Episodes

Queen Victoria thrilled the locals with a personal appearance on May 6th 1882, to dedicate Epping Forest, near London, as ‘the people’s forest’.    It was a pivotal moment in the preservation of green space for public recreation – as industrialisation around the capital lead to increasing swathes of land being developed for profit. In […]

It was standing room only at Birmingham Town Hall on May 5, 1964 – the day legendary anti-smut campaigner Mary Whitehouse launched her ‘Clean Up TV’ campaign.   Claiming the BBC’s Director-General was “responsible for the moral collapse in this country”, she went on to attract 366,355 signatures to her petition opposing the “disbelief, doubt

Thirteen years before ever being broadcast, the Grammys took their first steps into rock n’ roll history on May 4, 1959 – when, curiously, they were held in two separate cities on the same night.   If you were a fan of rock n’roll, however, you’d have been sorely disappointed by the winners – ‘Tequila’

Eva Gabor’s appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on May 3rd, 1966 introduced the party game ‘Twister’ to an appreciative nation.  Previously considered too racy for toy distributors, who nicknamed it ‘sex in a box’, the game went on to sell an astonishing three million copies in that year alone. But it was

Revisiting remarkable moments from history – with considerably less respect than that suggests. new daily entertainment show from Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina, and Arion McNicoll.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.