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Oprah Winfrey is a media icon, this is her story!

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In the 1970's, an artist set out to create a children's book like no other - one that lead readers on an actual treasure hunt! And it was .... a bit of a mess, to be honest.

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A painter whose surreal artwork was only matched by his wild lifestyle, Salvador Dali remains one of the most recognisable artists of the 20th Century. From packing his Rolls Royce full of cauliflowe…

Forbes named Elizabeth Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America in 2015, but all was not as it seemed. Join us as special guest Naomi Higgins takes us through this w…

On 3 March 1876, large chunks of meat rained down from the sky over Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky, but what was this mystery meat? Tune in to hear this and many other STRANGE but TRUE stor…

Who doesn't love a heist story? This one has undercover operations, tapped phones... and Ronald McDonald.

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In the 1980s, The Maze Prison in Northern Ireland was considered to be the more secure prison in Europe. A prison, within a prison inside an army base, it was considered to be 'escape proof'. Impriso…

Surely a man depicted by Hugh Jackman was a great guy .... right? Well, that's a little questionable. But you still have to admit that P.T. Barnum fit a lot into a lifetime, and made a lot of money a…

We all know that Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first to summit Mount Everest... Or were they? In 1924, thirty years earlier George Mallory and Andrew Irvine were seen close to the summit…

We continue on from last week's episode about World War One (part one), with World War One (part two)!

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The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (episode 276) kicked off one of the deadliest wars of all time, this episode is about World War One (aka the Great War aka the War To End All Wars).

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There aren't many people who pack more into their life than Fritz Duquesne did - soldier, British spy, German spy, fake war hero.... spy again. It's a wild and full on story, so come along for the ri…

The most successful pilot of World War I, Manfred von Richthofen AKA 'The Red Baron', had a bit of a shaky start behind the controls of his plane. He soon knocked up victory after victory and quickly…

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked the First World War, but who was he and what lead to his murder? Find out on this week's episode!

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During the Great Depression, people were pretty deprived of entertainment and heroes. So when someone had the audacity to rob a bunch of banks, they became household name! Enter John Dillinger ; Publ…

The Saxophone is one of few widely used instruments invented by a single person (Adolphe Sax). And he lead a wild life! Multiple near death incidents, duels, death threats and an instrument that woul…

The Watergate Scandal was a political scandal that went all the way to the top (President Richard Nixon) between 1972 and 1974. It has been referred to as the scandal of the century and this is the s…

Kate Eschner in the Smithsonian Magazine, writes: “In 1845, Arctic veteran Sir John Franklin departed Britain in command of two ships, the HMS Terror and Erebus, to seek the fabled Northwest Passage …

When Japan surrendered in 1945, World War II was brought to a close and the United States' plans for a third atomic bomb drop were abandoned. The plutonium core at the centre of the bomb was shipped …

Throughout the second half of the 20th century New Zealand’s waterways were invaded by thousands of introduced fish that have changed the environmental makeup of the country. This was all the work of…