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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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…
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…
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…
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.
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …