Episode
432: No Such Thing As Sexygesimal Time
He was the first person in the UK to say, all the winners of the awards, music awards, let's get them all together in a big concert at Wembley. I think it was Wembley Arena, which is the Empire Pool at the time. That's…
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They've got the largest fern in the UK at Colby Woodland Garden. It's 400 years old, 19 feet around.
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The founding story of the National Trust has a lot of great characters at its beginning. There were sort of three founders — a lawyer, clergyman, and a social reformer. Sounds like a salvo joke, doesn't it? A lawyer, a…
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Paris Observatory was the other big contender for where official time would rest — it ended up being Greenwich. They defined Greenwich time as Paris time minus two and a half minutes, and until about the 1990s they…
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The Bank of England is right next to Bank Station. The actual tunnel itself has to take a bend — next time you're on the underground, you'll notice that there's a turn, and that's because they're going around the vault.
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