1988 with Alexandra Haddow - Toxic Waste, Nazi President, Plane Roof Falls Off
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05/31/23 • 67 min
We welcome our very funny friend Alex Haddow, and the man with the highest IQ in the world Bobby Mair takes her on a tour of the year she was born 1988. A year when the cargo ship Khan Sea deposits 4,000 tons of toxic waste in Haiti after wandering around the Atlantic for sixteen months. A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim, Austrian President and Secretary General of the U.N. in World War II deportations and Aloha Airlines 243 safely lands after losing its roof in midair, killing a flight attendant and injuring 65 people. Plus we learn a lot about Alex's home town of Corby and it's role in so many significant global events, the time when Bobby stayed in a nuns convent, and Red stumbles a new conspiracy theory that may explain a lot.
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We welcome our very funny friend Alex Haddow, and the man with the highest IQ in the world Bobby Mair takes her on a tour of the year she was born 1988. A year when the cargo ship Khan Sea deposits 4,000 tons of toxic waste in Haiti after wandering around the Atlantic for sixteen months. A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim, Austrian President and Secretary General of the U.N. in World War II deportations and Aloha Airlines 243 safely lands after losing its roof in midair, killing a flight attendant and injuring 65 people. Plus we learn a lot about Alex's home town of Corby and it's role in so many significant global events, the time when Bobby stayed in a nuns convent, and Red stumbles a new conspiracy theory that may explain a lot.
Get tickets to Alex's debut Edinburgh Fringe Show "Not My Finest Hour" all of August - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/alexandra-haddow-not-my-finest-hour
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The brilliant and very funny and tolerant, Rob Mulholland joins us for one of our funniest episodes as historian Red Richardson takes us on a tour deep dive tour of 2002, a year when Eminem releases Lose Yourself and his biopic 8 Mile is released in cinemas, Afghanistan changes its name to the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, Ben Affleck was finally named People magazine's sexiest man alive, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake split up, Simon Cowell starts American Idol, and the Fifa World Cup kicks off. Also Red can't remember his own name as he's sweating so much, Bobby takes offence at being interrupted and Rob has just learnt his hasn't got long to live.
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Eshaan Akbar eventually arrives after a big night out to join us for a historical tour of the year after he was born. In 1985, the fictional Australian town of Erinsborough is discovered, when television soap opera Neighbours begins and launches the careers of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Margot Robbie, Chris Hemsworth, and Guy Pierce, Michael Jackson takes the advice of his friend Paul McCartney to invest his money in music rights to build his wealth and buys half of the Beatles catalogue, Coca Cola launches New Coke, Mohamed Al-Fayed buys Harrods, Comedy Movies Back to the Future and Beverly Hills Cop films come out, and George Michael and Andrew Ridgley co-wrote Careless Whisper.
Also Eshaan is making friends with his stand-up, opening for Mickey Flanagan at the o2, Red has invented a new measure of finance with the Haagen-Dazs Index, and Bobby is struggling with staying awake again.
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