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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.

Kublai Khan's Kamikaze Climbdown

11 mins; November 04, 2025

Digging Up King Tut

11 mins; November 03, 2025

Phil Spector's 'Phantom Voice'

12 mins; November 02, 2025

The BBC's Halloween Hoax

11 mins; October 30, 2025

The Slave Rebellion

13 mins; October 29, 2025

The M25 - Britain's Biggest Carpark

11 mins; October 28, 2025

Jane Austen and the Profligate Prince

10 mins; October 27, 2025

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

12 mins; October 26, 2025

Mourning Jane Seymour

12 mins; October 23, 2025

Meet The Smurfs

11 mins; October 22, 2025

Not The End Of The World

11 mins; October 21, 2025

Madonna's Naked Photos

11 mins; October 20, 2025

Parachute!

11 mins; October 19, 2025

The Sound of the Circus

12 mins; October 16, 2025

The Baby in the Well

11 mins; October 16, 2025

How Lincoln Got His Beard

11 mins; October 14, 2025

Mary Queen of Plots

11 mins; October 13, 2025

Suffragettes... in the House!

12 mins; October 13, 2025

Governing Outer Space

13 mins; October 09, 2025

When Sumo Came To London

12 mins; October 08, 2025

The Permanent Wave

11 mins; October 07, 2025

TV's Greatest Salesman

11 mins; October 06, 2025

America’s 1st Train Robbery 🚂💰

10 mins; October 05, 2025

When Sinéad Shocked America

11 mins; October 02, 2025

Meet Charlie Brown

12 mins; October 01, 2025

Postcards - The Poor Man's Telephone

11 mins; September 30, 2025

The Shipwrecked Mr. Crusoe

11 mins; September 29, 2025

What Happened To Couto Misto?

11 mins; September 28, 2025

Yves Rossy: Rocketman

11 mins; September 25, 2025

The Falcon Clause: Dividing Britain

12 mins; September 24, 2025

America's Transgender Celebrity

11 mins; September 23, 2025

See Facts? Ceefax!

11 mins; September 22, 2025

The Candy Bomber of Berlin

12 mins; September 21, 2025

Discovering The Iceman

12 mins; September 18, 2025

Welcome To Tiffany's

11 mins; September 17, 2025

Vanessa Williams vs. Miss America

12 mins; September 16, 2025

The First Student Newspaper

11 mins; September 15, 2025

Digging the Trenches

12 mins; September 14, 2025

Barrett ❤️ Browning

14 mins; September 11, 2025

Let's Build The Pentagon

11 mins; September 10, 2025

France's Last Execution

12 mins; September 09, 2025

Laughter, Uncanned

11 mins; September 08, 2025

Making Michelangelo's David

12 mins; September 07, 2025

Welcome To Bavaria, U.S.A.

12 mins; September 04, 2025

The Quiz Show That Won The Jackpot

12 mins; September 03, 2025

Who Invented The Air Fryer?

12 mins; September 02, 2025

Queen Of The Cuban Sea

11 mins; September 01, 2025

Why Japan Loves Baseball

11 mins; August 31, 2025

The Last Of His Tribe

11 mins; August 28, 2025

The First Gay Games

12 mins; August 27, 2025

The 38 Minute War

13 mins; August 26, 2025

Colin The Caterpillar - A Cultural Odyssey

11 mins; August 25, 2025

Beavers on the Moon

12 mins; August 24, 2025

Leaving Devil's Island

11 mins; August 21, 2025

Cat Bin Lady, Internet Villain

12 mins; August 20, 2025

The Rolling Stones' Biggest Hit

13 mins; August 19, 2025

The Surprising Start of Vietnemese Nail Bars

11 mins; August 18, 2025

Apartheid and the Olympics

11 mins; August 17, 2025

The Real Macbeth

12 mins; August 14, 2025

Capturing Carlos The Jackal

12 mins; August 13, 2025

Building The Berlin Wall

13 mins; August 12, 2025

Ponzi Gets Busted

10 mins; August 11, 2025

Who Invented Hip Hop?

11 mins; August 10, 2025

I Need A Dollar

10 mins; August 07, 2025

The Aryan Polynesian Hypothesis

12 mins; August 06, 2025

The First Woman To Swim The Channel

12 mins; August 05, 2025

Houdini's Last Escape

11 mins; August 04, 2025

Bekonscot: Britain In Miniature

12 mins; August 03, 2025

The First Michelin Guide

11 mins; July 31, 2025

The Great Rum Debate

12 mins; July 30, 2025

Where's Jimmy Hoffa?

11 mins; July 29, 2025

The First Boy Scouts

11 mins; July 28, 2025

The Plane That Crashed into the Empire State

12 mins; July 27, 2025

Is it a Boat? Is it a Plane? No, it's Hovercraft

11 mins; July 24, 2025

The Aussies Who Outswam The Soviets

13 mins; July 23, 2025

Inside The Molly House

11 mins; July 22, 2025

The World's First Motor Race

11 mins; July 21, 2025

Let's Build Central Park

11 mins; July 20, 2025

The Web's First Image

10 mins; July 17, 2025

Rebranding the Royal Family

11 mins; July 16, 2025

The Kennedy Curse

13 mins; July 15, 2025

The Red Planet Gets Closer

11 mins; July 14, 2025

Catching Billy The Kid

12 mins; July 13, 2025

Blasphemy!

12 mins; July 10, 2025

Adventures of the Boy Horsemen

12 mins; July 09, 2025

Bill Haley's Teenage Anthem

13 mins; July 08, 2025

The Miracle in the Ashes

11 mins; July 07, 2025

America's Child Ambassador

11 mins; July 06, 2025

Defeat of the Great White Hope 🥊

12 mins; July 03, 2025

When Bowie Killed Ziggy

12 mins; July 02, 2025

Cecil The Lion: Trophy Kill

12 mins; July 01, 2025

The Walkman Effect

11 mins; June 30, 2025

Writing 'Gone With The Wind'

12 mins; June 29, 2025

Meet The Black Donnelleys

12 mins; June 26, 2025

Scanning The First Barcode

12 mins; June 25, 2025

The Playboy, the Architect and the Showgirl

13 mins; June 24, 2025

The Town That Danced To Death

11 mins; June 23, 2025

Busting 'The Teflon Don'

12 mins; June 22, 2025

Inside The Black Hole of Calcutta

12 mins; June 19, 2025

It's A Royal Cock-up

13 mins; June 18, 2025

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