Episode 3 of Series 3 of What The Factual? Hosts, Gill Smith and Pete Moor look through the timeline of the Victorian era and chart the huge changes in science, economics, industry and social reform, with the odd interlude where Gill gets forced into seeing a priceless early stamp and Pete relives a boring night at the theatre.

They are also looking to the skies again with the newly named "moons of moons" and they also meet Gill's new favourite fictional literary character "Roger Sideways" who, it turns out, has absolutely nothing to do with the 2005 film "Sideways" that managed to influence Wine tastes in the California wine regions...

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What The Factual? hosts Gill and Pete are back for Episode 2 of "Facts The Way I Like it!"

This week there is a slight leaning towards the USA in Pete's facts ranging from what is written above the fireplace of the White House to how to politely break into the offices of the FBI!

They also tell a wholesome tail about an auction for an Olympic Silver medal.

Gill is star gazing as usual and trying her best to avoid eating cornflakes for reasons best known to herself.

What The Factual? podcast series 3 is currently released every Tuesday and Facts The Way I Like It! is out every Friday.

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Gill takes Pete through the life and reign of Queen Victoria. They chat through her love and loss and her problematic offspring and they also discover that Gill has never watched Eastenders.

They also discover that frogs can be dangerous and Gill and Pete both went to the cinema.

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References in this episode:

news.llu.edu/research/stressed-…d-researchers-find

Mrs Brown on IMDb

www.imdb.com/title/tt0119280/

HistoryTalks: The Life of Lee Miller, Narrated by Kate Winslet

HistoryTalks: The Life of Lee Miller, Narrated by Kate Winslet - YouTube

Lee | Official Website | September 27 2024

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What The Factual? hosts Gill Smith and Pete Moor kick off their "spin off" podcast, "Facts The Way I Like It!"

In the first ever episode they discuss, heavy clouds, medieval dog names, why we say "ducks in a row", the Bannister Effect and how we can learn manners under emergency conditions from fish. They also find it very disturbing to talk about the invention of the chainsaw.

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Gill and Pete are back!!!

Series 3 kicks off with a bang. Well, some fire, some welcoming passed souls and general Halloween history starting with Samhain (Pronounced Sow-in). They delve into Stingy Jack's fraternising with the Devil, Día de los Muertos and all it's traditions and how Queen Victoria set a trend that would eventually lead to Halloween being far too sexy for it to make sense anymore.

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References used in this episode:

https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/elephants-panic-brooklyn-bridge-1883

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glynn_Wolfe?fbclid=IwAR0g7jzLbS8AoT3Znx-qCCQTjr7-odfdDlgmZBtW_Ftoo_q4UoBkxeVg9Hw

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Gill is very secretive about where she is off to this week but we coax it out of her and it turns out it's Paris! To celebrate, Pete and Gill look into the very long and varied history of the Olympic Games and a few of the forgotten events that once were part of the sporting festival... some of which they want back, but some are probably best consigned to history.

Gill also reports from Paris and sends us her take on how the Games are shaping up.

Pete gets tangled up a bit with telling Holland and The Netherlands apart and there is some (only a bit) talk of naked wrestling.

No Pigeons were harmed in the making of this podcast... The same cannot be said of the 1900 Paris Olympics.

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References in this episode:

https://olympics.com/en/news/top-reasons-why-the-athens-1896-olympics-were-important-for-modern-sport

http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/olympics/revival/intro.html

https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/g46994101/weird-olympics-facts-history/

https://www.firstpost.com/sports/olympic-humour-a-history-of-all-that-was-funny-hilarious-and-absurd-at-the-games-2939400.html/amp

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Gill & Pete Blast off into space - figuratively speaking - and look into the Apollo Missions and the Moon Landings. They also find out the huge cultural role The Muppets played in the Space Race. Gill has star-gazing dating tips but then also gets Bruce Willis mixed up with Jim Lovell. Pete attempts impersonations of not one but two US Presidents to varying degrees of success.

Also you heard it here first. The New Game Show: Shooting down Space Junk with Lazers... It's going to happen.

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We, again thoroughly recommend:

The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks

at Lightroom, London.

https://lightroom.uk/whats-on/the-moonwalkers/

References used in this episode:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/missions.html

https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/historic-speeches/address-to-joint-session-of-congress-may-25-1961

https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/stories/apollo-11-moon-landing

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/interactive-map-shows-all-21-successful-moon-landings-180972687/

https://www.history.com/news/apollo-11-moon-landing-timeline

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-amazing-facts-about-the-apollo-11-moon-landing.html

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Gill and Pete look into the roaring post-republic years of Charles II's reign. Samuel Pepys starts getting stuck into his diary while Charles just simply gets stuck in. They also find that romance still exists down on the London Underground and they find out what a missed opportunity a Liberty Moo was.. or could have been.

It also seems that Donald Duck is suffering from a bit of hey fever.

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References in this episode:

https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/blog/mind-gap-story-embankment-stations-announcement

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