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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 Search For Pancho Villa

12 mins; January 27, 2025

The Ancients v The Moderns

11 mins; January 26, 2025

Henry VIII's Head Injury

11 mins; January 23, 2025

Rock N Roll's Big Night

12 mins; January 22, 2025

Here Come The Swiss Guards

12 mins; January 21, 2025

The DeLorean Dream

12 mins; January 20, 2025

Ozzy vs. Bat

11 mins; January 19, 2025

Conflict of Interest: Helen Lewis on Destruction and Reconstruction

45 mins; January 17, 2025

Rebooting 'The Rivals'

11 mins; January 16, 2025

Meet Don Quixote

12 mins; January 15, 2025

How 'Hill Street Blues' Made TV Grow Up

12 mins; January 14, 2025

The Caesarean Frontier

12 mins; January 13, 2025

A Deadly Day At The Races

11 mins; January 12, 2025

Sinclair's Electric Dream

12 mins; January 09, 2025

Introducing Income Tax

12 mins; January 08, 2025

Let's Capture Monaco

12 mins; January 07, 2025

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12 mins; January 06, 2025

Tonya and Nancy: Fire and Ice

13 mins; January 05, 2025

Best Of 2024: Richard II’s Blowout Banquet

13 mins; January 02, 2025

Best Of 2024: TV’s First Soap Opera

13 mins; January 01, 2025

Best Of 2024: The Man Who Sold The Wind

14 mins; December 31, 2024

Retrospectors Quiz of the Year 2024

28 mins; December 19, 2024

Meet Ebenezer Scrooge

11 mins; December 18, 2024

Renée and Renato's Christmas Hit

12 mins; December 17, 2024

The First Christmas Card

11 mins; December 16, 2024

When Thatcher Met Gorbachev

12 mins; December 15, 2024

Who Ate All The Mayonnaise?

11 mins; December 12, 2024

Winona's Shoplifting Scandal

12 mins; December 11, 2024

Angry Birds Begins

10 mins; December 10, 2024

The Dog Statue Controversy

12 mins; December 09, 2024

Theirs Not To Reason Why

11 mins; December 08, 2024

Joyce Brothers - $64,000 Swot

11 mins; December 05, 2024

Christie's First Auction

12 mins; December 04, 2024

The Earliest Dinosaur 🦕

13 mins; December 03, 2024

Where's Agatha Gone?

12 mins; December 02, 2024

The Enron Illusion

13 mins; December 01, 2024

Concorde - The Future of Flight

11 mins; November 28, 2024

The Cabbage Patch Riots

12 mins; November 27, 2024

Mitzvahpalooza!

11 mins; November 26, 2024

The First Frat House

11 mins; November 25, 2024

The Medieval Titanic

11 mins; November 24, 2024

Star Trek's Interracial Kiss

11 mins; November 21, 2024

Let's Revolve A Restaurant

11 mins; November 20, 2024

Beethoven's Biggest Flop

11 mins; November 19, 2024

Pelé's 1000th Goal

11 mins; November 18, 2024

Year of the Fistula

11 mins; November 17, 2024

The (Lady) Pirates of the Carribbean

11 mins; November 14, 2024

When Anne Married Mark

11 mins; November 13, 2024

What Happened At Amityville

12 mins; November 12, 2024

The Exploding Whale

13 mins; November 11, 2024

Gangsters on the Gallows

12 mins; November 10, 2024

Scott & Charlene Get Hitched

11 mins; November 07, 2024

The Elephant and The Donkey

11 mins; November 06, 2024

Catherine The Dead

12 mins; November 05, 2024

The Men Who Stole Monopoly

12 mins; November 04, 2024

America's First Catwalk

12 mins; November 03, 2024

We ♥ Emoji

10 mins; October 31, 2024

Casanova's Prison Escape

12 mins; October 30, 2024

The 'War of the Worlds' Panic

11 mins; October 29, 2024

Stealing The Star Of India

12 mins; October 28, 2024

Meet Lemuel Gulliver

12 mins; October 27, 2024

How To Bribe A Senator

10 mins; October 24, 2024

Meet Mr Blobby

12 mins; October 23, 2024

1,000 Songs In Your Pocket

12 mins; October 22, 2024

The Body in the Cellar

12 mins; October 21, 2024

The Greatest Samurai Battle ⚔️

11 mins; October 20, 2024

Calling Andrew Sachs

10 mins; October 18, 2024

The Exploding Tank of Beer

11 mins; October 16, 2024

Crown The Concubine

13 mins; October 15, 2024

Journey To Monkey Island

11 mins; October 14, 2024

Meet Sherlock Holmes

11 mins; October 13, 2024

Branson's Cola Gamble

11 mins; October 10, 2024

The Smell of the Big Screen

12 mins; October 09, 2024

Killing Yugoslavia's King

12 mins; October 08, 2024

The World's First Constitution

11 mins; October 07, 2024

Invasion of the Identical Twins

11 mins; October 06, 2024

Birth of The Breastaurant

11 mins; October 03, 2024

The End Of Siegfried & Roy

11 mins; October 02, 2024

Creating Opus Dei

11 mins; October 01, 2024

Screening The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

13 mins; September 30, 2024

Time For Tea ☕

13 mins; September 29, 2024

When 3-D First Flopped

11 mins; September 26, 2024

The French King of Sweden

12 mins; September 25, 2024

Praise The Lord, It's Billy Graham

11 mins; September 24, 2024

Sexing Up Jane Austen

10 mins; September 23, 2024

Richard II's Blowout Banquet

11 mins; September 22, 2024

Fonzie Jumps The Shark

11 mins; September 19, 2024

Let's Illuminate Blackpool

12 mins; September 18, 2024

How the Paralympics Began

13 mins; September 17, 2024

Mary, King of Hungary

11 mins; September 16, 2024

The Oklahoma Land Grab

12 mins; September 15, 2024

I'mma Let You Finish

11 mins; September 12, 2024

Meet The Monkees

12 mins; September 11, 2024

The Real Lord of the Flies

12 mins; September 10, 2024

Leopold And Loeb: Life Plus 99 Years

13 mins; September 09, 2024

OMG! From Churchill to Chatrooms

13 mins; September 08, 2024

The Self Service Revolution

11 mins; September 05, 2024

Bring On The Beard Tax

11 mins; September 04, 2024

The Night The Earls Vanished

12 mins; September 03, 2024

Introducing eBay

12 mins; September 02, 2024

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