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What The Factual? / Facts The Way I Like It!

Hosts, Gill Smith and Pete Moor look into the history books finding the lesser known stories behind the characters we all learned about at school.


In each episode Gill and Pete tackle a different subject from famous monarchs, world changing leaders to characters and stories that have gone under the radar.


What The Factual? tells the interesting or funny stories from history with fun facts and strange tales sprinkled along the way.


From December 2024, each Friday, spin off series "Facts The Way I Like It!" sees new weekly episodes where Gill and Pete share lesser known facts and mad stories in a short, fun, pre-weekend fact sharing mission!


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History Stories Arts Comedy
Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
41 minutes
Episodes
70
Years Active
2023 - 2025
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39 - Now Facts What I Call Facts (A Compilation)

39 - Now Facts What I Call Facts (A Compilation)

It's another Friday of Fact based fun but this week is a little different as Gill is M.I.A. on her travels. Pete is flying solo and looks back at some of their favourite facts from the early days of …

00:37:09  |   Thu 04 Sep 2025
38 - Good Gangsters, Good A.I. &

38 - Good Gangsters, Good A.I. & "Mike the Durable"

Yet another Friday sees Gill Smith and Pete Moor sharing the fact-based wealth again with more fun facts and lesser known stories of heroes and villains from history or just general things you may no…

00:40:24  |   Thu 28 Aug 2025
37 - Policing Orcas, Rabbit Showjumping, & The Great Hat Pin Panic

37 - Policing Orcas, Rabbit Showjumping, & The Great Hat Pin Panic

This week Gill and Pete carry on the weekly tradition of fact sharing with more lesser known stories and facts from history, nature and popular culture and pretty much any other subject really!


This w…

00:35:24  |   Thu 21 Aug 2025
36 - Space Diamonds, Thankful Villages & Picasso Firing Blanks

36 - Space Diamonds, Thankful Villages & Picasso Firing Blanks

It's Friday Fact day yet again, so Gill Smith and Pete Moor provide more interesting, lesser known facts answering all the questions you never dreamed of asking.


This week Gill tells us of the heartwa…

00:47:21  |   Thu 14 Aug 2025
35 - Childish Dino-Wars, Green Eyes &  Nuclear Toys

35 - Childish Dino-Wars, Green Eyes & Nuclear Toys

Friday = Facts. 

It's that simple and this week, Gill is absent from the studio but not to worry, listeners, she is dialling in from Mama Smith's Birthday celebrations!

So we apologise for the quality …

00:31:45  |   Thu 07 Aug 2025
34 - Building a City, Mad Planets & Animals Going Ballooning

34 - Building a City, Mad Planets & Animals Going Ballooning

Friday means one thing - more facts and stories from the dynamic duo of fact sharing podcasts.

Gill and Pete share more interesting lesser known facts including this week, a mad planet which would be …

00:36:00  |   Thu 31 Jul 2025
33 - Pharoah's Curses, Reunited Families & Carving through Mountains

33 - Pharoah's Curses, Reunited Families & Carving through Mountains

33 - Pharoah's Curses, Reunited Families and Carving through Mountains


It's Friday which means yet another weekly fact finding mission with Gill Smith and Pete Moor.

This episode sees Gill sharing the …

00:30:22  |   Thu 24 Jul 2025
32 - Master Keys, Interstellar Visitors & Catching Babies

32 - Master Keys, Interstellar Visitors & Catching Babies

Its Friday again and it's another fact sharing mission from the "Answers on a Podcast" duo, Gill Smith and Pete Moor.


This week, Gill has a couple of stories from history including the "Home Coming Qu…

00:29:23  |   Thu 17 Jul 2025
31 - Kings Beards, Medieval Glastonbury & Wrestling Princesses

31 - Kings Beards, Medieval Glastonbury & Wrestling Princesses

It's another Friday, so another session of fact based fun is upon us.

This week, Gill & Pete provide more answers on a podcast to the questions you never asked such as:

Is it possible to survive a plan…

00:48:27  |   Thu 10 Jul 2025
30 - Game, Set & Facts! The Wimbledon Special!

30 - Game, Set & Facts! The Wimbledon Special!

It's the middle Friday of Wimbledon and in recognition of this, Gill and Pete are looking into all things Wimbledon and tennis. From it's mysterious beginnings and debatable scoring origins to the do…

00:44:43  |   Thu 03 Jul 2025
29 - Public Murder, Tiny Statues & The Delicate Sound of Hair Mousse

29 - Public Murder, Tiny Statues & The Delicate Sound of Hair Mousse

Facts The Way I Like It! is back again with Gill and Pete sharing more crazy stories and facts from all over the Factiverse. If that's a thing.

This week they pose such questions as:

Are Octopuses actu…

00:38:30  |   Thu 26 Jun 2025
28 - Light Sneezing, Human Chess and Taping Over Historic Events

28 - Light Sneezing, Human Chess and Taping Over Historic Events

Another Instalment of Facts The Way I Like It! This week Gill and Pete share more interesting facts and lesser known stories including the pertinent questions such as...

Who really first landed on Nor…

00:22:32  |   Thu 19 Jun 2025
27 - Banned Trousers, Solo Invasions and Surviving a 4000ft fall

27 - Banned Trousers, Solo Invasions and Surviving a 4000ft fall

It's another Friday so Gill and Pete are back with another instalment of the only fact based podcast worth listening to... according to some people.

This week Gill brazenly wears trousers and explains…

00:29:52  |   Thu 12 Jun 2025
26 - Speedy Surgery, Helicopter Heroics and Dancefloors In The Sky

26 - Speedy Surgery, Helicopter Heroics and Dancefloors In The Sky

Into June we go marking 6 months of Facts The Way I Like It!! 

Episode 26 sees yet more mad facts and interesting stories from Gill and Pete.

This week, Pete shares the story of Torbjørn Pedersen who v…

00:35:27  |   Thu 05 Jun 2025
25 - Nachos, Decaf and Life without the Sun

25 - Nachos, Decaf and Life without the Sun

Fun Fact Friday is upon us again and Gill and Pete share more facts and lesser known stories from history, science and pop culture.

This week Gill tells us of how Julius Ceasar became captive but stil…

00:28:55  |   Thu 29 May 2025
24 - Hiccups, Eye Patches and Accidental Wars

24 - Hiccups, Eye Patches and Accidental Wars

It's Friday and we all know what that means. We get to scratch that fact based itch with Gill and Pete's weekly dose of fact medicine.

This week they discuss smelling impending rain and how long havin…

00:33:16  |   Thu 22 May 2025
23 - Performance Art, Female Racing Drivers and Extreme Ironing

23 - Performance Art, Female Racing Drivers and Extreme Ironing

Yet another Friday Festival of Facts with Gill and Pete.

This week they look at how random members of the public treat a performance artist, how the justice system worked or indeed did not work in med…

00:31:17  |   Thu 15 May 2025
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22 - "Magical" Syrup, Cool Popes and The Three Day Gangster Jazz Gig

It's Friday so that means only one thing... More Facts from Gill and Pete!!

This week they are still mid-Pope hangover and share a few more facts related to the late Pope Francis and the Papacy.

Gill …

00:24:06  |   Thu 08 May 2025
What The Factual? The Pope and The Papacy Special Episode!

What The Factual? The Pope and The Papacy Special Episode!

Surprise!! It's a one-off What The Factual? Special Episode!!

Marking the beginning of the Conclave in the Vatican, Gill and Pete dust off the history books once again and look into the strange old pr…

00:56:50  |   Wed 07 May 2025
21 - Mean Octopuses, The Noisy Sun and The World's Loneliest Whale

21 - Mean Octopuses, The Noisy Sun and The World's Loneliest Whale

Another Fact Filled Friday episode with Gill Smith & Pete Moor.

This week sees Gill tell us about the bullying side of Octopuses, the really annoying loud sound of the sun and why Elephants are blesse…

00:25:29  |   Thu 01 May 2025
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