Nudie Reads

Crosswords as we know them may have been invented in 1913 but the word square pre-dates them and the Rotas Square - Rotas-Opera-Tenet-Arepo-Sator - is the source. Created anonymously its history is de...

9 Sep 202113min

Herbert George Wells - H.G Wells - published The War of the Worlds about an invasion from Mars in 1897. In 2021 we are on Mars as know the red planet is not filled with being plotting to kill us but t...

5 Sep 202129min

In 1381 King Richard II of England, after a pandemic, found the peasants revolting and he delivered the shortest rebuke of his own citizens in history. Thankfully Benedictine Monk Thomas Walsingham wa...

2 Sep 20219min

Abraham Stoker, of Dublin, Ireland wrote a gothic horror classic, "Dracula" in 1897. It didn't make him famous or rich in his lifetime, but as we all know about vampires - they live a very long time. ...

29 Aug 202138min

What do Star Trek and 19th century science fiction writer Jules Verne's 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' have in common? Spock. The original Spock from the 1960s cult classic Star Trek tv series -...

26 Aug 202119min

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotsman, only lived for 44 years but he left us with The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and for that we should all be ever grateful. A brilliant writer with a terr...

22 Aug 202123min

Unity Mitford, one of the Mitford Sisters of British high society - or Bobo as they called her - fell head over heels in love with Hitler. She used to sign off her letters "Heil Hitler, Love Bobo". On...

19 Aug 202117min

Agatha Christie wrote the best selling mystery book of all time when she wrote And Then Were None. More than 100m sales and still going strong. Whodunnit? Match wits with Agatha, the original Girl Bos...

15 Aug 202117min