Yesterday's News

By Joe Forrester

Joe Forrester brings you three headlines from the week in history, focusing on the lesser-known, more unusual and often downright odd.

Every week Joe is joined by a special guest as they discuss that... more

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The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.

Yesterday's News episodes:

December 31, 2016 11: The Best Bits so far: including the Curse of Tutankhamun, Sir Francis Drake, Perkin Warbeck, an unprovoked attack on Winnie the Pooh and ANGRY GERMANS!
A collection of some of my favourite stories, chats and outtakes from the first 10 episodes of Yesterday's News. Thanks to everyone who has listened and all my guests. Happy New Year!
#podcast #history #comedy
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46min
December 31, 2016 The Best Bits so far
A collection of some of my favourite stories, chats and outtakes from the first 10 episodes of Yesterday's News. Thanks to everyone who has listened and all my guests. Happy New Year!
#podcast #history #comedy
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46min
December 23, 2016 10: Christmas special: The Mayflower, A Christmas Carol and a seventeenth century serial killer - with Yasmeen Khan
This week I'm joined by broadcaster and writer Yasmeen Khan to discuss the controversial reality of one of America's founding myths; we discover how Charles Dickens changed Christmas and we are confronted with the grisly crimes of Elizabeth Bathory.
#history #podcast #comedy #Christmas #Victorian #Dickens #AChristmasCarol #Mayflower #ElizabethBathory #seventeenthcentury
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29min
December 16, 2016 9: Fri 16th Dec: Edward VIII's abdication, Sir Francis Drake, Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector - with Nicole Holliday
This week I'm joined by Arsenal (booooo!) presenter Nicole Holliday as we ask: What should happen to monarchs who give up their throne? Is it ok to be a pirate if you seem like a bit of a legend? And Oliver Cromwell: warty Puritan nutcase or English hero?
#history #podcast #comedy #EdwardVIII #SirFrancisDrake #Cromwell
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35min
December 12, 2016 8: Fri 9th December: Pearl Harbour, the Altamont Festival and Smog - with Neil Reynolds
This week I'm joined by sports presenter Neil Reynolds to discuss the infamous attack which forced the US in the Second World War; the free concert which ended in tragedy and signalled an end to the free love of the 60s and the dark truth behind the legendary London 'pea-soupers'.
#history #comedy #podcast #Altamont #RollingStones #MeredithHunter #HellsAngels #PearlHarbour #FDR #Smog #WW2
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35min
December 04, 2016 7: Fri 2nd December: Tutankhamun's tomb, Rosa Parks and King Cnut - with Joe Clark
This week I'm joined by writer Joe Clark to discuss if The Mummy could actually happen; we talk Rosa Parks and the most significant bus journey in history and doff our caps to the underappreciated King Cnut and his ambitious wife, Emma of Normandy.
Warning: contains strong language and copious plot spoilers for Brendan Fraser's 'The Mummy'
#history #comedy #podcast
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31min
November 29, 2016 6: 25th Nov: The Nuremberg Trials, Perkin Warbeck and the JFK Assassination - with Simon Harkness
This week we discuss a landmark trial as leading Nazi war criminals are brought to justice; the strange case of a Belgian impostor and Henry VII and one of the seminal moments of the 20th Century, the murder of President John F. Kennedy. My guest is friend of the show Simon Harkness.
Warning contains strong language and unnecessary bullying of the people of Belgium and Luxembourg... sorry guys.
#history #comedy #podcast #thisweekinhistory
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35min
November 18, 2016 5: Fri 18th Nov: Captain Scott, Churchill and the Boer War, New Orleans desegregation crisis - with Aaron Roach Bridgeman
On this week's show I'm joined by presenter Aaron Roach-Bridgeman as we discuss the sad story of Captain Scott and his diary (1912); Winston Churchill's daring escape during the Boer War (1899) and the sad case of the fallout when the New Orleans School Board attempted to allow black and white children to learn together in 1960.
Warning: contains some strong language
#history #culture #politics
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37min
November 11, 2016 4: The Gunpowder Plot, the fall of Catherine Howard and the Beer Hall Putsch - with Rebecca Rideal
This week we look at what would have been the single largest terrorist attack on British soil - The Gunpowder Plot; we also consider the demise of Henry VIII's fifth wife, Catherine Howard; and go live to the scene of Hitler's failed coup in Munich, 1923.
I'm also joined by historian Rebecca Rideal to chat about the seventeenth century, anti-Catholic hysteria and ask, was the Party King Charles II a sociopath!?
Warning: contains strong language
#history #podcast #comedy
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26min
November 05, 2016 3: Fri 4th Nov: Luther and the 95 Theses, Henry VIII and the Act of Supremacy, the execution of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Will Turner-Roden
This week I'm joined by actor Will Turner-Roden as we discuss the Protestant Reformation, the end of an English adventurer and ANGRY GERMANS!
Warning: Contains strong language, borderline offensive (or at least culturally-insensitive) accents and as always, sweeping generalisations... Enjoy!
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32min

FAQs about Yesterday's News:

How many episodes does Yesterday's News have?

The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.