In which you will learn:

• What to expect for Christmas Dinner in Serbia
• Which Swedish Town is up to their ears in burnt goat
• Why we send Christmas Cards

In which you will learn:

• How to cure a snake bite... if all you have available to you is an Ancient Roman text
• What Pliny the Elder believed happened to women who died in the water
• What Pliny believed about the height of the human race

In which you will learn:

• About some truly weird prizes offered on reality shows
• The general premise of a bunch of the weird ones
• Which reality TV shows Jazz would consider thinking about watching

In which you will learn:

... in Australia...

• Which Australian word was banned from use in parliament
• Who not to dress as at a fancy dress party
• Where you must never put your goat

In which you will learn:

... in the UK...

- What you may not do to a cow while it is sleeping.

- The age at which it becomes legal to do just about anything (except vote)

- How much longbow practice men should be getting in each week.

In which you will learn:

- Not a lot, really...

In which you will learn

• Some spoopy stories about ghosts
• Which house in London is the Most HauntedTM
• Way more than you ever needed to know about locations used by a certain UK-based ghost hunting series

In which you will learn

• Some neat obsolete and obscure words that really should come back into common usage
• For which language the first ever dictionary was written
• Which word has the most definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary

In which you will learn:

• What a boggart would really do to you if it was lurking in your house
• About Sir Francis Drake and his magical drum
• The names of a whole lot of mythical creatures you should really stay away from

In which you will learn:

• Some bizarre names celebs have given their personal vineyards
• What makes red wines red
• Where to go to participate in the best marathon in the world

Guest host: Clare (our resident wine expert)