Tupperware
Today it’s a Tupperware party and you’re all invited! Tupperware epitomises the post-war suburban dream. But pop open the lid and peep inside and not all is as it seems. There was a battle for the sou...
14 Dec 202230min
Emojis 😊💩🍆
The hieroglyphs seem to hold a lot of secrets about Ancient Egyptians. What do emojis say about us? What on earth is their story?Emojis originate in the notebooks of 1970’s Japanese schoolgirls obsess...
11 Dec 202224min
Chickens
Why did the chicken cross the road? What came first, the chicken or the egg? Who invented the chicken anyway?We answer at least one of these questions on today’s show.We follow the chicken from the ti...
7 Dec 202228min
LEGO
Who invented LEGO, the world's favourite toy? To find out we have to head to a Danish fishing village where a family of toy makers live. A family who over the course of three generations, created the ...
4 Dec 202233min
Croissants
CROISSANTS WEREN’T INVENTED IN FRANCE. Mon dieu! C’est pas vrai!Today Dallas finds out about the person responsible for bringing the croissant to France.It wasn’t Marie Antoinette and it has nothing t...
30 Nov 202225min
Aliens
Who invented aliens? We did. Each age invents its own. When we invented robots, aliens became robotic beings. In the Cold War, intergalactic peacemakers appear. Aliens came to abduct us in a decade wh...
27 Nov 202241min
Roller Coasters
The world’s first Loop-the-Loop roller coaster gave so many people whiplash that they kept a medical team on the payroll.Find out where roller coasters began; why your hands sweat when you’re on them;...
23 Nov 202237min
Frozen Food
The Frozen Food industry was invented by the Birdseye company. And that company was started by a living breathing Birdseye; Clarence Birdseye.Clarence Birdseye was a small, bespectacled New Yorker who...
20 Nov 202231min
