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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
This episode features author R. Eric Thomas, comedian Ian Karmel, and music from indie group NONBINARY GIRLFRIEND.
- Added: Nov 22, 2023
- Length: 58:59
This special holiday edition of Live Wire features comedian and podcaster Paul F. Tompkins, poet José Olivarez, and singer-songwriter Esme Patterson.
- Added: Nov 15, 2023
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
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 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
In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 11:18
- Added: Nov 11, 2023
- Length: 59:36
This episode features comedian and podcaster Paul F. Tompkins, poet and memoirist Safiya Sinclair, and music from Isabeau Waia'u Walker.
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 59:00
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
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
This episode features podcaster and journalist Kelsey McKinney, poet Brenda Shaughnessy, and music from singer-songwriter Madison Cunningham.
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Radio show aired 11/1/23 on KZCT 89.5 FM Vallejo, CA (Ozcatradio.com) . Show was inspired by a new album by The Third Mind (Dave Alvin, Victor Krum...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 02:01:03
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
This episode features runner and author Lauren Fleshman, comedian and writer Joey Clift, and music from indie supergroup Who Is She?
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 58:59
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
This episode features comedian and writer Aparna Nancherla, stand-up comedy from Gary Gulman, and music from singer-songwriter No-No Boy.
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 59:00
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
Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published on October 2nd, 1902. The book was an instant sensation, needing reprints almost immediatel...
- Added: Oct 24, 2023
- Length: 10:22
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
The world’s most famous cabaret, the Moulin Rouge, opened its doors in Paris on 6th October, 1889. Founded by Joseph Oller and Charles Zidler, the ...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 10:02
In today’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORS supporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly look at the world's...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 09:20
