The Year Is

The Year Is 1839, where Britain open's the 3 Year First Opium War against China, Slaves aboard the Amistad , rebel and capture the ship, leading to an Oscar nominated film by Steven Spielberg 158 yea…

Red Richardson, the man, the legend is back, and takes us back to 1967, with the birth of Rogue trader Nick Leeson whose training collapsed Britains oldest merchant bank, 10,000 people join together …

We have proud SpongeBob SquarePants fan, our friend Luke Chilton, back for another off the wall chat and misunderstandings with Bobby. Grady the Cow teaches us all about not getting stuck in a silo s…

BBC "Jerk" writer and star Tim Renkow can now add guest host to The Year Is to his IMDb page now. Tim brings his own learned and cultured facts and untruths to challenge Bobby with as we go to 1902. …

A significant episode where we travel to 1984, to discuss the George Orwell, Orwellian classic novel 1984, which was written in 1948, the Crack Cocaine epidemic spreads across America, Argentinian fo…

Maybe you were lucky enough to catch this episode early when Jody accidentally released this episode on Saturday night, 5 days before it was supposed to be dropped. An earth shattering episode of 196…

Recorded on the day of Burns night so by the time of this release it's already out of date, this is a very fun and silly visit to 1796, when the as forementioned celebrated Scottish poet Robert Burns…

This is the story of 1976 as deep dived by Bobby Mair visiting the true story of Middleweight boxer, Rubin Carter whose retrial was upheld after he was convicted for murder in 1967 leading to a hit s…

The year everyone has been asking for, a year when stars were born including Snoop Doggs protege, Lil Bow Wow and World Cup winning Argentinian football star Lionel Messi, Seattle coffee chain Starbu…

It's great to be back for a new year and we hit the ground running by going back to 1823, when Fransz Liszt gives a concert in Vienna and is personally congratulated by composer Ludwig van Beethoven,…

During the Christmas break here are some of our favourite moments between Bobby and Red

1963 - Disgustingly rich Bobby and Red the emergency driver

1966 - Charles Whitman, known as the Texas Town Snipe…

During the Christmas break here are some of our favourite moments with our guests

2001 - Ed Night - September 11th or 9/11 , The Invention of Wikipedia

1996 - Jayde Adams - 6ix9ine, Tom Holland and Jad…

We present our recording at Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival in October where Ed Night joined us to travel back to 1829. Oxford University wins the first inter-university boat race, Robert Peel estab…

What a treat we have for you, one of the funniest episodes of the pod so far, helmed and lead by the masterful research of history undergraduate Red Richardson. We go to 1913 when Vincenzo Peruggia i…

Well here we are, celebrating our first year and getting straight to business by transporting ourselves to 1895 when Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator, W.E.B DuBois becomes the first A…

Now that Red is an international star, sunning it up in Switzerland, and Bobby is lost somewhere on British country roads trying to get to Cornwall and Jody is moonlighting editing other people's pod…

This week we go to 2011, a difficult year for dictators, where Prince William Kate Middleton get married, Gaddafi is killed, 9/11 mastermind and Taliban and Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is hunted …

Content Warning: This episode contains either some new legendary argumentative moments on the podcast or very probably the stupidest. We go to 1856, where Scottish-Australian James Harrison invents t…

It's 2008, Bobby's recovering from the flu and Red's so excited about doing his research for the year, he dives in immediately, with the origin of phrases such as mansplain, burner phone and fat sham…

We investigate one of the most special times of year, we replace the time machine with a broom that travels into metaphysical ideas and concepts, where did the concept and origins of Halloween come f…