Sir Walter Raleigh upsets King James
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1618 the English adventurer and writer Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded for allegedly... Read More
Jean Paul Sartre refuses the Nobel Prize
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1964 the French philosopher and writer Jean Paul Sartre refused to accept the... Read More
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s opium addiction
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1772 the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born. A huge influence on later... Read More
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
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
Le Corbusier brings Purism to architecture
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1887 the famous Swiss architect Le Corbusier (his real name was Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris)... Read More