 09:30
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With cutesy graphics and a female-focussed origin story, Tamagotchi was positioned as a ‘nurturing toy’ for Japanese girls when Bandai launched the...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 10:10
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Pope Clement V ordered the arrest of all Knights Templar and seizure of their properties on 22nd November, 1307: a day that sealed the fate of the ...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 09:11
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Did climate change start with the industrial revolution, or was it earlier than that? And how can the story of an everyday spice help us better und...

Bought by WXDU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Nov 23, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Hamas didn't parachute into Gaza from another planet. The Islamic Resistance Movement, its leaders and militants are an organic part of a packed po...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:39
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Recorded in 2005, teen girls from Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel all speak their truths. The group had gathered at an annual meet up at a Peace C...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Disneyland Paris, now Europe’s most popular theme park, initially haemorrhaged money – at an estimated rate of $1 million per day. But, after three...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 10:14
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In this episode we uncover the incredible story of Scottish surgeon James Braid, who entered the Manchester Athenaeum on 13th November, 1841 as a s...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 10:12
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In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 11:18
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Workers involved in tomb construction in the Valley of the Kings staged the earliest recorded strike in history on 14th November, 1157 B.C. Having ...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 10:11
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In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 11:18
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The French government introduced a new State religion on 10th November, 1793: the ‘Cult of Reason’, which attempted to reflect the anti-clerical at...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 11:10
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Presidential diplomacy now routinely involves hundreds of trips on Air Force One – but, until Theodore Roosevelt travelled to inspect the Panama Ca...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 09:06
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Bruce Miller appeared to be the victim of a violent robbery at his salvage yard when his body was discovered on 8th November, 1999 - but he had act...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 10:51
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In today’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly unearth the origin...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 10:32
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In a quirky blend of sports, public health, and self-promotion, boxing legend Muhammad Ali took on an unusual opponent at the Washington Monument o...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 10:16
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Dropping bombs from planes was unheard of until 1st November 1911, when Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti embarked on an aerial mission over Libya....

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 09:42
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For this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for 🌴 CLUB RETROSPECTORS 🌴members, we explore the incredible history of the at-home pregnancy test, fir...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 10:18
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Johnny Campbell, a medical student from the University Of Minnesota, spurred on his alma mater’s struggling football team by leading spectators in ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 09:52
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Irish popstar Sinéad O’Connor tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II during her performance of Bob Marley’s ‘War’ on NBC’s TV show ‘Saturday Night Li...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 10:13
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The ‘Women’s March’ of 1789 began spontaneously, when a market trader banged a drum in a Parisian square on 5th October – launching a chain of even...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 09:58
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In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Patreon and Apple Podcasts, Arion, Rebecca and Olly investigate th...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 11:12
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Nicholas Ray’s ‘troubled teen’ picture, ‘Rebel Without A Cause’ opened in the US on 27th October, 1955. The film was eagerly anticipated, partly du...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 11:01
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Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began chiseling the rockface of Mount Rushmore on 4th October, 1927 - the start of a 14 year project to carve Presidents Wa...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: :03
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The world’s most famous adult magazine went ‘SFW’ on 12th October, 2015 – when Scott Flanders, then Playboy’s chief executive, announced that futur...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 09:59