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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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20 - Old Sharks, The American London Bridge and Pet Foxes

20 - Old Sharks, The American London Bridge and Pet Foxes

It's Friday and that means only one thing... Another Facts The Way I Like It!

This week, Gill tells us of just how long sharks have been on the planet, how Insulin was developed and changed medical hi…

00:28:25  |   Thu 24 Apr 2025
19 - Big Wooden Ships, Name That Dictator and Illegal Rabbits

19 - Big Wooden Ships, Name That Dictator and Illegal Rabbits

Gill and Pete are back again with more Friday Fact Fun and this week, Gill "bites the bullet" and tells us the etymology behind some well known phrases. Pete reveals a nice fluffy legal loophole in A…

00:25:42  |   Thu 17 Apr 2025
18 - Early Flying Machines, Magic Playing Cards and Murdering Tennis Champs

18 - Early Flying Machines, Magic Playing Cards and Murdering Tennis Champs

This week Gill and Pete bring more lesser known facts and stories from the Facts The Way I Like It! vault!

Gill talks early vending machines and re-using flour sacks for clothing. Pete talks Second Wo…

00:25:46  |   Thu 10 Apr 2025
17 - Black Holes, Exploding Chocolate and Planet George

17 - Black Holes, Exploding Chocolate and Planet George

It's Friday and another Fact Day in the world of Facts The Way I Like it!

This week, Gill Smith and Pete Moor bring you another bunch of interesting and lesser known facts and surprising stories.

Gill …

00:25:17  |   Thu 03 Apr 2025
16 - Licking Rocks, The Voynich Manuscript and Name That Dictator is launched!

16 - Licking Rocks, The Voynich Manuscript and Name That Dictator is launched!

Facts The Way I Like It! is back with yet more lesser-known facts and stories from history... This week Gill and Pete cover such subjects as the perils awaiting keen geologists who insist on popping …

00:28:33  |   Fri 28 Mar 2025
15 - Ring A Ring a Roses, Flying Off The Handle and Meteorite Naps

15 - Ring A Ring a Roses, Flying Off The Handle and Meteorite Naps

It's That Factual Time again... when every Friday, Gill Smith and Pete Moor slug it out whilst socking each other, metaphorically, over the head with fact after fact until only Facts are the winner.

T…

00:31:08  |   Fri 21 Mar 2025
14 -  Giant Couples, Audrey Hepburn's Ballet and Flying to Australia for Free

14 - Giant Couples, Audrey Hepburn's Ballet and Flying to Australia for Free

Episode 14 of Facts The Way I Like It! is here and Gill and Pete bring out even more mad and interesting facts from all walks of life. This week they look at a tall love story from the 1860s, Audrey …

00:36:33  |   Fri 14 Mar 2025
13 - Pharaoh's Tombs, Going Over Niagara and How to Rob a Bank

13 - Pharaoh's Tombs, Going Over Niagara and How to Rob a Bank

Another Friday, another Facts The Way I Like It! This week Gill and Pete look at some breaking news from Egypt that is actually three and a half thousand years old, Pete looks into the world of sub a…

00:32:53  |   Fri 07 Mar 2025
12 - Wreaking Havoc, Involuntary Dancing and How to Disappear Completely

12 - Wreaking Havoc, Involuntary Dancing and How to Disappear Completely

Another episode of Facts The Way I Like It! sees Gill and Pete flinging facts around like there is no tomorrow. This time they share stories of possible mistaken death, how to disappear completely in…

00:32:14  |   Fri 28 Feb 2025
11 - Revealed! Jack The Ripper, The Holy Grail and Rigging the Lottery

11 - Revealed! Jack The Ripper, The Holy Grail and Rigging the Lottery

Another Facts The Way I Like It! sees Gill and Pete trade more facts and random stories. Gill has breaking news about a case that has remained unsolved for over 130 years and Pete has the story of th…

00:32:38  |   Fri 21 Feb 2025
10 -  Beer Day, Shoo-Ins and Life Saving Chemistry

10 - Beer Day, Shoo-Ins and Life Saving Chemistry

Ahoy! In the latest episode of Facts The Way I Like It! (Or FTWILI as all the cool kids are calling it) Gill and Pete smash fact pies into each others faces will pure joy as they unearth the origins …

00:23:47  |   Fri 14 Feb 2025
What The Factual? Series 3 - Episode 10 - Exploration

What The Factual? Series 3 - Episode 10 - Exploration

Its the What The Factual? Series 3 Finale!! And Gill & Pete set sail into the unknown inspired by stories of the great explorers including Magellan, Marco Polo, Charles Darwin and Captain Cook. They …

01:15:14  |   Tue 11 Feb 2025
9 - Devoted Parents, Old Football Clubs and Life Changing Cab Rides

9 - Devoted Parents, Old Football Clubs and Life Changing Cab Rides

Episode 9 of Facts The Way I Like It! sees Gill and Pete scatter gunning facts at each other and their listeners yet again! This week they cover subjects as diverse as devoted parents of medieval sai…

00:22:34  |   Fri 07 Feb 2025
What The Factual? Series 3 - Episode 9 - Napoleon

What The Factual? Series 3 - Episode 9 - Napoleon

In Episode 9 of What The Factual? Series 3, Gill and Pete return to look at the ups and downs, whys and wherefores of the eventful life of French Emperor and Military legend, Napoleon. They look at h…

01:11:43  |   Tue 04 Feb 2025
8 - Disney Beatles, Bamboo Scaffolding and GPS Nightmares

8 - Disney Beatles, Bamboo Scaffolding and GPS Nightmares

Facts The Way I Like It!! is back for another fact filled episode. In Episode 8, Gill and Pete look into the wonderful attributes of Bamboo Scaffolding and how it could be quiet enough to not wake Gi…

00:26:10  |   Fri 31 Jan 2025
What The Factual? Series 3 - Episode 8 - The History of Italy

What The Factual? Series 3 - Episode 8 - The History of Italy

Series 3, Episode 8 of What The Factual sees Pete taking the reins this week as he meanders through almost the entire history of the beautiful, chaotic and passionate peninsular we now know as the Re…

01:14:14  |   Tue 28 Jan 2025
7 - Surviving 3 Ship Wrecks, Giraffe Humming, and the 639 Year Piece of Music

7 - Surviving 3 Ship Wrecks, Giraffe Humming, and the 639 Year Piece of Music

Episode 7 of Facts The Way I Like It! sees Gill and Pete don their fact sharing hats yet again. This time they look at the amazing story of Violet Jessop, different styles of music including the work…

00:28:31  |   Fri 24 Jan 2025
What The Factual? Series 3 - Episode 7 - The Georgian Era

What The Factual? Series 3 - Episode 7 - The Georgian Era

What The Factual? is back with Episode 7 of Series 3 in which Gill and Pete look at the Georgian Era when it seemed everyone was called George. They look at the Monarchy and how a guy called Rob guid…

01:05:23  |   Tue 21 Jan 2025
6 - Female Pirates, Anaesthesia and Baboons in Signal Boxes

6 - Female Pirates, Anaesthesia and Baboons in Signal Boxes

Here is yet another instalment of Facts The Way I Like It!

Gill and Pete out fact each other again. This week they tackle big subjects including Chinese Pirates, primitive surgery and arrow head remov…

00:24:32  |   Fri 17 Jan 2025
What The Factual? - Series 3 - Episode 6 - Untold Stories from World War II

What The Factual? - Series 3 - Episode 6 - Untold Stories from World War II

Gill and Pete return for with some great unknown (or lesser told) stories from World War 2 including the miraculous story of the ship the San Demetrio which defied the odds by surviving an attack in …

01:00:24  |   Tue 14 Jan 2025
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