In this latest episode, the Unexpected duo, Professor James Daybell and Dr Sam Willis don their shades of history, bag the sun beds by the pool of the past, relax and pontificate on the UNEXPECTED history of SUNSHINE! Which is all about religion and worship of sun deities (via Ra, the falcon-headed Ancient Egyptian sun god, and the tomb of Nefartari in Egypt's the Valley of the Queens!) as well as the history of the suntan (and Little House of the Prairie). It's also all about the military use of the Archimedes heat ray, René Descartes and Isaac Newton, and Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War! Who knew!

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