The Plaice to Know

Episode

602: No Such Thing As 'What's My Spoon?'

2025-09-25 ยท 3 places on the map ยท episode transcript

  1. KeflavikOne-offIceland

    When they arrived in Keflavik, the locals gave them a salute of water โ€” they got hose pipes so that the plane could go through them, which sounds dangerous, especially in Iceland.

    mentioned at 00:27:36 ยท See it on the map โ†’

  2. Chelsea Football ClubOne-offUnited Kingdom

    Ken Bates bought Chelsea Football Club for one pound in 1982, then sold it to Roman Abramovich for 140 million pounds about 20 years later.

    mentioned at 00:30:14 ยท See it on the map โ†’

  3. PoundlandOne-offUnited Kingdom

    The business idea for Poundland came because on their market stall they had a box where everything was 10p and people would just go in and grab something and put their 10p in โ€” they thought they could make this a bigโ€ฆ

    mentioned at 00:32:03 ยท See it on the map โ†’

๐ŸŸ Reel me another one ยท โ† Back to the map