The Year Is

As soon as Jody has finally finished setting up the studio to record we can take you back to 1866, suggested by Red and researched by Bobby so a real team effort. A year that sees the SS Great Easter…

Our BAFTA-Nominated friend, the very funny Tim Renkow helps us work out the meaning of 2006, when the crocodile hunter Steve Irwin was unexpectedly killed by a stingray, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein…

The King is back. Red Richardson returns and brings with him knowledge of a bygone era in 1969, when the legendary Summer of '69 Woodstock Festival takes place, and Rupert Murdoch buys the largest se…

It's 1888 and brilliant comedian Luke Chilton joins Bobby for a kombucha fuelled first 2 part episode. We learn that 1888 is the year with the longest Roman numerals, women's rights activist Susan B …

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 w…

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…

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 …

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…

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 enco…

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…

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 …

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. Roya…

It's 1991, the year that the world welcomed our friend and guest Jamali Maddix into existence. Bryan Adams has a record breaking number one single, Ukraine votes to become independent from the Soviet…

An exciting episode where we welcome our first guest, comedian Fin Taylor. We investigate Scott of the Antarctic's real reason for his adventures, computer scientist and fellow genius Alan Turing was…

The time machine is broken and could only take us back 12 years to 2010, a time when Australia are attempting to restrict internet user's rights to view pornography, Instagram and the iPad are both l…

1950 is a momentous year which sees the birth of Richard Branson and William H Macy, as well as the Canadian invention of bin bags, and Eastern Germany's creation of the Stasi. Find out what rabbits …

Bobby and Red visit medieval 1455 which sees The War of the Roses and the bloodiest battle in British history, we figure out if we can acquire a Lorenzo Ghiberti door, the Mary Rose sinks, and which …

Bobby and Red travel back to 1977. Star Wars premieres, future President Kanye West is born, and park ranger Roy Sullivan gets struck by lightning for the seventh time. Also Red abandons a woman duri…

Bobby and Red jump to 1995 where the mysteries of Cotton Eyed Joe and Earth Song are explored, the Dali Lama betrays a young boy, the oldest woman in the world outwits the man buying her house, and E…

Bobby and Red travel back to 1760 - the unveiling of roller skates is a disaster, the industrial revolution gathers steam, lightening strikes Portsmouth docks and we unveil our brand new dick of the …