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The focus is on synthesized music at Jazz Implosion Mondays, August 12, 19 and 26 at Icehouse in Minneapolis. The series is curated by deVon Gray. ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2024
- Length: 08:00
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
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
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
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
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
In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 11:18
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
Sir Anthony Blunt, esteemed art historian and a favourite of the Royal family, was publicly revealed as a Soviet spy on 15th November, 1979, when P...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 10:13
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
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
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
The first meteorite to crash land into Earth - and have its date recorded - impacted the hamlet of Ensisheim (in modern-day France, then Austria) o...
- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 09:33
In today’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly unearth the origin...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 10:32
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
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
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
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
On 30 October, 1990, with little fanfare and without any cameras present, the first connection was made between the French half and the British hal...
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 10:26
When Queen and David Bowie met in Switzerland to record their iconic collaboration ‘Under Pressure’ on 26th October, 1981, *quite a lot* of drugs a...
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 10:06
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
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
According to the 17th-century Archbishop James Ussher, the world began on 23rd October, 4004 BC at precisely midday.
Today, it is easy to ridicule...
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 09:52
In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Patreon and Apple Podcasts, Arion, Rebecca and Olly investigate th...
- Added: Oct 25, 2023
- Length: 11:12
‘Ghostwatch’, a Halloween drama in the style of a documentary, reached 11 million viewers on its first and only UK broadcast on BBC 1, on 31st Octo...
- Added: Oct 25, 2023
- Length: 09:36