Mike Reads Wikipedia

By Mike Dicks

Mike Dicks is the self styled Mayor of a fictitious town called Trumpton and is under strict orders not to come to bed untill he's read the entirety of wikipedia,

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Mike Reads Wikipedia episodes:

April 13, 2021 The Apple Crumble Controversy
Normally I avoid contentious articles on Wikipedia – you know ones that are controversial and badly in need of a brisk edit – but today I was thinking about Apple Crumbles so I went to Wikipedia to find out about the history of the dish, only to discover they had merged the article with one about an American dessert called an Apple Crisp! – you can hear my disbelief throughout this episode and read along yourself HERE:
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10min
April 11, 2021 Devil's Dyke in Sussex
There are quite a few places in the UK called Devil's Dyke, one of them is near to where I live in Sussex and I thought I would take a look at the Wikipedia entry for it today.

You can read along HERE

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10min
April 08, 2021 Henry Box Brown
I read a newspaper article about a man who had posted himself from Australia to the UK in the 1960s, so I went to look in Wikipedia to find other stories of Human Post - this one, about Henry Box Brown caught my eye - so I read it into a mic and now here we are.

Read along HERE

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12min
April 06, 2021 Zefram Cochrane
For the last few days I've been thinking about Star Trek and drew a couple of cartoons about the show, including a rendition of the HMSS Brexit - my spoof version of the show. The day after First Contact Day (5/4/2021) - thee day that celebrates a fictional event that won't happen till 2063 - I thought I'd turn to the page of Wikipedia that covers Zefram Cochrane

Click here to read the article yourselfor let me read it for you.

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10min
April 05, 2021 General Jumbo
General Jumbo, one of my all time favourite comic book characters, inspired me to do a drawing/photo montage this morning, so I thought I would investigate the, rather short, article about him on Wikipedia - I discovered his name - which I didn't know - and a little bit of his back story in this short episode

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8min
April 04, 2021 The Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square
These days it seems that statues are becoming a protected species, so I thought I'd read the Wikipedia article about the Statue of Winston Churchill that was being protected by a dozen or so police officers yesterday.

Read along, if you like, by opening the article here

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11min
April 02, 2021 David Low (Cartoonist)
This episode is not really a random article, it's a chosen page about David Low, my favourite political cartoonist who allegedly appeared in Hitler's Black Book of people he wanted arrested or killed when he invaded the UK. If you'd like to read the article click HERE - otherwise let me read it for you.
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11min
April 01, 2021 The London Beer Flood
Returning to the a link in The Boston Molassacre story in Episode 3 - Mike finds out about a flood of beer that swept through Soho in the 1814. Read the article yourself here
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14min
March 31, 2021 Trumpton!
This episode is a little less random than the previous 4 as it's about a fictional town that part of me now lives in called Trumpton. Surprising, even I found out a little more about my favourite town reading this article, so I hope you do too.

Link to the Wikipedia Article here

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23min
March 30, 2021 The Clock of the Long Now
Another random Wikipedia entry read by Mike Dicks - this time about a clock that's being designed and built to measure time over the next 10,000 years - it involves the CEO of Amazon and Brian Eno and a lot of information about how clocks and civil unrest might not play nice together.

If you want to read along here is a LINK

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25min

FAQs about Mike Reads Wikipedia:

How many episodes does Mike Reads Wikipedia have?

The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.