What The Factual?

By: Gill Smith & Pete Moor
  • Summary

  • Hosts, Gill Smith and Pete Moor delve into well known stories from history that maybe everyone thinks they know and find the facts among the fictions!


    Each episode they tackle a different subject from history and often find there is a lot more to them than is generally known.


    In some episodes they unearth a story that is not necessarily widely known.


    The main aim is to find the fun stories from the history books they didn't force you to read at school.


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    Gill Smith & Pete Moor
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Episodes
  • What The Factual? Series 2 - Episode 10 - The Olympic Games
    Jul 23 2024

    Gill is very secretive about where she is off to this week but we coax it out of her and it turns out it's Paris! To celebrate, Pete and Gill look into the very long and varied history of the Olympic Games and a few of the forgotten events that once were part of the sporting festival... some of which they want back, but some are probably best consigned to history.

    Gill also reports from Paris and sends us her take on how the Games are shaping up.

    Pete gets tangled up a bit with telling Holland and The Netherlands apart and there is some (only a bit) talk of naked wrestling.

    No Pigeons were harmed in the making of this podcast... The same cannot be said of the 1900 Paris Olympics.


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    What The Factual? is written and presented by Gill Smith & Pete Moor.


    Subjects & Research by Gill Smith.


    Sound, Editing & Music by Pete Moor.



    References in this episode:


    https://olympics.com/en/news/top-reasons-why-the-athens-1896-olympics-were-important-for-modern-sport


    http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/olympics/revival/intro.html


    https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/g46994101/weird-olympics-facts-history/


    https://www.firstpost.com/sports/olympic-humour-a-history-of-all-that-was-funny-hilarious-and-absurd-at-the-games-2939400.html/amp


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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • What The Factual? Series 2 - Episode 9 - The Moon Landings
    Jul 16 2024

    Gill & Pete Blast off into space - figuratively speaking - and look into the Apollo Missions and the Moon Landings. They also find out the huge cultural role The Muppets played in the Space Race. Gill has star-gazing dating tips but then also gets Bruce Willis mixed up with Jim Lovell. Pete attempts impersonations of not one but two US Presidents to varying degrees of success.

    Also you heard it here first. The New Game Show: Shooting down Space Junk with Lazers... It's going to happen.


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    Email us..: whatthefactualpod@gmail.com

    Youtube...: www.youtube.com/@whatthefactualpod



    What The Factual? is written and presented by Gill Smith & Pete Moor.


    Subjects & Research by Gill Smith.


    Sound, Editing & Music by Pete Moor.



    We, again thoroughly recommend:

    The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks

    at Lightroom, London.

    https://lightroom.uk/whats-on/the-moonwalkers/



    References used in this episode:


    https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/missions.html


    https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/historic-speeches/address-to-joint-session-of-congress-may-25-1961


    https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/stories/apollo-11-moon-landing


    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/interactive-map-shows-all-21-successful-moon-landings-180972687/


    https://www.history.com/news/apollo-11-moon-landing-timeline


    https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-amazing-facts-about-the-apollo-11-moon-landing.html


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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • What The Factual? Series 2 - Episode 8 - The Restoration
    Jul 9 2024

    Gill and Pete look into the roaring post-republic years of Charles II's reign. Samuel Pepys starts getting stuck into his diary while Charles just simply gets stuck in. They also find that romance still exists down on the London Underground and they find out what a missed opportunity a Liberty Moo was.. or could have been.

    It also seems that Donald Duck is suffering from a bit of hey fever.


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    Youtube...: https://www.youtube.com/@whatthefactualpod



    What The Factual? is written and presented by Gill Smith & Pete Moor.


    Subjects & Research by Gill Smith.


    Sound, Editing & Music by Pete Moor.



    References in this episode:


    https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/blog/mind-gap-story-embankment-stations-announcement


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    42 mins

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