This week we're heading for the coast to discover the story behind the birth of modern weather forecasting. We're also off to learn about the world's first lighthouse: the Great Lighthouse of Alexandria. Elis will be bringing some coals to Newcastle. And there's also a 4th part to this one (explain that in a second!) which is the real 4th emergency service: THE COASTGUARD.

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This week we're scanning the historic horizon to look at wondrous landmarks from down the ages. We'll be travelling to Peru to discuss Machu Picchu, you can expect a visit to the east coast of America to study the Brooklyn Bridge and finally, we're off to north-west London to hear about the creation of the British Empire Exhibition Stadium aka Wembley Stadium.

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This week we're taking a look through history at the BIG THREE emergency services: Police, Fire Brigade and the Ambulance service (with all due respect to the Coastguard and to a lesser extent The AA). We'll talk through the origins of the police and fire brigade in Ancient Rome, plus how the ambulance developed across Europe's battlefields.

All the usual features are back and ONE DAY TIME MACHINE has a twist this week: what three buttons are you choosing for your time machine? Can you better Elis' selections? Also feel free to sketch what your time machine looks like and we'll put the best ones on our instagram. To do any of that, just drop us a line at: [email protected]

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To mark the 418th anniversary of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot we thought we'd bring you a Plots episode! We've got Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators of course and joining them Catherine The Great and Washington Irving.

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This week we're taking a look at great (and not so great) inventions through the ages. We've got the Player Piano (that piano that looks like it's being played by a ghost), Tamagotchi (the virtual pet that was huge in the 90s) and the Paternoster Lift (that constantly revolving lift that looks absolutely terrifying). Plus there's naturally a mention for Sir Clive Sinclair.

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As the 20th century poet Des'ree once said: "Money don't make my world go round, I'm reaching out for a higher ground". Sadly, for the rest of us, the acquisition of money is a necessity. So this week we're back into the history books to analyse a series of money making ventures; from the Dutch Tulip craze of the 1600s to the 'Black Gold' of the Rhondda Valley and we wind the clock back to the 2000s and the infamous dot-com bubble.

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As regular listeners will note, over the past few weeks we have invented many of the world's greatest podcasting features: ONE DAY TIME MACHINE, HOW WOULD YOU IMPRESS SOMEONE IN 500AD and of course DO YOU HAVE A RELATIVE OF NOTE?

And given the fact our inbox has been so full of good stuff, we decided that this week we'd dedicate a whole episode to these HOT NEW PODCASTING FORMATS.

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This week we're dipping back through time to spend some time with the Victorians; those in the working class eating jellied eels from dirty cups, the middle classes and all their lovely spare time and the upper classes who, frankly, are having a whale of a time.

Elsewhere, there's more ONE DAY TIME MACHINE with one listener choosing to go back in time to witness possibly the greatest guitar duel ever. And there's even more facts that would mark you out in 500AD as an absolute genius. If you’ve got a one day time machine or anything else, drop us an email here: [email protected]

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Pop some chicken soup on the hob and check out this week’s episode which is: Healthcare. From how the common cold has been cured down the years, to how our ancestors diagnosed diabetes via a good old look at urine, right through to the worst headache cure you have ever heard in your life.

And ONE DAY TIME MACHINE is back once again and would you believe it? Someone has finally taken up Elis’ once scorned ‘coffee table’ option. If you’ve got a one day time machine or anything else, drop us an email here: [email protected]

We also HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT! This is the 12th episode and as we suggested, was meant to be the end of the series. But we’ve had so much fun doing this and your emails have been so funny, that we simply don’t want to stop… so WE HAVE BEEN RECOMMISSIONED! And we’ll be back next week.

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This week we're discussing Adventurers; each with varying levels of success, to put it mildly. From the race to the South Pole, to Maurice Wilson's somewhat bizarre plan to scale Everest, right through to that know-it-all William Morris and his trip to Iceland.

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