Oscar Wilde’s fall from grace
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1854 the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde was born. London’s most popular... Read More
Nietzsche’s heavyweight thinking
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1844 the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born. A strong atheist, he... Read More
Winnie the Pooh was too successful
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1924, Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne was published. Milne wrote the... Read More
Roman Emperor Claudius, unusual for his integrity
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in AD 54 the Roman Emperor Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus died, supposedly poisoned.... Read More
Christopher Columbus thought he’d reached China
To listen to this post, click here – -On this day in 1492 Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the new world on the... Read More
Che Guevara’s Irish ancestry
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1967 Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Marxist revolutionary and physician, was executed in Bolivia aged... Read More
Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s life of exile
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1970 the Russian dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for... Read More