A brief episode on Music Hall, St Paul and Winston Churchill's double. 

Teaching academics how to be funny aint no joke!

British Museum Curator Ben Alsop on Thomas Spence: a tiny man from Newcastle. One of 19 children, invented a new method of reading, recommended living like a cat...  started fights and created an entirely new constitution... plus edited the best named magazine of all time: 'Pigs' Meat - Lessons for the swinish multitude'. 

Who killed Cyrus the Great? Just some girl? Possibly... 

what do chicken feet taste like? Plus Radio 4 hangover cures.

Episode 14 of The British Museum Membercast - plus picking up penguins and decapitating snakes!

The latest Z List Dead List podcast is all about Quack Doctors of the past...

Who is behind today's door? Click to find out!

Working on worm doctors... listen to Inkredulous Podcast Episode here!

A real vampire would only sparkle because of the ooze dripping from it's decomposing body! Tales of the undead, real life witches, and a ghostly ferret called Gef. HAPPY HALLOWEEEEN!

Weight loss - we’ve received several more questions about this. So: This episode is for you. Eat more, eat better and do some maths! 

We know Herodotus never saw a naked Scythian... but you can! A real one. Also how to be remembered forever! All it takes is to send a postcard from one specific place. But where?

Best apps for monitoring your health

Best apps for monitoring your health

What's the opposite of woodpeckers, dominoes, and trunks

The ultramarathon was invented a thousand years before the marathon! 

The end of the Iron Age in Britain, what was that like then? What? Girl's fighting? cool!

What are DOMS? And how to recover from an eating disorder...

We wonder what might be the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite – namely, paper jams, tadpoles, and stickers.

The Garden of Eden WAS located in Bedford