The Year Is

Whilst Red Richardson is living it up making friends with fellow Redophiles he finds in Thailand we welcome the very funny Harriet Kemsley whose being held against her will by Bobby to host the pod wi...

11 Maj 20221h 9min

Another remote episode so that the podcast can be an accessory to enabling a known Redophile to go and live it up in Thailand. Thanks to a suggestion from Kelly we have gone to 1973 when boxer George ...

3 Maj 20221h 13min

It's 1938 and we are doing our first remote episode over the internet as Bobby's studio is a breeding ground for coronavirus and Red is terrified it's going to ruin his 6th attempt to go to Thailand s...

25 Apr 20221h 18min

It's our 20th episode and so we are celebrating the birth of the original Redophile, Red Richardson. We also talk about the first commercial dial-up Internet connection in North America being made by ...

18 Apr 20221h 3min

The Year Is 1848, the year of the con artist! The Fox sisters, two teenagers inadvertently start Spiritualism by getting paid pretending they could speak to dead people, the California Gold Rush encou...

10 Apr 20221h 21min

It's 1900 and thankfully the brilliant Sarah Keyworth is here with us to make sense of a busy year, as all the research was left to the brain of notorious historian Red Richardson. The radical Carrie ...

4 Apr 20221h 2min

1980 was the year our dear friend Sunil Patel was conceived, it’s also the year that convicted murderer Paul Geidel was released from prison after 68 years, the Post-It note and the Rubik's cube are i...

28 Mars 20221h 7min

We welcome our wonderfully funny friend Helen Bauer to the pod studio who arrived prepared already wearing a jumper commemorating Princess Diana for our venture into the forgotten world of 1997. Royal...

21 Mars 20221h 9min