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Today In History with The Retrospectors

Curious, funny, surprising daily history - with Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina and Arion McNicoll.From the invention of the Game Boy to the Mancunian beer-poisoning of 1900, from Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain to America's Nazi summer schools... each day we uncover an unexpected story for the ages. In just ten minutes!Best Daily Podcast (British Podcast Awards 2023 nominee).Get early access and ad-free listening at Patreon.com/Retrospectors or subscribe on Apple Podcasts.

The First Motorbike

11 mins; April 02, 2026

Let's Legalise Pinball

13 mins; April 01, 2026

The Spaghetti Harvest

11 mins; March 31, 2026

Riot in the Concert Hall

11 mins; March 30, 2026

The First Ever Starbucks

12 mins; March 29, 2026

Cleopatra ❤️ Caesar

12 mins; March 26, 2026

The Heaven's Gate 'Ascendancy'

13 mins; March 25, 2026

Flour Power: The Tichborne Dole and the Biddenden Maids

12 mins; March 24, 2026

The Suffragettes of Sport

11 mins; March 24, 2026

Ricky Martin's Latin Explosion

11 mins; March 22, 2026

What Caused The Black Death?

12 mins; March 19, 2026

The Horse Bus

12 mins; March 18, 2026

Braille For Your Feet

11 mins; March 17, 2026

Parading for St Paddy

11 mins; March 16, 2026

Burn The Heretics!

12 mins; March 15, 2026

Fall of the Maya

11 mins; March 12, 2026

Yes, We Canberra

12 mins; March 11, 2026

Meet The Luddites

12 mins; March 10, 2026

The Foreigners Fighting For France

11 mins; March 09, 2026

Stalin's Daughter

12 mins; March 08, 2026

Shutting Down Napster

11 mins; March 05, 2026

Hula Hoop Mania!

11 mins; March 05, 2026

John Lennon's Jesus Controversy

12 mins; March 03, 2026

Comstock's War On Obscenity

11 mins; March 02, 2026

It's King Kong!

11 mins; March 01, 2026

Unmasking Mardi Gras

12 mins; February 26, 2026

And The Winner Isn't

12 mins; February 25, 2026

The Lonely Hearts Serial Killer

11 mins; February 24, 2026

Hello Francis, this is God

11 mins; February 23, 2026

Get Your Specs On!

11 mins; February 22, 2026

Let's Colonise Florida

12 mins; February 19, 2026

Benedict Arnold: American Traitor

14 mins; February 18, 2026

The Prince Who Drowned in Wine

11 mins; February 17, 2026

From Hitler To Herbie: The VW Beetle

11 mins; February 16, 2026

Write Me A Cheque

12 mins; February 15, 2026

The Jamaican Bobsled Team

12 mins; February 12, 2026

Malcolm X in Smethwick

13 mins; February 12, 2026

The Urinary Leash

11 mins; February 10, 2026

Meet Tom and Jerry

12 mins; February 09, 2026

Magic Johnson: Hoops and Hope

12 mins; February 08, 2026

I Am Anastasia

12 mins; February 05, 2026

The Studio Run By The Stars

13 mins; February 04, 2026

Barry Bremen, The Great Imposter

11 mins; February 03, 2026

The £21,000 Masque

11 mins; February 02, 2026

The Truth Machine

11 mins; February 01, 2026

Bring Me The Head of Oliver Cromwell

12 mins; January 29, 2026

Desert Island Discs' First Castaway

13 mins; January 28, 2026

Lego Shifts To Plastic

11 mins; January 27, 2026

Let's Embalm Lenin

11 mins; January 26, 2026

There's A Baby In The Post

12 mins; January 25, 2026

The Elephants of War

11 mins; January 22, 2026

Unmasking New York's 'Mad Bomber'

13 mins; January 21, 2026

The Chastity Belt and the Frenchman

11 mins; January 20, 2026

Lalli and the Axe

12 mins; January 19, 2026

Britain's Last Witch

11 mins; January 18, 2026

Shooting 'Dr. No'

11 mins; January 15, 2026

Death By Molasses

13 mins; January 14, 2026

New York meets Snow White

12 mins; January 13, 2026

Henry IV and the Philosopher's Stone

12 mins; January 12, 2026

Creating The National Trust

11 mins; January 11, 2026

Let's Bury Nelson

12 mins; January 08, 2026

Britain's First Black MPs

11 mins; January 07, 2026

Here Come the Harlem Globetrotters ⛹🏾‍♂️

11 mins; January 06, 2026

Rink-O-Mania!

11 mins; January 05, 2026

Alfred Dreyfus: From Officer To Outcast

14 mins; January 04, 2026

Best Of 2025: The 'Ten Cent Beer Night' Riot

14 mins; January 02, 2026

Best Of 2025: Land Rover's Rugged Beginnings

13 mins; January 01, 2026

Best Of 2025: The 'New Coke' Debacle

15 mins; December 31, 2025

Retrospectors Quiz of the Year 2025

27 mins; December 18, 2025

When Cliff Ruled Christmas 🕊️🍷

11 mins; December 18, 2025

Meet The Simpsons

12 mins; December 16, 2025

The Krays in Soho

11 mins; December 15, 2025

Where's Glenn Miller?

12 mins; December 14, 2025

Is That Mary Magdalene?

12 mins; December 11, 2025

The Muppets Do Dickens

13 mins; December 10, 2025

Sinatra's Slapstick Kidnapping

11 mins; December 09, 2025

Welcome To Wetherspoons

11 mins; December 08, 2025

Britain's First Actresses

12 mins; December 07, 2025

Who Needs A Switchboard?

12 mins; December 04, 2025

What Happened to the Mary Celeste?

12 mins; December 03, 2025

The Potato-Porting Polymath

11 mins; December 02, 2025

Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madam

11 mins; December 01, 2025

The Vietnam Lottery

12 mins; November 30, 2025

The Sound of Luxury

11 mins; November 27, 2025

Alger Hiss and the Pumpkin Papers

13 mins; November 26, 2025

Signal-Jamming Aliens

11 mins; November 25, 2025

Elizabeth of Russia's Bloodless Coup

11 mins; November 24, 2025

The First Boob Job

11 mins; November 23, 2025

The First Hanukkah

11 mins; November 20, 2025

Microsoft's Windows Gamble

13 mins; November 19, 2025

London's First Olympics

11 mins; November 18, 2025

William Tell's Apple Adventures

11 mins; November 17, 2025

The Star Wars Holiday Horror

12 mins; November 16, 2025

Let's Go On Strike

11 mins; November 13, 2025

Big Ben's First BONGGGG

13 mins; November 12, 2025

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

11 mins; November 11, 2025

Alice Chaucer, Three Times A Wife

11 mins; November 10, 2025

How To Get To Sesame Street

12 mins; November 09, 2025

Meteorite!

11 mins; November 06, 2025

How '24' Changed TV

12 mins; November 05, 2025

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