1957 - Shark Attacks, Assassinated Swedish Schindler, A Fire Kills 44 Old People, the Last Man Hanged in Australia
The Miami Cruiser Bobby Mair, whisks us to 1957, when The Soviet Union announces that Swedish envoy Raoul Wallenberg had died in a Soviet prison, a fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missour...
14 Juni 202351min
1985 w/Eshaan Akbar - Neighbours, Michael Jackson buys The Beatles, New Coke, Harrods, George Michael
Eshaan Akbar eventually arrives after a big night out to join us for a historical tour of the year after he was born. In 1985, the fictional Australian town of Erinsborough is discovered, when televis...
7 Juni 20231h 8min
1988 with Alexandra Haddow - Toxic Waste, Nazi President, Plane Roof Falls Off
We welcome our very funny friend Alex Haddow, and the man with the highest IQ in the world Bobby Mair takes her on a tour of the year she was born 1988. A year when the cargo ship Khan Sea deposits 4,...
31 Maj 20231h 7min
2002 with Rob Mulholland - Eminem, Afghanistan, Ben Affleck, American Idol, Britney Spears splits up from Justin Timberlake & Fifa World Cup
The brilliant and very funny and tolerant, Rob Mulholland joins us for one of our funniest episodes as historian Red Richardson takes us on a tour deep dive tour of 2002, a year when Eminem releases L...
24 Maj 20231h 2min
1776 - Thai King Ekkathat, Meermin Slave Mutiny, Mozart and a Paper Entrepreneur
Renaissance man Bobby Mair takes us on his own personal tour of 1776, and introduces us to King Ekkathat of Thailand when the country is besieged by invaders from Burma, the Meermin Slave Mutiny when ...
17 Maj 202357min
1948 - Gandhi Assassination, Hells Angels Bikers, Voice of America
Red Richardson whisks us to the scene of Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination, and the Winter Olympics that happened the same day, the founding of the Hells Angels Biker gang and introduces us to their foun...
10 Maj 202352min
1923 - Hailstones, Etna Erupts, Japanese Earthquake, Scandalous Dead President
This week Bobby has been watching Yellowstone so was inspired to take us to 1923 where he's mostly interested in natural disasters such as large hailstones killing 23 people in the Soviet Union, The G...
3 Maj 202352min
1956 - Snooze Alarm, Tom Hanks, Mussolini's Shot, Marilyn Monroe
Esteemable historian Red Richardson escorts us on a personalised excursion to 1956, when the most important things that happened were firstly the invention of the snooze alarm, Tom Hanks was born, Bri...
19 Apr 202353min
