Episode
51: No Such Thing As Dodecahedral Shredded Wheat
Auguste Picard was the first person to travel basically to the closest point of space in a balloon. Then his son was Jacques Picard, who went to the bottom of the ocean to the Marianas trench. And then his son was John…
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Knutsford in Cheshire is going to widen its pavements so that two people can walk along it, and the reason two people can't walk along it is because there was this spinster called Lady James Stanley, who in the 19th…
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He has a doctorate from London Metropolitan University, which is where he did the Public Administration bit.
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The Soho Theatre is at 21 Dean Street. Apparently, in this building, a seven-year-old Mozart played the harpsichord, accompanied by his four-year-old sister.
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