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From orgies to murders to incest to the interrogation of a dead body, the absolute power of the Papacy has been something many have fought for, died from and abused throughout time. Join us this week for a rabbit hole of Papal debauchery. You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRememberPodcast Contact us at - RememberRem

The young women who worked as watch face dial painters during and after WW1 counted themselves lucky to have landed such an opportunity. The pay made them top earners in their communities, the job was seen as glamorous, and they got to work in close contact with the new miracle health element: radium. Except of course that radium is actually radioactive poison. But they didn’t kn

In 1898 the Philippines are ablaze with rebellion as they rise up against the Spanish colonists driving them back as the Spanish themselves head to war with America, but 54 Spanish men in the small town of Baler refuse to surrender. They hold up in a church as the last men fighting for Spain, in a war already lost. You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at

December, 1966. A man lies in a hospital bed, dying from lung cancer. He points up to the drop tile ceiling above him, tracing out a map of plans to his brother. Plans for a huge swath of land in Florida that he wants to turn into the perfect City of Tomorrow - no homelessness, no unemployment, no inclement weather, and no visible cars. That man is Walt Disney and his plan? The Exp

It's 1766 and a French Naval expedition is about to be the first to circumnavigate the world with a woman aboard. Except they don't exactly know that she's there. Because she had disguised herself as Jean Baret, male botanical assistant to Phillibert Commerson. How did Jeanne (not Jean) end up on this voyage? Why did she disguise herself? And how was she found out? We talk about al

The arid landscape of the American west was discovered and hidden beneath the scrubland lay the bones of the greatest animals to have ever walked the earth. Two men set their sights on discovering them but first they had to destroy each other. This is the story of the bone wars. You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRem

If you were to walk along the south coast of Britain in the early 1800s you may have seen, up on the cliff's edge, risking life and limb precariously digging at the rock face, Mary Anning. And what Mary had seen, was to change the scientific world forever. You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRememberPodcast Contact us

It's happened again. Paula's gone down another history rabbit hole. This one started with wondering why holding your pinky out while drinking makes you “fancy”, led to Syphilis and a fruitless search for which British King had gout, and ended in the resignation of a Prime Minister. You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@Rem

In the 15th Century, Leon Battista Alberti said "A man can do all things if he will". And thus the idea of The Renaissance Man (or Universal Man, or polymath) was born. But how to be a good one? And is it still possible to be one today? We take a look at The Book of the Courtier by Castiglione and see what advice he can offer us. You can find the Full Video version of the show ov

It’s 1850 in middle Britain, all around the rolling hills stood silent as the starter's gun rang out, the Olympic games had once again begun 15 hundred years after they were outlawed for being a little bit too pagan. While the Wenlock games would never go on to become the Olympics as we know them, without them our Olympic games may never have returned. You can find the Full Vide