A fact based comedy podcast. Each week Melbourne comedians Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins and Dave Warneke take it in turns to research a topic and report back to the class. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
521 episodes transcribedOne 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...
The Boston Marathon is one of the biggest sporting events in history, and many amazing stories of triumph have emerged from the marathon. But of cours...
Surpassed only by the atomic bomb, The Halifax Explosion was the largest man made explosion in history... and it was an accident. On December 6, 1917...
On October the 18th, 2011 lions and tigers and bears were spotted roaming wild in Zanesville, Ohio. Listen in to hear how it all came to a grizzly end...
You know the name, but how much do you actually know about Amelia Earhart? We take a look at Amelia's early life, and discover how much of a badass sh...
For our 200th episode, we celebrate by each doing a mini report on a different world record! This episode was recorded live at the Zoo in Brisbane - e...
And the Nobel Prize for best podcast about The Nobel Prize and its founder Alfred Nobel goes... to this episode. Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel's most...
