Woah there, 18th Century French person, is that a potato you have? Don't you know they're evil! This week on That Time When, Amelia tells us about Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, known as the father of the potato, and coincidentally happened to look a lot like a potato as well. Seriously, look it up, it's mad. Also find out about Mr Walker's speakeasy and how to poison a king with gifts of suspicious plants.

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It's the new Butterfly Effect, a volcano in Peru can be responsible for the deaths of two million Russian people. Don't believe me? Find out what happens when Barnaby links the eruption of Huaynaputina in Peru to a famine and the Russian Time of Troubles.

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For a while, Fidel Castro, communist leader of Cuba, was basically the CIA's most wanted man. So they decided to find some ways to get rid of him; permanently. But the methods used could not have been more mad if they had been in a kids' cartoon. This week on That Time When, Amelia tells us about some of the more... unorthodox ways that the CIA tried to assassinate the communist leader, and the ridiculous ways in which they failed.

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Sometimes there are episodes of this podcast where one has to sit back and go "No, this can't be true." This is one of those times and Barnaby concludes his story of Josephine Baker, with tales of her life as a spy, her civil rights work, including the 1963 March on Washington, and the coolest death ever. It's still unbelievable, but you should definitely listen.

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Finishing off Black History Month with a two part-er, Barnaby looks at the dancer, singer, French Resistance operative, and Civil Rights activist, Josephine Baker. Because her life was so mad and busy, we've had to split it into two parts, so this week we look at the crushingly tragic early life of Josephine, before moving on to her fantastic success as a dancer and entertainer. And remember, don't mess with a woman who bottled her illegal husband.

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Time to gush about a handsome man with a streak of white in his hair who happens to be one of the greatest orators ever. So much so that it's actually quite annoying how good he is. In a story that shares some similarities to last week's show, Amelia tells us about Frederick Douglass, slave to freedman to abolitionist/orator/model. Quite the resume.

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Probably our most banal episode title yet, but what makes the story of George Africanus significant is that his rags to riches story starts with him being sold as a black slave at three years old. This week on That Time When, Barnaby decides to delve into black history month with this story of an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances, and one who has now become a prominent figure in the history of Nottingham.

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Amelia and Barnaby are both ill, but at least they don't have malaria, because there's only one surefire way to deal with that: bats. This week on That Time When, Amelia tells us the story of bat houses, mosquitos, and we answer the age old question: can you tempt a bat with a perfectly good ham?

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Poor people of Windham, they were having a hell of a time in 1754. War was happening around them, a drought was making everything awful, and they were about to become the laughingstock of the Americas. But hey, they rolled with it. Find out what it was that woke them up one muggy June night and how it changed the fate of the town.

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Ladies of London, protect your thighs and your bum, because a really weird sort of pervert is going around slashing women for... no real reason? This week on That Time When, Amelia tells us about the London monster, who terrorised the streets of London (Surprise, surprise) in the 18th century. So get your giant cork underwear on and have a listen.

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