This brand new pop culture history podcast is nothing like anything you've heard before, and it's ev
The whole Communist Bloc? What are you doing to us Billy?!? Thank goodness we’ve got host of the Bul
Roy Campanella had a huge role in breaking the colour bar in American baseball, but you might not kn
There's a heck of a lot of famous Rockefellers, but only one has gone from family black sheep to gos
If you’ve ever watched Romeo and Juliet or The Apprentice, you’ll know the iconic music of Prokofiev
He’s all work no play… except for the occasional Western movie. This week we’re nattering about Egyp
Who's Malenkov, you're probably asking? He might only have been top dog of the USSR for 9 days after
What was it like to live under Stalin’s Soviet Union? And how does this period still impact people t
He’s a material boy living in a material world - this week we’re chatting philosopher George Santaya
This man was glitz, show, and absolute musical talent. He influenced Elvis, Michael Jackson, Lady Ga
When hero to American Italians Rocky Marciano hangs up his gloves in 1955, he's undefeated world hea
It's 1953 and Britain and the Commonwealth are still recovering from the war, when the King dies. Pr
What's actually behind the manufacture of a vaccine? And why was the polio vaccine such a huge deal?
Why is Eisenhower, an army officer who in 1953 became the 34th man to enter the White House, still o
JD Salinger created the dismissive, arrogant, spiralling out of control Holden Caulfield in 1951, an
This jaunty look at 1800s Thailand is the final musical that Billy thought worth mentioning in his C
You know him from The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Guys and Dolls. You know his dreamboat smile. But w
How did a tiny village in the Korean mountains come to symbolise the north and south split? The answ
How do Muhammed Ali, Marciano and Sonny Liston stand up against Sugar Ray "sweet as sugar" Robinson?
The hydrogen bomb. A nuclear threat bigger and badder than any atomic bomb that came before it. How
In 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sentenced to death by electrocution and died side-by-side:
