Bruce Lee is the most famous martial artist of all time and had a profound influence on cinema, martial arts and pop culture. Born in America but rais...
Frenzal Rhomb are one of Matt's all time favourite bands! Hear their story involving chart success, controversy, silly song names and multiple hospita...
The Dionne sisters caused an absolute media and global frenzy, because all five of them were born at once! They were the first set of quintuplets to s...
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted for the first time in over one hundred years, causing immense destruction. The blast generated about 500 tim...
Born in the 1800s, Horace de Vere Cole lead a life full of pranks aiming "to prick the pompous and the vain", recorded live at the Wardrobe in Leeds,...
During WW2 a body washes up on a beach with some top secret documents on it... but how did that body get there? It's a story with the greatest codenam...
One of the most interesting figures of the Twentieth Century, Sir Christopher Lee is most famous as an actor, but he was also a World War II badass, N...
It's time for the annual Christmas special! Recorded live in London, we each did a mini report on a Christmas topic. Let the festivities begin!Buy tic...
It's another episode of Do Go On Presents! This week we are presenting Matt's new podcast, Listen Now with Matt and Sam, a music podcast, with the fir...
In 1875 a whiskey flood (and fire) caused havoc on the streets of Dublin, hear all about it as well as a great Irish art theft and one of the most fam...
This week we're lucky enough to be joined by Sam Tonkin from The Listen Now podcast to hear all about Jimmy Barnes. One of the most legendary figures...
In 1976, life in the quiet town of Circleville, Ohio was thrown into chaos when a series of obscene and threatening letters that had the county in pan...
"A dingo's got my baby!" It was a famous punchline for a long time, and people all over the world knew it. But so you know the real story of what happ...
In 1897 Swedish engineer S. A. Andree attempted to become the first to reach the North Pole, and he decided to try and get there in a giant hydrogen f...
On January 15th, 1947 in Los Angeles, mother Betty Bersinger was on her way to the shops when she noticed a body abandoned in a vacant lot, this would...
It wouldn't be Block without a visit from our fourth Beatle, Mr Nick Mason! He came in to tell us about the origin story of The Teenage Mutant Ninja T...
Look, we can't even really remember where or when #KeenForPeen started, but even since you've been suggesting it as a topic. And now, for BlocktoberTo...
It's BLOCKTOBER, BABY! Which means we are doing our most requested topics! And we all love a serial killer, right? This is one that was massive in the...
Our first episode for Block 2019 (a month of our most requested episodes) is all about the world's most popular table role playing game... Dungeons an...
Which 19th Century sex cult evolved into a dinnerware company? The Oneida Community! Set up by John Humphrey Noyes in the mid 1800s, hear about the On...
