Winnie the Pooh was too successful
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1924, Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne was published. Milne wrote the... Read More
Roman Emperor Claudius, unusual for his integrity
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in AD 54 the Roman Emperor Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus died, supposedly poisoned.... Read More
Christopher Columbus thought he’d reached China
To listen to this post, click here – -On this day in 1492 Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the new world on the... Read More
Édith Piaf, the little sparrow
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1963 the great French singer Édith Piaf died aged 47. Born Édith Giovanna... Read More
Brendan Behan, Borstal boy and author
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1967 Brendan Behan’s play Borstal Boy, based on his own life, was premiered... Read More
Che Guevara’s Irish ancestry
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1967 Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Marxist revolutionary and physician, was executed in Bolivia aged... Read More
Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s life of exile
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1970 the Russian dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for... Read More
