When One Thing Leads To Another

In this series one finale (don't worry – they'll soon be back), Helen and Bill share some the weird, wonderful and downright random facts their listeners have written in to tell them about. They also have some wrongs they put right!

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The anarchic British sitcom The Young Ones was first broadcast 40 years ago, so Helen and Bill begin their journey down the great internet rabbit hole with the students of Scumbag College. From there, they discover a bunch of fact-based gems about the band Traffic, the musical Evita, Che Guevara and even the Argentinian Church of Diego Maradona.

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Helen and Bill went to see Kraftwerk perform their 3D show in London, so this week's episode begins there, but before you know it, our hosts are led down the internet rabbit hole to Gilbert & George, Shakin' Stevens, The Simpsons, Jimmy Finlayson and the Dutch word for "soft dung".

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Helen and Bill were invited to review the film, The Gray Man on Flixwatcher.tv and so this week's episode of WOTLTA starts there, and ends with The Hee Bee Gee Bees (a Bee Gees parody group), via The Chateau de Chantilly, the wedding of Charles and DI, Private Eye magazine and John Lennon.

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The Norfolk Broads is the starting point to this week's episode and before you know it, Helen and Bill discover a booty of fact-based gems about everything and anything from David Bowie and Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson to Barbarella and Paco Rabanne, via the world's most expensive restaurant and Nostradamus.

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Helen's penchant for Magnum ice cream takes her and Bill on a fascinating trip down the internet rabbit hole where they discover a booty of fact-based gems on Shaun of the Dead and Walls' sausages, which then leads them on to Barbra Streisand and Kermit the Frog, via the 80's teen TV show Metal Mickey and Tom Selleck.

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This week, Helen and Bill go from high culture with Picasso and Leonardo Da Vinci to less than high culture with The Spice Girls and Walt Disney, as they dig out some fascinating facts and tantalising trivia from the great internet rabbit hole.

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Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex became Britain's Hollywood for a short time and from that fact, Helen and Bill discover a glut of tantalising trivia on subjects ranging from Nicolas Lyndhurst and The Full Monty to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and the Compare The Market ads via The Krypton Factor and Mock Turtle Soup.

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This week, comedy king Bob Mortimer's autobiography starts Trivia Detectives Helen and Bill's adventures down the internet rabbit hole where they stumble across fantastic facts about all sorts of things from The Brit Awards and Michael Jackson to Marks & Spencers and Carry On Cleo via Morse Code and Dick Turpin.

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A recent trip to Loughborough inspires Helen and Bill to take a deep dive down the great internet rabbit hole where they find a bunch of fascinating yet frivolous facts about everything and anything, from heavy metal rockers AC/DC and St. Paul's Cathedral to Leonard Cohen and Miami Vice, via General Noriega and The Clash.

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