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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
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
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
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
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
On October 18th, 1867, the United States formally took possession of Alaska, after purchasing the territory from Russia for $7.2 million, or less t...
- Added: Oct 16, 2023
- Length: 10:04
August 21, 1965, the Beatles invaded Metropolitan Stadium for their first ever Minnesota concert, bringing together a high school photographer with...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jul 07, 2020
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 2
On this episode of Culture Clique, we catch up with Hmong activist and educator Tou Gher Xiong. Tou teaches cultural awareness through a routine of...
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 19:45
It’s the sixty-fifth time we’ve gotten together for a half-hour of top-notch entertainment!
Need we say more?
Okay, if you insist.
This episode we ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2013
- Length: 28:02
This week the Global Guru travels to Holland to learn how to insult someone... in Dutch. A surprising look at a secular society.
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 08, 2010
- Length: 02:18
- Purchases: 2
Should the U.S. give Alaska back to Russia? One presidential hopeful thinks so.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 02, 2008
- Length: 05:44
- Purchases: 1
Oglala Lakota Sioux: A Tour of the Great Plains
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KAAD-LP, WDSE, XRAY.fm and more
- Added: Oct 04, 2005
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 20
