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Harrison learns about the Nottingham cheese riot of 1766 when a bunch of Lincolnshire merchants tried to buy and spirit away Nottingham’s cheese. What started with a bunch of “rude boys” shouting at the merchants ended up morphing into a riot that spanned over a number of days. Nottingham’s mayor was also knocked off his feet…by a cheese wheel!

Chris then finds out all about London - and the world’s - first traffic light. Unfortunately for the policeman operating it, and the traffic management’s designer, it wasn’t a success with somewhat explosive consequences. You’ll also find out what a ‘cat's meat man‘ is too, which alone is worth the listen!

Harrison discovers some of the weirdest and spookiest Halloween related world record breakers. There’s a guy who can carve a Jack-o'-lantern in mere seconds through to the largest pumpkin in the world, that also travelled 35 hours to be judged!

Chris meanwhile learns about witches and the women who were accused of being witches and how they were persecuted, tortured and killed throughout the 15th century for over 200 years. It was certainly a dark period of history and far scarier than any Halloween tale!

Chris learns about some bonkers Darwin Award winners. If you haven’t heard of them, the Darwin Awards officially were started in 1993 to celebrate individuals who remove themselves from the gene pool in spectacular ways, usually quite unintentionally. You’ll hear about a bunch of people who met quite messy ends in this darkly humorous episode.

Harrison meanwhile checks out the story of a 75 year old grandma who managed to shut down the internet with a shovel. Go granny! Also, give us our internet back already.

Chris investigates an explosion that you’ve probably never heard of, but one that devastated the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1917, injuring at least 9,000 people and making some 25,000 homeless. In the middle of freezing temperatures and a six-day blizzard. A story of appalling luck and human resilience.

Harrison meanwhile finds out all about Elizabeth Swaney who qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics as a member of the Hungarian team. Her chosen sport? The half-pipe. Only, she couldn’t do any tricks…

Meanwhile, Chris discovers some of the crazy duels of the past. Duels were mostly fought by upper-class and noble men of issues of honour, but that wasn’t always the case as we also find out about a couple of duels that involved women.

Ever regretted sending an e-mail with a typo? I’m sure we all have, but in this episode, Harrison learns about people and companies that suffered major financial damage from a single typo. Be careful out there!

Meanwhile, Chris discovers some of the crazy duels of the past. Duels were mostly fought by upper-class and noble men of issues of honour, but that wasn’t always the case as we also find out about a couple of duels that involved women.

You probably can’t understand it today, but in the 1800s, cocaine infused wine was a thing. So popular in fact, the producers couldn’t produce enough of it to supply consumers needs. In this episode, Harrison learns all about how not one, but two popes loved the product so much that they even went as so far as to advertise it to the general public.

Chris meanwhile finds out all about some bonkers English laws that either never were or that did exist but have since been repealed. For example, it might be illegal to kill one of the Queen’s swans, but it isn’t a traitorous act. However there was a time when you couldn’t wear outrageous and monstrous double ruff shirts at Queen Elizabeth I’s court. Because when you’re an autocratic monarch, what you say goes!

On this bonkers episode, Chris has been looking in to the 1904 Olympic marathon, an event so dangerous it nearly killed the poor sods running in it, and was briefly won by a cheater! The man who ended up winning paid a hell of a price to do so.

Then Harrison tells us about Lawn chair Larry, Chris' new hero. A truck driver from America who could never quite give up his dream of flying. Despite terrible eye sight, no plane and no licence, he was determined to make his dream a reality!

This week, learn about the LeMans 24hr Endurance Race, the oldest regularly held race in history. Harrison also tells the tale of the 1953 race, when health and safety was absolutely not a thing, and the incredible story of Jaguar’s number 18 car and its drivers.

Then Chris has been learning about Pepsi Co and a fact about the company, sent in to us by a listener, which is so crazy, Chris didn’t believe it when he first read it!

In this episode Chris has discovered what the most dangerous animals on the planet are and you may be surprised to learn what the top predator is. There are buffalo, mosquitoes and box jelly fish. We hope you’re not too terrified to go swimming after this episode!

Harrison meanwhile checks out the most elaborate schemes for tax avoidance. You’ll be shocked to learn that not many wealthy Greek homeowners pay their pool tax, but the tax authorities had a plan to find them anyway…

On this episode Chris has been learning about the frankly terrifying history of nuclear weapons that have been lost by the worlds super powers, known as broken arrows. Learn about several times we’ve come perilously close to a nuclear accident.

Then Harrison tells us about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, a story with so many examples of bad luck and judgement and unfortunate circumstances, which would ultimately lead to the First World War, and the deaths of millions of people.