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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
From: Jules Feeney
On this three-year anniversary of war in Tigray, members of the diaspora spoke about their loss, grief and commitment to solidarity.
- Added: Nov 11, 2023
- Length: 04:50
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
As the US nears its 250th anniversary, cultural conflicts risk overshadowing this milestone. Smithsonian Associate Clay Jenkinson, a public humanit...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 40:40
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
A 60th Anniversary review of the funniest album of the Kennedy era. The Grammy Award winning Album of the Year that was ultimately withdrawn from c...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 57:17
Where are we with LGBTQ+ civil rights and safety since Matthew Shepard's brutal 1998 murder? How can we curtail ongoing hate-based violence? The Ma...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 53:31
- Purchases: 9
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
