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We're deep into Passover, the holiday celebrating the Israelites liberation from slavery as told in the book of Exodus. We hope that all peoples fi...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Apr 26, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...
Bought by KKRN, KPOV, Tri States Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 34:30
- Purchases: 6
Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like … how healthy is yogurt really… Do school uniforms improve grades… and can we get e...
Bought by KKRN, KPOV, Tri States Public Radio, and KVSC
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 33:00
- Purchases: 4
Your daily 90-second dose of real science for real people! Like… do animals “break up”... is there a way to stop gaining weight when you quit smoki...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Tri States Public Radio, KKRN, KPOV, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more
- Added: Feb 21, 2024
- Length: 31:30
- Purchases: 6
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 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
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
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
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
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
On 10th October, 1967 a treaty went into force that has gone on to become the backbone for all international space law – a United Nations-approved ...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 11:20
The Secret of Monkey Island, one of the best loved video games of the point-and-click era, was released on the 15th October, 1990, without, it must...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 09:33
